> I've been thinking, however, of adding weight lifting to my exercise
> regimen, but keep putting it off cause everyone I know says terrible
> things will happen to me because my diet isn't substantial enough.

What "terrible things" could possibly happen?  What does "substantial" mean?
You must overcome formidable hurdles in order to even consider a raw
vegetarian diet in this society, given the prevelant attitudes - don't
suddenly feel, upon taking up exercise, that the status quo was right all
along.  Substantial is a nothing word.  What people call substantial, is
anything that fills up your stomach, that makes you feel heavy - that's
substantial.  So if you don't eat meat, milk or tons of cooked grains, the
logic goes that your diet is not substantial.  "Terrible things"??  LIke
uhm, maybe your body tapping you on the shoulder in some subtle way to let
you know you need to eat more?  Gosh, what a terrible prospect.

> Does anyone out there know anything about this subject?  Anyone tried
> weight lifting on a raw food diet?  Would I need watch my protein intake
> carefully (through sprouts and the like) extra carefully?  And does one
> really bulk up like meat eaters do upon weight lifting?

I don't seriously weight-lift, but I'm in excellent shape and usually do a
workout with weights in the morning.  Since I don't take it that seriously,
I obviously haven't "bulked up", but I did notice immediate changes in
muscle tone and size.  It feels amazing.  I have notice no ill effects, nor
do I expect too.  Perhaps if I started up on steroids and worked out twice a
day, then I might consider changing my diet.  As an interesting side note,
conventional wisdom holds that you should work out strenously only every
other day, to give your muscles a chance to rebuild.  This is enforced by
the fact that your muscles will usually be quite sore the next day.  I have
found, on several occasions, that I had very strenous workouts and felt
little, if any soreness in the next 48 hrs - these were days when I ate
closer to 100% raw.  I'm not suggesting this is fact, this is just my own
anecdote - try it yourself.  From what we all know about cooked foods
clogging things up, it would not surprise me at all to discover that the
muscle soreness was due more to poor health than anything else.  Still, I do
stick to the "every other day" rule.

Good luck.