What Does a Typical Day of Eating Look Like?

Now let’s get into the nitty gritty. A lot of people understand concepts and so forth but do much better with concrete examples. It really varies from person to person and from situation to situation, but I will provide some scenarios.

The point of Rapid Regeneration is not to teach you what to think — it’s to help you understand how to think. I don’t think it is effective for me to tell you, ‘On Day One eat this, and on Day Two eat this, and so on and so forth.’ I can’t possibly tell you what you should eat at any given time in any specific scenario. What I can do is paint with more of a broad brush in terms of some different options that are out there and what you could end up doing.

You have to do what works for you ultimately. These are some things you could eat and which would be a good thing to eat relatively as compared with all of the bad things that you know are out there and which you know that you shouldn’t eat.

A typical day of eating is going to look different depending on what you are at in your own self-healing journey:
— You may be coming off a very acidic and toxic way of eating, and working on transitioning to a more healthy lifestyle of eating healthier foods
— You may be past the transition phase and now you are deep in the mode of working hardcore to detoxify out toxins and cleanse out your body to regenerate the areas that are in desperate need of changing
— You may be at the point where you are self-healed and you are not in a dramatic detoxification, and now you are desiring to eat for maintenance, energy and balance or you are working on getting even to the next level of energy and vibration

All of these different scenarios would be supported differently from different approaches to eating. I will attempt to share some approaches you could take which would fit appropriately with these differing needs in mind, depending on the context.

Let’s say if you are transitioning from a diet of acidic, toxic processed cooked foods. In that case, here is what a day might look like:

Breakfast options:
— A big smoothie with banana, blueberries, and other fruits (when I say big, it could be big enough to fill up the whole smoothie jar, AKA 64 ounces, or less depending on your body weight, appetite and metabolism)
— A big fruit salad in a big bowl with cut up fruit and perhaps some honey
— A big ‘mono-meal’, in other words, a big portion of one type of fruit. This could be one or two melons eaten right out of the rind, or two cases of strawberries, five or six pears all cut up, etc.
— If you’re into juicing, you could also have a big juice

Ideally, you should wait at least one hour if not longer after waking before eating breakfast (for more on this please see the chapter about Intermittent Fasting). Breakfast is the cleansing meal and your body is still in cleansing mode until around midday according to some body clock philosophies, so this meal should ideally contain fruits, and keep it low in fat or protein if possible.

A side note for you — when you are eating a food like fruit which is so easily digested and turned into energy, and has such high water content, it’s OK to go bigger on the portion sizes. Eat your fill — this is not like a diet where you are restricted on your portions or calories, and is more of an intuitive lifestyle. Of course, you should have an awareness and common sense about portion size (for more on that see the segment entitled ‘The Importance of Weight Management’).

Mid-Morning Snack:
— Optional snack or you can skip this
— You can have another serving of fruit
— You could have a juice

Lunch:
— At this point you’re probably getting really hungry and will be craving something fatty, salty and/or protein-rich
— If you’re really ambitious, you could make this meal another fruit salad extravaganza, or another big smoothie
— If you’re ready to eat something more filling, but want to avoid foods from the Standard Modern Diet, then go ahead and make a meal. Do your best to use mostly or all raw foods and if you are going to eat cooked foods it would be wise to avoid foods which contain the most harmful ingredients
— If needed, check out the segment entitled: ‘Foods to Cheat With’
— You could make a big bowl of guacamole, and eat it with grain-free, bean-free, starch-free crackers or chips
— You could make a raw ‘hummus’ but with no beans, using zucchini, herbs and spices, and a nut or seed butter
— You can make a raw salsa or pico de Gallo
— You could make a big salad with your favorite cut up vegetables like cucumber, peppers, tomato, olives, chopped nuts, lettuce, and make a dressing using olive oil mixed with other delicious ingredients, or a nut-based or seed-based dressing
— You could have a big bowl of nuts
— You could make tacos using specially recommended coconut wraps
— You could make zucchini zoodles, which is raw pasta using zucchini spirals and mix that in with a raw sauce
— You can make a raw ‘granola’ using nuts in a blender, and eat that in a bowl with almond, coconut, or hemp milk (this is a very high-calorie and dense meal)
— If you’re dying for some cooked foods, you could cook some steamed vegetables, like steamed broccoli, carrots, zucchini, peppers, onions, or green beans

So this meal would ideally be raw, although you could make it a cooked meal if you’re really getting ratted out with all the raw foods and cannot resist. You can have as satisfying of a meal as you want, but really try to stay in the perimeters of the kinds of foods which are the least harmful.

