What I Eat in a Day 10 Years Raw dinner at Markus Cara's

Welcome back! Today we are in Las Vegas and I'm bringing you guys through a day of eating as I'm about to hit my 10-year raw food anniversary. I went to an only raw food diet September 1st, 2016 you guys and nothing has literally changed my life more from the inside out to fixing all my health problems, making me feel my best self, making my skin glow and transforming my outer world. It's the reason I moved to America. I run this YouTube channel and today we're in Vegas to interview Marcus and Cara, the legends from The Healthy Life and I'm also interviewing Lissa and Nate, the OG's of raw food, the goats of raw food and so many other incredible people. Today we interviewed Wally, he's 82 years young, I'll pop him on the screen. So full of life, so full of energy and he's been raw for 26 years so eating only real food can totally change your life like it's done mine so let's start our day of eating. All right what I love most about this lifestyle is it's ultra hydrating so the fruits, the vegetables, they have just the enzymes and high water content especially things like watermelon and coconut water and being here in Las Vegas in the summertime you guys, I find it so dry. I've never actually had such a hard time getting hydrated in my whole life so I've been going crazy lately the last couple days with the coconut water so cheers you guys. So good, mother nature's electrolytes. Why do we need all this stuff with fake dyes and this and that in the stores when literally God gave us everything we need. This is so good so I've been having coconut water when I wake up and then I'm going to make some fresh watermelon juice and I'm excited because all the recipes I'm making in this video are brand new and they're some of my best recipes ever and speaking of best recipes I just created a brand new ebook, my all-time 25 favorite raw food recipes ever and these include many brand new recipes. They are all my staples so you can get that right now and something massive is happening for 10 days only so it's over in a few days the plant-based bundle where you get close to three thousand dollars worth of content, 96 ebooks, courses and guides from your plant-based raw vegan and vegan creators and it's worth almost three thousand dollars you guys and it's 50 bucks only so once it's gone it's gone it's so valuable so many recipes so many fitness plans just things to help you live a better life and it'll last you years so go grab it support your girl put the link down below and let's make some watermelon juice and I'm happy to share you guys I recently got blood labs back and they were all excellent my A1c is 5.1 and I've learned a lot in health over the last few years you know one of the most important things I've learned is it's not only food you know especially if you want to regulate and have good blood sugar healthy organs a healthy body movement is so important too so I try and walk after every single meal I try and get 10 to 20 000 steps a day and put in about a one hour workout and movement has totally transformed my life lately so we're not stagnant creatures we're not meant to sit around a lot and it really just helps with your mental health and everything as well so my A1c was 5.1 which is excellent so I'm really happy about that that's excellent blood sugar control my triglycerides are perfect my liver my kidneys everything so I really feel like health as well what is better than that I'm really grateful for that and I feel like at 43 the things I do now are an investment into my future so I know I say this sometimes but I'm going to say it again that I think a lot of people plan time thinking about their retirement as far as money goes you know and their 401k and the real estate investments and this and that and there's nothing wrong with that like we all want an abundant life that's great but we all have to think about our health so the things we do now and the things we do in our 40s and our 50s it's kind of like an investment or withdrawal and where you're going to be when you're at your 60s 70s so that's my why for being healthy today because I want to be really healthy when I'm in my older years all right look at this watermelon and we still have more to juice is one of the most yielding juices or fruits for getting juice out of it look at that mother nature's electrolytes again 92% water watermelon is and it just hydrates you even more in my opinion on a cellular level than water you know it's great and it's high in electrolytes and just makes you feel amazing so I'm going to go enjoy a watermelon juice and then we'll turn on the camera next when I'm ready to make something all right next up is one of my all-time favorite smoothies it's delicious even my husband loves it and it's the most beautiful smoothie ever we're going to use a beautiful blue spirulina color to just give it that pizzazz and it looks so nice and this is really easy and really filling so we're going to do one cup of plant-based milk I have some almond milk right here we're going to do one ripe banana we're going to do one scoop of raw almond butter a good source of protein and it'll fill you right up we are going to do one teaspoon of maca powder which is an adaptogen and if you're feeling stressed it'll help you feel less stressed and it's really beneficial and it tastes great it adds a really good flavor put that in and we're going to do a couple dashes of ceylon cinnamon good for blood sugar and we are going to do one scoop of vanilla protein powder of your choice and we will do one and a half teaspoons of the blue spirulina powder this will just give it the nicest color in the world