Raw Food Diet, Day 15: The Breakfast of (boring) Champions

I started day 15 of the raw food challenge with the breakfast of champions.

I bought a food scale the other day so I now have some exact weights of the fruit I ate. Now I can calculate pretty accurate amounts of fats, proteins, calories, etc, in my meals. I’ll probably calculate the totals for a few days on this trial when I’ve got some free time. Perhaps I will do them for this day and add them to the post later.

Breakfast

• Pineapple – 234 g
• 2 Kiwis – 127 g
• 2 Mangos – 405 g
• 1/2 Honeydew – 488 g (after the skin was subtracted)
• 4 Bananas – 508 g

This breakfast looked really good. It was huge and it was extremely filling – it took me most of the morning to eat the whole thing. In the pictures it looks like it really would be the breakfast of champions, but to be completely honest it was a difficult chore when it came to eating it. Even with all the variety of flavor this meal was a real pain in the ass to finish. It was hard to choke it all down – chew, chew, chew, chew, swallow, chew, chew, chew, chew, swallow.

I think I am getting really tired of this kind of food and it’s getting harder and harder to eat. The way I feel when eating this way is great but the actual act of eating is becoming more and more difficult. When I was eating breakfast I kept thinking about how much easier it would be to just quit eating and go without food. I really don’t like feeling like an anorexic person so I’m considering changing the rules for the last half of this trial if I continue to experience so much difficulty with the act of eating. I want to finish the trial but I want to finish it with a full stomach, I don’t want to finish it like an anorexic. I know that if I want to make it the full 30 days I am probably going to have to ease up on the strictness of the rules or it’s going to end in failure.

I don’t want to ruin these great foods over a 30 day experiment. I’m sure you’ve had a similar experience – you eat the same thing every day for a few weeks and become so sick of it that you never want to eat it again no matter how much you enjoyed it at the start. Sometimes when this happens eating the food will even make you nauseous or sick afterward. I fear that this is what’s happening to me with fruits and vegetables. I want to continue eating fairly healthy after this trial is over and I don’t want to ruin these foods so I think that I am going to have to loosen up my rules and/or find some new dishes that aren’t too difficult or time consuming to prep.

Later in the day I ate 28g Goji Berries as a snack. I felt kind of strange after eating these berries. I don’t know how to explain it but I just felt weird for about an hour after eating them. Kind of like I was slightly high or something.

I found a premixed salad at costco that has cranberries, walnuts, and a dressing that is ‘raw’ enough for me. It’s nice to have a prepackaged salad that I can add all of the ingredients to, except I don’t really like the taste of this one. I bought a couple of them to try, so I’ll be having another one soon. I added 5 tablespoons of hemp seed to the salad when I ate it. This added 20g of protein to the salad.

Before going to bed I had about 50g of pistachios and some dried fruit. Day 15 was a heavy day for food, fats, protein and salads.

Aside from the food being bland and having some cravings – I’ll get to that in a second – I felt pretty good today. I’ve been feeling fairly consistently good on this diet. I haven’t been fatigued or anything at all and the detox side effects seem to have subsided for the most part. I don’t even notice feeling extra cold or hot anymore. No bad breath or headaches or nausea or anything anymore. Everything seems good and steady.

Cravings

I had really intense cravings today for almost everything that I saw. Since moving the other day I now am surrounded by all kinds of food that I cannot eat on this diet. For the first 2 weeks of this trial I had nothing but raw food to choose from but now I have all kinds of temptations.

It’s starting to be extremely hard to not eat something I shouldn’t. Especially when eating raw is starting to seem so bland to me lately.

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