Hunger triggers feelings of hunger and prepares the stomach to accept food. You must be able to recognize if your stomach is hungry, sometimes you can mistake the feeling of hunger for thirst. Try drinking a glass of warm water next time you are hungry…but you don’t think you should be, maybe you have eaten a short while ago. A glass of water 15 minutes before you eat can also lead to eating less. Hunger will make you uncomfortable if it is not properly managed. It could lead to a mild form of binge eating, as you are so hungry and have built up anticipation of the food. This could lead to a cycle of overeating.

Here are ways to help you keep hunger in control and avoid the chance of becoming a compulsive eater.

Measure and delay hunger
Hunger has different intensities. Every time you feel hungry, mark the intensity of the hunger in your mind; 1 as a little hungry and 5 as very hungry. Delay hunger if you can. You overcome the hunger, and eating is postponed. Do you feel good? Relish your success!

Eat small portions
Hunger prepares the stomach for food. Eat small portions, the food will taste better, and the digestive systems will not be overworked. Eating this way will give you a blast of energy better than that of coffee.

Decide how much to eat
Eat predetermined quantities, and decide how much is enough. Chew your food well. Slow down and relax. Feel content as you eat. Enjoy your food and savor every bite. Relish each moment as if it was the last meal.

Drink at the end of the meal
Herbal tea is relaxing; it is a nice drink after a meal and will help you move out of the mode of overeating. This will give your stomach the feeling of contentment. You feel the satisfaction now? Be thankful that you are satisfied.

The next time you are hungry, face it and be at peace. Hunger can cause feelings of being deprived. Ignore it. Hunger stir uncomfortable emotions. Again, ignore it. You can do it!

You will never score a goal in a basketball game by wandering aimlessly. Your opponents will easily grab the ball from you. To be a great basketball player, you have to go through a regimen of training. It is not an easy task. There are many obstacles and trials to overcome. But it is your resolve to be successful in basketball.

You cannot overcome compulsive behavior without a plan and being determined to reach that goal. Just like scoring any goal on the basketball court, you have to get pumped up, determined, and focused. Set realistic goals… pace yourself.

Here is a list that will help you overcome compulsion:

Resolve to be stubborn
It is not your opponents that will weaken your resolve to overcome compulsion. You must be determined in the face of temptation. Be resolved to stay focused. Do not allow thoughts to drift into your subconscious, gab your resolve and chase them out, they will weaken your decisions. In the face of temptation, be firm. Be on the alert that you are being tempted, accept it but refuse to give in. Be stubborn, even when friends are tempting you, refuse to eat junk food with that same power of conviction. Give yourself encouragement when you succeed..success is infectious, spread it around.

It’s a stronger conviction to refuse to do something than it is to – try to do something. Which statement is more positive, “I will try to eat better” or “I refuse to eat junk food.” Stubbornly refusing to do something has power. It is absolute refusal that makes decisions resolute.

Resolve to be intent
Being intent is to be fixed on something. Be like an athlete preparing for the challenge. Be fixed on what you intend to achieve. Do not be distracted. Just as an archer aims for his target, he is intent to hit the target. Once he has fired his arrow, he relaxes and gets ready to become intent again. The focus is exhausting. It requires 100% attention. You can be like that. Set the goal and become totally fixed on it everyday, especially just before you eat or face temptation. Once it is over, you can relax till the next target comes up. The mind can be very determind also, and you will often find that you have failed with out being aware until  it’s too late…don’t be put-off. This happens to us all. It can give you a boost of resolve to be more vigilant. Look at how it happened, and how you were hood-winked, and see if you can “catch” yourself next time.

Resolve to end mental war
Resolute decisions end mental wars. Weak decisions are useless. There will be times you will compromise and feel like a failure. Make your decisions resolute. If you have made the decision to eat one bowl full of food per meal, resolve to feel hungry before eating. You have made a decision! “I am not getting pushed around any more. I refuse to be controlled by food. Cravings do your worst. I will not budge. I am standing firm. My decision is unchangeable. I will not give in.” These ends the mental war.
Resolve to succeed
You have made a resolve to succeed. Every day you have to go over the reasons as to why you have made these decisions. As soon as you weaken in your decision, the battle starts. Fortify these decisions because you know you will succeed.

