811rv Daily Meals?

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Permalink Reply by Robby Barbaro on July 15, 2008 at 11:52pm

I do believe very strongly in the importance of chewing. Not to get to philosophical here, but I am not "anti" anything, I am "pro" stuff, lol

I approach each and every day with a desire to live in harmony with Natures's design in as many ways as possible. Chewing our food is a major part of our design. 80/10/10 really describes our biological design, Dr. D just put some numbers on it, based on the research which has been done by other people.

I guess I am also showing how my belief system differs from Victoria Boutenko and all this non sense about the need for blending.

I certainly will use a blender in the future, I just haven't had the desire to do so recently.

Does that make sense?

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Permalink Reply by sunnied on July 16, 2008 at 11:24am

I agree but at the same time it is something I don't want to hear, as I rely on the blender for 2 out of 3 meals/day. It's just so easy to get the greens in this way. Maybe too easy.

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Permalink Reply by Robby Barbaro on July 16, 2008 at 2:09pm

You bring up a very important point. The most under emphasized component of 80/10/10 is the amount of greens that Dr. D is recommending. He is recommending more greens than any other nutritional program on the planet! 2-6% of calories from greens is a lot of greens.

I have no idea what you do, but generally, most people who are making green smoothies are fooling themselves thinking they can get enough greens from those smoothies. Also, the process of THOROUGHLY chewing greens is Natures way to brush our teeth. Chewing is important, but I would say chewing greens is even more important than the process of chewing our fruit.

Permalink Reply by Joy on July 24, 2008 at 8:26pm

At times, I have lived for days entirely on greens, is there some problem with this?

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Permalink Reply by Matt Mueller on July 15, 2008 at 12:08am

do you guys ever do green juices?

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Permalink Reply by Gretta on July 15, 2008 at 10:22am

My first year of raw was high fat raw. I wasn't an athlete either. (besides being a mom of two)
After a couple of months of 8-1-1, I began to get more active. I found myself wanting to push my body and explore my limits. Now I'm not saying that I'm a gold medal Olympic pursuant, but I'm definitely an athlete! And I would be willing to bet, that you will discover the same about yourself after following 8-1-1!
this past week:
I eat about 100 bananas a week(a good cheap staple)
lots of homegrown tomatoes
about 5 watermelons
4 pineapples
about a cup of dates
a couple stalks of celery
about four apples
a cantaloupe
a melon
and lots of water

Gretta

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Permalink Reply by Lydia Rebekah on July 15, 2008 at 3:48pm

I think summer is a fab time to try this

right now mostly Mono watermelon, oranges and berries

keepin it simple! takes the focus off food..and onto FUN!

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Permalink Reply by Gretta on July 16, 2008 at 9:04pm

thanks! I will very soon.( that is if you were addressing me)

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Permalink Reply by Gil on June 21, 2009 at 7:15am

LR,
long time no see. I agree. summer is an awesome time to try this. I am thinking about trying it myself this summer:)))

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Permalink Reply by Darrick on July 16, 2008 at 2:56am

yesterday I had:
8lbs of mangosteens at 9am
1mango at 4pm
1coconut water at 5pm
3lbs of durian flesh at 7pm

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Permalink Reply by Gretta on July 16, 2008 at 9:03pm

Ok Darrick! You can stop rubbing it in now!!
Just kidding! Sorta. I sure do miss that one and only creamy texture, with its oh sooooo distinct yummyness!

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Permalink Reply by Alysha Maiorelli on July 26, 2008 at 1:27am

Ahhh, how I love posts such as these. I have been putting off buying this book too because it is so expensive, but I feel in order to properly understand this diet I need to buy it. I have been doing a modified version of this for a while now and honestly I feel better than I have in my entire life. I hate to admit this because I looooooveee nuts. Before going raw I could eat a pound of nuts a day with no problem. The only thing that probably kept me from weighing 300 pounds was my running and even then I was not as active as I am now. However, I after reading this I have figured out why it has a pain in the tush to stick to this diet - I am obviously NOT eating enough in one meal. I'll eat like two bananas and a green smoothie for breakfast and half the green smoothie goes to my boyfriend. no wonder i am hungry half an hour later! thanks for all the info guys! this makes so much sense now!

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