I can’t have a lot of foods because I have MCAD and I’m allergic, dairy & gluten are the main two. Gluten free bagels just aren’t the same & dairy free cheese 🤮 I’m feeling very envious of of you 😂 why people would choose to make their life miserable and avoiding food they like is crazy to me.
I tried this when I was in my early 20s and had an eating disorder, because I knew I wouldn't be able to eat enough to get many calories. It was absolutely awful and rather expensive. Literally worse than eating almost nothing for weeks on end. I've just got almost to the end of (normal, cooked food, protein replacements, decent amount of food, B12 supplement) veganuary and it was surprisingly easy. Probably because I was doing it for better reasons and more sustainably. I don't think I'll be a strict vegan the day after tomorrow but it's been a good experience and helped me realize how I can cut down on animal products when I want to. This raw veganism and fruitarian shit ain't it.
I call this the “I forgot to go grocery shopping” diet and I think if I had to do it for more than a day I’d just end up ordering pizza for the rest of the week.
Yeah I know a lot of ppl with white hair, and are not raw vegans though. It’s all about copper, and if ur body can convert it, and also genetics. The raw vegan diet has to be planned, just like any diet,and it is not a miracle cure. It can be healthier if planned correctly.
Imagine thinking that a diet that no human being has EVER naturally consumed until about the last 20 years would be good for you. I'm genuinely not surprised it nearly killed you man.
The digestive issues from a raw diet is what would kill me. This reminds me of the paleo diet minus the meat. you can make a vegan raw cheese by soaking raw cashews overnight, blitzing them up in the blender, then filtering the solids from the liquid. the solid is the cheese once mixed with a bit of lemon juice and herbs and the liquid is your cashew milk for the week.
@@c0mpu73rguy no, vegan/dairy free cheese is collected from chiropodists and podiatrists, they save the cheese from athlete’s foot patients 😂 I’m not on any weird diet, I just have loads of food allergies and some things I won’t do…vegan cheese is one! 🤮 it hasn’t improved in about the 25 years I couldn’t have it. Now, I’m happy to say I can have a little bit of real cheese
I do similar, but I puree it all together without filtering and add nutritional yeast, garlic powder, chili powder, a little hot sauce, and other spices and use it as a dip.
No it has gotten much better! Mexicana Vegan is great and melts beautifully. Cathedral City do a mature cheddar and it's... Definitely mature lol. Doesn't melt well, but the flavour is pretty bang on.@@lilacscentedfushias1852
I think you're meant to be eating a lot more fruit and nuts for snacks and such between meals. Eating just veggies and only at three meals a day, especially at 'normal' portion sizes will leave you with a serious caloric deficit. Seriously, I think you should be grazing at stuff all day.
people ACTUALLY do this as a diet for life. there are calories on this shit, just not a lot, so he has to eat constantly. Specially nuts that have a lot of calories. Also, you need a nutritionist if you gonna do this for more than a week.. It IS doable, but its just torture.
@@lincolnnoronha4128 indeed, I prefer to enjoy my food for it's taste and enjoyment. Not just for nutrition. If someone said I couldn't enjoy eating, they might as well tell me to stop breathing. Life is more than just surviving.
@@TheKingOfBeans Several testimonies of people that tried it said that they overcharge for very short sessions and on top of that sold their users personal data according to... The government? Wow, this went further than I thought: www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke
5:44 "Partnering with BetterHelp means I don't have to do any questionable brand partnerships on the channel" Proceeds to do a questionable BetterHelp partnership on the channel anyway.
Was thinking exactly this! The BBBE challenge? Beef (chicken, pork lamb and fish incl.), Bacon Butter and Eggs... but for a week instead of 90 days or whatever people normally do.
@@matane2465 According to who? My sister has been on a carnivore only diet going on 5 years now. She thinks she's the healthiest she's ever been but she's depressed and tired all the time, she looks sick, her face is all sunken in and her hair is falling out. She blames all this stuff on multiple self diagnosed "autoimmune disorders" and thinks the diet is healing her but she's just getting worse the longer she's on it and didn't have any of those symptoms before she was on the diet. The carnivore community is also strangely cult-like and political. She can't have her own opinion until she consults them. Regardless, what I was referring to when I said it sounds like hell in the opposite direction had nothing to do with the healthiness of the diet. If you are on a super restrictive diet where you only eat one type of food for every meal and deny yourself things you would normally eat you're going to get bored with it very fast. The more you deny yourself of foods you love the more hellish it becomes over time which is exactly what the guy in the video experienced. He would not enjoy eating meat for every meal any more than raw vegan.
Mike, never stop doing what you're doing, you're brilliant at it, and all your loyal followers will always support you! Great week on...glad you're OK though! 👍 😁
Raw veganism scares me actually. It borders on eating disorder level of restriction. I mean, cooking actually makes some vitamins like Lycopene available, and increases the amount of nutrients you can digest because the food is partially digested already. This seems like a diet that someone would take if they had absolutely so access to cooking fire or a stove, or someone with an extremely rare digestive issue, or someone with an actual eating disorder.
I think doing these extreme diets are a type of eating disorder on their own but it's much more than that, the communities that promote these diets seem to be cult-like and have certain political leanings and beliefs. My sister did raw vegan for 5 years but got out of it because she said the community was very cult like and overly sjw. She went straight to a carnivore diet which she's been doing for the last 4 years. She doesn't think so but from my point of view the carnivore community is not only just as cult like as the raw vegans but she's adopted an insufferable anti-vaxxer, anti-woke, conspiracy theorist worldview along with her crazy diet. If it was actually helping her get to a healthy weight or alleviated her health issues that I could understand sticking with the diet but she looks sick, her face is sunken in and her hair is falling out. She's 4 years younger than me but she looks a lot older. The specific carnivore diet she follows was created to be an elimination diet so she could determine what her sensitives are then slowly reintroduce different types of foods, it was never meant to be sustainable long term. It screams eating disorder with her sticking to it this long.
