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Trust me — you are undoubtedly going to run up on a time (or many times) when your willpower breaks down and you lack the discipline to continue eating the healthiest of foods. While much of this knowledge is mechanical, tactical, and anatomical, the journey of fixing your problems using raw foods is actually probably 80% mental, emotional, and in need of your innate spirit and energy to make this work.
Emotionally speaking, you can get ratted out and will reach a point where you just want to eat some comfort foods, forget about all the problems you are trying to solve, and escape things for a while. This process can involve seeking out or preparing a big, comforting meal of foods which are so satiating on a different level than you would get from eating a bunch of healthy foods. Pay attention to your emotions when this happens and notice how they are driving your actions in this situation rather than your intuition or your logic.
When you come up on this scenario, if you can help it, the right thing to do is power through and deny that craving the ability to take over your life — once you give it control, not only will it dominate the next hour or two as you consume the meal, but it will take several hours to digest, a couple of days to completely eliminate, and potentially several days, weeks, or longer for your body to totally reverse the negative acidic chemistry that is created eating junk foods. So, it’s rarely worth it for the short time of pleasure you get from those comfort foods — deny the craving its power if you can!
However, sometimes the risk that you run is that when you suppress these cravings, over and over, it might not make the monster go away. The monster can become more and more entitled and the cravings can become that much more overwhelming. If you repress this sensation too many times, and just continue eating the healthiest of foods, then what can happen is that the craving becomes so intense and now when you give in, you completely go crazy in an extreme manner and eat something completely offensive or excessive — much more so than if you had given in a few days prior and just gone ahead and eaten some comfort meal which was more reasonable.
There are two scenarios here to better demonstrate what I have seen take place many times with myself and with different individuals:
Scenario 1:
— Susie is feeling ratted out from eating so much healthy foods and fruit, and feels serious cravings coming on. She feels that her self-discipline is reaching its limits, and so she gives in, and cooks herself a meal of cooked vegetables, with veggie burger meat, and rice. She eats this and feels somewhat lousy for the next couple of days.
— A few days later, she feels more or less back to normal and is back on the wagon and eating very healthy and didn’t lose too much momentum. She feels the cravings come on again, but she is able to push them off — eventually, a week later, she strategically compromise with them once again.
— When she does, she is smarter this time, and this time she eats a veggie burger made from hemp seeds instead of legumes, and uses broccoli rice instead of starchy real rice, and she feels satisfied afterwords but her recovery time is actually much quicker.
Scenario 2:
— Johnny is feeling intense cravings for some comfort foods after seriously pursuing a very healthy diet, with a lot of raw foods and fruits. He pushes on, considering mind over matter, but the cravings intensify. Locked in a struggle with his cravings, after staving them off for another couple of days, now Johnny is feeling completely dominated because the cravings are now much worse than when they started. Almost as though he is possessed, an emotional switch flips on with Johnny and he hits the abort button to abandon the mission of staying so strict and healthy.
— Once that pin comes out of the grenade, Johnny is now giving himself over to that other side of him 100%. This could involve going through the drive-thru of one of his old favorite fast food joints, picking up a meal at a comfort food restaurant, or grabbing junk food from a gas station or the grocery store in the frozen section or packaged food aisles. — Johnny goes home and digs in, enjoying one hour of pleasure and bliss. By the end of it, he feels absolutely horrible and immediately his body starts to punish him for his sins.
— It takes several days before Johnny starts feeling a semblance of normality back, almost like a long-lasting food hangover. Even after that, something is still not right, and it’s taking a long time to completely clear all of the chemicals and acidic residue out of his system completely.
— Then, the cravings come back, with a vengeance. Having had a taste of the addictive chemicals used in so many of today’s junk foods, his body doesn’t just want cooked, comfort foods — it wants another taste of the straight dope. One week later, Johnny is back at his old haunts again.
— This begins a vicious cycle that continues for the next couple of months with Johnny repeating the same behavior. By the time he finally gets a grip, it’s now been 10-12 weeks and he has completely lost momentum. He has been acidifying his body numerous times and is now much farther away from his health goals than he was just 3 months ago, and will have to make up for that lost time and then some. Feeling his age and years, he laments how he wasted precious time going backwards and knows he will now have to make it back up.
Momentum is precious, and the whole point of a cheat meal is to avoid getting into a vicious cycle like the one Johnny went through. When you fall off the wagon hard, and continue dragging yourself through the mud with junk foods, you are only stepping on your own feet and sabotaging your success to detoxify and regenerate yourself.
