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Living food, focused on the consumption of raw and unprocessed foods, offers a promising approach to losing weight in a healthy manner. By prioritizing naturally low-calorie and high-fiber foods such as fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts, it promotes a feeling of fullness while maintaining a moderate caloric intake. Additionally, the consumption of living foods and fresh products stimulates metabolism, facilitates digestion, and helps reduce cravings and desires for sweets, which can hinder weight loss efforts. In this article, we will explore the benefits of healthy eating on weight regulation.
How to lose weight while eating raw or living foods ?
Before discussing weight loss, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms that promote weight gain.
Even though there are many factors, it can be said schematically that weight gain is related to toxins, deficiencies, and macro and micronutrient excesses, but also related to all other health factors such as rest, sleep, emotional balance, the alternation of relaxation and work phases, the quality of air, water, soil, etc.
If one adheres to a healthy, suitable, individualized, high-quality, non-toxic diet, it promotes processes that contribute to maintaining the integrity of the body and, consequently, the regulation of its body weight.
Interview with Sophie about her weight loss
Here is the testimony of Sophie Wery, a professional nurse, published in the excellent consumer advocacy magazine. "Which health to choose" No. 30 from July-August 2009, regarding the Kousmine method that she followed:
"It was a kind of revelation. I realized that I could take care of myself, be my own doctor. I radically changed my diet." The benefits were quick to follow; within a few weeks, she felt liberated. Once ill, she recovered, grew stronger, and regained her self-confidence, losing 20 kg in the process. After years of mistreating her body, she happily observes, "I take care of myself and I take better care of others."
"Attention, she specifies, I did not go on a diet. I say this for all the people who suffer from obesity. I had already followed strict diets: they only do harm. This time, I adopted a proper and healthy diet."
On the agenda: healthy fats (olive oil, rapeseed oil, or walnut oil), a single animal fat (meat, cheese, fish, or egg), elimination of refined products (white bread and sugar are banned). The basis of their diet is fruits, vegetables, and grains.
"I choose fresh, living, organic foods. Never canned goods or prepared meals. I make sure to get my vitamins and minerals and to maintain a balance between acids and bases. I plan the menus for the week; it's easier than doing it daily and allows me to eat a wide variety... I don't know if foods are medicines. In any case, if consumed improperly, they are certainly poisons." analyzes it.
Of course, these are choices to be renewed with consistency.
"Every day for fifteen years, says Sophie Wery, I prepare a special breakfast called Budwig cream. I peel my vegetables for the day, soak my seeds, and get my fruits ready to take with me."
She simply admits, with a hint of amused indulgence in her voice, that she is no longer always as strict... about desserts !
In the wake of this change in her eating habits, many changes occurred in her lifestyle. She stopped taking sleeping pills and anxiolytics. For her joint pain, she now takes substances of natural origin, such as chondroitin or glucosamine. She changed jobs and returned to Loire-Atlantique, the region where her family is from...
"Change is a keyring, and nutrition has been one of its keys. An awakening is rarely isolated. Living nutrition has opened a thousand doors for me, towards other forms of medicine, such as naturopathy or acupuncture."
She asserts again:
"It seems to me that I take better care: I listen more to others and their needs instead of doing everything for them."
The only downside ?
"It seems that I am more difficult at the restaurant. Hey! Nothing is perfect!"
Modern, refined, and deficient diets promote excess weight. Slimming diets that do not take these factors into account will sooner or later lead to the regain of excess weight. The same causes produce the same effects...
A diet "slimming" which promotes the return to a normal weight for the individual, should at the same time be a diet "health." Beyond the loss of excess weight, this slimming diet, if based on truly healthy, adapted, and balanced nutrition, should promote on a daily basis: good vitality, good mood, good sleep, good digestion, optimal mental or cognitive abilities, etc.
The lack of adherence to the quality of the food we consume helps to explain, among other things "Why can't I lose weight?"
Wanting to lose weight through diets and slimming products, without considering the quality of the food, is a bit like trying to stop a high-powered car whose engine has gone out of control. Sooner or later, the brakes will fail, allowing the vehicle to increase its speed, with nothing to stop it except an accident.
On one hand, weight gain is promoted by consuming denatured, unbalanced foods with a high glycemic index, such as white bread, which are rich in various chemical additives like monosodium glutamate, glucose-fructose syrup, etc. On the other hand, efforts are made to lose weight through all sorts of diets and slimming products.
The proper functioning of the body is directly linked to the quality of the food consumed. One cannot alter the integrity of food without it having detrimental consequences on health in the medium or long term, especially by consuming only industrial products. Of course, the body has a relative capacity to adapt genetically, but this is much slower than all the qualitative transformations that food has undergone in just about a century. According to evolutionary medicine, it is the inability of the human species to genetically adapt to its new environment that would explain the genesis of the majority of today's chronic diseases.
What are the benefits of a raw and healthy diet ?
The benefits of a healthy, vibrant, and tailored or individualized diet include promoting the optimization of the body's homeostatic processes and respecting the integrity of the human body. This way, one can protect themselves from numerous health issues, including excess weight and its harmful consequences on health. The consumption of raw and healthy foods will be prioritized, which will also provide all essential nutrients from a nutritional standpoint and allow for a quicker sensation of satiety, especially with foods rich in dietary fiber.
What is the typical menu for a healthy meal ?
• Raw vegetables At the entrance: carrots, beets, celery, turnips, salads, etc., this raw food should preferably be organic. Take the time to chew well and sit down to eat.
You can add sprouted seeds of cereals, legumes, or papilionaceous plants: kamut, wheat, rye, lentils, peas, azuki beans, alfalfa, fenugreek, etc.
One can also supplement with young shoots of cereals, legumes, or papilionaceous plants and a bit of seaweed of biological origin: Dulse, Nori, or Wakame, etc. (Be cautious of mercury and arsenic, etc., contained in certain algae, especially chlorella; request analyses.), consider a tablespoon of lacto-fermented foods.
The use of aromatics is advised: onions, garlic, black olives, etc. It is recommended for people who are somewhat sensitive in terms of digestion to consume raw vegetables rich in fiber at noon - such as carrots, beets, celery, and turnips. - and in the evening, however, some softer raw vegetables - like zucchini, cucumber, lettuce, endive, etc.
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• Starches and cereals: Potatoes, pasta, rice, millet, buckwheat, quinoa, rye, barley, corn; avoid gluten-containing cereals for those who are intolerant. Cooked vegetables are not essential if there are raw vegetables, but one can certainly enjoy a dish of Provençal-style eggplants, for example. If one is not allergic to dairy products, a bit of good quality, preferably organic, grated cheese can occasionally be added to the pasta.
• Proteins: eggs (preferably soft-boiled), Legumes soaked the night before in water or sprouted to facilitate digestion. Fresh seaweed is also a good source of plant-based proteins.
• Lipids: 1 tablespoon of walnut oil or canola oil (from time to time add olive oil and sunflower oil), but the vegetable oils must imperatively be virgin, first cold-pressed, and of organic origin. This oil will provide healthy fats and will be used for seasoning raw vegetables, by adding, for example, a bit of complete organic sea salt or organic fleur de sel.
• Dessert: a portion of dried or freeze-dried fruits for a sweet touch. Optionally, a plant-based yogurt or applesauce, as well as any baked fruit tarts (except those where the fruits remain acidic despite cooking, such as apricots or currants).
