calusa

every cell uses glucose for energy as i understand it so you need to eat enough energy. my understanding is that very little protein actually gets converted to glucose even though it contains calories and its an energy intensive process anyway... so better to eat either carbs or fat as an energy source... and i lean towards carbs rather than fat because i get far more energy from eating carbs... and ketogenic diets are really bad for you in the long term average american eats equal amounts of fats vs carbs in terms of total calories, and they aren't too healthy, i think better to lower fat consumption to below 20% and increase carb consumption to above 65% the 80/10/10 crew recon should be at least 80% and there are a few bodybuilders amongst them but i recon they're stupid for mostly being marathon runners and whatnot because fat people don't feel attracted to being skinny they want to be big and muscly with low body fat

16 Dec 08 7:45am 5 oranges 1 grapefruit 10:45 4 fresh dates 2 bananas 6 cobblers pegs leaves 1kg watermelon 1:45 5 olives 1/4 avocado handful cashews tsp tahini 4:00 2.5kg watermelon 6:00 Salad - butterhead lettuce, 3 tomatoes, 1 orange, half an avocado, 6 olives, 1 zucchini 7:00 5 oranges 50g cashews 200g watermelon 10:00 1.25kg watermelon 1:30 2 bananas 1.25kg watermelon 1 apple 3:30 7 oranges 2 bananas 6:30 Large salad- 2 zucchinis, 5 olives, 1/4 avocado, head of bokchoy, 3 roma tomatoes, a few cashews, grated beetroot 1 Tbsp chlorella in water 7:00 Bunch of sit ups, bicep curls, and other movements I don't know the name of. 9:30 handful cashews some olives In the next few days I will be getting some weights for home, but for now I'm just running, hiking, climbing trees, and not really thinking about it but just having fun. Over the last 3 weeks I have definitely increased in muscle mass, definition and strength, without really doing that much, which I'm sort of doing on purpose (the not doing much part) because I don't want to get injured. I've had a few back injuries but everything is progressing nicely. Being able to eat enough food is my main goal right now, and excercise is coming second.

15 Dec 08 7:30am Brisk walk and short sprints 8:00 3 cups watermelon 1 orange 2 bananas handful bean sprouts 9:00 20min bag practice + short sprints Push ups + yoga 1 Tbsp Maca powder in water 10:45 1 cup watermelon 2 apples 2 bokchoy leaves Handful goji berries 11:30 Tbsp coconut meat Half cucumber 3:00 1 cup watermelon 1 orange handful lentil sprouts 7:30 100g baby leafy greens 2 cups watermelon 1 peach 75g alfalfa sprouts 1 Tbsp avocado 1 tomato 1 Tbsp chlorella

181cm/5'11", 62kg/136lbs Goal: Gain 11lbs in 8 weeks. 14 Dec 08 6:00am 3 cups watermelon 2 bananas 3 oranges 10:30am 1 rockmelon 1 cup watermelon 11:45 2 oranges 2:00 2 cups watermelon 2 bananas Juice: 2 carrots, 2 stalks celery 5:45 50g lettuce 6:45 Salad: 3 roma tomatoes 1 zucchini half head butternut lettuce half cucumber sea vegetable Dressing: 1 tomato 1 stalk celery 1 orange 7:30 2 handfuls goji berries 2 spoonfuls raw homous 2 Tbsp flax green tea Sublingual B-12 9:00 3 cups watermelon Training starts tomorrow

