Raw foods are foods in their most natural state – straight from Mother Earth. Raw foods include fresh and dried fruits, fresh vegetables, raw nuts and seeds, herbs, seaweeds, sprouted grains, sprouted seeds, sprouted beans, cold processed oils, many condiments, and superfoods.

You will be surprised by the abundance of foods in this group and their delicious flavours, textures and smells. In fact, my diet broadened at least triple-fold after stepping into this way of life. I discovered new ways of eating that give me more sensory pleasure than any other way of eating I have previously experienced.

You will be amazed at what these deceptively simple foods can create including rich, sweet desserts, spicy dishes, warm and cold foods, crunchy textures and so much more. You can even make or buy raw crackers, raw pizza and raw breads made with combinations of raw nuts, seeds, fruits and vegetables dehydrated slowly at temperatures below 48 degrees Celsius to maintain the enzymes destroyed at higher temperatures.

Raw versions of your old favourites can really help if you are new to raw foods while you transition, or even as a staple in your diet long term provided you don’t overdo the nuts and seeds. Over time it is likely you will naturally choose to simplify your diet as your body reaches new states of cleanliness.

I feel I eat more indulgently now than ever before. To manage my weight in the past I would almost never touch sweets or desserts or have carbohydrate, sugar or dairy heavy foods. At least not without a huge amount of guilt! Now I get to enjoy a huge range of foods that feel equally as guilty but taste better and promote my health rather than detracting from it!

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So we all know that fresh fruits and vegetables are the healthiest foods we can eat, but are you aware of just how positively they can transform you? Not just your physical appearance either, although this is certainly a compelling enough reason for most people to include more raw foods in their diet.

Raw foods are choc-full of enzymes, nutrients and most-importantly – life! Life Force Energy runs through raw plant food which in turn runs through us, increasing our energetic vibration. Remember, all matter is energy including humans. So if you truly want to soar with life and energy, it makes sense to consume those things that actually have the Life Force Energy to give them to you!

Physical benefits typically include:

• Fast and effortless weight release with only a few simple and easy rules to ensure the desired results
• Clearer skin (I am testament to this after healing my skin of severe eczema and people often thinking I am wearing make up when I rarely do!)
• A flatter stomach as the body starts to be cleansed of old toxic matter
• More energy than you’ve had since your youth - consistently!
• Ailments often improve and some people are able to decrease and even stop taking medications (I did it!)
• Heightened body awareness and connection with your body’s needs
• Feeling sexier
• Increased body confidence
• Heightened sense of smell
• And many more!

If the physical benefits aren’t enough for you, then check these out because it gets even better. You may also experience:

• Much greater mental clarity
• Less time spent in the kitchen, so more time for other activities
• No pots and pans!
• Greater connection with your emotional needs
• Heightened sense of intuition and spiritual connection (often for the first time)
• Many people (myself included) report incredible feelings of euphoria
• A more abundant, natural joy for life
• A more positive and grateful attitude and enjoyment of the simpler things in life
• Greater understanding and connection with where food comes from and all of nature

I’m sure there is many more that I haven’t listed here!

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From my personal experience, and most gurus, nutritionists and authors in this field would agree, the key to successfully incorporating more raw foods in your diet is to focus on SIMPLICITY. This also ensures that food preparation is easy, quick and cheap – three things that are likely to have a huge impact on how smooth your transition to this lifestyle is and how much joy you find in it. I know that if I had to spend more than 15 minutes at a time in the kitchen (unless I choose to) or if the food wasn’t delicious I wouldn’t be interested! This approach is not about aiming for a certain percentage of raw food in your diet, though it can be useful as a visual when planning or making your meals. It is about flooding your body with enzymes, nutrients and life, while ensuring effective elimination of toxic matter from your body so that you are generating a cleaner and lighter body free of disease.

I can’t emphasise enough that it is about progress, not perfection with this lifestyle. Consistent improvements are the key as and when your body is clean enough and you are mentally and emotionally ready to take your diet to another level. One way of knowing if you are ready to move forward is by how much you are enjoying the lifestyle, how well you feel and how much support and guidance you have. Whilst the benefits of this lifestyle can almost always be felt within only a few days, it takes time to form any new habit and really feel comfortable with it, so it is important to listen to your body and pace yourself accordingly.