@@claritey I agree. I think the mindset of the person entering in an extremely restricted diet makes the difference. If the person is susceptible to an eating disorder, then letting go of the control that these diets offer is very difficult. As someone with mental health issues mainly related to PTSD, I can see the draw of having control over something when everything else seems to be falling apart. Plus, if I were vulnerable to the draw if a club or group of people who follow the diet, I could possibly start to believe what nonsense they were spewing just to fit in and feel welcomed. Every diet, as long as it makes a person feel healthy and doesn't harm a person physically or mentally, is good. Once it becomes obsessive and harms a person, then it's an issue. I hope your sister gets the help she needs emotionally and physically and can regain her health again.
@@applegal3058 Thank you. I hope so too. I feel like I've lost my sister in a lot of ways because she no longer has her own opinions or identity, she's just following a crowd to fit in.
@@claritey that's got to be hard. I hope you take care of yourself. They say sometimes all we can control is our own reactions and how we live. Although it is hard to not be able to change your sister's perspective and how she wants to live, even if it's harming her. Perhaps grief counseling or some sort of group therapy with others who are dealing with family members who have eating disorders can help?
Christ on a pogo stick Mike. This was like watching self flagellation. Much respect for getting through 7 days of that. Didn't channel 4 do a critical documentary about said counselling company? Anyway best wishes. Don't do that ever again.
The basic gist of it was that you needed a lot more protein and fat to offset the lack of calories that you would have been getting from carbs. I'm not focusing on the nutritional deficiency aspect of that, or on how it wouldn't be long-term sustainable, just on the fact that you would have felt a lot fuller for a lot longer during this experiment. (Blending up nuts and oil into sauces/dips for every meal - yes, every! - would have accomplished that, and it would have made the food more interesting in terms of taste.) That said, you are absolutely correct about the cost, the time sink, and how much knowledge it takes to pull it off. Those factors alone would (and should) put off most people. However, one thing that I'll note for me personally is that learning vegan cooking (not raw) actually improved my omnivore diet a lot. I know about a dozen ways to substitute an egg and a hundred uses for oatmeal. 😋 Believe it or not, it can be cheaper in many instances, too. (I make a mean lentil burger, and it's dirt cheap compared to beef!) So I think there's merit in experiencing new types of cuisine, even if they're not ideal on their own. You can always steal the best bits of what you've learned and incorporate that in your preferred style of cooking.
There isn’t any digestible protein in a plant based diet. Your body eventually starts eating itself which is why these vegans are so miserable all the time.
try an overnight soaked nut mixture with dried fruit and grated carrot with chopped apple. Like swedish muesli without the oatmeal. Though you could add oatmeal to the recipe and just let it cold soak overnight. add some cinnamon to it. I have done that and its good. Not as good as cooked but better than a smoothie.
You're not eating enough man. All my vegan mates eat huge amounts of fruit, salad, and nuts. And they'll have snacks like dried fruit, or nuts through the day to keep them going. A little bowl of fruit for breakfast will last for about 2 hours max before you're starving 😂
One of my favorite raw vegan "recipes" is banana nice cream. So just take frozen bananas and a little bit coconut milk or cream and whilst not raw I love it so a splash of vanilla. Blend it up until it has the consistency of soft serve, its so freaking good , I could eat it almost every day in the warm months
You did not only do raw vegan, you practically went cold turkey on sugar and coffein. That alone is hell and probably accounts for most of your problems and you feeling so tired and cold and ill. Coffein and sugar withdrawal. Also why no oatmeal or other cereals for more easy carbohydrates and energy?
@@saraquill But it's way less and is wrapped up in many other things, which prevents a sugar hit or rush. Industrial sugar, corn syrup, even honey just hit different.
Most veg didn't exist a few hundred years ago, humans evolved to eat seafood, bugs and whatever eggs and carcass we could find, eating only raw vegan is tough for a body not evolved for it.
That is not lack of protein. It is some people's bodies having trouble digesting protein. There is no word in the English language for "protein deficiency". Caloric yes
@@debrablakeley2789The human body can only absorb protein from animals. Our stomachs aren’t built to live off only plants like cows are. This is the reason why people can only do veganism for a limited period of time. You live off the fat reserves of your own body.
He literally didn’t eat enough. He needs to eat like five times the amount of food to feel good and full. I was raw for half a year and once I realized how much chewing I needed to do I stopped cause it took way too long to eat. But if you eat a large variety of food and eat enough there is nothing wrong with it.
Even if you snack nonstop all day this type of diet would likely lead to malnutrition over time. We cook food because it enables our bodies to get more out of the food. The bioavailability of calories and nutrients in raw food is very low compared to cooked food. Even if you take dozens of supplements you will not get enough from it.
@@martineo9638 Cashews are prepared for consumption in one of two ways: raw and roasted. The phrase “raw cashew” is misleading, as all cashews fit for consumption have been roasted once to remove both the cashew shell and the shell's harmful oils. Roasted cashews are roasted a second time to alter or enhance the cashews' flavor.