Well ppl have covered so many things. Lol. Personally I believe UFO's, communion with spirits, and many other things of possibly higher wavelengths are simply a distraction from our own higher purpose in life (self knowledge anyone?). I see these things as "outer" experiences, and the realization of self as "inner" experience. On a bit of a tangent, when we were little, we found wonder in objects that appear mundane to us now. These object no longer inspire those loving/good feeling in our hearts, and are not important to us. Some we may use for survival or nourishment and therefore still serve their purpose, but many do not and we discard them. So if UFO's serve a purpose, it is good. But really there should be a tangible force that serves the entire humanity without dicrimination imo. Hope this helps some people. P.S. I wanted to talk about the 811 diet, I've been on it for 5 days now, averaging less than 10% calories from fats and protein, and about 82% from carbs. I did a high fruit diet once that had about 35% calories from fat and it was a total disaster. This version of a high fruit diet provides stable blood sugar and energy throughout the day. One of the big things it seams, is limiting your fat intake to a large salad at the end of the day (from nuts, seeds, olives, avocadoes), and it seams to work really well. Most fruits seam to be about 4% calories from fat and same for protein, and some some fruits are like 7% from protein (watermelon). This may be insignificant for someone who want 20-30% from protein, but with this 80/10/10 raw vegan way of eating your getting alot of your protein from fruit, since you're consuming basically as much as you can eat. I have 3 large fruit meals per day, or sometimes 2 meals within an hour and a half and count it as one. The large salad at the end of the day where you eat as much vegies and greens as you can (with small amounts of fatty foods) takes care of the rest of the protein. This diet was developed by a sports nutritionist. I have an audio file of him in an interview where he talks about a basketball player who only had 1 year of pro time left (they said he was too old) and he wanted to perform the best he could for that year, and in that year he played better than at any other time, he was the fittest person on the team, and he also played for 5 more years. You could say this was just coz he cut out cooked carbs or dairy or meat or because he went raw or some other reason. But for now this diet is working wonders for me, so I'll stick with it, and maybe introduce things along the way for a couple days or weaks to see if there's any improvement, like higher than 10% protein by adding blue-green algaes and bean sprouts. -calusa

It's bin a while so I thought I'd let you all know how it's going. It seams I have quite a heavy "karmic burden" you could say. I would have liked to have this dealt with during meditation, but either I'm avoiding it during that time, or it just wasn't meant to be, and therefore it's spilling over into the outside world. There are some tough lessons to learn, ones I have failed to grasp many times previously, mainly concerned with love for fellow humans. This was never a problem for me with ppl I didn't know well or live with (there were no bad thoughts as such, just an intentional distancing to avoid dealing with my lack of love), but with family and close friends it has become a living hell. I know their weaknesses and they know mine, and we are all somewhat evil in nature. True as it may be that ultimately we are all pure at heart, the outer layers are there, and it's a lot of self examination to dismantle them, coupled with actually doing what is right. Often times I will not do the right thing, like stop what I'm doing and physically comfort someone, because I don't trust that person, or don't like that person. Often times I think that I'm entitled to dish out the karma, but in the process I'm creating a hell-like confines for my own soul to live in. What has this got to do with fitness? Not much. I'll do a post about that in the future. Cheers

I noticed you website is down, are you still around? I saw you latest vid on youtube, and I'm sort of half wondering if you have died from eating nothing at all, and half intrigued as to how you manage on such a low calorie intake. You're basically doing just watermelon juice or is it just water? Also you have not mentioned feeding off of spiritual energy or any techniques you use in attaining nourishment without food, except for sunshine and fresh air, and since I'm interested in the best forms of nourishment for the being your input would be greatly appreciated. I'd just like to add that if you just slowly reduced your intake and let your body slowly increase the absorption rate, that you could come pretty close to a nothing-diet. I mean going from experience if I don't eat for a while, when I do, if its easily digestible, is that I immediately gain a lot of energy, and on the flip-side, if eat increasingly larger meals for some time, and then eat a small meal, it is terribly unsatisfying, but after only a few days of lower amounts of food, my body responds and starts absorbing far more. I guess I'll have to try myself as to what level one can achieve. And of course the highest net-gain foods would be required as Bredan would say.

Just thought I'd put in my bit since ppl are still viewing this thread... I've been trying to go 100% raw for months now, with my main temptations being dairy, and starchy foods like pastries and whatnot. It's interesting though how my attitude has changed, I definitely don't look at cooked food as a source of nourishment anymore, but simply a short term means at solving emotional cravings and wanting to be stimulated or to feel sleepy. And I'll always eat something raw to go with it otherwise I'll usually feel a bit sick. My favourite foods right now are olives, avocados, cashews, dulse seaweed, bean sprouts, tomatoes, and watermelon. Fruits are important for me, but only as a source of energy and water when I need it. The rest of the stuff is really satisfying and I don't feel like eating half an hour later which can happen with sweet fruits if I don't mix them with greens and avocados and whatnot.

