What I find sad about "die Instinctive Tagebuch" is there are so little infos. Only what you eat day out and day in. No infos how the persons health is doing, no pictures of the same.. no blood works.. nothing.

Maybe you are right but I don't want to spread out my personal life in public. Nevertheless sometimes I wrote about my sporting activities so you can imagine I stay well with my way of instinctive raw eating. 

Meanwhile the diary moved to a new domain: Tagebuch instinktive Rohkost

If you find a maggot close your eyes and try it.

Maggots taste wonderful and are an important source for proteins.

Meanwhile it's summertime in germany. I have a lot of different berries in my garden and I enjoy them nearly every day together with wild herbs, growing und flourishing in summertime.
My yesterday (19.06.2012) menu:
-for breakfast a lot of wood strawberries:

and about 150g of raspberries:

-for lunch duckweed:

and a wild avocado from spain
-for dinner lamb, chest (with a lot of fat) and leg. I ate also the ends of the gristly rips. Here a pic of a piece of chest:

Today (Sunday, 17.04.2011) was a day full of physical activities: early in the morning I went running (12km) with a friend of mine. After drinking a lot of water I ate about 1kg wonderful creamy and fatty Safus.

Later on I went together with my daughter and her girl-friend to a climbing park and we spent 2 1/2 hours climbing and balancing amidst big trees. We were still full of energy so we decided to walk round a little lake and to use a pedalo boat. We had a lot of fun together.

Back at home I was smelling my food and cocoa beans attracted me most. So I ate about 100g of fresh beans.

I'm really happy, satisfied and pleasantly tired and after taking a warm bath the only thing that I need will be a warm bed.

Do you eat enough calories How many calories do you eat a day on average? I´d guess I eat not less than 1500 kcal (height 171 cm, weight currently 56 kg).

I'm living instinctive raw and I don't care about calories, fats, proteins or carbohydrates. My body height is 1,79m, my weight 61,5kg, my body fat percentage is about 20 and my blood analysis is within normal limits. I do a lot of sports and  I'm able to exert a rather satisfying job.
So everything seems to be o.k.

At the beginning of instinctive raw eating I lost weight (I reached 48kg) allthough I was eating more than today. The weight increased during the next three years to 56/57kg but never more. The last year I removed my synthetic teeth fillings in the incisors (which remained a long time unseen by me) and my weight increased continuously. Coincidence?   

susan does that hawthorn have a different name? to me it looks like celery, flat parsley or lovage....

Hawthorn is also known as thornapple: Hawthorn/Thornapple

Here you can read the first part of the book in english: Instinctive Eating PART ONE, by Guy-Claude Burger

No, there’s me, at least !

So let's do a "pas de deux"! 

BTW, what is red loam ?

I thought I translated the German term "Rote Tonerde" well. Orkos is selling loam with different compounds, red, green, brown or white coloured. Which one I prefer changes from time to time and sometimes I don't use any at all.

We talked a lot about the theory of instinctive raw eating. But what about the praxis?
I think some ideas for the practice can be helpful for people who are interested in the subject. So I want to invite all instictive raw eaters to give an insight in their daily menus.

My menus of the last days have looked this way:
Sunday (20.03.2011) I started drinking water with red loam. Before midday I went outside into my garden to "pasture" some wild herbs like dandelion, wild garlic, lamb's lettuce or daisies. I didn't select this herbs by smell (till now there are only a few herbs which I can select by smell though my smell becomes better every year of instinctive raw eating) but by sight: I taste every herb which attract my attention and if it tastes good I continue eating till the instinctive stop. The quanty was about 50g. Two hours later the smell of a Mango Nam dok mai raised into my nose. For dinner I had 100g of a honey comb.

Monday (21.03.2011) I started with tamarind in the morning and before midday I went out to pick up some herbs. Later on I ate 100g of young spinach leaves. In the afternoon I drunk water with red loam (it tastes so good at the moment ) and later on I finished the day with lamb liver and fatty meat.

On tuesday (22.03.2011) I drunk about one liter of water inclusive a little bit of seawater. For lunch I had four chicken eggs and in the evening abou 200g fatty lamb meat.

Remember it's not possible to give a medical telediagnosis. Go to a doctor and afterwards you will know if it's really your appendix which hurts. But maybe I can appease you: not every pain or pressure on the right side is an appendicitis. And even if it's an appendictitis that doesn't mean that have to loose your appendix. I have had an appendicits many years ago and exept a burning pain I have had fever. I stopped eating and drinking for some days (how long I can't say any more). The pain and the fever vanished and I recovered totally within two weeks. After the fasting period I started raw mono-eating and I felt better than ever before.

Incredible! When I saw you 3 years ago you looked like in you're 30 or 35! And I must say that you're much more beautiful in real than on this photo.

Thanks for your compliments. Although I don't think I'm really looking like 30 (anyway not yet ), I'm feeling like thirty (or even younger). Raw nutrition not only prevent physical destruction but mental too. Deep in my heart I feel that no adult should be looking or feeling older than 30 or he suffers from progeria. 

@sabertooth
Thanks for this personal report. All the best for your familiy.

Its a jackfruit or one of its close relatives.

I need the exact scientific name. Have you any idea?

I will have to go and find a 10 year old girl and have her eat instincto, by 20 she'll be ready.  If not for me, then for my sons.

The term "she'll be ready" sounds a little bit strange for me. Maybe she doesn't want to be "ready".   

Joke aparat it's very difficult to convince a child older than three years to eat instinctive raw especially when other persons to whom the child relates close are cooking.

Remind me to be quicker with converting my own children.  They are on cooked paleo lately.

It's obvious that an instinctive raw living parent wants to convince his own children to eat like him. But do they want it too? You can't force them, can you? And remember in your case the mother don't eat raw (in my case the father). Concentrate on yourself not on your children that's better for your and their peace of mind. Maybe some day they will join you voluntary. I hope so with my children. And if not I will remember the words of Kahlil Gibran:

On tuesday I went fishing (in a nearby supermarket ) and captured some crustacea:


Above an edible crab, some langoustines and goose barnacles. The crab was still living and I killed it by opening the thorax. How you can do this is shown here: How to open a crab.

I stored him 24h in a cool basement. Yesterday the smell of the innards rose into my nose and I ate them. They taste a little bit like a salty bouillabaisse. It's my experience that the flesh of the legs needs at least three or four days before it really tastes good so I stored the legs again and completed my dinner with langoustines. I ate seven of them. It was a delicious and satisfying dinner.