9:33 i kept forgetting things couldn't be heated/cooked and was confused when i saw him assembling this on the plate and then horrified when I remembered it was going to be eaten like that. cold. soggy. raw. the idea of that meal was gross enough lol but i thought it would have eggplant lasagna vibes when cooked. nope. just ate it as is. god bless raw vegans bc i could neverrrr.
I'm not going to pounce in defense of raw veganism, but I also don't think this was the best approach. Away from the calorie deficit, I would guarantee - as someone who typically eats meat - you weren't getting enough protein, and that much extra fiber at once is taxing. More nuts and grains would've helped you feel more full, and oats can be prepared without cooking. You just soak them overnight in the fridge.
Don't envy trying something like this, but I think a big thing to help this out would be prepping stuff ahead of time. Even if it's not full meal prepping but like, getting vegetables and stuff broken down that can be easy to put into something on the fly. Pickling things so you are getting different flavour profiles. I thought the kimchi and sauerkraut were great ideas but didn't seem like they were used enough. Still probably pretty grim, but prepping stuff ahead would give more time at actual meal time to prep things in interesting ways, whether seasoning or whatever it could be.
Unless you need to go raw, for some reason, I feel like raw vegans is kinda like homeopathy for vegans. Vegan can be delicious and great for you, but raw just feels like self induced torture. Also good luck to your comments section. Just uttering "vegan" in the first place brings out the drama.
I've not watched it all yet but this would kill me. My brain doesn't register food as a meal if it isn't hot, I swear cold food doesn't fill me up or ever feel like a meal
It's interesting how few calories are actually in veggies.That courgetti pesto probably only had around 150 calories. I suspect you were in a calorie defecit and burning stored fat for energy. Which the body does not want to do which would explain feeling hungry and generally lousy
I completely understand your phobia Mike, I developed the same after working in a call centre where clients shouted at us almost all day every day. For years afterwards I struggled with answering the phone, especially if I couldn't work out who was calling.
As much as I am not a vegan, I can kind of understand the various ways a vegan diet would appeal to people. The "raw" aspect of this, though, I don't quite understand. What is the point of not allowing yourself to cook your own food, or to use food that has been cooked or heated? That just seems masochistic.
Years ago, another UA-camr tried this diet for a week. At the beginning, she interviewed a raw vegan “chef” whose justification was “animals don’t cook. Hence, we shouldn’t either. This ignores how our mouths are adapted to eating cooked things.
I stopped eating meat nearly 40 years ago. Don't miss it. But, then, wasn't that big of a meat eater to begin with. Never in my life, not even living in the US State of Wyoming, where men are men and sheep are afraid, have I been as badly attacked for being a vegetarian as I have been by vegans. I don't care what other people eat, my husband lives on meat. I just want to be left alone with my food choices. No doubt there are vegans out there who don't feel the need to attack vegetarians but I've never met a vegan who wasn't a fascist nutjob who demanded other people live by their rules and their rules, alone.
I have a friend who's vegan for OCD reasons. She has joked a few times that she "doesn't even get to be morally superior!!" about it. She sometimes hopes she can manage her OCD enough to eat meat again (though she says she'll probably never be able to tolerate eggs again lol). So there's at least 1! :D
Here in the US, we have something called "sun tea." Which is technically raw because you brew it by sitting it in the sun for nearly a whole day. So you could have had your tea without cheating. You get a BIG clear container with a lid and you place 3-5 tea bags and water inside and then sit it out on the patio. You can add lemon slices if you'd like. It's only worth it if you make a big batch because it takes so much longer than boiling water.
Raw does not mean just salad and fruit. Make your 25% beans, tea, and a bit entire grains. Also, eat WAY more! You shouldn’t be hungry. Raw is very expensive where I am and in the winter it’s unattainable. Also, ice burg lettuce?? You may as well just drink water. Zero nutrition, flavour and satisfaction.
Its such a strange concept the voluntry de-evolution of people intellectually when it comes to eating food. If it wasnt for humans discovering cooked meat a quarter of a million years ago, what spieces would have evolved first?
I’m vegan and love it but raw vegan is too difficult! Tho if you look at people like Raw vegan Christina and Freelee the banana girl and other well known vegans they have much more food in their diets - I think your salads and main meals could have been a lot larger as you were eating very low cal foods…They make interesting sauces etc too but I still think it’s a very hard diet and although I keep meaning to do it for a week or so I still haven’t😂😂😂🇬🇧
It would be interesting to know how many air miles the imported items clock up. The first time I have seen you look quite unwell on one of your challenges
Mike - please do a “week off after a week on” video… love to see you purge and pig out after the sacrifices you make for my entertainment in these videos. You wouldn’t catch me doing Vegan for a day, let alone raw vegan for a week!! I take my hat off to you Sir!
Great video as always Just sat watching some of your old videos, currently watching the week on food beginning with letter A, are you going to do other week ons like this and go through the alphabet?
0:43 i'm honestly really shocked they wont even try bug produce. i know a couple stout vegans who have SILK and they wont throw it out because it's "bug products" but wont ever have honey. barmy.
The only thing i could think of to spice it up is perhaps peanut butter from your nuts to go with apple and banana. Or veggie and red pepper hummus could have been a game changer. Either way, well done i would barely last a single meal😅
That "pasta" looks rank. You can call it a lasagna or a curry but it's all just another salad, actually. I think I could do this except for that corgette-pesto thing. Or maybe I just think it looks not that bad because I haven't eaten many vegetables this winter and I'm craving some.
