Why I "failed” at eating FullyRaw (Response to FullyRawKristina)
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- My response to FullyRawKristina's video "Top 5 Reasons People Fail at a FullyRaw / Vegan Diet". In a nutshell, it's not we who fail on the diet; it's the diet that fails us.
0:22 - Ignoring the elephant in the room: Ex-longterm raw foodists
1:34 - Reason #1: Insufficient calories
2:40 - Unqualified youtubers giving health advice
3:55 - Diets are never successful...so eat an incredibly restrictive diet?
7:47 - "Abundance" is a curse, not a cure
10:23 - Reason #2: Poor planning
12:46 - Kristina on planning her food for the day
14:15 - Reason #3: Cravings & emotional eating
15:45 - Reason #4: Societal Pressures
17:18 - Reason #5: Money
18:13 - Why I quit eating fullyraw
21:49 - Fully FAKE Kristina?
22:50 - If you no longer eat raw, it's your fault
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I think the other problematic thing Kristina mentions was that you can eat a big bowl of fruit without guilt.. Guilt?? No one needs to feel guilty for eating EVER, whether it's cooked, raw, or processed.. Food is food. Thinking about food so much and linking certain foods with guilt is an incredibly unhealthy mindset to be in long term
Yes! True! Feelings of guilt steer people towards a restrictive eating pattern. Never feel guilt when eating.
Very good point! She potentially triggered a lot of people with EDs with that statement and set them on a path to orthorexia
Yes, food is food...Processed food contains harmful substances that causes disease. This is an example of a typical ingredient label that I see in the grocery store:Corn Syrup, Enriched Bleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Barley Malt, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate [Vitamin B1], Riboflavin [Vitamin B2], Folic Acid), Palm and Soybeans Oils with TBHQ and Citric Acid to Protect Flavor, Dextrose, Whole Grain Oats, Water, Sugar, Molasses, Raisins. Contains 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Soy Flour, Leavening (Baking Soda, Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate), Whey, Salt, Soy Lecithin, Corn Starch, Mono- and Diglycerides, Sorbitan Monostearate, Polysorbate 60, Eggs, Palm Kernel Oil, Egg Whites, Cocoa Processed with Alkali, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Rice Flour, Nonfat Dry Milk, Modified Corn Starch, DATEM, Modified Tapioca Starch, Carrageenan, Artificial Colors (Includes Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1), Sorbic Acid (to Preserve Freshness), Spices, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Propylene Glycol Monostearate, Polysorbate 80, Pectin, Sodium Citrate, Modified Wheat Starch, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter. .....Propylene glycol aka anti freeze, Red 40 is a carcinogen,..etc.. So yes, we have to be mindful of what we are eating and not just say "food is food".
how about cannibals? should they eat guilt free? say its icecream theses people feel guilty not coz of kristina but actually advertising for related business to pharmacueticals actually your industries like cosmetics the same places pharma advertises like onn mainstream tv shows.
@@lilly-lk3mp Did you like your own comment? Nobody else read it 🤔
RAW vegans are lowkey the flat earthers of the vegan community
Tim shieff is a flat earthers
My understanding is that the Flat Earth Society is composed almost entirely of scientists who are pretty much trolls. Not sure where I heard that though.
Austin Gulotta I hope so because we live in a world of bullshit like fart rap man spreading etc.
Austin: Skeptoid has an episode (#338) on the flat earth society that gives the history of the group and states that today they pretty much support anything and everything that isn't main stream.
Ooh, I'll have to check it out! I can admire the interest in wanting research done on things which aren't mainstream. Science can get stuff wrong, anyway. But it's very easy to prove the earth is not flat, so supporting shit like that is ridiculous :P
Maybe it's just me, but Kristina gives me creepy cult-ish vibes.
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Many TH-cam vegans have this vibe
Yes she does. I had to stop watching her after I worked at this vegan ecoshop where I had the most creepy, anxiety-causing, manipulative, vicious, terrible, probably narcissistic woman as a boss. She caused me to get so anxious I had to get help when I finally left the job. She was a yoga teacher, had a lot of people around her who thought she was this pure, lovely person with a big heart. After that experience Kristina started reminding me of her.
Same!
Definitely 😱
Kristina has 6 massive refrigerators in her house. no way is her electricity bill lower than it was before going fully raw
Kristina is very wealthy and yet gives people advice how do cheap spending,ugh.
didn't she also do a $30 a day video? maybe I'm confusing her with another youtuber...however $30 a day is NOT cheap. also yes she is wealthy so....there you go 😆
+JAGBAY 08 it was 20$
+Bows n' Ties - thanks for clarifying. At either rate...still a whole lotta money, per month, just for food! $600 just for raw food each month. Holy Cow 🐄🐮🐂🐃 lol
JAGBAY 08 600$ a month that's some peoples rent money lol
"you'll probably need to supplement vitamin D, unless you're in the sun all the time...which...enjoy skin cancer..."😭😭😭I re-played that part 5 times! I was 100% raw vegan for over 3 years, and my boyfriend was fruitarian for over 7. When we look back on the sh*t we promoted, we, too, feel extremely resentful and embarrassed. Raw veganism is an excellent way to speed up aging (sure, there are a few exceptions, but for us, we looked way older & sicker when we were raw, even though we were stuffing our faces with fruit calories). When I think of the majority of "long term" raw food people: receding hairline & grey hairs (at early age), wrinkles, liver spots, rotting teeth (or requiring false teeth at early age), muscle loss, weakness, poor mental health (this is a big one), etc. I never had a cavity in my entire life until I went raw (same with my boyfriend). We made videos apologizing for promoting pseudoscience (mono-meals, food-combining, dry fasting, brushing without fluoride toothpaste, etc.)... R.I.P. our teeth... and our wallets... Please, if you are reading this, there is no need to remove healthy food groups for a long period of time! You can be healthy in many cheaper & easier ways!