Compulsion is a vicious cycle. Pain comes in, emotions stir to a storm: fear, insecurity, anxiety, feeling empty and deprived. These feelings will not exist if your decision is resolute. They come because you are allowing yourself to consider breaking your decision. Even if you do not break, those feelings will have weakened your decision and you will need to rebuild it. If you do not, you will fail.

Compulsive eaters take in just about anything. Unconsciously, they eat foods that have no nutritional values. JUNK! Most compulsive eaters are unaware of their diet. They find reasons to eat and justify their choices of food. Compulsive eaters find comfort in food. A hard day’s work filled with stress can often bring on an eating binge. Food is often used as a distraction from anxiety, rewarding the pleasure centre of the brain with eating. Abundant food is often the barometer of security and happiness of the compulsive eater.

Your food preferences vary from junk to gourmet. Food from the nearby fast food chain relieves the hunger pang. Premixed food preparations are often popped in the microwave oven to satisfy the craving. That food featured delectably on the food magazine becomes an obsession.

The imagination is often the enemy of the compulsive eater. The colors, images, smells, textures and taste of food will tease the compulsive eater, giving an anticipation of pleasure so strong that all determination fails. The smell triggers the saliva to activate the urge to eat. The taste will cause restlessness. The various textures and images leaves a feeling of want.

In the Bible, eating was not a problem two thousand years ago. Food was organically grown, and consumed at its prime freshness because there were no refrigerators. There were no food additives. The early church did not need adrenaline stimulants or fast energy giving drinks or beverages to get through the rigors of the daily tasks.

If Paul is alive today, he would definitely address the problem and would probably say that, “Junk foods are harmful to one’s body. With you as God’s steward, you must live in discipline and wisdom. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit so you must take good care of it.”

Start your day right. Have a healthy breakfast. Enjoy cholesterol- and saturated fat-free breakfast.

The stomach has been asleep. Give it time to wake up. Dumping a greasy bacon and eggs breakfast on a half-asleep stomach is a bad move. If you are not hungry, do not eat. You can take some fruit with you to eat later. Have a glass of herbal tea, or some freshly- made juice and your body will love you for it. If you are hungry, the best choice is fruit. It is easy to digest and will supply all the nutrition needed to start your day.

Here are some suggestions that are easy to make and free of cholesterol and saturated fat.

Morning Mobilizer

Slice a banana into a bowl and add segments from one orange. Chill for 10 minutes. Add a dash of honey and it is the perfect breakfast.

Grape-Pear, Day Starter

Dice one pear, add 10 seedless grapes and a sliced banana. Add a tablespoon of frozen pineapple concentrate which will naturally sweeten the dish to a tantalizing treat.

Cereal Replacer

Longing for that cold crunchy feeling of breakfast cereal? Here is a radical replacement for the usual breakfast of milk, starch and sugar. You need 2 shredded carrots, a quarter cup of raisins, and 1/4 can of frozen pineapple concentrate. Mix together in a bowl and leave in the fridge overnight. When it is ready to be served in the morning, add a few sesame seeds and some frozen banana slices for extra flavor. Peel ripe bananas before freezing in freezer bags and slice only as needed. Frozen bananas taste like ice cream. Kids love frozen bananas.

Cantaloupe Juice-Up

The juice of a cantaloupe is a great energizer to start the day, and a rocket fuel for a weary body. It gives a blast of beta-carotene, essential vitamins and minerals. You could wear your running shoes to work!

Carrot Juice Coffee Kicker

Need that caffeine blast to get you going? We have a better one. Place into the juicer ten carrots, 1 lemon, 1 apple and one beet. Get ready to hit overdrive. Your cells won’t know what hit them but it will hit them good!

A good and healthy breakfast will start your day right! Be focused on the right tract.

Quit living in the past. We all have our pasts to deal with. We cannot fix it but we can let it go and decide to move on. Pick up yourself from the vicious cycle of the past and live your life to the fullest. Do not justify the past by blaming others. Accept past mistakes but do not wallow in them. Surrender everything to God. Allow Him to work in you, resting in the thought that He will completely erase the past. Loosen up. Have fun. Allow yourself to be like a child all over again. Never allow the past to ruin your future.

Being Motivated

Bear in mind that your thoughts determine how you feel. Captivate your thoughts and filter them into positive tools to become an overcomer. Refrain from criticizing yourself, instead find an opportunity to reaffirm yourself that you made the right choice. Do not blame or make excuses for your behavior, but rather firmly resolve that the change you desire emanates from the very core of your being. Take responsibility, accept and love yourself. Feel good about your accomplishments.

