Fruits and Vegetables
How many fruits and vegetables are you eating? Consider any increase as a positive direction in your raw vegan diet.
Plus size Raw Vegan Part 1: Are You Eating More Fruits and Vegetables?
Overall, Are You Increasing Your Raw Intake?
Last time I introduced you to the concept of a Plus Size Raw Vegan and how I measure success in alternative ways. Today I’d like to introduce you to a simple yet measurable way of viewing your success outside of the scale.
Are you eating More Fruits and Vegetables?
My answer to this question is an outstanding YES. You see before I even ventured into actively trying to eat raw, a piece of fruit or a vegetable touched my lips maybe 10% of the time. I’d gather this to be true of many Americans in my weight range and even less for some people. My cravings for sugar, carbohydrates and salt were insatiable.
Americans tend to grab quick foods which more often than not involves fast food not an apple or a carrot. Problem is the more unhealthy and unsatisfying the food you ingest, the more you become numb to the taste and the way it makes you feel. [I’m not talking emotional feelings here but physical.] Pretty soon you think that being sluggish, having headaches, being cranky; spending way too many hours on the toilet is a way of life instead of a side effect to the food you are eating.
How many fruits did you eat today? What about Vegetables? Did you eat chips? Drink a soda or have a cup of coffee? Were donuts served at the office or did they offer a fresh fruit bowl?
Our culture is so enmeshed with fast food – quick food – unhealthy food choices that we are truly unaware of the damage we are doing to our body.
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Enter The Raw Vegan Diet
Change Your Diet, Increase Your Health
You start out with a great bang. You celebrate your new found health by throwing one last binge before you ‘once and for all’ get healthy.
You eat lots of fruits and a couple of vegetables and may even try out some raw food recipes. You might even add a walk in the mornings or the evenings. Maybe you even give up a cup of coffee in the morning – instead of your 5 cups a day you are down to 4.
Week two comes along and you are getting really sick of apples, oranges, and salads. You hate that darn juice machine and vow never to clean the thing again.
By week three you allow some bread in the morning, a soda at lunch and maybe just a small portion of cooked meat or cooked rice at dinner.
Week four rolls around and you slip up even more and eventually 3 months have passed.
What happened to your raw lifestyle?
Are You A Failure?
Or Can You Claim Success
Instead of saying you failed take another look at what you just did.
- You added more fruits and vegetables to your diet.
- You cut out 1 cup of coffee.
- Instead of red meat 5 times a week you are down to 3 days a week.
- You started walking in the morning.
You see although you didn’t follow your plan 100% you did make some lifestyle changes. Each step we take toward our goal of 100% raw is a positive step. Below find some ways I like to keep my ‘eye on the prize’.
Seeing You for who You Really Are
- First don’t see your journey in terms of pass or fail--success or failure.
- Don’t use the scale to measure your worth.
- Remember your answer to ‘Why do you want to embark on the Raw Food lifestyle?’
- Baby Steps. Baby Steps. Baby Steps. Pretty soon you will grow up.
- Love yourself enough to begin anew and accept each stumble or fall as a way to get closer to your true self.
How Was Your Fruit and Vegetable Intake Today?
Each Small Change Builds Upon The Next
Choose To Juice Your Fruits and Vegetables
Get More Micro Nutrients By Juicing
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