Since you are transitioning, don’t worry too much about going to high-fruit yet and cutting out more fat and protein, which you are probably craving very strongly right now. You’ll get there, just focus on keeping a high degree of raw foods compared with the amount of cooked foods you’re eating.

Really try and avoid things like chips, crackers, bread, beans, rice, pasta, potatoes, conventional meat, eggs, dairy, and foods with a lot of table salt or artificial chemicals added to them (AKA processed foods). These food products will be detrimental and will push you backwards, instead of making forward progress every day to solve your health goal.
Afternoon Snack:
— You could have another serving of fruit
— Honestly how many snacks do you need?
— But seriously, if all you had for lunch was fruit or a light salad, then go for another snack if you want

If you just ate a big fatty meal for lunch, then it would be best not to eat until dinner, because fats and proteins are complex and take much longer to digest. By putting more sugars into your belly with an afternoon snack after eating a dense lunch, you risk bad food combining and creating acidic conditions in your digestive system — so it would be best to eat your fill at lunch and hold off until dinner.

Dinner:
— You could eat a big bowl or fruit or a big smoothie
— Follow the same guidelines as lunchtime and you might be quite hungry again
— If you’re more ambitious, go for all-raw. If you’re feeling ratted out and ragged, cook some vegetables. You could even cook like some veggie burger ‘meat’ if you have a craving that you just can’t kick (but do keep in mind it can be difficult to find veggie burgers or plant-based ‘meat’ that don’t contain grains, beans, or processed chemicals and preservatives).

After-Dinner Snack
— Doesn’t exist! Don’t eat it! Dinner should be your last meal.
— There are so many reasons why you shouldn’t eat late in the day if you’re trying to achieve optimal health
— This will help you properly digest your food before you go to bed among other things
— You should wake up slightly or even quite hungry the following morning
— You don’t want to go to bed hungry (this could prove difficult to fall asleep), so eat a big enough meal at dinner to really be full until the following day’s breakfast

Other Meal Suggestions if You Are Transitioning:

Let’s say if you really crave sweets as well and pastries and all kinds of dessert-type foods — there are foods and meals you can eat which will ‘hit the spot’ in this regard. Although do keep in mind something that I wish that I had known earlier in my journey — it took me a long time to learn that these types of sweet combinations can often create bad food combining effects (for more on that, please see the segment entitled ‘Essential Tips for Proper Food Combining’).

Combining your food poorly can result in acidic conditions inside your body when digested, which ultimately puts you back into the same problematic area you started out with in the first place — acidic and toxic, with health issues you’re trying to sort out. So I definitely understand you’ll end up eating this way sometimes — just be aware of the consequences of bad food combining and ideally try to transition to eating better-combined foods as often as possible.

So here are some other raw food creations which you may find satiating:
— Banana with nut or seed butter (not peanut butter as that is a legume not a nut), possibly served with a glass of almond, coconut, or hemp milk
— A big bowl of strawberries and/or other berries with nut butter and/or honey
— An acai bowl with other fruit toppings (with no granola)
— Vegan ice cream (raw and coconut-based)
— Raw plant-based pastries which use nut and seed flour, fruits and other ingredients (there are many recipes and food products out there)

If you’re transitioning, this should be fun and you should still be able to enjoy yourself and eat foods which are sweet and satiating, yet contain the raw electrical power that will help you keep up momentum toward your destination.

