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Junk Food
Try this,
just for the heck of it. Once you’ve started incorporating raw foods
into your food plans, keep adding them in and reducing the number of
cooked and processed foods from your diet. Especially things like fast
food, chips, cookies and snacks.
After you’ve done that for
awhile, have a junk food day. If you really miss your junk food, or
think you do, then plan for it. Make it truly memorable and
junk-worthy. If we were gambling types, we’d be willing to bet a LOT of
money that
mid-way through your junk food day, you’ll stop.
Once
you’ve started incorporating raw foods into your diet, and getting most
of your nutrition from them, and stayed with it for at least a week,
junk food is just not going to have the same appeal to you. Because now
you’re thinking about what you’re putting into your body. And if you
really think about what junk food does to your body, all of a sudden it
doesn’t look so good.
You know, it just happens naturally.
We’ve started eating more and more raw foods in our home, and haven’t
been able to touch things like chicken or a hamburger in ages. First of
all, we really feel pretty strongly about not eating animals. But have
you ever read the warnings about handling chicken that you’ve bought in
the grocery store? Or ground meat? It’s recommended that you wash your
counters with BLEACH if you’ve prepared meat on them. Now, do you
really want to put something in your body that requires BLEACH to clean
the germs from it off of surfaces in your home? Nope, when we see
chicken now, all we see is germs. And there’s no flavor to it anyway.
So why bother?
And other junk food we used to love just
doesn’t appeal to us any more. Nachos and cheese? Well, the cheese you
use is so processed, it’s nothing but corn syrup and processed cheese
and fats and chemicals. We can feel our arteries grinding to a halt
just looking at it. We don’t even use dips for our vegetables any more.
We really do enjoy the taste of vegetables and fruits all by
themselves...
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