My 7 Day Raw Food Diet Starter Course has helped hundreds of folks like you and is still completely free.  Always has been, always will.

It includes a meal plan, grocery list, and recipes using common and familiar ingredients. Everything you need to start easy with just one raw meal per day, and no sacrifices or drastic changes.

You’re literally just seconds away…  Simply visit http://FreeRawFoodDiet.com or enter your email address in the box to the right.

It’s the elephant in the room for raw foodies.

You have them. I have them. Everyone deals with cravings. It can be a daily struggle.

Most of the time we just wave our hands at the problem… blame our lack of “will power,” tell ourselves it’s just our bodies adjusting, or — worst of all — beat ourselves up over it.

It’s a catch-22 for raw foodies. You want to eat more healthy raw foods. But the cravings are holding you back.

What can you DO about it?

Eating healthy is a great start. You’re giving your body the fuel it needs to succeed.

But feeding your body is only half the picture. You also need to nurture your mind with the tools it needs to succeed.

There’s a whole, unexplored emotional component to succeeding with raw foods, or any healthy eating plan for that matter.

What you need is a detox cleanse for your brain!

This is something no one else is talking about, and yet ironically is so desperately needed.

Which is why I was so excited to learn that my friend Sharon Livingston, Ph.D., has dealt with this personally herself, and has years of experience helping clients with exactly this problem.

Sharon calls it “The Emotional Eating Cycle.” It’s a lot like a computer program gone amok:

1. Eat unhealthy food
2. Feel bad
3. Eat more unhealthy food
4. Feel worse
5. Go to step 1

Now get this…

Sharon Livingston, Ph.D.

Sharon has generously agreed to join me in a FREE LIVE teleseminar called “How to Live With Cravings” — and you’re invited!

WHEN: This coming Saturday, March 20 at 10:00 AM Pacific time / 1:00 PM Eastern time.

There’s no charge to attend the teleseminar, but advance registration is required because there’s a limited number of spots available for listeners. Even if you don’t think you can make it, register anyway in case a recording of the event is made available afterwards.

Register here: http://RawFoodDietNow.com/events/help-my-cravings/

(What’s a teleseminar? An event where listeners can phone in and hear speakers talk. There can even be live Q&A with the audience! Never attended one before? Not a problem! It’s easy, all you need is a telephone.)

Here’s some of the things we’ll be talking about:

• Finally discover WHY you’re tempted by unhealthy junk foods
• How to gain lasting confidence, control your weight, and enjoy guilt-free, stress free eating with delicious healthy foods
• How to get free from the pain of binge eating, giving in to cravings, and feeling like a failure at your healthy eating plans
• How to gently intervene–OR NOT–when every bone in your body says, “it’s time for a little comfort food”
• Resisting temptation around others eating your favorite foods
• Exactly what to do when you truly believe food is the ONLY way to get satisfaction
• Making better food choices when you’re idle or bored
• The most common causes of emotional eating
• Escaping perfectionist thinking (”I already blew it today so I might as well binge”)
• The best way to gently and lovingly recover from a binge
• Finding your personal emotional food triggers
• Developing confidence, and freeing yourself from self-doubt around food
• Why it’s so difficult to stop eating certain foods once you’ve started
• Feeling good about yourself no matter what you ate today
• How to find out what you REALLY crave, and why sometimes no amount or type of food is enough to satisfy it
• Eliminating the constant, nagging turmoil about what to eat, when to eat, what you weigh, and how you look
• How to find consistent, lasting motivation to stay with your plans
• Accepting yourself right now, no matter what you weigh, what your friends and family think
• Learning to trust and honor your body
• Feeling sexy, looking sexy, and stopping the worrying over whether people are judging you
• Freeing yourself from emotional eating without giving up your joy for delicious comfort foods

Conquering emotional overeating is the first step in building a solid foundation for your overall well being.

You see, behind every emotional food craving is a very personal set of thoughts and feelings. As you expose them to the light, the hidden rewards and punishments begin to lose their power and you regain control. It all starts with your willingness to thoroughly accept, stop judging, and start exploring what’s underneath your cravings.

