Raw Food Diet - 30 Day 'No Fat' Trial - Day 7

7 March 2009

Today is day 7 of my raw food diet 'no fat' trial.

I slept in this morning, only getting up at 11am and I felt SO much better. I think it was just what I needed. When I brushed my teeth before bed last night I noticed that my tongue was quite coated, just like it gets when I'm doing a fast. So I take that as evidence that I am detoxing very strongly, and the extra rest was just the thing.

Weight

My weight this morning was down again to 122.7 bringing my total weight loss for this raw food diet trial back to 2.3 pounds. Morning eliminations were as normal, so provided I don't ever take any more cocoa I am sure the constipation won't return.

Exercise

I took a total rest day today, not doing any exercise at all. I did some stretching for my shoulder and that was it. I'll jump back into it tomorrow morning with an early morning workout.

Shoulder Pain

My shoulder felt much better today as well, which is very unusual. The pain normally DOES NOT alleviate without pain medication and after a few days of dosing it, it goes away. Medicines do not heal, they merely suppress symptoms and overload the body with toxins to the point that the body has to turn its attention to dealing with the toxins rather than dealing with the source of the problem, so the problem may seem to disappear but it is only temporary and will always return. Nevertheless I have never been able to take the pain before. This time it has been so much more bearable and now it is just a slight discomfort. Amazing!

Crackao

I've seen that some raw fooders refer to the apparently raw cacao as crackao as it acts like a drug on your system and is in no way a health food. Apparently there is no such thing as raw chocolate as in order to express the chocolate flavour from the cacao beans, they must be heated. They are also full of highly toxic ingredients and therefore it is not food. For an interesting article on this, have a look here.

Raw Food Diet Trial: Food

For breakfast I had a green smoothie with 2x mangos (670g), 3x small cucumbers (317g) and 1x small head of romaine lettuce (193g).

I always use frozen bananas in my smoothies and that's what makes it so thick. It's like delicious ice cream!

Yesterday at the market we bought some mangosteens and baby mangoes. So I had one of each as a snack. The mangosteens are weird, its only the tiny white inside bit that is edible. Its delicious though, just very small.

For dinner I had 5x oranges. I wasn't very hungry today. I also had no cravings.

I feel great. I feel very light.

After my long lie in this morning I was full of energy. I did some work on my website and some research and enjoyed myself quite a bit.

My totals for the raw food diet trial today were as follows: Calories 1487, Fat 5.8g, Carbohydrates 378.5g, Dietary Fiber 53.4g, Protein 21g, Sodium 46.3mg.

Percentage totals were: Carbohydrates 92%, Protein 6% and Fat 4%

Go to day 8 of the no fat trial

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