04-15-2009, 02:17 PM
Fairyfarmgirl - No worries at all. You didn't step on my toes. I appreciate your kind words.
Ayadew - Good questions.
There are two things here though, there is what *I* do which is basically what I'm capable of doing now, and what is *ideal*.
For me, yes, when I stick to my diet I am just full of energy all the time. Whenever I need energy to exert myself, whether physically or mentally, it is there. There is no "crash". I will be walking down the street and I just feel vibrant and bouncy you could say, just full of energy, and I sort of jump around and stuff. You just sort of ooze energy when you eat this way.
To get to my university classes I have to walk up a really giant hill. Before going raw I would plod up it like a determined soldier. After going raw, even only 3 days after being 100% raw, it was the most profound change for me, I just felt buoyant and I just felt like running up the hill with a smile on my face and jumping on ledges and walking like a balance beam, and stuff like that :p I was very surprised at how different the raw diet was compared to my normal vegan cooked food diet. It was like I had just been freed of a giant burden.
You get Omega-3s from the spinach and romaine. You have to eat enough though- 400g of greens per day is more than what you'd think. Greens in sufficient quantity are actually the ideal source of omega-3s providing a perfect ratio between 3s and 6s.
I do take 1000mcg of sublingual Vitamin B12 every few weeks, but this is just a precaution. B12 producing bacteria has been shown to exist in organic plants. If you stick to a vegan diet for the long term, meaning more than 3 years, it is a good idea to take B12 now and then because in the long term it is a vulnerability due to depleted soils. Daily required value of B12 is 2mcg, and the sublingual pills sold in stores give 1000mcg per pill, of which you likely absorb 50% or so. So do the math.
According to modern science on digestion, as well as ayurvedic advice that the Yogis have followed for thousands of years with the intention of supporting meditation in particular, you should try to eat your first meal 3 hours after waking. So I try to do this, of course I'm not perfect. I probably manage this 60% of my days, and the rest of them I eat sooner. Swami Kriyananda and his lineage is my primary source for Yogic advice. The Yogis broach questions that most other traditions ignore, and I use them to confirm scientific studies basically since there is so much bad science out there.
They also say you should stop eating several hours before bed, so I try to do that as well.
Due to the way we digest, it is better to eat heavier foods later in the day and after the other foods. So when I eat nuts, they are the last thing I eat in the day.
Non-green vegetables don't digest well alongside fruits, so if I eat a salad of tomatoes and carrots and stuff I try to eat them an hour or more away from eating large amounts of fruits. Green vegetables - spinach, romaine, cucumber, celery - can pretty much be eaten alongside anything and so I eat these things with everything.
My breakfast routine, I basically eat this every single day without fail, is a blended smoothie made from:
4-6 bananas
1 cucumber with skin
2 stalks celery
200g spinach
This provides about 800 calories. I try to drink this smoothie about 3 hours after waking up, but it just depends what my tasks are for the day.
Depending on how I feel, I'll cut up oranges, mangos and eat them throughout the day, or put them in smoothies, or I'll eat some other fruit if I feel like something different. Grapes and strawberries can provide some calories for instance, but not on a regular basis unless you want to break the bank :p So most of my fruit calories come from bananas, oranges, and mangoes which I eat from the hand or blend just depending how I feel.
For me personally, the blender is a necessary part of the diet, because I don't have the patience to do the amount of chewing that would be necessary to ingest this much food. Since fruits are high in water content, you are eating a much bigger weight of food. You can easily eat 10lbs of fruit in a day, whereas 10 lbs of meat for instance would be like 10000 calories, 10lbs of fruit is more like 2000 calories. To eat this much fruit is a challenge - apes spend the majority of their time chewing for instance. They pretty much just hang out and chew all day. As a human, I let my blender do the chewing for me.
Anyway there are lots of little details to fine tune the diet, but in the end it is a mistake to be an overperfectionist. Sometimes the body needs to adapt itself to suit the mind/spirit, but oftentimes simple changes in the mind produce tremendous benefits for the body. Modern people really abuse their body, and it is a major cause of the loss of spiritual vision. Eating this kind of diet instantly makes you more psychic and in tune with the things around you.
