My friend was on 80/10/10 rv for about 3 months then had troubles with emotions and started back eating vegetarian with all the oils breads and etc and has since gained 30 pounds. He lost 10 pounds of that but now struggles to get back to his optimal 80/10/10 rv weight. Now he is going back to 80/10/10 rv and is having a big salad everyday loaded up with veggies and avocado but not too much and a bunch of fruit. His fat is usually around 6% for the day yet his weight remains stagnant. It must be mostly water weight he has to lose that his body is hanging on to I'm guessing?? Or should he be doing some fasting too? He still wants to lose the other 20 pounds I'm just not sure what to tell him other than stay the course and the weight including water weight will fall off. Is this good advice or should I have him doing something else too? Oh also he is exercising doing weightlifting 3 to 4 times a week but not much in the way of cardio because he doesn't want to lose any of the muscle he is gaining which cardio can do. Anyhow, I'm looking forward to hearing from the community thank you.

After about 6 months as raw vegan 80/10/10 still experiencing gut fermentation. I reread 80/10/10 book and noticed in part of it said that the large intestine can form outpockets that ferment old foods. I have noticed that I'm feeling better as my body continues to detox out of all of the old toxins I use to eat. Anyone else ever dealt with gut fermentation?

I'm looking for a copy of the 80/10/10 Reference Guide having trouble finding one online the other Guide I have is worn out. I have a page with fruits and veggies I copied and laminated to Reference for now but I'd like to have another full copy. Cannot find on Amazon.com USA site or anywhere else. If anyone could help please let me know?

I'm a 3rd shifter and so I wake up in afternoon and before weightlifting I make a big salad every day because I enjoy it. Also, between making it and eating it; it takes me about 1.5 hours so I do not have time at work to eat it so the obvious choice is to eat it prior to work and I always eat prior to workout because it seems more satisfying to me. I'll typically have about 1.5 pounds of lettuce, 250 to 400 grams avocado blended for dressing with some chunks too, and one to three more vegetables like red onion, celery, and carrot for example. For my workout I use Kickoff App that a Certified Personal Trainer helps to setup for me with an exercise regiment she helped to designed to help me meet my fitness and body composition goals. For cardio I run 2 to 3 miles per week on average with some fasting running in there too so the majority of my workouts working out two days in a row with one day off so most weeks 4 to 5 days a week working out consist of weightlifting. So I wanted to ask the community if this salad is good to provide the energy and power needed to weightlift or if some better alternative of a meal would be better suited?

My diet is so great in that I mean that my body's ability to provide bio feedback is greatly enhanced. One continuous improvement after another! So I thought more about my breathing frustrations and came to one realization: if my hypothesis of digestion is the cause of my breathing difficulty then some meals I must be improperly food combining and/or some complex salads with 6 or 7 ingredients like I've had previously would make my stomach feel upset or knotted up while simpler salads would not make my feel this way (I've been doing 3 ingredients for 2 weeks so far) because they are so easy on the body. For the past 6 months I know I've been carefully food combining so I know that is not the case. The knots I felt in my stomach seemed to occur no matter if I had a simple salad with 3 ingredients or one with 7 or 8 I always felt the same. Last day in the gym I got to thinking: so sometimes I feel I cannot get a deep enough breath and I'm running out of oxygen which is a horrible feeling to have. When I get a deeper breath I usually have to crouch down or hang like on a pull up rack to get that full breath. I began to think: maybe I'm breathing all wrong then at work day before yesterday and yesterday I watched a lot of YouTube and did quite a bit of searching. I came to realize that I am a "Mouthbreather" not that I'm stupid as the name can imply. I never realized after all of these years that this was a major problem. So to get full breath which was overbreathing and all in my head I had to breathe so deeply to get a breath I was unlikely to ever get. Interestingly, I only began to do this practice about 10 months ago when I initially began raw vegan 80 10 10 with lots of mistakes and screw ups for the first few months. Ive learned to breathe through my nose only at all times other than when exercising, eating, or talking. So with a meditative focus on breathing through nose I haven't in over a day tried to breathe too heavily through mouth so the soreness I felt under right rib I'm convinced was my lungs crying out from me overstressing them now that soreness is no more. The knot in stomach I think was just the messages I kept telling myself about my digestion still trying to straighten itself out. Next step I messaged a couple of breathing coaches to learn how to breathe because I've been a chronic mouthbreather my entire life and always thought that whether I breathe through mouth or nose it doesn't matter. I still have a lot to learn about breathing but I do understand that mouthbreathing can be very unhealthy. The science is interesting saying that mouthbreathers can cause dental issues (disrupts the mouths ph balance), respiratory problems, changes in fascial structure - a longer face with mouthbreathing, nostrils can become constricted because of non use so to expand have to be used more often, reduces nitric oxide production which affects cardiovascular and brain health, and more (i found good blog post on this subject for anyone that wants to learn more: https://feno.co/blogs/news/the-hidden-dangers-of-mouth-breathing-a-scientific-deep-dive?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21919780221&gbraid=0AAAAA9WBXt4QGiCKf94X_MPI2FPTr5HLt&gclid=CjwKCAjwiezABhBZEiwAEbTPGKSbWinxgbdZAYruQ5-gza66l2KzYg35gEUJzOI8NdXroYw28StPQxoCLqQQAvD_BwE