how strict are you for following this diet?
I'm fairly strict because I want results.
Do you ever eat out or only rarely and what do you order?
Our food bill is already astronomical with the best fruits and the best animal food. I don't see anything restaurants can offer at any price that entices me to eat there. When we are invited to parties, to be cordial I eat either raw fruit or cooked fatty meat... whatever is the least damaging. I view my home shopped food as the ultimate best. I am curious and would want to visit all you other raw paleo people and taste your food. I just live so far away from most of you.
Do you ever cheat once in a while and have a slice of bread..
I have zero cravings for grains or other unhealthy food. Got rid of cravings some time ago with my detoxes and fasts.
or even a sweet fruit like a banana? or do you beat yourself up about it if you consume something not on the diet-list?
I eat bananas, but I make sure they are local organic bananas, and just one or two bananas is enough as a snack. Not a meal. Bananas are part of my paleolithic diet. I consider bananas as paleo food in the Philippines. We export to the world the bananas we don't like... the cavendish bananas, and those are sprayed with insecticides and factory farmed.
I'm just wondering, because this is a very limiting diet taking it out from a social context. I mean don't any of you have problems around friends or co-workers, considering you have to say no to every offer of a piece of fruit or sandwich or even cooked meat?
Raw paleo for me means raw fruits, raw vegs, raw meat... in a social context I will eat cooked fatty meat or raw fruits which is acceptable, raw vegs is acceptable, raw fish is acceptable socially.
I run my own company and I live 500 meters away from my office so I always eat at home. Besides, I'm the boss and acknowledged altruistic healer, it's in my business card, so my employees know and understand. For snacks I buy them fruits and sometimes they request cooked balut -- duck fetus, which is popular in my country so it is socially yummy. Cooked meat paleo for socials at worst for me. And I eat little outside the house. I stuff myself first at home before leaving.
What do you do if a friend asks why you won't eat that or why you never eat what they offer? Do you just straight out say you are following a raw meat diet? Or do you keep it a secret from people and just avoid putting yourself in situations where you might be asked?
When people ask I tell them it's a medical thing. That is socially acceptable. When we get into a deeper conversation and I teach people how to cure themselves... they know and understand why raw paleo... because it works! If you are terminally sick... which diet do you bet your life on? Raw paleo!