There are hidden rewards and punishments in your personal psychology which sabotage your food choices. Learn to free yourself from emotional eating and reclaim your power from the hidden thoughts and feeling which drive your food choices.

I’ve known Sharon (and her husband Glenn) for several years now. They’re both sharp folks. So when either of them talks, I listen. I hope you will too.

*** CRUCIAL EVENT DETAILS ***

WHAT: “How to Live With Cravings” free live teleseminar

WHO: Sharon Livingston, Ph.D. and me

WHEN: Saturday, March 20 at 10:00 AM Pacific time / 1:00 PM Eastern time

WHERE: http://RawFoodDietNow.com/events/help-my-cravings/

Registration is necessary to attend this special event. Please register now since there are a limited number of spots available.

See you then!

Best wishes,

Chuck

P.S. In all my years I have NEVER before hosted a teleseminar. I hope that shows how moved I was to arrange for you to hear what Sharon has to say. Please don’t miss out on this fantastic free opportunity.

http://RawFoodDietNow.com/events/help-my-cravings/

In a fit of blatant and unrestrained vanity, I entered the Sexiest Vegetarian 2010 competition!

SOOooo… Do you think raw foods have made me sexy?

Whether you do or don’t, please go here and vote for me: http://SexyVeg.com (It takes just a moment.)

Why should you go vote for me?  Frankly, I can’t think of a compelling reason.  You won’t get anything in return (except maybe a small deposit in your karma account).  But it’d really mean a lot to me if you voted for me anyway.  I think it’d be just fantastic to make it to the first page, even if just for a little while!  Perhaps I’ve given you some good free information in the past that you appreciated.

Anyways, I’m not vain enough to actually believe I have a shot at winning… But hey, I had to try it.

Share your voting love here.

"I'm dead sexy..."

I believe in miracles…
Where’re you from, you sexy thang
(Sexy thang you)
I believe in miracles…
Since you came along, you sexy thing
… … …

P.S. The contest is put on by PETA. Now, I’m not a huge fan of PETA. Their heart’s in the right place, but I’m not into the militant, in-your-face tactics. It seemed like a fun little contest though.

In exchange for her getting to go through the whole program for free, we all benefit from hearing the real scoop about her experience with the program:  Does it really work?  Is it worth it?  Wendy’s going to tell us what it’s really like.

Below are Wendy’s updates as she sends them to me.  I’ll be keeping an ongoing journal right here on this page.  (I won’t send an email for each update, so if you’d like to follow along, be sure to book mark this page and come back every week or so.)

Have a question or some friendly words of encouragement for Wendy?  Leave a comment below!!

Thank you Wendy for sharing with all of us!

January 20, 2010

Hello! I thought I better give you my first update.

1. Not related to the program: I began eating raw about seven days ago – mostly fruits and greens and some shots of wheatgrass. The result: Lost 8.4 pounds. I think most of that weight was water and perhaps SOME toxins leaving my system.

2. Statistics: I weighed 315.4 pounds on Wednesday, January 13. Today, Wednesday, January 20, I weighed 307.

3. What have I been doing?

• Blending fruits and greens and ‘eating’
• Eating mono fruit meals (only a couple – all-I-want of a single type of fruit)
• Listening to and reading hours worth of audio and material from the Paradox Diet
• Spending a great deal of time preparing food, which is therapeutic for me.
• Taking notes about what I will be acting on.

4. What’s next?

Now I start taking action on other equally as important items – For Example:

• Look inward to realize my deepest reasons for doing this
• Begin Journaling / Blogging my experience
• Set my goals
• Do a detox system
• Menu planning
• Keep up with my sprouting etc.

5. Things I can work on (where I am not doing as well as I’d like):

• Still require a cup of coffee every couple of days (have drunk 3+/day since 12)
• Broke down and had rice with vegies and soy sauce (Tamari) when I was running out of my produce
• It’s hard to watch others in the house eat comfort food
• Paying for it now… very upset tummy

So, I have watched enough videos to detour me from eating any time of animal product. My biggest challenge is to get into the rhythm of planning my food menus so I can prepare them days in advance when needed. (i.e., sprouting needs, shopping, soaking, dehydrating)

I am actually going to be acting on some of the action steps in the Program now. I will update you when I have done that.

