12 Steps to Whole Food Eating
You’ve always wanted to eat better, and you know you should. But whole food eating seems so daunting! Fast food and convenient, processed foods are everywhere. Every day you wake up intending to start losing that 10 pounds—or 100—but the day gets away from you, and you end up eating beef jerky, a Big Gulp with an apple fritter, or a Quarter Pounder instead. Maybe all three, by the time the day is over.
What should you eat? Where do you start? What can you buy? You might have a spouse or child who isn’t willing to change with you. You want to get healthier, thinner, or both, but you can’t do everything at once—you’re just too busy. And you don’t want to be “extreme,“ missing out on the parties, holidays, and barbecues, eating a macrobiotic, all-alkaline, vegan, or all-raw diet.
As an answer to all these very valid concerns based on my experience working with people on their nutrition, I am writing a book to be released in early 2009:
Twelve Steps to Whole Food Eating:
Transforming Your Family’s Nutrition in One Year!
I will release a chapter monthly to 12-Step subscribers ($29.95 for the whole year), beginning Jan. 2008. The idea is that you can’t eat a whole elephant in one sitting, but you can tackle ONE new nutrition habit a month towards replacing refined foods with whole food eating, meals that are 60% raw.
I’ll be your guide for each habit, condensing for you the best practices from my huge library of nutrition books. I’ll give you tips to save time and money as you improve your family’s diet and ultimately their health and wellbeing.
At the end of a year, you will be astonished at how you have become a whole food eating family, miles ahead of where you were a year ago, with knowledge and recipes and tools for less than $2 a month. You can also be an example and resource to many people in your life.
Should you choose to subscribe, I will email you that month’s goal, including WHY and HOW, with plenty of recipes and ideas. You’ll be my beta testers, and I will ask you for feedback on the way to publishing the book.
You can find the twelve steps here.
12 Step Chapters
1. Getting Off Stimulants and Soft Drinks and Onto Green Smoothies
How to get tons of leafy greens into your diet, painlessly, spending less than 10 minutes a day in the kitchen
2. Eating a Salad Every Night
How to make it the center of the dinner rather than the side dish, with lots of recipes so salads are quick to make and something to look forward to
3. Eliminating Commercial Salad Dressings in Favor of Fresh, Homemade Dressings
How to know good from bad ingredients, with lots of quick, flavorful dressing recipes
4. Using the Three Best Fats in the World
Why these three fats are worth your focus for a whole month, for a massive impact on your health, including ways to use it in your beauty regimen
5. Planting an Organic Garden and Using Everything In It
Lots of recipes—and how to get your garden to give you free, raw produce 12 months of the year, with tips for those with limited space or no space
6. Making Main Dishes Using Whole Plant Foods
Ideas and recipes for busy people who value simplicity, using legumes and grains for hearty, high-protein meals
7. Using Sprouts and Dehydrating Crunchy Snacks for Maximized Nutrition
How to sprout, and make crunchy snacks to dramatically increase your consumption of “live” foods
8. Getting Fermented Foods in Your Diet
Why this is important, with easy recipes for yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and more
9. Using Whole Grains, and Eliminating Phytates and Commercial Yeast In Your Diet
Why this is critical, and how to make bread easily without commercial yeast
10. Starting the Day Off Right with Whole-Food Breakfasts
How to eat breakfast easily and nutritiously so you’re supercharged until lunch
11. Making Nutritious Treats and Desserts
The kids want cookies, pudding, brownies, popsicles? No problem—lots of recipes for whole-foods treats you don’t have to feel guilty about!
12. Drinking Alkaline Water Daily with Dehydrated Greens
An easy step in a busy month, with massive, noticeable impact on your health—and where to get the most inexpensive products
13. Bonus month—you are ready for an optional colon cleanse
Why this will transform your health, how to do it, and what products to use