An experiment in anatomy

I can quite honestly say that over the past week I've spent 6 days being ENTIRELY RAW VEGAN. This is probably the longest I've gone without a lapse (I've gone over a month before on raw food but usually had at least one, sometimes two small slip-ups per week), this time it has been pretty consistent. It's a surreal feeling, Im waiting for the side effects to kick in. Surprisingly I'm never hungry, though I rarely am anyway, and the thought of cooked, "normal" food is verging on slightly repulsive right now. I'm reluctant to say I've been smoking a little bit more this week which has probably had some impact, but my main issue is waiting for the detox effects, I'm almost looking forward to them. The whole foundation of the raw food theory is that your body was not intially designed to eat cooked food, and so by eating entirely raw food (ie. only vegetables, fruit and nuts/seeds) not only does the colon absorb more nutrition from your food and break it down more easily, but the energy you would have expended on digestion is put to use healing your body in other ways (basically the same theory that works when you become ill and fast to get over the illness more quickly). Hippies.

I don't really know how I feel about this yet. It is sustainable, but at the same time I'm curious to try something else. So, as of tomorrow, I'm doing a 7 day protein fast, for lack of a more accurate term, (primarily because the one thing I have definitely been deficient in since eating raw food is protein). I'm a little bit aprehensive, but I'll let you know how it goes. I'll be buying my first protein shakes in the morning...