I agree. I can't tell you how many raw food gurus taught us that supplements were "toxic," "unnecessary," and "unnatural." Kristina also believes that water fasting will allow your body to assimilate the nutrients better (and eliminate the need for supplementation).
you are so right. I am molecular biologist and used to work in metabolism (more associated with reproduction, but still) I see Joe Best tip toeing correctly through some concepts and then just not understanding them, and I see vegan gains just completely miss the mark (Jesus the whole pinned/ncbi crap without understanding good science is just downright sad). I really wish there were some science consultants involved in the movement. specially with DNA sequencing available it is pretty easy to tell just which nutrients you just won't be able to process if they are from vegetable sources. makes me sad.
at Brendan (don't know how to reply to you lol) Well, I could be here all day and give you some evolutionary context, but for instance, people with the mutation rs66698963 have a great advantage in vegetarianism when metabolizing fats from plants, carriers of MTHFR gene mutation have a highly reduced ability to convert folic acid or even folate into a usable form and tend to do quite poorly in plant based diet even with supplementation, you already touched upon the Krebs cycle related stuff with the aminolevulinic acid, and the ala synthase as a limiting factor, carriers of the snp rs1801282 tend to do much poorly on any type of high carb diet, rs1042714 do horribly on high fat. In the end, you genes are adaptive, you have your gut flora to help, but they can also make your life pretty hard.
So, Beatriz, you believe that some genotype do well on plantbased vegan diet, some just ok, and others would need to supplement? What is your personal opinion on veganism from health perspective (whole food plant based movement)?
Morfeus I think that veganism is a beautiful ethical option but for people that are struggling there are definitely things you can do to soften less favorable outcomes. Well and for some people it might just be harder than others. These are not really beliefs, this is more an opinion based on the science currently available (encode is doing amazing work, so is 23andme)
What Kristina is promoting is a kind of elitism -- the idea that eating raw is the purest, cleanest, most spiritual diet. I went to the Woodstock Fruit Festival a couple of years ago with the idea of finding vegan fellowship. What I found was a strange competitiveness, where people spent all day discussing how "raw" and how fit they had become. There were zero conversations about the ethical side of Veganism. And I mean zero. Raw vegans are just orthorexics, some of whom wave the banner of ethical Veganism, but I think it's mostly about achieving some sort of purity for these people. I speak from experience as someone who ventured into that ethos for about a year only to uncover the pseudoscientific bullshit and dare I say eating disordered mentality behind it all.
Completely agree with everything you said. Raw veganism is all about vanity and aesthetics when it comes down to it. Being "perfect" all the time is the core of it. I would rather be a balanced vegan and eat healthy food (both cooked and raw) without obsessing over it.
Marisa Hernandez most all of the vegans or raw vegans that I follow have either had a eating disorder in the past or a drug addiction!!! I can totally see signs that some of them still have the eating disorder.
Marisa Hernandez exactly.👏🏾❤️
all fixed diets are byproduct of mental illness, if you notice yourself discriminating against certain foods you are not an adult yet. If you dont like certain foods doesn't mean its the devil.
Wow.
I think it's natural to gravitate to more raw foods when you live in such a tropical climate, and most likely there will be more variety of fruits and veggies in that place, not to mention the price will be cheaper vs. getting fruit in a colder climate. As someone who lives in Europe, you just don't want fruit, you want cooked foods, at least I do. I have no idea why anyone would hate on beans and grains (unless they have an allergy towards it).
+Lorena Fernanda you're right, it's not impossible, especially when you live more south. I live in Germany, so it really depends on the seasons for us.
I was thinking that, too. I live smack dab in the center of the U.S., and eating fully raw would be very expensive. A person might do ok in summer if she had a garden, but the rest of the year would be tough.
I agree, because I do gravitate toward all of the ripe, juicy fruit in the summer in Florida. Now I'm trying to follow Dr. Greger's guidelines, which might be hard in the summer because I'll just want to eat mangos and lychees!
I think I agree here. I live in Romania (summer- hot, winter- cold), but in the summer (3-6 months) I live in Greece, so I noticed that in the summer I really feel like eating many fruits, but in the winter when I'm in Romania I feel like eating more cooked foods (I love rice, chickpeas, potatoes, kinoa). But I do eat my salads, summer-winter, doesn't matter. No food feels like food to me more than my salads... with olive oil though! I'm not going to give that up, no matter what they say, olive oil just makes my salads more tasty and appealing and keeps me eating salads all day every day! :)
But yes, I really do believe that climate can influence the food you crave. My guess is that people living in warmer climates need to stay hydrated (so it's really easy to feel the need to eat more fruits and fresh vegetables), whereas people in the colder climates really need fat in order to survive the cold, so they crave more cooked foods. Just my wild guess.
Not to mention that she also hates on spices xD lol Spices give a very nice taste to food and they're very good for your health too
i love how you talk about Regret... SO many ppl don't want to admit to being regretful about anything since they see that as weakness. So it so nice to see someone say they have regret. which goes along with your "i was wrong" series. You are very relatable.
A lot of people give Swayze crap for appearing what they view as "arrogant" but she's probably the only YT Vegan I know that has actually admitted being wrong on more than one occasion. Most people's egos could never even fathom such a thing. I love her confidence.
Agreed. I find it refreshing.
She's a beacon for relatability in the vegan TH-cam scene, very refreshing. I think I have a crush
I also like that she doesn't apologize, at admit she's wrong because the Internet called her on something. She does so because she was wrong, and isn't that person any more. Much respect.
Coe Hart A freaking Men haha
I have a demanding job.. I work 14 hours daily is my norm... How can these folks have the time to eat and shop all day?
+Pussy Galore so true 😉
Because they don't live in the real world.
I work 2 jobs and am a single parent and somehow I manage fully raw without eating and shopping all day. It's a matter of priorities.
I eat 2,000-3,000 eating 2-3 times a day. It's not difficult if you don't tell yourself it's "too hard."
***** That's cool too! Not everyone wants or needs to go raw. :)
when I was restricting, I used to go to bed thinking about food for the next day. I'd dream about food. I'd stress about food. it consumed me. if that's how you feel about food, something probably needs to change!
