My friends and their raw food diets

I have friends who have been on many different diets lately.  I have several of them who just recently decided to change to raw food diets to see if they could drop some of the excess weight that they seem to have put on over the years.  It’s been a pretty interesting journey for all of us, to say the least.  Some of them are doing ok and others not so much. 

One friend decided that they were just going to go from eating junk food and drinking sodas one day to eating vegetables and drinking 100% pure fruit juices.  Needless to say that was so much of a shock not only for his body but for his mind, he was ready to quit in a week.  And that is the thing that you have to be mindful of.  You have to prepare not just your body, but your mind for such a healthy change to raw food diets.

Then my other friend decided to do a half and half kind of thing.  Let me explain the half and half theory that he decided to do.  First he went from eating hamburgers and French fries for lunch each day to eating sub sandwiches and drinking water.  Then he went from eating subs and drinking water to eating salads and drinking water.  Now his breakfast still consist of scrambled eggs, buttermilk biscuits and sausage, and his dinner is half salad, half steak.  Of course his steak is only the very best.  It’s not the regular cut that you can find in the stores, its kosher meat and so only the best for him.  I’m not sure how this diet is working for him, but he says he can feel the difference.

And then there are my other two friends.  They seem to have it together the most.  They have read books and did their research.  They have decided that if they are going to do this, they are going to do it right.  So they have gradually eased their minds and their systems into the raw food diets which have seemed to work nicely for them.  They feel better, and they look better.  One can actually see their weight loss.  And they say that they have more energy than they every thought they would have. 

I’m not an expert, but out of the three of these options, I think that the latter is making the most headway.  And unlike the other diets that are around, I think that they will be able to stick with their raw food diets as they planned.  I’m cheering them on as they eat better and feel better.  See more raw food diets and healthy recipes information here.

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