Maintaining a Raw Food Diet and Things to Think About
Each and every day we are constantly scrutinized and bombarded with media about our eating habits and what we should or should not be eating. While we know the right's and wrong's of what we should or should not be eating and that it's unhealthy but it's so good that we find it hard or we're unable to stop. You physical health then takes and turn for the worst because we cannot or will not change our exercise or dieting habits.
Each and every day we are constantly scrutinized and bombarded with media about our eating habits and what we should or should not be eating. While we know the right's and wrong's of what we should or should not be eating and that it's unhealthy but it's so good that we find it hard or we're unable to stop. You physical health then takes and turn for the worst because we cannot or will not change our exercise or dieting habits.
Our emotional and physical well being can drastically affect our nutrition and how we eat. Losing your appetite after you received information in the form of bad news shows that our emotions are an integral part of our health. Physical fitness is just as important and something that is often overlooked or put aside.
If your a beginner or a practiced raw food dieter this article may help steer you in an ever more clear path towards your overall health. Below are some thing to think about
1. The evil food cravings
It's a perfectly normal experience to crave cooked and processed foods when you make the decision to move to a more raw or all raw food diet. The situation arrises when those cravings just don't go away and continue to persist.
Our nutritional habits and emotions are the two drivers for our cravings.
The nutritional aspects are fairly simple to pinpoint: if you don't get in the habit of eating enough calories from your vegetables and fruits, you *will* continue to crave the evil cooked and processed foods.
Consuming too much fat from the calories in the fruit is the hard part while still getting enough minerals from your greens.
A low fat diet is always the best way to steer you away from the cravings. While we unknowingly like fat it also increases our cravings. A nutritional and healthy path is always the best defense against the feared "cravings".
But keep in mind though, that the average active woman should consume between 1800 to 2500 calories each day, and the average active man should consume between 2500 to 3000. A visit to www.fitday.com will be able to show you if you're consuming enough vegetables and fruits to maintain you daily calorie intake.
2. Always Incorporate Fitness into your daily routine
Are you aware that you cannot be healthy without being physically fit? In the past few years we have suffered losses of athletes young and old by way of a heart attack. This stems from being physically fit but unhealthy.
Your health may still suffer even though you are watching your diet. You need to get to where your body fat index is optimal and you are above average in your fitness routine or you won't get the results you want.
People who are physically fit not only digest their food better, the whole process of nutrition is dramatically improved with an improved fitness program. This means the food you eat will be assimilated better, you're blood sugar will be more under control, and numerous other health advantages.
Our weaknesses are always the hardest to tackle as we move towards our fitness goal. Working on these weaknesses first makes the rest of the journey easier. Staying physically fit has always been the challenge.
3. Eating fruit before every meal is ideal
One of the easiest and fastest ways that I know of to make the move to a raw food diet is by eating fruit before each and every meal, including lunch and dinner. The idea is to eat some fruit when you are the most hungry before anything else at the beginning of the meal. Eating as much fruit in the beginning as you're comfortable with then, and you will find that you will eat much less of the meal itself!
This is what is called the transition strategy. Just get started by getting the raw food in by eating fruit at the beginning of each meal. Do you remember your mom telling you not to do that when you were a kid? But as we've all grownup and found out that the Standard American Diet didn't work, we need to get back to our natural instincts to satisfy our natural sweet tooth craving by eating as much fruit as we need at the beginning of every meal.
4. Eating Whole Grain Products
Your focus should be to pursue eating 100% whole grains because our bodies convert the sugar in these rich carbohydrate sources at a slow rate which keeps our bodies energized longer than simple sugars. The fiber contained in these grains will help you to quickly flush and eliminate toxic waste that forms in the body and the grains themselves are loaded with antioxidants much needed by our bodies. This is the type of diet that our ancient ancestors consumed who felt and stayed looking young and working hard long into their senior years. Health food experts around the globe have stated for years the benefits of a diet that is high in whole grains and the ever growing evidence has become overwhelming. Whole grains are the best way to get complex carbohydrates during your daily routine.
