How to Lose Weight With the Raw Food Diet

Losing weight with the raw food diet is easy just by virtue of the type of foods that you eat on it. There are no processed or bad fat foods on it so most of what you are eating are fresh fruits and vegetables. Your protein comes from beans and legumes so you don't have to worry about fatty meats. The raw food diet is meant more for health rather than weight loss although the two are very much connected. Follow the raw food diet, as in the steps below and you will be able to drop those pounds with some regular activity and healthy foods.

Things You'll Need

• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Nuts
• Seeds
• Beans
• Grains
• Legumes
• Dried fruit
• Seaweed
• Unprocessed organic or natural foods
• Freshly juiced fruit and vegetables
• Purified water
• Young coconut milk

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Instructions

• 1

  On the raw food diet at least 75 percent of the foods you eat must not be heated more than 116 degrees. 116 degrees is the temperature of the hot air that is used to dehydrate foods to dry them. Drying foods yourself means that there is no added sugar.

• 2

  Eat mostly raw or dried fruits and vegetables with some grains, seeds and legumes. These are foods that have no or low fat so just by eating these foods you will drop weight. Avocados are high in fat, however they are high in the good fat and cholesterol.That serves two purposes. The first is that they don't add to the bad fat, but even better than that is they help to rid your body of the bad fat. While you still need to limit this high fat food, your body will be slimmer and healthier by eating it.

• 3

  Because eating these foods raw is encouraged and most fruits and vegetables are sprayed with pesticides, you are encouraged to only eat foods grown organically.

• 4

  Some vegetables are considered negative calorie foods. What that means is that it takes more caloric energy to eat and digest them, than you get from them. That will help to drop weight also.