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I’ve started tweeting on Twitter as twitter.com/shareross and have been getting a lot of DM’s and replies asking how to get started with the whole raw foods lifestyle. This seems to be the most difficult step. The first step in any journey is the one that feels the biggest. Four simple things to remember:
1. Get a juicer and juice everyday if possible. Use lots of dark greens and find mixtures that you like. It will make a difference you will soon be adding in more raw foods.
2. Eat more salads with healthier dressings. By salad I’m talkin’ a big, enormous bowl of salad foods. Start with mixed baby greens, add carrots, celery, soaked almonds or sunflower seeds (or dehydrated if you got that far), chop up some jalapeno really fine, add some olives, parsley, red bell peppers, fennel, …. go crazy! Get inventive. Salads need to be exciting. Use your blender to make dressings out of avocados and limes and things like that.
3. Forgive yourself for not being perfect. Remember, it isn’t about being 100% raw that counts. Baby steps. Allow yourself to be human and chances are you won’t have much to forgive anyway. The harder we on ourselves, the more difficult we make the path. If we allow mistakes from the beginning then it isn’t such a big deal when we stray and eat some bread or eat a bit of something fried. The intention is what is most important. Stay focused on your intentions.
4. Community. Find a friend either in real life or online that you can share your experiences with. It helps to talk through our moments of temptations or simply laugh about them. There’s plenty of great communities out there and we all want to know there are other people like us doing the raw thing! Check out giveittomeraw.com and add me as a friend. Follow me on twitter.com/shareross . Add me on myspace.com/rawpirategourmet . Let me know on one of those social mediums of anyplace else you might be hanging out, too! Let’s change the world, together!
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