I'm a bit puzzled about the statements of some low fat raw vegans (no names here !) regarding the consumption of water : 1 Very few don't consume any water 2 Some trust their thirst and drink when needed 3 Others state that we need water until our gut gets cleaned out of its "dry waste matter", and then the need wanes. 4 Others advocate for a gallon of water a day, as a bare minimum when we eat raw, going up to 2 gallons if we eat cooked food. I lend in the 2nd category, as I tend to drink > 2L during summer and hot days, and about 1L in the cold month of winter. I do urinate about 10 times a day, clean and good amounts, so I guess I should consider myself hydrated ? Is it true that the more we go into the lifestyle, the better hydrated will our body be, and our external water need lessen ? How can it be that we'd need a GALLON a day ? Do our digestive track need that much to work properly ? What would be adverse effects of drinking too much water ? Should we bypass thirst and drink more than what it tells us ? And lastly, what is your personal experience with water consumption ?

Hello :) I am originally from Bulgaria - this is my home town - Vratsa - west-north Bulgaria. The picture is from there. Now I am in Malaysia :) Greetings from Klang, around 40 min drive from Kuala Lumpur :) What about you? Is anyone planning a trip to Malaysia or Bali in near future :)))

I have a cheap Oyster brand blender and I use it to blend my Avocado and lime dressing for my big salad for the day. Not sure if it'd be a good one to make smoothies or not but wanted to ask and get suggestions for blenders that would be better especially for chopping up lettuce too. Making and eating my daily salads takes me about 1.5 hours so on days I don't want to spend that much time I was thinking of making a vegetable smoothie. Typically on salad I will do lettuce green or red, hemp seeds, avocado and lime dressing, carrots, red onion, celery, then I'll have one other topping usually cucumber or tomato. Not saying I want to use all of that for a smoothie but just wondering what would taste good. So please provide recipe suggestions if you have any? Thanks. I could add some fruit but I do not want to add any fruit that would make for improper food combining but if that fruit works good with fat like avocado or even nuts or seeds then that'll be fine. I also want to say that I am on a 2500 calorie diet 80/10/10 raw vegan and I'm doing it very simply doing one big salad a day then lots of fruits throughout day. I'm not dehydrating anything nor do I really eat nuts only seeds right now. I'm 6'4.5" and currently weigh 178 and I'm constantly in gym working with Personal Trainer through an App called Kickoff. I am trying to get closer to 170lb so I am working on losing some more body fat before I go to get another Dexafit Testing for BMR, V02 Max, and Body Scan. I've been weightlifting for over a year now working on building muscle and losing fat trying to work towards 10% body fat. If you prefer to offer me your Coaching services those coaches out there then let me know how you can help me via Zoom strategy call or whatever. If you're not a 80/10/10 coach then a recipe suggestion or more than one would be great. Thank you all

I've been eating 80/10/10 for one year exactly today. And while some things have improved immensely, my list of foods I'm allergic/intolerant of is growing, and I haven't got many left. I don't know why my histamine/mast cells/whatever is causing it is worsening, but I must be missing something, because that aspect of my health is going the wrong way. Any insight is appreciated.