Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.

- Jim Davis

Raw Foods Diet: Day 20
Two thirds of the way done. At this point, I am just really trying to see if I can actually gain any weight. This diet does not make it easy to gain weight, as you already have to eat so much food. Oddly enough, I still am not really sick of the taste of the fruits. Yesterday, I was a bit rash, and while I could see this diet working for a lot of people, I don’t know if I can psychologically deal with it at this point. Regardless, I carry on, in a quest to make it the full 30 days.

Mind
If there is one thing that has dramatically changed, it has been the number of dreams I am remembering. I am not certain if this is caused by the fact that I am sleeping longer, or that I am waking up periodically, but I have been remembering a very large amount of the dreams I have been having.

Body

Weight: – 155.8 +/-: +0.4 today/-10.2 total

Blood Pressure: – 100/68 +/-: 0/-6 today/-21/-10 total

Body Temperature: – 97.5 +/-: -0.5 today/+0.5 total

Resting Heart Rate: – 54 +/-: -4 today/-14 total

Food Eaten
The bananas have pretty much finished ripening. This gave me a big relief. It is amazing what bananas can do for a fresh perspective!

Meal 1
20 blueberries, and a smoothie consisting of: 1 orange, 1 thick pineapple slice, 20 blueberries, 4 strawberries, and 2 bananas

Meal 2
A smoothie consisting of: 2 handfuls of baby spinach, and 2 bananas

Meal 3
1 apple and 1 banana

Meal 4
1 apple and 1 banana

Meal 5
2 handfuls of blueberries, and a smoothie consisting of: 1 thick pineapple slice, 1 orange, 36 blueberries, 4 strawberries, and 2 bananas.

Overall
Yesterday I did a lot of walking around the beautiful city of Chicago. I got a lot of errands done, and I especially enjoyed my trip to Borders, where I read for a few hours on one of their couches. Accompanying me on my walk, was two bananas, and two apples, that I ate with much joy. In another time, I could easily see myself living out this kind of diet for quite some time. The preparation is quite easy, at least the way I go about it, and maybe I should have done it earlier in my life, when I wasn’t looking at gaining back all the weight I had lost. I should probably just throw out my scale…

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