I don’t have a definative answer, and I have only been raw since June, but I have a couple ideas. From the books i have read thus far, it seems as though some raw foodists fast a lot and that they say their weight drops (regardless of fasting) in the beginning of being raw pretty low; there cells become clean and then alot of them eat very little – nothing in the am, then fruit then maybe a salad. They say that their bodies are more efficient and therfore they only need a little raw food to sustain. And these are active people. Maybe that is the case; I am still researching all the info out there to try to find what works for me, but it could be that their metabolisms just slow down. I don’t think thats bad though. They eat what they need, it just seems like too little. Like the book I am reading now is The Raw Life by Paul Nisson. In the second half, he interviews a lot of long time big-wigs in the field – kinda interesting to get points of view. But that is where I am basing the above on. They also talk a lot about “combining” their meals so they digest properly.
On the other hand, check out the archives on this dudes blog
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/02/raw-fo…
He is way neurotic on calories. I saw some other girl posting how was hung up on calorie intake but because she was afraid of slowing metabolism and gaining weight. He is a good resource if you want to see how to take in a lot and still lose weight, esp for her because she can’t eat nuts and he hardly does.
I don’t know, it’s still debatable for me. Maybe the blog guy lost weight because he was detoxing. Maybe you don’t need to worry about calories once you do. Just wanted to show you some things I have been tossing around. Sorry I don’t have THE answer, but some stuff to toss around, I guess.