Exuberant Dave!

Hey!

I'm starting a new blog because: 1. the title of this one has run its course 2. I'm about to go on a crazy adventure.

It will be more than just about my dietary journey, as I'm traveling to a new land (Indonesia!), but my fruit & vegetable lifestyle will surely be a frequent topic.

Check it out here: http://exuberantdave.blogspot.com

<3 dave

30 bananas a Day Jingle!

Wrote and recorded this song one morning a bit ago... maybe you've seen it. Just thought it should go on my blog.

Day 100 and Beyond!

Hey there to my three blog followers.... Haven't been posting in a while. Blogging every day totally helped me in the beginning to keep on it, but after I got my routine down, it eventually got to be too much.

Averages lately:

Sleep: average of 9 hours

Water: 1.5 - 2.5 gallons a day

Food: 4000-7000 calories a day. Fruits and greens.
Today:
breakfast: 20 bananas, 3 baskets of strawberries
lunch: 14 mangoes
dinner: 1.5 pounds of dates

Exercise: getting a wide range of exercise: running, gymnastic-type body weight exercises, cycling, dancing, swimming, little bit of weights, yoga.
Today:
Went for a hike/run with a friend, then did pull-ups, handstands, dips, core work. (made me hungry!)


Ain't no stoppin', I'm still poppin'!
Sooooo... I wasn't thinking very far into the future when I titled my blog. I feel too good to stop doing what I'm doing. The benefits outweigh by far the drawbacks (wait what are the drawbacks anyways, other than lack of conformity?). Fresh fruit! So simple and so good. My body loves the way I've been treating it.

Benefits off the top of my head:

Ridiculous recovery from exercise

Soooo much energy

Sooooo much joy

Calm

Steady energy

More in tune with intuition

Better mood

Clearer skin

No need for shampoo

Pleasant BO

I'm extending my challenge to a year. About 1/3 of the way there!

The pictorial results for all you visual people:

Day 29 - 33: 2/8/11 - 2/12/11

Sleep: average of 9 hours

Water: about a gallon a day

Food: finished off the rest of the bananas early in the week, been eating lotsa dates and oranges. Also made my first bulk greens purchase (well split a box of 24 with my friend Josh): 12 heads of red leaf lettuce from Catalan organic farm. Such a good idea! My favorite lettuce ever. So tender. I've been eating three heads a day since Thursday, and feeling so good! Yeah lettuce! Juiced a bunch of navel oranges yesterday for breakfast, sooo good I couldn't handle it.

Exercise: Getting back into aerial classes, feeling as strong as ever. Took an Acro-Balance class today, stood on people's shoulders, people stood on my shoulders. Cool!

Day 21-28: 1/31/11 - 2/7/11

I went away to Six Rivers National Forest. It was awesome. I had too much food, which was no problem!

Sleep: Slept well in the dark and quiet non-city nights.

Water: One of my favorite things about my stay was I was drinking water right out of the spring. Incredible! The best water I've had. Tap water doesn't do it for me anymore. I immediately smelled the chlorine when I took a shower after coming home. Started buying reverse-osmosis water in bulk at Berkeley Bowl. Tastes really clean, not like fresh from the spring, but good enough. I've always been a distilled water fan, but the fact that it comes in un-reusable plastic bottles bums me out. I've thought about getting a water distiller, but I've heard they're really slow and take alot of energy.

Food: I was over-prepared in a really great way. Brought 10# mandarins, 60+# bananas, picked up 80# more there, along with 12# dates, and 6# spinach. I have a new record for whole bananas in a single meal: 25. Maybe could have stuffed a few more in to prove a point, but I was pretty full after that!

Exercise: A break from all the aerial classes I've been taking. Instead took walking and running hikes, did push-ups, squats, chopped wood, jumped in the c-c-c-cold Klamath river.

Day 20: 1/30/11

Sleep: 11 hrs.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM: 23 banana smoothie
PM: 25 mandarins, 3/4# dates

Exercise: 6 mile run, slow burn style weights.

I'm going out of town to a place without internet access for the next week or so. Don't think I've fallen cuz I'm not posting.

Day 19: 1/29/11

Sleep: 7.5 hrs.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM: HELLA mandarins
PM: 1.5# dates, 2 Mexican papayas, 12 bananas in smoothie with one of the papayas (pretty good but not as good as straight bananas).

Exercise: On my feet at the farmer's market all day, 1 mile walk.

Day 18: 1/28/11

Sleep: 8 hrs.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM: HELLA mandarins
PM: more mandarins, salad - 2 smallish heads cabbage, grape tomatoes, avocado, lemon juice, little cilantro

Exercise: "Slow Burn" exercises, Aerial Conditioning, biked around.

