What I Eat in A Day, Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 Years
Wow, I can’t believe that I am a Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 Years and this is the first official What I Eat in a Day video I have ever done!!
Sure I have done other videos that show a day in the life and also share what I ate in the day but not a focused What I Eat in a Day Video, I hope you enjoy it! 🙂
This first What I Eat in a Day, as a Low Fat Raw Vegan of 12 years, takes place at my parent’s home in Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada just before getting ready to head to Europe for all of the amazing Raw Food Festivals held this summer!!
Learn More about all the Raw Food Festivals of 2016 Here! 🙂
As a disclaimer I want to mention that this is a what I eat in a day as a low fat raw vegan of 12 years. Generally, I eat 2 big meals a day, it wasn’t always this way in fact when I am coaching people on the raw lifestyle I often recommend starting with 3-5 meals a day to make it easier to get enough calories without overburdening the digestive system. Do note that I offer Personalized 1 on 1 consultation in a basic Q&A style format by Donation as well as more in-depth holistic lifestyle coaching packages for $250.00 Monthly or $600 for 3 months. Learn More Here!
Into the Food for the Day, June 14th, 2016!
To start my day I had about 2 cups of reverse osmosis water, my first choice would be quality spring water but for me reverse osmosis or distilled is another great choice. I drink when thirsty and eat when hungry, this seems overly simple but in reality, most people do not differentiate between the two. Eating a high water content raw food diet decreases my water needs, that said a certain level of hydration is needed for optimal digestion and absorption.
My first food of the day was at 11:30 am I had 1.5 lb of fresh Okanagan Bing Cherries, so good. I followed those up with 2 Black Forest Jelly Rolls and 3 Black Forest Cinnamon Buns..
Yes, all raw and all vegan…
Boy, this raw food thing is hard!! ahah
As an aside, I do not generally eat fancy dehydrated sweet lunches like this, often it’s simply a banana smoothie, but this is what I had pre-made for a party and it didn’t finish in time.. so I had a lot!
This Black Forest Rolls recipe is based on my
Best Raw Cinnamon Buns Recipe Here.
*** The only difference is that I added Carob Powder to the Plantain Mixture, about 3 tbsp or to taste, I reduced the water in the date Paste recipe and added 1 cup of cherries, and I didn’t add “icing”! 🙂 ***
I ended up eating a bit more than I needed at this meal as it was very dense being over 2000 calories between the cherries and the rolls. That said it was an amazing treat of a meal and I don’t sweat little stuff like that as I know weight gain and loss is about what we do most of the time, not 1 meal.
A few hours later I went skateboarding for about 1.5 hours in the mid-day heat and drank just shy of 2 liters of water.
When I got home I only had 10 minutes till I had to be at my sister’s ready to go to the new X-Men Apocalypse movie so I decided to make a big smoothie for dinner. The smoothie had 15.5 bananas and 2 heaping tbsp of Barley Grass Juice Powder.
I drank it in the theater like a bad kid! haha
In the video, I show the breakdowns from my day using Cronometer.com, a great resource to get a general understanding of your needs, how many calories/nutrients are in certain foods and meals you love, and more! I do not recommend obsessing over such data, feeling a need to meet certain values every meal or day, but rather using it as a h