It has happened to the best of us (God knows including myself) and to too many good soldiers, but please don’t learn about it the hard way — learn from the information in this section to accelerate your results. Don’t take half a decade, a decade or longer to fix yourself up. You should be able to hopefully knock out your health goals within a few years or less, depending on the severity of the issues you’re trying to solve.
The reason I am putting together this program is because I believe strongly that where I can add value to your life is to make this journey far easier for you than it was for me, and show you how to do it more quickly, so you can reach your goals faster and more effectively. This segment is all about showing you how to cheat effectively.
Some natural wellness gurus out there would say you should never cheat and that you shouldn’t fight fire with fire, and therefore they would not recommend eating any foods which are acid-forming. Personally, I am a pragmatic individual. I know you’re going to cheat and so I want to share with you some foods I have found through the years which offer that satiating, satisfying appeal, but are much less acid-forming and damaging than your conventional comfort foods which you would likely reach for otherwise.
It has taken me years to find all these foods, and I’ve tried them personally at one point or another during seven plus years of transitioning to or maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Some of them I haven’t eaten in years, but they helped me at one point.
Lucky for us, the health food, raw food and organic product marketplace has improved tremendously in recent years, and there are now many options to provide that comfort food satiation but with healthier ingredients.
Food cravings are universal for the most part, and people who switch to a healthier food lifestyle tend to crave things that appear in the same category over and over again:
— Fats and that fatty satisfying indulgence
— The sumptuous, filling texture of protein
— Salty foods
— Certain textures like bread or tortillas that we get from starch
— Crunchy foods like chips and crackers
— That creamy, rich dairy flavor
— Sweet, sugary, pastry-type treats
Undoubtedly, people end up reaching for foods containing:
— Grains, including most breads, chips, crackers, tortillas, pasta and rice
— Starches, including corn and potatoes
— Beans, legumes, and soy
— Animal products including conventional meat which is often GMO-fed, full of hormones and toxins
— Foods with lots of toxic chemicals and preservatives
— Junk foods, which are basically all made using the above ingredients
— We have of course covered in other previous chapters why the above foods are so harmful.
Here is a quick example of what a cheat meal used to look like for me. At this time (circa 2015 / 2016) I was desperate to heal myself and I was first transitioning into eating healthier and struggling to eat more vibrant and raw foods:
I would get a big bowl (this works better with a large mixing-type bowl) and cut up a couple avocados and smash them in there. Then I would throw in a 16-ounce can of black pitted olives. I might even toss in some pickle slices. Then, I would keep a big salsa jar handy and I would pour a very generous helping over the top of it all. Once this was ready, I would get a big bag of corn chips and goodnight Martha!
Was is an appetizer? Was it a side dish? For me, it was the main squeeze. That was enough to keep me full for a very long time.
This isn’t the absolute most healthy way of eating, but I actually like my body was able to keep momentum in detoxing and healing at the time doing this nearly every day. At the time, this was my alternative to eating junk foods that were much worse. It gave me the momentum needed and the power to transition to the next better version of myself.
Looking back, I really wish I would have known about some of these healthier alternatives to corn chips which I will share with you in this section. Eating those corn chips really did hold me back for a long time (years) and stopped me from breaking through to the next level of healing. Had I known about many of these products earlier in my healing journey, I have no doubt that I could have accelerated my results much quicker.
Here is a list of some products which can actually satisfy that same craving that you have for the worst junk foods, but without sending you on a downward spiral and creating even worse cravings for you several days later. Most of the products for the foods referenced here can be found at:
RapidRegeneration.com/CheatFoods
Avocado and Guacamole:
This of course is an obvious one, and a classic example of ‘a normal person’s healthy snack is a healthy person’s cheat food.’ It’s not really even a cheat food, because avocados are overall healthy, although their Omega 6:3 ratio is not ideal, and eating too much fats can cause excessive digestive burden as well as overload the lymphatic system with lipids and thereby slow down detoxification.
Have you ever had a craving that is insatiable and you feel like eating a big double burger or jumbo burrito? Eat three or four or five avocados or a giant serving of guacamole and your hunger will likely be completed satiated. I personally have saved myself many times from eating something really harmful because instead I just ate a giant serving of a meal including avocado.
