How do you WANT to eat?

After properly breaking the “Master Cleanser Fast” using the directions in the book, you are ready to get back to “normal eating”.  But what is normal eating going to mean now?  Going back to old habits may lead you back to your pre-cleanse state that you wanted to change.  Focus now on change!  Now is the time as you have been able to rid your body of some of the bad addictions.  It is the easiest time to “jump start” a new diet and a time to try to understand your relationship with food.  By making the correct food choices you can easily continue to improve your quality of life by establishing a lifestyle.

Cleansing is only ONE part of the THREE part health triangle.  The other two are building and balancing and are done with proper nutrition, exercise and healthy thinking.  What you don’t eat will be as important as what you do eat, especially coming right off of the fast.  You want to keep your bad food addictions at bay as long as you can in order to “break on through to the other side”.  

You can look at “bad food” eating as emotional eating.  You will want to look beyond the instant gratification and self indulgences and ask yourself who is in control and what does the higher level you want to eat?  Look past the “head chatter” and cravings into the deeper meaning of your unwanted desires.  If your emotional issues at this time remain unaddressed you may continue to struggle with food cravings.  These cravings can be stress related or emotionally anchored to your past and interwoven with your percieved identity, tradition, relationship related or to what you believed was rewarding.  Look deeper into yourself without fear of change and you may just find a surprising and exciting new path to self discovery.   

“Change your thoughts and you change your world” -Norman Vincent Peale  

“The Raw Food Diet”

The naturopath and author of the Master Cleanser Book was an advocate of eating “raw foods”.  The raw food diet has become so popular that in a lot of big cities you can even find Raw Food restaurants.  Essentially raw fooders eat nuts, berries, seeds, vegetables, and fruits.  They also use sprouted (living grains) and are heavy into greens and organics.  So essentially all your food has a living life force to it and nothing is “processed”.  Foods dried at low temperatures are allowed because they maintain the vitamins and active enzymes that would be killed off by heat (112 degrees or more).  The body easily recognizes and digests these whole foods with maximum efficiency.

Everyone knows that eating whole foods are key to the prevention of just about any disease.  With whole foods you aren’t loaded down with toxins, pesticides, pollutants, sticky and hard to digest and binding materials.  When trying to heal from disease it is especially important to avoid the acid and mucus forming, cholesterol causing (animal products), blood sugar imbalancing (refined sugar and carb) foods.  ”Bad foods” should be also thought of as bad not only for their lack of nutrition but for there ability to cause you to want to eat more bad foods.  Even now scientific studies are coming out saying that artificial sweeteners actually can cause weight gain through increased cravings.  Ingesting bad sugars changes your blood and you crave more sugars, excess sodium will do the same.  So next time you think you deserve a little “cheating,” just be honest with yourself that really you are cheating yourself and not treating yourself. 

Now an entirely raw food diet is not for everyone and it has its constraints, for me it was mainly time (you go to the market an awful lot and prep times can be long).  A very practical and ideal health plan goal is eating 50% or more of your foods as raw foods.  They will help you maintain your state of body cleansing and if you are after weight loss, this is the time.  And believe me right after the cleanse, even these raw foods will be extremely tasty, (your body is going to crave them).  Even those who typically don’t like fruits or veggies will be surprised.  Take advantage of this time and experiment, see how you think and feel, notice the energy, clarity of thought, and your overall sense of well-being.  Make it an experiment and I guarantee you will never forget it. 

When getting back into your solid foods make a point to identify your food faults, stress eating, or cravings.  Recognize that there may be some needed emotional healing with your new relationship with food.  Your addictions are your symptoms, embrace them, address them, and remember to constantly remind yourself that you are eating to live, not living to eat.  For more tips on developing your new healthy diet click here.  

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Best wishes on your new health path!

Principles Of Health

• Fresh Air

• Sunshine

• Water

• Whole Foods

• Physical Activity

• Loving Relationships

• Passion

• Rest and Relaxation