How I Really Discovered The Raw Food Diet And Lost 70 Pounds — And You Can Too

by email on October 27, 2008

This is a story that you’re not going to want to believe because it sounds WAY too incredible. Yet I promise you that every word of it is true — because it is my story. It began two years ago but the full impact of what I did just came to me this evening.

Today was a pretty typical day off. We loaded the kids in the car and went shopping. I bought another long sleeve shirt, tried to fix my watch (they didn’t have the right battery), and we bought some more groceries (the yellow peaches are delicious!). After we returned home, I headed to my office to catch up on email and see what’s going on in my business world.

As I was reading the sales letter for a product that a colleague called to my attention, my two year old daughter climbed up into my lap and grabbed my paper clip holder. This happens a lot, but I don’t mind it at all. In fact, one of the reasons I work at home is so that I can experience more moments like this with my children.

As I sat there reading and munching on a banana, my little girl said, “Daddy, I found a key!” As she held it up, I suddenly realized that she had found more than just a key… She had found a key that had been misplaced for almost two years. And that key held a powerful secret that I want — no, NEED — to share with you because it can change your life, just as it changed mine.

You see, that “secret” is the real reason why I’ve had the success I’ve had with the 80/10/10 raw diet.

Getting back to that key…

I purchased one of those small fireproof boxes a couple of years ago when a local store was running a sale. It’s about the size of a shoe box and has a lock on it. My five year old son likes to play with it; he calls it his “Treasure Chest” and likes to lock small toys in it. Like all small children, though, he gets tired of one “toy” after a while and moves on to something else, and the Treasure Chest was no exception. He got tired of playing with it at one point, which meant that I could finally use it.

At the time, I had just purchased Dr. Robert Anthony’s “The Secret of Deliberate Creation” and had just finished listening to it for the first time. I was quite pleased with the results I had achieved to that point with the program. In one exercise, Dr. Anthony walks you through creating the money you used to purchase the program. When I did this exercise, just a few days later, an unexpected tax refund check arrived in the mail — for over ten times the amount of the purchase price of the program.

Yes, that DID get my attention! I remember being quite happy with that result, yet…

In spite of my success with the system, I was still skeptical about some of the other parts, especially the part where Dr. Anthony talks about setting up a Request Box for communication with what he calls your Essential Silent Partner, or ESP. To put it simply, your ESP is responsible for creating what you want, and your Request Box is a place where you put requests, in writing, so that your intentions are clearly communicated to your ESP without interference from your ego. Once this is done, your ESP can work on creating those things in your life. Sounded like something from a fairy tale to me, but I decided to give it a try anyway.

So I took a couple of index cards, wrote something on them, and put them in the box on February 6, 2007.

And promptly lost the key. The box got shoved under a shelf, forgotten. I even forgot what I wrote on the card.

Live moved forward.

During the next year, I slowly but surely came to the realization that my lifestyle needed to change. As a part of that, I became convinced that the closer I could eat to “natural” — that is, eat stuff the way that it came out of the ground — the better. The more processing it went through before I ate it, the worse off I would be. And if something else ate it first before I ate it, then that was really bad.

Now keep in mind that I had no scientific proof for this; it just seemed to make sense to me. After all, for hundreds and thousands of years, mankind didn’t have all of the so-called food items we have today. They ate simply. It’s only been within the past couple hundred years that we’ve had all of these highly processed foods — and that was also about the time that a lot of these modern diseases started popping up. Coincidence? I don’t think so. Eating simple and natural seemed to be a good thing.

But at the time, it was just an idea. I didn’t do anything about it.

In late December 2007 I learned of Steve Pavlina’s 30 day experiment with the 80/10/10 raw food diet. It caught my attention and I followed it with interest. As a part of that experiment, Steve did a consultation with Roger Haeske and made a free recording of that call. From there, I signed up for Roger’s mailing list, took up his challenge to start a raw food blog (I sold my soul for a back link!), started the transition plan, joined his How To Go Raw membership site, and on March 13, 2008 I had my first 100% raw food day.

With a few bumps in the road (from which I’ve recovered), I haven’t looked back, nor will I.

Why should I? I’ve lost over 70 pounds, have incredible energy and mental clarity, and simply feel great. I’m much more active (and am becoming more active with each passing day, it seems) and truly enjoy life with my wife and children (not to mention Dog!). Life really does being at 50; there’s no way I want to go back to the way I was when I was 49 years old.

I’ve also chosen a new career to pursue — copywriting — and enjoy sitting down at my home desk daily to pursue my new career. And the benefits of the raw food diet allow me to make incredible progress towards this goal.

