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Well, I can’t believe how quickly the 2nd half of my experiment flew by! After the first 15 days, the emotional turmoil and excessive fatigue pretty much vanished and I have been living it up ever since. In the past two weeks I have been working like crazy and enjoying the sunshine here in Vancouver, while it lasts. I also had the pleasure of going to a talk by Tonya Zavasta. Tonya discussed the relationship between raw food and beauty. I have to say, at 53 years of age, Tonya is one amazingly good looking Russian chick! Her talk inspired me to take my beauty and skin care regime (which has up until this point been pretty much non existent) more seriously  – a decision that has been even more spurred on by the fact that my 30th birthday is looming dangerously close (I’m 29 for just a few more weeks!)

So being All Raw (100%) as opposed to High Raw in the past 29 days has been an interesting experience. Most of the results I am getting so far have been exactly what I expected – whenever I end up eating lots of complex, dehydrated and high-fat raw foods, there is little or no physical energy benefits over a high raw food diet where a lot of raw food is consumed with the combination of simple, plant-based foods; in fact, sometimes I feel even worse. However, when I do eat mostly fruits and greens, I feel really, really phenomenal. It isn’t exactly a quantum leap, but a third of one, at least. Which gives me an idea for an entirely new Experiment: going on all living food for 30 days.

So while the physical results are pretty much exactly what I expected, on the mental front, the results have been a little bit different. Even when I do eat the heavy, raw food and my physical energy declines, my mental energy seems to be pretty steady, whereas on a high raw food diet, if my physical energy declines, the mental energy follows suit. This has definitively been an interesting observation.

Foodie Goodies

I often have dreams that I eat cooked food and mess up my experiment!

I’ve been recording my food intake almost daily; as an example, here are the delicious foodies I enjoyed on Day 15:

4 Oranges
1/2 cup chia pudding (almond milk, chia, rasberries)
Salad – 1 red pepper, corn from 2 cobs, spinach, walnuts
raw apricot food bar
1.5 cups of berries (blueberries, strawberries, rasberries)
handful of walnuts
2 cups juice (beets, greens, pineapple)
Dinner: 3 sushi rolls (nori wraps, 1 avo, shredded carrot, beet, celery, green onion, 1 mushroom, cayenne) with raw soy sauce and wasabi

Mmmm… yum.