Raw Challenge Day 10, Detox Day 5
Morning Weight 13st 4.5lbs. I can live with a loss of 1/2 lb a day, that’s 3.5 lbs a week or 14 lbs in a month 
Oil-pulling with toasted sesame oil for 1 minute or so. I guess this needs some explanation 
I read about it on another raw blog and thought it sounded disgusting. However the benefits are supposed to be huge:
Dr. (med.) Karach said the OP heals totally “head-aches, bronchitis, tooth pain, thrombosis, eczema, ulcers and diseases of stomach, intestines, heart, blood, kidney, liver, lungs and women’s diseases. It heals diseases of nerves, paralysis, and encephalitis. It prevents the growth of malignant tumors, cuts and heals them. Chronic sleeplessness is cured.”
The basic method is to hold about a tablespoon of oil in your mouth, sucking through your teeth, for 15 – 20 mins and then spit it out and wash out your mouth with fresh water. Actually the basic method is IT but do read up about it on the oil pulling site, all the info is there free of charge.
Sesame or sunflower oils are the only ones that work apparently, but I’m not sure that they meant toasted sesame oil! However it was all Asda had so that’s what I went with. Nothing like as disgusting as I feared but the flavour of the oil was pretty strong and it lingered …….. I think next time I’ll try the sunflower oil
12 noon Coffee
1:00pm 3 bananas
4:00pm 1/2 small pineapple, 1 large papaya, 170g raspberries, water, kale
Made 1 litre, quite chewy, drank 1/2 litre
5:15pm 1/2 litre smoothie
6:30pm 2 nectarines, few grapes
I was working in PS and realised at 8:30 that I hadn’t had dinner. I also felt really BORED with the whole detox thing and wanted something other than another salad. Also realised this was part of the detox and that I gave up smoking (another story for another time) so I can do ANYTHING!
Interestingly, found Shazzie (from the old FRESH list) online at shazzie.com – she’s a big name in raw veganism. More about her and my first raw adventure on the main raw diet detox page.
9:30pm Big salad like yesterday with a few grapes added + 1 banana and peach & tangerine tea
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I found your site through a search, I noticed this was posted in August and was wondering if you are still doing the raw diet and how the detox worked for you. I had done a raw diet for a week and lost 6 pounds. I didn’t realize how intense the detox could be and thought I had food poisoning so I stopped. I haven’t gotten started again but I so want to!!
i reaally need to loose weight as soon as possible.