Do not go back to the vicious cycle of worrying especially during eating. This is disrespect to our God. If you have problems you must have to deal with, write them down on paper and leave it behind for awhile. Do not ever attempt to tackle problems before eating. Once you have decided, stop the worrying and do something positive. If things cannot be changed, leave it all to God. Nothing can be hidden from the Lord. He knows your heart, your desires and wants. He also knows your strengths and weaknesses. Always ask for wisdom for you to be able to accept your situation.

Look at the future from a new perspective. You are a new you. Your brain is no longer filled with the negative thoughts, but rather, it is replaced with fresh and new affirmative thoughts that you are a new creation. Create a new list of your priorities and goals. Make a list of positive statements to say to yourself for encouragement. Joy and peace will no longer be easily snatched away from you because it is in your heart. It is your choice to be joyful and at peace.

Your eating habits can increase or decrease compulsive eating. Here are some good habits that you need to develop:

Healthy Eating Habit 1: Prepare with Flair

Prepare meals with anticipation, creatively, with color, taste and smell that appeals to your senses. Instead of just chomping on a cantaloupe, cut it up into squares, chill it in the freezer for 15 minutes and serve it in an oval plate. Observe how different it feels when you add a bit of flair.

Healthy Eating Habit 2: Eat Hungry

We eat three times the amount of food we need to maintain health, and constantly eat without hunger. Most people eat a meal that could sustain an entire family in Africa for one day. Do not confuse natural hunger for cravings. A growling stomach with a ‘blah’ taste in the mouth is not hunger. Eating to relieve grumbling caused by gastric irritation will only leave you feeling sluggish and lethargic. Wait until you are hungry. You will not die of starvation. Most people have experienced true hunger only a few times in their life. Fighting hunger is like fighting Goliath. You put up a fight, he will run. If you are not hungry, do not eat. This is an opportunity to delay eating. Skip breakfast or the occasional meal and feel the intensity of your hunger build readiness.

During hunger, the sinuses clear, the stomach becomes ready and the sense of smell reaches its peak. Best of all, taste is enhanced. You will feel your salivary glands activating so that eating gives more satisfaction. A burst of energy and a feeling of well being is achieved if you eat healthy food. Wait until your body needs nutrition, eat raw foods, and chew your food well. If you eat this way, you will not have the desire to keep on eating. You will now be satisfied with smaller portions which is the way it should be. There will be times you will feel gastric irritation making you uncomfortable, eat small amounts of fruit or vegetable to help relieve it.

Healthy Eating Habit 3: Chew, Chew, and Chew

Learn to chew your food. It is better than swallowing. We make swallowing the big event, but it is in fact the anticlimax. Chewing is the build-up and it is the prelude to swallowing. As the digestive enzymes in the saliva start their work, the food changes flavor, and with each chew, explodes more taste sensations. Soft warm textures massage the tongue. Digestion starts in the mouth as well as contentment. Chewing greatly increases the health value of the food. Aim for thirty chews before swallowing.

Healthy Eating Habit 4: Eat Stress-Free

Learn to relax before a meal. Let go and be at peace before you eat. A plate of worry is bad for the belly. Turn on some relaxing music and take your meal to bed if you have to. Go outside if it is warm. Learn to slow down, do not rush, and enjoy each mouthful. Do not let your mind drift to problems and worries. If you are going to eat, stay focused. If you have to worry, stop and worry but limit yourself to a few minutes then get it out of your system. When you are ready to eat, be aware of the taste, be conscious of your breathing. Be alert on how the food feels in the stomach. Enjoy the experience as much as possible. The more you enjoy it, the more satisfied you will be.

Healthy Eating Habit 5: Feel Good as You Eat

Feel good about your achievement. You are eating health giving food with discipline. Be proud of that accomplishment. Take the time to enjoy being content with feeling full.

Healthy Eating Habit 6: Be Thankful

Count your blessings. Be thankful of what God has given you. Acknowledge Him by saying grace before meals. He loves you and is sustaining you. He is with you as you eat. Food has been brought from all over the world just for your benefit. It is a manifestation of His promise that He will never leave you nor forsake you.

