Raw Food Diet - 30 Day 'No Fat' Trial - Day 30Today 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 for this raw food diet trial so far 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. 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 the raw food diet with 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. Detox My pimples have thankfully got a bit less prominent. Still there though. 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? Exercise I have some major exercise goals for myself over the next few months. I am keen to do the P90X series of workouts. I am thinking of an exercise schedule that goes something like this: Ride bicycle to gym every morning; do weights workout - heavy. Get home eat breakfast and work for a few hours. Before lunch do a 30-minute cardio workout on treadmill. Have lunch and work for a few more hours. In the late afternoon do a P90X workout followed by some yoga and stretching outdoors and only then get showered and fresh and gorgeous for a relaxing evening. I'm thinking this makes sense as I can just get into exercise clothes in the morning and just stay in them all day. Haha! And I'm not a Dirty Girl! Sure, I'll be getting sweaty but I'd get sweaty anyway, it is Dubai after all and it's hot. Besides, my sweat doesn't smell anymore. The idea of getting three sets of exercise clothes dirty and taking three showers a day concerns me more in terms of wasted time. I also don't like the idea of one super long extended workout. I guess I'll have to see how it goes. Hair Well since I haven't used shampoo on my hair since day 14 it has now been 16 days no poo. 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. I also recently read a post where someone said that you shouldn't put anything on your body that you wouldn't be willing to eat. I think that is very true. It all goes into your body, whether through the mouth or the skin or the scalp, so we need to take a lot more care about what we use on our bodies. I spent a bit of time worrying yesterday about what I will do with my grey situation. The longer I go without hair products the better I feel about it, yet as I've mentioned before, I am far too vain to have grey hair. I don't want to suddenly look like I've aged 20 years. I have a hair appointment coming up in a couple of weeks for a cut and color and I can certainly see that the color part is becoming necessary. But if I have a color that will mean I will have to start my hair detoxification all over again. I suppose a shampoo once every two months can't be too bad? Well, anything is better than grey hair, even toxic hair. I think what I'll do is skip this appointment and just get a real look at how bad the grey really is when it's all grown out some more. Maybe it's not so terrible. If it is, then I will just have to go back and get re-toxed every couple of months. 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. 
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 cameras 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%.
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