I’m asked often “So what do YOU eat in a day”?
As if it’s that simple, to just eat the way that I am eating today to regain ones health…
Building Health is a process, it takes time, it involves a deep understanding of our current state of health & how to identify & undo the internal damage that our previous diet & lifestyle has created in a systematic & rational method…
Generally, what I’ve noticed over the years is that the individual who learns the truth about the foods that we were originally designed to eat, & jumps from their “standard diet” into a “raw vegan diet”, or an “all fruit diet” for example, often ends up dealing with major, unforeseen, complications.
Extremes never bode well. We want to avoid extremes.
The art of transition must be learned in almost all cases for long term success.
Dealing with the societal, and family pressures alone, this can be enough to deter one, you don’t need to add FULL BLOWN SUDDEN DETOXIFICATION SYMPTOMS combined with rapid weight loss, & a battle with your former self (insatiable cravings) on top of attempting to build health.
for this issue I did a post on YouTube to help you dealing with friends and family CLICK HERE
Enjoy the transition, enjoy the process, do not fear slow progress, and be mindful that it took years to develop your poor health issues / symptoms, and that we must slowly revert our physiological needs towards craving that which is health promoting . A transition diet bridges the gap between where we were, and where we want to go, it’s the middle ground, it’s also a place to return to when we need to take a break from detoxification.
Cooked food is not the worst enemy necessarily , as Ehret points out, health is about elimination, and attempting to maintain a raw ONLY status, so early in the game, sets one up for failure, generally speaking.
The first question that must be asked is, Does the food eliminate well? Is the food obstructive? Is the food mucus, or pus forming?
When it comes to learning which foods are healthy & which are not, the structure of that food (especially after cooking) is one of our biggest clues as to weather it is a disease forming food, or a health promoting food.
Take eggs, or white rice for example, they both stick like nobodies business to any pan when heated (unless it’s toxic “non-stick”)… What do you think these foods are doing within? White rice, and eggs, are highly mucus forming, sticky, constipating, and belong no where near the human body – contrary to tradition & marketing, however, if one is going to eat these foods, it’s optimal to learn that a hard boiled egg is the least mucus forming (of all ways to prepare eggs), and combining that rice, or the eggs, with a leafy green salad, will help with improved elimination. Food combinations matter.
What I’ve just mentioned above is a good starting point for one to eventually transition altogether away from white rice and eggs, there are also healthy food swaps to incorporate, and utilize, as we can’t just expect someone to stop eating all that they are accustomed to overnight, it’s a process of understanding, and involves a gradual approach of improvement for eventual elimination …
Dairy for example, is man’s most detrimental dietary mistake to date. Dairy (raw & pasturized ) is disease forming, obstructive, putrefactive, highly mucus forming and has helped ruin the health of an unprecedented number of people on planet earth… Dairy was designed for calf’s. Just a little bit of cheese is not okay, that little bit of cheese can undo all other efforts towards health.
If you have’t read my post: Is Dairy Inflammatory? I suggest to read it…
Now accompany that little bit of cheese with a salad for better elimination, while slowly reducing the amount over weeks – and eventually replacing that cow milk cheese with a homemade coconut cheese – only to eliminate that coconut cheese altogether from the diet overtime, that’s transition diet methodology, it’s a process, you don’t just eliminate an addictive, mucus forming food that you’ve been eating long term overnight if you want to be free of it forever…
A proper transition diet slowly changes ones tastes and desires little by little. A transition diet is a bridge from one reality to another – because that is what it is when you change your fuel source & the very substances that you are operating on. It’s got to be gradual.
So to ask me what I eat in a day, 7 years into my own personal journey, does not help to serve YOU with solving your own health & dietary issues.
These days, I don’t eat anything on the daily until 12-3pm, this is easy & comfortable for me because I worked my way over to this level of comfortably intermittent fasting on the daily…
it was a process & 7 years ago, I couldn’t wait to eat, I couldn’t hold out, just waiting until 10 am was a challenge because I harboured a lot more waste within, and the insatiable cravings, and the urge to suppress my uncomfortable eliminations, was so great, that I absolutely had to eat – and that was okay, I understood that it was part of the process, so I enjoyed the process and I ate a large meal- a relatively healthy one with the intention of improving it further once mastering the phase I was in.