Thank you again for this wonderful gift.

Wendy

February 1, 2010

Thought I should let you know I have lost another 5 pounds. That’s 13 total, even with a couple of instances of “cheating”.

I learned how to make cheese out of cashews yesterday. But–I had to add a ton of cayenne pepper, onion powder, and garlic to like it. Then it was good.

I have been taking very few ibuprofen (in comparison to the three to ten a day I was taking daily). I don’t understand why, but I noticed that now, when I do take it, I start itching all over. Interesting. Other than the occasional white rice or the very small amount of pasta I added once to a large bowl of greens–or the coffee with non-dairy creamer and agave…that ibuprofen is pretty much the only poison entering my system.

PS: After eating so healthy, when I ordered a pizza (veggie with extra cheese), I hated it. It tasted terrible. I took two probiotics that night to help digest the pizza because it gave me a horrible tummy ache.

PPS: I noticed my face looks younger. I asked my roommate and my daughter if they saw it or I was just imagining things. They both said it was true.

There was quite a little flurry of activity indeed!  All in all, 8 people responded (you can see them here) — which was more than I was expecting.

To each of you who responded, I want to say thank you for taking a chance and sharing a bit of yourself.  Each of the stories was moving and compelling.  Truly each of you deserves to try it out.  Though I have to choose a single one…  And choose I did, as difficult as it was to select only one from all the fantastic comments.

May I have the envelope, please…

And the winner is…

Wendy Roan!

Here’s Wendy’s story:

I have had Fibromyalgia for about 7 years and have basically shut down and become bed-bound. I have gained 150 to 200 lbs. I have been researching the vegan, live-food, and raw food way of living for about two weeks now (about 12 hours or more a day). My research has been in response to my own body and mind telling me that I cannot go on living like this and I want my life back. It’s not so much for the weight loss as it is to overcome my Fibromyalgia — though the weight loss is an important part of that. The offer to buy someone the chance to try this is very kind of you. I wish they hadn’t named it with the word ‘diet’ though. To me this is a whole new way of healthful healing and getting away from all of the processed foods out there that are damaging me. My daughter and I live on a very limited income of $500 per month. My resources were to be limited to whatever I could find on line that made the most sense to me. You asked that those of us who comment leave you with a promise to check in and let you know how the ‘program’ is going. Yes, I will do that and it’s the least any of us could do for such a generous offer. My name is Wendy. I am 100% committed and my VitaMix is already on it’s way (I found it on QVC for 5 or 6 monthly payments!) – or else I would not be able to have one.

When I lost my job a few years ago, because of the Fibro, I lost my insurance. I have no medical options, whatsoever. That’s why I have gotten myself into this depth of trouble. I didn’t know there were things I could do to change day-to-day living or maybe I wasn’t ready to see it — until now. 150 to 200 lbs overweight probably sounds worse than it is. I am tall. I spend most of my time ‘lounging’ because I have no energy and the pain of my condition (mostly caused by inflamation and digestive issues) makes me not want inflict it upon myself purposefully. I am at a stage now where I can save myself. However, If I keep going like this, there may not be any turning back. I simply cannot accept that. Based on my research, my diet may have a great deal to do with the inflamation and digestive health issues. Eating a healthy diet of ‘raw’ food may very well correct those issues for me. My quality of life can improve greatly if that is true. I am a highly intelligent (ex programmer) individual and I know what makes sense and what doesn’t. I do my research thoroughly. If you choose not to select me for your offer, I understand. I don’t want anyone feeling medically liable for me. I will still persue and implement this treatment via information available on the internet, regardless. I just have this gut feeling, this natural instinct that raw foodists and vegans are on the right track and that I need to get on that track as well.

The primary reason I chose Wendy is because is that, because of the severity of her combined weight and health issues, she appears to have the most to gain from trying the program — and the most to lose by not following through.  I believe she will be very motivated to give it a thorough trial — and share with us what she finds in the process.