Healthy Eating Habit 7: Love the Foods that Love You

Look at your food straight in the eye and ask questions: “Do you love me? Will you support my cells and care for me in old age? Are you loving my body or is your love artificial? Do you really love me or are you just flirting with my taste buds?” If you want to be healthy, love the foods that love you.

Healthy Eating Habit 8: Eat Simple

Simple food is healthy. The silkworm lives on mulberry leaves. The koala lives on eucalyptus leaves. Cows live on grass and do just fine. Humans are the only creatures in the known universe who eat every food type in one meal. The food industry makes intricate combinations that make digestion more difficult.. It is because of this that we burp, expel gas and abuse our colon by over-working it. Stomach ulcers are results of our carelessness. It is time we go back to the basics. Pretend you are in Eden and enjoy eating from one tree at a time. Aim for a simple and nutritious diet; your stomach will love you for it.

Healthy Eating Habit 9: Eat More Raw Food

Heating drastically alters the precious nutrients which our body needs. Cooking kills! As you drop your veggies into a pot of boiling water, listen closely. You can hear the enzymes screaming with pain as they die. That poor little enzyme was just trying to build your health. An 80% raw diet will provide you with optimum health. Give enzymes a break. Allow them to work into your body the proper way.

Healthy Eating Habit 10: Spice is not Nice

Excessive use of salt and white vinegar is addictive and hard on the stomach. Food becomes tasteless and bland without them. Use condiments in moderation.

Healthy Eating Habit 11: Savor the Food

Learn to enjoy and relish with gusto everything that you put into your mouth. Get those dopamine pleasure molecules working overtime by really savoring each bite. The more you enjoy the experience of healthy eating, the more satisfied you will be. The more you find contentment, the easier it will be for you to stay focused on healthy eating habits.

Dessert is the last course of a lunch or dinner. Fruits are the most common desserts.

Most of your meals should be fruit salads. They are easy to make, delicious, and full of enzymes.

Fruit Salad Mix:

Freeze peeled, ripe bananas in freezer bags. As they start to freeze, break them up so they will not clump together. Bananas will store in the freezer for months. If you are cutting a frozen banana that is too hard, place it in the microwave for 10 seconds. To eat them like a Popsicle, wrap the bottom with a paper towel. For the fruit salad base, use oranges, melons, grapes, peaches, or the fruit of your choice. Dice the fruit into bite-sized pieces then place in a bowl. Frozen banana slices are added next. They taste like ice cream. Chill the mixture.

Fruit Salad Dressing:

The dressing is the most important part. The dressing will make fruit taste like one of the best desserts you have ever tasted, but it will be healthy. To make your dressing, mix applesauce and one tablespoon of orange or pineapple concentrate. Avocados also make an amazing dressing. Avocados are high in calories. They’re perfect if you are an athlete in training or have a fast metabolism and do not want to lose weight during the 30 days. Buy ripe avocados. Test them by pressing with your thumb. They should give a little, but not be mushy. To make an avocado dressing, blend avocados with frozen orange, pineapple or apple concentrate. Frozen juice concentrates sweeten the mixture. You can also use the frozen concentrates as a topping; just mush and spread over the top.

Fruit Salad Topping:

Sprinkle chopped dates with cinnamon for the final touch.
These fruit desserts will never get boring. You’ll feel no sleepiness or bloated feeling after eating, but a clean burst of energy. Try to make the mixture ten minutes in advance. Put it in the freezer, clean up and spend a few moments in prayer to be at peace. You will easily appreciate every bite.

Orange-Banana Shake:

1 Banana, 1/4 can frozen pineapple or orange concentrate, one-cup water and 4 ice cubes.

A Bigger Mountain

Congratulations! You’ve achieved the thirty days. You’re high on life, flying on the jet steams of joy. Every cell of your body is bursting with enthusiasm. Why stop here? The 30 days is just a launching pad. Bigger mountains are waiting. Consider the 90-day challenge. You are already one third of the way there. Your body and mind will feel amazing by this point. Believe that it gets even better. Climbing the 90-day mountain will revolutionize your life more than you can possibly believe.

The 90-day program has three parts:

Part 1: One thirty-day raw-food program.

Part 2: One thirty-day fast.

Part 3: Another thirty-day raw-food program.

