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For 30 days Fitness Competitor Caitlin McCann and I are eating a 100% Raw Vegan diet. I was inspired by top Trail Running marathoner Tim VanOrden of the Running Raw Project to try this.
The Rules
All food must be raw and alive. No meat, grains, legumes, or beans. My fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sprouts must be raw. I will use a blender, food processor, and food dehydrator to prepare many of my meals.
Planning my diet
I wont be tracking calories, fat, or carbs. I will eat as much as I want whenever I’m hungry. Everyday I will make a green smoothie, eat a large salad, and fill the rest of my meals with fruits, vegetables, and raw vegan recipes.
By eating simple foods that have been around for thousands of years, my hypothesis is that it isn’t possible to over eat. Raw plant based foods are filled with fiber, water, and vitamins. Digestion will be too slow to over eat, unlike with todays refined and processed foods.
How it works
By eating raw alive foods, I will get all the vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, anti-oxidants, and amino acids. The bio availability of these elements are highest in raw plant based foods, so no need for supplements.
Protein
Proteins are chains of amino acids. Instead of consuming large amounts of protein, I will get all the amino acids I need in the form of enzymes. These plant based enzymes are destroyed at 118 degrees Fahrenheit, hence why they must be consumed raw.
The vast majority of muscular animals: Horses, Cows, Fish, Chickens get all their amino acids from plant based diets. Fish eat Algae, horses and cows graze on grass. These animals convert the enzymes in plants to protein in the form of muscle. I’m just cutting out the middle man.
30 days from now
I’m excited to post my results next month. I will post strength gains or losses, weight gain or loss, and times for running and rowing.
health · Nutrition · raw vega · running raw · Tim vanorden · Vegan · Vegetarian
Obesity doesn’t cause disease, poor diet and lack of exercise cause diseases, obesity is just a side effect.
Almost Right
Fifty years ago the Medical Community saw a correlation between obesity and illnesses. Physicians recommended that patients lose weight to lower the risk of Heart Disease, Diabetes, High Blood pressure, etc..”
Thin isn’t Fit
Decades of being told to lose weight sent the wrong message. It got people thinking “get thin” instead of “get fit”. A lot of thin people suffer from these diseases.
We Can Do Better
The absence of disease isn’t an indicator of good health, but fitness is. If you can lift twice your body weight, if you can run five miles, and if you can do 20 pull ups in a row you’re probably very healthy. Don’t make weight loss your goal this year. Make fitness your goal.
Fitness · health · Weight Loss · wellness
How was that Azodicarbonamide & L-Cysteine sandwich? These are just some of the 44 Ingredients in a Smucker’s Uncrustable Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich. I can’t tell you the negative health effects these chemicals have but I guarantee if I looked into it, it would be pretty shocking.
Poison Du Jour
Many of today’s foods are loaded with preservatives, food coloring, and artificial flavoring that our bodies were never designed to ingest.
My rule of thumb is, stay away from foods listed with ingredients that don’t appear in nature (like artificial sweeteners).
Also on my list are items Doctors advise women to avoid during pregnancy. That’s a pretty good indicator that it’s not doing you any good.
Keep it Simple
My diet consists of unprocessed chicken, Steak, Fish, Eggs, Nuts, Seeds, Fruits, & Vegetables. Every item I buy that has more than one ingredient I check. If I don’t recognize an item in the ingredients I Google it. Sometimes they’re innocuous, and sometimes they’re carcinogenic.
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chemicals · Food · health · Nutrition · Nutrition · wellness
Your body is always talking to you. Every time you feel stiff, tired, hungry, happy, strong, or cranky that’s Bio-Feedback.
Most of us aren’t eating right or sleeping enough so we feel tired. Instead of getting adequate sleep we drink coffee and lumber through the day until five o’clock. This may alleviate short term symptoms but it’s only making things worse.
Imagine driving while running out of oil, as you feel the cars power diminish you just stomp on the gas. That’s kind of what you’re doing.
Listening and hearing aren’t the same
I want you to think about how you feel. After a lifetime of ignoring bio-feedback it takes some work to rebuild your awareness. If you feel good ask why? Every time you get a headache, stomach ache, or back ache I want you to ask yourself what could be the cause?
Clean it up
There are so many items I cut out of my diet as a result of how they negatively affect my body. Artificial sweeteners and Mono Sodium Glutamate give me headaches. Energy drinks give me anxiety. I avoid any foods that give me excessive intestinal gas. That’s a sign that your body isn’t digesting it well, or doesn’t have the enzymes to break it down. And alcohol is an intestinal irritant and decreases performance.
It’s not rocket surgery
You don’t need to be a doctor or a researcher to experiment with your body. Take some things out of your diet you feel may not be helping, add some vegetables, what’s the worst that could happen. Get a full night sleep and start with a good breakfast, maybe you won’t need caffeine.
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