CALORIE RESTRICTION MAKES YOU DEPRESSED AND SUICIDAL? #335

[slampiece99]

In my quest for education what you say here makes total sense to me. Pure logic. You also have tons of energy and this is from glucose and it is so obvious. Proof is in the Pudding.

[ethanyoga]

thank you Harley! You've educated and inspired me again! :-)

[adityajuneja7]

hey harley

why do they say in yoga to fast atleast once a week? fasting for 24 hour period increases hgh levels

look at brad pilon's eat stop eat

[natureasintended]

Harley, I'm glad you're drawing attention to poor diets. I unwittingly tried a calorie restriction diet when first going raw and my hunger was uncomfortable. I've been happy on 811 for 2 years now since finding your videos.

After I've had a large smoothie after being (unintentionally) delayed in eating, my mood swings from low to a natural high.

[blackfootkids]

Awesome! Thanks Harley.

[rawdria]

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An other thing to check out. This is where Angela Stokes- Monarch shares her diet. I hardly could believe, that is all she eats, especially, because she claimed in her recent video, that she ate her usual diet during pregnancy. That seems to be next to nothing, according the suggestion of calorie intake promoted by 30 bad. Yet she just had a perfect baby, with less than two hours labor time. How come? I`d like to know what you Guys think

[natureasintended]

@rawdria She mentioned not being able to face eating early on due to pregnancy nausea which is common. She is probably very, very restful; also able to be extremely relaxed because of her circumstances.

[natureasintended]

@rawdria She was eating stimulants like maca and cacao and also a lot of nuts (obviously all due to her calorie restriction). My goodness! And no wonder she said she used lots of enemas. Nice lady but bizzare diet to eat / recommend.

[questions117]

I LOVE this video.

[ajkoz9393]

also, animals do not eat when they are sick, so this is a good example of calorie restriction in nature that is beneficial.

[hellokitty8404]

You speak the truth. Peace. :-)

[thatfruitarianchick]

It's true, I've been experiencing this first hand for quite some time.

[RawFoodFreedom]

Spot on Harley. When I was getting 1000-1500cals/day living on a cruise ship, I was freaking miserable. Fruit calories = happy and healthy.

[vineyardedge]

Totally agree with you, Harley! :D Love your videos....rock on!

[TheKidTheMan1]

Durianrider,

I just watched a Dan McDonald video where he spoke about 80/10/10 and he said a few things that confused me.

Maybe you could check it out and sort through it?

[durianriders]

@TheKidTheMan1 I watched the whole video. I left my comments.

[jenkarchel777]

Hey, I love all your videos. I have been a vegan now for about two weeks but a vegitarian 2years 6 months. You ans freelle help me so much. Keep on the great work!

[Cocovegan11]

@durian ....lots of love~~~ keep up the great work....you know Im trying to get off graveyard shift...been working it for( 11years).but..i noticed..when ever I eat some raw foods,like organic garden herb salad.. I sleep....and sleep...and sleep...i ate that salad last night and slept for 15hours....whats up with that?

[jammatoonarmy]

love the bale

[didrock17]

I have a question. I have been undereating and did not know it until someone let me know today. I have been experiencing low energy but thought it was just the cancer making me tired. Now I know I'm not eating enough and am going to fix it today. How soon after I jack up the calories will I see improvement in my energy? Thanks!

[Mekelsior]

@didrock17 It depends, but shouldn`t take to long. If you have cancer, you definetly need to go all 80/10/10 Low Fat Raw Vegan, and drink a lot of water, get sunshine, air, exercise, go for walks each day, and get a close connection with God, prayer is a good for healing. I don`t know if you believe in God, but you should, gives you the peace you are looking for in Christ. Anyway, the above works, at least do the physical part and you will see quick improvements! =)

[didrock17]

@Mekelsior Thanks for your advice. I have been doing all of what you said and have been Low-fat and High-carb vegan since the diagnosis in August. I actually just had no idea about the cals, it didn't even occur to me. I increased heavily on the cals for dinner tonight and plan to triple the cals of what I have been eating, starting tomorrow. Thanks for your reply.

[Mekelsior]

@didrock17 Anytime my friend, now you need to eat about twice as much as you normally eat in order to get half as many calories.. this is from the SAD diet to the vegan diet. This is because the SAD diet is so filled with fat, and fat has 9 Calories pr gram vs 4 Calories pr gram in Carbs and Protein. Excess protein cause acidity and especially animal protein. I will have you in my prayers and may your healing progress rapidly!

[Jordonification]

Nice 1 Harley!

[ZeBeFruity]

i got the diet. i want to know how to do the cool hair style.

