I admit it. I lost my RAW food, clean eating nutritional focus around Christmas. It started when one of our cherished clients brought all the trainers at Punch South Bend Christmas cookies (I’m talking DOZENS of cookies). After eating my way through the cookies, the holiday ham (OMG, gross!), and the other junk we had in our home around the holidays, I emerged from my sugar, meat, caffeine, and carbohydrate stupor to find that my ass had grown significantly by 2010. I don’t know why I do this to myself. I can go MONTHS without this crap touching my lips, and I progress to a place where I don’t even have cravings anymore, and then wham, a small indulgence sets me back. It’s so not worth it! So I’m back on my RAW food plan and I’m sticking with it. It’s easy, it’s fast, and I look and feel fabulous when I’m eating RAW. Below I’ve given you 5 great reasons to try a RAW food diet. Besides, some of you have already tried every diet trick, tip, supplement, pill, magic diet potion know to man, so why not try some sound nutrition for a change? Lol! 

 

 

You will accelerate the transformation in the way your body looks, the way your body feels, and dramatically increase your energy level in just a few days or weeks by eating raw. Other food plans take months to experience the same results.  

 

Eating raw foods feeds your body and your cells with vitamins, minerals, and life giving enzymes that cooking destroys. Since most raw fruits and veggies are alkaline forming, you will quickly balance your body’s PH level to alkaline and guess what? Many lifestyle related diseases will “miraculously” cure themselves and cancer cells cannot grow in an alkaline environment!  

 

Raw Food helps you lose fat effortlessly without counting calories and you can eat as much food as you want!  

 

Raw foods are full of life giving enzymes that are anti-aging. In a matter of days, you will look younger than ever. You will also experience improved mental clarity, and feel less stressed. Raw foods even help combat depression!  

 

You will have more energy than you’ve ever had before! Because raw foods require less energy to digest and feed your cells super fast, your body won’t be working so hard at digestion, giving you an abundance of “extra” energy. You will also need less sleep and will wake feeling rested.  

 

 

 

Learn it, it can give you your life back. 

 

The Turkish get-up, ignored by many because of its complexity, is quite possibly the best routine you can do for yourself.  Used at Punch as an exercise and a screening routine, the Turkish get-up has the ability to surface latent deficiencies in movement and flexibility.  With insight into your kinematics our trainers are better able to plan a training program that will allow you to work past those deficiencies.

 

Learning the Turkish Get-up on your own, you’ll soon see where your problems are depending at which point during the movement you find difficulty.   

 

To check out the proper way to perform the Turkish Get-up and to see a list of routines used to correct trouble points check out the video series at the link below.

 

 

 

Here’s a great one that Staci wanted all you ladies to take into 2010.  Not only is she taking it with her on her upcoming trip to Boca, she’ll be using it as her motto for the rest of the year.  Check it out at FreePeople.com or just click on the picture…

 

 

 

Place all ingredients in a food processor or blender. Super easy! Use as a dip for your veggies. This also makes a great spread to use in a lettuce wrap. Simply spread a couple of romaine leaves with the hummus then pile on the veggies. Delicious!