Raw Objectivism

Being around my family makes everything harder. My mother, brother, and brother’s girlfriend all smoke. Everyone drinks (at least everyone but my cousins who are in high school). My whole family is addicted to caffeine. We eat out for almost every meal which, makes raw vegan nearly impossible. And basically they all eat the standard American diet (SAD). So eating properly is incredibly hard when I’m with family.

Since August 1, I had not consumed added sugar, eggs or dairy. Today I broke that trend. I had pound cake with a merengue icing and covered in coconut. At the beginning I ate just the coconut. And it was really sweet and tasty. But then I tried some of the icing, and it was ridiculously sweet. Almost too sweet. And the cake was so rich. It was a lot, but then I wanted more. So I had some more icing that was left on the cake tray, scraping it off with the serving knife.

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Tags: Dining Out, Junk food, Making Mistakes, Treats
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So today I decide to try low-fat raw vegan, or the 80/10/10 raw vegan diet promoted by Dr. Douglas Graham. I did not follow the diet completely, but I followed the basic tenets: consume 80% of your calories in carbohydrates from raw fruits and vegetables, consume 10% of your calories in fats (nuts, avocados, seeds, other high fat veggies all raw of course) and consume 10% of your calories in proteins (from raw veggies).

Raw Vegan…Paleo?

This diet is similar to the Paleo diet in that it eschews similar foods (the major difference being that LFRV eschews meat, eggs and dairy as well). Legumes and grains are excluded from this diet as well as they cannot be eaten in their raw form. Also roots are excluded because they would not have been a readily consumed food source by our ancestors when they were foraging for food. Instead our ancestors would have consumed the readily available vegetables and fruits that grow above ground and are easy to procure.

Basically if you can eat a food raw and would be able to enjoy eating only that food for a whole meal (what LFRVs call mono-meals) then it is acceptable to eat. This means that foods like garlic and onions would not be acceptable, unfortunately (Don’t agree? Try eating a bulb of garlic for a meal, or a bunch of onions. It’s not a pleasant thought.)

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Tags: High-carb raw vegan, LFRV, Low-Fat Raw Vegan, Paleo, Raw Vegan, Vegan, Vegetarian
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