[MiaCries]

This is all true. I was depressed since I was 13, and ironically enough, 13 was when I started starving myself to become thinner. Just a couple months ago, I got over the fear of gaining weight, I started eating enough, combined with 30 + mins of exercise and depression finally went away. Haha, I don't regret a thing. All the friends I broke away from because of my depression are fat losers now anyway. A couple even have babies already. Anyway, thanks for the free book!

[armyyyg]

Wow.. I don't eat sometimes cos I am to lazy to fix food or don't want to ... LOL and I am depressed as fuck.. Weight 48 kilo and 1m 59 cm tall ... Lol...... And I am sad right now while I'm writing this shit.. My feeling at the moment: "Damn this God forsaking place..."

[TangerineGroovin]

Maybe we should ask Dan McDonald about the title.

[armyyyg]

@TangerineGroovin HAHA I liked that one ^^

[thatfruitarianchick]

@TangerineGroovin Aww, yeah he does seem kind of low. No offense. He has a few videos where he cries too.

[TheaDragonSpirit]

That's why I said scepticism is my friend... and naivety is my enemy. That's why you don't take things said do research properly yourself.

[TheaDragonSpirit]

Good Video! Make sure you get enough calories.

[coconutwatermelon]

Great vid Harley.. I believe what you say, and I like how there is literature to back it up.. Good stuff!

[gigicats6]

Very good video!

[TRAILERS480P]

Thanks again, you are the man!

[Anima14]

I just had a beautiful feeling wherein I realised none of this is hard. Things are changing

[brianv00]

You're the guy who made me realise I under-eat. It's a real struggle for me to get into the habit of eating enough, but getting there!

[massivejester]

Hey Harley! Great video! I'm gonna compete in bodybuilding in around 2 years and my bodyfatlevels should then be at around 4%, or 5%. Do u think this is possible todo without some level of starvation? Calorierestriction i mean. Right now im very welltrained and have visible muscles all over, but I'm not at 4-5% . Cheers =)

[durianriders]

@massivejester we gotta remember that bodybuilders cut back on carbs and water and salt before a comp to achieve a more 'ripped' look. They dont drop any body fat at all but drop pounds of fluid and that makes the muscles more defined. Go back stage and watch the binges that immediately start literally as soon as the show is over.

Takes at least decade to be an elite body builder too. 2 years aint enough unless you been training for the last 6-8.

[massivejester]

@durianriders Thanks for the reply! I've been training for the last 5 years. Right now i have a lot of musclemass, i weigh around 95kg when I wake up. I was thinking 2 years until competition because im 183cm and the guys I will be competing against will be a little bit shorter i think, so to look as big as the shorter guys i was thinking that 2 years would be enough to out on enough. Muscles i mean hehe.

I wouldnt mind waiting even longer tho. Keep doing your videos man! =)

[massivejester]

@massivejester

And i've seen the binges hehe, and heard about them. I have a friend who became a swedish champion recently. The competition was on saturday, he stopped drinking water on the thursday before. They must be so hungry and thirsty when competing.

[lazur1]

@durianriders Good point, but further, bodybuilders posing in competition are actually in -terrible- shape, as far as performance is concerned; weak as babies.

[LordAngus1992]

@massivejester If at least 80% of your calories are from carbs and a maximum of 10% of your calories are from fat and protein, then your body fat percentages will not increase regardless of how many calories you consume. Eat as much as you want and focus on using exercise to lower your body fat percentages.

[bjarczyk]

Harley, what are the best foods to get carbs in? I need to get my carbs and calories way up.

Thanks, great video!

[therawlifefamily]

@bjarczyk Bananas and dates.

[mistoutchique]

Lol I love how you put low sex drive first :D ...

[devildeepblue]

Excellent video. A big thank you :)

[petekrusetunes]

Good advice! I usually eat 5-7 bananas a day along with avocado salads for lunch and soups for dinner

[b0ondockz]

Hey Harley, is this what you do for a living or do you have another job too? I'm not being sarcastic, just curious. Thanks.

[durianriders]

@b0ondockz pro youtuber, pro speaker, pro coach. Thats how I afford the spotty bananas. ;)

When all our work is play, we will never work another day. Ive never worked longer hours in my life and Ive never spent more time doing what I love doing. I have to force myself to stop 'working' each day lol! Gotta recharge and start again tomorrow.

[anyuisbjoern]

@durianriders thanks for funny honest answer

[b0ondockz]

@durianriders Wish I could say the same about what I do. That's awesome.

[langebrenda]

So Harley, if I want to eat 7 or 8 bananas for breakfast, that is okay? I find when I eat raw, I want to eat lots. That is okay right? :)

[therawlifefamily]

@langebrenda Definitely.

