08/15/10 @ 3:03PM EST
posted by will

To sum it up: failure. There are two days left and I'm as pasty as ever. I was hoping to update more frequently as I turned differenet degrees of orange, but no such luck. You can see how my upper leg (never gets tan) looked compared to a carrot on day 0, and it looks the same now. I had also heard that your palms and feet get orange first, but no sign there either.

Rules update. Upon further evaluation, we decided to get rid of the weird beverage rules and increase the amount from 50% to 60%.

Self-regulation. At first I was weighing everything I ate, to ensure that I would be eating at least 60% by weight. After the first week, I found that as long as I was eating at least 12 carrots a day, I just wouldn't eat less than 65% by weight. Carrots are surprisingly filling. I would generally eat a ton of carrots earlier in the day to build up a surplus, then eat about half what I normally would for lunch.

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07/19/10 @ 10:06AM EST
posted by will

It's been a while since my last ridiculous food challenge. Too long. After last year's week of rations, it was proposed to me to eat nothing but carrots to see if I turn orange. This sounds like my kind of thing, but I refused to pay for the carrots myself, just like I wouldn't have paid for emergency rations.

More than a year later, people have agreed to sponsor me. For one month, I will eat at least 50% (by weight) carrots. Hopefully I will turn orange. The initial goal was 75%, but after yesterday, I realized it was nearly impossible to maintain a reasonable caloric intake, since a carrot only has about 30 calories.

Having been supplied with a balanced, I massed out each carrot in a 5 pound bag, and came out with an average of 100 +/- 20g. I will mass all of my food, and be sure that I eat at least that much in carrots.

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