How Do You Stop Yo Yo’ing On A Raw Food Diet?

you’ve spoken before on the various facets to contribute to the success on the raw diet and we use please speak on the possible psychological reason for yo-yoing on Raw and what we can do to help facilitate success on the Bolivian diet both mentally psychologically emotionally well I think when you get on to a raw food diet you plug into the energetic universe that all other creatures live in so it’s sort of like jumping on a wild horse that you’re not familiar with riding and so part of it is that that it’s a newfound energy number two is sugar and that is really why the gyration or the yo-yo goes on and we see that at the Institute every single week 52 weeks a year because this is such a high protein diet it’s an amazingly predigested amino acids are available goes into the cell with a green drink as an example regulates blood sugar so every week this is no embellishment people say to us I was a massive overeater I could never stop eating I’m not hungry what’s wrong and what’s not wrong is they’re regulating blood sugar with proteins so that’s another good thing I mean when I first became a raw fooder my favorite food was dehydrated organic pineapples when the day I found medjool dates I thought I’d died and gone to heaven you know and I didn’t stop at eating one or two you know I’d go back to the health story well I get one tomorrow no I would go back and get another pound of it so eating those types of seductive sugar drug things you’re gonna yo-yo with this say and I think your diet was profoundly good for what she’s discussing lots of nuts lots of seeds she grinds them up makes them easy to digest really really sensible and if you ask what she ate 30 years ago I’m sure she ate the way you did and I did and everything else you know you sort of learned these things you either you quit doing this or you learn how to do it and that’s really what it’s going to take it’s going to take you experiment in trying following the kind of things that you hear us say look at the Hippocrates program read the books that we’ve written and it sort of gives a blueprint an outline of where you could possibly make this easy for yourself two years forty three forty two years ago that I ever ate anything like that yeah you were like me remember Canadian bacon I said I started eating healthy like really consciously healthy when I was about seventeen because because other people don’t eat like you so that is also one thing that other people get feel intimidated by you taking a choice and eating different so you know we have a lot of there if you have six psychology sessions we have group sessions for our guests and I think a lot of this helps everybody to and our weight loss program we actually do particular type of psychology not that you wouldn’t need that but I mean we have an entire specific weight loss program that I mean you’ll lose more weight on our program and anything on the planet but the reason is its psychological and here’s something I learned 25 years ago that I completely went right over my head I was brought up by a really wonderful mother she loved me I never doubted she loved me she was there every time I came home but you have a mommy factor in this thing my mommy who I trusted and loved and never doubted told me that the very things I was going to abandon and found we’re bad we’re good for me eat meat it’s good for you eat dairy it’s good so you have the substance problem of getting rid of the addiction to the substance you have the social problem that Anna Maria just mentioned but more so you have the mommy problem so until I came to that realization I said why do these highly intelligent guests who actually see their we do blood tests at the beginning in the end radical shifts all the time there’s not a blood test that somebody’s you know we have the average drop in cholesterol during a three-week period it’s really only two weeks between blood tests two weeks in the deck it’s 50 points yeah we see blood sugar regulate in five days commonly cumberly but even with that how come they keep cheating and going back because mama told them I think one of the the strongest human needs is the need to belong except within your family your tribe your friends and and I think some people would sooner die then not belong you’re right and and that need is so strong that the only way I think of getting around that really is is to I mean some people create a new tribe but most of us don’t want to do that we love our families and we you know and our friends and we want is is I think is really to to love them but to share our wonderful food and and to make foods that we know will be appealing and beautiful and and just make it a part of their world as well you don’t give them a sprout salad you give them a veggie burger yeah that’s that’s it and it works it’s it’s interesting how open even the family members that you would think are completely closed I can remember a couple of Christmases ago making three or four different kinds of fermented cheeses and the sprouted you know dehydrated crackers and and I remember making I mean this was you know a treat for Christmas but the they like Turtles with pine nut caramel with pine nut yes you know that kind of thing and the family they were just thrilled to think that they could have these kinds of foods that were actually reasonably how much healthier than whatever they were replacing and so they were quite excited about it and and I think when you do it in that way where you’re not pointing a finger you’re not making people feel badly but you’re you’re sharing with love and excitement some really delicious food

