Why is this lady so fat and what advice would you give her?

Beth has gone from 126lbs to 265lb and runs the forum www.rawfu.com and just cant seem to complete her '30 day low sugar challenges' and wonders why raw life is so tuff. She aint open to advice and its another forum Ive been banned from, so lets use Beth's example for those that want help and are prepared to work for it. So maybe you can relate to Beth's situation of carb phobia and see the rut this mentality starts to dig out for one and how it starts the binge/starve cycle we know of in the raw movement as a 'juice feast'.

My name is Beth "Bunny" Berry, and I am a food addict. I wanted to share a picture with you of the results of my latest sugar and flour binge. Right now my candida is so out of control that wearing a bra is extremely painful. And as you can see, I'm so bloated, gassed out, retaining so much water, and toxic that I look like I'm 9 months pregnant. Little Bender Baby Berry.

Tomorrow, I am going on a juice feast. I'll be drinking green juice until my body tells me that it's okay to stop. Despite a bender, I will never give up on myself. Because I'm worth it. This bender has put 15 pounds back onto my body, and it's all coming out of the front apparently.

I appreciate the fact that you all stick around and follow my endless story of failures and setbacks. One day I'll be one of those shining success stories, and have a book written about how perfect I became through raw and living foods.

Until then, I'm going to try to deliver this bender baby, and move towards being able to put a 30 day sparkly chip in my pocket that I can carry around proudly from abstaining from flour, sugar, and cooked food.

Pray for me. And never give up. Never give up.

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Permalink Reply by Mandi on March 27, 2010 at 8:17am

Is she eating gourmet raw locally? If she can get nuts and juices and superfoods and whatever else she's eating locally, why can't she get and grow fruit? At least some types, which depending on the season could sustain her probably just as well as other "local" foods. Her flour and sugar binges are all locally produced? Which is worse? Trying to eat local and craving/bingeing probably non-local food anyway, or accepting that imported food is healthiest for her given her location? I doubt she's eating entirely locally anyway, maybe she should consider taking care of herself as a side note. I never knew of her before this thread but she is very sweet. I hope someday she can do it 811 style!

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Permalink Reply by Lorra Fae on April 30, 2012 at 6:06pm

weird. i thought she lived in hawaii? i guess that was 4 years ago - i haven't kept up with her for a long time.

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Permalink Reply by Clover on March 27, 2010 at 3:03am

There are only two things that can happen if she does 80 /10 /10 perfectly, success, or failure, and I really dont thing the second will happen. With all of those problems, she needs to CHANGE her habits, and it looks (sadly) like she is unwilling to do that. Poor sweetheart.

:(

You have to want to change yourself to actually change yourself.

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Permalink Reply by MADO on March 27, 2010 at 7:14am

I would never ever post a photo of myself on the web looking like this. \

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Permalink Reply by Rawfruitygoddess on March 27, 2010 at 7:39am

You would never look like this Princess...

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Permalink Reply by Tarah @ 40 Below Fruity on March 27, 2010 at 7:40am

Amen!

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Permalink Reply by Claudette on March 28, 2010 at 2:20am

I am a memeber of RawFu and I havent been on since I joined, 30BaD is for me! The reason I go to this site instead of others is becuase the people here are getting the results that I want! Why would I go to RawFu? The people giving the advice are fat and unhealthy! Look at Durianrider and Freelee, that are both very sexy!!! I want to take advice and learn from them becuase they are living and looking the way I want to live and look! And a majority of the people on this site who are succeeding on the 811 diet are all thin, healthy and freaking HOTT!!!! If Bunny isnt getting the results she wants then she is doing something wrong, people here are getting the results they want so they are obviously doing something right. I have been looking into a raw lifestyle for awhile now but its this site that made me decide to go for it, do it 100% and though I just started, this is what I plan to stick with for life! I also get a ton of help on here whenever I need it and everyone is nice and helpful.

:)

I totaly 100% agree with Raw Rabbit.
Although I was never a member of RawFu, I was a member of 2 other sites that were the same as Rawfu. And I don't visit them anymore, execpt to try to get them to come to this site ;-)

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Permalink Reply by MADO on March 27, 2010 at 7:49am

why is she smiling if she is not happy

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Permalink Reply by Bunny Berry on March 28, 2010 at 2:04pm

LOL!

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Permalink Reply by SunWorshipper (SW) on March 27, 2010 at 8:00am

Think i may have discovered the reason why bunny can't be bothered by dr's advice - there's money to be made (or soon will be). The following from her own website:

"Now we are embarking on a new journey. Along with the online community of now almost 3000 members, you’ll be able to shop for RawFu Approved raw supplies, and also subscribe to RawFu Magazine, a monthly magazine that will supplement the online forums. It’s such an exciting time. I hope you’ll come along for the ride!"

And 30bad community has a paltry 2500 members - anyone up for being taken "for a ride"?

Could bunny be intentionally losing, and then gaining weight simply to keep the video generation transfixed to the inter-tube?....and how much money might this generate for her in the future -
inquiring minds will want to ponder these questions at leisure.

Maybe Miss Bunny is really more intelligent, and not so victimized by cravings, as many
sympathetic Badders supposed at first blush...

Poor Bunny?.....

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Permalink Reply by kt2 on March 27, 2010 at 9:57am

is it only me who feels as though this is a little unfair? i havent ever been to the rawfu website but i can appreciate the fact that she is being open about her failings even when it may leave her open to ridicule. is everyone here really so perfect? perhaps our energies would be better spent critiquing the drug, meat, dairy-pushing mainstream.