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Wanting to do something and actually doing it are miles apart, and that gap represents the difference between failure and success. Indeed, most people want to be healthier, exist at an ideal weight, carry a certain degree of athleticism, and maintain high levels of energy and vitality. But most people live in a perpetual state of, “I’ll do that later. Someday, I’ll start that workout program and clean up how I’m eating and stop with the late-night snacks and all the fried foods and fast foods.”
I would like to offer some guidance on how to actually bridge the gap between figuring out that a more raw-food-centric lifestyle could help you to solve your health problems, and actually implementing some of these things. How do you actually start cutting out the things you’re eating now which you know are harmful for your health? And how do you actually get to the point where you actually desire and crave healthy, vibrant foods? You can arrive at a state where eating healthy is easy, and avoiding junk foods is nearly effortless. It’s not going to happen overnight — but I will show you some insights on how to successfully transition as quickly and easily as possible, if you’ll bear with me.
The short answer for how to successfully transition is: Do it slowly, but surely. You don’t need to get too ambitious too quickly on making dramatic changes. In fact, if you too hit the gas pedal too hard, this can burn you out and strip your gears. You could throw yourself into an intense healing crisis.
The way I transitioned was with no special end-game in mind. I wasn’t thinking about going fully raw, 80% raw, or any other specific outcome. I was just feeling the power of eating fruits and wanting to turn up the knob on the dial of my own energy and vitality. So that is the first trick — just to add in more fruit throughout your day. When you eat fruit, it is recommended that you eat it by itself and not with other foods (for a more complete understanding of why that is important, please see the section entitled: ‘Essential Knowledge for Proper Food Combining’).
The fruit when eaten alone will digest relatively quickly and will give you the full benefit of alkalizing your body. Otherwise, if the fruit is eaten with other types of foods like fat, protein or starch, the sugars from the fruit will get held up in the stomach, ferment, and turn to alcohol, losing its helpful benefits and creating acidic chemistry instead.
You might consider this initial strategy of adding in more fruits into your day as ‘meal re-placement’. However, for me this was more of meal ‘delay-ment’. In other words, instead of eating a breakfast of eggs and whatever else at 9:00am, I would eat a big bowl of fruit at 9:00am. Then, I would have my regular breakfast at 10:30am or 11:00am.
Another example — instead of eating a lunch of chicken tacos at 12:30pm, I would eat a big melon, a smoothie, or bowl of fruit at 12:30pm, and lunch would be delayed until 2:00pm or 2:30pm. So on and so forth. Ultimately throughout this process, it would be only natural that you will eat less ‘regular meals’ (or smaller portions) and more ‘fruit meals’ throughout the day. But, there are no rules on how much you should eat, fruit-wise, or regular-food-wise — just start to work in more fruit into your daily life. This describes the first tenant of successfully transitioning into a more raw and healthy lifestyle.
Just by going through this process, you should feel a natural boost of energy and awareness from the raw power of fruits. Be sure to be eating ripe, healthy fruits. A bonus to you if you can eat more of the tropical, watery, liquid type fruits like oranges, grapes, pineapple, and melons. Just like in the ‘Free Love’ era of the 1960’s, there are no rules in the groovy fruit paradise. Just eat whatever fruits you want, and don’t get too mad at yourself for the other regular foods you’re continuing to eat at this point. Become more aware of the cravings you are fulfilling, and become the observer of yourself when you do go through that fast food drive-through lane or ice cream aisle and the depravity that ensues.
What happened with me is that I started to feel an urge to eat healthier foods, outside of the fruit meals. This happened independently, without me forcing the issue. It was just an organic and authentic urge and my cravings actually started changing. At this point, I was still eating meat, eggs, and grains. I started to figure out ways to cut out some of the bad chemicals and worst types of ingredients from my meals, and cut down on things like grains and starches. I started cooking more at home and preparing meals, and thereby skipping the drive-through more often. When preparing meals at home, I started figuring out how to use ingredients that were more whole-food based, like getting organic chicken from the meat counter, as opposed to conventional sliced deli meat which is full of nitrates, chemicals and preservatives.
For more insights on which foods to avoid and the worst things out there which you should ideally not be putting into your body, please see the section entitled ‘Top Foods to Avoid Consuming’.
Once you have added in some fruit meals into your daily regiment, now you want to focus in on the meals that are being consumed outside of those fruit meals. Basically, this would be the logical next step of a successful transition. What things should be eliminated entirely from those (heavy chemicals, etc.)? What foods can be easily substituted with other foods with no sacrifice of flavor (buying organic versions of ingredients or food products specifically without the preservatives and fillers)? What foods are simply not good and need to go or need a plant-based workaround (white flour and dairy products)?
This step is really pretty easy. In fact, if you follow the information in this guide, all of this should be pretty easy — especially if you have already completed the first basic total body cleanses (ideally at least the Big Three, as covered in previous sections). That will help a lot with cleaning out your gut, regulating your metabolism, killing the parasites that can influence cravings, and giving you a big boost of momentum and willpower.
I’m not asking you for 100% perfection in any of these areas. For example, one of the food groups on the naughty list are grains and beans. It’s very hard to completely eliminate these types of foods from the diet. But instead of eating bread, I would eat tortillas, and try and make sure they are from whole grains instead of white flour, or even better, from corn. Maybe instead of eating potato chips or white flour crackers, I would eat non-GMO corn chips. To avoid beans, I would eat a sunflower-seed hummus which tastes almost as good as a garbanzo bean hummus, and so on and so forth. So it’s not about achieving a monk-like level of perfection at this stage of the game (although later on I was able to really dial down the grains and starches). In the early phases, it’s more about turning down the dial of harmful, acidic-forming foods, and turning up the dial of healthy, wholesome foods.
