Low Fat Raw Food Diet – Update 3
Hey all, this post covers two days since the last update.
Mangoes
I decided to try not eating mangoes for a day to see if my weight would go back down. You can see below in the screen shots my weight went down after not eating them for a day and then back up again after a day of eating plenty of mango. I’m not concerned about my weight number either way, but it’s something interesting to note.
Here’s the last two days:
April 14
Body Composition
Weight: 151.6
Body Fat %: 8.0%
Water Weight%: 64.5%
Muscle Mass%: 47.7%
Bone Density%: 5.4%
Food Intake
Meal 1: Banana Date Smoothie 14 Bananas, 4 Dates
Meal 2: Banana Spinach Smoothie 16 Bananas, 1/3lb of Spinach
Meal 3: Green Grapes
Meal 4: 1 Cucumber Peeled w/ 6 Dates
Water: 1.5L
Exercise: Dumbbell Bench Press, Lat Pull-downs, Push-ups
April 15
Body Composition
Weight: 151.0
Body Fat %: 7.8%
Water Weight%: 64.7%
Muscle Mass%: 47.8%
Bone Density%: 5.4%
Food Intake
Meal 1: 5 Mangoes w/ celery after
Meal 2: Banana Date Smoothie 11 bananas and 10dates w/ celery after
Meal 3: 7 Mangoes
Meal 4: 5 Oranges
Water: 2L
Exercise: Lat Pulldowns, Dips, Shoulder Press, and some ab work. Stationary bike too.
Eating Enough
My ripe banana stock is low so I’m forced to eat less bananas until the ones I have ripen up. I have 80lbs of bananas in my house right now but not a single one is edible.
I find it’s much more difficult to get an adequate amount of calories without having ripe bananas available. Bananas are the cheapest and easiest calorie source (outside the tropics) on the low fat raw food diet. I can get one 40lb box of organic bananas for about $28. One banana, depending on the size is between 50 and 110 calories. Peeling 15 bananas and putting them into a smoothie takes about 3 minutes. Then you can blend it up with a tiny bit of water and enjoy it in front of the computer. Simple, fast, easy, convenient, and nutritious. Banana smoothies are like a dream meal, I almost feel a little lost without them.
I’ll continue to do my best over the next couple days without my precious bananas.
That’s it for This update.Subscribe to keep following along.
Other Posts in this series
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How To Do the Low Fat Raw Food Diet
Low Fat Raw Food Diet – Update 1
Low Fat Raw Food Diet – Update 2
You seem to be a bit low on Proteins and even on Lipids according to cron’o going to do anything about it?
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Tom Holowka Reply:
April 19th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Good question Andi, and the short answer is no. Here’s why and the long answer. When you install cronometer it asks you to input your targets for carbohydrates, protein and fat(lipids), I set mine at 80 for carbohydrate, 10 for protein, and 10 for fat. These aren’t targets so much as they are limits. I want to make sure I’m getting at least 80% of my total calories from carbohydrates. The 80% is a lower limit, meaning I don’t wanna dip below that. The 10% fat and 10% protein are upper limits, meaning I want to make sure I don’t get more then 10% of my total calories from protein. So I’m actually right within the bounds of where I want to be.
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