The Whole, Fresh, & Raw Diet (WFR)

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This diet is deceptively simple, which may lead you to doubt its effectiveness. It has a very limited set of rules, but if you are fat and follow them, you will lose weight. You will concurrently maximize your health and well-being. It can be easily modified to become a mass-gain program and still maintain the health benefit compromise. Please ask for experiences and opinion on our forum – I have never seen this applied without dramatic results, and it is pretty close to the Holy Grail of weight loss diets: You really can eat as much as you want.

Here are the rules:

1. Every day, drink at least one gallon of pure water.

2. Eat whatever you want as often as you want as long as it is

As whole as possible
As fresh as possible
As raw as possible

That’s it. Add a little exercise and watch the pounds come off. You won’t endure any crazy-assed metabolic adaptation period and associated mental and physical malaise. You will never be hungry. Your physical health will improve. Who needs the regiment of diet authors and PhD’s and gobbledygook-laden study after contradictory study? Just do what your grandma told you to do.

As a professional Road Warrior, my coworkers consider themselves in the worst job category when it comes to diet – they have to eat in restaurants at least 4 days a week. A typical diet day for me when on the road will serve as a good example of how you can ignore these self-imposed obstacles and make some progress.

Every morning, I leave the hotel an hour before I need to be at the client site. I go directly to the nearby grocery store. If it’s an upscale sort of place, they’ll have a nice salad bar. Load up on baby spinach, chick peas, broccoli and carrots, tomatoes and sliced summer squash. Dump some oil and vinegar on it if you want – those are pretty whole, fresh, and raw if you want to stretch the definition a little.

Fill up a carton with sliced boiled eggs. Not raw, but unless you are Rocky as raw as possible. Fill another one with sliced pineapple, fresh strawberries, whatever catches your eye as long as it follows the rules. Go over to the deli counter and get a pound of nice rare sliced London Broil. Get a bag of raw unsalted cashews, walnuts, or almonds from the bulk food aisle. Mix it up every day – better to get a wide variety of WFR foods, in my opinion.

Most important, I lay out fifty-nine cents for a gallon of distilled water. I make sure it’s gone by the end of the day.

I’ll carry my bag with me throughout the day, and eat what I want when I want. Experience will show which items do not last through a hot day – cucumbers, for example are a bad choice unless you have a refrigerator or intend to eat them right away. That’s it – no muss, no fuss, no counting carbs or calories, and a much better success rate than any of the commercial diets – don’t believe me? Ask on our forum. So far, 100% of the people who have given this method an honest shot lost weight, felt better, and were never hungry.

The reason why is simple thermodynamics plus basic human nutrition. We are used to consuming a huge amount of nutritionally threadbare but calorically dense food. In most cases, your typical fatty would lose weight if he simply stopped all the cokes, sweet teas, and assorted liquid sugar and replaced it with the pure water. On WFR, the rules do not permit processed sugar. Some may sneak in (ask a diabetic – it’s everywhere), but once you identify it, just eliminate that particular brand from your playlist.

You will feel better immediately for a bunch of reasons; most important is probably the water. Most people are terminally dehydrated. Get your gallon a day and you will not be. The constant eating of WFR foods in wide variety will provide a steady stream of macro and micronutrients in the form that your body was designed to use: real food. No need for any more vitamins or multiminerals, so you save a buck while you are at it.

This diet can be modified for mass gain while still retaining the health compromise benefit. Here’s how: Stroessen’s Law. Drink one gallon of whole milk per day in addition to the WFR diet, while you are training hard, frequently, and with high volume. If you can get unpastuerized and organic, that’s better. If not, that’s why “as possible” is at the end of every rule. I’ve used WFR + Stroessen to go up two full PL weight classes in 90 days on multiple occasions. While this is neither recommended or healthy, if you choose to make such a move for athletic glory, at least you are minimizing the risks via WFR.