For more suggestions of foods you can use as healthier substitutes for your favorite indulgent foods, just go to:
RapidRegeneration.com/Cheat-Foods
Now after you have added in a routine of eating as much fruit as possible multiple times daily, and cleaned up your other meals in terms of the types of food you are consuming, the logical next step after that might be to replace a ‘regular meal’ with a ‘raw meal’ or ‘mostly-raw meal’. To pull this off, you may need to delve into the heavier, bulkier types of raw foods that are out there, to make sure you stay satiated.
Remember what the point is at this stage of eating more raw foods, in terms of the higher electrical energy, higher nutrition and a more alkalizing chemical effect on the body — all of these thing are going to help assist your own body’s self-healing process as you detoxify and regenerate.
Achieving balance is key. Because if you try and throw yourself into a diet that is mostly high-carb fruits and get away from a standard meat-and-potatoes diet, then you are that much more likely to crash. Just think about it — you try and eat fruit all day long. You’re doing great all morning and afternoon, but by 5:30pm you feel an overwhelming craving take over and next thing you know you’re leaving the drive-through with your passenger seat piled high with all manner of things you know you shouldn’t be eating. So take it slowly and at an astute pace, and gradually you’ll get to the point where you can go all day long, or even weeks or months, eating healthy food choices, because your body will be attuned to a higher frequency. For starters though, focus on keeping your cravings for junk foods at bay as you transition to a more healthy way of living and getting closer to eliminating your health issues.
There are raw foods which can be your friend in terms of standard meal replacements. Most standard modern diets are high in fat and protein, and as a result fatty and protein-rich foods are typically what people crave as a result of eating this way for a lifetime. And so, look at things like avocado, coconut, olives, and things like nut and seed butters, as well as nuts and seeds. At a higher level, there are nuances with nuts, seeds, and high-fat raw foods and it’s possible to eat too much of them because they can be moderately acidic-forming, but do not worry about that at this stage. After all, we’re talking about replacing a meal of let’s say meat and potatoes which is highly acidic-forming.
A big bowl of guacamole can be your friend in this type of instance. Maybe a big bowl of olives as well, and some fresh salsa or pico de gallo. Mix all that up into a big salad with other vegetables if you like. Cut up cucumber slices and eat it all together. You could make them into tacos perhaps. Or, if you’re like me when I was transitioning, my go-to indulgence was corn chips for a while. I used to make a meal out of chips, guacamole, maybe some olives, and salsa. Who says that you can’t make an entire meal out of appetizers? If you eat enough of this — trust me — it can be a very satiating meal. That would end up replacing whatever else would be on the menu like tacos with chicken, fish or steak.
You can also use nut butters as your high-protein and fatty friend to help you out. I used to buy jars of almond butter and spread that on just about anything, from strawberries to bananas to tortillas. This is not ideal food combining, but neither is meat and potatoes. At this stage in the game, the goal is not perfection, but rather how to replace an ordinary meal with a raw food meal or mostly-raw food meal. Almond butter or other nut butters can be very filling. I used to eat half a jar a day as I was moving more away from meat. In the early days I used to also crush up nuts into a fine mixture, pour them into a bowl with some almond milk, and eat them like oatmeal. Nuts and seeds are a very calorically-dense food and extremely filling.
Even at this stage of transitioning, there are still no strict rules. I’m not telling you to eat or not eat meat, fish, eggs, or other things. I’m just explaining how to turn up the raw dial. As I was eating more and more raw foods, I wanted more and more of them. I felt the cleansing sensations and overwhelming energy sweep over my entire body. For me personally, this was superior to any high from any drug. And also, I was still in a desperate state to solve my health issues — I wanted more than anything to totally heal my body and mind and I felt with 100% confidence that I was making significant progress every day towards that goal.
So, I continued to transition over a long time and finally after almost three years I pulled off eating a completely raw intake of foods consistently with lots of fats involved still. Initially it was about solving and eliminating my health problems, which basically took about three and a half years to do completely (thank God). From that point forward, it’s been about achieving higher and higher levels of energy, vibrancy, and self-actualization.
Since my original transition, things have been relatively easy in terms of staying on a path that is healthy. I have continued to find ways to eat for high performance, including being more strategic about how I consume fats and proteins. I’m less concerned now with the chemistry of what I’m eating, and more concerned with the energy that it will give me so I can accomplish things outside of food and achieve certain goals and visions within this lifetime. I also intend to live numerous decades or even a century while enjoying optimum health and avoiding bodily problems that plague so much of our fellow humans.
The point of my explaining this is that transitioning is not about being a cop and cracking the whip on yourself. You don’t have to do anything or go anywhere you don’t want to. I never imagined I’d wind up so immersed eating a highly raw intake of foods, but I was open-minded and just went along for the ride. You have permission to just see where this journey will take you. You don’t need to have an end-game agenda as you live in the present moment and continue to cleanse your body of toxins, acidic chemistry and sludge, and regenerate yourself into new levels of health and well-being. Just decide on the destination of vibrant wellness you would like to visit and follow your intuition and instinct to get you there.
I am simply providing a roadmap to make this easier to navigate for you. I can’t decide for you how much or when you will turn up the dial on your own health and well-being, by turning up the raw, nor do I know how bad of a state you are in now and how badly do you need help in the way of alkaline chemistry to cleanse your body. I simply have a knowledge and an awareness of the acidic nature of the way most people eat, and how to transition out of that using raw foods. If alkalizing yourself and healing yourself is your goal, then I do know that this information will show you how to achieve your goals, should you actually start doing it.
The rest, my friend, is up to you. Do it now! You can do it!