Now that you know all about the goals a of a raw food diet and the key components to a raw food diet, it’s now time to develop your raw food diet plan.

First you need to determine your raw food diet level.  In her book, The Raw Food Detox Diet, Natalia Rose introduces the Raw Food Transition Tool.  Answering the questions in this tool will help you understand how aggressive you can be in your transition to a raw food lifestyle.

If you are like me, and most other, you’ve been eating cooked, over-processed foods your whole life and changing over to a total raw diet would be a challenge.  It is also dangerous!  Eating raw is just one component to a lifestyle overhaul that will lead to a healthier, longer life.  My goal was to introduce raw foods slowly, replacing my fattening breakfast of bacon, egg, and cheese bagel sandwiches with two bows of raw, cut up fruit.

My plan was to start with breakfast and then introduce more raw choices throughout my diet, slowly and steadily transitioning to mostly raw.

At the beginner level you should do these 5 things:

• Reduce your dairy intake
• Eat >50% raw foods
• Eliminate all “white” foods -> white potatoes, white flour, white rice, and white sugar
• Eat only fruit until lunch

Remember that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.  Write down your goal and stick to them.  Reward yourself for following your plan for a week, month, and 6 months.  You’ll do much better this way!

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