Once you have built up some momentum in terms of your detox and regeneration, you may find as many other people have that you may hit a sort of plateau and basically can find yourself run on a hamster wheel, maintaining your status, but without progressing any further toward your health goals. If that’s the case, it’s time for you to become more disciplined and really start eating the more of the foods which are going to be alkaline-forming and provide the most cleansing and healing electrical energy. This approach will accelerate your body’s healing mechanism and detoxification and regeneration processes, but you have to make a decision and commitment at this point that this is your goal.

This next scenario is for somebody who has taken that important step and commitment to continue on to the next level. This would be somebody who has already transitioned with some degree of success from a standard modern diet to a healthy intake of foods with a lot of raw foods. This could be an individual who is still heavily detoxifying, with still much progress needed to eliminate the health issue completely. Or it could be somebody who has solved their basic health problems but is trying to now make the leap to the next level of energy and performance. In either case, for higher-level results, here are some things that might be eaten:

Cleansing meal / First meal of the day:
— A ‘sweet fruits’ smoothie, with bananas forming the base liquid, and then more bananas, with barley grass juice powder, organic blueberries fresh or frozen, possibly some dates, and/or peaches
— A ‘tropical’ smoothie, with oranges, mango, pineapple and other tropical delights
— Melon
— Mono-meal of fruit
— Fruit salad / bowl of fruit medley
— A juice of some kind, such as a vegetable green drink

Filling Meal / Later meal in the day containing fat / protein:
— Banana smoothie, with scoops of chia seeds (or flax seeds) and/or hemp seeds ground up into a powder and then mixed in
— A bowl of chopped up pineapple, with green powder sprinkled over, as well as ground up chia, flax, or hemp seeds mixed into the bowl, coating the pineapple
— Some other raw culinary creation which uses the power of these super-seeds for their protein and fat content
— Eating hemp, chia and flax seeds for fat and protein consumption is ideal, but there are some more examples listed out below that somebody could eat for protein and fat intake
— Keep in mind that the fruits are going to be more cleansing than the vegetables

Snacks throughout the day:
— Pineapple
— Mango
— Grapes
— Strawberries
— Cherries
— Oranges
— Apples
— Fruits of all kinds
— Juice like vegetable juice

Keep in mind if you do three meals, you could do two from one category, and one from the other. If you eat three meals, try and eat two meals that are cleansing and more fruit-based, and only one meal that is more filling and dense, to accelerate your results.

On a good day, I can just eat two meals. They are both sizable (about 64 ounces in one smoothie, or almost four pounds in one sitting, or about two pounds of pineapple in a bowl in another sitting, plus perhaps another six to ten ounces or so of seed powder) and so this still amounts to somewhere close to 2,500 or 3,500 calories in a day. I know some people are more keen on eating more frequently but smaller meals throughout the day. Sometimes I break down and eat a third meal just depending on what is going on (and also how much I am exercising and therefore how many calories my body is burning).

Much of my eating has to do with my schedule, which is very busy. In between my job, playing in a band, family, social life, and working on Rapid Regeneration my passion project, I don’t have a whole lot of spare time on my hands most days for food preparation. I do try and be efficient with my time and for this reason I don’t do much juicing these days, nor do I spend a lot of time making gourmet raw meals with a lot of food prep.

It takes me about 10 to 15 minutes to make a smoothie, wash the blender, and put everything away, then another 10 to 15 minutes to eat and enjoy the meal. This is very quick and efficient way to feed myself very healthy, nutritious fuel to keep me going which is my main concern right now at this chapter in my life. Someday, I’d like to stop and smell the roses a bit more and spend more time preparing and enjoying meals. I do that sometimes, more so on the weekends when time is more abundant.

The day of eating described above is just one high-level scenario, but I understand that this may not be possible to do over and over consistently. It is normal to feel the need for more variety and to break away from eating a super alkaline intake of foods. Depending on the phase of life that I am in, I will enjoy a cheat meal on a somewhat regular basis, which could involve higher amounts of fat from other sources like avocado, or nuts, or coconut.