Recently I've been too lazy to cook, so I've been eating a TON of carrots and cucumbers with Hummus. I don't think I've ever pooped this much.
Lol
I died 😂
I'm also cheap. I buy a ton of frozen Birdseye packs of brown rice and mixed veggies. 3.5 minutes in the microwave, add some guacamole, and I have a quick meal. This also goes well with some mashed potatoes.
Oh man, Costco carrot and hummus is my favourite snack! lmao
Shawn Taylor I'd do that but I don't have a microwave. Also hummus and carrots is just sooooo gooooood!
*slowly walks to fridge and put in the chia seeds bag*... anyone? 😂😂😂
Literally
Yup
Lol
Easy for Kristina to be fully raw.... She seems pretty wealthy and has an abundance of seasonal fruits and vegetables at her disposal. I'd be raw but..... POTATOES. Ah, well.
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More like sweet potatoes and they are anti-inflamatory and healthy unlike white/yellow potatoes that are more like unhealthy refined grains~
nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-effects-of-purple-potatoes/
Julot i believe they were referring to the fact that potatoes are a local staple of a lot of colder climates, and you can't really eat raw potatoes.
Same,..I love potatoes!!!!
rice, beans, lentils, oatmeal, etc, all so good, cooked. No grilled veggies!!! No way. Fire is good, and beautiful, and healthy.
kaship98 Fire in a general sense, it keeps us warm, boils dirty water, cooks food etc. Everyone knows charring is bad.
I saw Kristina in person...and I actually was a little off-put by her. She told a guy in the audience who was having issues with triglycerides to not worry about it unless he was having other symptoms. Then, someone in the audience who had been raw for years, and then stopped asked her what they did wrong and she said they weren't eating enough calories. Someone asked why their hair fell out, she said it was normal. Another person asked if people get unhealthy and lose too much weight and her answer was "look at me, do I look unhealthy"? Really lady?
I've been raw vegan for 22 years. Those answers from Kristina are correct. At first when you go raw your hair does fall out quite a bit. When you pass the detox phase your body literally rebuilds itself and suddenly your hair thickens and fills out. Also at first you lose a lot of weight. After the detox phase you start to put on weight again and stop at your natural weight regardless of how much or little you eat. I birthed 4 children while raw and nursed them for 11 years successfully. After all these years raw and vegan I feel younger and stronger than ever. I find that many like you who are viewing raw from the outside or only tried it for a short while easily condemn it as crazy. I've been vegan for 35 years and I was never healthier than when I was raw. It's a simple fact. I cured myself from diseases and my digestion has never been better. People just should shit on it unless they've tried it for longer than the detox phase.
Filomena Kandola there’s no such thing as detox that’s what your organs are for
@@FilomenaKandolaRAW interesting. Can you tell me how long detox lasts?
@@leeannlyons9476 there is such a thing as detox. Period. I experienced it myself. I held through it. If you eat a poor diet long enough, your liver and other organs get overloaded and backed-up and cannot di the cleansing they're designed to do efficiently. When you switch to our natural diet, in time, they get back to doing what they were designed to do, thich not first without "detox" - the body ridding itself of the toxins and poisons that got trapped in your body over time on a poor diet. Detox is real. It's a another word for cleansing, healing, etc., another thing our bodies are designed to do if we don't interfere. I've seen this with my eyes with many people who have tried my juice and raw food cleanses. Period.
@@krishanlal5680 it depends on each person, and how backed up their organs are from a poor diet. It also depends on how deep into raw you go. You can slow down the detox symptoms by eating only partially raw, thus it will be milder but take longer. I jumped in raw, "cold-turkey", and experienced very intense detox symptoms for about a year. For example, I used to smoke. When I went raw, my tongue went black and stayed black for about 4 days before returning to pink. My mouth tasted like tar the whole time. My lungs were expelling the tar and other chemicals from the cigarettes. If we don't cleanse or detox, toxins remain trapped in our bodies and later translate into disease. Cleanse - detox, two words, same thing. It's simply creating the best environment for cleansing. Something our bodies were designed to do.
How about the fact that cooking certain fruits and vegetables actually enhances their nutritional value? Tomatoes are a perfect example of this, as lycopene content significantly increases with heat. Many vegetables also contain fat-soluble vitamins and need to be eaten with fats to be absorbed. But these raw vegans avoid healthy fats like the plague.
Just FYI, you can tell a pineapple is ripe by smelling the bottom of it. If it has a rich, sweet smell, it's ripe. Hasn't failed me yet. :) Great video!
I've never bought a ripe pineapple from the store. They just don't sell them lol.
So I just buy the green, unripe pineapples and leave them to ripen in my living room.
A few days later, when the room smells like pineapples, they're good to eat.
Lol sounds like we've all got our own methods.
I didn't buy pineapple for the longest time because I could never tell if they were ripe. So far, smelling pineapple booty works for me lol. But sometimes I'll wait a day or 2 before I cut it, JUST in case because there's nothing worse than cutting open fruit only to realize it's not ripe!
if you lean a pineapple on something and store upside down it ripens faster for some reason.
it need to be fully golden and not hard also, most important points, greenish ones are totally crap and pineapples wont rippen overtime because it is not a climacteric fruit at all...dont give wrong informations peoples~
I fucking love this. The room just starts to smell like pineapples. Awesome.
Every time vegans talk about rawfoodists I'm surprised no one talks about the environmental impact of eating such huge amounts of food. If you are a vegan for the planet you are doing it wrong by creating so much demand for fruits.
Yes! I agree with this! Mostly I wish some of them would talk about who is planting, growing and picking their food, too. The focus is so heavily on what instead of where and how; the compassion of how deeply rawfoodists rely on the hard work of others, like farm workers, sustainable local sources and such, goes extremely unnoticed and isn't even talked about or celebrated like it should be imo.
I personally don't love fruit. I like it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy fruit a few times a week, or even a small portion a day...but to have it the MAJORITY of the day just isn't satisfying to me. I don't have a big sweet tooth. Fruit is just "ok" to me. I much prefer cooked veggies over pasta and rice. I love potatoes too...(except sweet lol). I just prefer heartier, richer foods. So I find it really unfair that people like FullyRaw promote this diet like its the be all and end all. Everyone is different and I can't help that I don't enjoy sweet things all the time.
