Freelee, did you know it took me a WHOLE YEAR after watching your videos to try this lifestyle? I was on youtube searching through videos about weighloss and saw your video "Weight loss tips #2, ditching the scales" and I was like, why would I not weigh myself? Then, after that video I saw the fisrt video you had made before that one(sorry I don't remember the name), and I was like this is really ****** up, there's this skinny girl telling everyone that in order to lose weight you're supposed to eat 3000 or more calories every day? Wouldn't I be a hippo if I ate that much? they eat veggies and a re fat so no I don't wanna be fat that's insane. This was august 2010.
In february of the following year (2011) I found myself on youtube again and I, once again, came across the skinny girl and her profound promise of losing weight on a 3000 calorie diet. I saw at the end of her video that there was a link to 30bananasaday, and figured I'd check it out since the class I was in was boring. I then saw these testimonies of people that had lost 200, 100 and sometimes less pounds on this lifestyle. I still didn't go for it.
Between february2011 and March of the next year(2012) I tried calorie restricting, only to binge heavily after the first 1-2 weeks of starvation(900 cals per day) and on the days I binged I would eat roughly 3500-4000 calories of dougnuts, debbies, candy bars and Mc**** ice cream. I would sneak food and eat privately in fear of being judged. These habit had came about in summer 2010 but grew worse the last year. I though of suicide a LOT. Felt worthless and depressed. The only reason I felt the need to live is so my family wouldn't have to mourn my death. I thought it was an eating disorder,and in some ways to some people it was. But, now I know that it was because I was overfed with chicken's growth hormones and the poor cow that was murdered for the ice cream was inable to give give me the nutrition that my body so wholly craved.
In this past March I was fed up. I had to find something that could save me from killing myself. What stopped me was this feeling that God was pulling me towards something that had a great purpose. I had previously saved a link to 30BAD in my favorites and I came across it while crying over gaining another 5 lbs after 2 days of hard core binging. I plugged into the site and read so many more testimonies and discussions that I knew I needed to give this a try. I finally gave into the skinniest girl I've ever seen and trusted what she said. lol. Thanks freelee.
I now eat 3000, sometimes 4000 calories a day and I am LOSING weight. %^&? literally, #$%? I've never had so much energy, I've never been so happy on a daily basis, and I never though for a second in my life that I'd lose weight eating 4000 calories. I'm stoaked:D
I've never been so happy. Thanks Freelee, for sticking in my head the last 2 years with your awesome videos, and thanks everyone here for the support and encouragement. Let's get our FRUIT on;P
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I feel really encouraged by your post. I have been vegan for 6 months now and starting Monday I am doing my own totally raw 30 day challenge (I missed Freelees by mere days, sad face). Anyway, I've lost about 75lbs but restrictive calories, and the fake food that a lot of vegans eat is really not how I want to live my life. Here's to an abundant 30 days! Thanks for the positive reinforcement! I'm doing it! Natt x
Great job! You've definately chosen the best route for your whole life:) We're all lucky to have stumbled upon this paradise valley of nutrition.
WOW!!! What a great story. As a newbie to HCRV i'm so drawn to the positivity of the people that are HRVC. On 3000-4000 calories a day, do you exercise as well and how much?
I have a pretty active lifestyle, lol. I'm constantly moving at my job and on the days I'm off work I'm going different places and constantly moving as well. I'm in college and I live in phoenix, AZ (valley of the sun/heat) so I have many opportunites to be active. On the days I'm not as active I probably eat 2500 calories or so, my body just naturally adjusts now and tells me when to eat:) it's awesome.
Absolutely:) in a year or 2 I'll be posting my before and after's, it's really cool to think about that day. Good luck on your journey too, we're on the best path:)
Awww :-) Certainly a nice surprise to wake up to thanks Ashlee! I'm so glad you found us and that it all eventually sunk in. Your story sounds very much like a time I went through in my journey too. Thank God fruit I'm now out of that destructive zone and that you are too. The power of eating enough fruit calories can never be underestimated, it's so transformational, it brings forth our trueselves.
Again great to hear this, I'm VERY happy for you!
Yes it does, it kills me to know that there are people that are so under nourished and never eat even an apple a week cause they think it's un-needed. This is a life-changing, thought-altering and incredible way of living the only life we have. Thanks again! And don't stop making those videos, you're gonna reach thousands more people:)
Your great testimonial has been featured!
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BTW, it is ironic that many of our members freak when their hear they will have to eat 2500-3000 calories a day minimum. They are so stuck on the conventional calorie restriction to lose weight that they assume they will gain. What people do not realize is how much they are eating anyways.
Think of a SAD eater who binges on a bag of potato chips.
If one pound has 16 servings at 160 calories each, that is 2560 calories that might be consumed in one sitting. That does not include all the other cakes, cookies, and candies and even healthy foods they might have consumed that day.
If people are not being strict on themselves, they can easily eat 3k-5k a day.
Now when the dynamic changes to healthy and natural choices, our bodies tend to self regulate. People who need to gain will gain (anorexics and eds) and people who need to lose will lose.
Keep up the great work!
Peace, PK
Yeah, I definately know how that goes. Now I know why after a few days of binging I would weigh 3-5 pounds more.
The best part about this diet to someone like me, who loves to eat, is NEVER feeling deprived. This is a lifestyle of ABUNDANCE:)
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