If your goal is to lose weight as quickly as possible, a raw vegan diet may provide you with the solution to the best way to eat to achieve your goal. Not only is there a high potential that you will lose weight quickly, you will gain additional vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other heat-sensitive nutrients that you usually lose during the cooking process. In general, the raw food diet is far lower in calories and saturated fat than a typical cooked, meaty diet. However before beginning any diet, consult your physician.
Breakfast
A raw food breakfast for quick weight loss includes foods like muesli, which consists of uncooked oatmeal, nuts and dried fruit. Limit yourself to one serving. You can make your own raw almond milk by soaking almonds, blending them and straining them into a non-dairy, raw, unsweetened almond milk. Follow your breakfast with a hot green tea, which is known to promote weight loss by speeding up your metabolism and assisting you to burn fat, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Lunch
Enjoy burritos as part of your raw food diet, because they are very low in calories, low in fat and without refined carbohydrates. Instead of flour or corn tortillas, use collard greens as your tortilla. Collard greens offer calcium, vitamins A, C and K and plenty of antioxidants. If you are making a burrito, make a blended mix of sprouted beans with sea salt and cayenne pepper to taste. Add onion, avocado, tomatoes and fresh lime juice. It will save you time if you pre-prepare a variety of ingredients to use throughout the week. Include different vegetables in the collard green "tortilla" to make it more of a wrap.
Dinner
Dinner can consist of shaved zucchini, which can act as a pasta substitute because it has a similar tender consistency. Replacing your pasta with zucchini will reduce your refined carbohydrate and caloric intake dramatically, yet increase your nutrition. For the sauce, you can blend tomatoes in a blender and add Italian herbs to make a raw tomato sauce. Or, if you are not committed to being 100 percent raw, use a store-bought pasta sauce that has minimal ingredients in it and preferably organic. Make sure it is low in sugar and contains no high-fructose corn syrup or animal products like dairy or meat. Cooked tomato sauce is one of the few non-root vegetables that is far healthier cooked because its lycopene becomes more bioavalable. The UMMC states that lycopene is an antioxidant that is helpful in preventing or treating prostate, colon, lung and bladder cancer. Add vegetables and legumes to the tomato sauce like broccoli for iron and sprouted quinoa or soybeans for protein and amino acids. If you heat your raw pasta, keeping it under 116 degrees F will retain its enzymes and considered a raw food, according to Living and Raw Foods.
Snacks
Snacks are helpful in keeping your body energized and nourished until your next meal. If you feel hungry between meals, eat one snack that is about half the size of your meal. Eat foods like apple or banana with nut butter spread or carrots and broccoli dipped in a raw hummus. You can make the hummus from blended sprouted chickpeas, garlic, tahini and lemon juice.
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