Same here. I like very few fruits. Give me starch!
I'm the same, I just don't really like sweet things. I love pretty much all veggies (except peas and cooked carrots - yuck) but I could eat bowls of spinach or broccoli!
I'm exactly the same, I need more savory things.
Same. Fruits are snacks or side dishes for me XD Like today, selfmade vegan pizza, a banana and water.
Same here. I just can't eat fruit all day.
The part where Kristina said that cravings are all related to emotions made me think of when I was unknowingly anemic and started craving ice and paper.. ah yes, that feel when you're sad so you wanna eat rocks, the best comfort food. I should have just been present with my emotions instead of getting an iron transfusion. THANKS KRISTINA
I am an ice crusher!! But I had to change my diet for what worked best for me, because I was not going to accept an iron transfusion, nor take another iron pill. My bloodwork says it's working in my favor.
Omg I adore crushed ice, I should find out if I'm iron deficient. . . But I've loved eating ice ever since I was a little girl who ate icicles, so it would've been a long time of being iron deficient. . . 🤷🏾♀️
@@zxyatiywariii8 Don't know if this will be relevant to you, considering your comment was three months ago, but just wanted to say that it's possible to have been iron deficient for ages and not know it. My doctor worked out my iron deficiency for the first time (I have long term-iron issues) in my late teens, but he suspected I might have had the problem since late childhood cos I was always tired. It's worth getting checked out if you can. Hope you're doing okay :D
When she said she planned what she was going to eat the next day my jaw dropped. I did that when I was deeply entrenched in my anorexia.
I had no idea flax and chia should be kept in the fridge?!
Yes, so the oils inside do not go rancid. Its fine as long as they are not already blended. If they are whole, they can be stable outside the fridge, but fridge is always best
how do you know if there Rancid?
My exact thoughts too. Hearing this said so "off course"-like, though I've never heard of it before? Bommer... Now I have to go search for more information I guess. 😅
I keep whole flax in the cupboard and flax seed meal in the fridge.
+bonanzatime wait what? .__.
What bugs me about these fully raw "gurus" is they claim it's the best and healthiest way to live. I think if fully raw works for you that's great, but don't encourage everyone else to do the same and then blame them when they fall short and it doesn't work. Just admit it's perhaps the diet that is falling short!
I just don't want my life to revolve around food like that. It seems as though Kristina is consumed by this lifestyle. I'm thinking that when her life changes, i.e. marriage, childbirth, etc... things may change. Then too, she may do some things low-key.
it's the way she makes money.
Kristina is married??
+kwnatural she's been married before?? I never heard of this, is there a video or something about it?
I'm beginning to see that balance, variety, and simplicity/sustainability is the main key to veganism/normal dieting. I personally enjoy Kristina's videos so much. She is so positive and warm and accepting that I don't particularly care that she isn't a hardcore activist, or correct on her eating theories. I believe she is misleading and unrealistic for 90% of the population but I don't think she does this on purpose and plenty of other vegans provide the real information. I just enjoy her spirit I think.
Same here, and I am not even vegan. I watch a lot of her videos she gives off a very pleasant vibe, and if she is critical of anything it's theory and not the person. I've read so many comments on her page of people just not liking how she talks and how she always appears so nice, and i'm like....that's you complaint?? I don't get people sometimes, lol! I don't take a lot of health information from videos, I pay a primary care physician for that, but I do love a lot of the recipes.
vegan/plant based folks need to find the non animal food lifestyle that works best for them. Someone who lives in a tropical climate with a huge array of fresh fruits and vegetables is different from someone in a cold climate who will do better with hot plant based foods in winter.
I was raw vegan for 4 years and agree so much with this video! If I had cravings it would be for steamed broccoli or lentils, not exactly "junk" food. I started eating cooked food because I was infertile (according to my endocrinologist) and I started wondering if it was my diet. I definitely agree about planning and food prep, it's so much easier and less effortful when I include cooked foods. It's also much cheaper! I never thought about food wastage before, but you're right about that as well. Thanks for the very interesting video!!!!!
Did going cooked effect the infertility at all?
Honestly Kristina lives in fully raw fantasy land! She thinks because she can do it, it mean others can.
it's actually cheaper, you just have to buy the cheapest fruits and nothing too fancy, keeping it simple makes it EXTREMELY cheap
I can do it if she sends me $600 a month ;)
I think she is lying
And also I would add skin health: look at kristina's face. Her skin looks so tired and prematurely old. She has that huge wrinkle between her eyebrows, lines next to her nose and the texture looks like low thread count fabric. The complexion has also a really weird orange fake-tan look. Unnatural Vegan's skin looks supple and youthful. Her complexion is very even and peachy. I don't know whether they are similar ages but I remember a few years back Kristina looked like a teenager, now she looks like she's in her mid-30's. If her diet is so bad for your skin, which is only what we can see, imagine what it might do long term to your soft tissue inside.
Why are raw vegans look so old ? Kristina is younger than me and looks like she's in her 40's. WTF ?
Tanning.
She eats a low protein diet...protein is essential for collagen production so its good to actually eat extra.. also she eats too much sugar in the form of fruit juices (which removes the fiber) which breaks down collagen
No REAL NUTRIENTS IN HER DIET !
Wait she isn't in her late 40s?
@@strawberrymilkshake4822 In this video, she was 29. Currently (Decemember 17 2019) she is 32 years old.
Tug at the pineapple leaves if they come out, the pineapple is ready
tickle the pineapple. If it chuckles, you're good to go.