The 30-day fast is mostly a juice fast, but we recommend two periods of water fasting of three days in length, or one five-day water fast during this time period. Read our book Fasting to Freedom; there are only a few health conditions that restrict fasting. It is not starving, as your body is being flooded with nutrients. Even during a water fast, the body has 3,500 calories per pound of body fat ready for use. The periods of water fasting are a time of prayer, brokenness, and humility before the awesomeness of God. Water fasting is a period of deeper cleansing. It’s a time to renew conviction and hunger for God. Because your body is clean, you will find these periods easy. There will be a sense of freedom that you have never experienced. Do not expect to feel dragged out; the exhilaration and closeness to God will belie description.

The 30 days back on the raw food diet is the only way to continue gaining more of the same astounding benefits you have received. Most people break a lengthy fast over 10 days. But thirty days is even better. After the 90 days, you can return to cooked food, small amounts of grains, sprouts, raw nuts, and all the delicious recipes we have listed in God’s Banquet Table.

May you be blessed in every way, and the favor of God shine upon you. May you be filled with everlasting joy.

Great effort is needed to end the uncontrollable desire for food. For that reason, develop your fighting skills to conquer compulsive actions.

This battle is for freedom; refuse to fail. You can feel intense emotions and choose not to give in. Tell yourself, “I refuse to quit. I refuse to give in. I refuse to fail.” During the emotional windstorms caused by temptation, ask yourself, “what do I really want?” Eating to relieve stress is not what you want. What you really want is to be at peace. Eating out of anger is not what you want. What you want is to resolve the issue. Eating to relieve fear is not what you want. What you really want is the courage to face it. Eating in the place of boredom is not what you want. What you really want is a challenge that will stir some excitement within you.

Do not fight obsessive thoughts, but deflect them into positive thoughts and activities. Use mini-breaks to change your mood and break cycles of obsessive thinking. Do something you enjoy for a few minutes until the emotions diminish. Play an instrument, exercise, go for a short walk, or do some stretching. Not only will you be fighting obsessive thoughts, but improving your life one mini-break at a time. Do not give in to an urge; each time you do, the pleasure will create a craving to repeat it. Remind yourself that junk food is artificial pleasure that steals from your body. If you do not feed a craving, it will die. If you become anxious take a slow, deep breath, holding for one second, and then release, think peace. Let go and let God.

Create the feeling of revulsion to the point of nausea: finger nails scratching a blackboard, a hair in your soup, dog vomit on your carpet, a wet fur ball on your bed, or a bug in your shoe. Find what image best works for you. Use negative labeling. Bacon is burned strips of cholesterol and fat. Make up your own negative labels for the foods you are trying to quit. Play the mental tape to the end; look at the big picture. Don’t look only at the pleasure, but focus on all of the negative consequences.

When we discipline ourselves, we feel as though we have lost something, and feel deprived. Fight that feeling with the fact that you have what you need to be happy. Challenge the feeling of loss.

Remind yourself of the bad qualities of the food you hate. Refuse to eat them. Avoid triggers like donut stores and bakeries. Avoid spending time in the kitchen or at the dinner table when you start to feel tempted. Plan your meals. Have fruit or vegetable snacks ready.

The first few days can be the toughest. If you feel weak and out of it, it will be difficult to discipline your thoughts. Discipline is work, and feeling toxic creates an ‘I don’t –care’ feeling. It will pass once the blood clears of toxins. Do the best you can during these times to remain resolute.

This is a 30-day program to fight obsessive eating. This program is called the raw food diet.

We recommend 30 days on raw fruits and vegetables. Raw food is used by sanitariums in the healing of disease because it is similar to a juice fast in detoxifying the body. The process is slower, but the effect is the same; you will be revitalized. If you stick to this program, you will experience an exhilaration that you have never known. You will feel vitally alive. As your blood clears of all addictive substances, you will feel great. Any health conditions will be noticeably improved or even healed. Your sinuses will clear of mucus and you will be able to smell even the faintest of scents. You will be able to breathe deeply, feeling each breath enter the lungs. The mental fog will lift and your mind will become more alert. Your skin will soften and feel sleek. You will feel 10 years younger and look like it.

Raw food is loaded with enzymes, vitamins and minerals. For the first time in your life, your body is functioning free of heavy proteins, milk fats, animal fats, cholesterol, mucus forming starches, trans fatty acids, food additives and high doses of salt and sugar. You have given your body a time of rest and healing.

The first week will be the hardest, especially the first few days, for that is the time when the body undergoes the most intense cleansing. As the weeks progress, you will feel better and better.

