Raw Food Diet - 30 Day 'No Fat' Trial - Day 30

30 March 2009

Today is the final day of my 30 day raw food diet 'no fat' trial. I weighed in at 121.2 today, taking my total weight loss to 3.8 pounds.

I will be doing the summing up of all the final facts and figures for this trial and all the bikini photos and video tomorrow or the next day. I will also try to sum up all my conclusions and everything that I have learned along the way. I feel much richer in myself for having done this trial. I am definitely a believer in the 30-day trial as a method for achieving goals.

If I hadn't set this goal of no fat for 30 days, I would have continued to arb along with a few days of this and a few days of that and I wouldn't have been able to accurately measure results. Thirty days isn't very long at all, yet it is exactly long enough to know whether something is worth continuing or not. I'll save my in depth views on this trial for my post tomorrow.

Raw Food Diet Trial: Detox

My pimples have thankfully got a bit less prominent. Still there though.

Raw Food Diet Trial: Sleep

I felt very awake again last night when it was already past bedtime and didn't sleep well. However, I woke up before my alarm and felt fine. Does this mean I just needed less sleep? I was wondering if it's because I didn't exercise. I am eating all this high-energy food yet not expending much energy. Is it any wonder that I get to bed and my body doesn't feel like resting?

Raw Food Diet Trial: Exercise

I have some major exercise goals for myself over the next few months. I am keen to do the P90X series of workouts.

No Poo Hair Update

Well since I haven't used shampoo on my hair since day 14 it has now been 16 days no poo and it's all good. I was reading recently that it can take 6-8 weeks for the hair to detoxify from all the chemicals. So if that's the case I still have at least 4 weeks to go.

Raw Food Diet Trial: Food

Well I'm pretty excited that after tomorrow I won't have to weigh my food anymore. I can just eyeball it to get the calories. I do think it is important to be aware of calories and I'll write more on that tomorrow, but I won't need to be so exact and can definitely just estimate rather than weighing my food all the time.

For breakfast I had a green smoothie. I thought it was about time I had another green smoothie. It's funny I just haven't felt like eating much greens lately, so I just haven't. It isn't a train smash to skip it for a while. But today I felt like adding some greens so I blended 4x bananas (472g) and Spinach (344g). It was delicious. It really isn't difficult to eat greens if you do it this way.

For lunch I had a whole watermelon (2073g), which I ate in stages from 11am onwards. I went out to lunch with a friend from the office and just ordered a fruit salad and a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. It was pretty good actually! Quite surprising to actually get a semi decent fruit salad. Of course it was very small. I am just going to estimate the fruit in there as being 1x banana, 100g strawberries and half a mango.

For dinner we had this amazing spread. A soup, a salad and some nori rolls. Delicious! I didn't weigh the ingredients as Jaye made this for us, but my portion of everything contained half a mango, 2x red peppers, a cup of alfalfa sprouts, half a yellow pepper, 1x cucumber, 1x tomato, 3x oranges, 2x stalks of celery and 2x sheets of untoasted nori.

Raw Food Diet Trial: Conclusions

Frankly I am a little nervous about putting my bikini bod on show tomorrow. It is one thing to do it at the start of a trial and a very different thing altogether to do it at the end when all the goals are supposed to have been achieved! Of course at the beginning I fostered vague hopes of turning myself into Cindy Crawford in 30 days. With the benefit of hindsight I'm thinking: What was I thinking?

So I'll be facing the realities of the measuring tape, the camera and your hopefully not too critical eye. While I'm a little nervous, I'm more excited. The physical changes may not be enormous but there have definitely been some. Almost four pounds of weight loss cannot be ignored. However, the biggest changes have been mental and emotional and I'll be posting more on that tomorrow.

My totals for today were as follows: Calories 1834, Fat 9.3g, Carbohydrates 451.6g, Dietary Fiber 55.9g, Protein 41.4g, Sodium 395.7mg.

My percentage totals were: Carbohydrates 89%, Protein 7% and Fat 4%.

Go to Final Postmortem and Before and After Pics

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