+Tobias Balk 😂😂😂
This just made my day, thank you all
My pineapples come with the top cut off
I smell them hehe
Personally, I believe a fully raw diet is necessarily restrictive. The reason people have a difficult time sticking to it is because it is restrictive. That's why you see so many people saying, "I want to eventually eat fully raw, but..." It's just too damn difficult and completely unnecessary! I truly believe that the majority of people who eat fully raw have major issues with food and just don't want to admit it. There is no reason that a healthy diet needs to preclude cooked food. Absolutely no reason. A diet can still be mostly raw and include some healthy cooked foods. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
I agree, I always find it so weird that people have to aspire to be fully raw. Why do it if it is so difficult when you can be perfectly healthy eating cooked food. And their belief that cooked food is horrific, I don't get it.
Well I guess on the bright side it is better they are eating fruits and veggies versus fast food or no food
I would look at the benefits of eating raw for short amounts of time to clear up some health issues, because I don't like a lot of unnecessary medicines, but not completely raw, for life.
"Or you get pineapple and it's not ripe at all bc who can fucking tell if a pineapple is ripe or not HOW CAN YOU TELL" lmao. Not I. Not. I.
It's ripe when you can take out a leave
It should smell pineapple-y close to the outer skin. Not sure about the pick a leaf method. But it is very hard to get good quality pineapples in cold Western countries. They usually get picked too early and will never get sweet. I've had truly ripe freshly picked pineapples in South America, and it can not be compared to the crap we have here in The Netherlands. It's my favorite fruit, but only when I'm in the tropics :-)
Isn't it when the bottom is yellow?
I know, right? Not knowing how to pick and buy fruits and later complain about how they taste bad or weird and thus wasted a lot of food, totally not your fault. And of course planning is way too hard so let's just not do it thoroughly, and when one plan doesn't work, stop trying to come up with a better plan, because it would be too excessive and too extreme. Sounds like a great recipe for success!
it need to be fully gold and soft then it is ripe, the greenish ones are totally unripe crap~
She just need more knowledge and experience to know more about fruit ripeness~
There will always be a debate between raw versus cooked vegan... Personally, I couldn't do raw because of: money, climate, and my past of disordered eating. I find it too restrictive. Just do what works for you but don't preach it to others like it's law unless you're actually qualified to give nutrition advice.
"Oh, and don't stray too far from the shitter" HAHAHAH!!!!
All the food you miss out on, no one I know is eating raw potatoes.
+Bert Hahah I couldn't eat zucchini noodles instead of pasta. I don't know how they do it!
She is just stating her opinion just like Kristina does. Why are you preaching about who should say what?
yogidizzy What are you implying? I'm speaking in general terms of those who preach that their diet is superior.. as evidenced with a lot of raw foodies. I'm not speaking directly about Swayze or Kristina. I'm giving my opinion.
Also with this whole raw food diet, I kinda feel ppl can tend to have almost an unhealthy relationship with food. For me you get food bc of nutritional reasons of course but also bc it taste good. I don't think it's "normal" or necessarily healthy to be constantly thinking about food. I also don't think it's just a coincidence that ppl who have suffered from an eating disorder can then turn to a raw food diet... You are still focusing on food so much of your time in both instances.
BTW the money savings she is talking about is crap. I already spend a lot of money on fruits and veggies to feed my son and I, I can't imagine the cost of feeding us raw food only.
wow, your skin is flawless!
I get so annoyed at the term "raw chef". Raw. Chef. That's an oxymoron XD
If it's raw then what's the need for chef
i mean, even raw cheesecake or raw smoothie or raw soup need preparing. since we generally use term "cook" or "chef" for someone who prepares food, therefore....
I do plan out what I'll eat in the sense of "I have this in my pantry and it needs to be eaten soon so I'll have that tomorrow/for dinner etc" I also meal plan to save time and money.
But Kristina takes it to a whole new level, you can really tell that her life revolves around food and being "clean and pure" which sounds very orthorexic/mentally unhealthy to me. Eating is part of your life, it shouldn't be the FOCUS of your life.
I find that with all the discussions and varied ideas about 'health', we overlook the biggest, most impactful aspects- mental and emotional. Constant obsession and self judgment regarding your dietary choices is extremely stressful, will cause paranoia around certain food, and can use an exorbitant amount of time and energy. Is what your eating making you feel good physically? Does it work well with your lifestyle? Does it satisfy your taste preferences? Does it allow you to eat socially and flexibly? I believe these are the FIRST things that should matter. Trying to force other peoples opinions will disconnect you from your own individual taste and satiation cues, best for you and your life. Your body is amazing and resilient, with its own wisdom. Listen to it, help it, respect it, love it.
If you "consult" with people, you better have the training, licensing, and liability insurance. Otherwise you put yourself and others at risk.
So true, and I don't think youtube is giving out any licenses or liability insurance.
One issue I see with raw diets is they exclude some foods which are very healthy like sweet potato, beans, lentils, quinoa, brown rice, pumpkin, squash etc. Also vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus and beets I prefer cooked over raw.
She has so much underlying aggression in her voice, body language and facial expressions that she actually gives me anxiety. Feels like she’s directly threatening to steal my soul if I don’t eat raw
Who honestly cares though if someone eats raw or cooked or processed vegan food? ITS ALL VEGAN! I hate seeing the vegans that only eat vegetables attack vegans that eat Oreos and bake cake. Like can you guys come together and look more like a community? I'm not even vegan, but when vegans attack other vegans for not being vegan how they want them too it's just stupid.
Her type of "attacks" are generally to prevent vegans from giving up on their plant based diets and going back to eating meat because of nutrition issues or unnecessary restrictions with an already restrictive diet. But agree with you on vegans attacking other vegans.
She was barely attacking. Eating only fruit and veg is a problem. No one is going to sit back and let that happen.
But you're attacking people who have a method of stating their opinion in a way that you "hate."
Do you not see that irony?
Not all vegan are for the animals. I am vegan but only because I am a nutrion major studying to be a registered dietitian I do care about animals, but health is more important to me.
It may be vegan but no cruelty free
Yeah, that's one thing I get tired of - food plans that brag about how much you can eat. People with jobs can't spend all day eating. I had that trouble with Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live. I don't mind taking 30-40 minutes to eat. I think meals should be times of rest and enjoyment. But on Eat to Live, which is not even fully raw, I was spending an hour eating a meal and that's not even touching on prep time.