Although juice fasting is superior in its healing effect, the challenge of a raw food diet is better than juice fasting at developing the skills to control food intake. When a compulsive eater juice fasts, he feels free from food addiction, but as soon as he starts to eat, hunger triggers all the compulsive desires and distorted thinking patterns that were never dealt with. The result is a binge. The benefit of a 30-day fast can be lost in three weeks of indulgence.

Juice fasting has more amazing benefits than a raw food diet, but first you must develop the skills to combat compulsive eating. By occasionally replacing meals with fresh-made juice, you are gaining the benefits of juice fasting while battling compulsive eating. For this reason, juice is an important component of the raw food program. Try to have freshly made juice each day.

In our book, God’s Banquet Table, you will find juice recipes, fruit recipes, blender recipes and raw vegetable recipes that will make your thirty days a pleasurable experience. The book also includes raw nut recipes, grain recipes and bean recipes and, although these are healthy in moderation, wait until the thirty days are over before adding them to the raw fruit and vegetable diet.

Thirty days of raw food is a challenge that will powerfully affect your life. These diet restrictions are difficult to face, but in doing so; you will bring about healthy changes that will benefit your body and mind. Healthy changes are an investment in your future.

The raw food diet includes:
1. Raw fruits and vegetables
2. Fruit and vegetable juices
3. Herbal teas
4. Honey and natural sweeteners
5. Frozen juice concentrates
6. Frozen fruit

Overeating can be controlled and substituted by abstaining from food simply called fasting.

No more getting pushed around by those evil munchies; now you are in control. As you flex your new muscles of discipline, you will face hunger, just for the fun of it, and shrug off its demands. Oops! I forgot to eat!

The body enters the fasting state.

In the fasting state, you are forcing the body to use fatty tissue and glycogen reserves.The good part is that you will lose pounds of ugly fat and cleanse toxins from the body.Years of drug residues, junk food, chemicals, environmental toxins, rancid oils and fats do not leave the body comfortably. Expect to experience headaches, weakness, dizziness or light-headedness. You may chill more easily and feel more sensitive. This is not harmful, just part of the process of cleansing. Toxins in the bloodstream cause the eyes to glaze, the tongue to become coated, and the breath to become fowl. When this waste is removed, you feel years younger and full of life. This cycle may occur several times during a long fast.Each time you feel toxic expect to feel amazing once the toxins are cleansed form the system.

Fasting is easy because you lose all desire to eat. Food looks like rubber. It is nauseating even to look at it. No food can tempt you. When your body enters the fasting state, it wants to finish the work. Hunger can disappear for weeks at a time. Cleansing the body takes time; it will take a 30-day juice fast to completely rejuvenate the body. Something we thoroughly recommend. There are only a few health conditions that restrict juice fasting, as the body is receiving an abundance of calories, enzymes and nutrition. It is not starving because your body has 3,500 calories stored in each pound of body fat. We are carrying around a backpack full of groceries.

If you lose all desire to eat, and the cleansing has become discomforting, there is a simple solution. Eat a little more or drink juices from a juice extractor. The added calories will slow the cleansing process.

Eating 100% raw fruits and veggies will start the process of cleansing. Using the mental skills in this book will cleanse negative thoughts from your thinking. Every cell of your body and millions of neurological pathways are being readjusted. There will be periods of feeling out of balance. You may occasionally become irritable and edgy. Your endurance will be tested. If you are intent on being determined and persistent, you will have the fortitude to meet every challenge head on. Know that what you are doing is right before God. In heaven, Christ looks down, smiling at a star in His universe.

Overcome compulsive eating by controlling one’s craving and eating right.

We are the only creatures on earth that cook food. Cooking kills not only the enzymes. The effect is slow and gradual, but inevitable. Cooking alters protein and fiber, destroys vitamins and minerals, and kills all enzymes. Nutrients we desperately need are being destroyed. But it kills us.

Raw food is the key to health. As those natural fibers enter the stomach, it lets out a sigh of relief. “Finally, a meal easy to digest.” Stomach enzymes discover the rich abundance of nutrition supplied by the hand of God. No pizza sludge, no dead animal parts, no chemicals, no grease, no sticky white flour goo, just a gold mine of nutrition. Happily, the stomach enzymes release their precious cargo into the blood. It’s Christmastime for the 3 trillion cellular residents of the body.