you guys and then I will just get one frozen banana to add in as well and a little bit of ice all right we have the perfect smoothie look at that and I like my smoothie stick oh my gosh you guys the best smoothie in the whole wide world this is probably my all-time favorite it is so delicious this is magnificent it's so good you guys got to try it so there's my current go-to smoothie all right guys we're chilling outside here's my husband Ed if you guys haven't met him before and I just made this budget juice recipe so this recipe all this juice only cost three dollars if I were to buy this in say New York or any big juice bar this would be like 18 bucks so this is one head of romaine one cucumber half a lemon and four stalks of celery so this is really good and my husband and I are alone on this vacation in Vegas yep without the kids so this is nice right yep and how does it feel I'm going to ask you a couple questions I asked you what do my viewers want me to ask you because you guys don't see him much okay so they said what's the hardest or no no what what's the hardest part about being married to a vlogging youtuber just how I can't travel as much as I want with you yeah because this is so fun you being on this trip and it sometimes if you guys have kids you realize it's just chaos in the house when you have kids right right and to have some time alone it's nice to just like rekindle the relationship you know like feel connected again without being asked for something by your kids every five seconds it happens often uh what do I do that drives you crazy I'll have to really think about this one it's okay I'm not gonna get mad what's something people assume about me that's completely wrong I'm trying to think what people would assume about you uh maybe some people assume that I'm really eating the cooked food in the kitchen when I make it for you guys oh maybe some people think assume that you don't do this diet all the time or something that's not true you actually do the diet like and it's not you're not just doing 80 raw you're doing like 100 raw yeah I haven't seen you eat anything cooked in well a long time it would have been when my parents were that when my parents died last year and then going through legal battles and remember I was really but that's like a year vegan indian food in chipotle that's like a year ago right yeah no I'm dedicated because it makes me feel so good right yeah and how do you feel like because you're having my blue smoothie you drink the juices actually good do you think that you'd be having these things if you weren't with me no right that would probably be a beer right now probably be a peroni I'm thinking maybe a guinness in this weather I think a peroni you know but I'm proud of us because we used to drink together every single day we would drink every single day a bottle of wine a bottle of wine or two barbecue beers and it feels better to wake up without that I feel a lot better not drinking beer because I was drinking maybe one or two beers a day I feel better not drinking beer I do I never thought I'd see the day it's just I didn't feel terrible drinking beer but like I feel much better not drinking and I like how you're never like really dehydrated as except when you're in Las Vegas in the summer but other than that like I don't ever feel dehydrated or anything which is good and I never thought that we would quit daily drinking so I'm proud of us yeah and especially as parents we have kids I don't want to be like rushing to my addiction yeah and like short with them because it's like I need my wine get out of here I don't want to be that kind of mom part of the reason I completely stopped is just you don't have time to to enjoy a beer you have to have like total peace and like 20 minutes half an hour of just chilling and that doesn't exist anymore um well let me ask you a couple more questions chat GBT they're bringing up nama why do you think it's built so well we'll leave that one out we did a review on that I mean I honestly think it's a great great engineering and great design it's the best juicer so that's what I used to make this I'll put a quote down below if you guys want to save 60 bucks and did you ever think I'd still be raw vegan after 10 years no I mean it's uh you have to really learn how to do it properly right you had to go through that learning curve for it it took like a few years to do it properly right to figure everything out do you ever get like bitter or mad that I'm wrong that I don't drink anymore or eat like steaks and stuff do you ever feel like you wish I did no no that's good no I don't miss uh you walking around hunched over hung over hung over literally oh my gosh uh we need to like not normalize drinking like the culture we grew up in like it's just so normalized right and one more thing I wanted to ask you I want to ask you I know when I went raw vegan I noticed huge changes right away like I felt so different did you notice differences in me going raw versus before no well it took a long time right it was a process you were trying all different types of diets so it was tough to track right true you know like you tried a lot of diets I tried a lot of them with you too yeah because I had a lot of health problems after May was born yeah and Ed was right along by my side like at one point I even thought I had like major parasites and we were like in the bathtub making a bathtub of milk because I heard that's how it gets it like you were really by my side trying to help me I've been supportive yeah well cheers love cheers if we and we can make it work and you're not raw vegan right yeah yeah all right so it's the afternoon we're getting ready