Aytundra's Diary (not Wai diet)

[Aytundra]

July 26, 2014 (Day 3, & Volumes of Stanzas)
0.5 thickmembranepeeledoranges (tasted like a salad)
2 oranges (325ml) garlicpresserpressedorangejuice 45min

250ml8tbspsugarwater

1 cup centrifuge juicer OJ***
1 sip (20ml?) of garlicpresserpressedorangejuice
1 sip (20ml?) of plastic hold orange and press OJ
1 sip (20ml?) of plastic clamp OJ without peel in presser
1 sip (20ml?) of plastic clamp OJ with peel in presser
[I posted pics of my OJ and pressers in the juicer thread: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1204&start=75]

250mlwater~ 5.5tbsp remaining
250mlwater~ 3.5tbsp remaining
1 Bartlett pear sans peel
75 blueberries (counting visually now. i made a grid of three 25 blueberries, dime! )
1 Red delicious apple sans peel
1 yolk
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***(blah, tasted blended, with bitter after taste on tongue. The taste was so bad, that I will never ever touch that juicer again. I peeled 2 oranges, intended for the centrifuge juicer and abandoned the project midway because the taste was too disgusting.)
[The remaining peeled oranges, plus another 1 orange with peel, was used to test other juicers.]
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Written from the perspective of Day 4's morning:

Yesterday, day 3, three days skipping cooked dinners.
Waking from day 1 and 3.
I can feel every tiny cell of my featherlight frame, awake, alive and talking.
Instantly springing from bed. I woke at 7 this morning.

Without the usual weight of cooked dinner.
I sleep a little hungry.
I wake like a wolf ready for breakfast.
I watch others sluggishly munch their toast and bread, as I gush pineapples and oranges.

I've never really skipped a cooked dinner in my life.
Maybe a few odd days when I was sick.
Even then I had hot cooked oatmeal or rice and a bit of fruit on those sick days.
About 2 days 100% raw. Does steamed egg count on day 1? Do slow cooked foods count? What is 100%?

Day 3's morning was a bit different
I had walked for about 4 hours on day 2, and my leg muscles were tense on waking. Muscles felt tired like as if I had went skiing.
That night I dreamed of eating kettle chips. Gasp! What a nightmare. If I dreamed of eating junk food? Did I break any rules? Have I sinned?
Social aytundra has been rendered to live and eat in a subconscious mind.
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Huh?
Where is all the garbage?
and volume?

16 stanzas, a volume of words, a volume of humor, and a dreamed chaos.
Day 3, increased a variety of foods, and possibly their nutrients.
Is this enough garbage and volume?

[Aytundra]

July 26, 2014 (Day 4)
25 blueberries
1 sliced orange

1 sliced orange
1 tomato

1 sliced orange

2 yolks
1 sliced orange

50 cherries
2 peaches
14 pieces of salmon sushi (fish = 14 x 1cm X 1cm x 2.5cm) (+ rice, seaweed, ginger, wasabi, the little bits that goes with it but no soya sauce.)**
250ml water
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**So I broke some rules. rice et al. but everything else other than the fish entry was raw.
- Sliced oranges takes 10min/orange to eat. Much quicker.

[RRM]

What volume are you referring to? Volume of words, volume of humour, volume of chaos, volume of foods, volume of nutrients...?

Nutrients; with energy (kcal) at #1.

[Aytundra]

Nutrients; with energy (kcal) at #1.

Funny, that you picked that volume.
I have a story for that volume:

On day 1,2,3
I was like, hey I can survive with so few fruits and sugar.
I seriously wanted to ask: "Why do you guys juice like 20+ oranges?" "For calories?"
My sugar water takes care of that, no dizziness, no lack of energy. Maybe a little hungry at the end of day, but I will attribute that to the lack of a big dinner.

Then on day 4 when I didn't spike diet with sugar I was like, I am hungry every hour.
It felt like I was having a deja vu each time I sliced oranges, as if I had done it already.
I was losing count of how many oranges I ate. Did I eat 2 or 1, am I on my 4th orange or 3rd orange?
I had to recall the surroundings and people that I ate around to count properly.
To make it confusing the Others were doing the exact same thing in the exact same chairs, reading newspaper, when I ate oranges.
I think I had to recall the newspaper segment, and the other foods I paired the orange with in order to place myself. [ I just had a tomato so this is 3rd orange. I just had yolks so this is 3rd orange but wait I had one orange without a pair, so this is 4th orange.]

