rawlife’s BodyBlog

  I think I got up 9 times.  No sleep for the hungry.  Anyway, I’m crushin this raw vegan diet like it’s nobody’s business.  It’s costing me about $80 a day-but for learning purposes, I"m willing to accept that.  At the moment, I’m trying to develop a base program(a control, in other words), so I know, in the future, if throw something else in the mix(a variable), I’ll be able to pinpoint the cause of cause of the results. 

   I’m honestly feeling pretty good; my energy is through the roof and my skin looks absolutely flawless.  It’s the NOT being tired in the middle of the day though that I really really love-so much so that it would be really hard for me ever to go back to a diet that ever had that effect on me.  It’s a little hard to admit all that, eating raw meat has actually been a part of my persona for that last five years(it’s even harder admitting that!).  I just have to think about doing what’s best though and let my feelings for who I am and what defines me go by the wayside.  Maybe in the future those things will be more important but right now, this is what has to be done. 

   On the downside, I am losing quite a bit of weight.  I’m lean as all get out, but I think I’ve dropped some muscle too-I know that I am sore for WAY longer than usual on this diet-so it probably needs some fine tuning, probably should throw some nuts in the mix(as of yet it’s been 95% fruit, 5% leafy vegetables).  If that doesn’t work, I may go back to meat but I don’t think I’ll ever go back to the combinations I was doing before as they were causing me obvious blood sugar issues.

   In other news, I’ve become a nudist.  Not really, but I am tanning in the birthday suit wherever I can these days.  It’s pretty damn nice-just got to find a spot without a lot of trafic.  I usually climb to the top of some local…rock formations, for lack of a better word, and lay out there.  Yesterday, some old lady sat about 10m away from me and read her book.  She was cool with it and I decided I was too, so I didn’t get up. 

  Moving on, I’m coming back to the states for a month on the 4th of July.  The plan is to do some filming for the new site.  The back is feeling really improved and I think I’m ready to give a month of intense workouts a try.  It’s been basically 2 years since I worked out regularly and intensely, so this should be good.  My only qualm though is whether or not my diet is going to support it.  My knee jerk reaction is no, but I have a goofy kind of feeling that it has the potential with a little fine tuning, like I said.  There are some people out there that seem to have broken the mold when it comes to diet and it’s relation to muscle building-I’d like to see if I can get a little bit of what they’ve got goin on.  As I crush my second head of lettuce for the evening, I think I can. 

   Last, I want to apologize yet again for being so bad with the blog.  No good excuses, just been busy being excited and stressed at the same time about other stuff.  Hope you’re all well.

   I’ve made another push towards the raw vegan end.  The more I read, the more I write, the more convinced I am that, at the very least, our bodies are vegan or real close.  For some reason the idea that there is more to it than that, that our own development as a soul plays a role as well, comes up quite often though.  I get the idea, and have heard it spoken about, that what we really take from food is it’s energy…or it’s life.  I wonder if the more developed or advanced a soul gets, the less dense food it needs, or lower on the food chain kind of food it needs.  One thing I can’t deny is that basically almost every person I would call a real master or close to it, was vegetarian or I suspect was vegetarian despite what ancient texts might imply-few actually go right out and say. 

   Anyway, my gut is killin me right now.  I don’t have the flora for this yet.  There’s only one way to get though, so here I am.  Which brings up another interesting point-studies have shown that an animal’s gut flora is a reflection of its diet-I guess that almost goes without saying.  I wonder then, though, if most people’s problems like candida and IBS and what not wouldn’t clear up if they just kept eating the same raw foods over and over again like animals in the wild do, instead of eating an entire Earth’s worth of variety on a weekly basis.  I think if they’re eating cooked, it wouldn’t make too much of a difference given that the food is sterile, but I think this works, in theory, with raw.  Interesting idea, I think. 

   In other news, I am still not done with this puzzle I am doing.  I’m not even 1/10th done.  This is suckee suckee. 

   My back has been acting up a bit lately, mostly I think because of the excess sitting I am doing writing this manual.  Also suckee suckee.

   My shoulder has also been acting up.  This, too, is suckee suckee.  I don’t have a great reason for it either.  There are A LOT of nuances in anatomy and biomechanics that I’m not aware of that I know are affecting my structural health.  I have to study more.  All the external rotations, shoulder adductions, cervical retractions and extensions, and lumbar extensions in the world are not making too much of a difference right now in regards to my back and shoulders.  I know I’m missing a piece or two somewhere and I don’t have too much of a choice other than to find it.  Having said that, I’d like to point out: I think the motivation people have to do what they need to do often stems from the fact they they are, simply, very uncomfortable.