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 ($23.95 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.

The twelve steps include what follows here.