Day 17: 1/27/11

Sleep: 8.5 hrs.

Water: 6L

Food:
AM: 7 apples with 12 dates, 23 banana smoothie
PM: 7 apples with 1/3 pound of dates

Exercise: Aerial Skills class (first time taking "level two"), biked 14 miles, hiked 3 miles, tried my hand at archery.

Good day! Got to hang out with Matt C. Enjoyed the sun. Just got back from the Oakland Gift Circle, loving the community-building!

Day 16: 1/26/11

Sleep: 6.5 hrs. More tonight.

Water: 5L

Food:
AM: 7 bananas, 23 banana smoothie
PM: 19 banana smoothie
these are big bananas, that's more than 5K calories! will put it to good use tomorrow

Exercise: Hike in Muir Woods, awesome! 45 minutes of B-Ball, yeah!

The food thing is becoming a no-brainer. The hard part is finding the time to eat enough and sleep enough.
Picked up 80 more pounds of bananas today, and some treats: Mexican papayas, and grape tomatoes.

Day 15: 1/25/11

Sleep: 10.5 hrs. Oh man it felt so good to sleep in.

Water: 6L

Food:
AM: 20 banana smoothie
PM: 1.5# dates, head of lettuce

Exercise: an hour of aerial conditioning, biking, playing guitar and singing at the farmer's market.

Less sleep tonight... dah! Eventually I'll get the rhythm down.

Day 14: 1/24/11

Sleep: 7 hrs. Its a real challenge for me to get a full night's sleep.

Water: 5L

Food:
AM: 23 banana smoothie, 1/2 head lettuce
PM: 1.35# dates, 10 banana smoothie

Exercise: an hour of push-ups / handstand practice / slackline, along with some biking in the nice weather. Yeah SUN!

Gonna sleep for a loooong time tonight, then take a couple classes at AP

Day 13: 1/23/11

Sleep: 13 hrs. Catching up.

Water: 5L

Food:
AM: 30 Owari Satsuma mandarins
PM: 1.35# dates, 3 bananas
Calories today: 3535

Exercise: Qi Gong class, pretty mellow day.

Mood: still tired.

Day 12: 1/22/11

Sleep: 4 hrs. Arg!

Water: 3L

Food:
AM: 25 Owari Satsuma mandarins
PM: 1.35# dates
Calories today: 2948

Exercise: flexibility class.

Mood: tired!

Day 11: 1/21/11

Sleep: 10 hrs. Awesome.

Water: 5L

Food:
AM: 3 Cocktail grapefruit, 22 Owari Satsuma mandarins
PM: 12 bananas plain, 17 bananas + 2 heads of green leaf lettuce in smoothie
Calories today: 5465
Carbs: 1373g
Fat: 24g
Protein: 96g

Exercise: ran for 45 minutes, from my house up and around UCB to the Clark Kerr track. Went about 7.5 miles.

Mood: excited at all the possibilities, encouraged by progress

Day 10: 1/20/11

Sleep: 7 hrs. And it was interrupted by wild winds, shakey house, trees outside going nuts.

Water: 5L

Food:
AM: 10 persimmons, 9 apples, 1# dates
PM: 12 bananas in smoothie, 2 heads of lettuce, 1/4 avocado, 1 Meyer lemon

Exercise: just biked a little, feeling tired from all of yesterday's activities and not quite sleeping enough

Mood: sleepy

Saw 7 Orange ABC play last night, which was rad. Great band! Enjoyed my bike ride home under the full moon. Got to sleep late, and had to get up this morning for work/trade at Athletic Playground.

Played music at the farmer's market today. Nice day! Feels like the summer we never had. Enjoyed the sunset from the porch. Worked on the blog pages, announced the blog's existence on facebook. Stoked on all the support!

Day 9: 1/19/11

Sleep: 9 hrs.

Water: 6L

Food:
AM: 1.25 # dates
PM: 25 bananas in smoothie

Exercise: Aerial conditioning, biking 15 miles, 1 hr. basketball

Mood: up!

I can feel my sensitivity increase, which is nice and not nice at the same time... in the long run this will be a good thing.

Day 8: 1/18/11

Sleep: 8 hrs.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM: pre-work out- blender full of thin datorade smoothie with celery, post-workout - blender 3/4-full of thick datorade.
PM: 16 bananas in smoothie, salad with 2 heads of lettuce, 3/4 avocado, Meyer lemon.
No more persimmons at BB... but got 15# dates in the mail!

