If you stop and think about what you eat every day, the calorie table presented earlier will give you an idea of what your primary calorie sources are. Another calorie source is cooked foods, especially cooked starches. As for sugar, fruitarians must eat a large volume of fruit each day to satisfy their calorie requirements. In so doing, they ingest a large amount of sugar as well.
Sugar is addictive and promotes cravings.
The Hippocrates Institute both suggest a maintenance diet that includes or allows for cooked foods. Cooked starch foods do not promote cravings as strongly as sugar does. There are a few things that raw vegans can do to reduce the impact of the calorie paradox. A partial list of these mitigations is as follows. Include avocados as a regular part of your diet.