I'm going to attempt the 80-10-10 diet and see what happens. I've been semi attempting this diet for what seems like months now, maybe even years. I love fruit, and have been eating large amounts of it every day for a few years now. My main issue has been being able to stay raw throughout the day and not give into temptations. For some reason today of all days, I've become especially inspired to really try to give it a go...
For anyone who is not familiar with this diet, it was pioneered by Dr. Douglas Graham, who is the author of "The 80-10-10 Diet." It is a low-fat raw vegan high carbohydrate diet essentially. The numbers illustrate 80% of your calories coming from carbohydrates (simple carbohydrates found in fruits and veggies), 10% coming from fat (avocados, etc) and 10% coming from protein. Your main focus in this diet is fruit, though there are variations of how you can get your carbs in. I know i know, you're thinking.. but carbs are the devil!!! Well not so... not simple ones! Not carbs that you get from fruit and veggies, they are your friends! They are the energy you need to keep you going, they are GOOD for you, not bad. You know what's bad for you? The complex carbs - the refined flours and sugars, the white devils... and..... of course.... The fat... The fat is what causes lots of problems... with basically everything! I can elaborate more on that another time though. Because there are the good fats of course and the bad ones. But even the good ones should be kept to under 10%.
Now I'm still in the process of getting acquainted with how this diet works and reading this book. Mind you, I've owned this book for well over a year and still have yet to complete it - that's just the kind of reader I am, slow and lazy.. But I have followed pioneers and their blogs and what have you for quite some time now and I feel that I have most of the tools that I need to give this a go.. All the while I WILL finish reading the book very soon and will hopefully be more well-versed in 80-10-10 lingo.
Why am I interested in this diet? Well, I have to say for quite some time now, my main goal in life has become focused around health and wellness. Sure, I should work towards a career and maybe some day I will have one that is meaningful and also fruitful (no pun intended). But for now, until I figure out what that may be, I want to focus fully on my body and healing any ailments that may come along, and feeling clean and hydrated and fresh all the time. Most importantly, I NEVER want to become a slave to the big pharma!!!! I don't want to be on lipitor, I DON'T want to be on atenolol. I DON'T want type 2 diabetes. ("But all the fruit sugar - won't that give you diabetes?" - Oh man you're in for it, i'll make a post about that some other time..) After spending several years in the health care industry, I know what I DON'T want to become. And it's sad to me that people seem to think that this is what their lives are going to be in another 30 years... like you can't avoid it or something.. it just does NOT have to be that way!!! The big pharma and the medical professionals want to make you feel like that, because otherwise they wouldn't make any money... So they feed you these lies... that you "need" this medication, or that procedure.. or "you'd better eat more meat otherwise you'll have a protein deficiency".. Do you understand? They WANT you to be sick. If we all became raw vegans, they would go out of business. That is the LAST thing that they want, is for the world to be healthy...
A raw vegan diet makes so much SENSE to me... whole plant foods vs. rotting carcasses and lactating gooey mucus (milk and cheese).. Now don't get me wrong, i fucking LOVE cheese and I will tell you right now, I am ADDICTED to it still. I have just been so inspired today that I feel ready to completely give it up. Though to be technical, I have not had any dairy at all for almost two weeks. I had a pizza almost two weeks ago. And I used to have half and half with my coffee most days. That is all going to change. I'm not saying I'm not still craving a pizza here and there, oh man is it going to be HARD!! And honestly I might fail.. if I fail, it's okay, I'm just going to pick myself back up.. I'm starting this blog for myself mostly, even though I'm addressing some fake audience ( I don't even know who's out there reading or listening, but hey, if I can help you out too, great!).. Okay a little more ranting, then I'm done...
What I like about this diet is, although it may seem a bit complicated and odd to someone who's not familiar, it actually can be as simple as you want. There are many raw food chefs out there who have complicated raw vegan recipes with dehydrated fruits and veggies and all kinds of weird ingredients and cashew cheese cakes and all that high fat raw gourmet crap.. Well I am pretty simple-minded myself and I like structure too. Many 80-10-10 folks (or 811 as they say) consume in mono-meals... meaning one specific fruit all day long, with perhaps a large salad at night and plenty of water (2-3 liters). I am mostly interested in trying that approach out. Many others do variations, or make gourmet raw vegan recipes like raw vegan lasagna, or fettucine alfredo.. As of right now, that approach is not for me. I want to KISS (Keep it simple stupid).
I have to say this is the first day in a couple of years that I have successfully eaten raw all day. And I'm pretty proud of myself. It's certainly an adjustment, and I could fail tomorrow. This diet certainly does not include coffee and I had one cup today, so.. I already strayed.. But the important thing is that I ate all raw food today! Yay!!. My next post will talk about today's food intake.... and.... onward!! :-) :-)
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