Healthy Diet Plan

Everyone needs a healthy diet plan. This is especially important when we are first making the transition to a new dietary lifestyle. I say lifestyle, because diets just don’t work. You will always find yourself struggling as long as you think of your eating habits in terms of a diet rather than a lifestyle.

What you eat will be determined from what you believe about health and nutrition. If you believe there is no connection between health and the food you eat, you will eat whatever "tastes right" to you, no matter what it is doing to your health. However, if you believe that the human body is an incredible self healing machine that only requires the right fuel (nutrition) to maintain health and well being, then you will choose your foods accordingly.

A healthy diet plan must be based on what is best for your body. If you are concerned about your taste buds, don’t worry they will catch up. They have likely been programmed to think they want refined carbohydrates, fats, salts and excitotoxins. It may be hard for you to imagine doing without all those processed foods you’ve been eating. But it won’t be long after you start following a healthy diet plan that your taste buds will long for what is really good for you.

Plan Your Meals

It will take some time for your body to acclimate to your new diet plan, just as developing any new positive habit does. But trust me; your body knows what it needs. Once you start feeding it the nutrition it requires, your body, including your taste buds, will respond positively.

The healthy diet plan we recommend is one that incorporates as much whole, raw food as possible. Our personal meal planning includes a lot of raw food, whole foods and little to no animal products. Our meal plans include as many dark green and other brightly colored vegetables as possible. Foods like dark leafy greens, carrots, bell peppers, broccoli, red cabbage and other cruciferous veggies constitute much of the food we eat.

Additionally, for breakfast we recommend a raw whole grain cereal that you can make yourself. This cereal is bursting with life giving nutrition. Whole fresh and dried (unsulphured /unsweetened) fruits are wonderful for snacks, as are soaked nuts such as almonds. Additional entrees include both raw and cooked soups, baked potatoes, brown rice, and a variety of delicious bean and tofu dishes.

It will take some time for you to make the transition in terms of learning some new ways of food preparation. For example, I have a routine to keep soaked nuts on hand and a crop of sprouts growing. Sprouting can be a lot of fun and very satisfying. It’s like growing a garden right on your kitchen counter top. Sprouting is easy, but like anything, you need the right tools to make things go smoothly. Speaking of the right tools, we regularly use our Champion Juicer, a heavy duty blender, a coffee grinder for grinding flax seed, a grain mill and a food processor.

The final tip I have for you as you make the transition to a healthy diet meal plan is knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. Having the right knowledge will be one of your keys to success. Lack of knowledge will be one of the reasons many people will fail to make the transition permanent. If you want to maintain your health you must be intentional about educating yourself concerning the connection between food and disease. Our goal at www.ezhealthydiet.com is to be a comprehensive source of tools and information to help you achieve your optimum health.

To your health!