Exercise: Aerial conditioning
I want to be doing more push-up-y type work outs. And more endurance stuff... but the Athletic Playground has been good to me, its always fun learning new ways to move your body.

Mood: Feeling good!
Played lotsa guitar at the farmer's market today. Way fun, way sunny, and a little musically crowded... so I shared space and jammed with Dave H and Greg. Great day!

Day 7: 1/17/11

Sleep: 9 hrs.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM- 25 persimmons
PM- 25 bananas in smoothie, 1/2 head celery

Exercise: Handstand class, 25 minute run, Aerial class

The bananas are ripening. Excellent. Might go get (pick) more persimmons at BB tomorrow!

Day 6: 1/16/11

Sleep: 7 hrs. Felt it! Need to sleep more.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM- 15 mandarins, 1# medjool dates, head of romaine lettuce
PM- 3/4# honey dates,

Exercise: biked about 1.5 hrs all told.

Doing ok, but pretty tired, standing up all day. I enjoyed the nice weather we had at the farmer's market. My hearing was extra sensitive today, everything sounded so loud. And my sense of smell! My roommate is slow roasting chicken and I can't handle being in the kitchen or living room. Acquired some lettuce and celery.

Day 5: 1/15/11

Sleep: 9 hrs. Looks like a little less tonight.. gonna make this post quick!

Water: 4L

Food:
AM- 25 mandarins, 1.5# barhi dates,
PM- 17 navel oranges.

Exercise: 1 hr stretching class, 1/2 hour working on handstands, 45 mins of biking.

Had a busy day at the farmer's market. Felt really alert this morning, but slowly as the day wore on, I could feel my energy lessen. I think I still need more sleep than I'm getting. After work I hung out with my friend Matt... which is really cool. He was the first person I knew who was into raw foods back in 2004. He now lives far away, so I enjoy spending time with him when he's around. Always fun and informative and good vibes hanging with this dude! Good night!

Day 4: 1/14/11

Sleep: 8.5 hrs. Hopefully 9 tonight, I have work early tomorrow (5:30am), so I'm going to sleep around 8pm.

Water: 4L

Food:
AM- 2# barhi dates,
PM- water from 3 coconuts, 2# zahidi dates, 1 big ol' head of lettuce.

Exercise: 1 hr aerial conditioning. bit of biking.

I felt really good today, barely any wiping necessary post-poop, cheerful ... but I could have spent more time outside and less at the computer.
Tomorrow is going to great! Getting enough sleep before working really makes a difference for me. Its supposed to be a sunny day at the farmer's market and I'm going to get: lettuce, celery, kiwis, citrus, and maybe an avocado. The bananas are still on their way. Its going to be awesome once they ripen, I look forward to the abundance of sweet fruit that is not far away!
G'night!

Day 3: 1/13/11

Sleep: 9 hrs. Anything more than 8 is good for me, will shoot for 10 tonight.

Water: 4.5L

Food:
AM- 1# barhi dates,
PM- 10 mini-bananas, 20 Manila mangoes,
tomorrow- remember to eat that beautiful head of lettuce from Full Belly Farm.

Exercise: pretty sore from all of yesterday's activity, biked a bit and stretched.

I could have eaten more today, I'm still waiting on 120# bananas to ripen, maybe I should put those on top of the fridge to get warm / ripen quicker. I ordered a 15# box of dates (khadrawi and honey) which will take a few days to get here. Going to Berkeley Bowl tomorrow morning to see if they have a deal on bruised bananas, and check out the Mexican papayas. Still have a few persimmons.

Day 2: 1/12/11

Sleep: 8 hrs... tonight will be better

Water: 3.5L so far

Food: AM- 15 persimmons, 1 pomegranate, PM- 15 persimmons, the rest of yesterday's soup

Exercise: AM- monkey conditioning class, aerial conditioning class, walked 6 miles, PM- handstand class, breakdance class

Mood: grateful, up!

Waoh! My teeth stopped hurting! Didn't take Advil all day. I had 3 crowns done a couple weeks ago and they've been hurting me almost every day since then... but not today.

Day 1: 1/11/11

Ok so today is the day that I jump into it f'reals. After 3 years of dabblery I hearby begin 100 days of 100% lfrv.

Sleep: about 10 hours

Food: AM- 22 fuyus, PM- 18 manilla mangoes, bok choy tomato parsley lemon soup

Water: not sure I had enough

Exercise: today was a rest day, yesterday I took a handstand class and a monkey conditioning class.

Going to sleep now. Tomorrow morning awaits!