There is no mistaking it, you can either make the time and take 2 months to start a regular routine putting a healthy raw food diet lifestyle together, or you can take 2 years or 20 years out of your life! Choosing the shortest route to success will be doing your body good.
Each and every day we are constantly scrutinized and bombarded with media about our eating habits and what we should or should not be eating. While we know the right's and wrong's of what we should or should not be eating and that it's unhealthy but it's so good that we find it hard or we're unable to stop. You physical health then takes and turn for the worst because we cannot or will not change our exercise or dieting habits.
Our emotional and physical well being can drastically affect our nutrition and how we eat. Losing your appetite after you received information in the form of bad news shows that our emotions are an integral part of our health. Physical fitness is just as important and something that is often overlooked or put aside.
If your a beginner or a practiced raw food dieter this article may help steer you in an ever more clear path towards your overall health. Below are some thing to think about
1. The evil food cravings
It's a perfectly normal experience to crave cooked and processed foods when you make the decision to move to a more raw or all raw food diet. The situation arrises when those cravings just don't go away and continue to persist.
Our nutritional habits and emotions are the two drivers for our cravings.
The nutritional aspects are fairly simple to pinpoint: if you don't get in the habit of eating enough calories from your vegetables and fruits, you *will* continue to crave the evil cooked and processed foods.
Consuming too much fat from the calories in the fruit is the hard part while still getting enough minerals from your greens.
A low fat diet is always the best way to steer you away from the cravings. While we unknowingly like fat it also increases our cravings. A nutritional and healthy path is always the best defense against the feared "cravings".
But keep in mind though, that the average active woman should consume between 1800 to 2500 calories each day, and the average active man should consume between 2500 to 3000. A visit to www.fitday.com will be able to show you if you're consuming enough vegetables and fruits to maintain you daily calorie intake.
2. Always Incorporate Fitness into your daily routine
Are you aware that you cannot be healthy without being physically fit? In the past few years we have suffered losses of athletes young and old by way of a heart attack. This stems from being physically fit but unhealthy.
Your health may still suffer even though you are watching your diet. You need to get to where your body fat index is optimal and you are above average in your fitness routine or you won't get the results you want.
People who are physically fit not only digest their food better, the whole process of nutrition is dramatically improved with an improved fitness program. This means the food you eat will be assimilated better, you're blood sugar will be more under control, and numerous other health advantages.
Our weaknesses are always the hardest to tackle as we move towards our fitness goal. Working on these weaknesses first makes the rest of the journey easier. Staying physically fit has always been the challenge.
3. Eating fruit before every meal is ideal
One of the easiest and fastest ways that I know of to make the move to a raw food diet is by eating fruit before each and every meal, including lunch and dinner. The idea is to eat some fruit when you are the most hungry before anything else at the beginning of the meal. Eating as much fruit in the beginning as you're comfortable with then, and you will find that you will eat much less of the meal itself!
This is what is called the transition strategy. Just get started by getting the raw food in by eating fruit at the beginning of each meal. Do you remember your mom telling you not to do that when you were a kid? But as we've all grownup and found out that the Standard American Diet didn't work, we need to get back to our natural instincts to satisfy our natural sweet tooth craving by eating as much fruit as we need at the beginning of every meal.
4. Eating Whole Grain Products
Your focus should be to pursue eating 100% whole grains because our bodies convert the sugar in these rich carbohydrate sources at a slow rate which keeps our bodies energized longer than simple sugars. The fiber contained in these grains will help you to quickly flush and eliminate toxic waste that forms in the body and the grains themselves are loaded with antioxidants much needed by our bodies. This is the type of diet that our ancient ancestors consumed who felt and stayed looking young and working hard long into their senior years. Health food experts around the globe have stated for years the benefits of a diet that is high in whole grains and the ever growing evidence has become overwhelming. Whole grains are the best way to get complex carbohydrates during your daily routine.
There is no mistaking it, you can either make the time and take 2 months to start a regular routine putting a healthy raw food diet lifestyle together, or you can take 2 years or 20 years out of your life! Choosing the shortest route to success will be doing your body good.
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