we learned that phytonutrients get destroyed as you cook them as you cook the vegetable how about steaming and making soup does that destroy the phytonutrients also there’s lots of ways to kill something you can either shoot it right out or torture it but at the end of the day it’s dead that’s that but we have polite words for killing you know blanching baking but you know now the mark line is about 115 so if you can keep it blood nothing wrong with soup you know I’m cold when I’m up here this is not a normal weather for for us so you could actually take vegetables you like blend them up you’re gonna kill a lot for this but this is recreational stuff we’re talking about you blend it up you put it in there and heat of 220 so long as you don’t spike it above that then you still have the phytonutrients and the enzymes and everything else that you want and it’s still a warm soup and it actually tastes better then when you cook it when you cook it over do it try this do this experiment worldwide take blend up your favorite things put seasonings in heat it to 112 about 41 42 Celsius and eat that and then take the same exact thing and cook it and you’re gonna see there’s a foul taste to the cook we’re a rich and comprehensive taste to the raw or semi raw if you can test it with your pinkie into the pot you’re fine then it’s less and dehydrator is your new oven dehydrator you keep it at 115 Fahrenheit so by that time you know you’re you keeping the phytonutrients then some hormones oxygen you’re keeping it and you have so much fun I mean when you sit at the Institute every day it’s a part of crackers and nuts and seeds that’s been soaked sprouted and we dehydrate and we make yeah pates and you know there’s so many things that you can make what you do how most things take 24 hours the nuts the seeds if I make bread I make raw bread in there take a grain even a grain that has gluten like right if I soak and sprout it now there’s hardly any gluten left so now I put it through the juicer or if you have a what do you call the other one quiz enough it’s an art or yeah I can put make crackers out and but I can also make bread done but I cannot make thick bread because it will totally ferment so much but there’s no limit I can make veggie burgers in there I mean we have a lot of fun with that our kids are brought up with it so I’ll just add a few things so when you when you cook with phytochemicals certain phytochemicals you know will certainly decline they won’t disappear completely some phytochemicals for example the carotenoids actually are more available in cooked foods than say a raw carrot less available than a juiced carrot mind you because you’re you’re me you’re removing cell membranes if you’re juicing and so it becomes very very bioavailable but carotenoids generally you’ll increase the absorption a little bit now with the other thing to know is is the enzymes and foods like my Rosa nice so if you take broccoli and you eat it raw and chew it well you’ll get a lot of conversion of the glucosinolates does it to the isothiocyanates like sulforaphane and and you want that to happen so if you cook as soon as the you know the steam hits the broccoli your my rosin is isn’t all destroyed instantly it is slowly diminishes over time so if you’re if you’re steaming and you steam for a very brief time you’ll still have reasonable activity so again if you’re cooking you want to cook for as little time as possible and you want moost cooking methods more than dry cooking methods the other things to know is it the the thing to know is you lose probably 40 or 50 percent of maybe 30 to 50 percent of minerals in water and but but more up to seventy or so percent of vitamins especially like vitamin C which is lost very easily with cooking so you’ll also lose some vitamins and minerals now if you’re doing a soup of course you’ll retain the minerals in in the water so that’s an advantage as well there’s this fun little trick there’s a steamer containers black & decker did make them I don’t know if they do but you buy they’re not expensive forty fifty dollars you plug them in and they tell you on the side to steam it and it’s perfect steam somehow they made it in a way that geometrically it steams perfectly that you’ve put in a half a cup so the trick we pulled off we put in a quarter of a cup so now it’s a bit cooked on the outside but as you pointed out probably I don’t know what the number is 50 60 70 80 percent of it it’s not cooked on the inside so now if you’re fighting cancer maybe that’s not what you do but the average person oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that’s it and well your point is a not just a personal point after 50 years old in Europe and North America 60% of the population has some level of periodontal disease so it gets increasingly I mean kids have bad teeth but after 56 out of 10 people have it so it gets increasingly harder to eat raw food at that point so and the sad news is the blending research shows if you blend it up even for a short time your oxygen killing most of the nutrients not I’m not sure not as bad as cooking I don’t know that that’s my opinion it’s not a fact possibly but the fact is it’s much better to do that than it would be to eat the typical diet anyway and wish things up we one of our favorite cook foods is big baked squash house there much in it no but the reality is it tastes damn good value with you you are able to get a lot of a variety of chronoed and it’s and and I think it’s a wonderful food so there are a lot of foods that are I mean you’re not completely destroying the value of a food when you prepare especially steaming vegetables