Normally this would occur on the weekend, maybe once a week, sometimes more often, and sometimes less often, depending on how committed I am to my own accelerated healing, or how much I need to lean into some comfort. If I have an important event I’m preparing for, a performance, a hot date, an obligation requiring me to be in tip-top shape, or any number of things that cause me to increase my commitment level, then I have shown myself that I am able to go weeks or even months on the program I described above with the fruits and super-seeds, without breaking more into comfort foods. Other times, I get ratted out and I more capitulate back and forth between high-performance foods and comfort foods.

This is a blank canvas in terms of what you wish to eat and how. You need to do what works for you. Personally, I look at food primarily as a source of fuel, cleansing and sustenance. I feel foods calling out to me in terms of comfort and physical pleasure, but I feel that sometimes we are summoned to a more aspirational calling than just living to eat, and that we should aspire to eat to live.

If you are operating at an evolved state of a healthy lifestyle, and are really at the point where you’re kicking things into high gear, then you’ll likely be slowly minimizing the fats and proteins so that you can really detoxify and cleanse your body. This also bears true for somebody who has transitioned into a more healthy lifestyle but is still heavy in detoxification and wishes to accelerate his or her results in a solving a health problem. Here are some more things you might eat throughout a day:
— Fruit salads AKA big bowls of fruit
— Smoothies
— Juices
— Mono-meals of fruits
— Salads with lettuce, chopped up vegetables, and perhaps a dressing low in fat
— Noodles with zucchini AKA zoodles with a homemade raw sauce
— Avocado mixed in with a bowl of peeled and chopped apples, or pineapple
— Bowl of guacamole with sticks of cucumber
— Nori raw wraps (with no rice)
— Coconut wrap with whatever you wish to fill inside of it
— Nuts and seeds, and butters, sparingly (except for chia, hemp and flax seeds)
— Chia, hemp and flax seeds ground up and mixed into a smoothie, or poured over a bowl of fruit like pineapple
— Barley grass juice powder
— Herbal supplements

The more you can transition away from high amounts of fat and protein, the more you will accelerate your cleansing and healing. I am not suggesting that you cut it out completely, because our bodies need essential fatty acids and essential amino acids (from proteins) to some degree. But most people in the modern world are eating excessive amounts of fat and protein, and don’t know what it feels like to feel their bodies thriving on a low amount of these macronutrients. Use chia, hemp, and flax seeds as your go-to friends to help you in this area, and figure out how to mix them into your day to eliminate that feeling when your willpower is starting to go sideways and you get cravings — it really works.

I am certainly not one of the most chef-y people out there, although I will say that I have a great appreciation for individuals who can take raw ingredients and make delicious, elegant and delightful creations. Learning how to make all these amazing raw dishes and creations has been something I’ve sacrificed, in terms of the time to learn them and the time to actually prepare them, in order for me to have the time needed to do things like prepare this program which I hope will help you.

I do see food preparation becoming something that I can do more of in the future. Making meals and preparing food should be fun, and it allows you to really connect with your ingredients and share a relationship with them before and during going into your body. Embrace that and don’t be intimidated to try different recipes!

What you eat in a day is ultimately your choice — you have a blank canvas, on which you can create your life how you want it to be. At first, when you are transitioning, the amount of ingredients you have to choose from may seem limiting. If you compare this healthy approach with all the crazy inventions of processed food materials and cooked food products — yes, this is does seem relatively more limited. Ultimately though, you still have a wide-ranging variety of ingredients to choose from — far more than our primitive ancestors had in the wild.

Use your own intuition and inner guiding compass to navigate what you should eat. I will offer you a final warning through — be wary not to mistake your inner instinct and discernment showing you the right way with a craving which is programmed to take you off track and right into the mud. Ask God to help you discern the right choices to make for yourself, and for the strength to overcome the challenges you have been tasked with.

The time is now to create your own future. These are the ingredients with which to do it, among others I forgot to mention or don’t know about yet. So go ahead, and don’t delay — use the power of the most amazing foods and transform your life today!