Have you ever lived through a garbage strike? Garbage is everywhere. Every corner and crevice becomes a storage spot. Flies and putrid odors abound. It’s a sigh of relief when those guys go back to work. Eating raw food ends the ‘garbage strike’ within the body. In the stomach, organs have been overloaded. Every day it has endured forced labor, carrying loads of toxic fat, cholesterol, animal flesh, additives and foods saturated with salt. Sickness is the bodies’ garbage strike. It is protesting against being overworked and underpaid nutrient-wise. sugar

The cells cheer the first meal of raw food. No more heavy digestive work. Lots of high-paying nutrients. The strike is over. Every cellular resident goes on a garbage cleanup, removing the leftover pizza sludge, chocolate bars and cola residues. The T-cells molecules into the blood to be removed. You feel like garbage because your bloodstream is overloaded with toxic waste. After feeling bad for a day, and possibly suffering a headache, the toxic mucus slime of overindulgence is gradually removed from the body.

Remarkable things start to happen: periods of exhilaration, energy and clarity of mind healthy.But this is only the first experience of the greater benefits yet to come.

Weakness, headaches or dizziness are common symptoms of detoxification. Even one day on fruit can cause bloating, gas, diarrhea, indigestion and a feeling of weakness. Your faith and patience will be tested. It is so easy to return to one’s former diet, thinking, “raw food hydrochloric acid needed to digest meat. The stomach will have developed a thick coating of mucus to protect the lining from hydrochloric acid that is so strong it can eat through metal. Then you change your diet.Instead of eating a steak, you eat three peaches and some grapes. Although fruit is easy to, it requires very different digestive secretions than a steak. Your body reacts by sending you to the bathroom for most of the day. As you eat more raw food, the body will, over a few weeks, increase the cells needed to comfortably digest fruit. The fruit will then digest without gas, diarrhea, or any discomfort whatsoever. does not agree with me.” Realize that your body has adapted its enzyme secretions to whatever you have been eating. If you ate a high-meat diet, you will have demanded the body to create a large number of cells that produce

If you eat a large steak after 6 months of eating a light diet of raw food, the steak will sit in the stomach like a lead brick, as the stomach has become adjusted to lighter eating. Eating a heavy starch meal will fill the sinuses with mucus. Eating cheese will cause constipation. A greasy meal will cause headaches, tiredness and oily skin. The body is reacting to your old diet as if it were poisonous.

If you are eating the standard North American diet, your body has been functioning abnormally. The blood, digestive secretions and the biochemical balance of the body have become adjusted to function as best it can under a barrage of toxic food, caffeine, saturated fats and heavy proteins. Change that balance and the body reacts as it would to any addiction. It will crave salt, sugar, coffee, tea, white flour, chocolate, tobacco, pepper, meats, fried food, or whatever foods have become the mainstay of your diet. In this state, your body will never crave fruit or vegetables. You will never be caught in the refrigerator toxic foods. at three in the morning, raiding it for cantaloupes, because you are addicted to

Man makes food to be addictive. The industry profits as your health deteriorates. God makes food satisfying, nourishing and cleansing. Money is useless in heaven. He cares about your health because He loves you.

When cravings hit, it’s time to hang tough and have faith. The body will rebalance and the desire for that favorite junk food will disappear. We recommend 30 days of eating nothing but raw fruits and vegetables as a way to regain control over food. By the end of this period, all unnatural cravings will have disappeared and you will discover a health and well being that will surprise you. Eating raw food for thirty days is a true challenge, but if you use your newly discovered skills, you will joyously succeed. And when you do, the gain will be a blessing to you for the rest of your life, a gift of God.

People should follow a proper course of action in their eating habits.

Eating habit is usually done unconsciously. It is a behavioral pattern that often occurs automatically. Your daily routine existence, living weary lives, going nowhere and never having enough time to get there. The rat race needs to lose a rat. Get off the rat treadmill and design your own. Design it for increasing challenge. Work towards having a great routine. Take some time to write out your present routine, then write out your ultimate routine. See yourself living it; feel the and the joy of the accomplishment.

The secret of life is that there is no secret. It’s all learning. No magic pill will change your life. You have to do it one step at a time, one day at a time, one moment at a time. You are rebuilding a life on a new foundation. Investing the time, work and energy to reshape your thinking and life will become much less painful. You will come to see life as a gift from God, an opportunity to experience, and a challenge to grow. Your soul will rise up as though on the wings of an eagle.

