Ok peeps. I am continuing my exploration of the diet.
I think I have been doing good, although not perfect yet.
I eat peeled fruit of all kinds mostly red plums, papaya, pineapple, banana, oranges/fresh squeezed OJ, some pears, apples, and apricots and kakis. I also eat peeled cucumber n tomato n some avocado either together or separately or according to taste. I take an estimated amount of extra virgin olive oil to go with that, estimated on how sweet I believe the fruit to be, more with banana and papaya and OJ, and less with cucumber and tomato, and average with apricots, plums, pears n apples and whole oranges.. I take between ½-1 tbsp with 1 or 2 fruit or a big bowl of cucumber n tomato.. or less with avocado.
I love egg yolks, but haven't been able to sustain myself and my mood etc on two a day and had between 4-8 a day, depending on if I work out, or if I just have a munchies day..
I also had a bit too much raw meat some days like today. 100grs. Other days I could just make do with 50 grs. (but then enforced by yolks)
I drink low mineral water that is really great. Occasionally I can't resist a cup of weak tea.. but I try now to chop up fresh mint and add some honey (that I believe to be raw, but to be 100% would take a small investigation).
I am getting better in energy management. I try to eat more frequently and smaller portions - at least of sugary stuff. I avoid adding sugar, since I felt that made it a bit harder for me to control or understand, seemed I got bigger fluctuations. I worry about my teeth though, they say that for teeth it would be better if there weren't more than 3 to max 5 meals a day, what does our resident teeth specialist say?
I eat some dates, the dates say: "Fresh dates" and absolutely no table of content. Their origin are from Iran and I have no idea how you treat dates there.. But they are not glazed with glucose like those other dates, they kind of look au naturel, but who knows if they've been heated? One could suspect it, in order to avoid germs? Maybe I should do some research or just skip them
My success: I haven't eaten anything else outside the diet. But it is still a question of staying satisfied. The way I stay satisfied is with extra yolk, or on some days yolk and meat or salmon. These last days I have had craving for raw meat, and I buy good stuff from a food market with a local producer where they know about the condition of the meat and how it's been handled.
My skin feels great, but acne is still there.. Only on my jawbone and below near the tonsills. Those will probably need a long time to get totally rid of, and yes, I realize I should really try with the strict diet for a while, but I am not sure if I can stand the cravings for extra yolk (meat, salmon). But my skin in general has really improved, so as to convince me that this is a good idea for the skin and to confirm that the theory behind this diet has some good ground. (You already know that, but always when you try something unconventional you have to find out for yourself, and this is one of the few times I have really noticed some real difference!)
I clean my skin with rosewater (from the food store, CHEAP, fragrant and made frmo distilled water and rose leaves, nothing else, and food grade, feels reassuring, and after some extra virgin walnut oil (it was scary expensive, but still cheaper than other acne creams I've tried). I found a cheaper walnut oil that was made from and expellationprocess, and it wasn't called extra virgin and I have no idea if it was cold pressed. But I wonder: do you think an oil like coconut or walnut could work for external use even if heated/ not extra virgin? Then I could save the more expensive stuff for eating which would make more sense.
I do use schampoo, cuz I dunno what to do instead? THey are schampoos and conditioners from Lush. I also use a little soap under my arms - and the soap contains only one of the no-no stuff, and only small amount, I only use it when I feel I need it. On my body I use coconut oil on wet skin. Works fine.
I was training a few times, I do pretty gentle training at the moment. When I work machines I notice that my stamina is not the same, even if I fill up on small doses of OJ+OO like every 10-15 minutes. The muscles kind of feels a bit more weak. And also with energy management, today, the day after, I don't feel any spikes or lows but I am really hungry all the time, feeling that exercise will make me more hungry.
I also have a small dilemma: after meat/fish you should ideally wait 2-3 hours before eating fruit, so what to do when you lose energy and get mad hunger while waiting?? That's my situation. I solved it with first some cucumber, tomato and avo and then later some honey water and some OJ without pulp and oj. But I tried to wait as long as possible to give the meat and yolks time to digest.
Ok long post. I feel kind of happy. The yolks work wonders for me. I can sleep, feel tired at night and it is easy to get up in the morning. And my anxiety and disposition for getting feelings of hopelessness, unhappiness, or just less joy is going away. That's why I feel reluctant also to deny my body those yolks. I guess I am striving on, happy with the improvements of my skin (no itches, rashes, no feeling of having an outer layer that feels like a dry mask while at the same time creating a liquid oily surface during the day or night. it feels supple! The acne which is of course a small problem, is not worse and easier to tolerate when the rest of the skin feels so much better. Besides, I noticed that my body has pushed out lots and lots of small hard granulas of tallow over these two last weeks.. On my back it was crazy, it was litterallly falling out like small grains of sand! And also some on my face, so I guess even at this level the diet will have a small effect also on my acne, if the build up lessens? I hope so anyway.
Ok, that's it for now. Too many questions happened to get baked in here.. Well I can try to split them up in other threads. I just wanted to tell how my diet is going on.
