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.