Tweaking the Raw Food Lifestyle

I've been eating raw for a week now and it's going ok. No real hard cravings or temptations to speak of so far. I've lost 8 lbs which I'm sure is water weight but nonetheless exciting. However, I'm having a big problem getting enough calories. My problem is I just can't force myself to eat too much of the fatty foods that a lot of the other raw foodies love. Things like avocados, oils, nuts, etc. I do use a little oil in my dressings but I'm just having a problem eating all these fatty substances even though their good fats. To me fat is fat. So consequently, I'm just not getting enough calories from my veggies and fruits. I think this is going to give me problems with all sorts of things like muscle loss, fatigue, etc.

The other problem I'm having is that it seems it's taking quite a bit of my time to prep food. One of the things that appealed to me about this lifestyle was I figured eating raw would be quicker. Well it hasn't quite materialized for me. Even something as simple as a salad seems like it's taking too long for my lazy butt. And looking around at some of the recipes, it looks like I might need to commit a some part of my weekends for food prepping for the week with things that need dehydrated. Now I know you don't have to do this but most of the things that appealed to me require some of this.

So I started looking around and found the low fat raw vegan lifestyle or the 80/10/10 diet. The premise is that 80% of your daily food comes from carbs, 10% from fat, 10% from protein. This means that you are mainly eating lots of fresh sweet fruit with one big salad a day. This really seems to make more sense to me than a high fat raw plan. Plus it seems easier for work to take a big bag of fruit rather than making a salad or something else first thing in the morning. So I'm going to give it a shot. Now it's not all roses. One of the biggest concerns I have is the large quantity of food some people eat on this like 10 bananas or 20 oranges in a sitting. That just seems insane to me and I'm a buffet man! So it's going to take some adjust on my belly's part. Also, this could get pretty costly if in fact you do consume that much fruit. Only time will tell but I can wrap my head around the concepts more.