If you’re in a pinch in terms of no time to prepare food, or needing something travel-friendly, there are actually guacamole products which are sold in some grocery stores or online which contain no artificial preservatives, chemicals or vinegar. You can also cut an avocado in half, take out the pit, and just eat the ‘alligator pear’ right out of the rind with a spoon.
There are some more food products in this chapter which you can use to combine with your avocado or guacamole, like tortillas, chips and salsa.
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Olives:
Olives are another high-fat fruit which can provide satiating relief if you are experiencing overwhelming cravings for something very dense, fatty and filling. You can put olives in your guacamole or salsa, in salads, wraps, or enjoy them a La carte.
You could consume the oil as well, although this is more processed and not as healthy for the body as a whole food otherwise would be. If you do use extra virgin olive oil, keep in mind it’s better to eat it raw than cook with it because it will denature at higher temperatures, oxidizing the chemistry of it and becoming more harmful — if you’re absolutely going to cook using oil it would be better to use coconut oil which is more tolerant towards higher temperatures.
I will admit it’s hard to find a good clean source of olives. Canning has its drawbacks because of the BPA often involved that can absorb into the food, and canned or jarred olives are also typically preserved with vinegar, which is not a vital, vibrant ingredient — although I see little wrong with eating olives in this form as a transition or cheat food (in place of something worse).
To find olives not preserved in vinegar, you may have to order them as a specialty item online, although do keep in mind that they will likely be preserved with a lot of salt. Where I am in Central Texas, I haven’t come across a source of fresh, whole olives, direct from the farm, although there are olive farms around here which sell olive oil.
Coconut Meat, Coconut Oil, Dried Coconut and Coconut Chips
This is another food high in fat which can help you to combat your overwhelming hunger. It fills a void which is otherwise not taken up by other foods. This tropical fruit is filling and there are many benefits touted of this ingredient, although of course you can go overboard. You can ingest the oil, eat fresh coconut meat, make a wrap using dehydrated coconut tortillas, or eat dried coconut flakes. If you are craving a crunch, you can even get baked coconut chips.
Nuts and Seeds / Nut and Seed Butters / Nut Milks
Covered in a previous section was ‘The Role of Nuts and Seeds’. These natural, whole foods are very filling, protein-packed, and can slay your cravings for fatty, salty, or savory foods. There are so many varieties of nuts and seeds and it makes you just want to try them all. Some of my favorites are walnuts, macadamia nuts, and pecans.
The different nut and seed butters are also a fun way to consume this ingredient, as well as nut and seed milks. I used to love spreading almond butter on a banana and washing it down with some almond milk or coconut milk.
You can save quite a bit of money and generally get more value by ordering these calorically dense foods direct from the merchant as opposed to buying them in the stores. Do try and get the nuts in their raw form (unroasted and unsalted) — although they aren’t quite as tasty, they will be more nutritious and less acidic in their raw, natural form. Remember that peanuts are not nuts (they are legumes) so don’t cheat with that!
Salsa / Pico de Gallo
Salsa is one of those magical entities, here in America and worldwide. Although I later got to the point where I just lost my taste for onions, peppers, garlic, and even tomatoes (more on that in an upcoming chapter about ‘Raw Foods to Consider Avoiding’), in the early days, I was going through perhaps one 16-ounce jar of salsa daily, and I would also experiment with making my own Pico de Gallo. It was such a pleasurable way to experience the bold, exciting flavors of the raw food world (even though many salsas are cooked).
Try and get varieties of salsa ideally without vinegar and make sure there are no added chemical preservatives.
Pickles / Pickled Vegetables
Pickles — AKA fermented cucumbers preserved in salt and vinegar — and other fermented vegetables are not exactly what you would call health foods, due to the acidic nature of the vinegar and the excessive saltiness. But they are raw foods, they do contain high electrical energy, probiotics, nutrition and they can help satisfy your cravings for something savory.
Make sure to get products that don’t contain extra chemical preservatives. Also be careful that you are not just satisfying some other appetite outside of your own — fungal organisms can really crave fermented foods and so make sure you do a good parasite / harmful organism cleanse to rule that out.
Chips and Crackers
This is my old guilty pleasure and indulgence, from back in the day. Craving certain foods isn’t always just about the taste, but also the texture. In the world of healthier foods, it’s a challenge to find that satisfying crunch. And also, because I enjoyed things like salsas, guacamoles and dips, I just didn’t get the same satisfaction from using a cucumber spear, carrot stick, or lettuce leaf to dip into it.
