Temptations, temptations, temptations... Visiting Spain, my home country, has made me realize or remember how difficult it is to overcome temptations. Food culture in Spain is huge, and the 500 years old recipes that are still standing are hard to avoid. Perfectly baked breads, treats, and dishes make you salivate the moment you look at them or even just smell them. The question is, how can we overcome temptation?
The answer: commitment, and also, remember, remember, and remember. Remember why you eat what you eat, or why you should eat what you are not eating right now. We have to remember that health is the reason to eat, and health is the reason to avoid those temptations. This, although, is easy to remember when your belly is full, but when you let yourself fast for a few hours, those important reasons you had to avoid bad foods are not as important anymore. We have to commit! If you want to improve your health, your diet, and your life, there is no other way but to increase the amount of fruits you eat, and decrease any other thing. But we have to truly satisfy our bellies with fruit, it doesn't work if we eat a couple pieces at a time.
I usually recommend three full meals a day, and two snacks in between, all of them fruit, except the second snack (nuts or dried fruits), and dinner (salads and other raw greens).
For breakfast, eat in abundance! Abundance means for example, the juice of 15 oranges, or 8 apples, or 10 peaches, or a big bowl of strawberries and blueberries.
Then a snack, a carrot, or a couple pears or kiwis...
Then lunch, a watermelon, a couple cantaloupe melons, 10 bananas...
Then another snack, handful of almonds, or chestnuts, or hazelnuts, or dried figs, or dates...
Then dinner, a great big salad with all kind of greens, and tomatoes, chorella and/or spirulina tablets, peppers, cauliflower, etc.
Do this for a couple of weeks, and you won't need me to explain anything to you anymore, because you will experience health, life, and your body will be your witness of what health really means...
Increase juices and smoothies...
Be positive about life...
Help others in the process...
Experience, as they say in Costa Rica, PURE LIFE, PURA VIDA!!
