| Learn how to transition to a healthy diet now (Part 1). In | | | | My recipe book "Instant Raw Sensations" is just about |
| this article, I'm going to go back to some basics. I will be | | | | that: ) |
| giving you specific, concrete action steps you can take | | | | Ideally, I'd like you to know: |
| right now to transition to a healthy, hopefully raw or | | | | About 2 dressings |
| mostly raw diet. Even if you're a seasoned | | | | About 2 great salads |
| raw-foodist, I'm sure you will find some key insights in | | | | 2-3 smoothies you really enjoy |
| this article that will help you refine your diet and | | | | 1-2 more gourmet recipes |
| improve your program. These steps are in no particular | | | | Those 7 or 10 recipes should be things you can make |
| order. | | | | often, with ingredients that are easy to find, and some |
| STEP #1 - *Workout and Exercise* | | | | of them should have an instant appeal to your friends |
| It's not possible to be healthy without being fit. We | | | | and family. |
| know that, at least intuitively, even if we tend to forget | | | | You'll find that once you know what those recipes are, |
| the importance of fitness in a healthy lifestyle, by | | | | and you can make them without opening a book, that |
| focusing too much on the importance of diet. | | | | you'll be wondering a lot less often "What should I be |
| But more importantly, your physical condition has a | | | | eating now?" |
| major impact on your digestion, assimilation, and overall | | | | STEP #4 - *Get Rid of Cheese and Dairy* |
| "nutrition." For example, your ability to uptake sugar, | | | | Improving your diet isn't about the things you ADD IN. |
| called "insulin sensitivity," is greatly influenced by your | | | | It's mostly about the things we LEAVE OUT. I know |
| level of fitness. | | | | this reality is hard to take, but even if you eat all these |
| If you are sedentary, insulin sensitivity is greatly | | | | fruits and vegetables, drink those fresh juices and |
| reduced. Therefore, sugar is not carried as rapidly as it | | | | make those huge smoothies, you won't really feel |
| should to the cells. This can lead to or worsen blood | | | | great until you remove those offensive foods from |
| sugar problems of all kinds. | | | | your diet that are hurting you. |
| If you've read my book "The Raw Secrets. " You are | | | | There's one thing you need to say goodbye to |
| aware of the importance of hunger in health. One | | | | forever, and it's milk and cheese. In a previous article, I |
| problem is that most people do not eat when they are | | | | talked about the top-5 worst foods, and cheese was |
| truly hungry, and mistake "appetite" for hunger. Once | | | | one of them. |
| they learn how to make the distinction, they soon | | | | Really, I see it all the time. People have this thing for |
| realize that they are rarely if ever truly hungry! | | | | cheese. They still eat it occasionally, and they still are |
| By exercising on a daily basis and eventually engaging | | | | addicted to it. (Actually, cheese contains some |
| in cardio-respiratory activities (jogging, cardio machines | | | | compounds in it that make it addictive for real, not just |
| at the gym, cycling, etc.) every day, you will awaken | | | | in your imagination). |
| that forgotten sense of hunger. | | | | If there would be just one category of food you could |
| So exercise is very important, and the lack of a fitness | | | | remove from your diet and feel much better for it, it's |
| program may be one of the reasons why you have | | | | got to be cheese and milk. |
| difficulty eating a healthy diet. | | | | STEP #5 - *Eat Fruit in the Morning or Skip the |
| STEP #2 - *Eat Fruit Before Each Meal* | | | | Morning Meal* |
| One of the easiest ways to transition to a raw-food | | | | The morning meal is the easiest to switch to raw. |
| diet is to start eating fruit before every meal, including | | | | Most people find that once they start listening to their |
| lunch and dinner. The idea is to eat fruit when you are | | | | body, they are actually not truly hungry in the morning. |
| the most hungry, which is at the beginning of the meal. | | | | I've watched how many children generally don't eat in |
| Eat as much fruit as you desire then, and you will find | | | | the morning if they are left to themselves and not |
| that you will eat much less of the meal itself! | | | | being force-fed. |
| This is what I call an "automatic transition strategy." | | | | My suggestion is that you can skip the morning meal |
| Just start getting the raw-food in by eating fruit before | | | | altogether or replace it with a smoothie or some fruit. I |
| each meal - just what your mom told you not to do | | | | know that this goes against all the advice you've heard |
| when you were a kid. But now that you're a grownup | | | | about "never skipping meals" or that "breakfast is the |
| and that the Standard American Diet didn't work for | | | | most important meal of the day." What I'm telling you |
| you, you need to go back to your natural instincts and | | | | know is that this advice isn't based on any solid facts. |
| satisfy your natural sweet tooth by eating as much | | | | The "breakfast" is when you break the "fast" of the |
| fruit as you want before every single meal. | | | | night, and this doesn't have to be at noon. In fact, the |
| STEP #3 - *Learn to Make 7 Raw Food Recipes | | | | French word for breakfast means "lunch", because for |
| That You Enjoy* | | | | thousands of years the French didn't eat in the |
| It's been found that most people know about 7 to 10 | | | | morning. When they started doing so, they had to |
| good recipes very well, and just rotate them | | | | come up with a new word for that meal so they called |
| throughout the months, adding in other stuff | | | | it "small breakfast" (petit dejeuner). |
| occasionally for variety. | | | | Skipping the morning meal or eating some fruit will help |
| Or look at when you buy a recipe book. You might try | | | | you get in touch with your true sense of hunger, which |
| many recipes but eventually you'll only retain a few | | | | will make it easier to eat raw. Plus, it will be good for a |
| that you'll continue making for the years to come. | | | | while to help you detox and lose some weight (if that's |
| So what I want you to know now is to find 7 simple | | | | an issue for you). |
| raw-food recipes that you really like, that are easy to | | | | As you start exercising more, you will eventually get |
| make and that are properly combined. (INSIDER TIP: | | | | hungry in the morning, believe me! |