The Fully Raw Diet: 21 Days to Better Health, with Meal and Exercise Plans, Tips, and 75 Recipes

by Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram

Overview

The must-have book for FullyRaw fans or anyone who wants to explore a raw-foods vegan diet to lose weight, gain energy, and improve overall health and wellness

The Fully Raw Diet offers a 21-day plan to help people enjoy a clean, plant-based, healthful approach to eating. Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram transformed her own health by eating vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds—100% fresh, raw, and ripe—and she is now the vivacious, uber-healthy founder of the FullyRaw brand. Her ten-year success with this lifestyle inspires thousands via social media, and her 21-day FullyRaw Video Challenge on YouTube in 2014 dramatically grew her fan base. This book shares her advice and will correspond to a new video challenge, with meal and exercise tips, recipes, and vivid photos. Fans will love the smoothies, salads, main dishes, and desserts, such as Lemon-Ginger Blast, Spicy Mango Basil Salad, Yellow Squash Fettuccine Alfredo, Melon Pops, and Caramel-Apple Cups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544559110
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/05/2016
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	391,536
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

KRISTINA CARRILLO-BUCARAM is the visionary behind FullyRaw, her raw-food lifestyle brand/business, with 500K dedicated fans via her YouTube channel, website, and social media. She is also co-founder and director of Houston’s Rawfully Organic co-op.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7

Part 1 The 21-day Diet

How to Start Eating Fully Raw 11

Using This Book 23

The 21-Day Diet, Week by Week 25

Week 1 25

My Story: How I Became a Vegetarian 32

My Story: My Fully Raw Awakening 44

Week 2 46

My Story: What I Eat in a Typical Day 52

My Story: How I Made Friends in College 60

Week 3 63

My Story: My Family 64

My Story: Growing Fully Raw & Rawfully Organic 72

Part 2 The Fully Raw Kitchen

Getting Started 83

Shopping and Storage Tips 83

Selecting the Right Equipment 86

A Word About the Recipes 89

Recipes 91

Juices & Smoothies 92

Soups, Dips & Dressings 140

Epic Meals 170

Desserts 208

Part 3 Fitness and Exercise

Get Active! 247

Stretches 247

Cardiovascular Exercises 250

Strength Training 251

Appendix: Raw Science 254

Index of Tables and Tips 267

Index 268

Editorial Reviews

10/05/2015
The founder of FullyRaw, a raw vegan lifestyle brand, initiates readers into a raw diet with this comprehensive guide. Diagnosed with hyperglycemia (the precursor to type 2 diabetes) at age 18, Carrillo-Bucaram suffered under the treatments prescribed by her doctors until a chance encounter with an enthusiastic “raw foodie” at Whole Foods changed her life. She switched her diet of Latin American and Middle Eastern foods to one of raw, organic whole fruits and vegetables, cutting out animal products in the process, and found her symptoms waning. Carrillo-Bucaram then used a diet created by raw food advocate Douglas Graham to outline the core of FullyRaw, which follows an 80/10/10 caloric ratio, or 80% minimum of calories from carbohydrates, 10% maximum from protein, and 10% maximum from fat. The first part of the guide explains the 21-day diet and includes moving, personal stories about the author’s skeptical family and journey to becoming “fully raw.” This is followed by recipes and accompanying exercises. Included throughout are gorgeous color photographs of Carrillo-Bucaram with fresh produce on farms, as well as photos of her dishes, which look delicious. This book is so thoughtful and comprehensive that it will appeal even to the most wary eaters. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"[Kristina's] first book,The Fully Raw Diet will hit shelves this month. If brightly colored, jaw-dropping raw food dishes are your obsession, follow her on every social media platform." —Greatist.com's 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness "Thoughtful and comprehensive." —Publishers Weekly —

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