"on my previous trials, I was including a lot more fat, dried fruits, dehydrated foods, onions, garlic, spices, hot peppers, oils, and other items I cut out for this recent trial"
That sounds much more like the kind of raw diet I'd be comfortable with, plus a bit of raw dairy and sashimi. My diet tends to be fairly high in fat, with at least one avocado per day, plenty of coconut, egg yolks, butter, high quality dark chocolate, wild salmon and so on.
When I tried a low fat raw fruit diet for a few weeks a decade ago, eating just enough until I was satisfied rather than stuffing myself, in three weeks I apparently went from weighing 155 pounds (my ideal weight) to 128. I was full of energy and enjoying myself, but I would have had to practically force feed myself to regularly get more than a few hundred calories per day into me without including lots of yummy fats.
My current style of eating is not all raw, but plenty of raw foods do find their way in, I have good energy, and I generally enjoy myself while remaining quite flexible in what I can eat.
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