How to Stay Raw During the Holidays

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Hi Folks,

 

I hope you're all having a happy Thanksgiving. Here's an

article that can help you stay raw.

 

" How to Stay Raw During the Holidays "

© 2004, Roger Haeske

 

I feel extremely blessed this holiday season. Let me share

with you why and how that relates to staying 100% raw during

the holidays.

 

First of all, I've found someone who I love with all my

heart. We just have the greatest time together and the

deepest experiences. Life is a joy because we have so many

things in common and because of the love that we bring out

of each other.

 

The other great thing about my girlfriend, is that I have a

built in weapon for fighting Holiday cravings. Yesterday we

spent Thanksgiving at her father's house. But we went

totally prepared for the onslaught of the smells of cooked

food.

 

Loren is a former chef. She loves preparing food and now

she does it with raw foods. Let me tell you what she made

for yesterdays meal.

 

The first thing that comes to mind was this sweet potato

pudding and cranberry topping. She actually got that recipe

by attending our Gratitude Potluck last Saturday at

Francine's house in Long Island. She ate it there and loved

it. Then she just asked for the recipe and made it herself.

 

I recommend you go to as many raw food gatherings as you

can. It really helps you to stay raw. If you don't know of

any raw events near you then why not host a raw potluck at

your own house for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah or New

Years Eve.

 

She also made a Faux Salmon dish that tasted fantastic. It

actually tasted like tuna fish but better. She also made

delectable stuffed mushrooms. On top of that she made an

awesome raw chili. You won't believe how good this chili

tastes. We also had raw nori rolls made with the Faux

Salmon, lettuce leaves and other finely cut vegetables.

Loren makes the best nori wraps and rolls. Of course we had

a nice salad to start the meal and a delicious raw salad

dressing.

 

She also made two raw deserts. One was a raw pie of which I

don't know the name. That was her son's favorite raw pie

ever. I liked her other cake even more. It was actually a

rolled ice cream cake. You'd never think it was raw by

looking at it. With all of these delicious and beautiful raw

foods available I wasn't attracted to the cooked mashed

potatoes and other foods that were served at her father's

house.

 

Another reason I wasn't attracted to the cooked foods was

because I have been raw long enough to where they don't

appeal to me as much as they used to in my cooked food days.

This is one of the benefits to staying 100% raw for a long

time. Cooked food just becomes a distant memory. You start

associating memories of good times with raw foods.

 

Most people eat cooked foods because they bring up memories

of good times. But if you stay raw long enough you develop

new memories associated with raw foods. This process of

associating memories is called anchoring in Neuro-Linguistic

Programming. You just need strong emotions and something to

anchor them too. So what happened is you've unconsciously

anchored good memories to cooked food. It wasn't the cooked

food that made you feel good but the memories you've

associated to them.

 

Here are some other ideas to stay raw during the holidays:

 

If you don't have your own raw chef like me, then hire one.

Maybe Loren would be interested in catering an event for

you. Make sure you ask her for her famous corn salad and Pad

Thai. Only problem is that I think she's going to be

extremely busy during the holiday season but you never know.

If you don't know her you can reach her by emailing me and

I'll pass it on to her.

 

Another thing you can do is learn to prepare your own raw

recipes. It's really fun once you get into it. People who

join my Raw Food Diet Success Society will have access to

the basic principles of easy raw food preparation and many

recipes that take less than ten minutes to make.

www.HowToGoRaw.com for more information.

 

Whenever you go out to eat or attend a dinner where cooked

food is going to be served, make sure to arm yourself with a

bunch of raw food. I ate a bunch of bananas before I came to

the Thanksgiving Dinner yesterday. I also had more in the

car in case I needed them. Or bring some extra avocados or

whatever will keep you satisfied. Always have ripe raw food

with you so that you aren't as tempted to eat cooked food

because you didn't eat enough.

 

Keep in mind that cooked food is an addiction. Once you

indulge in cooked food it is hard to stop eating it. I'm so

glad that I knew that certain things were addictive as a

kid. Because of that understanding I never smoked cigarettes

or did drugs. I also drank coffee only rarely because I knew

that it was bad for me and that I could get addicted to it.

The more you do a certain behavior, the stronger that

behavior becomes. Eventually it turns into a habit. With

cooked food it is beyond a habit and becomes an addiction.

 

Therefore it is much easier to stay 100% raw than it is to

stay 80% raw. This is because, you can only get rid of the

addiction to cooked food by completely eliminating it from

your diet. If you still allow cooked food in your life, at

say, dinner time, you never overcome the addiction to cooked

food. As long as the cooked food residue is in your body you

will still crave cooked food.

 

I did this for a couple of years. I ate about 70% raw

foods. But at dinner I would allow myself cooked foods. I

felt I had the best of both worlds. My health was certainly

better than before going raw and I was still able to enjoy

my favorite cooked foods. But I really only got 1/10 the

benefit of eating 100% raw.

 

The real healing and amazing benefits can only be attained

by going 100% raw. This has been the case not just in my

life but in many other people who tried being mostly raw but

not 100%. They only experienced the full benefits after

staying and maintaining 100% raw.

 

One of the great things about going raw is that you don't

have to give up great tasting foods. You don't even have to

give up food. You're still eating, just differently. You are

eating foods that are healthy for you and that are much

lower in toxins. Once you learn how to make some delicious

raw food recipes and you find your favorite raw fruits and

vegetables, then eating 100% raw is really easy.

 

In my first year or so I still had cravings for cooked

food. But I didn't know enough recipes to keep me satisfied.

If I ever have any cravings these days, I can prepare

something raw that I really love to eat.

 

Now as time goes by I try to move away from recipes because

although they are raw, I know I feel much better when I eat

simply. Again, any long term raw foodist will tell you this

is the case in their lives as well.

 

So just do what feels comfortable for you now. But keep

moving in the direction of better health. Eventually it will

seem normal to you and eating cooked food will seem very

strange and unappealing. Quite frankly raw food tastes

better than cooked food and cooked food never ever gives you

the natural high that you get after eating a raw meal.

 

Have you ever heard of antimatter? I learned this term from

watching the original Star Trek TV series. Antimatter is the

opposite of matter. Now let me relate this idea to the raw

food diet, spirituality and happiness.

 

I relate cooked food with being anti-spirit which is anti-

happiness and anti-health. I also relate those properties

with drugs and alcohol. As long as you are eating cooked

food you are dulling your spiritual and emotional awareness.

You are literally poisoning yourself and closing off large

parts of yourself and your potential.

 

Now I know this information alone may not help people who

are addicted to cooked food. It helped me for a while but

that alone was not enough to get me to stay 100% raw. I also

needed to focus on the amazing benefits of eating a raw

diet. And on top of that I needed experienced guidance,

support and the correct information about the raw diet.

 

You can get all of these things and more at my Raw Food

Diet Success Society. By joining my site you'll have all the

tools you need to succeed at going 100% raw. You'll learn

the motivational tricks to staying 100% raw. You'll learn

about what I call the Optimal Raw Food Diet.

 

Going 100% raw is hard for most people to do without

support. Not you can get that support with expert advice in

a very affordable way. Please visit

 

http://www.HowToGoRaw.com for more information. I've also

included some valuable tips on how to stay raw, within the

body of that webpage.

 

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

 

P.S. Are you having trouble staying 100% raw? Do you want

to do it with less struggle and make sure that you are

getting all the nutrients you need? This website will help

you succeed at acheiving radiant health, happiness and

fitness via the Optimal Raw Food Diet.

http://www.HowToGoRaw.com