Fortunately, when there is a problem, in many cases individuals in the free marketplace will create a solution. There are a number of products that exist today — and didn’t exist at all only a few years back — which provide that crunch factor but are not containing grains, beans, oils or starches.
You can actually find baked chips but which are not containing those more harmful ingredients. If you are insistent on this being a raw food source, then you can actually make dried, crunchy chips using zucchini slices at home using a dehydrator. There are also chip and cracker products you can buy like dried beet chips and crackers which are made from sprouted and dehydrated flax seed wafers.
Wraps and Tortillas
Eating salads or plates of food over and over can get boring, and you may find yourself desiring for a certain texture like a taco, wrap or burrito. For some reason, wrapping up our food within an edible blanket creates a very desirable sensation in our mouths. However, flour tortillas and wraps, or even corn tortillas do contain grains, starches and/or chemicals and these are more detrimental foods to our health and wellness.
You can find grain-free tortillas which are cooked but much less acid-forming to the body by using almond flour as the main ingredient. You can also find a completely raw tortilla that is made from dehydrated coconut meat. Or, you can wrap up your food using a sheet of organic seaweed (AKA nori) which would definitely be considered a health food.
It can be addicting to eat some of these wraps and just be wary if you are giving into this craving night after night. Much of food cravings are mental, and so it does help to get into a mindset of accepting different textures of foods (like I did when I gave up eating corn chips). Perhaps a good approach to think about is that you can still enjoy the texture of a tortilla or wrap sometimes, but maybe you don’t necessarily need to experience that with every savory meal.
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Noodles
For any Italians or Italian food lovers out there, I apologize in advance and my heart goes out to you for the struggle you will surely endure in transitioning to a healthier lifestyle. There is nothing quite like the texture, flavor, and pop that you get from a bowl of freshly made pasta. It is surely one of those foods which ‘sticks to your ribs’ (which is why it is harmful to health).
You can buy a kitchen tool which can spiralize zucchinis or other vegetables and make zucchini squash into the shape of pasta. You could also bake a summer squash / butternut squash in the oven and fork the contents out into a sort of pasta texture (one of my mom’s old recipes). Admittedly, this doesn’t come close in terms of the satiation you get from a mouthful of starchy, floury pasta, but it gets the palate of the dish into the same ballpark at least. This tends to taste better cooked than raw, although either way works. You can also purchase kelp noodles and use these to make your own very light, healthy Italian dish.
The result of using vegetables as opposed to grains to create pasta is a meal after which you feel a zillion times lighter, healthier and more energetic — no need for an after-dinner cappuccino when you have natural, dynamic energy that is abundantly flowing.
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Hummus, Dips and Dressings
Hummus is a favorite snack of the plant-based food world, but unfortunately beans (AKA lentils or legumes) are not health foods — they create acidic chemistry, enzyme inhibition, GI tract irritation. Dips and dressings are also delicious and packed with protein and/or fat but in many cases are filled with dairy, processed ingredients, harmful chemicals and acidic vinegars.
There are hummuses and dips that you can make without using beans or other harmful ingredients, such as sunflower seed hummus which tastes just as filling and savory as a hummus made with acid-forming garbanzo beans.
I do have friends that make their own raw hummus using raw or soaked garbanzo beans — I would still recommend against this because that food is still very difficult for your system to digest. A better option would be something else a friend showed me which is a homemade ‘hummus’ in your blender which contains raw, ripe zucchini, lemon juice, spices, and your nut or seed of choice, such as pecans or tahini (sesame seed butter).
There are many recipes online for making a delicious dip or dressing made from healthy or even raw ingredients. Surely, making your own recipe from fresh homemade ingredients will be healthier than something store-bought, although if you can find a food product that contains healthy ingredients and doesn’t contain harmful preservatives and chemicals, there is nothing wrong with that.
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Steamed Vegetables
I’ve said before that cooked vegetables are one of the least bad things that you could eat. Being a cooked food, it will still be mildly acid forming and will be stripped of some of the nutrition, probiotics and electrical energy — but on the whole it’s not bad when compared with all the cooked foods out there. As compared with sautéing with oil, roasting in the oven, or other ways of heating vegetables, steaming is generally the healthiest way to preserve the most ingredients as well as avoid adding heated oils to the veggies.
