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I have been trying to go 100% now for several months, mainly because it's such an amazingly powerful tool for depression. The thing I'm struggling with is staying full. I usually have a superfoods smoothie for breakfast (banana, cacao, maca, etc) and a green smoothie for dinner. My husband cuts me up some carrot, celery, capsicum, cucumber, snow peas, mushroom (whatever veggies are kicking around the house) for lunch, but my tummy still seems to keep going grrr. My smoothie in the morning gives… Continue

I’ve been dabbling with raw foods for a few moths now. First of all I started having veggie juices for breakfast, using a juicer. They gave me SO much energy times infinity, sometimes I felt like I was bouncing off the walls. I swapped to blending after I realised that a lot of the nutrients were being lost in the rubbish compartment as pulp or roughage. The veggie smoothies, using the blender this time, didn’t seem to have so much flavor (the flavors didn’t seem so distinct), so I started havin… Continue

My husband & I have been thinking for a while about going to see a Nutritionist. Food plays such a vital role in how wobbly I am each day, what my shakes are like, just my general functionality. Breakfast consists of a veggie juice. I do this in a juicer and am wondering if this would be better made in a blender because I think a lot of the nutrients come out in the rubbish compartment as pulp. Lunch is a salad without meat. I have a banana & some almonds mid-afternoon. And dinner is a s… Continue

Can anyone please tell me the benefits of a Raw Food diet, and the benefits of a Vegan diet? I've really been turned off meet etc lately because I've noticed the overall wellbeing benefits just with the few changed I've made so far. xx