It is now midday. Your body is tired and you crave for a filling meal. You worked hard and you deserve a treat. You think of your unfinished chores and the load of more work ahead. This time is very critical. Make the right choice – a healthy lunch munch will keep you satisfied.

Remember the backpack of calories you are carrying in every pound of fat. Your fat is screaming “use me!” A light lunch is the way to go. Eating must be fun. Eat the right amount of food and chew it well. You do not have to eat till you feel stuffed. Do not let your belly control you. A small lunch munch sends a message to your body to start the clean up process. A light lunch will give you more energy for the afternoon. Your mind will be clearer and you will get more work done. Is this not the way you want to live each day?If you give your cells what they need, they will give you want you need – energy.

Here are some suggestions of a healthy lunch munch. Have fun!

Super Salad

A small serving of salad made of fruits or vegetables will meet all your body’s needs. Carrots, yams, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, pineapples, apples – the choices are endless. The key is to cut them into bite size pieces. The dressing must not be the store bought stuff which is deadly. It is filled with transformed fatty acids that have been known to be the cause of all sorts of diseases. The stuff is heated to 2000F°. It has as much nutrition as motor oil. Avocados make a great salad dressing. Natural fats and oils are good for you. They digest easily and supply natural fats and oils. Blend an avocado in a food processor or blender. Add cider vinegar, lemon juice, sea salt, a garlic clove, a slice of ginger, a teaspoon of honey and a small tomato. Experiment and you will come up with your own favorites. No junk on this salad,just good nutrition for your cells. When you eat, you can almost hear cells say “thank you.”

Cantaloupe Surprise

Dice one cantaloupe and chill in the freezer for ten minutes. That is one entire meal. Cantaloupe has the most nutrition per calorie of any food. It may take a little adjusting to think of a fruit as an entire meal, but try it and you will like it. You can give it a dash of sweetener by adding a teaspoon of honey over top. If you want to lose weight, you need to cut calories while maintaining good nutrition; cantaloupes fit the need perfectly. Chew it well, and enjoy the flavor.

Cantaloupe Juice

The juice of a cantaloupe and 2 oranges fresh out of the juicer is a healthy choice. A tropical milk shake is invigorating and will surely give you an energy blast! The nutrition enters your blood in seconds. Carry a thermos to work if you cannot make it fresh. Drinking cantaloupe juice for lunch is a mini juice fast. It is filling and satisfying. Do not be in a hurry to finish it, instead, let it combine with your saliva. Enjoy the subtle changes of flavor as thedigestive enzymes start their work in the mouth.

There is a wide variety of foods that make up a healthy lunch munch. Be adventurous and experiment. The goal is to avoid a high calorie intake. Think healthy at all times.

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.

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.