MONO RAW

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Permalink Reply by Freelee on October 28, 2009 at 12:59am

thanks for the recommendation Neetness, u & DR inspired me on mono meals X

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Permalink Reply by Rawgreengoddess on October 29, 2009 at 3:21am

yup xx

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Permalink Reply by Charles on October 27, 2009 at 11:18pm

I do mono most days with most meals. Having said that, I still enjoy salads and smoothies too. I guess I go both ways.

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Permalink Reply by Freelee on October 28, 2009 at 1:00am

Nice Charles, I find it's best on digestion eveytime

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Permalink Reply by L∃N∀ on October 28, 2009 at 9:12am

Thank you Charles, do you feel any difference?

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Permalink Reply by Loren Lockman on October 29, 2009 at 12:43am

I'm not sure I understood your question; were you asking me if I always vary what I'm eating? If so, the answer is no, but let me explain why: When I was in college a bunch of buddies and I rented a condo on Hilton Head island for a week from a pro-football player who told us that the only rule was there were no rules. This stuck with me. Though I always offer my clients some guidelines to get started, rules are only to get you to the point where you don't need rules.

There is only one rule for me: learn to get out of your head and into your body. Your body knows exactly what it needs all the time. If you are deciding what to eat, or how much, or how many times/day, or at what time, or what percentage of each macro-nutrient you should eat based on whatever might be rolling around in your head (including the ideas of some "expert"-- many of whom don't look so healthy themselves!), you are very likely to Not maximize your health, as the chances of meeting your body's needs by thinking about it are pretty unlikely.

If you can get your body really clean and efficient (and this only happens as a result of long-enough water-only fasting) and can learn how to hear and properly interpret the messages your body is sending you, you will absolutely create an amazing level of health and balance.

I don't eat twice/day because I think I should, I eat twice/day because that's usually when I'm hungry. And I Never try to figure out what things I Should eat, but rather, simply listen to my body and eat whatever it is my body is most wanting. When I listen (which is most of the time for the last 18 years) I usually feel incredible, am never sick, and stay strong, fit, and flexible with very little effort. And, as Foghorn Leghorn used to say, "sharp as a bowling ball."

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Permalink Reply by L∃N∀ on October 29, 2009 at 9:11am

Thank you very much for the explanation Loren, - great story, great rule!

I jumped to fruitarianism in 1993 because I was amazed of it's ethics, simplicity, clarity - everything. But I made it only to ~70%, many months were 100%, but I still had other veg food between those periods. Last years I am stable and comfortable with only raw fruit and decreasingly some nuts.

I totally agree on cleanness and efficiency requirements to understand what you really need. I started to fast a day a week when I was 14 :) - I found a good book on the subject, and I keep doing it wherever it feels right since then.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Lockman on October 29, 2009 at 9:52am

You are very welcome LENA (the closest I can come with my keyboard).

I fasted one day/week for nearly 3 years and then went to 3 days/month. Then, as I learned that it takes the body about 3-3.5 days to get to the deepest part of the process, I went to one week each quarter (3 x/year), and 2-3 weeks the other quarter. I did this for about 8 years prior to getting so busy that I deemed it not beneficial to continue working so hard while fasting, (when complete physiological rest is called for.) If you haven't done a 3 week water-only fast, it's by far the single most powerful and efficient thing I've ever encountered...find a safe, comfortable place with experienced supervision and watch your health soar.

Incidentally, though I still eat nuts every once in a while in a prepared raw dish, my way-more-efficient body most definitely does Not want them anymore...

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Permalink Reply by L∃N∀ on October 29, 2009 at 10:40am

Wow!.. I certainly need to consider longer fasting.
I know about benefits of a 100-hour fast (so I defined it for myself :), but my fasting days are normally only around 48 hours. And I "fast" half a day without water nearly every day - normally I start to eat/drink after 1-2pm.

Loren, may I ask how much water do you drink on a normal day? I can go many days or weeks without it, and if I drink, than only a little in a while.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Lockman on October 29, 2009 at 11:31am

I'm like you -- I drink very little if any water and almost never need it regardless of how hot it might be or how much exercise I might be doing.

However, I also measure my clients' water intake before they begin fasting and then every week. Over the last few years, the average client has come in at 51.9% hydrated, when a baby is 75% and I can think of no reason is should ever go down. I know why it does go down, but don't believe that it's ever healthy to do so.

Though many raw foodists fast here, (of my more than 2000 fasting clients, at least half have had some experience with a raw diet,) raw foodists generally come in only a few percentage points better hydrated than the average cookie.

Even people regularly consuming juices and smoothies are usually below 60% hydration, which is a serious problem. When no properly hydrated, the body does not function well, cannot efficiently eliminate toxins as it encounters them, and thus is prone to disease at a much higher rate.

I've only ever seen one person arrive at 75% hydration or higher (not including myself, as I range between 75 and 76% most of the time, though was once several points lower after eating nuts/seeds daily for one week at a raw retreat). The person in question is 15 and has been raw for more than half of his life (and has never really eaten much garbage at all.)

For the average person, it seems that between 4 and 5 litres are needed daily to maintain decent hydration. One man fasting now (completing 21 days tomorrow) will have a bowel movement every day after drinking 3-4 glasses of water, as he is rehydrating old waste that has been sitting in the body, perhaps for years. He's had close to 30 bowel movements since he arrived, or roughly 1.5 each day, consuming only pure water. Incidentally, though this is unusual, we have at least one person each quarter who has bowel movements throughout the process.

Hopefully, you are in touch with your thirst mechanism and don't need the water you are not drinking, but many people -- most it seems! -- are not in touch.

Cleaning out the body seems to be the only way to get the hydration level where it needs to be. It takes time, but having taken more than 110 people through a four-month internship we saw over the last few years that the average person would go from just under 52% to just over 73% by the time they completed their process here, (assuming that they weren't leaving here on their free time and eating junk, which some people have inexplicably done...)

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Permalink Reply by mish on October 29, 2009 at 12:51pm

Hi Loren! How do you test hydration?

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Permalink Reply by Loren Lockman on October 29, 2009 at 1:00pm

Hi Mish!

We have a simple device -- an electronic scale -- which, though by no means a scientific instrument, gives us a very good idea of where someone is. It's said to be accurate to about 10%, though a client who runs a business in Hawaii where they test people with a much more accurate device said that his/his wife's readings were virtually identical on our machine as his. This is a large margin of error, but if the machine says 52% and someone might actually be 57% -- they're still wayyyy too dry.

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