Raw Foods Diet: Day 4
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- Socrates
Raw Foods Diet: Day 4
Today I did not seem to need as much sleep. I woke up a little before 4 A.M. and was able to get started right away. Do I need less sleep on this diet? I had heard people claim this, but is far too early to know for sure.
Mind
Today was a great day for the mind! I had two dreams, and I woke up after each with perfect dream recall. I shortened the Morning Pages to just Morning Page and I think that helped, as I found the exercise particularly interesting today. I found it extremely easy to write too, and just couldn’t seem to stop writing once I started. In my notes, I had written down that “mental clarity has sky rocketed” so that is certainly good news.
Body
Food Eaten
Today I had a very interesting experience: a taste difference. The tangelo I ate tasted much more bitter than it did before. It could be that the tangelo itself was bad, but it looked perfectly fine.
Also, I am going to change my wording of shake to smoothie. It’s just cooler.
Meal 1
3 and 1/4 bananas, 1 tangelo, and a smoothie consisting of: 2 and 3/4 bananas, 1 tangelo, and 2 strawberries. I love these fruit smoothies!
Meal 2
2 small apples, and 2 bananas. When I bought these apples, I figured they were a good deal. But then I found out how ridiculously small they are. I have also noticed that things are becoming much more sweet. I could barely finish the two apples.
Meal 3
2 bananas, 2 strawberries, and 1 salad consisting of: lots of lettuce, 1 avocado, and lots of grape tomatoes. Too many grape tomatoes, in fact.
Meal 4
1 banana, and 1 Asian pear. This was a very good meal until the end. I guess I only like Asian pears in small amounts, as by the end, the pear almost seemed too moist.
Meal 5
1 avocado. This was eaten at 12:30 A.M. with the intention of putting me back to sleep. It worked!
Overall
I woke up with a slightly stuffed nose and a bit of a sore throat. This is probably from the cold I got randomly last night, but seems to have cleared up. Could it be a detoxification symptom or a cause of the freezing cold Chicago winter? Physically I felt about the same, but when working out, I found myself wanting to do more. It was a bizarre feeling.
I felt tired after my salad, but that could be as a result of the avocado in it. I also went to bed quite early, at around 6:30 P.M. I woke up at 12:30 A.M., had an avocado, and went back to bed until 4 A.M.! Avocados now seem to have a great effect on me as far as sleep goes, but did I really need roughly nine hours of sleep?
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February 7th, 2008 at 10:28 am
interesting that your resting heart rate has gone up. It would seem that if you really needed less sleep that you body would agree as well. however, a lack of good sleep is one very good thing to raise your resting heart rate. as you get healthier, your heart rate should decrease, not increase. actually i should try and train myself to measure mine, but I cant get myself to do anything when I first wake up. maybe I should get a heart rate monitor. that would be very beneficial. hmm
February 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Giant,
What the measurements have show thus far is that everything would fall within a margin of error. The fact that my blood pressure was that high on Day 1 changes some of the measurements as well. Things will fluctuate. My resting heart rate could be higher because I am increasing my physical intensity. I’m not quite sure. Either way, if it continues, it will be an interesting, and troubling, find.
I have a heart rate monitor, somewhere…
During the course of this diet I find it much easier to be alert as soon as I wake up. This makes my morning measuring routine a breeze. Basically, I wake up, grab my iPod, and use the stopwatch feature and relax for three minutes. Then I measure my heart rate for one minute. Has worked well thus far!