Anyways. After the 4th orange I was like, there is no possible way for me to have a diet that is mainly on oranges (plus I will go insane counting), 4 oranges is my current upper daily tolerance. Nutritionally that would be enough to cover folate, beyond that I would have to eat volumes of oranges...which is currently impossible at my current tolerance level.

So I broke down* and ran to a store and stocked up on other fruits.
*(decided not to survive on an orange heavy diet| OJ,Y,F | quite hard for a beginner.)

[Aytundra]

July 27, 2014 (Day 5)
2 peaches

2 peaches

1 orange
1 tomato
2 peaches
1 banana
125 raisins

2 yolks
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Nutrients; with energy (kcal) at #1.

Okay, how did I do today? What is missing?
Today's puzzle: Find the missing item(s)! - by fun aytundra [Super hard level] (You may need upside down answers!)

[Aytundra]

I think I over saturated myself with sugar yesterday. 125 raisins (exact, I counted, it was half of the raisins I needed on the calculator)
My stomach was acidic on waking, as if I can feel the fibrous grains of raisins sloshing in my intestines. That subsided an hour later.
I also had a horrible toothache when I woke up this morning, on the left back molars.
I didn't have any food debris stuck in my mouth. So it is not like June 24, 2014, viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3558&start=90

I ate a piece of wasabi to distract the toothache, that relieved it for 30min. Not to remove mouth bacteria, but just to distract pain, you know those little random ideas you learn in psychology class, another pain will distract another pain...well that worked.

I don't think it is bacteria or acid in mouth.
I think there is an internal cause of toothache.
I am guessing too much sugar or acid not metabolized within my system.
I would have to increase raisins slowly.
I have actually not thought of acclimatizing to raisins, but now it joins, sugar, banana, orange and raisin on my to do list.

Random thoughts on sugar and water:
sugar needs water to process metabolically.
sugar without water at the time of intake, means your body probably has to draw on internal sources of water to process.
not enough internal sources of water, might mean sugar not processed, acid forms maybe.
sugar should be consumed with enough external water to help break it down.
raisins are sugary, external water should be taken with it.
bread, carbohydrates are sugary, external water should be taken with it.
sugarwater should not be over saturated with sugar.
sugar should dissolve comfortably with water. Hot water oversaturates sugar in water. Hot coffee and tea probably have too much sugar:water.
sugarwater should be paired with other fruits, more external water, and vitamins to process sugar.

how does that link to my teeth? me thinks my metabolic system does not have enough resources currently to solve acidic or pain issues, because all resources were drawn to break down excess sugar. I guess I have to wait for my system to reset itself. Wishful thinking. All logical thoughts written above might not be accurate or true. They are thoughts of desperation, to explain a pain.

It currently hurts now, writing does not help relieve pain.

[Aytundra]

July 28, 2014 (Day 6)
125 raisins

1 tomato, peeled, seeds removed
7 egg whites steamed

1tsp of wasabi
500ml water

2 yolks
1 banana

2 peaches

50 cherries
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Toothache subsided this morning on the 29th, can feel traces of it but not horrible as in yesterday. Sleep works, but hard to fall asleep when it was painful.

[RRM]

Okay, how did I do today? What is missing?

Too much fibre, in my opinion. That's a burden.
Too little energy; just 1300 kcal.
Due to the lack of volume, many nutrients are low.

[Aytundra]

July 29, 2014 (Day 7)
1 banana
1 orange

1 banana
2 yolks
1 banana
25 raisins

5 pieces of salmon 4cm x 8cm x 1cm, with 1 tbsp size of ginger

3 peaches
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This is not the way to do a Chi Square, Statistics humor:
nsum i=1{[(Observedi - Expectedi )^2]/Expectedi}= (Expected = Needs 2 more peaches, 2 more tomatoes, and some more cherries.+ sugar & water)

[Oscar]

Moar food!

[Aytundra]

Moar food!