Perhaps most important of all, her time for pivotal change and massive action has come — and she can sense it.  She knows deep down that things cannot continue to go on as they have been.  She is ready to receive.

I am still concerned about the extent of her health issues, but she does understand the need to deal with her health carefully and responsibly.

So, let’s all give a warm congratulations to Wendy!  And kudos to everyone who joined in.  (It was actually very exciting and a lot of fun for me posting that offer and waiting to see what would happen!)

OH – For everyone else, those guys are currently giving away a free audio interview with David Wolfe as a way to spread the word about their new program.  I haven’t listened to it yet, but you might be interested in checking it out.  (Hey, it’s hard to beat free stuff!)  You can grab it here.

Wendy, I will be in touch with you soon.  And we will all be anxiously awaiting to hear how it goes…!

Warm wishes,

Chuck

Anyways, their web site begins like this:

If you’ve gained every pound back, here’s the best news of 2010…

“You Don’t Have to Diet Anymore”

Discover How to Lose Stubborn Body Fat At Any Age, Even If You’ve Tried Everything And Nothing Has Ever Worked For You Before.

Stop the guilt, confusion and up and down dieting systems and finally lose the unwanted fat for good.

From The Desks Of Kevin Gianni, Creator of Renegade Health, Author of High Raw and David Wolfe, Renown Nutritionist, Author of Superfoods & Eating for Beauty

If this sounds interesting to you, check out the whole page here.

Now, here’s my idea for how you can get it for free.

You see, before I recommend or endorse a product, I always buy it and try it myself first.

Only, there’s two obstacles preventing me from trying this new program.  First, I just don’t have the time to spend on it right now.  Second, I’m already fairly thin and I can’t really afford to lose any of my weight. 

But, this situation can be YOUR gain!

I’m hoping you or one of my other beloved readers will be interested in trying it out and willing to report back to me in detail your experience and results with the program, so I can share with the rest of my readers.

So to be crystal clear, I have not tried this program so I am NOT endorsing it.  That is why I’m looking for some help evaluating it. 

Here’s exactly how it will work:

1. Read their product page here.  Be sure to read it all the way through so you know what’s involved.
2. Does it sound interesting to you?  If so, continue on to 3.
3. Do you agree to send me regular updates by email (say, weekly) about your experience with the program and the results you get?  Do you also agree that I can share your updates on my blog or in emails to my readers?  If so, continue on to 4.
4. Great!  Leave a comment at the bottom of this post, saying you agree to share your experience and results, and why I should buy it for you.
5. On Wednesday, January 13, 2010 I’ll choose one person from among the commenters.  My selection will be completely subjective, though it’ll be based on enthusiasm as well as other factors.  My choice is final.
6. I will buy the program for the chosen individual.  Any other expenses will be your responsibility.  (In other words, I’m not offering to buy your food as well!)

As you can see by checking the price on the product page, what I’m proposing here is worth $97.

What do you say?

This New York Times article discusses recent research showing that adding more fruits and vegetables to your diet — in addition to the many health benefits already associated with fruits and veggies — can also help prevent osteoporosis.

So, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.  (Gee, where have I heard THAT before?) 

Whether you participate in this holiday or not, it’s a perfect time to deliberately and consciously consider the things you have to be grateful for.

We all have our own troubles, problems, and issues. Nothing is perfect; nor will it ever be. But everyone has things to be grateful for!  So today let’s focus on the positive.

Seriously. Stop and take just 5 minutes right now to think about all of the good things you have in life.

I’ll share with you some of the things I am grateful for. (Maybe it will help inspire you if you’re having difficulty getting started.)

• Good health.
• Having plenty of good, clean food to eat, and never having to know what true hunger is like.
• A home to shelter me from the elements.
• Having a relatively care-free life (compared to many less fortunate people around the earth).
• Two caring parents who looked after me while I was most vulnerable, did their best, and helped shape the person I am today.
• Good, close friends and a loving family.
• All of the opportunities that have been available to me throughout my life, and the inspiring people I have met along the way.
• Being alive! And being witness to all the amazing splendor of the universe.

What are YOU grateful for? Share your thoughts with me by leaving a comment below.

And have a happy Thanksgiving.