Don’t underestimate how sumptuous and filling this food can be. Vegetables are high in fiber and generally low in sugar and calories so be very generous on the portion sizes. Try it for yourself — make a big giant bowl of broccoli and carrots, served alongside a homemade hummus or dip, in a wrap, or perhaps with some ‘broccoli rice’ or ‘cauliflower rice’ that you can buy at the grocery store (which is broccoli or cauliflower chopped up into the shape of rice granules).
Some cheat foods are raw and others cooked. If I have a cooked dinner I can feel it the next day and in the morning I tend to have less energy. It’s a blessing and a curse to become that sensitive — trust me. Definitely indulge in cooked vegetables (preferably steamed) if you’re getting ratted out and you feel yourself about to indulge in a meal of cooked foods. Remember — it’s a cheat meal and so we’re not looking for perfection here and we are trying to help ourselves avoid making an even unhealthier choice.
Just don’t use cheat foods as an excuse to get into a cycle where every day you’re eating foods for comfort which puts you into a rut and holds you back from a deeper level of detox that you desire.
Avoid cooking in iron, non-stick, or copper cookware if possible. I use a stainless steel steamer which cooks the food in the cleanest way possible and avoids contaminating that food with harmful metals.
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Freeze-Dried Peas
This is a weird one, but oddly satisfying. Freeze-dried peas are dehydrated, and the result is that these peas contain a satisfying crunch. Peas are generally very flavorful anyway, and having that explosive crunch really makes this a delectable addition to a meal.
Among the raw foods out there, it is tough to find a food with the perfect texture to create that same crunch factor that you find in cooked snack foods like chips and crackers — this is one of the few. You could make a wrap with some guacamole or a dressing as well as a generous helping of crunchy peas and any other ingredients alongside. It sounds strange, but personally I have found this very delicious, filling, and containing a very highly desirable texture.
Freeze-dried peas can be addicting, and after 24 hours of eating them you may find yourself craving them again. This is not exactly a health food, as a dried pea is bordering on being in the legume family, higher in protein so containing more complex digestion, with more possibility of bad food combining consequences, and the dried nature of this can cause this food to be a bit dehydrating. Still, it’s crunchy, it’s satisfying, and you’re going to cheat with something and so it may as well be a raw vegetable like this if it hits the spot for you.
Nut Cheeses
For somebody out there who is having a tough time giving up on one of the most addictive foods on the planet (cheese), don’t worry — there are foods out there which are cheesy, still taste quite good, but which are made from much healthier ingredients. This will do your body a big favor not to have to digest the complex sugars from lactose, and all of the highly acidic nature of dairy products. Nut cheeses can also be a very chef-y and delicious addition to a meal, adding explosions of flavor to your dining experience. While not the healthiest of healthy foods, nut cheeses are still a zillion times better than dairy and can satisfy your fix without sending you falling off the wagon.
Vegan Ice Cream
If you have a sweet tooth out there, you thought I forgot about you, didn’t you? I would absolutely not do that. I know you’re jonesing for a fix, after years of eating products made with flour, butter, chocolate, and added sugar. Vegan ice cream is like regular ice cream except that it is virtually guilt-free. You have to be careful of course to check and make sure the ingredients don’t contain harmful fillers or preservatives. But many vegan ice creams contain very simple ingredients like coconut, natural sweeteners, and other sweet flavors mixed together.
It’s not ideal food combining, but it is delicious and will hit the spot guaranteed and not leave you with that heavy feeling in your belly like regular ice cream would. You can also make your own homemade ‘Nice Cream’ which combines smashed up bananas and other fruits together before freezing them.
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Raw Pastries
Some people’s guilty pleasures are savory, salty and fatty — others lay with the sweets. We have all been preyed upon by the food industry pushers, who have sought to get us addicted, physically and mentally, to their garbage products including sweet, sugary food merchandise available on most city street corners. Please do not give in and cheat with junk foods containing flour, added refined sugar, and not to mention all of the chemicals and artificial flavorings.
There are so many amazing pastries, including cookies, cakes, pies, and many more creations, which can be made using healthier ingredients like flax seed, coconut, almond flour, nuts, dates, date sugar, honey, or agave nectar. I realize that some of these raw, raw-ish, or cooked ingredients are not the healthiest of ingredients, but they can play their role to deliver the taste that you crave. This is appropriate for the times when you will stop at nothing to get what you really want, when you really get ratted out and turn into a fiend for your sugary desires.