to go to Marcus and Kara's house soon I'm going to bring them on camera for you guys so I'm so excited and I'll show you guys what we're eating and ask them some questions in this video but um I want to fill up first so I have energy for filming and even though she told me to come hungry I need to have energy so I can perform at my best in the interviews for you guys so here I'm going to show you guys this is what I've been making every single day this is my favorite summer recipe my husband absolutely loves this as well and my daughter loves it and anybody we have somebody staying at our house she loves it no matter what your lifestyle you will love this it's my ultimate veggie dip it's an herbal summer veggie dip and it hits it is the most delicious veggie dip I've ever made you guys there's so much flavor and it is not complicated to make so I also like to have a side of kale chips with my veggie plate lately so I'll show you how to make this huge stacked veggie plate and this very easy dip and these kale chips my friend got for me here in Vegas from the Heavenly Vegan I think so shout out Heavenly Vegan those are delicious I haven't made my own kale chips yet but there's lots of places you can find them Etsy or different places if you don't know how to make your own so let's get this veggie plate going all right here's my secret recipe for the dip amazing so one cup of soaked cashews those were soaked for two hours and then rinsed and strained we're going to do the juice of two lemons to one cup of water usually I use about a half to two thirds a cup and then one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar one teaspoon of onion powder one tablespoon of raw tahini one teaspoon of dijon mustard one small garlic clove half a teaspoon of sea salt half a teaspoon of black pepper all right so we're going to blend that and then we're going to do one more thing okay so now for the final part of this which is the best we're going to pulse in after because you still want to see the herbs so you don't want to blend fully two tablespoons of fresh dill one tablespoon of parsley and one tablespoon of chives sometimes I like to use a little bit more just because I love the herbs and then we will pulse these in okay guys here we go nice herbal summer dip it's absolutely delicious and divine look at that I'm so excited so usually I enjoy a big huge plate of this at the end of the day with my family with a side of kale chips some olives and then sometimes some raw crackers and sometimes some raw cashews as well and then usually that does it for me but if I go for a big 10,000 step evening walk then sometimes I'll make my avocado pudding which was which is one of my most popular recipes ever everybody in my private community absolutely loves it it's so good I'll pop that on the screen right now so I'm gonna go enjoy this with my husband and then we're gonna bring the camera back on at Marcus and Cara's house all right we are at Marcus and Cara's house and Cara just made the best spring roll recipe it was absolutely delicious so I enjoyed that as part of my what I eat in a day with you guys and I wanted to bring her in for some inspiration and off this video so I want to ask you say something were to happen to both of us tomorrow you know we're to transition to the other side what are maybe one two or three pieces of health advice or wisdom or things you'd want to leave behind with everybody watching something that works for me and I swear I think it's autophagy it's not overeating and it's practicing not eating and I'm not pushing an eating disorder I'm I'm more pushing a reboot for the body and you know a cleaning you know reboot is cleaning you know and I seriously think I clean all these toxins on a regular basis out of me because I try to stop eating at six o'clock I try I stop I stop eating at six o'clock and I don't eat until the next day 11 12 I look at the clock I'm like okay it's two o'clock and it's not that I try not to eat it's just I'm not I'm not hungry I'm busy and I try not to go too late you know of course I'm a bodybuilder too so I have to eat so I have to eat but you know uh so if I quit eating at six o'clock and sometimes I do I am hungry I'll eat I'll do my smoothie in the morning but I do practice autophagy three to four times a week and I'll go through those hours without eating I think it's important versus if you were still eating like laying right before bed you know a lot of people have a habit of like eating before bed I don't think you'd be aging this well right well when you're sleeping that's when everything is that's when the process starts that's when the repair process everything is starting to you know just repair and clean and if you have a full stomach your body says we can't repair we can't clean we have to digest the food and it requires so much energy digesting your food and now you're interrupting your sleep too you know you're not getting a good quality of sleep because your body's busy digesting food that's the worst thing to do that's another thing the worst thing you could do is eat late or go to bed on a full stomach best thing go to bed on an empty stomach practice autophagy if you don't know what autophagy is you need to know what autophagy is we're in 2026 you need to know what autophagy is by now good advice carol and we all want to be like you look at you and look what the raw food does you have so much energy yes i do all right well this has been amazing this was a great what i eat a day i hope you guys enjoyed it thanks cara for welcoming us into your home and we did a great recipe so stay tuned subscribe for that and we love you guys we'll see you in the next one bye