Now, let’s look at some overeating patterns and some easy changes that will have a big effect. shapes your life. For most of us, we are running like rats on the treadmill of pleasure.

Overeating Has a Pattern

It is grocery shopping day for Susan. She buys a few treats telling herself “I won’t overeat.” When she gets home, she’s in the grocery bag for her favorite delicacy—warm cinnamon buns. She should have had one, but she had three. She eats a light dinner watching TV and makes endless raids on the refrigerator. By the end of the night, she is completely stuffed.

A week later Susan is on a backpacking trip to the mountains. She feels free of food addiction. She is eating sensibly and feels that she has overcome the problem. But she is disappointed when she returns to her usual surroundings.

A drug addict will feel no desire to use drugs when in the hospital or in prison, only to experience the full power of addiction on returning to the streets. Entering their familiar environment, they quickly slide into their old routine. In the same way, compulsive eaters in the home because they have established triggers through years of repeated behaviors: chocolate for depression, potato chips for loneliness, pizza for entertainment, cookies for boredom, ice cream for hopelessness, coffee tiredness. When our routine is controlled by a series of triggers, we feel out of control, no longer master of our life, but a slave of the stomach god. Like a cruel dictator, it growls and we jump to serve its every whim with quiet submission. Time for a rebellion.

You can end addictions to donuts, french fries, cola, milk by using negative thought associations. Here are some examples of negative thought associations.

When faced with a compulsion to eat donuts, think about:
Fat, salt, white flour and sugar. The hole is the most nutritious part.

When faced with a compulsion to eat french fries, think about:
Sponges dripping with 14-day-old grease.

When faced with a compulsion to eat white bread, think about:
Empty calories, styrofoam with chemical additives and preservatives.

When faced with a compulsion to eat margarine, think about:
Spreadable plastic.

When faced with a compulsion to eat bacon, think about:
Pig fat to human fat.

When faced with a compulsion to drink coke, think about:
Teeth-dissolving and stomach-dissolving fluid.

When faced with a compulsion to drink milk, think about:
A glass of animal fat sucked from a cow udder. (50% of its calories are fat.)

Use revulsion to reaffirm your desire to eat healthier. Imagine yourself in the chair watching TV and gorging on junk food. See yourself getting fatter and fatter. You are getting sick. A tumor is developing. Your arteries are clogging with fat and sticky cholesterol. You have diabetes from eating too much sugar. Your colon has a tumor bulging from it, and you need a colostomy. Imagine a fat, wrinkled, sick person on his deathbed. It is you. After that, be thankful that you have made the decision to eat nutritiously. Feel good about what you have accomplished. Imagine yourself eating healthy and feeling great.

Compulsive behavior is based on distorted thinking that has illusions and infatuations.

Do you really want to eat junk food? An honest answer is ‘no’. But you have come to believe that 30 seconds of taste is really what you want. But that is a lie. Infatuation is to love an image. Addiction is to love an illusion. It is an illusion to think that a chocolate bar will satisfy you when, immediately afterward, you will feel unsatisfied.

Get rid of the illusion or infatuation. It is 30 seconds of high-calorie, health-destroying taste pleasure that you don’t need. If you think of the reasons why you hate chocolate bars, you will not eat them.

We try to fight the battle of compulsive eating during the moments just before eating, but that is the least effective time to fight. You need to fight the battle when you are walking, sitting or waiting in line. Ask yourself, what do you really want? Do you really want to be a chocolate eater? You need to go over the reasons for quitting chocolate again and again until it enters the subconscious. If you do this mental work, the next time you are offered a chocolate bar you will say “NO” without thinking. If you ask yourself why you said no, you would answer, “I just don’t like them.”

Compulsive eating has a pattern that can become a shameful secret. However many people in the world are compulsive obsessive eaters.

• Constantly thinking about food.
• Eating to relieve worry or stress.
• Continuing to eat even after feeling sick from eating too much.
• Becoming anxious while eating.
• Daydreaming or worrying while eating.
• Overeating.
• Eating too fast.
• Eating everything on the plate.
• Feeling guilty when you eat.
• Eating in secret.
• Unable to eat one cookie or any treats that you really like.
• Binging after a diet.
• Hunger makes you feel fearful and uncomfortable.