What chance do average people that work 50/60 hours a week have of living on this diet if you don’t. Seems impossible unless you’re an LA housewife with a chef
I know someone suggested in comments that you make the 'week on' a 1 video thing. But I prefer the 7 video format better. You must've also noticed that you obviously received more views when split over 7. Would you consider going back to 7? And only edit it into 1 video, just for your paying 'members' to privately view.
Im not a vegan, let alone a raw vegan haha! And I wouldn't enjoy this challenge but it could have been made so much more tolerable! Pico De Gallo with nori as chips (tomatoes, onion, coriander, jalapeño, and lime juice) Guac (Avocado, corriander onion, lime juice and salt - if allowed) with nori chips or carrot sticks etc Mango salsa (basically the pico de Gallo but with mango as well and could also add capsicum and avo) Cheese made by cashew nuts and lemon juice frozen nice cream (blended frozen bananas, flavoured with fruit) could even make smoothies and freeze into ice lollies. vegan raw cheesecake (could use raw cacao and dates to make a choc version or berries for a berry version) peanut butter (could even make a jam with blended berries and lemon juice and a few dates) Sushi (which you did but could have made cauliflower rice and added some from of vinegar and liquid aminos if it qualifies) I once went to a vegan raw cafe and they served a sprouted bread with coconut bacon could be interesting to make! Anything to make it more tolerable otherwise that would have been horrible!!
You’re a better man then me mate. I respect diets like these but NOPE I like beef too much to even consider doing this week on🤣 Long time watcher, really enjoy the content. Keep up the good work Mike brother!
I tried super hard to see something anything in fact that I could say yummy 🤢 holy moly I just felt ill.i seriously have to admire you for giving this weekon a go.so well done you mike. question? Will I try this.noooooooooooooo!! Positivity peace and love ♥️
@ashleycordery2976 Hope you subbed! Enjoy catching up on his stuff if ya have. His "Informercialism" playlist is one of my faves on all of youtube lol.
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Felt guilty watching this while eating a toasted everything bagel with cream cheese.
I can’t have a lot of foods because I have MCAD and I’m allergic, dairy & gluten are the main two. Gluten free bagels just aren’t the same & dairy free cheese 🤮 I’m feeling very envious of of you 😂 why people would choose to make their life miserable and avoiding food they like is crazy to me.
Mmmm that sounds so good right now, hope you enjoyed it.
I watched this while sadly eating a can of cold chunks of chicken XD
I tried this when I was in my early 20s and had an eating disorder, because I knew I wouldn't be able to eat enough to get many calories. It was absolutely awful and rather expensive. Literally worse than eating almost nothing for weeks on end. I've just got almost to the end of (normal, cooked food, protein replacements, decent amount of food, B12 supplement) veganuary and it was surprisingly easy. Probably because I was doing it for better reasons and more sustainably. I don't think I'll be a strict vegan the day after tomorrow but it's been a good experience and helped me realize how I can cut down on animal products when I want to. This raw veganism and fruitarian shit ain't it.
I call this the “I forgot to go grocery shopping” diet and I think if I had to do it for more than a day I’d just end up ordering pizza for the rest of the week.
Had a Raw Vegan as my college roommate for a week, he ate nothing but bananas and protein powder and had pure white hair.
Is he still alive?
@@boostbaa2882 I think he turned into banana man.
People like this must hate life.
Idk any raw vegans who just eat bananas, that’s stupid and not raw vegan.
Yeah I know a lot of ppl with white hair, and are not raw vegans though. It’s all about copper, and if ur body can convert it, and also genetics. The raw vegan diet has to be planned, just like any diet,and it is not a miracle cure. It can be healthier if planned correctly.
Imagine thinking that a diet that no human being has EVER naturally consumed until about the last 20 years would be good for you. I'm genuinely not surprised it nearly killed you man.
The digestive issues from a raw diet is what would kill me. This reminds me of the paleo diet minus the meat. you can make a vegan raw cheese by soaking raw cashews overnight, blitzing them up in the blender, then filtering the solids from the liquid. the solid is the cheese once mixed with a bit of lemon juice and herbs and the liquid is your cashew milk for the week.
Isn't that just regular vegan cheese?
@@c0mpu73rguy no, vegan/dairy free cheese is collected from chiropodists and podiatrists, they save the cheese from athlete’s foot patients 😂
I’m not on any weird diet, I just have loads of food allergies and some things I won’t do…vegan cheese is one! 🤮 it hasn’t improved in about the 25 years I couldn’t have it. Now, I’m happy to say I can have a little bit of real cheese
I do similar, but I puree it all together without filtering and add nutritional yeast, garlic powder, chili powder, a little hot sauce, and other spices and use it as a dip.
No it has gotten much better! Mexicana Vegan is great and melts beautifully. Cathedral City do a mature cheddar and it's... Definitely mature lol. Doesn't melt well, but the flavour is pretty bang on.@@lilacscentedfushias1852
I think you're meant to be eating a lot more fruit and nuts for snacks and such between meals. Eating just veggies and only at three meals a day, especially at 'normal' portion sizes will leave you with a serious caloric deficit. Seriously, I think you should be grazing at stuff all day.
He's not bumming it out in a random jungle though, so he would probably go bankrupt.
yxes he fed up he did it without anyx research
@@TheCotziyou expected any different lol?
people ACTUALLY do this as a diet for life. there are calories on this shit, just not a lot, so he has to eat constantly. Specially nuts that have a lot of calories. Also, you need a nutritionist if you gonna do this for more than a week.. It IS doable, but its just torture.
