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gurthbruins:
http://dietexperiments.yolasite.com  - page 2011 for Journal (6).

Page 2013 for latest Journal.

gurthbruins:
Please note, I update my site every Wednesday.

gurthbruins:
From today, I will post details of my daily eating, plus daily weather report for Cape Town, on this thread every week.

Notes:
(1) If amount or type is unspecified, assume it's the same amount and type as last mentioned for that fruit.
(2) spinach = Swiss Chard.
(3) C = degrees Centigrade/Celsius
(4) F = degrees Fahrenheit
(5) % = humidity.
(6) * = each.
(7) g = grams.


Week 26: 6 - 12 Jul:

Wed 6th: 10 naartjies*67g, 3 oranges(navels)*150g, 2 PL apples*175g, 2 P pears*250g, 1 bananas*137g, 80g dates, 200g spinach, 300g avocados, 32g Brazil nuts. (9.30 am: 13C/55F/75%, perfect day. 100 minute walk to AccessPark to buy spinach, dates and 3 coconuts.)

Thu 7th: 11 naartjies*68g, 1 oranges(navels)*150g, 3 PL apples*175g, 2 P pears*250g, 4 bananas*137g, 56g dates, 200g spinach, 300g avocados, 14g Brazils. (9 am: 12C/54F/76%, dry, partly overcast)

Fri 8th: 10 naartjies*68g, 4 PL apples*175g, 1 P pears*250g, 3 bananas*137g, 90g dates, 200g spinach, 500g avocados, 50g Brazils. (9 am: 12C/54F/76%, perfect day. Max temp today 16C.)

Sat 9th: 7 naartjies*60g, 1 PL apples*165g, 1 Crisp Pink apple*250g, 2 bananas*170g, 8g dates, 200g spinach, 280g avocados, 0g Brazils. (9 am: 12C/54F/76%, again; perfect day: rose to 15C.)

Sun 10th: 15 naartjies*60g, 3 PL apples*165g, 2 bananas*170g, 32g dates, 200g spinach, 180g avocados, 25g Brazils, 1 coconut, 75g sprouts. (11 am: 15C/59F/64%, again; perfect day, rose to 19C.)

Mon 11th: 11 naartjies*60g, 1 PL apples*165g, 1 P pears*250g, 1 bananas*170g, 40g dates, 100g spinach, 240g avocados, 30g Brazils, 25g sprouts. (9.40 am: 16C/61F/67%, half cloudy)

Tue 12th: 7 naartjies*65g, 2 PL apples*165g, 2 Crisp Pink apples*250g, 6 brown pears*117g, 2 bananas*164g, 40g dates, 200g spinach, 300g avocados, 30g Brazils, 0.35 coconut, 50g sprouts. (9 am: 15C/59F/77%, no cloud)

I celebrated the completion of 6 months of 100% raw vegan diet today by finding myself emerging from a really fine bout of detox in the shape of the so-called common cold - a pleasingly acute attack, with a very ferocious cough. It sent me to bed at 3 pm on Saturday, but wasn't able to stop me from my hour's walk on any single day. Fortunately the weather stayed fine.

sunmaiden:
Hi Gurth,

Hope you're getting over your cold fast, and nice to see you posting!  6 months is excellent - good for you and glad to hear it!  I was off experimenting for a little while, and am back, at about 3 week mark here.  I was amazed that it only took a few days to feel on top of the world again, but am still experiencing a lot of skin issues.  It is so hard for me to determine when issues are detox and when they indicate time for a change.  Still working on that concept.

What are naartjies please? They sound interesting and exotic :)
 
Best Wishes,
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Sunmaiden

gurthbruins:
Hi, Sunmaiden -

Thanks for your comments. Naartjie is the word we use in South Africa for "a small citrus fruit with an easily-peelable skin and easy-to-separate segments. The taste is a sweetish mix of mandarin and orange." (Wiki). But they do seem to come in several varieties. I find them all much nicer than oranges, with a sweeter and more intense flavour. I believe they are much higher in vitamin A than oranges, and about the same in vitamin C.

The ones I am currently eating seem to be a mixture of two types: one with slightly loose skin, the other with a not-so-loose skin, more like clementines. Perhaps these ARE simply clementines. I like them. I slice the top off and then suck and squeeze the juice out with my fingers - saves peeling labour and tastes nicer. Finally I tear them open with my fingers (that's very easy) and eat any remaining pulp off the inside of the peel. There don't seem to be many seeds if any.

Reading my post again, I wish to correct a few errors: I should have stated that PL means Pink Lady (apples), P means Packham (pears) - I didn't mean to leave these items abbreviated. The "sprouts" were a mixture of peas, Chick peas, lentils and Mung beans.

I also find it hard to always know what is detox of old foods and what is perhaps something bad about what we just ate. Especially when I mess around with legume sprouts, unfresh dates, coconuts and other somewhat iffish items.

I'm not too concerned with the fine tuning, yet, as detox is still so high as to falsify any true estimation of whether a food is perfect or not in itself. If such a notion can ever be valid.

40 years ago, Raw vegan diet reduced my weight to 109 lb for 7 years. This year, this "campaign", I must have lost about 20 lb in skin fat fairly quickly - in the first 3 months, but then it seemed to bottom out at 123 lb and over the following 6 weeks picked up to 127 lb. I felt relieved that the weight had not approached my low levels of 1974-1980. But now I see this acute cold, has brought my weight down to 113 lb - quite a big drop of 14 lb. A bit shocked at first, I have readjusted my thinking.

I've read Yuliya's story with fasting - and her ideas of forcing the body to give up cells agrees with my own idea: the cells all contain toxins, and the more superfluous cells you can strip away by undereating (or fasting), the more toxins you are eliminating. So now I don't feel sorry to see my weight go down - it makes me glad, because it is good to shed those cells. In the interests of detox.

Not that I believe in fasting, for myself. I want to remain in free fall, able to eat exactly as I please, according to the resultant impulses of every moment, neither trying to eat a minimum calorie count, nor to restrict calorie intake in any way -
except for my only two guiding principles:
(1) Don't eat unnatural (cooked,  processed or manufactured) foods - try to eat them as presented by nature ...
(2) Don't eat animal foods (meat, fish, eggs, dairy, etc). I don't think honey is so bad, but I don't touch it anyway.
As long as I follow these ideas, I let what else may happen, happen. Within reason.

This regimen is flexible up to a point - when I started I had no intention of eating greens or even overts - but I changed my ideas as I went on. I am happy to eat greens and overts now, as long as I wish to eat them, and see no reason to give them up at this point, though that could easily change in time.

Gurth
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