This is day 1, of my mostly raw 30-day diet. Most of these ingredients will be organic, unless there wasn’t an organic option at the store.
nutrition
This is pretty much the sum total of what I’ve consumed this morning:
- mint tea (contains no caffeine or actual tea)
- 1 Brazil nut
- raw sprouted almonds
- coffee
- about 1/2 cup Vanilla soy milk
- 1 medium banana
- 1 pear
- rolled oats
- flame raisins
- raw cacao nibs
- coconut palm sugar
- milled flax seed
- water
- shredded coconut
For lunch, Brittany made a kale-cabbage-walnut salad with avocados, and a blueberry-raspberry-banana smoothie to wash it down. Energy level at lunch seems higher than normal. I realize it just could be in my head.
Total list of ingredients for lunch:
- red cabbage
- red kale
- collards
- radish greens
- baby spinach
- radishes
- green onion
- homemade raspberry & blueberry vinaigrette
- blueberries
- raspberries
- banana
- unsweetened almond milk
Afternoon/evening
- 2 apples
- 1 avocado
- 1/2 bell pepper
- 1/2 large carrot
- 1/2 banana
- about 1/2 cup cashews
- about 1/2 cup Greek-style almond yogurt
physical activity
Three sets of pushups to almost failure.
synopsis
I really need to start doing more cardio. I should be doing cardio training at least 3 times a week. I also want to eat more greens throughout the day. Toward the end, I had too much orange cashew cream. I could feel the pushups start to burn in my arms and shoulders after only a couple of sets.
I look forward to more spinach and collard greens tomorrow, and to eating raw sliced beets as my superfood.
a word on beets
Beets really are a superfood. They don’t seem as exotic as Goji berries or Açaí, but they’re chock full of nutrients, anti-oxidants, and carotene. They have been proven to improve performance in some athletic studies (I read it on the internet), unlike some of those hyped-up marketed superfoods, like Maca root or Yacón. (Which is really just a jícama from Peru. Big deal, it’s a tuber.)
Beets will also turn your pee red. Everybody loves beets.