@@lincolnnoronha4128 indeed, I prefer to enjoy my food for it's taste and enjoyment. Not just for nutrition. If someone said I couldn't enjoy eating, they might as well tell me to stop breathing. Life is more than just surviving.
The irony of this video being sponsored by Better help, he's gonna need it after doing this.
Nooooooo!!! Better Help is terrible at helping people.
@@c0mpu73rguydo you actually know that or is it just a bandwagon?
@@TheKingOfBeans Several testimonies of people that tried it said that they overcharge for very short sessions and on top of that sold their users personal data according to... The government? Wow, this went further than I thought:
www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/03/ftc-says-online-counseling-service-betterhelp-pushed-people-handing-over-health-information-broke
Well considering BetterHelp were caught selling data to Meta and other Social Media companies for targeted ads... that's a bit controversial.
👏 Bravo👏
5:44 "Partnering with BetterHelp means I don't have to do any questionable brand partnerships on the channel"
Proceeds to do a questionable BetterHelp partnership on the channel anyway.
Not compared to "Memu" lol
Glad someone else noticed this, better help are awful!
Maybe do a week on carnivore diet to replenish meat
+ 1 million XD
Was thinking exactly this! The BBBE challenge? Beef (chicken, pork lamb and fish incl.), Bacon Butter and Eggs... but for a week instead of 90 days or whatever people normally do.
That sounds like hell in the opposite direction.
@claritey it's not. It's the healthiest diet you can eat.
@@matane2465 According to who? My sister has been on a carnivore only diet going on 5 years now. She thinks she's the healthiest she's ever been but she's depressed and tired all the time, she looks sick, her face is all sunken in and her hair is falling out. She blames all this stuff on multiple self diagnosed "autoimmune disorders" and thinks the diet is healing her but she's just getting worse the longer she's on it and didn't have any of those symptoms before she was on the diet. The carnivore community is also strangely cult-like and political. She can't have her own opinion until she consults them.
Regardless, what I was referring to when I said it sounds like hell in the opposite direction had nothing to do with the healthiness of the diet. If you are on a super restrictive diet where you only eat one type of food for every meal and deny yourself things you would normally eat you're going to get bored with it very fast. The more you deny yourself of foods you love the more hellish it becomes over time which is exactly what the guy in the video experienced. He would not enjoy eating meat for every meal any more than raw vegan.
Mike, never stop doing what you're doing, you're brilliant at it, and all your loyal followers will always support you! Great week on...glad you're OK though! 👍 😁
Raw veganism scares me actually. It borders on eating disorder level of restriction. I mean, cooking actually makes some vitamins like Lycopene available, and increases the amount of nutrients you can digest because the food is partially digested already.
This seems like a diet that someone would take if they had absolutely so access to cooking fire or a stove, or someone with an extremely rare digestive issue, or someone with an actual eating disorder.
I think doing these extreme diets are a type of eating disorder on their own but it's much more than that, the communities that promote these diets seem to be cult-like and have certain political leanings and beliefs.
My sister did raw vegan for 5 years but got out of it because she said the community was very cult like and overly sjw. She went straight to a carnivore diet which she's been doing for the last 4 years. She doesn't think so but from my point of view the carnivore community is not only just as cult like as the raw vegans but she's adopted an insufferable anti-vaxxer, anti-woke, conspiracy theorist worldview along with her crazy diet. If it was actually helping her get to a healthy weight or alleviated her health issues that I could understand sticking with the diet but she looks sick, her face is sunken in and her hair is falling out. She's 4 years younger than me but she looks a lot older.
The specific carnivore diet she follows was created to be an elimination diet so she could determine what her sensitives are then slowly reintroduce different types of foods, it was never meant to be sustainable long term. It screams eating disorder with her sticking to it this long.
@@claritey I agree. I think the mindset of the person entering in an extremely restricted diet makes the difference. If the person is susceptible to an eating disorder, then letting go of the control that these diets offer is very difficult.
As someone with mental health issues mainly related to PTSD, I can see the draw of having control over something when everything else seems to be falling apart. Plus, if I were vulnerable to the draw if a club or group of people who follow the diet, I could possibly start to believe what nonsense they were spewing just to fit in and feel welcomed.
Every diet, as long as it makes a person feel healthy and doesn't harm a person physically or mentally, is good. Once it becomes obsessive and harms a person, then it's an issue.
I hope your sister gets the help she needs emotionally and physically and can regain her health again.
@@applegal3058 Thank you. I hope so too. I feel like I've lost my sister in a lot of ways because she no longer has her own opinions or identity, she's just following a crowd to fit in.
@@claritey that's got to be hard. I hope you take care of yourself. They say sometimes all we can control is our own reactions and how we live. Although it is hard to not be able to change your sister's perspective and how she wants to live, even if it's harming her. Perhaps grief counseling or some sort of group therapy with others who are dealing with family members who have eating disorders can help?
@@applegal3058 Thank you, that is very wise advice.
Christ on a pogo stick Mike. This was like watching self flagellation. Much respect for getting through 7 days of that. Didn't channel 4 do a critical documentary about said counselling company? Anyway best wishes. Don't do that ever again.
I am a vegan but there's no way I could do a raw diet. I haven't even watched it yet and I already feel malnourished.
Very glad to see you're posting again Mike!
The basic gist of it was that you needed a lot more protein and fat to offset the lack of calories that you would have been getting from carbs. I'm not focusing on the nutritional deficiency aspect of that, or on how it wouldn't be long-term sustainable, just on the fact that you would have felt a lot fuller for a lot longer during this experiment. (Blending up nuts and oil into sauces/dips for every meal - yes, every! - would have accomplished that, and it would have made the food more interesting in terms of taste.) That said, you are absolutely correct about the cost, the time sink, and how much knowledge it takes to pull it off. Those factors alone would (and should) put off most people.
