You need to Eat Raw

I have to tell you all that I am in the middle of writing my second book! It is due out in April. I have put so much of myself into this book; it is literally years and years worth of fact finding and gathering of info that I have added to the tips in the book. This book is really going to be great!

I have several different whipped cream recipes-and if you love whipped cream like I do, then you are in for a real (healthy) treat. All the recipes are delicious-lemon tarts, pecan pie, ice cream, ravioli and lasagna!

But better then the recipes, I have gathered facts and information that will help you to become raw more easily and to become better educated about your food.

See, that last line is important; we eat out of habit and not out of education. When I cheat-and I teach you how to do some cheating in the new book-but when you cheat, you should know why you feel like cheating and why you chose that certain food you are cheating with.

In my life for example, I sometimes miss lunch. Being so well fed for breakfast, sometimes I just forget or I don’t have the time (both of these excuse are a real no-no!)

In any case, if I skip lunch I usually get in the mood for an Irish Coffee or a Muffin of some sort, corn bread maybe, even pretzels. If I am sitting down to dinner, I want the bread in the basket or I want pasta (and believe me this is the only time that that bread ever looks good to me!)

Seeing how I understand my body and the fact that if you skip a meal the body will call out for instant sugar, I can then understand this desire for an Irish Coffee (alcohol is sugar, whipped cream has milk sugar and usually added sugar)-and I avoid giving into it. I force myself to sit down and eat a salad or other healthy food-

It never fails that after dinner, after I have eaten well (healthy), my body and my brain no longer crave these innutritious foods. In fact, these foods now repulse me-as they should!

You see, Irish Coffee, muffins, corn bread and pretzels are what I ate my whole life for breakfast and snacks before going raw, and what I feel are my comfort foods. Every one has their comfort foods. The foods you remember you ate as a kid or as a teenager; the foods that remind you of better times or less complicated times, these are your comfort foods- and they are usually also the most unhealthy foods for you.

So, when you skip a meal and your body needs instant energy, your brain goes back to a time when you felt comfortable and happy-Viola! My Irish coffee!

For you, your comfort food may be granola or cereal, cookies or crackers-all of which are a form of sugar; as is pasta and bread. Wheat is a form of sugar-especially if it has not been “sprouted” and the grain has been separated (the chaff being thrown away and the more simple, short-chained carbohydrate being left behind)

A simple carbo will get you energy faster-but it is non-nutritious and in my book-empty calories.

The most important job you have on this earth, in my view, is to feed your body good clean nutritious food! Water and proper food, nothing is as important (except maybe clean air-but hey we don’t have that do we?)

That is why I say to think with your head and not with your stomach when you sit down to a meal. Know and look for the most nutritious foods, not the foods that you are craving in that moment because you have skipped lunch, these foods my give you the fastest “Kick”, but they sure don’t keep ya young.

You need foods that feed you and stay with you-rebuilding and healing your body.

You need to eat properly; you need to eat three times a day. And in my book-both my books for that matter, I give my opinion that you need to Eat Raw!