Comments on: The 99% Raw Food Diet? http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods An All Raw Foods Diet Transition Journal Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:09:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Zucchini Breath http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods/the-99-raw-food-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Zucchini Breath Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:21:22 +0000 http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods/the-99-raw-food-diet/#comment-103 Great blog. I found you through google blog search for raw food. I do believe that eating raw is the best way to go, nutritionally. I am trying to get my BF and his 8yo son to eat more vegan. I'm happy to say there hasn't been meat in the house in about a month! Yay! I know they can't go raw, so I make them a big vegan dinner every night and I have some of the entree to set an example for the boy (a notorious picky eater. Nothin but chicken nugs and frozen pizza. Single dad cooking). So what I do is eat raw food for breakfast and lunch, then have a huge salad and a small serving of the cooked food (always home made, from scratch). I actually feel better with some cooked food in the winter but I hope this summer to get them more into raw. One day at a time. Cheers to you and thanks for the great read! Great blog. I found you through google blog search for raw food.

I do believe that eating raw is the best way to go, nutritionally.

I am trying to get my BF and his 8yo son to eat more vegan. I’m happy to say there hasn’t been meat in the house in about a month! Yay!

I know they can’t go raw, so I make them a big vegan dinner every night and I have some of the entree to set an example for the boy (a notorious picky eater. Nothin but chicken nugs and frozen pizza. Single dad cooking).

So what I do is eat raw food for breakfast and lunch, then have a huge salad and a small serving of the cooked food (always home made, from scratch).

I actually feel better with some cooked food in the winter but I hope this summer to get them more into raw.

One day at a time.

Cheers to you and thanks for the great read!

]]> By: Roger Haeske http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods/the-99-raw-food-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Roger Haeske Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:42:07 +0000 http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods/the-99-raw-food-diet/#comment-91 Hi Tom, Great post and you are a very entertaining writer. I was not aware of your new 99% philosophy. I just want to chime in. Personally I tried something similar many times in my early raw food attempts. Only problem was as soon as I let in the 1% it opened up the door to the other 99% being cooked. Notice how the 21 pounds crept up on you in your last post. I started with the idea of eating a cooked meal once a month. But after that meal I immediately changed my mind to do it once a week. Then that immediately became every other day and then finally cooked food every day for dinner. In other words, cooked food is so addictive that having it sometimes opens up your mind to having it much more than you previously considered. You start to fantasize about it and glorify it. Some people can get away with what you're doing and maybe you'll be one of those people. But many others are more like me and will find that just keeping that cooked food option open starts them visualizing about cooked food and wanting it all of the time. Also if you continue to eat cooked food you simply reinforce and strengthen your addiction to it. If you stay way from it completely eventually you just don't want it anymore anyway. By keeping the option open you are keeping your cooked addiction alive and well. Personally, I prefer to have a gourmet raw high fat meal as opposed to eating a cooked meal or two. Because it's at least raw and doesn't reinforce cooked food addiction. Hope that info was useful to you. Cheers, Roger Haeske http://HowToGoRaw.com Hi Tom,

Great post and you are a very entertaining writer.

I was not aware of your new 99% philosophy. I just want to chime in.

Personally I tried something similar many times in my early raw food attempts. Only problem was as soon as I let in the 1% it opened up the door to the other 99% being cooked.

Notice how the 21 pounds crept up on you in your last post.

I started with the idea of eating a cooked meal once a month. But after that meal I immediately changed my mind to do it once a week. Then that immediately became every other day and then finally cooked food every day for dinner.

In other words, cooked food is so addictive that having it sometimes opens up your mind to having it much more than you previously considered. You start to fantasize about it and glorify it.

Some people can get away with what you’re doing and maybe you’ll be one of those people. But many others are more like me and will find that just keeping that cooked food option open starts them visualizing about cooked food and wanting it all of the time.

Also if you continue to eat cooked food you simply reinforce and strengthen your addiction to it. If you stay way from it completely eventually you just don’t want it anymore anyway.

By keeping the option open you are keeping your cooked addiction alive and well.

Personally, I prefer to have a gourmet raw high fat meal as opposed to eating a cooked meal or two.

Because it’s at least raw and doesn’t reinforce cooked food addiction.

Hope that info was useful to you.

Cheers,

Roger Haeske
http://HowToGoRaw.com

]]> By: Kim http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods/the-99-raw-food-diet/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Kim Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:27:03 +0000 http://tombrownsword.com/rawfoods/the-99-raw-food-diet/#comment-82 Tom, Hi, I just found your site in my, er, research. ;-) I love this post and find the 99% concept brilliantly helpful. Thanks for sharing! A 99% wannabe, Kim Tom,

Hi,
I just found your site in my, er, research. ;-) I love this post and find the 99% concept brilliantly helpful. Thanks for sharing!

A 99% wannabe,
Kim

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