In fact, I was reading a sales letter for another copywriting course when my daughter came over, climbed up in my lap, grabbed my paper clip holder, and pulled out that key…

Which just happened to be the long-lost key to The Treasure Box. The Request Box. The Box that had been shoved under the shelf a long time ago, forgotten.

Of course the first thing I did was pull out the box and pop it open. I simply HAD to know what was in that box!

So I put in the key, turned it (yes, it worked!), and slowly lifted the lid — finally, after almost two years of wondering what the heck was in that box.

And what did I find? Two pieces of plastic train track, a small cartoon character toy, and two index cards.

And when I read those cards, I was in complete shock because there, in black and white, was irrefutable proof that The Secret of Deliberate Creation and The Request Box works. There was absolutely no way to deny it.

And you’ll agree with me — just as soon as I share what I wrote on those cards back in February 2007 (today is October 27, 2008).

But before I do that, take a look at this blog. I started it back in the spring of this year (at the end of February, if memory serves me correctly. I’m not connected to the Internet at the moment so I can’t check). That was almost eight months ago. And if you start reading this blog from the first post, you’ll learn that I used to weigh more than 255 pounds — but slowly lost that weight as the 80/10/10 raw food diet did its work, healing my body and restoring my good health.

I also believe that everything taught in The Secret of Deliberate Creation is found in the Bible; the only problem is that Religion has hidden this secret from us in plain view. Organized religion wants you to follow their system because they realize that once we know the true nature of God, we’ll have no need for them and their methods that rob makind of its true freedom. But The Secret of Deliberate Creation will show you what God, Jesus, and The Bible are really all about.

I say this so that you’ll understand why I wrote what I did on those cards in my Request Box.

First, the contents of the first card:

“I Lift This Up To You In Prayer” – 070207

Yes, I wrote those cards back on February 7, 2007. That’s how I knew the exact date I mentioned earlier in this blog post.

And now for the next card — the one where I wrote my actual request:

I need a “thin, trim, & fit” mindset.

I need alternatives to eating.

I need boundaries when eating.

I was stunned. What I had wanted came to be, and it had nothing to do with my actions. Heck, I had forgotten what I wrote on the cards — but it worked!

As I stood there with those cards in my hand, a chill literally passed over my body and I started shaking. I had EXACTLY what I had written on that card almost two years ago. And remember, I haven’t opened that box since I put those cards in there because I had lost the key — and believe me, I had completely forgotten what I had written on those cards. BUT I GOT EXACTLY WHAT I HAD ASKED FOR!

  • I’ve lost over 70 pounds, look trim, wear pants with a waist size six inches smaller than I did back in January, and love being more active.
  • I only eat raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds (with exceptions on occasion; see my posts about the 99% solution that I wrote a while back). What could be more “alternative” to the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.)?
  • Boundaries? See the last entry. That’s all I eat, and I do think it’s limiting. But then again, it limits disease, obesity, health problems, and a whole lot of other things that people spend billions of dollars on each year to combat (and I get it all in a piece of fruit!). :)

Again, I’m in total shock. The Secret of Deliberate Creation program flat out WORKS. Get it (regardless of your religious convictions), listen to it with an open mind, and try it yourself. Yes, it took a year for my mindset to slowly change and for me to get up the courage to try an all raw food diet, but I did attract the diet and was ready when I learned about it. I got EXACTLY what I asked for.

Now I’m off to write up some more cards to put in that box (oh, yeah!). But before I do that, I wanted to tell you my story so that you’d know what The Secret of Deliberate Creation can do for you. And I’m sure it will work on things beyond lifestyle changes; I plan on putting it work to build my business and reclaim my time and life.

So how about you? NOTHING is stopping you from achieving similar success in your own life. I recommend you click the following link to order your copy of The Secret of Deliberate Creation now so that you can start living your life by design instead of by default (as Dr. Anthony says).

Go ahead. Don’t wait. Do it now. Click on the following link and order this program, listen to it with an open mind, and take action on it. Your life will change (and when it does, please come back to this blog and tell me about it in a comment, OK?).

Are you happy with the way things are now? Are you satisfied with taking whatever comes your way — or are you ready to take control of your life and your future? If you’re ready, then click on the following link to get started:

Click to discover Dr. Robert Anthony’s “The Secret Of Deliberate Creation”.

Smacznego,
Tom

P.S. — Still skeptical? Do you think I’m crazy? Don’t blame you… But please hear me out.

