Day Three - Eating Sufficient Real Food

It is essential to eat adequate quantities of real food throughout the day and drink plenty of fluids.  This cannot be over-emphasized.  We are not undertaking a 'Diet' but a change.  Fad diets fail because they do not provide the essentials.  Instead, they leave the person to feel depleted or empty.  When you make changes and it involves satisfying hunger and need for tasty food, this will become the better option than your previous routine.  One important point that needs to be stressed is that you must begin to see eating food and drinking liquids as the mechanism for nourishing your bodies cells rather than eating and drinking for entertainment.  This is huge.

In day three, many may begin getting over the initial physical symptoms while some may have already slipped and eaten something they didn't want to.  It is alright.  Let me repeat........it is alright.  This isn't a race but a slow, consistent journey towards a major and beneficial life change.  Eating and benefiting from a mostly raw food diet does not mean you can never go out to eat or enjoy a big, juicy steak.  Just not everyday.

 At the site "Cheap Health Revolution", the importance of eating enough food  is stated simply and eloquently:

- Make sure you eat enough! As you overcome certain cooked food addictions (e.g. processed carbs, sugars, cheese, etc.) it becomes easier to tolerate hunger. You may get complacent and lazy and start to eat less and less food. While some advanced raw foodists (notably Tonya Zavasta) claim that eating as little as possible is most healthful, it is certainly not the case for the first few years of being majority raw. If you don't eat enough, you will slowly become more and more tired and miss out on all the fun!

You have to feed your body!

This day started out better than the previous two.  One thing I notice is how quick I wake up and become productive.  I woke about 545A and had several projects started and half-finished in the course of two hours.  Without even having to drink two cups of coffee, I was off like a streak of lightning.  THIS is the reason I make the changes in the first place.  I remember the benefits and they definitely outweigh the discomfort.

Tomorrow, we'll write down our motivation for making health changes.  During difficult times, your reason for making changes will mean either your success or failure.  Until then, enjoy the day!