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Alright, so I wanted to write an article giving insight to everyone about the potential of a human being on a raw vegan diet. I was debating to even write anything at all concerning myself because I didn’t want to come off as vain or self-centered/attention seeking, but I realized that there are a lot of people out there that may not know that this is possible; Eating a raw vegan diet while building or at the very least maintaining muscle and strength.
A lot of people may just avoid even trying because they think it’s a ridiculous idea or unattainable, but I’m here as proof to whoever is interested that it is 100% possible and to tell you that it feels AMAZING.
I’m going to do to a quick run through some of my history so that people get an idea how this lifestyle came about for me. I hope it helps and I thank you all in advance.
At the end of 2011 I had quite the awakening, many self-realizations that changed my entire view on everything I had known for 24 years prior. This was the initial push to the 100% Raw Organic Vegan diet & lifestyle I live to this day.
The awakening I had toward the end of 2011 lead to many changes in 2012. In 2012 is where I really began making changes, especially with my eating habits.
I began steering toward a vegetarian diet in the very beginning of 2012 and within weeks I felt so much better than I did when I ate meat the previous 24 years. It wasn’t a couple months later and I found myself curious and looking into veganism. I’d think things like ‘If horses, gorillas and the ox are all incredibly muscular and strong animals and they don’t eat dairy or meat, why can’t humans be?
Everything was out of curiosity really. I wasn’t interested because I heard it was great by someone, none of my friends were vegans, no one I thought highly of (that I was aware of) was vegan, it wasn’t to be a hero and save the animals, even though I absolutely love animals and veganism is the best way I can think of to express that love and respect for animals. It was just an urge I had that kept nagging me and I couldn’t ignore it anymore.
I’ve always been curious with diets and willing to experiment with them to know for sure how it effected me instead of just reading up something someone else wrote based on their experience. I remember being 7 or 8 years old, eating breakfast in the morning before school and reading all of the nutritional facts and ingredients on the cereal boxes. I’ve always been curious when it came to what I was putting in my body.
Another thing about 2012 was the first months I went from eating ‘natural’ foods to eating entirely organic and ONLY organic. It wasn’t until the spring of 2012 when I went fully organic vegan.
Within a few weeks of eating entirely vegan the feeling and energy I had was better than all years previous on all diets. Everything about me felt amazing.
Now here’s where the muscle building comes in. Since I was 15 years old, I’ve been lifting weights. In my late teens, early 20s I became interested in bodybuilding. I went to the gym religiously for years. I took it as serious as anyone can possibly take anything. I was above 230lbs of muscle at one point, eating over 6000 calories a day, taking every supplement known to man and I’m not going to lie, I did a few cycles of anabolic steroids between the ages of 18-22. I had a little help with anabolics, but of course none of that stuff works without the basic rules of the body; to gain, consume more calories than you burn and to lose, burn more calories than consumed. Also, going to the gym and giving it your all. You aren’t gaining a thing without the proper exercise and intensity. You can take all the anabolics in the world, but if you slack then it’s going to manifest in your physical shape. I’ve met plenty of people that did anabolic cycles and only gained a couple of pounds in 2 or 3 months because they thought it was going to be some miracle product.
In 2010 I gave up all of the anabolics for good. In 2009 I became addicted to several drugs, one of them being oxycontin in which I was at one point taking 300-400mg daily. I was always consuming plenty of valium, xanax, klonopin, and whatever other pharmaceuticals I could get my hands on. October 18th I quit opiates cold turkey, but I kept doing the rest until about 2011 and then had little flickers of alcohol or drug use on occasion up until 2012 and it wasn’t until July 4th 2012, when i quit everything else for good and have been 100% sober ever since.
Why I’m telling you this is because from 2009-2011 I took time away from lifting, mostly because I was too caught up getting high and so I lost a good 40+ pounds.I took a couple years with barely any gym time, so it’s not as if I began a vegan diet at 230 pounds of muscle and then stripped down. I lost much before I ever began a vegan lifestyle.
Now back to the veganism.
After months of being vegan in 2012, I felt better than i ever had. Everything with my body had changed and so I decided I wanted to go raw. I was gonna try it out, just experiment for the heck of it. It wasn’t weeks later and my energy was higher than ever, my sleep was deeper than ever, my mental state was relaxed more than ever, my anxiety from years before vanished, my sensitivity to all energy expression increased, my visions became clearer, my compassion towards all life grew, stamina and endurance increased, and believe it or not I was pound for pound stronger than I ever was in my life.
I knew from then on that I had every intention to remain raw vegan until the end of my days here on Earth.
Now to the muscle building. Most people’s usual first thought, due to lack of any sort of investigation on Veganism and nutrition, is ‘where will I get protein’ and ‘no one can gain muscle or strength on plants’.
Actually, yes you can and the protein is EVERYWHERE.
Cashews and Almonds have 7 grams of protein per ounce. Sunflower seeds have 7 grams an ounce. Hemp seeds have 11 grams an ounce. Beans (for people that aren’t raw) have anywhere from 12-16 grams per ounce, depending on the bean.
Goji berries are a wonderful fruit that cleanse the blood, increase HGH levels and have 4 grams of protein an ounce.
That’s just to name a few.
Right before I went vegan, after years of eating dairy and meat, I was around 185 pounds at 5’9. A long way down from the 230+ pound days, but I was just beginning again. It was my rebirth in a way. A totally new approach to everything. Of course I had some concern in the back of my mind about whether or not I could keep any good size and strength on a diet of just plants, but I vowed to tough it out and do my best to be an example that it’s possible.
After the first few months I dropped to about 170-175 and it was mostly bloat. It was a bunch of gunk, water retention and all of that from the cheese and meat that was lost.