Eat to live is just eating mostly nutrient dense foods like veggies right? Sort of the opposite of Starch Solution.
I agree with you. Your stomach can and does stretch out. Competitive eaters will eat a lot of lettuce to help accomplish this. It stands to reason that if you start eating a huge volume of food and then switch back to lower density cooked food, you could potentially have a hard time for a while as your stomach adjusts. This also means that while eating this "abundance" your stomach will catch up, and you will feel like you are eating a normal amount, not stuffing yourself with abundance like raw foodists tend to laud as a benefit.
Three things about raw veganism: it requires an excessive amount of money and time...like I was always going grocery shopping and I live in Canada so there's only really bananas in the winter. Second, my digestion was terrible. Third: my skin literally ERUPTED in acne...cystic acne even though there are so many you tubers who claim fat causes acne. Oh and did I mention I lost the muscle mass I've worked so hard for? Yah....raw veganism is like an exclusive club for a reason. Many people can't do it. Vegan is good enough for me.
I'll also add that all the raw vegans claim these are detox symptoms. I did it for eight months, I felt amazing in the beginning and then things went down hill. I just think it's total bs that you'd have to wait eight freaking months to feel good on what you're eating. If that was the case, then why do junk food meals make us feel instantly sluggish. Yah, it's not for everyone and this idea that anyone can be raw is just wrong.
$20 a day so ~$140 a week.... that's the amount my mom uses to feed my family each week - we're a family of 6. I'm a student and I survive on like $16 a week tops - I could NEVER do raw and I love cooked food....
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For a family of six, statistically you would need 2400 dollars a month, or 600 a week, at least. Congrats to your mom for making that work.
right? me and my bf are college kids, both live off $120 a month... total, for two people! $32 a week. we could never survive eating raw.
@@yuhturtles2818 you guys must be eating out, so not buying groceries. There's no way 2 people are eating for 120$ a month. You could each eat an apple a day that's it...
Every fully raw person I have ever seen looks way older than they are. Why is that? I thought she was like 45, she looks older than my vegan parents who eat cooked food like why do they look so old from eating raw food only, I'm not trying to be rude or anything I'm legit wondering
She looks 30 to me. Most 45 year olds have a bit of grey hairs and are fat. She could pass as a 45 year old if compared to Sandra bullock.
I imagine it's a combination of her having a thin face with sun damaged skin and awful cheek fillers. much like freelee (not sure about fillers with her, haven't seen her in a while). freelee is a walking tanned bag o' leather
it could be because they wear natural makeup, like kristina does.
I think a lot of people that eat *primarily* raw look younger....a few examples are raw food romance, rawvana, kate flowers, handyman bananas, ruby raw, ellen fisher and raw alignment. They all look younger to me. But I guess everything is in the eye of the beholder! :)
Fully raw people tend to promote sun exposure, so it’s probably the sun damage
Wait... Flax seeds and chia seeds need to go in the fridge ?
it says on the bag to refrigerate them after you open them
I keep mine in the freezer.
FullyRawKristina DOESN'T eat enough! Running 7-12 miles a day while eating only 2000!? Heck I'm 14 and eat 3000 calories (and I'm NOT raw; I'm cooked)
@Rebster Exactly, we're all different. There's no one single caloric count that's right for everyone, we each need to find what works for our body and our metabolism.
I've been fat and I've been too thin, and although I have a healthy BMI now, I eat more than some of my friends and less than others. 🤷🏾♀️
But it took me a while to find out what's a healthy caloric count for me.
Awesome video Swayze as usual ! You rock, I hope the pregnancy is going great 👍
I'm all for loading up on fruits and vegetables, but I love my rice, pasta, tubers and legumes. And I feel like those foods are more filling.
you can check if pineapples are ripe by pulling one of the leaves out, if it comes out easy it's ripe! if you have to tug on it hard it's not ready
I couldn't agree w/ you more. I definitely like being full for several hours, one of the huge reasons why I didn't take on the raw diet. I work on my feet all day and need sustained energy levels.
I'm not even vegan but I've literally been watching all of these videos for no reason 😂
Im not trying to be mean... But why does Kristina look sooo old! She just doesnt look like like shes in her twenties! Ive thought this 4 years ago when she was in her mid twenties.
Yeah I thought she was in her late 30s - mid 40s when I first saw her videos. I thought, she looks like a healthy 40 year old woman... but then I found out she was in her 20s and I was like OOPS!
she's in the sun way too much. it ages the skin like crazy.
Yess I was like shes so beautiful for her age but didnt know she was that young!
You're crazy, she looks good for her age. Most 28 year old women have wrinkles and just look bad.. after 25 it gets bad for women
Well you must cant read too good! I said I thought this 4 years ago when she was in her mid twenties.
I agree. A purely raw vegan diet just takes too much effort. Buying cases of fruit that turns out to be poor quality is frustrating and costly. However, I can see why FullyRaw Kristina likes it. She can consistently get an abundance of high quality, organic produce all the time. So it makes sense for her. I would also speculate that she is far healthier than a SAD eater, and probably healthier than typical vegan whose still eats highly processed "vegan" convenience foods. There definitely are benefits IF you can truly eat like Kristina, but there's a big emphasis on that IF.
nah i couldn't do raw. I love rice too much
I can't go fully vegan because of allergies, but you've really inspired me to care more about nutrition.
I appreciate your videos so much. I get excited whenever I see a new upload. Before I found your channel I was under the impression that raw food veganism was like the healthiest or something. It's not something that I thought I could do per se, but I viewed it as something to admire and maybe incorporate for some meals. It's no secret that salads etc are healthy (and since I have weight to lose they are a good choice sometimes) but now I know that I can't get everything my body needs from one made of just vegetables/fruits. Throw some beans and quinoa on that!
Anyway I thought I would comment, because just today I saw a video of this raw foodist couple talking about having a child in the future and it just worried me so much. Pregnant women have even more important dietary needs (as you well know) and I worry about what harm they might unintentionally cause their future child.