However, one thing that I'll note for me personally is that learning vegan cooking (not raw) actually improved my omnivore diet a lot. I know about a dozen ways to substitute an egg and a hundred uses for oatmeal. 😋 Believe it or not, it can be cheaper in many instances, too. (I make a mean lentil burger, and it's dirt cheap compared to beef!) So I think there's merit in experiencing new types of cuisine, even if they're not ideal on their own. You can always steal the best bits of what you've learned and incorporate that in your preferred style of cooking.
There isn’t any digestible protein in a plant based diet. Your body eventually starts eating itself which is why these vegans are so miserable all the time.
Just face it, every single meal is a salad constructed a different way,
Incredibly creative but yeah... 100% 😂
Chia porridge for breakfast might have been more filling, like overnight oats, which you could also have had
What’s chia pudding like to you? I tried it once and couldn’t get past the sliminess.
Oats would have helped a lot, raw vegan is extreme and I say that as a vegetarian who's close to fully plant based.
Yes he didnt do much thinking with the options 😮
try an overnight soaked nut mixture with dried fruit and grated carrot with chopped apple. Like swedish muesli without the oatmeal. Though you could add oatmeal to the recipe and just let it cold soak overnight. add some cinnamon to it. I have done that and its good. Not as good as cooked but better than a smoothie.
You're not eating enough man. All my vegan mates eat huge amounts of fruit, salad, and nuts. And they'll have snacks like dried fruit, or nuts through the day to keep them going.
A little bowl of fruit for breakfast will last for about 2 hours max before you're starving 😂
I would've had a burger waiting for me just after midnight on the last day.
One of my favorite raw vegan "recipes" is banana nice cream. So just take frozen bananas and a little bit coconut milk or cream and whilst not raw I love it so a splash of vanilla. Blend it up until it has the consistency of soft serve, its so freaking good , I could eat it almost every day in the warm months
You did not only do raw vegan, you practically went cold turkey on sugar and coffein. That alone is hell and probably accounts for most of your problems and you feeling so tired and cold and ill. Coffein and sugar withdrawal.
Also why no oatmeal or other cereals for more easy carbohydrates and energy?
Wouldn’t all those bananas and citrus fruits provide sugar?
@@saraquill But it's way less and is wrapped up in many other things, which prevents a sugar hit or rush. Industrial sugar, corn syrup, even honey just hit different.
Oats are technically not raw
My mom been attempting this for like 20 days, and she’s been slipping.
Most veg didn't exist a few hundred years ago, humans evolved to eat seafood, bugs and whatever eggs and carcass we could find, eating only raw vegan is tough for a body not evolved for it.
She's strong for holding on that long. Still wouldn't recommend though.
The severe lack of protein (hypoproteinemia) in that menu would see him severely unwell in a short period of time.
That is not lack of protein. It is some people's bodies having trouble digesting protein.
There is no word in the English language for "protein deficiency". Caloric yes
@@debrablakeley2789 Protein deficiency is an actual medical condition. Hypoproteinemia. Look it up.
@@debrablakeley2789The human body can only absorb protein from animals.
Our stomachs aren’t built to live off only plants like cows are. This is the reason why people can only do veganism for a limited period of time.
You live off the fat reserves of your own body.
Look at a any "vegan" animal they eat all day long Vs a lion twice a week you must have to graze constantly.
In an animal state, yes. But we have blenders, etc.
I went on diets in the past and had vivid hallucinations about chips etc all the time
Sounds like a normal day
This sounded like pure hell
I was locked in a cell and I took those L’s to hell and back
Sounded like pure farts to me
I don’t imagine his 🚽 liked it much either.
He literally didn’t eat enough. He needs to eat like five times the amount of food to feel good and full. I was raw for half a year and once I realized how much chewing I needed to do I stopped cause it took way too long to eat. But if you eat a large variety of food and eat enough there is nothing wrong with it.
Even if you snack nonstop all day this type of diet would likely lead to malnutrition over time. We cook food because it enables our bodies to get more out of the food. The bioavailability of calories and nutrients in raw food is very low compared to cooked food. Even if you take dozens of supplements you will not get enough from it.
Got to say i really like them long week on videos. And huge respect for this challenge! Have to test few stuff you made.
Cashews must be cooked in order not to be toxic. That’s why you never see them raw.
Serious, no raw cashews in the UK? I have a bag of them right now (I like roasting my own)
@@martineo9638 Cashews are prepared for consumption in one of two ways: raw and roasted. The phrase “raw cashew” is misleading, as all cashews fit for consumption have been roasted once to remove both the cashew shell and the shell's harmful oils. Roasted cashews are roasted a second time to alter or enhance the cashews' flavor.
Can eat raw but only certain amount or get stomach ache
9:33 i kept forgetting things couldn't be heated/cooked and was confused when i saw him assembling this on the plate and then horrified when I remembered it was going to be eaten like that. cold. soggy. raw. the idea of that meal was gross enough lol but i thought it would have eggplant lasagna vibes when cooked. nope. just ate it as is. god bless raw vegans bc i could neverrrr.
Could have riced some cauliflower for that wrap.
I'm not going to pounce in defense of raw veganism, but I also don't think this was the best approach. Away from the calorie deficit, I would guarantee - as someone who typically eats meat - you weren't getting enough protein, and that much extra fiber at once is taxing. More nuts and grains would've helped you feel more full, and oats can be prepared without cooking. You just soak them overnight in the fridge.
why didn't he have dressing? vinegar, herbs, cold pressed oil would make good dressing.
