And a vegetable/greens/ethnic food-phobic.
I'm so needing help.
I've been doing a lot of research on this whole raw stuff and while it sounds so amazing, I'm scared to try it. I don't think I can make it.
For 30 years, I've been eating nothing but processed food and fast foods. My mother worked so our dinners were usually something from McDonalds and the like and when she did cook, it was totally unhealthy. I crave pastas, could live on bread alone for the rest of my life, and my favorite food is cheese pizza. I've been a lot more concious about eating meat so I'm already working on that.
Watching the movie, Food Inc. has made such a mental impact on how I want to be eating.
Are there any tips on how I can start incorporating more raw foods into my diet without totally failing. I could say I'm going all raw and in a couple days be over it. I want this to be lifestyle change so any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
Jennifer
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The best thing you can do is start slow. At one point in the day instead of picking up potato chips pick up an apple (or any fruit/veggie) and eat it. Do this once a day for a week. Then the next week do this twice per day and go for another week. Every week just add another raw food in instead of junk food.
You can do this!
i feel ya girl! The hardest thing for me is giving up bread!! I would definitely start slow like kurite said. I also saw this interview with a girl who claimed she was 95% raw because she thought it was dumb to say 100% and then feel like a failure any time she wanted to splurge on wheat thins or something. I feel it's really important not to feel guilty for splurging otherwise it'll lead to thinking "well I already messed up might as well eat bad stuff all the time" - so if you just incorporate raw when it's most convenient at first and work up to mostly raw, hell have a cheese pizza once a week, have a whole day of eating all the stuff you're "not supposed to" and feel great knowing that the rest of the time you're eating a little better than before.
I recommend the approach Kevin Gianni recommends in his free high row book located at: renegadehealth.com
It is a 207 page book with a great common sense approach.
The best piece of advice I like in the ebook is that he suggests always asking yourself "how can I make this healthier" like sisterbecky states above (adding a salad to your pizza is a step in the right direction)--the more educated you become, the more steps in the right direction you will take. After all, it is a journey, not just a destination. Many times when we set ourselves up with rigid parameters, we break the rules and fail. If we instead, have guidlines to help us to our goals, we achieve far more and set-backs are just that and not total derailments. : )
I disagree with what some of the people above me said about going slow. Going slow might just end up in you slipping back into your old routine,and if you really want to get healthy now, you have to start now.
What I seriously suggest is that you start with including a lot of fresh foods into your diet. A good and very effective trick is to make yourself eat as many fresh foods (like fruits and vegetables) as you do junk foods (the foods you normally eat). So if you want two slices of pizza, make yourself to eat two-three pieces of fruit as well. This will encourage you to eat a well-rounded diet without giving up the stuff you love (just yet anyway!!). It will also encourage you to fill up on healthier foods during meals as well as junk foods.
Trust me, the more healthy food you eat, and the more you get used to eating it in regularly, the less you'll want the unhealthy bad stuff.
Good luck!!