There are also cooked pastries which don’t contain grains, dairy, added processed sugars or chemicals. Just keep in mind something and please hear this hard-to-accept truth — cooked pastries are inherently one of the least healthy things to eat. They are extremely calorically dense, rich, mostly processed, acid-forming and almost all have inherently bad food combining. For this reason, they are very fattening foods, more difficult to digest, and can hold somebody back from really alkalizing their body and detoxing.
And so, if you are going to eat a pastry, it would be much better to eat it made from raw ingredients. There are so many amazing raw pastry recipes out there which you can make at home, as well as food products available for sale. The creativity is really astounding, and the abundance overflows of all the amazing ingredients, flavors, and textures from the world of raw foods that you can turn into something (almost) as tasty as your favorite baked sweet treat.
Foods to Not Cheat With
I know that you’re going to be tempted in thinking about this concept of a cheat meal and applying it towards other foods out there which are more offensive to your body. While I have listed out some of the least unhealthy foods above that you can cheat with, I don’t want to wrap up without also explicitly addressing the elephant in the room — those other guilty pleasure foods calling your name.
I am not going to be able to list them all here, so please use your common sense, logic and food knowledge from Rapid Regeneration, so you can think for yourself about which foods are going to be a chemical problem if you eat them. Make sure that you reviewed the information in the other chapters about the worst foods you should avoid, simple versus complex sugars, grains and beans.
The next time you feel a massive craving coming out, and your willpower drops out, when you pull the pin out of the grenade just please do yourself a huge favor and eat something that is a good cheat food like some of the ones listed above, and not from the list below:
— Pizza (a vegan pizza with nut cheese and cauliflower crust could be an exception to this as opposed to a grain flour crust which is quite harmful — there are even raw pizzas)
— French fries and fried foods
— Soy products and soy ‘fake meat’ (if you’re going to eat a veggie burger or fake meat product, be careful and maybe consider eating something else from the menu instead — because it can be very tough to find a product that doesn’t contain grains, beans, or harmful chemicals and preservatives)
— Breads of all kinds, tortillas, pasta, rice, potatoes
— Chips or crackers made from grains, potatoes or corn (although I understand you have to transition sometimes and I personally used to eat a lot of corn chips)
— Cookies, pastries, cakes
— Candy
— Soft drinks
— Beer
Once again, I don’t have the ability nor would it make sense for me to spell out exactly each food that you should not cheat with in every scenario. I simple want to broadly illustrate to you some of the food types that people are tempted to cheat with — these are the types of foods that, if you follow the advice of this chapter, you will actually avoid eating at all and instead you will choose to consume a much healthier food option.
Figure out how to think about these things, and have an awareness about how different foods can affect you. I know that you can figure out which foods to avoid, and find substitutes which taste as good or almost as good but don’t wreak havoc on your body like the worst types of foods would.
In Conclusion:
I would like to offer the sentiment that, as I attempt to help you solve your health problems and go to the next level in terms of your energy and vitality by eating healthier foods overall and more raw foods, please don’t make me regret sharing these healthier sort of comfort foods with you!
While these foods can be used as a hack to be used tactically and tactfully, don’t use this as an excuse to simply eat vegan junk foods or raw junk foods all the time. Remember that fresh, ripe fruits, herbs, vegetables, and some nuts and seeds primarily are the keys to regaining your ultimate health and energy. These cheat foods are merely a deviation and distraction from that.
Too many people who head down the road of eating healthier actually go on a detour, from which many never return. There are actually many people who end up eating high-protein, high-fat, high salt, and acidic intakes of foods for many years and even decades, even while eating plant-based, avoiding grains and beans, and with a lot of raw foods. It’s sort of a conundrum because you would think their avoidance of the worst foods would be healthy enough — but it depends what you wish to do.
If you really want to go to the next level, whether you’re committed to solve a serious health problem for yourself, or you’re aiming to elevate and break through the stratosphere in terms of awareness and energy, then don’t fall into this trap of constantly eating for comfort.
On the one hand, I understand that you don’t want to try and stave off your cravings forever because that would be unreasonable and ultimately you’ll probably cave in. But on the other hand, you need to be able to summon the power to push through at certain points and decide when enough is enough. Yes, you should use these foods as a stepping stone to get you though a rough period when you can’t resist cravings. But ultimately, you can and will find the power within to break free, go to the next level and kick up eating more healthy foods and fruits.
When that time comes, power through and you can do it! Don’t fall into a rut, and get satisfied on a plateau because you’re feeling much better than the lows you experienced before — go all the way with it!
I hope this guide will help you get there in the fastest and most effective way possible.