One of the best and easiest ways to instantly feel more vital and energetic and vastly increase the amount of raw nutrients in your diet is by incorporating a delicious green vegetable juice or green smoothie into your diet daily, ideally for breakfast. A big salad with your lunchtime meal is also a great idea.

One of the most frequent mistakes people make when moving into this lifestyle is to include a very large amount of nuts, seeds and dried fruits in their diet instead of focusing on fresh vegetables and fruits. I have made this mistake myself many times so I am talking from experience! It is much more cleansing and health-supporting to eat a giant plate of lightly steamed greens with some fresh herbs and other lightly cooked vegetables and soups than it is to eat a half kilo of nuts and dried fruits just because they are raw. It is for this reason that I don’t recommend relying on percentages of raw food in the diet too heavily! More often than not this tendency to overeat on the denser raw foods like nuts and dried fruits comes when someone transitions to a high raw diet very quickly and hasn’t yet released their physical or emotional reliance on certain foods. If you are struggling with cravings, or with making lasting changes in your diet and life, or just want to move things forward quickly, then my coaching services will help you greatly.

This lifestyle is so satisfying, delicious and fun and the challenges are worth facing many times over just to get the amazing results you will experience. That is why I offer support, guidance and information for you, so that you too can feel amazing, have lasting energy all day long and feel sexier than ever before!

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The raw lifestyle is by its very nature a cleansing lifestyle. By eating higher quality foods, in their most natural form and avoiding toxins in processed foods you are giving your body the opportunity to divert its attention to deeply cleansing and stirring up all the old junk from years past sitting and swimming in your cells and body fluids. A delicious image right? It’s no wonder so many of us strive to get it all out!

As your body goes to work to clean itself up, the toxic matter in your body (and believe me, because of processed convenience foods and the environment we live in today there is plenty in there!) is released into your bloodstream to allow it to be removed through the body’s elimination channels. As this occurs some symptoms may surface to show you they are being stirred up. Symptoms can include skin irritations, acne, fatigue, lack of energy, headaches and more. Of course we want to avoid these symptoms as much as possible and they can be greatly minimized if not avoided altogether by paying lots of attention to not only what we put into our bodies, but also to what we get out.

True detoxification and cleansing occurs not when toxins are stirred up and enter the bloodstream, but when they are safely and effectively released from the body. There are many ways that we can help our bodies to do this. You might choose to slow down the amount of raw foods you are introducing into your diet so the detox is less intense. There are also many other helpers, including deep breathing, sweating, skin brushing, colonics, and exercise to name a few. Some of these may sound more appealing than others but they will all make a huge difference to the level of energy, vitality, body awareness and even the spiritual connection you feel.

I urge you to employ as many of these methods as possible on a regular basis for optimum results. I would never have healed my debilitating and painful eczema and the seemingly constant colds and flus without regular use of one or more of these tools. They were truly my godsend during the most challenging and painful of times!

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As you begin to consume more life-giving raw foods and support the body to effectively and safely cleanse, you will start feeling more alive, aware and energetic than ever before. By lightening up your body physically and pouring in more Life Force Energy, you will also be creating space for energy to be directed elsewhere.

With the increased awareness and mental clarity that comes from this lifestyle, your attention can be directed towards creating wonderful new experiences and really going for the magnificent life you dream of. It also tends to highlight the areas in your life that need to be worked on or changed – those areas that really aren’t supporting you or making you feel aligned with your true and highest self. This is wonderful and exciting but it can also be challenging and for many somewhat intimidating. Getting personal support can really make all the difference when going through these times.

I can’t recommend this lifestyle to you enough for the whole person shifts and growth it facilitates and the immense joy and freedom you can feel by living this way. It is what we all deserve but it has been squashed and hidden behind toxic foods, chemicals and addictions, societal norms and learnt habits and behaviours. This lifestyle allows you to see beyond the mist and move into the highest vision you have for yourself where body, mind, spirit and emotion dance together in harmony.

It is only through living the lifestyle that you fully understand just what is possible. I am here to support you all the way.

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