At this stage, this is what works best.

You can create concepts and models explaining how you believe this works.

However, right now, a direct experimental approach works best.

You need to embody harmony, life force, life flow.

Your life style choices and habits need to reflect what you know gives you vitality, energy and health.

At this stage, this is definitely the way to go!

Practical and experimental exploration!

In other terms you need to take action and manifest it physically.

To your life force!

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In many cases, triggers for emotional eating are external.

In other terms there is an external trigger or sponsoring force encouraging a negative eating pattern.

It can come from friends or family members who suffer from the same negative eating patterns and don't want you to succeed.

Or it can be the marketing hype surrounding junk food.

In the case of friends and family members, you acn observe competitive patterns.

It is because of this competitive attitude that people will encourage negative eating patterns in others.

It is as well related with the desire to share and connect, even if it is within a self destructive circle.

This works in the same way as drinking and smoking.

It is a social thing.

With food corporations stimulating consumption of junk food, the interest in profit.

The agenda is very similar though!

Someone benefits from someone else eating junk food.

So, when confronting with positive food choices, a person will often select junk food instead of healthy food because of the ongoing marketing brain washing which is now totally subconsciously embeded in people's minds.

All these positive images associated with junk food are now paying off and to experience fun, joy or pleasure, someone will head for the junk food section because they want to experience thse same positive emotions again and again.

The truth is the the pleasure that someone experiences when eating healthy is from a totally different octave!

The pleasure you egt when eating raw food is so intense and delightful and totally overpowers the emotions associated with junk food.

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Here is what can happen...

You make some essential changes to your diet, ad fruit and vegetables, cut on fat and red meat, cook smaller meals and eat now healthy snacks between meals.

Imagine that your main target is weight loss.

You might take all these steps and see little change in your weight.

Why?

Because the changes you made are impacting on your health and energy level but not on your weight yet.

Visible weight loss is only one of the indications that a set of nutrition patterns is working for you.

The other indications are greater health + greater energy level.

The more subtle impacts are as well, more joy and happiness, less irritability, more personal power and confidence, etc...

The health and energy impacts are more subtle and tricky to measure.

You don't have a scale at home that measures your level of energy for instance.

The health benefits can be measured but are really long term.

After eating healthy for a year, you might realize that you haven't been sick in quite a while which means that your immune system was boosted by healthier eating habits.

So... If you shifted a couple of habits and still see no visible results, it does not mean that it's not working, it means that the results are more sublte and tricky to measure, that's all.

Believe me! Your instinct knows exactly what is healthy and what is not.

If you made key shifts to your diet and don't see direct weight loss, here is what you could be thinking:

"See!!!?? It does not work... Now give me back my potato chips + my pint of ice cream!"

Simple!

Don't use the lack of visible measurable results as an excuse to head back to the junk food section at your local supermarket ;)

Got that?

Enjoy!

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No matter what you decide to do with your nutrition, it is essential that you give it at least some attention!

Food is what you put in your body!

Together with the air you breathe, they are the two major physical sources of energy in you!

This is a short message to motivate you to be aware of what you eat and realize how much this impacts on your level of health and happiness!

The link between nutrition and emotional balance is undeniable!

The quality of what you eat impacts on your mood and energy level.

If you are not yet focused on this, start now!

This site is a perfect place to start!

Many articles, videos and ideas to check out!

Have a look around and start making conscious changes!

Your body will thank you for that!

The key is to be prepared.

As I mentioned ealier, rich smoothies with extra whole flour (for extra carbs) is an excellent option.

A lunch box with a fresh salad is a good one as well of course.

Again, with salad, you can always mix it with some raw flour to ad more solidity to it.

If you checked my vids, you already got lots of recipe ideas and most of these preparations can be taken when you travel.

You need 15 min in the morning to get it ready!

That's all.

If you tend to stress up in the morning you can prepare some of these the day before.

Smoothies even if they lose a bit of their freshness do stay ok for 24 hours.

Nuts, fresh fruit, some carrots and other vegetables are all more ideas for snacks.

Stay focused! The fact that you are on the road is no excuse to stop with your raw food strategies.

Enjoy!

Of course that's a challenge!

Most of the menus offer a very limited range of raw options.

The good news is that these options are ALWAYS there.

They are called SALADS!

When travelling, it is VERY rare not to have access to a salad in some menu.

The key is to be less fanatical and go for what is there.

Call it an emergency solution and even if the ingredients and taste might not be perfect, these choices still exist.

In many supermarkets, you will as well have incredible salad bars with lots of possibilities.

I agree, it can sometimes take a bit more time to get your hands on a raw lunch but your options are usually still there.

Eating out is not an excuse to throw your good resolustions out the window... You know that, right?

If you are a lot on the road for work, make yourself a couple bottles of fresh green or fruit smoothies.

If you ad whole flour to the smoothie, your calorie intake is higher and it is all you might need for lunch.

I'll write another article about extra options for when you are on the road...

Getting your kids to eat healthy can be a real battle.

So, if you are the one trying to make healthy life style changes for yourself, here is what you can do first.

Strategy number 1: get yourself to a place where you are "stable" with your new nutrition habits BEFORE you try to influence anyone else.

You know that making core nutrition changes takes focus and energy.

It IS an emotional process!

So the last thing you want is to waste your energy convincing others that your choices are the right ones.

Once, you are done with your own transformation process and you feel your kids deserve healthier eating options, you can engage in educating them.

But, do that only once you are stable with you own new habits.

So, what to do with meals while you transition?

Do you need to make sacrifices and eat what everyone else wants or do you force your choices on others and create conflicts by doing so?

The answer is simple:

Prepare many options!

Here are a few key strategies you can apply:

• Prepare many options - healthy ones and less healthy ones (that you kids want)
• Make smaller quantities of the less healthy.
• Make bigger quantities of the healthier choices.
• Put those options on the table and let everyone choose what they want.
• Respect everyone's choice - Don't tease or force anyone - Set them free instead.

Here is what will probably happen sooner or later.

If your kids see you enjoying a nice fresh salad, they will probably want to try at some point.

If you give them the space to make their own choice, they will naturally be drawn towards healthier options over time.

Remember, change your habits first before you try influencing anyone else!

That's the key to your new healthy nutrition.