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Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to Abbey’s Kitchen. In todays video, we will be talking about Paige Shay’s diet wherein she eats 8 pounds of mostly raw fruits and vegetables every day.
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Why does this diet sound so problematically familiar hey everyone I’m Abby sharp welcome to aby’s [Music] Kitchen let me pop in here super quick folks cuz I’m so excited to be working with element this is
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I thought we had put to bed like 8 years ago but here we are another beautiful fit blonde on social media making a meal out of a crate of bananas yep we’re talking about the infamous raw till 4 high
Carb lowfat low protein diet consisting largely of fruit lettuce and potatoes if this sounds familiar to you you are probably an OG aby’s kitchen fan so thank you guys so much for your loyalty we love that but it’s because I actually got my start here on YouTube debunking this dangerous
Raw vegan frore diet made famous by well another beautiful fit blonde so there was a time when I was receiving hundreds of messages and emails and DMS from young girls following this diet and suffering from horrendous outcomes hair loss raging blood sugars acne severe IBS flares muscle
Wasting amenorrhea and a lot more it is also not lost on me that this is a very similar protocol to the one followed by Russian raw vegan frugivore Zan de art who passed away in the summer at age
39 allegedly related to malnutrition so I don’t know this feels a bit like a passing of the torch to the next generation of raw vegan frugivores and of course I have to worry about a similar fate but
We will be talking calories and restriction eating today so that’s just a little heads up here um and if you’re not already subscribed I would love if you would and also check out my free Hunger
Crushing combo ebook in the description below but let’s get into some of PA’s videos and take a look at what she recommends eating to prevent weight gain to lose weight or to get rid of cellulite
News flash there is no diet specifically to do that what I eat in a day so I can eat as much as I want and never have to worry about weight gain for breakfast I’m having 4 lbs of watermelon for
Lunch I’m eating five Envy app app for a snack I’m having a cluster of green grapes and for dinner I’ve got a fresh crispy Roma salad along with yellow curry potato soup now this is dangerous and frankly just an incorrect assertion it doesn’t matter what kind of diet you want to follow keto
Weight Watchers calorie counting or raw till four weight loss or weight gain comes down to calories and if this works for Paige or for others it’s because you’ve been able to create a calorie deficit not because it’s super satiating in fact despite this diet being made up of only fruit and
Vegetables it is super low in hunger crushing compounds now I’m not 100% sure what’s in the soup but I estimated around 2,000 calories 34 g of protein 19 G of fat and 54 G of fiber and sure the
Fiber is a lot higher than the national average but it only makes up about 12% of total carbs not great when we’re not even hitting the bare minimum protein targets so I would argue that most people
Would not feel very full at all on a diet like this and if you did it would be because of the sheer volume or low caloric density of the foods which she elaborates on here the average American
Has about 4 pounds of food every day I eat over double that I always start my morning off with half of a watermelon which comes out to 4 and 1/2 lbs next up is six bananas at 1.3 lb for dinner I
Eat this entire bowl of soup which has 2 lb of potatoes in it I also have a large salad that weighs about a half a pound the fact that eating 8 lbs of food is treated as like a flex is kind of a
Red flag to me now I’m not diagnosing anyone with anything I’m simply going to speak from my own experience as a dietician and also someone who has had a disorder but bragging about my massive meal
Portions was exactly what I used to do to try to hide my disorder you know I was like look at all the food I eat there can’t be anything wrong with me look I eat see I eat a lot and honestly it kind
Of worked like people saw me eat a lot so they were thrown off on any suspicions that something was wrong but eating massive amounts of ultra low calorie foods in an attempt to stretch the Vagas
Nerve and like trick my body into thinking that I was truly nourished was a clear sign of my Ed you know I just wanted so badly to feel full like super full like physically a full full belly and
The only way to do that while not gaining weight was to eat massive amounts of lettuce broth and water-rich fruit obviously there is some Merit to consuming more high volume Foods when on a weight loss diet and that doesn’t necessarily mean one has an ed I mean we’ve got lots of research to
Support that method but I think it’s important to remind ourselves that even if you can hack your brain into thinking it’s full by filling your gut with a ton of water and bulk the likelihood of feeling satisfied is super super slim like I ran that race and it was very short-lived you cannot
Marathon it out on a hyper restrictive diet like that without it completely messing with your head and this sentiment from Paige on oils also feels very very familiar the next thing I stopped eating
Was oil I was all into the keto Vibe and the thing is is like oil is not satiating and satisfying oil does not fill you up all oil does is just give you extra calories without actually giving you any
Any bulk behind those calories without actually filling you up and making you full and satisfied I was very strong keto so I was like 80% of my diet was fat my stomach was never getting filled
Up it was just a bunch of high fat foods that I was eating first of all I generally think it’s a red flake when I see folks yo-yo from one extreme diet to another like case and point high fat keto