Remember, I wrote those cards back in February 2007. Before that, I had tried all sorts of things to lose the weight and get more active, but nothing worked. And nothing worked for a year AFTER I wrote that card and put it in my Request Box because it took that long for my ESP to bring the raw food diet into my life. BUT IT DID HAPPEN. It has nothing to do with remembering what I wrote, looking for the answer, or trying to “make it happen”. I completely forgot what I had written — BUT IT HAPPENED ANYWAY. Nor did I say HOW I wanted it to happen; I simply wrote down the results I wanted and God brought the right solution to me. And just like it worked for me, I’m confident that it can work for you — but the longer you delay and the longer you doubt, the longer it will take before you start living your life by design. Don’t wait; get your copy today. Please.

Click to discover The Secret of Deliberate Creation…

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{ 2 comments }

Liz Gray April 18, 2009 at 7:25 pm

I read your blog with considerable interest as I once weighed over 400 pounds. I was finally given a thyroid stimulating hormone TSH test, about $40 and put on Synthroid. I’m a medical “success” story, of sorts. I lost from 416 to 330, more than enough to be considered a Success, but my weight eventually crept above 350, off the scale. I developed chronic back pain, knee pain, and type two Diabetes. I found a solution different from yours. I ate nothing but meat, eggs fish and shell fish, drinking about 2 gal of water daily, losing 90 pounds in less than a year. I let Curves convince me to go low cal balenced, got injured again, so my bad knee was joined by another… worse one. I gained most of the weight back, eating low cal balenced. I’ve noticed that most carbs give me gas.
I think some of us are “carnivores”, some are herbavores, and some omnivores. One diet book, I can’t now recall, linked to blood type, but which group went with which diet?
I found your link due to your comment about the AWAI copywriter’s course. I’ve taken it, and would recommend Bob Bly at Bly.com for info on Copywriting. I read the free items and was impressed. The CD set “Information products that sell” was thin on details, and facts. I’m going to do what others did and search E-bay for other info I want. That alone will save me lots of cash.
The AWAI course is, unfortunately geared to writing those “booklets” hyping overpriced vitamins, pain relievers, and financial letters.
I bought similar products (same list of contents) for 1/4 the cost. The active ingredient in the all natural product is white willow bark, an NSAID with the same risks as Aspirin and all the other which they use to scare you due to side effects. Their course is also used by the self styled GURU’s who sell ridiculously overpriced “newsletters” Company cures cancer…?,No, they use a digital scanner to compare known melanomas with your mole. There may be another company in stage three final testing something newer, but this is being used and FDA approved. MELA is the stock I found, then quit looking as the much hyped “moat” keeping competitors out seems dry and shallow. I didn’t buy the $2000 news?letter to find out.
Some companies do out source Ad writing, but they are usually local or have a special need, such as a new product launch. If you combine PR and your skills with on-line internet use, you would have a valuble service.
You would be better off putting the $500 into your childrens college fund. Check out the tax savings by doing so with pre-tax funds. It’s similar to IRA (no college type kids here so I didn’t retain much about details. Ask Schawb, or your tax guy for details. Get books on copywriting from library after previewing on Amazon.com They can get most, so read first, then buy only your favorites.
I love the idea of fireproof safe for kid’s treasures. From reading your story, I believe you already know their 100K “secret” Draw people in with a believable story. Good Luck! Liz Gray

Administrator June 17, 2009 at 3:45 pm

Hi Liz,

Thanks for taking the time to write such a long comment! I apologize for not approving this sooner (my notification system for blog comments didn’t quite work right for me; it’s my fault).

I’m happy to hear about your successful weight loss venture and hope that things continue to go well for you.

I’d encourage you to check out Dr. Graham’s 80/10/10 book. I’ve been extremely pleased with the system but also admit (and quite openly!) that it is quite different from every other so-called diet plan. It does take a lot of mental adaptation to really make it work (and I’m still working on it). Nevertheless, as I wrote in today’s blog post (June 17, 2009), I think it’s worth the effort because of the results I got from it.

Not everybody will be able to successfully make the transition to this lifestyle because it does go against everything we’ve been taught. From my perspective, I don’t think that a lot of what we have been taught is true, and a lot of so-called “scientific fact” has not truly been found via truly scientific methods (but that’s a topic for another time).

I would encourage you (and anybody else reading this) to give the 80/10/10 diet a 30 day trial. That’s more than enough time to start noticing the benefits so that you can decide if the effort needed to break your cooked food addiction is worth it to you. We all have to decide for ourselves what is best. I’m back on the diet because I know that it’s the best way to feed my body (while that might sound a bit arrogant — I hope it doesn’t! — I stated it that way because “think” is not a good enough reason for me to take action. I need “know”).

Please come back often, and I hope you find something here that encourages you to take care of yourself in the best possible way.

Best regards,
Tom

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