Agrees! I gave her "moar food" today. - Rebellious Crave aytundra
I am back did you guys miss me? - social aytundra
I don't think she was too happy with the cooked foods I fed her. Her brain got foggy immediately after eating. - aytundra's mind
Hey Oscar, thanks for stopping by, but you just saw the end of this week's performance. i live in suburbia now. Planting trees in the city was fun. - raw aytundra
But I guess it can be read as: 'You want an encore of a Wai week?' - fun aytundra
That is being planned, she will have to increase her fruit volume first, "raisins, plus maybe mango or avocado, or olives... or the dreaded dates", for now it will be a hybrid diet (timeshare with cooked foods social aytundra) - acclimatize aytundra

July 30, 2014
2 tomatoes
250ml8tbspsugarwater
250mlwater~ 6.5tbsp remaining
250mlwater~ 4.5tbsp remaining
1 pear
1 orange
1 cooked sauce drenched pork rib
1 breaded baked scallop
1 rice
250mlwater~ 2.5tbsp remaining
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Quick Summary of the 1 week:
- at the end of the week, hair smells really nice and skin is overall smoother. (Iris vinegar initially did not smell good, but made hair silkier.)
- I did get 1 small pimple on day 6, I don't know why or how that appeared.
- eating frequently is time consuming
- food price can be pricy on sushi and cherries, and maybe peaches; $ price of each food item = ~2 dozen cartons of eggs
- oranges were ad libitum, but got boring midway, mind monotony, probably from repetitive motion strain on preparing oranges
- energy was totally awesome the first day, exercise/walking drains it, and raisins avoid them in the evenings those fibers don't help with sleep and waking with energy.
- cherries are nice, they are my favourite to count and eat. I used the red and yellow rainier cherries exclusively, they are worth it for the taste.
Can't wait to repeat this experiment!

[Aytundra]

July 31, 2014
2 yolks

1 orange

4 pieces of pork cooked in some sauce
1 rice

100 raisins
1 orange
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I think my body does not like too much raisins all at once. I woke up 2 hours later today (compared to one of those perfect experiment Days), felt kind of tired on waking, had acidic taste to the saliva. I have not brushed them yet this morning. Not surprised at taste, because when I finished the munching or raisins last night, there was an acidic after note to saliva, probably from excess sugar. No undigested raisin feelings from stomach. One of my left bottom molars winced after I finished the raisins, and had felt an acidic after taste emanating from the last few raisins. It could be my imagination. I did not add water. I don't think it is fiber. I think it is the sugar. Random story I just remembered. I remember a friend told me once, that she never got identified with cavities after a dental visit. I asked her how, and she said 2 weeks before a dental visit don't eat candy. I don't know how much truth is in that statement I think she said that when we were just past elementary school. Anecdotal story, she may have just had strong enamels.

Do excess sugar all at one time affect teeth?
Or is it something else in raisins that raise the acidity or indirectly affects acidity?
Or is there another variable, i.e. I ate cooked foods...? (Try Wai Days again just to test raisins?)

Oh and more notes for Wai Days:
- Cooked foods leave more meat residue between teeth than compared to Wai Days. Floss captures more gunk with cooked foods. Flossing on Wai Days I did not see that much stuff on the thread.
- Funny the day I had sushi, a very small piece of fish was stuck behind my back molars, like 2mm x 1mm x 0.25mm, when I pulled it out I think it might have been the next day, it looked kind of cooked as in the fibers of protein were fiber-ing and loosing the smooth raw texture.
- I also noticed on the salmon day, a piece of sashimi that was sitting near the lemon looked more like cooked fibers, I was like did they sell me something that was cooked or spoiled?!, or was it just the lemon that caused that? The salmon was probably boxed for a whole day on their fridge, so I am not surprised if the lemon acted on the fish. Have you guys ever seen that with your fish? acid + fish = fibers of protein looks cooked?

