Raw Vegan Diet - Too many snacks

Today I've been fasting all day, my last meal was yesterday at around 8:30pm or so – a huge bowl of banana ice cream with dates and powdered peanut butter. I find myself always indulging in sweet fruits and nuts and I firmly believe that this is what jeopardies my weight maintenance, together with a lack of a strict eating plan.

Good news though is that in the past 3 days I've been going to the gym every day, actually twice a day. Since I worked from home, I had the chance to wake up a bit later and go to the gym in my building for half hour of thread mill and weight machines, nothing crazy but I'm trying to be disciplined with my exercise routine, I even went once to GoodLife gym for my favourite class and 10 minutes of steam room – it was great I'd admit it.

Overall I feel great, the scale went up almost every day since I completed my 7-Day Water Fast. Something might be a normal reaction of ending the fast, something else is due to the extra snacks I'm having here and there for sure. In my defense I would say that being home bored all day doesn't actually help on staying strict on diet. Even if I'm working I should find an activity that keeps me busy in the moment my cravings are hard to control, I should do proactive things like cleaning or knitting, that might help.

I was debating of having a fruit salad today for lunch, but I'm glad I didn't so I can save those calories for tonight's supper and dessert. I'm thinking to do a similar thing tomorrow, since I'm supposed to have a dinner date in the evening. Yesterday for breakfast I prepared some wraps using the one I bought at the healthy store last week, I think I ate 6 of them including a seaweed one, it was too much for breakfast; although delicious the amount of calories for each one was excessive for a single meal.

Few days ago I soaked some cashews thinking on doing a creamy sauce for my salads but I still didn't use it, I'm afraid they will go bad if I don't do anything with it. There are a lot recipes with cashews, I can even do some energy bars with dates and a pinch of pink salt; but really I don't need any extra snacks that I don't have already in my overly full cabinet! Most likely I'll do a sauce and use it for dinner tonight.

One Week after my Water Fast

It's been one week now since I completed my Water Fast and my refeeding process is done too, successfully I would say. I did not experience any issue with my stomach, my BMs are optimal and regular; my weight is being ok so far. Yesterday I noticed that I basically release with my BMs what I ate 3/4 days ago. So some of the weight I gained is due to some water retention and food in my digestive system / colon, which is a normal and expected behaviour.

So far my Raw Vegan Diet is going extremely well, I feel blessed every time I have my huge salad with everything in it, from greens to tons of delicious fruits, I absolutely love it. Today I am supposed to receive my spiralizer so I can start to create more variations for my salads, adding zucchini and cucumbers in a more fun way, enjoying more vegetables to maintain under control my weight as well.

During my lunch break today I went to Winners to buy some Buckwheat but I could not find it, I bought instead Organic Shelled Hemp Seeds; I never had Hemp Seeds in my life I think, and I read online that they are really healthy and with an amazing nutty flavour, so I'm really looking forward on creating my own pesto recipe without using pinenuts, not that I don't like pinenuts or anything – quite the opposite – but I want to try to keep my fat content as low as I can, till my weight is stabilized. I also bought a little bag of Organic Raw Dark Chocolate Nibs and some pitted organic dates (which I already indulged in at lunch having four of them as my dessert).

I watched a lot of YouTube videos of Raw Vegan Vloggers and read few articles about this type of Diet, what I need to do is to create a good 80/10/10 ratio of what I eat, trying to avoid fruits for dinner and having a big salad with anything I want in it, which I'm totally fine and happy to do it anyway. I noticed that most of the people tend to eat mostly fruits in a Raw Vegan Diet, but they also do a lot of exercises or workout activities to consume and earn their own carbs-fruits amount. Sometimes, watching those videos, I really think: WTH!! Is there anyone on YouTube and in the Raw Vegan community that actually has a 9-to-5 job?! Every video that I watch is from a girl that seems having nothing to do during the day that going to the gym or checking Facebook and emails on her computer; nobody that has a regular commute or wake up at 5:00 AM to get ready and go to work? Or unable to come back for lunch and cook for half hour?! WTH!!?! Sorry for my vent but I don't think I am the odd one here, most of the people in the world have a regular daily job, without having always time to spend two hours in the gym and cooking!