Eating A Raw Food Diet - Michael Arnstein's Raw Food Success StoryEating a raw food diet, switching to a 100% low fat raw vegan diet and lifestyle in January 2008 enabled 32 year old elite athlete Michael Arnstein to smash all his previous personal bests in running and athletic performance.
Meat and dairy were staples and vegetables were heaped with butter, but on the plus side, fast food was only a weekend treat and sodas were saved for parties. Growing up, Michael was on the chubby side and had throat or bacterial illnesses regularly. Having older siblings who began to improve their diets in order to improve performance in high school sports, Michael followed suit. He began to clean up his diet by cutting out fried foods and red meat when he was 15. He was a competitive runner in High School and ranked on a state level by his senior year, by which time he was a strict vegetarian, eating mostly low fat plants and grains. When he reached his 20’s Michael began to eliminate foods each year as a New Year’s resolution. He cut out milk/cream, cheese, eggs and products made with eggs, and all fried foods. By the age of 26, he was a strict vegan. At 28, Michael tried eating a raw food diet of the high fat variety, eating raw foods such as nut butters, plentiful avocados and high fat raw crackers. After 8 weeks on this diet, he felt heavy and tired and his running performance had not improved, though he had lost a few pounds. So he tried a vegetarian version of the Atkins diet. Vegetarian protein shakes for two out of three meals a day. His body weight dropped but he struggled with his running and athletics and developed a stress fracture in his tibia, which put him out of the running game for almost a year. Eat To Live Michael returned to a low fat cooked vegan diet, eating soups, beans and grains, an Eat to Live He continued to pursue running and triathlon training, yet did not improve his performances, even as his diet became ever healthier and more restrictive. He continued to search for information on superior diet and health and its impact on athletic performance. Michael before he began eating a raw food diet 100%.
The book was The 80/10/10 Diet Since Michael had already tried a raw food diet, he initially brushed it off, as he felt this was an approach he had already tried, that had failed. However, Victoria continued to urge him to read the book, saying this was no regular raw food diet. Eventually Michael agreed to read the first few chapters. Within 48 hours the book was finished and Michael was a new man. Low Fat Raw Vegan Michael immediately adopted the 80/10/10 diet (also known as the 811 diet), which consists of eating a raw food diet exclusively and receiving the bulk of calories from fruits, after reading the book in January 2008 and he has never looked back.
Since eating a raw food diet exclusively, Michael has been able to become very in tune with his body and its nutritional needs and able to really listen to his body, in a way that most people are simply unable to do, as their signals are so confused. He is able to easily meet all his needs on this way of life. When performing workouts of longer duration, higher calorie fruits such as bananas and mangoes are more able to sustain him, whereas when he is working on speed and doing shorter workouts, he eats more citrus fruits.
He found this very remarkable as the only other time he was able to drop weight at such a rate was when he had been on the vegetarian version of Atkins, and then he had not felt well at all. Raw Food Benefits On 811rv he not only dropped the weight very fast, but felt fantastic while doing so, his energy levels were extremely high and he was eating a massive amount of fresh raw fruit. His running times immediately began to improve significantly. His recovery became phenomenal, to the point that Michael is now able to run marathon distances just about EVERY DAY! For example, this is taken from a post Michael placed on 30 Bananas A Day ”I ran the NYC marathon in 2:35, then the following weekend 2:32 (and a win) at the Harrisburg, PA marathon
oh yea, I should mention that after this marathon I ran back to meet my wife who was running it too and put in another 5 miles. (31miles for the day) Vegan Athletes Michael ran his first marathon when he was 18 years old, and despite hard training for the next ten years his performance plateaued and he could never run it in faster than 2:45. After adopting the 811rv diet and eating a raw food diet exclusively in January 2008, he ran the Napa Valley Marathon in February 2008 in 2:34.07, finishing second overall. His current best time is now 2.31.45 (5:47 per mile) for a full marathon and 1:10 (5:24 per mile) for a half marathon. "These are not incremental improvements. These are incredible changes in a runner who most would argue is past his prime. I am now in my mid 30s and running faster than I ever have in my life, and I continue to run faster and faster the longer I eat this way.“ Michael’s goals moving forward are to run a few hundred mile ultra marathons, to break 9 hours in an Ironman Triathlon (current best time is 9:38), to run a sub 2:25 marathon, to run a sub 1:10 half marathon, to run a sub 32:00 10k, a sub 15:30 5k, a sub 9:40 2 mile and a sub 4:30 mile. With this diet and lifestyle there can be no doubt that he will achieve his goals!
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