10 Things I Learned from My Raw Food Health Coach Anthea
1. Don’t try to go 100% raw.
100% raw is something you can gradually transition towards if it makes you feel the best. But focus on doing a healthy diet that is sustainable for you every day. It’s what you do every day that makes the difference.
2. Weight loss is not the goal
The goal is feeling good enough every day to carry out your dreams no matter what you weigh. Don’t obsess over your weight. Obsess over getting enough nutrients to make your body feel as good as it can possibly feel.
3. Do short trials to test what makes you feel best
Does drinking water make a difference? Getting to bed at 9pm? Eating a higher fat percentage? Not eating after 5pm? Eating 90/5/5? Change one variable in your routine and put it to the test for a set period of time. Conduct a study.
4. The healthiest food choices are (in this order) raw fruits and vegetables, steamed non starchy vegetables, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, unprocessed grains like brown rice and quinoa, white rice, beans…then bread and flour products.
Make the best choice available and notice how the food makes you feel. If you keep noticing, gradually over the years you will naturally lose your taste for certain processed foods.
5. Drink a lot of water before meals and in the morning.
Water helps your body digest and assimilate nutrients way better.
6. Compare yourself only to yourself and how you used to feel
Don’t compare yourself to Freelee the Banana Girl. Compare yourself to what you felt like or looked like before you started this lifestyle. Conversely if you start to feel worse than you used to feel, take notice.
7. Your focus should be on refining your daily eating and lifestyle habits into something effortless
Keep improving your daily plan so you get all the variables down and are getting enough sleep, exercise, water, sunlight, and eating the healthiest foods. Don’t try to do something like 100% raw for one week. Focus on maybe being 80% raw for the whole year.
8. Eat cooked food whenever you want but try to make the other two meals raw (if raw food makes you feel best).
Also try to eat some raw food with your cooked food. Like lettuce.
9. Sleep is probably more important than diet. Try taking a sleepcation where you sleep in and just rest in bed for a couple of days.
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10. Don’t weigh yourself.
The number on the scale is just a number. It tells you nothing about how you are feeling, or how toned you are, or how much muscle you have. It’s better to go by how your clothes are fitting.
My experience with my raw food coach Anthea was amazing and I highly recommend her for anyone who feels alone and has questions about this lifestyle.
Thank you for these great tips!