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Seems like I always find exactly the right resource at precisely the right time over and over again...even when it turns out that specific resource is something more suited to life down the line than right now, it's still pretty amazing.
Recently, when pondering a way to craft a transitional systerm for myself to amalgamate lots of paradigms and nutritional concepts into something that works towards a living foods lifestyle, I came across Natalia Rose's books; The Raw Food Detox Diet & Raw Food Life Force Energy.
The first book is more about offering up 5 different stages of transition to suit everyone from the Big Mac addicts to the pristine vegans and everywhere in between. It's really quite wonderful because it's so universally adaptable and she stresses being about the journey, not the destination. She works with food combining (yeah! a raw foodie who embraces food combining!), exposes soy as the toxin it really is (aside from edamame), tosses out dairy but allows raw goat cheese (yum) and even says that while in a nice, slow transition you want to keep things like the occassional glass of wine and even recommends keeping extra dark (70% or more) chocolate with you to satisfy that desire for something sweet and special, which it does for me.
Basically, it's a book I would write! And the recipes are wonderful! Simple (otherwise I won't even look at them), properly combined (a rarity in the raw world) and they sound incredible. This takes the high fat, overcomplicated raw world and makes it VERY approachable and desirable.
I just had a handful of raw almonds and literally one bite of 85% dark chocolate from Green & Black Organic and it was as satisfying as could be.
Her other book, which I am just diving into, is more about looking at your food choices from a perspective of life force energy, rather than calories/carbs/etc. The Detox book talks about tossing those limiting paradigms out as well (and if they worked we'd all be thin and healthy) in favor of combinations and timing foods to eat lightest in the morning (fruit & fresh juices), to heavier in the evening (cooked veg or protein with greens).
Much of her transitions and ideas echo those of Fit For Life, a book that radically changed my life when I first read it back in the mid 90s. It's still a classic and if I had to suggest ONE book to someone on how to improve their health and life, that's the one I'd suggest to this day. But this system by Natalia is really loving, fun, joyful, easy...and comes at just the right moment for me!
Turns out that by her estimation/quiz I'm somewhere between a Level 4 and Level 3, which gives me some amazing options. I'm excited about what I will be eating and trying already. My body's excited. No deprivation and focusing on the "can't haves", it's all about a joyful connection to food in all its glory.
The basic gist for me right now is this:
- fruit, fresh juice (no juicer yet but someday) and or my beloved Green Smoothies til mid day
- either cooked veg with lots of greens or some kind of luscious salad or raw recipe for lunch
- cooked fish or veg for dinner, with greens, or another fabulous raw recipe for dinner
- snacks can be raw nuts with unsulphured dried fruit
- desert or an anytime taste treat can be the super dark chocolate, or a raw desert that combines with the previous meal
She suggests a Green Lemonade which requires a juicer and is basically my Green Smoothie without the fiber, but until I have that machine I am loving these smoothies and while I understand her comments about the juice without fiber hydrating more quickly, this is what I'm doing for now. The Green Smoothie revelation, thank you Victoria Boutenko, has been a godsend. And it fits in with this program perfectly! And this "program" is just a gentle journey where every day is an end unto itself...now THAT'S something special.
Ideally, someday I might find myself arriving at Dr. Doug Graham's 80/10/10 lifestyle, or something thereabouts...maybe not. But what's amazing to me is that every time I am contemplating some new bit of understanding about nutrition from a vibrational and spiritual point of view, along comes the support and information I need to embrace it.
How fabulous!
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Posted by marathongal on 2009-04-01 16:13:59 | Rating: | Views: 34
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