Hi folks,

It has been a while, but I really felt like writing this. I am feeling really great, yesterday I beat my own personal record on a 10km running challenge in 47m:23s. Not that the time is so spectacular, but I started running again like only ten months ago, and my personal record was from more then eight years ago, when I was in good shape. So I am hitting the milestone where I am getting in better shape then when I was around my 18th year!

I can really recommend going on a high-fruit low-fat mostly raw food diet if you want to get back in shape, I have experienced great results and will never forget all the knowledge I learned about nutrition and health.

I did experience difficulties like cravings because of too little calorie intake and I went step-by-step to a 100% raw food diet with to much fat to my current mostly raw low-fat diet with occasional cooked grains and steamed vegetables. With great exception I also eat diary- and meat products during social events with family or friends, but the overall diet is pretty healthy and I am enjoying it.

One of the greatest benefits is a very clean feeling from the inside and outside, my skin has never been better after cutting out the diary products and my digestion is also very clean, combined with attention to the food combing rules, my digestion and faeces are almost orderless, and I don’t experience bad breath or bad flatulence.

I used to crave all kinds of unhealthy and fatty foods, but this is almost completely gone, my taste preferences changed and I now like sweet fruits a lot :D. I can eat loads (like in kilograms of food) of healthy food without gaining weight. I have to admit this took some time and training, I even went so far as calorie counting, something I was against and never did before, but it gave me a better understanding about what I was eating nutrition wise, and I can really recommend doing this for a while. Because of it, I started eating more fruit and less fat (80/10/10).

My energy levels increased on this diet and I started wanting to go outside to exercise more and more. My mental clarity has always been pretty good, but I noticed my motivation dips have become less. I guess it’s possible to call this a high performance diet style :)

Since eight months is still a short period I still think of it as experimental, and I am reading information from people that have been doing this for many years now so I can continue doing so, without doing damage to my long-term health.

I also had my second dental check-up and everything was perfect again. I was in-and-out the chair in less then 10 minutes, and 42 Euro’s lighter….

There are still things I am working on like my calcium intake, proteins for muscle building, recovery times, quality of sleep, getting through the winter…

But so far so good :)

How are you guys/girls doing?