Raw Food Diet - 30 Day 'No Fat' Trial

For the month of March 2009, I did a 30 day raw food diet trial of eating no overt fats at all. I wanted to see what the results would be in terms of how I looked and felt.

The results were more than I expected!

I lost a little weight, I felt FANTASTIC at times and pretty down at other times, I questioned whether I really wanted to be raw, and most importantly I learned a LOT of lessons about what is an optimal way of living during this raw food diet trial.

By being objective and tracking everything as I went, I learned a lot of lessons and a lot about what NOT to do! I started off the trial undereating, undersleeping and not drinking enough water. I gradually learned during the course of the trial that these practices were just not going to be sustainable.

I also suffered a lot of cravings, and symptoms that I attributed to detox and the lack of fat, but when I look at the posts now with the benefit of hindsight, I can see that these symptoms were more due to not eating enough, not drinking enough water and not sleeping enough as mentioned above. It takes a while to learn how to do the raw food diet the 'right' way, sometimes it takes years of trial and error. And this raw food diet trial details some of my learning curve.

You have to eat ENOUGH to beat cravings!

We don't have to count calories or force in food when it isn't wanted, but hunger and cravings are very obvious indicators that we need to eat MORE.

You have to drink enough water, EVEN when the food you're eating is mostly water!

I waited until I was very thirsty to drink water, thinking I was getting plenty of water from my food. This is NOT true. While a raw foods diet provides much more water than any other diet, you STILL need to drink water!

These are all classic 'newbie' mistakes.

This is my 'no fat' raw food diet trial in its entirety, you may learn a few interesting things, I certainly did!

Day 1

1 March 2009

My pre-trial facts and figures for the 30 day raw food diet 'no fat' trial that I'll be doing of no overt fat sources whatsoever are as follows:

Weight: 125 pounds

My measurements are as follows:

Rules For the Raw Food Diet Trial

For these 30 days the rules are as follows: I can eat as much as I want of all non fatty fruits and vegetables. I will record, weigh and measure everything I eat, so that I can input the figures onto fitday or nutridiary.

At the end of each day I will do a blog post which details my total calories, grams of fat, fiber, protein and carbohydrates as well as listing my weight and any other relevant information. I will not be monitoring my calorie consumption for the purposes of restricting at all, I will just eat according to hunger.

I want to see how much weight can be lost and how much I can shape up by cutting ONLY fat out of my diet, whilst continuing to eat a 100% raw foods diet, as I have been for a couple of months already.

So here are some photos of me in my bikini. At the end of this raw food diet trial I will post them up in the same poses so we can compare. I can't wait to compare myself 30 days from now and I am really excited to see what happens!

So today went very well.

I am still working in an office until the end of the month, after which I will be working full time on my own projects. So in the meantime, I have to pack food for work.

This morning I made two liters of green smoothie and chopped up half a watermelon and took that along to work with me in a cooler bag.

The smoothie contained 60g celery, 240g cucumber, 230g romaine lettuce, 200g spinach, 520g mango, 430g banana, 2x dates, 120g blueberries, 150g apple.

I drank one liter when I got to work and the other at around 12:30. I had the watermelon (all 1250g of it) at about 3:30 this afternoon.

My energy levels were very stable all through the day and I felt just great.

My stomach wasn't completely recovered from the weekend though and was making some pretty loud and embarrassing noises. On Friday I ate some oil drenched sundried tomatoes, olives and artichokes and my body reacted to the oil and salt combination with extreme disgust.

I ate the oily salt combo at lunchtime Friday and then didn't manage to eat again until Saturday as I was so sick. The salt gave me such a bad hangover too, a full on case of dehydration.

I recently heard something pretty funny, that if you need to drink water after a meal, you should clutch your throat and run around shouting 'I've Been Poisoned' because that's exactly what has happened.

When I got home at 6:30pm I made a smoothie with 360g banana, 4x dates and 110g blueberries.

I'll post the full recipe and instructions on the Fruit Dessert Recipes page, but not tonight, its nearly bedtime.

Raw Food Diet Trial - Conclusions

Calories 1980, Fat 10.6g, Carbohydrates 496.2g, Dietary Fiber 59.7g, Protein 33.6g.

Totals: Carbohydrates 89%, Protein 6%, Fat 5%.

Go to day 2 of the no fat trial

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