CRONO-O-Meter & Day 6

 have been using the coolest program to track my calories and nutritional targets.
It's called CRON-O-Meter and it is FREE!
The only drawback I have found is that it is not web based so you have to download the program to your computer.
You can download it for free and read more about it at:
http://cron-o-meter.en.softonic.com/

I have been doing this to make sure I get enough calories.  I have been amazed at how much food I need to eat in order to get enough calories while doing the low far raw vegan diet (LFRV).  My goal is to get between 3000 and 3500 calories a day, which is crazy to me.  In the past when trying to lose weight I have cut back to 2000 calories a day and that has been effective, but I was always hungry.  With the LFRV diet I am never hungry unless of course I wait to long to eat.  I have been trying to get 1000 calories for breakfast and eat about 3-4 additional meals.
As hard as it is for me to believe I have already lost a noticable amount of weight eating over 3000 calories a day.
I will take some new pics this wekend and maybe post my before pics and the new ones..
I have included a screen capture of my CRON-O-Meter for today.
It is almost 9pm and I may eat a little something else before bed but it will give you a general idea of how much I am eating.

I am aiming for 80 percent of calories from carbs, 10 percent from fat and 10 percent from protein.
I have had a hard time hitting my protein every day because I have not been eating my greens like I am supposed to.  I will go buy some tomorrow and get back to that.
If anyone has a good low fat raw vegan salad dressing recipe let me know.

The Dirty Dozen ... and Day 3

I saw this the other day and thought it was interesting. It's a handy list of least and most pesticide-containing produce. I used to think things with tougher peels / wrapping were "cleaner" but not so - some just don't get pests (like onions) and don't require pesticides.


The EWG, a nonprofit environmental research organization, calls the 12 fruits and vegetables that carry the most pesticide residue "the dirty dozen." These include (in order of most residue to least): peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, kale, lettuce, imported grapes, carrots, and pears.

The EWG's "clean 15," the fruits and vegetables with the least pesticide residue, are (in order of least residue to most): onions, avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, mangoes, asparagus, sweet peas, kiwifruits, cabbages, eggplants, papayas, watermelons, broccoli, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes. Grapefruit is number 16. Oranges and tangerines, staples of midwinter, fall midway on the list of the 47 fruits and vegetables tested.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says organic is cleaner but takes care to point out that "measured residues on most products, both organic and nonorganic, do not exceed government-defined thresholds for safe consumption.".... whatever that means

When it comes to foodborne illness, organic isn't immune, as the 2006 outbreak of E. coli in organic bagged spinach proved. Contamination is all about who or what touches the produce along the way. Distribution of mass-produced foods will spread a tainted batch far and wide, while small farms have a narrower reach. Organic food can't be irradiated, a controversial technique approved to kill pathogens in some foods, or genetically modified, a practice whose long-term safety is unknown.

Read more at Wholeliving.com: Fresh Thinking: How to Shop for Fruits and Vegetables
 
 
 
 
I am in day three od my 100 day low fat raw vegan experiment.  I feel pretty good so far.  I have done this is in the past for up to 15 days...  As before I have a slight sore throat going into day 3.  Last time I went for longer than 4 days the sore throat lasted about 4 days and went away. I also have sinus and ear drainage.  I have been coughing up alot of mucus and I am starting to breath better.  The best thing is I look like I have lost weight already!
Pics are coming soon..

100 Days

I have been inspired by tv.  People say tv is useless, but I have to disagree.
I saw a comercial for the TNT Network and it inspired me...
The comercial os for their 100 days of drama... now don't think I want 100 days of drama.
In the comercial they say you can do alot in 100 days...that's what inspired me.

I am commiting to 100 days of a low fat raw vegan diet to improve my health and to be honest my appearance.  I have been really bad lately, eating lots of junk.  I feel like crap and I am getting fat!  I am currently the heaviest I have been in over 15 years.  I was 240 at my heaviest..I am 190 now... not super heavy but way heavier than I like to be.

I have gone back and forth with this way of eating for about 2 years.  I go for a few days then fall off.  I have used all kinds of excuses... 
For the next 100 days there will be no excuses, no trying, ... just doing!

I guess we will see how it changes my life... if it does.

I will be posting pics soon... I'm too embarassed to post my before pics right now!