Repeat after me....Chicken are friends, NOT FOOD!!
But seriously, about a week ago, after a run, a friend said to me that they were interested in learning about raw food, but they needed some help. Well, I'm here to HELP!!
I was recounting my change to raw to a friend of mine. I was telling him that I don't think I would have made a switch without my yoga guru, who, for 3 weeks, provided me with advice, recipes and, most importantly, a PLAN!
I'm not going to kid you, the transition is HARD work! It's hard because you are fighting yourself! It may be that you might need to come up with a mantra to tell yourself, whenever you are faced with the option of having a bagel versus a banana in the morning.
After reading several books on the topic of Standard American Diet, my mantra was "Processed Food is Poisoning my body". The idea of killing my body with what we have come to know as "food" pushed me over the threshold and helped me REDEFINE what I now know as FOOD. Some of you may know that my definition of JUNK food does not only encapsulate the fast food industry, but anything that comes in a box, a bag or from the center aisles in the supermarket.
One of my friend's mantra was "I gotta burn this bridge". For example, when came to bagels, he would tell himself that that was a bridge that needed to be burned so that he could move forward and take care of himself and his health.
In both scenarios, the end result was that these sayings, or mantras, helped us make a CONSCIOUS decision to change what we have been doing on auto-pilot.
Does this make sense?
Let me make this clear:
I'm NOT advocating going cold turkey and turning raw in one day. This is a PROCESS. That's why my cleanses run for about 3 weeks. But the idea is, you know exactly where you're starting and you need to define where you want to be after a defined period of time.
Let me know what your plans are...here, or, via email. I welcome your thoughts.
I have some great recipes that might help get the ball rolling. These recipes are NOT all raw, but they are all VEGETARIAN. Email me if you want them.
Lots o' love...smile and grow healthy!
This is so true, life is a process, and change is hard. If it was easy everyone would be doing it. For me the challenge has always been getting out of my head, and the mantra helps till the new habits replace the old. I like to think of it as altering my conversation, or perhaps creating a new conversation about how my new eating habits support my healthy body and look for the changes in how my body is reacting to the change.
ReplyDeleteI like what you say, it all starts with declaring a new beginning.
Your running buddy...Nick