* How do you eat your greens? Do you eat them mono everyday?
* How much greens do you eat daily? Do you always eat them daily?
* How long have you been 100% low fat raw vegan?
* What is your favourite green and why?
* Do you have odourless bowel movements everyday?
* Do you "crave" greens?
* When did you last have salt, excito-toxins, spices?
* How many calories a day do you eat?
Ok ok i know a lot of questions there! Please I would love to explore this more :-)
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I take one pound per day. I take them every day.
I have been intentionally low fat for about 10 weeks and unintentionally low fat prior to that.
I am sticking to mild greens and some spinach right now because I have increased my intake and want to get used to the larger amount. I hope to add wild dandelion greens shortly.
I have 4 or 5 bowel movements daily but am not convinced that they are or should be odourless.
I never crave anything but think that I would not feel satisfied if I did not have greens daily.
I have not had salt for years and had some curry powder in flax crackers about 4 months ago.
I aim for 1800 calories per day and mostly succeed.
2) usually 1-1.5 lbs on avg., sometimes don't have any for days, sometimes more.. last weekend I had 4.5 lbs on sunday
3) over 12 months
4) changes, right now I like romaine, baby swiss chard, baby russian kale, celery
5) hmm dunno
6) I often do crave greens yes
7) honestly can't remember, green onions in september? seaweed last june?
8) aim for at least 3500 or more when active
Green smoothie: 1/2 lb spinach and 6-8 bananas in the a.m.
HUGE salad (about 3 heads of romaine at nite (last meal of the day) with tomatoes..lemon juice.
* How much greens do you eat daily? Do you always eat them daily?
I don't always have them daily, but I do aim for it.
* How long have you been 100% low fat raw vegan?
Vegan- 9 years. LFRV- few months, but I was LFRV for 6 months last year. and then on and off.... Here to stay now.
* What is your favourite green and why?
Favorite green is Kale...but it doesn't love me as much as I love it unless juiced. Spinach is.
* Do you have odourless bowel movements everyday?
Odorless bowel movements....yes yes yes. Quick and easy too. I feel a difference when I don't get enough water.
* Do you "crave" greens?
Yes
* When did you last have salt, excito-toxins, spices?
Few months ago.
* How many calories a day do you eat?
Average 2800-3500
mono or salad. sometimes i like to wrap bananas and dates in romaine or put dates in celery (if that counts as a green)
* How much greens do you eat daily? Do you always eat them daily? I used to eat about 1lb+ without fail (on my longest stint of 811, too), now I usually just eat whatever size salad I am craving or whatever I have time for. I rarely go a day without greens.
* How long have you been 100% low fat raw vegan? Two weeks, but I was doing a lot of greens on my two month stint (I had a couple of months of occasional cooked food eating due to wisdom teeth extractions and craving savory foods like crazy.. and i couldn't chew greens)
* What is your favourite green and why?
Celery, romaine, iceburg.. they are yummy. spinach sometimes.
* Do you have odourless bowel movements everyday?
Yes.. I've never seen an increase of odor with greens. seems odd.
* Do you "crave" greens?
Yes
* When did you last have salt, excito-toxins, spices?
over two weeks ago, when i last had cooked food.
* How many calories a day do you eat?
I don't count anymore, but I get enough. My stomach is amply stretched and I always have fuel.
* How much greens do you eat daily? Do you always eat them daily? No. Freelee's post made me feel better about this. I've been having a hard time getting my greens because I'm not craving them nor do I care greatly for them. Feel better that I'm not crazy for not eating them daily.
* How long have you been 100% low fat raw vegan? Raw last 2 months. Working on 99% lfrv the past two weeks.
* What is your favourite green and why?
Celery or green lettuce. Easy to shear. I find celery slightly salty which sometimes cuts the sweetness of fruit if needed.
* Do you have odourless bowel movements everyday?
Yes. Defecate many times a day. All odorless.
* Do you "crave" greens?
No
* When did you last have salt, excito-toxins, spices?
Last week.
* How many calories a day do you eat?
2100ish. Working on increasing.
I always eat them mono and I eat them everyday.
* How much greens do you eat daily? Do you always eat them daily?
I eat them at least once a day, sometimes 2 or even 3 times a day though. I guess it depends on what all you consider "Greens".
* How long have you been 100% low fat raw vegan?
6 months
* What is your favourite green and why?
Lettuce!!! I like it because it's not sweet (like fruits) and it's not bitter either (like a lot of vegetables) I mainly like it for the jaw exercise that I get from it. I spend about an hour a day just chewing on lettuce or sometimes celery.
I stay away from things like Broccoli because they just don't taste very good to me.
* Do you have odourless bowel movements everyday?
Yes, and I'm 100% convinced that all I would have to do is start eating some "Flax Crackers" every once in a while for this to completely change.
* Do you "crave" greens?
Well, sometimes if I have spent several days eating a lot of dates or bananas I will start to crave something that isn't so sweet, and since greens aren't sweet they are perfect for me on those occasions, however, I don't think that I really experience "cravings" for greens. I buy a lot of greens when I go shopping, but the main reason that I buy them in such large amounts is because I feel that they're healthy and that it's "the right thing to do".
* When did you last have salt, excito-toxins, spices?
I was still consuming "Seaweed" and even "Cacao" up until sometime last summer, so it has been about 8 months now I believe.
* How many calories a day do you eat?
4,000 or more.
Denise 5.5 years is quite an achievement! Well done girl :)
I'm just curious on your profile you say you have dietary practices that don't fit in with 811, what are they exactly?
2) 3 bunches of celery (6 cups juice)
3) 3 months
4) celery, salty flavor
5) after 28 days on whole blended pineapple and celery juice i am still pooping out some nasty smelling stuff, can't imagine where the body stores this crap...
6) yes I crave them
7) 2 months ago, continued eating it for 1 month on LFRV diet
8)1600-2000
I eat them in banana smoothies almost daily, and I eat them after my navel oranges at dinner almost daily. If by mono you mean just greens and nothing else, then I never eat them mono.
* How much greens do you eat daily? Do you always eat them daily?
I don't measure. I stuff as much as I can into my 640z banana smoothie when I am having smoothies. When I am having them with dinner, it depends on how much room I have left. I am guessing that I average somewhere around half a pound to a pound a day.
* How long have you been 100% low fat raw vegan?
About 7 months.
* What is your favourite green and why?
Toss up between spinach and romaine.
* Do you have odourless bowel movements everyday?
Pretty much. I'll catch a whiff of something every now and then.. :-)
* Do you "crave" greens?
I don't think i crave them, but I do find that there are times when I enjoy them more than other times.
* When did you last have salt, excito-toxins, spices?
There was accidentally a little salt in the guacamole I ordered at a restaurant on Sunday, and I had a little bit of it before I returned it and made them remake it. Before that it was January when I went to a gourmet raw food restaurant and had a little and was shocked by how sensitive I was to it. Not sure about excitos and spices... There may have been some in that gourmet raw lunch I had..
* How many calories a day do you eat?
I don't count. I wish I had the discipline to. I can guess a little bit because bananas are the major part of my diet, so I guess somewhere around 2500 to 3000 and maybe sometimes up to 3500.
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