Ayadew - Good questions.
There are two things here though, there is what *I* do which is basically what I'm capable of doing now, and what is *ideal*.
For me, yes, when I stick to my diet I am just full of energy all the time. Whenever I need energy to exert myself, whether physically or mentally, it is there. There is no "crash". I will be walking down the street and I just feel vibrant and bouncy you could say, just full of energy, and I sort of jump around and stuff. You just sort of ooze energy when you eat this way.
To get to my university classes I have to walk up a really giant hill. Before going raw I would plod up it like a determined soldier. After going raw, even only 3 days after being 100% raw, it was the most profound change for me, I just felt buoyant and I just felt like running up the hill with a smile on my face and jumping on ledges and walking like a balance beam, and stuff like that :p I was very surprised at how different the raw diet was compared to my normal vegan cooked food diet. It was like I had just been freed of a giant burden.
You get Omega-3s from the spinach and romaine. You have to eat enough though- 400g of greens per day is more than what you'd think. Greens in sufficient quantity are actually the ideal source of omega-3s providing a perfect ratio between 3s and 6s.
I do take 1000mcg of sublingual Vitamin B12 every few weeks, but this is just a precaution. B12 producing bacteria has been shown to exist in organic plants. If you stick to a vegan diet for the long term, meaning more than 3 years, it is a good idea to take B12 now and then because in the long term it is a vulnerability due to depleted soils. Daily required value of B12 is 2mcg, and the sublingual pills sold in stores give 1000mcg per pill, of which you likely absorb 50% or so. So do the math.
According to modern science on digestion, as well as ayurvedic advice that the Yogis have followed for thousands of years with the intention of supporting meditation in particular, you should try to eat your first meal 3 hours after waking. So I try to do this, of course I'm not perfect. I probably manage this 60% of my days, and the rest of them I eat sooner. Swami Kriyananda and his lineage is my primary source for Yogic advice. The Yogis broach questions that most other traditions ignore, and I use them to confirm scientific studies basically since there is so much bad science out there.
They also say you should stop eating several hours before bed, so I try to do that as well.
Due to the way we digest, it is better to eat heavier foods later in the day and after the other foods. So when I eat nuts, they are the last thing I eat in the day.
Non-green vegetables don't digest well alongside fruits, so if I eat a salad of tomatoes and carrots and stuff I try to eat them an hour or more away from eating large amounts of fruits. Green vegetables - spinach, romaine, cucumber, celery - can pretty much be eaten alongside anything and so I eat these things with everything.
My breakfast routine, I basically eat this every single day without fail, is a blended smoothie made from:
4-6 bananas
1 cucumber with skin
2 stalks celery
200g spinach
This provides about 800 calories. I try to drink this smoothie about 3 hours after waking up, but it just depends what my tasks are for the day.
Depending on how I feel, I'll cut up oranges, mangos and eat them throughout the day, or put them in smoothies, or I'll eat some other fruit if I feel like something different. Grapes and strawberries can provide some calories for instance, but not on a regular basis unless you want to break the bank :p So most of my fruit calories come from bananas, oranges, and mangoes which I eat from the hand or blend just depending how I feel.
For me personally, the blender is a necessary part of the diet, because I don't have the patience to do the amount of chewing that would be necessary to ingest this much food. Since fruits are high in water content, you are eating a much bigger weight of food. You can easily eat 10lbs of fruit in a day, whereas 10 lbs of meat for instance would be like 10000 calories, 10lbs of fruit is more like 2000 calories. To eat this much fruit is a challenge - apes spend the majority of their time chewing for instance. They pretty much just hang out and chew all day. As a human, I let my blender do the chewing for me.
Anyway there are lots of little details to fine tune the diet, but in the end it is a mistake to be an overperfectionist. Sometimes the body needs to adapt itself to suit the mind/spirit, but oftentimes simple changes in the mind produce tremendous benefits for the body. Modern people really abuse their body, and it is a major cause of the loss of spiritual vision. Eating this kind of diet instantly makes you more psychic and in tune with the things around you.
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