I've followed you since I was was doing the 30 bananas a day fad. You've always been straightforward and I enjoy following your updates.
I had to stop with all the fruit because I ended up vomiting a lot trying to eat as much fruit as required for that lifestyle. To this day I can no longer eat very many bananas. Overall my health really was not idea on the fruits. Then I moved on to the Raw til 4 and that still required me to eat a ton of fruit in order to meet the calorie requirements and it pretty much felt like I was eating all day. It literally took me an hour or more to eat the morning and lunch smoothie. By the time it was dinner time to enhale a large salad or a bowl of potatoes or noodles, I was sluggish and didn't sleep well. Some people are just not cut out to eat all that fruit and carb like myself where 2 years later I am still struggling to get that excess fruit weight off.
I am back in the gym exercising mostly 4-5 days a week and will eat a few fruits, but mostly cucumbers and tomatoes for my raw eating. I went to the Raw eating plan for health not so much for weight because I've always been at a good weight/normal/healthy weight. Now for the first time in my life the doctor said I need to lose 6-13lbs as I'm now at risk for diabetes or heart disease. I'm not sure at my age now that I will be able to get this extra fluff off and I'm certainly not going to drop down to 500 calories a day. It could be that all that fruit messed up my metabolism and maybe caused thyroid damage.
I will never recommend anyone do that unless they stay on a bike or moving all day long everyday - for those of us who sit at a desk most hours of the day I would just never recommend it.
Keep on staying real!
You can tell whether or not a pineapple is ripe by the strength of its odor
FRK is financially wealthy and I have seen her fridges and her kitchen on her video. I certainly do not have her means to live in the way she self promotes as a "lifestyle". Also, everyone needs to be aware that a one-size-fits-all approach such as hers is actually unhealthy for a large cross section of society. She's obviously in her 30's and does as she pleases all day long. Many very young will not do well on her "diet" nor will those who are older or even post-menopause, in my honest opinion.
I 100% relate more to your personality than theirs. As someone who pretends to always be okay, happy and nice in front if people I'm not comfortable with and even friends and family although I often feel depressed and down, I can tell you the chances of them faking their personalities is pretty high. And I don't mean this in a negative way but you can see how Cassey's personality changes 180° in some of her videos.
I have been raw for over 2 years and I like you because you make very good points, I love having an open mind! However I live in Australia and it is quiet easier for me and anyone living here as the fruit is very cheap and it is mostly hot. Our cold weather is only 3 months out of the year. I could imaging it being hard in other places of the world. I however am not obsessive about sticking to low fat but I do feel 100 times better since finding this lifestyle than I had before. Personally I went raw for my mental health and I do feel happier than where I was.
I like the way you made this video Girl! even though you don't like raw veganism from your experiences, you didn't say its completely unhealthy or impossible to eat a somewhat balanced diet it on it.
Oh gurl you SO silly!
No, it;s extremely hard on your body and digestion. That is why fullyraw people shit so much. It is not the fiber, it is that the sp/st is having trouble digesting/becomes weak so it literally cannot hold your bowel movements in - they just constantly come out
'Top 5 reasons why people fail at an eating disorder' sounds more accurate.
I don't dislike Kristina. I love to watch her videos and they inspire me to keep eating healthy. That being said, I really feel she is out of touch in so many ways. Mainly for me is her not understanding how cost is a HUGE factor for people. Her promotion of doing things drug free scares me as well. I worry about what it's convincing others to do. :-/
I seriously love all of your videos. I was the exact same way for a few years (fully raw then raw til 4) literally gorging on ungodly amounts of food and it took me atleast a year or so to FINALLY eat accordingly. I still have that dogma lodged in my brain so now that I'm eating higher fat/protein and low sugar as a vegan- I still have those fear tactics in the back of my mind !
Great video! Would like to know more about raw food and environment. When I see people in their "what I eat in a day"-vidoes I always feel lika "can this really be good for the environment? When you see their kitchen stacked with fruit from floor to ceiling and they say something like, "oh, this is just enough for 2 days"..... I'm no expert, so I don't know, but it's the feeling I get. Would love to hear about this topic from someone who has done research about it!
I believe most of the TH-cam people who do that grow some and compost as well
+itsniquenique45 John Kohler does. But I don't think Freelee ever grew her own food. John is perhaps the only raw foodist I have any real respect for. But then again it's hard not to like a guy that juices cannabis. :)
Did Kristina really say you need to prioritize eating this diet over having electricity? With 6 fridges how do you do that?
I really love how honest you are! Love your videos :)
How to tell if a pineapple is ripe:
-it smells like a pineapple (if its not ripe its not going to have a smell and if its rotten its going to smell acidic)
-you can easily pull out a leaf from the middle and its white on the bottom (if you cant its not ripe and if the bottom is brown its gone bad)
Lately i transitioned from a low fat vegan lifestyle to a healthy cooked vegan lifestyle with some junk and as much fat as i desire. I never felt better. I have so much more energy! Just wanted to say that being fullyraw ISNT the only way to be vegan and feel healthy and great! (my diet is cheaper too... cause tbh nobody on a budget can afford being fullyraw)
I eat raw during the summer(save for some homemade hummus for the veggies)and when I want to drop some weight. Otherwise, I just eat a traditional vegan diet(by that I mean if it's vegan I'll eat it). I'm not going to pretend that eating raw does get pricey but I only eat raw for x amount of time. Kristina is promoting it as a lifestyle, something you follow for the rest of you life. If I were to eat fully raw for the rest of my life, I would have to have a very high paying job and that's what Kristina has. She has a job that pays very well, she lives in a gated community, she has a million dollar home. It's easy for her to think eating fully raw isn't extremely expensive when she's not working a standard 9-to-5 job that pays minimum wage. This isn't to say her recipes aren't good, I definitely try them out during those times I eat raw but in the long haul, eating a diet like hers isn't something for the common man.
