Dentist Everett

If you want to make a big change in your life to make yourself healthier, you may want to look at switching to a raw food diet.  Not knowing where to beging may be the toughest part  . There is a lot of information about the raw food diet out there, and it can be overwhelming to the starter. With that in mind, here are three easy ways to ease yourself into new eating habits that will help to better your health and assist you in losing weight.

1.  Get rid of the coffee pot and replace it with a blender  .

For many of us, the morning cup of coffee isn’t just a nice-to-have, it is a life-or-death requirement . If you think about it, this isn’t exactly a healthy way to live. And of course, coffee is far from a raw food, thanks to the roasting process to darken the beans, and the boiling that brews the end product.  Therefore, coffee is something we need to toss out  .

But don’t try to go cold turkey in the mornings . Dust off your blender, as it is going to become your new best friend. In the mornings, you need vitamins and energy, and a green smoothie is just what the raw foods experts prescribeed. It’s quicker to prepare than a pot of coffee, and offers a tasty way to get your body moving in the morning. The caffeine monkey on your back will take a while to kick, but once you lose him, you’ll be dependant on smoothies for breakfast.

2. Learn to snack all over again .

For most of us, snacks are the nutritional equivalent of a dirty word . At the movies, it’s popcorn and chocolate-covered mints. At home, it’s a bag of greasy potato chips. At the bar, you order wings and onion rings. None of these are healthy, and all of them do a terrible job of properly filling your stomach.

One of the easiest ways to get you into the raw food diet plan is to replace those unhealthy snacks with suitable replacements . Sure, the local movie theatre is unlikely to stock anything even remotely unrefined enough to work, but it’s easy work to smuggle in a bagful of mixed nuts. At home, you can still have chips but make them dehydrated yam and kale chips.  You can always order a veggie platter, even at your local pub  .

3. Experiment with food at least once a day .

Just like any diet, you are going to come to a point where you get bored with what you are eating . It happens. You start off with a dozen different recipes, lose half of them to personal dislike, and narrow it down to three that you love, are fairly easy to make, and you can regularly find ingredients for.

Well, you need a lot more than three meals to get by. You have twenty-one meals a week to eat and that’s if you want to stick to the standard three per day. Oh, and that doesn’t include snacks. So, when you run through all your original stock of recipes, go find a new book or web site. Spend a few hours pouring over the options. Or even better, go to your local grocer, and pick up one raw food item that you either can’t identify, or have never tested before. Bring it home, and find a recipe for it. Do this on a regular basis, and before you know it, you’re going to be hooked on the raw foods approach to eating.