Personal Development for Smart People guru Steve Pavlina has started out 2008 with a 30-day raw food diet, and he’s chronicling his daily progress on his blog for all to see. It’s an interesting read if you’d like to learn more about an all-raw diet.
Steve’s version of the raw diet for this trial is very paired-down and heavily fruit-based. He’s not using herbs, spices, salt, garlic, or onions. You can see more of his self-imposed rules .
While I’ve never really given much thought to an all-raw diet, his experiment does remind me of a time in college when I tried to eat nothing but fruit. I had been having a lot of mysterious food allergies, and my neighbor tried to convince me that a fruit-only fast would help cleanse my system and might even help determine what foods I was allergic to (with the idea that I’d be adding back other foods one at a time and watching for reactions).
Skeptical, I decided to give it a try for a day. I approached it as a sort of adventure rather than really expecting any benefits from it. Two of my roommates decided to join me, and we headed off to the market to stock up on massive amounts of delicious, fresh fruit.
That day we ate, and ate, and ate… more fruit than we thought was possible to eat in one day. We just couldn’t get full. I came home from an evening class to an empty house and decided I just couldn’t take the hunger anymore - I boiled some pasta and ate it with some garlic and olive oil. It was the most delicious thing I had ever eaten.
My roommates came home, and I felt overwhelmed by guilt - here they were doing this fruit-only fast to support me, and I had given up before the end of the day. As it turned out, my guilt was short-lived: as soon as I had left the house for my evening class, they had cooked up some pasta of their own. (This was in Italy - as students there we basically lived off of pasta, veggies, and cheese. It never got old.)
At any rate, I’m interested to see how Steve’s 30-day trial turns out. Maybe I could be persuaded to give it a try for myself.
Have you ever tried an all-raw diet?
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