SAFE TRANSITION TO A 100% RAW/LIVING ORGANIC FOOD DIET (This is from the Ebook “The Garden Diet” by Storm and Jinjee Talifero)

If you try to go 100% raw all at once, you may experience uncomfortable symptoms as a result of the toxins in your body being eliminated. These symptoms can include dizziness, tiredness, sleeplessness, flu-like symptoms, emotional highs and lows, and diarrhea. In order to prevent these symptoms, you may want to do a very gradual transition to the raw diet. This will prevent your body and mind from going into culture shock. Here is an example of a transition diet schedule. You can speed it up, slow it down, or vary it to suit your unique needs:

1.) One month Vegetarian (no meat)

2.) One month Vegan (no meat or dairy)

3.) One month Raw with a cooked meal a day

4.) One month Raw with a cooked meal a week

5.) One month raw using the replacement recipes as cravings arise, including the semi-raw replacement recipes

6.) Several months or a year raw using the replacement recipes as cravings arise, using only the 100% raw recipes

7.) 100% whole raw foods for life with occasional simple recipes

On three and four above, for the cooked meal, I would stick to rice and steamed vegetables, rice and beans, and tabouli, which is almost raw.