Day Two

24 hours of all RAW food!  This has been fun!

For yesterday's breakfast I had a "Green Smoothie" with an apple, a banana, handful of baby carrots, spinach, and strawberries.

For yesterday's lunch I had a huge salad with cucumber and tomatoes.  The dressing was homemade with a tablespoon of cold pressed olive oil, a dash of sea salt, juice from a lemon, and 1 clove of garlic.  It was very good!

For yesterday's dinner I snacked on cauliflower and cucumbers dipped in avocado.

Total calorie count 1286

I'm going to have to adjust how I eat food to get enough calories.  Three meals a day is not frequent enough on a raw diet, because the raw foods digest faster.  Also I stuffed myself silly and was still way low on the calorie count.

So for today, Day Two, I'll do things a little differently.

Breakfast = Banana, strawberries, and orange juice smoothie.  286.5 Cal

Brunch = Almonds, Banana, Cashews, Walnuts.  495 Cal

Lunch = Another huge salad, with spinach, bell pepper, and the same dressing. 287.8 Cal

Dinner = A quick banana, with a bowl of strawberries. 224.7 Cal

Snack = A glass of orange juice. 204.1 Cal


Total Calorie Count for Day Two = 1498.1


I've been starting the detox symptoms that many of the blogs and sites I've been reading talked about.  If I had eased my way into this diet by slowing increasing the raw food, I may have been able to avoid this.  However I don't do things well when I'm only going halfway, so I decided to risk it.

So far the only thing bad has been a nagging headache.  I'm looking forward to day 5 when I should be "out of the woods" in regards to detox symptoms. 

Day One

For the beginning of my life style change, I believe it is important to track improvement.

In order to track improvement a baseline must be set, so for the last week I have been recording several statistics and here are the averages from that time frame.

Starting Statistics


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Weight	234.6 LBS
Resting Heart Rate	65 BPM
Resting Temp	98.7 F
Body Fat %	27.00%
Lean Body Mass	168.63 LBS
Blood Sugar Level	102
Circumference Measurements
Neck	16.5 in
Chest	41 in
Upper Arm	13 in
Fore Arm	11.5
Waist at Belly Button	44 in
Hip	42 in
Thigh	23 in
Calf	17 in

I have almost none of the "tools" most hardcore 100% raw people have, however am ready to commit to this and will be blogging my journey to help me stay honest, and hopefully inspire someone to better their own life.