So a lot of people will say, "I'm 50/50 raw" or "I'm 80/20 raw" etc etc...I've even read "I'm 98% raw"

...is there any way this is calculated or do you just kind of guess how much you eat raw and don't??

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~Christi~
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A simple way would be to ask yourself how many all-raw meals (or portions of all-raw meals) you are eating CONSISTENTLY. If you make a goal to eat 1 all-raw meal per day consistently (assuming you are eating 3 meals per day) then you are approximately 33% all-raw! Simple. After all: it's just a tool to give a rough estimate anyway! Ha! ha!

-David Z. Mason

Yes, it's all pretty much estimated I think. You'd have to calculate your total days calories, or weekly or monthly, then find the percentage that comes from raw foods, which is TOO much math for me Consitancy would be they key also, which many people aren't.

I like saying I'm high raw..which is 75% or more..and guess I'd now should say, I'm low raw..working my way up to high.

Love,
Prism

The interesting measure is the percentage of calories, as volume and weight percentages can be deceptive. I like using something similar to Dave's approach, but rather than just percent in a day, I look at percent in a week. In a week, if you are eating 3 meals a day, there are 21 (using 20 instead of 21 makes the math a little easier) meals. So 1 cooked meal a week is 95%, 2 cooked is 90%, 3 cooked is 85%, etc.

I think that calculating by calories is more accurate. If you have one cooked meal per day, every day, this meal may well contribute roughly anything from y=1/3 to y=2/3 of your daily calories. Which means that you are anything from 77% to 33% raw. So guessing how much raw you are is a wild guess. Assuming the first option (1/3), we have
* 1 cooked meal per week would be [1-1/(3*7)]*100% = 95% raw
* 2 cooked meals per week would be [1-2/(3*7)]*100% = 90% raw
* 3 cooked meals per week would be [1-3/(3*7)]*100% = 86% raw
* 4 cooked meals per week would be [1-4/(3*7)]*100% = 81% raw
...
* 7 cooked meals per week would be [1-7/(3*7)]*100% = 67% raw
and so on.

However, I believe that it is very likely that this cooked meal per day could contribute y=1/2 of daily calories (or more), which would change the numbers significantly (7 cooked meals per week would then be 50% raw). In general, if your daily fraction of calories attributed to your daily cooked meal is y, then n cooked meals per week will make you
[1-n*(x/7)]*100% raw.

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Great
So then I was right when I recently said that I'm about 75-80%

Thanks guys and girls

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~Christi~
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AP/NL mama to Jacob 10/25/2006

Correction from "Which means that you are anything from 77% to 33% raw" to "Which means that you are anything from 67% to 33% raw"!

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My stats:

By kcals, about 80%. (remainder is occasional legume, light beer, steamed vegetable, or "not really raw" raw food).

By volume, about 90-95%.

By time spent chewing, about 99%.

By cost, about 95%.

gosia, how sweet and funny to see the maths in here
I like it very much -
Cynthia

That's nice Cynthia!

I was wondering what % I would be if I ate one cooked meal per month. Assuming 1/3 ratio, it is
[1-1/(3*30)]*100% = 99%
which I define as high-raw (99% ore more).


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hey gosia...compared to a SAD i consider 80 percent and above HIGH raw LOL......

I agree, i personally use fit day and i go by percentage of calories eaten..... high water fruits and things could be deceptive by volume....causwe i could eat a 15 pound watermelon and then eat 1 pound of mcdonalds french fries and SOOOO not be close to healthy raw even though my percentage was above 80 percent by volume....

i used to have trouble with this concept, but since going % of calories, it has been SO much easier to define myself and KNOW what i am eating....

i know this thread is older, but it sure helped me think about some things...

tiffntwins

One thing I've always hated about figuring out percentages of anything in terms of food (i.e., what percentage of calories come from fat, say) is that it's deceptive. For example, when I was doing a vegan diet a la Mediterranean (i.e., lots of veggies, some fruit, some grains, good fats, etc.) my Fitday totals for fat would be around 50% BUT I was eating around 1400 calories so the actual amount wasn't that much (as opposed to, say, someone eating a 2000 calorie diet who had 50% fat).

I find the same thing with eating raw. I've been eating no conscious cooked meals but have been using tehina from roasted sesame seeds (all I could find) and dry fruit that I was counting as not totally sun-dried mainly because I don't know for certain that it is certifiably raw (though most of the dry fruit I buy is in bins, so it's organic). But most of my raw meals have been around 1350-1500 calories so my percentage of raw has been 70-75% which is not where I want to be. It's also weird because the more calories I eat a day of raw stuff, the higher my percentage, because the calories go up but the calories for the non-raw stuff stayed the same (does that make sense at all???). So even eating 1600 calories instead of 1500 can drive my percentage up from 75% to 80% which is a big jump.

On the up side, I managed to find raw sesame seed butter in my local store, so now I am at 85% raw .

Tam

why don't we all just break out the TI- 89 and start hashing out some calculus here while we're at it ?

hey i have a TI 89... silver edition... whatcha trying to say LAV? hee hee
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