Transitioning to raw foods
Below is a simple grid that was adapted from Ann Wigmore's wonderful book
Recipes For Longer Life. The advice she gives
has been shortened and worked into a simple table layout in hopes that you can get a quick glimpse of what a raw food transition looks like in a nutshell. Going from a cooked food meat diet to a raw food diet should not, in my opinion, be attempted unless you prepare yourself for serious detoxification. Shedding toxins over a period of time is much easier on your body and easier on your life.
Transition Grid
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Phase 1
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Phase 2
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Phase 3
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Actions: |
Eliminate chemicals
meat, tobacco,
white sugar, white
flour, any processed
foods
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Eliminate mucus forming
foods such as dairy. Begin
to replace these foods
with seed and nut mylks.
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Eliminate all cooked foods
from your diet. Or if
doing 80% raw, find a
nice medium of
implementing some cooked
foods.
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Mental Outlook:
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Don't think that you
are limiting yourself,
think of it as choosing
better foods.
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Begin to visualize and
envision yourself as a
profoundly healthy
person.
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Become more aware of
the effects and
changes the foods you
eat have on your
system. For better
or for worse.
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Helpful tips:
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Decrease and substitute:
reduce meat consumption
to every other day and
replace it with a white meat
instead of red.
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Do a juice fast one day
a week to expedite toxin
elimination.
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Transition could take months
or only a few days. It's your
decision. do what
feels right for yourself.
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