30 days raw trial

[freddy]

For anyone who is interested in what results I have gotten from my 30 day raw food diet.
First off I cheated a bit on the diet and maybe that’s why some of the results I was looking for did not come about. What I ate mostly fruits,nuts,veggies,banana smoothies. 1 every morning. Lunch would be the pre made up veggie plates you buy at the store, and that’s where my cheating starts. I ate that with the ranch dressing that comes with it. Any salads I ate ranch or Italian dressing. One or twice I ate fast food salad with the cheese on the salad. A little honey with the smoothies I made. Drank only water or smoothies I made up. Other than that I was true to the diet.
Now my starting weight was 176 lbs and ending weight is 160lbs so 16lbs loss. My measurement around my stomach was 41” now 38” so lost 3”
I did not notice any clarity at all, so I’m really bummed about that. Not sure that I will stay completely on this diet for a long term. Still not sure about the protein factor. To many opinions on it for me to decide yet. Like every one, I had the headaches for the first few days. After about a week, the diet is just a matter of getting veggies or fruit in you, before you have to cook for your family. I just would make a big salad, and stuff myself, while they ate pizza or whatever they had to eat. I did this over the Christmas and new years day parties. I would always have people trying to give me plates of food to eat. I would always turn them down.
About the time I started I had a sinus infection. Nose plugged up bad. Without taking any medication within a week, infection was gone. The only other thing other than the diet I did, was oil pulling.
I’m happy about the weight loss and plan to try and eat more veggies with whatever I decide to have with it. And plan to exercise more. So to anyone interested. You might be able to do this diet with a little favorite dressing added to the salads. Really helps to stay true to a mostly a healthy plan.

[marty]

I'm about 8 days into it freddy and do feel clearer.I was also reading someone else saying they didn't feel a greater increase in a sense of clarity and was wondering was this because they/you were already a pretty clear person?I get muddled up very easily but do feel clearer since starting it , so perhaps it a lot easier to notice the difference in some people rather than others?

Well done too on managing to stay true to it over christmas and the new year.That must have taken a bit of gumption,to stick to your guns.

[marty]

Also if you go to this blog,Raw food journal 2000 there is a summary at the end of each month and it might give you some idea of where persisting with it for longer could take you.Clarity and feeling massively happier were benefits reported after the third month.

[freddy]

Originally Posted by marty

I'm about 8 days into it freddy and do feel clearer.I was also reading someone else saying they didn't feel a greater increase in a sense of clarity and was wondering was this because they/you were already a pretty clear person?I get muddled up very easily but do feel clearer since starting it , so perhaps it a lot easier to notice the difference in some people rather than others?

Well done too on managing to stay true to it over christmas and the new year.That must have taken a bit of gumption,to stick to your guns.

Well as far as the clarity thing. If I had it before and did'nt know it. I'm still clueless to it. Kind of like the standing in the forest and not seeing the trees I guess. LOL I started having some meat and rice type food slowly the other day and already I can see issues of being constipated where as before, on the raw diet I could go to the bathroom and do my business in just a few minutes and be done. I'm thinking about going on raw for a bit longer. After you done this diet for a little while, it really is not that hard to stay on the plan. I mean you can carry apples and bananas any where you go.
Best of luck to you on your trial. Hope you have good results.
PS. Do you know if a blood pressure of 108-66 and pulse of 55 is good. It use to be a little higher before raw trial. like 118-72 Someone told me the first one above was to low.

[marty]

"PS. Do you know if a blood pressure of 108-66 and pulse of 55 is good. It use to be a little higher before raw trial. like 118-72 Someone told me the first one above was to low. "

No.I'm clueless in relation to all that stuff. I agree about it not being as difficult as one would imagine.Sure it has its moments like a friend arriving in my place a half hour ago with some kebab type thing.....! But overall I think its rather doable and think the further you go the more likely you are to aquire the tastes and preferences for uncooked food and perhaps develop an aversion to cooked food.I finally managed to give up the cigarettes several years ago and never thought that they would smell disgusting to me.Well,they do now! So who knows,at some stage I might look at pizza and go yuck!

I also stole this from another thread on here and share this for my benefit as much as anyone else's...Are you listening Marty!

In other words, this means that in order to successfully adopt a new habit (or break an old one) a person must enter the mindset that he is never "finished" with the process of acquiring the habit and can always do better. The Japanese even have a name for it - Kaizen - or "continual improvement".