Hi, I just finished my first week LFRV and I wanted to share my daily intake and hopefully get some feedback. I know I am not eating ideal 811 yet, but working in that direction. Also, I will give up the cacao (it is just to get me past the coffee withdrawals)!
ISSUES THIS WEEK:
About 5 days in, I got some serious acne on my face - I normally have a really clear complexion. The bumps are big and the size of mosquito bites!
Also, I am bloated all day and only going to the bathroom in the morning. I thought I would go much more eating so much fruit!
I haven't lost any weight yet. Is that normal?
I've had some typical detox symptoms like headaches and nausea but I expected that. The big bumps on my face were a surprise, though.
ON THE POSITIVE SIDE: I've had a steady flow of energy ALL day and feel really positive and optimistic!
My background: 10 years vegetarian, 3 years on/off vegan, 2 years vegan, 2 years experimenting with raw and eating high-fat raw. 3 pregnancies, 3 c/sections in the last 5 years. Height 5'7, Weight 138lbs. Fairly active but not athletic. Also, I am breastfeeding, so I guess that means I should be eating a little more?
Week One:
Daily exercise (bike riding, walking, stretching), increased water (32 oz in the morning and more throughout the day). Quit coffee.
Day 1:
Datorade (10 dates)
4 oz. oj
2 bananas
Basket of blueberries
Thai lettuce wraps: 1 avocado, 1 mango, romaine lettuce, tomatoes, jalapeno peppers
2 cups of carrots w/ tahini dip (raw tahini, shoyu, maple syrup)
Salad with avocado, cucumber and lemon dressing with olive oil
Raw Flax crackers with coconut sour cream
2 vegan chocolate chips cookies (had to bake them for husband's b-day! So hard to resist!)
Day 2:
Datorade (10 dates)
Raw Banana Split: 2 bananas, 2 cups blended strawberries, 3 dates
Bunch of grapes
Blended spinach soup: bunch spinach, ½ cucumber, fennel, ½ green onion, cayenne, slice of avocado, drop of toasted sesame oil
Apple
Basket of blueberries
Taco Salad: cob of corn, head of romaine, shredded cabbage, onion, avocado w/ lime & cumin dressing
Day 3:
Green smoothie: ½ pineapple, spinach, 2 bananas
Small bowl of Sprouted raw granola with homemade almond milk
Grape/fig smoothie: 10 figs, 4 cups grapes
1 Banana
Zucchini pad thai: green mango, zucchini, carrots with sprouted pumpkinseed butter (1 tbsp), shoyu, ginger, date sauce
Day 4:
Datorade (7 dates)
Banana shake with cacao nibs and almond milk (3 bananas)
Green smoothie: ½ pineapple, kale, 1 banana
2 pears
Carrot-beet-celery juice 16 oz.
4 dates rollod in iceberg lettuce
Toona sushi roll w/ cucumber, avo, ginger (1/3 cup walnuts, ½ avo)
Cucumber salad
Day 5:
1 cup blueberries with 1.5 banana
16 oz. orange-grapefruit juice
Banana shake with cacao nibs and almond milk (3 bananas)
Large bowl of cherries
2 apricots
20 oz datorade (w/ fresh coconut water, 7-8 dates and chai spices)
1 banana
16 oz. raw gazpacho w/ ½ avocado
2 apricots with raw honey
Day 6:
Banana shake: 2 bananas, 3 dates, cacao, almond milk, water
Green smoothie: rasberries, banana, large mango, kale
2 cups strawberries
Carrot-beet-kale-parsley juice w/ ginger
Banana shake: 2 bananas, 3 dates, cacao, coconut water
2 raw sushi rolls: carrot pate, ½ avocado, lettuce w/ nama shoyu & ginger
Iceberg lettuce and cherry tomatoes with nama shoyu, agave and chili pepper dressing
Day 7:
Datorade (10 dates)
16 oz. green juice
2 cups blueberries
Banana shake with cacao (4 bananas)
1 tsp vitamineral green w/ water
Bruschetta salad: handful basil, cherry tomatoes, garlic, baby lettuce, small avocado, tsp Udo’s Oil (vegan)
Raw Red Pepper Soup: 2 red peppers with 2 tbsp. soaked cashews, cayenne pepper, garlic
1 cup Kale Chips
Day 8: (Today)
Datorade: 10 dates
Banana shake w/ cacao (4 bananas)
Snack on a hike: 4 dates wrapped in iceberg lettuce, handful dulse
1 tsp vitamineral green in water
Peach smoothie: 2 peaches (maybe not quite ripe), 1 cup orange juice, young coconut meat, tbsp. raw honey, juice from one lime
½ avocado pre-dinner snack
Pesto salad: huge baby greens salad with tomatoes and raw sprouted pumpkinseed pesto
Permalink Reply by RawMomInCA on Thanks, you guys are awesome! I am so grateful to have this group to accelerate my progress and offer wisdom and encouragement. It has been nothing but bananas and dates (and water) so far today and Kristi, I just added 10 more dates to my dateorade after reading your post :) Cronometer is helping me see how much fruit I really need to meet those calories. I'm going to farmer's market at 3 today, so I'll hopefully get to load up on fresh summer fruits!