[anarchore]

@langebrenda yep eat all you want

[ftwbk]

i blame harley for getting me to eat a lot of carbs which gave me the energy to ride my bike which led me to having some sore muscles. i would have never gotten sore muscles before when i practiced caloric restriction and was carb phobic. damn u durianrider!

[1sueism1]

so true. last summer i started 'counting calories' and ended up with less energy which ended up with me working out less and i ended up gaining weight. cut out the crap eating, move more and you end up feeling better in all aspects of life. it's not rocket science, it's common sense.

[PaleAfternoon]

@durianriders I'm all for high carbs, and definitely on board with your overall message. I just find it to be counterproductive to eat way beyond what is needed.

[123gwf]

Harley, do you think it is possible that an otherwise healthy person who eats right and exercises could retain a small amount of fat due to not eating enough calories long-term, and his/her body more or less holding onto the fat for emergency energy usage it knows it will need when an under-caloried person attempts to exercise?

[durianriders]

@123gwf A small amount of fat is NORMAL! :)

People want to look like muscle wrapped in cling wrap all year long till they die. They get dropped off the deep end.

Vitality and confidence are the 2 most attractive traits we can have as humans. 2% body fat doesnt mean shit IMHO.

[PaleAfternoon]

I think it's important to distinguish between caloric moderation and severe caloric restriction. Certainly, dipping below 2,000 calories for a grown male is getting into risky territory - especially with sub-par micro-nutrients, but eating in gross excess beyond what the body needs isn't a cure all or magic energy provider. To say that you can eat thousands of calories beyond what you need and not gain is to say that your body cannot do one of its basic and most important functions - storing fat

[durianriders]

@PaleAfternoon Getting fat on fruit is so impossible. Its like a spider getting fat on flies or a shark fat on seals.

Cant happen in nature. We are designed as fruit eaters and designed to be trim. The only people that need to moderate calories are people eating shit.

[ReniLariH]

Eating less supposedly makes you live longer, but maybe it's because you eat less of that junk that would normally kill you faster? (Not saying it's a good thing to under-eat.)

[youarethedeal]

@ReniLariH yes i saw a show on oprah a while ago showing the low calorie couple starving themselves to a long life.. seemed scary to me

[durianriders]

@ReniLariH do anorexics live longer? no way.

[FruitarianSwimster]

@ReniLariH Lower met. intake:

Lower levels of insulin --> lower IGF-1, glucose, and thyroid hormones

Delayed onset of clouding of the lens in the eye (cataracts)

Livers more resistant to oxidative stress

Decreased levels of mitochondrial oxidative damage

Encourages hormesis which leads to less corticosteroids (stress hormone)

Changes in glutathione (glutathione is protective against oxidative damage)

General decline in protein synthesis (may be protective against age-related decline)

[FruitarianSwimster]

@ReniLariH In other words, calorie-restrictors cut their methionine intake simply by eating fewer calories...

Which means, when we eat enough calories of fruit and veg, we get low methionine and don't have to calorie restrict.

Of course, methionine is essential, as its biosynthesis provides for non-essential amino acids such as cysteine, carnitine, taurine, and lecithin.

[abjkl]

Awesome video, Harley. You break it down to where it's crystal clear. No B.S. Thank you.

[anyuisbjoern]

hope you will have other videos soon*

[anyuisbjoern]

i love you you look soo good. harley. im happy to get food again tomorow.

[Thewrathofpaul]

well then, I think I'm going to go eat some bananas

[anyuisbjoern]

i cant listening to you. David wolf is talking so loud on running on choclate.

[vention4wh]

Thanks for the reminder.

First I got up and got an orange then I sat down and fired off a 20 dollar donation. You and your girl helped me peal 17lbs off my butt (so far). And during the holidays no less. You earned it.

I also agree with your aversion to debt. It took 11 years but I paid off my home, got debt free and now 30% of my income covers all my spending for the month. It's taken a lot of work to get here but I'm on easy street now.

[durianriders]

@vention4wh Thanks for the support! :)



[melzio69]

"Eat as many fruits and veggies as you care for." -Dr. Douglas Graham

This is what all animals in nature do.

[ZeroTemp]

@melzio69 Even carnivores?

[tallmofo66]

Harley man I eat bananas and rice all day and I feel great.I'm 6"6' 200 I feel great I eat 3700 calories a day or more..I started this lifestyle only a Week ago and my results are great so far..

[Le5hitbag]

Yeah, right on the money, bro :) 

[kelhado]

The link is broken - what's the link to the book?