I remember when I was going raw (I’m still going haha) that I would hear some of the more prominent raw fooders or even just people on forums talk about this thing called ‘the shift’.  That’s what I’m calling it, they would come up with lots of different ways of explaining and describing it but essentially this is what it’s always been for me.

So what is the shift?

 

The shift is the difference between forcing yourself to eat a certain way and wanting to without any effort or stress.  The shift is what happens when your physical body takes over from your mental body when it comes to the choices you make around food.  The shift is not something that you can predict in terms of when it will happen for you, it’s rarely an overnight process and there’s not one thing specifically you can do to make it happen.« Continue »