For the first two years of my journey, I would eat an insatiable amount of food, I had to, in Oder to deal with my cravings and eliminations, yet over the years, it became much easier, that’s just how it works, but you have to realize, and recognize, that it’s part of the process, and it’s an important part of the process, and part of the process is to always be improving your diet within a reasonable amount of time to reflect where you’re at.
Healing comes with plenty of ups and downs. You feel great at times & horrible during times of waste removal or elimination, it is part of the process. To become your own doctor / healer /dietician in order to build health, you must learn the process, and to not be afraid to take your time with it, do not put yourself into a specific category such as “raw vegan”, or “fruitarian” because when strict boundaries are set, failure is inevitable. There is no failure when one realizes that this is a lifestyle, and it’s a process that will take you to where you want to go so long as you learn how to make optimal / less harmful choices in moments of weakness – and there will be plenty …
If you do not lose sight with where you are going, you will get there, in your own way, on your own terms . Just don’t let a family member deter you because they lack understanding of the process …
No one successfully jumps from a standard diet, to a raw food diet- overnight indefinitely. you will find these people making videos on how the raw food diet ruined their health and how dead animals flesh saved their health a week later – both statements are a result of gross misinterpretation, and lack of understanding…
My message here is, focus on you, do not focus on where anyone else is at along their journey.
Learn the truth, read, gain an understanding so that you can approach a complete return to nature & to health in a rational, slow, and systematic way. Healthy food swaps are invaluable, when an individual can start with eating white rice, move over to wild brown rice and end with eating cauliflower rice, that’s a big win – eventually, if they wish to take it further, they can eliminate rice altogether – or just stay with cauliflower rice because that is the healthiest version of rice available .
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I am often reluctant to share all that I am doing within my own journey because I wouldn’t suggest that anyone fast on water only without years of preparation, or to eat only apples for a month, if it wasn’t a comfortable & joyous experience due to years of proper transition…
I go through periods of regular eating (a mucusless / mucuslean diet), times of fasting (extended, short, or one day a week), intermittent fasting daily, fruit only cleanses, etc. The only thing I can say for certain is that I am motivated to keep my diet to fruits, greens, vegetables only – because I have an awareness of the impact that all other foods create within the body to various degrees and because I’ve personally healed a long list of health issues which serves as motivation to continue.
When we change our diets too quickly, this can often lead to dissatisfaction. What I mean is, we are so accustomed to certain tastes and foods that if we make drastic changes, the healthier foods will not taste as satisfying.
If we take the slow approach, the transitional approach, we can gradually revert our tastes and cravings to desire the foods that serve our health in a positive way. All of which takes time.
I’ve seen it time and time again, an individual does not crave or want fruits or vegetables at all, they want the foods that they were accustomed to in the past because those are the very foods that make them who they are today, however, when they take the time to satisfy their cravings with healthier versions of that which they are craving, and slowly improve their choices overtime, eventually, they begin to crave the healthier foods instead of their past foods. It was the same for myself.
When I first eliminated meats for example, I used nut butters and baked / spiced portobello mushrooms to curb my insatiable cravings for the complex, high protein meats that I was accustomed to – yet because I understood the process, I knew that I would eventually be eliminating the nut butters as well because for healing to take place, the body needs a rest from the complex task of digestion for a certain period of time – again and again, periodically overtime and nut butters are fairly complex to digest. That nut butter saved me from eating meat, after a period of time I eliminated the nut butters and moved over to just a handful of nuts combined with raisins (for better elimination) to curb my cravings with the idea in mind that I would also be eliminating this newfound habit as well overtime. As mentioned, it’s a process unique to your own individual situation.
So while all that I’ve written may seem overcomplicated, I can assure you that once a few basic principles are learned, it becomes second nature as we go along. Our body sends us messages and you will just know when it is time to refine and improve your dietary habits. Everyone has their own individual time frame with how long healing will take based on their personal situation, this Cannot be predicted or rushed, the important thing is that we just get on the road towards health and the rest will follow if we take the time to understand where we are going and why.
I enjoy consultations , I truly feel that speaking One on One is the most helpful towards guiding someone to get on track starting from where they are at. Nature works slowly, and in knowing this, we must do so as well, methodically of course – as nature is never stagnant, always transforming and growing – which is the key to SUCCESS… if we do or eat something that is not in alignment with improving our health, the key is to recognize the why, and to move past it without any guilt attached .
I wish you all the best on your healing journey, please reach out if you would like more guidance or have any questions in the world of health.
Mariah
