[Hyperchiller]

Day 6


Breakfast:

Cooked in vegetable oil:
Two eggs
Pasta sauce
Added a blended mixture of:
Spinach
Parsley
1 tomato
Red lettuce
Flax seed

Lunch:
1 apple
1 orange
1 avocado

Snack:

Two Cherry ripes!

Dinner:

Red lettuce
White rice
Steamed broccoli
Tomatoes


Comments:

I had 6 hours of sleep last night. Awesome! I usually had like 10 hours on a meat eating diet. But before I usually over ate and didn't have enough enzymes in my opinion. Now I try to eat when I'm hungry and not over eat too much. And even if I do overeat, it will be light food.


I have changed my goal from 100% raw to around 70% raw. I have been persuaded by this site keeper's experience: Beyond Vegetarianism--Raw Food, Vegan, Fruitarian, Paleo Diets
I desire to be more balanced and a 100% raw diet to me at the moment does not seem balanced. Even though Steve says staying 100% raw is easier than 90% or less than 100% raw I disagree. To me there doesn't seem to be much of a difference. I don't have huge cravings for cooked food but I will eat them. I'm not going to let the diet control my life, trying really hard to stay 100% raw which is now ridiculous in my opinion. So I am probably going to have go 60-70% raw food and now with more eggs, milk and yoghurt. I will have cooked food occasionally. It shouldn't be any big deal especially if it's steamed rice or broccoli.

And now an interesting excerpt from the above website:

Before listing the main areas of disagreement, let me state explicitly that I am pro-raw, pro-vegetarian, and that 100% raw vegan diets have a good (but not perfect) anecdotal record in the short run, but a dismal record of failure in the long run. In contradiction to the party-line claims that strict 100% raw vegan diets are "ideal," 75-90% raw vegan diets often work much better in the long run than 100% raw diets.

My current diet is 75-90% raw and includes some dairy--mostly raw milk or yogurt and a very small amount of ghee (a cooked dairy product). My diet includes sprouts, nuts, avocados, raw vegetables, fruits, dairy, and other foods (raw honey, etc.).

Humanely produced, sanitary, raw cow's milk is readily available in the area I live in (San Francisco area: I use Claravale Farms raw cow milk). Lately (August 2000) I have been using yogurt instead of raw milk, as it is more convenient. Adding dairy to my diet has helped me in many ways:

Increased my strength and stamina.

Effectively eliminated physical cravings; milk and yogurt are comfort foods and anti-craving.

Increased body weight, and the weight is staying on, rather than melting off.

Increased hydration (many raw vegans are dehydrated--I was, before adding dairy to my diet).

Increased sense of well-being; in other words, I feel better.

Helped with my health problems, and also helped balance me, in Ayurvedic terms. There is another benefit of using dairy: it helped free me from the negative mindset of vegan anti-dairy propaganda. Finally, I could appreciate the gentle nature of Mother cow, and her generosity in sharing her milk with us. That is a far cry from the hateful rhetoric about dairy that one often hears from so-called "compassionate" vegans, e.g., "liquid meat," "cow mucus," "sexual harassment," and so on. [P.S. Pardon the sarcasm, but it would not surprise me if the preceding remarks motivate some "compassionate" vegans to send me "compassionate" hate mail.]

My current diet includes about 10-25% cooked foods: mostly steamed vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus, string beans. Lately I have been eating some rice, in the form of khitcharee, a mixture of basmati rice and split mung beans, mildly spiced, that is very easy to digest. Yoga is also very important to me; I teach yoga in San Francisco as a volunteer (public) service. On request, I also give occasional talks on raw foods, nutrition, and related subjects.