[Aytundra]

August 1, 2014
1 pear

4 oranges

1 chaos*
contained: pieces of sushi, food, soup, veggies and cooked meat: raw salmon, raw avocado, rice, spicy sauce, ginger, seaweed, fried stuff on shrimp, pork, cooked rice, tea grain based, 1 piece of candy, slices of cakes with bits of strawberries, cheese cake avec bits of blueberries, peaches (Aurora and the escargot, oh oops, have to restart that game's level...it's okay I beat the game once, I can probably finish the mango edition of Aurora-escargot game.).
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*(not too bad of a stormy chaos, I found a place and tested some grounds. I tried avocados tiny bits rolled with salmon, it is not too strange when you let the other side break all your rules, they compromise and refuse, and you are left with the better food, because simply their chosen food only satisfies them.)
After (the) rain in the rainforest, the forest floor quickly becomes damp. You leave the crystal lake, and leave a muddy trail behind you, you leave footprints as big as big foot, and wave to the ogopogo lochness behind you. Goes to the jungle. What do you do there? How do you solve a problem? This storyline is getting pretty messy (I am sure all of you are lost reading this diary. This is not LOST.), but I guess the goal is to find the mango and the dates and reintroduce them to the shipwreck that was left at the shores. Maybe a zebra and a lion can help, but Madagascar I am stuck.

---This post contains tv references, and literature monster references, and literature references; on top of my in diary storyline, so don't feel bad if it is probably a little harder to read, but it is quite funny. I think I write better (or more complicated) on a cooked foods diet. I just have more to say. What can I say?

[dime]

Have you tried to soak raisins for a little while before eating them?

[Aytundra]

Have you tried to soak raisins for a little while before eating them?

Today's Experiment
Materials: 250ml glass jar, 250ml distilled water, 25 raisins (sundried, no oil, SunMaid), 3 hours of soaking
Steps: 1) Fill 250ml jar with 250ml water; 2) drop 25 raisins in the jar; 3) wait 3 hours; 4) Eat and write down taste, feelings and rxns to eating raisins.
Observations:
- Raisins stirred in water released wisps of sugar like reflections of light within the water, just like granulated sugar dissolving in water.
- On sipping the water, I was surprised it was not sweet. I thought it would be sweet, since I saw the wisps dissolving.Wrong guess!
- Raisin water tasted mildly bitter (reminds me of tea).
- Raisins in the jar looked pretty. Reminds me high school osmosis experiments. Except one raisin had a tear on it's skin showing the white fluffy flesh of the raisin; I was disgusted at the look of that, it looked like those fungal growth in a fish tank, like when you put too much fish food in the fish tank. I was like did they dry a fungal growth-ed raisin? Would it be safe to eat? I scooped it out, peeled the skin off a bit, it did not appear to be fungal growth, just that the raisin flesh was a bit broken, and probably that was why it had the fluffy look inside the jar. I ate it.
- Raisins looked plumper
- Raisins were pliable when I peeled a few of them.
- Some peeled raisins had seeds! (Imagine if I had to peel 250 of them for taste aytundra! Raisins are off my food list right now.)
- Raisins rolled in mouth and not chewed, had no sugar taste, but a mild bitter tea taste, the raisin skin probably acted as a strong barrier.
- Chewed raisins tasted very sweet, and released only when chewed. Chewed raisins had an acidic aftertaste in mouth. This might mean swallowed raisins will sit in intestines and decompose there if it was not chewed thoroughly and I imagine it might acidify the intestines as it decomposes.
- Eating the last of the slightly plumper raisins and drinking the 250ml water immediately after dinner time with other foods. I wanted to vomit, at the taste of the raisin water. But anyways, I finished the jar of raisins and the water, and then I got diarrhea like 10 minutes later (but it could be from other foods I ate in the day).

August 2, 2014
chaos fruit cheesecake

6 pieces of pork dumplings
more fruit cheesecake

2 pears

25 raisins
3 pieces of pork cooked in watery sauce
1 rice
250ml raisin water
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1 messy poo immediately after raisin water (or it could be the restaurant from yesterday, or the cheesecakes, or the cooked foods)
wow 1 week of wai, and I am allergic to foods? hahaha...nervously...Do I have to acclimatize myself back to cooked foods? Did I decrease too much of my IgGs that takes care of peptides in diary or wheat? or am I simply disagreeable to raisins?

Picks raisins as the scapegoat - because my fish tank reminds me that it is always good to feed fish only what they can eat and not more, as that will mess up the fish tank. It also reminds me that pH (acidity), nitrates nitrites, food debris, fungal growth, filter, salinity...etc all needs to be in careful balance. [Sorry raisins, you did not make it past the auditions stage to my menu! ]

Thank you fish tank!