I thought I was going to keep losing the weight, but surprisingly the lowest I ever got was around 160-165lbs and that was during times of water fasting for spiritual, wisdom, understanding and healing purposes.
Once I was fully into a raw vegan diet, my weight had never changed from the cooked food version of Veganism, but other things did and all for the better.
At around 170lbs, Raw Vegan, I was repping 225, fluctuating around 6 to 8 reps on bench press. This was nothing compared to my past when I weigh 230+, repping 315 for 8 to 10 reps, but this time I was on a totally raw vegan diet & lifestyle; no supplements, no pre-workouts, no chemicals, no vitamin tablets, nothing artificial or man-made, just 100% pure Mother Nature’s raw foods and I say that with my karma on the line and the Universe as my witness.
Not only was I still able to maintain decent strength, but I was also road biking anywhere from 10-20 miles 3 to 5 days a week. I would ride my bike sometimes 5-7 miles to the gym and then workout like this.
To this day my energy levels are so high that I can lift for hours, run, bike, do yoga all in a single day and I’ll still be up beyond midnight with plenty of energy. My recovery speed is through the roof and my sleep is so deep that my body repairs in half the time.
That’s is the incredible part about a raw vegan diet. The food is nothing, but life. Electricity. High Vibration. Pure life force.
The human body uses nearly 50-60% of it’s energy digesting food, elimination of the foods and all of the excess garbage in our air and water now days.
Everything is vibration. Everything in the Universe vibrates; stars, planets, all living creatures and plants, thoughts and even the table you sit at to eat food is vibrating on a molecular level. Everything is just condensed vibration/energy in the physical realm.
When you consume high vibrational/energy, organic, toxic free raw foods that Mother Nature has provided for us and 100% designed for us, it is very easy for the body to break these foods down and eliminate them.
When the body isn’t using it’s energy to break down foods and eliminate them, especially meats and dairy, it uses that energy to cleanse the organs, regenerate skin cells, brain cells and everything else. HGH levels increase and coarse through every vessel in the body, constantly nourishing every bit of us. Joints and ligaments are repaired. Immune system is strengthened.
All of that meat and dairy getting lodged in the colon and clumped up in the digestive tract really taxes the body’s energy and that energy will focus on eliminating that until it’s gone.
This is one reason why vegans tend to look younger.
Whatever we consume, our bodies have to match the vibration of the food consumed in order to break it down and that vibration remains until that food has left the system completely.
Meat, dairy, chemicals, pesticides and all of that have very low vibrations/electricity/energy compared to fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts filled life force and enzymes. Seeds have so much life force in them that they have the potential to grow into entirely new plants and multiply themselves over and over again.
The more life force something has, the higher the vibration.
Cooked foods hold a lower vibration than raw foods because when foods are heated over 118 degrees Fahrenheit, the enzymes begin dying and the life force is eliminated from the food. Not only that, but a lot of nutrients are burned out, carcinogens form, and protein structures mutate all because of overheating the food.
We are what we eat. If we eat mutated protein structured and nutrient burned out foods with carcinogens in them then that’s what will make up our physical body and vibration.
Eat life and become life. Eat death and all of your cells will be made of it. you can only hold a vibration that you allow/accept and what you put in your body is only what you allow/accept.
For the last 10 months I’ve been entirely Raw. April 2013 I made the decision to remain raw after being totally raw during February and most of March in 2013 and then going back to cooked foods for a couple weeks in March and beginning of April 2013. I felt the difference and it was huge. I even got sick after going back to cooked foods during those couple weeks.
My diet for the last 10 months has consisted of at least 1 pound of seeds or nuts daily ( that comes to a little over 2700 Calories total with over 100 grams of protein), anywhere from 3 to 10 pounds of bananas a day (bananas are the most affordable way, besides growing your own food, to eat a high amount of calories since one pound of bananas has about 400 calories), any greens, any other fruits and vegetables. I’ve remained around 165-175 the entire experience, sometimes dropping below that and sometimes a little heavier. I am more than sure I could get up to the 190 pound range if I force fed myself, but I don’t have the interest in excess or passion with it anymore. I consume around 400% of daily fats from raw sources, nuts and seeds and still remain healthier and leaner than ever.
Raw fat is amazing fat and very beneficial. Roasted, baked, boiled or any type of heat kills the fatty acid’s life force. Imagine raw fats, Omegas 3,6 and 9 being the rubber that surrounds electric wires to keep the flow safe and imagine the nerves in your brain and throughout the body being the wire that allows electricity to flow. You don’t want burnt out rubber that’s weak surrounding those wires. A lot of miss-fires and flowing issues.
I do absolutely no meal preparation. I run on instinct and urges. When grocery shopping, I walk into the store with an idea of what I would like, but if I walk into the store with 10 dollars in my pocket with the intention of bananas, but I walk by the oranges and they’re screaming out to me and I’m drawn/magnetized to them then I’ll buy the oranges instead.
The human body is an incredible machine. It will tell you EXACTLY what you need if you listen to it. those random urges aren’t by mistake. This formula has done me well since the very moment I let go of control and thinking i ‘know’ what my body wants by using only my mind. It takes one to know one. The mind only knows mind things. the body will tell you what the body wants. Let go, trust and flow with it.
The absolute best piece of advice I believe I can give anyone looking to go into a raw vegan diet is to let go of any ‘certain way’ and just experiment.
Every physical body reacts differently. What worked for me may or anyone else may or may not be the greatest way for you and your body. Get out there and go crazy with raw foods. Don’t be afraid to buy a bunch of fruits and veggies and keep a mental log of your feeling and performance.
There are no articles, books or any external writings in existence that will guide you better than your own mind, body and soul will when in harmony.
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