To lowfat raw vegan like why do we need to make eating so complicated no but seriously here is my take on oils and fats while trying to lose weight fats contain more calories per gram than protein or carbs but they’re also very slow digesting so they stabilize our insulin levels and keep
You feeling Fuller for longer now when wh loss is the goal I do think we want to get the bulk of our healthy fats from whole food sources where they are bundled up with other hunger crushing compounds so avocado for example is rich in healthy fats and fiber nuts have healthy fats
Protein and fiber salmon has healthy fats and protein Etc now oils are just pure fat AKA they are only one hunger crushing compound but that doesn’t mean they don’t contribute to fullness or satisfaction or that they cannot fit in a weight loss diet on the contrary Reese suggest that added
Oil does help to reduce appetite and hunger hormones when added to our meals it also makes food taste better which is super important for the satisfaction piece like I would be so miserable eating dry lettuce with no dressing you bet I would be face planning into a family-sized bag of
Chips and on top of the oil rant let’s clear up some science really easy for your body to convert the fat that you eat into the fat that you wear so it takes a lot less energy for the body to convert
Dietary fat into fat storage on the body but it’s a lot harder and takes more energy to convert carbohydrates into fat storage which makes sense because fat is already fat so it’s easy to convert dietary fat into fat storage because it’s already fat that is not how weight gain Works carbs may
Be our body’s preferred fuel for immediate energy but that doesn’t mean that they can’t be converted to fat in fact if you really want to get down to the nitty-gritty you could maybe argue that foods that increase insulin or promote insulin resistance May preferentially promote fat storage
And if that’s what wak gain actually came down to then carbs might actually be the bigger culprit particularly low fiber high sugar carbs like bananas grapes watermelon Etc but as I discussed in my video on insulin right here the truth is all of those details kind of come out in the
Wash so ultimately it really doesn’t matter what the energy source is if you have more calories AKA energy then what you need that substrate is going to be stored as fat carbs too how much of your diet should be carbohydrates what should be protein and what should be fat what percentage
Should all of this be so I like to stick to 80% of My overall calories coming from clean carbohydrates 10% from fat and 10% from protein and the beautiful thing is is that when you’re eating the right Foods you’re going to naturally fall into this macronutrient ratio without even
Trying you don’t have to count your Macros you don’t have to stress out and put everything into my fitness pal no none of that that’s why this lifestyle is so free because as long as you’re eating the right Foods you’re naturally going to fall into that AG 101 macronutrient ratio without
Even having to try probably not I mean assuming that calories are appropriate North Americans pretty consistently consume about 15% of their calories from protein there’s actually a really interesting concept called the protein leverage hypothesis that suggests that protein intake is
More strongly regulated in the body than the intake of carbohydrates and fats and when we reduce our protein intake below 15% we compensate by increasing our calories until we reach that 50 15% so if you’re not also carefully controlling calories and you’re just going Hog Wild on all
The fruit there is a pretty good chance you are not going to end up in a calorie deficit now I could have easily been off on my calculations above seeing as I don’t know what she puts in
Her soup but what I calculated was even more extreme than what she recommends here and what she recommends is pretty bad especially for weight loss I talked about optimal macros for weight loss in my video right here but fat loss increases is fourfold when we go from 10 to 15% of our
Calories from protein to 20 to 30% but even if fat loss is not the goal this is not even enough for like Baseline bare minimum Health the lowest of the low recommendations for protein is8 to 1
Gam per kilogram of body weight and that is like bottom of the barrel basic that is not if we are trying to lose weight or build muscle so for 120 lb person that is just 43 to 54 g of protein per
Day that is relased so little in my professional opinion and yet this diet doesn’t even provide that poor protein intake can result in muscle wasting reduced energy digestibility and fatty liver and these effects can persist well beyond quitting the diet ditto for low fat we know that
Fat intakes below 20% can result in hormone disregulation so basically low testosterone in men and low estrogen in women which obviously can affect fertil you know I keep thinking that debunking content like this is like Captain Obvious like no Sherlock it is not a good idea
To eat 4 pound of watermelon every single day but then I see comments like this and I’m like I have so much empathy for the vulnerable individuals who are following this and well of course there will
Always be folks on the fringes who will thrive on a diet like this but it is a pretty slippery slope for like everyone else so bottom line folks fruit is amazing fruit is nutritious I love fruit
But a girl cannot thrive on fruit alone even if you throw in some potatoes so if you were looking for specific details on the optimal macro splits for your specific goals definitely check out my
Video right here and on that note that’s all that I have for you guys today if you like this video please give it a thumbs up I would love to hear your comments below keep it kind we do want to
Be respectful here and I will see you next time on Abby’s kitchen bye come on Poppy oh she did [Music] girl