I'm loving your videos, BTW. I know this is old but I haven't seen it before. Like VegBethany says, it's not about guilt and (I believe) even regret. It's about learning what is the best thing for us. I've said now several times that you appear to be the picture of health. You have beautiful shiny hair and a gorgeous complexion. I watched the video where the dietician analyzed your daily diet and you are doing so many things right. If you have come away from the "raw food" thing with learning and information, you are successful. Period.
To lose a pound a week, one does not have to _eat_ 500 calories a day, he or she would have to _cut_ 500 calories out of each day's food.
Oh, and when you talk about your huge salad, it makes my mouth water. I absolutely _love_ fresh salads and colorful veggies which are so healthy. And although I also love fruit, I am trying to stay away from so much sugar. Even the natural sugars can raise blood sugar. My husband is diabetic and I am a severely reactive hypoglycemic.
I am not a vegan (but I do like the way you eat) but my husband and I are learning about eating ourselves. Things like Gluten are huge triggers for us and we can't tolerate it at all. I can't tolerate milk, either. I can tolerate Almond Milk just fine and actually like it, once I learned _not_ to buy the sweetened stuff. So yes, as we go along, we learn about our food and what works well for us and what doesn't. I don't believe you should feel any regret.
P.S. Anybody here: Does Tofurky _actually_ taste like turkey? Because if it does, it would be hugely easier and more convenient than turkey.
I LOVE you chill, conversational vibe!
Pluck one of the central leaf things from a pineapple to tell if it's ripe. If it comes out super easily, then you can eat it right then an there.
This is the only vegan youtuber that seems above average intelligent and is not cancer to listen to. So tired of theese smiley, spiritual, bimbo, airhead vloggers who just ignores science, but goes by what they "feel" is right and what looks pretty.
I appreciate your honesty and bluntness. Thank you
I just finished watching all your videos I could find on TH-cam. Thank you, they were interesting. I was wondering about two changes you've made.
1. When did you actually move from low-fat diet to a diet higher in fat and protein? At the beginning of 2015 you tried to increase the amount of fat and protein in your diet for muscle building reasons but after a few months you said it didn't work for you then and went back to your old low-fat diet. When did you try the higher-fat diet again, or did it happen gradually, and what do you think are the reasons why you are now happy and satisfied with that diet?
2. In some of your older videos (can't remember exactly, maybe about 2 years ago) you seemed pretty clear about not wanting to have kids. What changed your mind and when did that happen?
Sorry, I don't know why I'm so obsessed about wanting to know when things happened, but these are the two things I don't remember you addressing in your videos. If they're too personal to talk about in these videos, I'm sorry. I'm just curious.
You've really convinced me to start taking a multivitamin :) Been vegan almost 6 years, and feel great, but all these recent youtubers quitting veganism has me a tad freaked out LOL...
Brandin Shaeffer same
Failed is such a dumb term for this. I would never even try to do this much for the same reason I would never decide to wear only neon purple clothing. The restriction is arbitrary and there is no need to do it, you can be perfectly healthy and eat cooked food.
Do you have to store flaxseed and chia seeds in the fridge? For nutrients?
loved this video!! i hate the negativity around not being 'fully raw.' i also hate how they blame all the aspects that go into dieting rather than the actual diet itself. maybe to get more energy you should eat more fats or eat food you really enjoy rather than focusing on 10000000% raw. i still eat mostly raw foods, but i don't want to limit the types of perfectly healthy vegan food i can eat. i remember not allowing myself to eat steamed broccoli...wtf. its a perfectly healthy food and certain methods of cooking are not harmful at all. love u swayze:)
Can you do a video about the channel RAW ALIGNMENT?
What do you think of markus rothkranz?
I had the same issue of not feeling satisfied when I went back to cooked food. It's been quite a few months though, and I feel fine. No more issues. You are correct that it just takes time.
i’m honestly so glad you made your mistakes. you’re so much better with that knowledge and experience, and it’s so great to know that you’ve tried so much! of course i am glad ur eating a healthy diet now though :)
But we have to admit Kristina looks amazing for being so long on a raw food diet. And her level on energy and fitness is very impressive. For her this diet really seems to work.
Swayze, will you taste test some of the vegan Amy's microwave dinners and/or burritos?
A note on the cravings. Totally agree that cravings can mean something, if I start craving meat, it usually means my iron is low. It's a reminder to take my iron supplement or add more beans and greens to my diet.
I like this analysis on raw food diet. I have been considering it in recent times as a progression from the plant-based diet. I feel that doing it full time is unachievable in my current circumstance but do people achieve it part-time? People eat salads and fruit, even if they are omnivore, so including such choices when giving up animal products is no major change, at least that is what I found so far. I like cooked food, however, and I wonder if I am then trading a lifestyle for a diet, with all the restriction that can present, by going raw? I saw a talk by Brian Clement, recently, and he was presenting what looked like solid science to support raw, but again would I become obsessive, with all the negative outcomes associated with that :?
"Cooked food is poison." -- -ATM- DTM
screw fully raw, rice, beans, potatos, soo good why deprive yourself. sure raw foods are great, have a salad, have an apple or orange or some trail mix as a snack but i just don't see why shun cooked vegan food
I'm glad that you have found a way of eating that works really well for you. I'm vegan, but I am still trying to figure out what works best for me . . . how did you get used to eating normal volumes of food again after following a raw vegan diet? Any tips for feeling satisfied on normal volumes of food again?
That outro though. I laughed way too hard. Love you, Swayze!
Wait, I should keep chia seeds in my fridge? :O
Yes
I think just being vegan is fucking awesome! You don't need to be fully raw! You are making a difference!
I really like the Unnatural Vegan channel.. You can tell that she is being herself but in a “raw” way and of course debunking a lot stuff and such in a mostly negative but therefore appealing and fun way that she rocks!
That’s what is sooo cool her, I find.
I like to watch a lot of different kinds of vegan channels, but they’ve all mostly just got these ‘happy-go-lucky’ kind of vibes - that’s nice some times, but other times watching Unnatural Vegan is just so fresh, different and lecturing.
So good job👍🏻
I like you. thanks for your critical and realistic view of what's going around.you have helped me to get a clear view on all the confused info there s out there.keep on the good work.thank you