The lovely and amazing Dr Claire Maguire posed a most excellent question following my overly awesome blog yesterday about the raw food journey on a graph. Here’s what she asked:
Why do you recommend the second graph when you say you yourself did not take that route…that your journey was excellent and you wouldn’t change it for the world? Perhaps it’s more realistic for people to jump in, experiment have fun and feel the benefits which anchors them into wanting to keep eating raw…or do you feel the slow and steady will reap longer term benefits?
So here’s my response. By video. Cos I’m feeling a bit saucy…
Thank you so much Emma for taking the time to go further into this. It was a brilliant answer and I am completely with you on the slow and steady approach. I’ve seen some of my clients get into all sorts of head messes when they think they have to be this raw or that raw, which as you say results in junk binges. It’s a huge mindset game that is for sure. When I think back to how I started, which like you was over 4 years ago, I had no expectations of what I should or should not be eating. I had no ideal, so in many ways I was the second graph. I also didn’t have that bad a diet to start with which maybe made a difference.
It was also so lovely to hear your voice and see you on camera. Beautiful.
xx