He made dressings. He made oil based dressings. Did you watch it?
He did? Watch the whole video first mate 😊
Don't envy trying something like this, but I think a big thing to help this out would be prepping stuff ahead of time. Even if it's not full meal prepping but like, getting vegetables and stuff broken down that can be easy to put into something on the fly. Pickling things so you are getting different flavour profiles. I thought the kimchi and sauerkraut were great ideas but didn't seem like they were used enough. Still probably pretty grim, but prepping stuff ahead would give more time at actual meal time to prep things in interesting ways, whether seasoning or whatever it could be.
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Diet dressings blend avacado with oranges etc and pour over salad
Unless you need to go raw, for some reason, I feel like raw vegans is kinda like homeopathy for vegans. Vegan can be delicious and great for you, but raw just feels like self induced torture.
Also good luck to your comments section. Just uttering "vegan" in the first place brings out the drama.
You will need BetterHelp to cope with the trauma of doing this week on
With enough MSG, any vegan dish is edible.
Title typo: it says "in" almost killed me, instead of "it" almost killed me.
The lack of garlic in this video makes cry 😢
I've not watched it all yet but this would kill me. My brain doesn't register food as a meal if it isn't hot, I swear cold food doesn't fill me up or ever feel like a meal
The commentary about the apricot was VERY unexpected. LOL!
As much as I love raw veggies, I can't digest them, but I love how creative you got with them
I can't believe you didn't use the veggetti
It's interesting how few calories are actually in veggies.That courgetti pesto probably only had around 150 calories. I suspect you were in a calorie defecit and burning stored fat for energy. Which the body does not want to do which would explain feeling hungry and generally lousy
i think you did raw vegan justice considering this is basically the dietary equivalent of gnawing on the front lawn
I completely understand your phobia Mike, I developed the same after working in a call centre where clients shouted at us almost all day every day. For years afterwards I struggled with answering the phone, especially if I couldn't work out who was calling.
At least we know you ain’t getting scurvy any time soon 😂
Man, that's hardcore! Respect for trying this diet.
This just rings that "Lose a Stone" diet you did in the Channel Awesome days. You were absolutely clawing that week.
Does unpasteurized beer count?
does wine made from grapes?
@CozzyB dang well there goes my all beer vegan raw diet
Don't some beers still use isinglass? That would be a pain to have to constantly check for.
Lack of vit b12 (which you normally get from meat) probably contributed to low mood :(
Probably not. It usually takes a few years to get vitamin b12 deficiency.
As much as I am not a vegan, I can kind of understand the various ways a vegan diet would appeal to people. The "raw" aspect of this, though, I don't quite understand. What is the point of not allowing yourself to cook your own food, or to use food that has been cooked or heated? That just seems masochistic.
Years ago, another UA-camr tried this diet for a week. At the beginning, she interviewed a raw vegan “chef” whose justification was “animals don’t cook. Hence, we shouldn’t either. This ignores how our mouths are adapted to eating cooked things.
Ha ha ha... and I suppose that "chef" also lives naked in a burrow, mates once a year, and communicates using only grunts and growls...
I stopped eating meat nearly 40 years ago. Don't miss it. But, then, wasn't that big of a meat eater to begin with.
Never in my life, not even living in the US State of Wyoming, where men are men and sheep are afraid, have I been as badly attacked for being a vegetarian as I have been by vegans.
I don't care what other people eat, my husband lives on meat. I just want to be left alone with my food choices. No doubt there are vegans out there who don't feel the need to attack vegetarians but I've never met a vegan who wasn't a fascist nutjob who demanded other people live by their rules and their rules, alone.
I have a friend who's vegan for OCD reasons. She has joked a few times that she "doesn't even get to be morally superior!!" about it. She sometimes hopes she can manage her OCD enough to eat meat again (though she says she'll probably never be able to tolerate eggs again lol). So there's at least 1! :D
Here in the US, we have something called "sun tea." Which is technically raw because you brew it by sitting it in the sun for nearly a whole day. So you could have had your tea without cheating. You get a BIG clear container with a lid and you place 3-5 tea bags and water inside and then sit it out on the patio. You can add lemon slices if you'd like.
It's only worth it if you make a big batch because it takes so much longer than boiling water.
On second thought, I'm not sure this would work in winter. Maybe set it by a window inside instead.
Raw does not mean just salad and fruit. Make your 25% beans, tea, and a bit entire grains. Also, eat WAY more! You shouldn’t be hungry. Raw is very expensive where I am and in the winter it’s unattainable. Also, ice burg lettuce?? You may as well just drink water. Zero nutrition, flavour and satisfaction.
I’m like this was a poorly thought out way to approach being vegan. This was a disingenuous video and the comments are just as ignorant!
Protein deficiency speed run poor Mike. Asking a carnivore kitty if they can go vegan 🤣 meoww nope!
The pre-fire neanderthal diet
Its such a strange concept the voluntry de-evolution of people intellectually when it comes to eating food. If it wasnt for humans discovering cooked meat a quarter of a million years ago, what spieces would have evolved first?