Permalink Reply by Chris P. on Awesome! Farmer's markets are the best! I just had a piel del sol melon, wow that was super sweet and really smooth! I think the translation is something like "toad skin" which is actually what the outside of the melon resembles. If you see one with a little yellow in the skin, it should be good to go. Highly recommend!
Permalink Reply by RawMomInCA on I've never heard of that melon but sounds good. My favorite fruit is the Cherimoya - like a mix between banana and pear...very sweet and creamy, too!
I got soooo much fruit at the market and had an arugula salad for dinner. Thanks for the suggestion; it really satisfied my taste for spice! I made it through my first day (yay!) and totaled 2,600 calories on cronometer...not too bad?
Permalink Reply by Jera on For your first week, you are doing damn good! I don't think people should be so hard on newbies not getting it"perfect" (<--- the ideal 80/10/10 diet). You are eating a super healthy, whole foods diet, with much less fat than you were before on your other raw food diet. Believe me people, I work at a gourmet raw food restaurant-- I see firsthand hand just how much fat gets dumped into these recipes. Trust me, she is eating WAYYYY less fat.
The thing I do agree with everyone is the calories thing-- on low(er)-fat raw, there is just something about eating more calories that feels good!
Also, once that coffee addiction is broken cacao should really only be a treat. Once you stop eating it for a while, you will see what a dramatic effect it has on your mood and well-being when you try it again! Nowadays, if I eat more that a small portion of something with cacao powder, I get jittery, a minor panic attack, and my heart races. No fun!
Permalink Reply by Chris P. on I know I wasn't thinking she has to be "perfect" but my own experience is that it is actually harder to transition to 80/10/10 than to just bite the bullet for a few days and jump full in. That's how it worked best for me anyway. Maybe some do better with a transition, I just have seen it go badly and have experienced that myself. But that's why I recommend going full in but for a short time period, 2 weeks or so, short enough to commit to, long enough to start to feel great, but not so long as to feel trapped.
Sometimes people on here will make comments that may come off harsh because they don't couch their words much and are blunt in their delivery, but no one has any stake in making people drones or something. It's all about getting the best results, period. A lot of times people who try to hang onto the "old treats" have those pull them back into old habits they wanted to get away from, especially in the early going. I personally never say to myself "never again" because that makes me fixate on the thing and feel frantic. If I want something, I will get past "needing" it and then decide to have it, enjoy the hell out of it and move on. Or it wont be as good as I remembered and I'll be like "OK that wasn't worth it" and move on. But early on in starting 80/10/10 it's less like a decision and more like a compulsion, at least for me it was.
Permalink Reply by RawMomInCA on You are so right about the fat in standard raw cuisine. I am embarrassed to say how much fat I was probably eating every day...I mean, it was A LOT. But I am ready to take this next step and I don't mind the 'tough love' since it will get me where I want to be!
I am on day 2 no cacao and I didn't miss it a bit. And 10 days no coffee - the thought of it makes my stomach turn.
Permalink Reply by banana - boy on I gave up coffee&chocolate easily because of this diet and the videos i saw with DR & FL.
The key for me was simple eating 3000 calories then I had the energy and happy I was seeking from coffee.
We want energy we want happy mood so it is natural to reach for coffee while we are starved for quality calories
I woke and like i did not want or need coffee as i was drinking ban smoothy..such a nice moment in life for me.
Then of course i had a couple of weeks of withdraw wonderful pain i say knowing you are dropping something toxic
get the calories !!! count them and get em see if coffee&chocolate fails away on its own?always get the calories the most vital part of this game !!
-Doug
Permalink Reply by Stephanie Rene on Just wanted to say that I think it is impressive that you are tackling this as a mom of three! I have two and am breastfeeding as well! Keep going girl! You are amazing.
Permalink Reply by RawMomInCA on Thank you, Stephanie!
Permalink Reply by Amy on I'm only 2 weeks in, but I'm also breastfeeding and I wanted to add my experience here. I've tried 811 twice before this and failed after about a week. This time I'm having no problem whatsoever sticking to it because I have been sure to get AT LEAST 3000 calories a day. It's amazing what a few hundred more calories does. I have had no cravings for cooked food or high fat food at all.
Today: 1/2 of a large watermelon (about 700 calories), an 800-calorie datorade (about 40 deglet noor dates), and this afternoon I'm going to have about 10 atualfo mangos and a big salad (a head of lettuce, 2 tomatoes, 2 cucumbers, and an avocado). This is just over 3000 calories, 87.5/7.5/5.
On a typical day, I probably would have eaten 3/4 of a watermelon, but I shared half with my dh today. :)
Permalink Reply by RawMomInCA on Hi Amy, I have been following a similar diet the last two days and feeling much better. My past two days, I've only received 5% of calories from fat. Do you ever want to bump that to 10% or are you happy with 5%? Do you ever do nuts/seeds instead of the avo? Any favorites? Thanks! Also, do have any concerns about detox with breastfeeding? I've had some headaches and breakouts which I am sure are the result of detox. I am hoping that the superior nutrition of the foods will counter any detox effects for my baby, but just wondering what others think...
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