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. 

mm.

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.

Why You’re Lucky if You’re Fat

You know what’s crazy. When you google raw till 4, or fruitarian before and after…and look in google images, pics of me in a bikini come up.

At first I was kind of embarrassed, but now I’m like, I should post more pics to inspire people.

Not to say that everyone has to lose weight, but I think everyone should know that there is a way to lose weight that:

1. is scientifically proven to be healthier for you and extend your lifespan by 5-10 years (see The China Study)

2. will allow you to never diet again and eat as much as you want and completely crush all feelings of guilt and shame around eating

3. will allow you to become a daily animal rights activist and educate people about the billions of innocent “people” (i.e animal persons) who are enslaved, tortured and murdered behind closed doors.

4. boycotts all animal exploitation companies

5. may allow you to heal certain “incurable” health problems doctors can’t help you with

6. allows you to look like a skinny supermodel if you want that look

Do I look like a supermodel? Well sometimes I feel like I do. I mean, I weigh 145 pounds and I think they weigh like 100 and are 5’11. But I feel overjoyed still when I look in the mirror.

Trust me people, I really was not a naturally thin person. In fact my whole life I felt like the largest person in the room.

Check out this pic of me that someone recently posted on my Facebook from when I was 11. I am the person in the purple.

I always wondered “why me?”

Why was I born the large person.

But you know what, I was lucky.

Who wants to hear how a naturally thin person lost weight? Not me.

I want to hear from someone who was like 500 pounds.

It’s the same with our other problems. The worse are problems are, the more inspiring and believable are methods are when we overcome them. And the more exciting and thrilling the journey is.

I want to hear about the person who was paralyzed with stage fright who became an oscar winning actress.

That kind of thing.

I watched this guy film himself try to get rejected 100 times in 100 days. The first rejection on the first day was the best, cause you could tell how scared he was and how hard it was for him.

So don’t be afraid of your struggle, your problems, your flaws, and weaknesses.

Just know that that’s just adding intensity and suspense to your story. Eventually you will have the best before and after photos of all. And you will be able to teach and inspire people. So that they can have their own thrilling journeys as well.

Ithaca by C.P Cavafy

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope the voyage is a long one.
May there be many a summer morning when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you come into harbors seen for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to gather stores of knowledge from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.