June 2009 Blog Posts (188)

Day 9-Sexy!

Eats:

5 dragonfruit

2 persimmons

1 custard apple

4 oranges

3 dates

large salad of spirallised cuke, zuchini, radicchio, parsley, capsicum, cos dressed with sauce of 4 sundried toms, 1 stalk celery, 3 tomatoes, 2 dates.

7 almonds

Exercise: 30 mins running-getting very fast

20 mins cycling

20 mins resistance and weights

Sleep: 8 hrs

Gratitude:

The dragonfruits! found it hard to believe they were out of… Continue

Added by Beckyji on June 30, 2009 at 8:02pm — 1 Comment

Vegas, Baby!

Oh my goodness. I started out so good this past weekend. We set up for my nieces's grad party in our backyard here in California on Friday and Saturday and I did really well. There was tons of cooked food here, there and everywhere! The fried chicken smelled amazing! What in the world? Why does it smell do good???? I took a couple of bites but mostly stuck to the fruit platter. I pretty much had it to myself as everyone else was eating the chicken, sandwiches, and homemade potato salad (I must… Continue

Added by Debbie on June 30, 2009 at 4:08pm — 1 Comment

Day 22

Weight: 89.0 kg

Exercise:

push-ups: 25/15/25, LSE: 20/10 (morning)

15 minutes running on my Vibrams (evening)

Food:

7 bananas

1 kg tangerines

6 persimmons

8 oranges

500 g cherries

Total calories: 2250

I resisted! The whole day long I was thinking about eating bread with a fake (vegetarian) sausage and cheese, but when I got to the supermarket I didn't feel like having it anymore, so I bought fruit instead. ;-) I'm… Continue

Added by Matthijs on June 30, 2009 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

Day 8 - Dancer

Eats:

9 am

4 oranges

12 pm 3 persimmons, 2 small red papaya, 6 bananas, 35 g dried apricots

4pm 3 bananas blended with 3 dates poured over about 50 g cos lettuce

6pm More banana date sauce over cos lettuce, 1 chopped banana and 1 chopped cucumber

7 pm gs of 3 blended banana, 1 date, celery stalk and 30g cos

8pm salad of radicchio, grated carrot and zuchini, tomato cucumber with sauce of 7 macadamiaa(from shell) blended with some basil.

Exercise: 1… Continue

Added by Beckyji on June 29, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

An Unhealthy Obsession

Since the start of the year I have been weighing myself every morning in a hope that I will put on weight (muscle). Seeing an ever decreasing reading gets me down and starts my day off on the wrong foot. It’s time to stop. I need to lose this as a focus. It does me no good. Losing more weight isn’t going to make me stop 811 so it’s pointless to keep weighing myself. I’ve just put the scales away and have given myself a 3 month challenge to not weigh myself but to just keep doing my weights and… Continue

Added by Stephen on June 29, 2009 at 4:05pm — 6 Comments

Order your produce in bulk/by the case! here's why! - and of course organic

I buy everything in bulk for the following reasons:

1. If buy in bulk, you automatically eat so so many more mono meals, which is really what advanced 811 is all about - and THE goal as far as I'm concerned.

2. You save money

3. You don't have to go to the supermarket and be tempted with all kinds of stuff that you just shouldn't have to look at anymore...

4. Buying organic is where it's at! support the industry!

5. this delivery service literally drops the stuff at… Continue

Added by Michael on June 29, 2009 at 1:37pm — 1 Comment

Day 79

yeah yeah getting closer to one hundred days! Every thing's pretty good. Made some raw sushi yesterday by taking square sections on of red leaf lettuce and putting layers of cucumber, shredded carrot, avocado, date, and tomato. AMAZING. But I ate way too much and it was bad combining, which I am suffering from to this minute. I made the best discovery. Raw yogurt. Seriously! Put one frozen banana in mini food processor with 3 dates, Then add any other fresh fruit that you love. I know t seems… Continue

Added by OrangeFever on June 29, 2009 at 7:27am — 1 Comment

Day 21

Weight: 88.4 kg

Exercise: none

Food:

5 oranges

6 kaki

salad

10 small nectarines

banana/strawberry icecream

Total calories: 1550

Got out of bed past noon, so skipped a few meals. At least I got plenty of sleep! ;-) Don't feel like eating much. The oranges made my mouth sting (they're not organic) so I threw the rest of the bag away. Too bad, because I did feel like eating oranges.

I'm really having cravings for bread… Continue

Added by Matthijs on June 29, 2009 at 6:32am — No Comments

day 18 - bangkok

meals

meal 1: 2kg lychees
meal 2: 1.5 kg mangoes
meal 3: 6kg mon thong durian

activities
ashtanga yoga and meditation
15km cycling

Added by Nick Green on June 29, 2009 at 2:12am — No Comments

day 17 - bangkok

meals

meal 1: 2 pineapples
meal 2: 2kg mangoes
meal 3: 1kg bananas

activity

sun salutes
10km walking
2 hour thai massage

Added by Nick Green on June 29, 2009 at 2:10am — No Comments

day 16 - bangkok

meals:

meal 1: 2.5 kg lychees
meal 2: 2 kg mangoes
meal 3: mango and coconut water smoothie, salad and coconut cream soup (rassayana cafe)
meal 4: 1 pineapple

activity
ashtanga yoga
10km cycling

Added by Nick Green on June 29, 2009 at 2:07am — No Comments

Day 7-Sunshine!