Sounds good! For me staying raw has always been a bit hard, running out of quality raw food has been my latest downfall. But I always feel 10X better when I'm on it, trouble is just 1 cooked meal makes me feel foggy for at least half a day, and then you sort of feel like eating more cooked food; and then fogginess becomes normal. Oh well each to their own. I'm back to raw from this point on though.. Thanks for the inspiration!

I try to eat raw most of the time, but sometimes I get a sudden urge to eat like toast with tahini and honey for example, and then I start saying to myself, yeah that's a good idea, do it! sure enough 1-2 hours later i feel sluggish and bloated (which is how i always felt before raw food, but thought it was normal). It's hard with family/house-mates who eat a lot of cooked food, but stick with it, it's definitely worth it. Blending, juicing, eating sprouted beans, soaked nuts all help you get in lots of calories and nutrients. I'm like you, I eat heaps of nuts. One thing worth mentioning is to find out what foods you can combine, for me I can't do lots of nuts and dried fruit together, or heaps of different sugary fruits together. Another thing I haven't really tried but a guy called nature-love talks about it, he eats only greens for about 1 hour every day when he gets home from work, and a green juice in the morning. No other food. it's a bit extreme but he's got some serious muscle, which makes me wonder... do we really have diet all worked out? EDIT: interview with nature-love

Drizzle a line of tahini along a peeled banana, followed by a line of honey. Eat with a spoon. You'll want to eat at least 2 or 3 large bananas - it tastes so good

Good stuff, did u have 2 of all the weapons and cut the ends off to give the effects of them going into ya?

Right on!

Here is a video of Tim VanOrden (100% raw) talking about . He's out there running those crazy mountain races, and often coming in the top 5 or 6. He's 40 and up against 19 and 20 year olds. Often times he wins too. I don't know how accurate his knowledge is, but it works for him. Personally I try to get a wide variety of everything - over a few weeks, as long as it's not cooked, and try not to eat more than a couple different foods in the same meal. It makes it easier to digest, and I imagine, to absorb and utilize. One more thing about raw foods, you don't have to sit around waiting for the body to process the food, it happens so quickly. You've got so much more time available to you for whatever!

No not vipassana, rather a technique for meditating on the inner spiritual Light and Sound for the purpose of transcending the physical (outer senses, mind and body) and returning home on this inward and upward flow of primal manifestation, otherwise known as Shabd, Word, Logos, Tao, or Naam by the various scriptures of the world. The technique and existence of the inner states are nothing new, and is simply a connection given by a Saint, to the so-called Master-power, which is in all of us, and is in fact the Shabd itself. It is something handed down over the ages, and active at all points in time. Currently, for the sake of name and form, it's called Sant Mat, and the connection is given by Sant Baljit Singh to all that request it. I suppose I could give a quote from a book called Ocean of Intoxication by Sant Kirpal Singh that explains some of this. So, a Master is God-in-man; do we see that? He does not assert; but He works as Christ, and all other Masters said: "I and my Father are one. It is the Father Who is working through me." He is conscious, all the same. Sometimes Masters have to say Who They are. When one of the disciples said to Christ, "You have been speaking always of the Father. It would suffice us if you would show us the Father." Christ grew indignant over it and said, "I have been so long with you, and you do not know it is the Father working through me?" Then He went so far as to say, "Whoever has seen me, has seen the Father." They are conscious, although They work at the level of the man-body. Masters come from time to time: the world is not without Them, mind that. It is not necessary that They follow the same lineage. No, They may be here, there, everywhere. That Power remains working throughout the world. And wherever that Power is, you will find that He gives you some experience to start with on your inner way. That is the only criterion you can have. But, in due course, you will begin to observe Him within you. The only thing that is required is obedience. Our Master used to say, "Your whole life may be spent in search of a Godman: that very period of search will be counted for devotion. If you come to the right person, with the Grace of God, all your labors will be crowned with success."