Hey Mike have you ever tried the new Sainsbury’s own brand of products for the week on it’s been 4 years since the last time you did it
I’m vegan and love it but raw vegan is too difficult! Tho if you look at people like Raw vegan Christina and Freelee the banana girl and other well known vegans they have much more food in their diets - I think your salads and main meals could have been a lot larger as you were eating very low cal foods…They make interesting sauces etc too but I still think it’s a very hard diet and although I keep meaning to do it for a week or so I still haven’t😂😂😂🇬🇧
waiting for "a week on: regular diet of a UK citizen"
Nothing but beans on toast and cups of tea :P
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It would be interesting to know how many air miles the imported items clock up.
The first time I have seen you look quite unwell on one of your challenges
Mike - please do a “week off after a week on” video… love to see you purge and pig out after the sacrifices you make for my entertainment in these videos. You wouldn’t catch me doing Vegan for a day, let alone raw vegan for a week!! I take my hat off to you Sir!
Lost five pounds without pooping sounds like hell
Great video as always
Just sat watching some of your old videos, currently watching the week on food beginning with letter A, are you going to do other week ons like this and go through the alphabet?
0:43 i'm honestly really shocked they wont even try bug produce. i know a couple stout vegans who have SILK and they wont throw it out because it's "bug products" but wont ever have honey. barmy.
I know you lost a lot of support and respect for supporting Temu but glad to see you back doing week ons
A man needs a raw vegan diet like a fish needs a quadbike!
"I still have about 300 bananas left"
Would have been nice to see your entire banana hoard, I'm sure even DK would be proud.
The only thing i could think of to spice it up is perhaps peanut butter from your nuts to go with apple and banana. Or veggie and red pepper hummus could have been a game changer. Either way, well done i would barely last a single meal😅
Any update Mike what was the weight loss after the bathroom visits? Lol
That "pasta" looks rank. You can call it a lasagna or a curry but it's all just another salad, actually. I think I could do this except for that corgette-pesto thing. Or maybe I just think it looks not that bad because I haven't eaten many vegetables this winter and I'm craving some.
As a vegan, I think I’d rather eat raw liver than raw kale. Absolutely foul
Massage it with salt and lemon juice or applecider vinegar to make it more tender then top it with a tahini dressing
Eating a nice bacon cheese burger from 5 guys while watching this. I feel your pain man 😄 Great video Mike.
On the plus side, at least you accumulated plenty of Clubcard points
You don't even have rice to get you through. This week looks so sad.
amazing week on! Your week on is the best content on youtube ever thank you
I usually find SOMETHING in your week-ons that I find appetising, but this raw vegan malarkey - Nooooooo way ! Here's to the next one Mike ! 🙂
You should have bought some sliced water chestnuts and added them to your salads. They add a lovely crunch and they taste great.
Imagine someone using a thermometer to make sure that their food does not go above a specific degree 😅
Thanks for doing this so I will never have to. This lifestyle is insane, not to mention expensive. Screw that.
Hope you checked to make sure the oil you bought is cold pressed
What chance do average people that work 50/60 hours a week have of living on this diet if you don’t. Seems impossible unless you’re an LA housewife with a chef
Overnight oats! Would have been a good one with chia seeds x
Yes! I was thinking that as well. Add some nut butter to jazz it up a bit.
Oats are technically notvraw
I know someone suggested in comments that you make the 'week on' a 1 video thing. But I prefer the 7 video format better. You must've also noticed that you obviously received more views when split over 7. Would you consider going back to 7? And only edit it into 1 video, just for your paying 'members' to privately view.
Im not a vegan, let alone a raw vegan haha! And I wouldn't enjoy this challenge but it could have been made so much more tolerable!
Pico De Gallo with nori as chips (tomatoes, onion, coriander, jalapeño, and lime juice)
Guac (Avocado, corriander onion, lime juice and salt - if allowed) with nori chips or carrot sticks etc
Mango salsa (basically the pico de Gallo but with mango as well and could also add capsicum and avo)
Cheese made by cashew nuts and lemon juice
frozen nice cream (blended frozen bananas, flavoured with fruit) could even make smoothies and freeze into ice lollies.
vegan raw cheesecake (could use raw cacao and dates to make a choc version or berries for a berry version)
peanut butter (could even make a jam with blended berries and lemon juice and a few dates)
Sushi (which you did but could have made cauliflower rice and added some from of vinegar and liquid aminos if it qualifies)
I once went to a vegan raw cafe and they served a sprouted bread with coconut bacon could be interesting to make!
Anything to make it more tolerable otherwise that would have been horrible!!
Oh goodness this looked like hell well done Mike for getting through the week I could not of done it
What was the weightloss amount? Or did I miss it?
At 47:42 over 5lb
@@simonday9013 Thank you 🙏
h@@simonday9013 he didn't lose anything
i love your personality!!
You’re a better man then me mate. I respect diets like these but NOPE I like beef too much to even consider doing this week on🤣
Long time watcher, really enjoy the content. Keep up the good work Mike brother!
Please do a week on the pantry challenge next!
and yet we still have not seen a week on gin
Still watching so not sure if you did it yet, but you could make homemade salsa and then use salted cucumber slices as crisps to make some nachos
I tried super hard to see something anything in fact that I could say yummy 🤢 holy moly I just felt ill.i seriously have to admire you for giving this weekon a go.so well done you mike. question? Will I try this.noooooooooooooo!! Positivity peace and love ♥️
Maybe try a week on Iceland next. Many live on freezer food and it's often works out really cheap pear meal.
He's done Iceland twice
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Ok that's fair. Only discovered this channel a couple days ago. Not seen everything.
@ashleycordery2976 Hope you subbed! Enjoy catching up on his stuff if ya have. His "Informercialism" playlist is one of my faves on all of youtube lol.
One of his best weeks on