Eats:

water till midday

8 oranges

4 oranges

Half medium papaya

3 bananas

half an apple

Exercise:

1hr 20 min bush run

3 x15 sit ups

3 x12 lunges both sides

Sleep: 8 hrs

sunshine: Yes!!! naked sunbathing in the winter sunshine, all day working outside

Thoughts: upbeat, being mindful about effects of raw hommous and raw bread on my body, feeling pretty joyful, relaxed mmmm just being today-that good old sun-I… Continue

Added by Beckyji on June 28, 2009 at 9:22pm — No Comments

Fruits, Greens, Fitness 11

Today (June 27th)

Workouts:

1 mile jogging in 90 degree weather

Took in:

7 white nectarines (not fully ripe yet)

3 org. white peaches

7 black mission figs

16 oz orange juice

1/4 hass avocado

young coconut's water

A child asked me to try a Papa John's garlic bread stick with marinara sauce. "Just one bite," she said. I told her I wasn't going to because I was going to stay on track. I told her if I had one bite I would want to… Continue

Added by Tinah on June 28, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

What is Wrong With Judging People

DR recently posted a topic that seemed to arouse a great deal of intense discussions. What I found to be most puzzling was when people had such a huge problem with judging other people. In this context it was about people who were overweight.

Judgment is NATURAL. Without judgment there is no objectivity. If we see someone who is overweight with bad skin and smells foul we can judge them as such. In so doing we can observe the things they are doing, eating, watching, listening to, and learn… Continue

Added by Matthew Warner on June 28, 2009 at 8:31am — 2 Comments

Day 20

Weight: 88.7 kg

Exercise: lots of walking

Food:

6 oranges

500g cherries

4 bananas

500g grapes

2 bananas

3 apples

2 apples

5 peach-like things (but smaller)

1 mango

bag of potato chips <--- eek!

Total calories: 3500

Already at 20% of my 100-day challenge. Tomorrow it will be three weeks. Very happy with that. Still have the occasional craving, but so far I've succeed from giving in to them. Saying to… Continue

Added by Matthijs on June 28, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Day 6- A bit Salty

eats:

1 whole medium papaya

6 bananas

100g strawberries

2 oranges

50 g dried apricots

10 bananas plus 2 stalks celery plus dandelion greens in smoothie(shared smoothie)

bout 6 more bananas

then raw hommous with tomatoe eeek salt hit-can feel its not sittin so great in the belly

2 slice macadamia and flax bread

A little off the program, but really today I conquered many cooked food and overeating habits.

exercise: heavy work,… Continue

Added by Beckyji on June 27, 2009 at 11:39pm — 1 Comment

Fruits, Greens, Fitness 10

After this I have to pick it up fitness-wise. I miss the track. It's been closed since yesterday, and for the rest of the Summer. Swimming does work me out but it's no replacement for running. I will find a new place to run at for tomorrow and be back into training mode.

Today (June 26th)

Workouts:

A little swimming

Took in:

white peach

4 organic nectarines

ripe banana

2 jazz apples

goldblush apple

lettuces, chives, 1/2… Continue

Added by Tinah on June 27, 2009 at 4:31pm — No Comments

I'm a Lump

I could tell when I ran Friday morning that I had had cooked food the day before. My breath was okay, but my body felt like a lump. So why did I eat even more cooked food today? First of all, I'm on vacation. I'm spending all my time with cooked food people and a lot of cooked food! Maybe you are all right and I need to eat a lot more fruit. It certainly couldn't hurt.

Food:

smoothie: 4 bananas, 1/2 cantaloupe, 1 cup strawberries

smoothie: 2 bananas, 1/2 cantaloupe, 2… Continue

Added by Debbie on June 27, 2009 at 4:27pm — No Comments

Day 19

Weight: 88.9 kg

Exercise:

12 mins running on my Vibrams (evening)

Food:

6 oranges

5 persimmons

7 oranges

2 mangos

2 bananas

handful of peanuts

Total calories: 2050

I have this wound on my finger that doesn't want to heal, or at least it is taking forever. The trouble is that it is in a very inconvenient spot so it is easy to hit, and then it starts bleeding again. Using a band-aid helps with the bleeding but not with… Continue

Added by Matthijs on June 27, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Recovering from cooked food

Everything Neety and Free said came true.

I can't believe I thought I had it DOWN.

I guess I wasn't eating enough, though I was sure that I was. My diet wasn't varied AT ALL . Mainly bananas...mostly bananas.

It started wtih a bit of overt fat (avo)...the next night...two avos...next night olives and avos...downhill. Last night I had a veggie burger and fries. Wasn't even good. The A1 sauce on it made me have heartburn....4lbs gained in a week.

I want… Continue

Added by Jayna'/aka/Raw Fit Mama on June 27, 2009 at 2:19am — 2 Comments