You'll love this article if you or someone you know has considerations like:

• You're desiring to lose weight once and keep it off forever, smooth & easy
  
• You're desiring to increase strength & weight, specifically lean muscle mass
  
• You're eating Raw Food and you're losing weight or gaining weight faster than you desire
  

Each of these situations has specific Raw Food Diet considerations.

Several items before we get started

Confusing weight with inches is pervasive in our culture. Using our Radical Health Step-By-Step Guide you may have rapid physical changes, which may occur as weight or inch changes. Best to trade in your weight scale for a flexible tailor's rule for 6-12 months. Focus on inch changes rather than weight changes.

Rapid cycling of weight and inches is normal and expected as eating style (diet) upscales. This occurs as a person increases their intake of high quality salt, pure (non alkaline) water, Raw Super Foods, greens and high water content produce.

As high quality, natural state, minerals become available for the first time, a person's body will accumulate and hold these minerals. This in turn allows more water to be moved into deep tissue and held there. The purpose of this physiological, detoxification process is to allow water to naturally dissolve and extract toxins.

When water becomes saturated with toxins, it expels through skin or huge volume urination. Then the entire process starts again. During this time weight and inches may fluctuate considerably. Once this process is complete, weight and inches will balance to perfection.

Once balance occurs, a person's body then begins a natural sculpting process, where maximum beauty, vitality and charisma (electrical field) express.

1. Losing weight once and keeping it off forever, smooth & easy

Using our Radical Health Step-By-Step Guide for 3-4 months is the fast, easy, highly enjoyable way to Perfect Weight.

You'll love this program if you're hooked on Chocolate and rich, decadent foods of all persuasions.

The primary reason we eat is for nutrients. There may be emotional & psycho-spiritual components to eating... and replenishing nutrients reserves is usually our top priority. Independent of other issues, your body will always overrule your head when it comes to eating, until you "top off" all your nutrient buckets.

This is similar to breathing. It's rare anyone can simply stop breathing, as automatic physical systems trump mental constructs any day. This why 12 Step Programs are virtually useless for dealing with substance abuse, until sugar metabolism is balanced.

When nutrient reserves are "topped off", living by choice becomes a breeze.

Here's my rule of thumb, "If what you're doing is hard, better find an easy way." Constantly attempting to hold some forced change which is in conflict with a nutrient deficit requires huge amounts of energy and rarely works for very long.

Instead of using will power, try this simple plan:

• Cease eating and drinking anything, except physician prescriptions
  
• Only drink pure water (avoid alkaline & designer waters) and Chocolate Bliss or Rain Forest Bliss for as many days as you feel comfortable
  
• When your desire for savory (non-sweet) foods intensifies, add in blended soups centering around Fiesta Mole and high water content veges
  
• Then add in savory (non-sweet) foods from our Radical Health Recipes Page and Yemiah's Raw Food Delights DVD Set
  
• Finally make one new Raw Food recipe each week from your favorite Raw Food Recipe book or use Yemiah's Raw Food Delights DVD Set to make dishes which can feed one or more for a week
  

2. Gaining weight, specifically lean muscle mass

A great way to increase strength and put on lean muscle mass is combining exercise and specific Raw Super Foods.

For exercise, work with a trainer to isolate the areas where you're desiring increased strength and develop a specific plan to accomplish your goal.

Enjoy morning and evening walks, slightly increasing your walking distance and speed each time you walk.

Another great trick is to do as many correct form push ups as you can, until your winded. Then divide your push up number by two and do this many push ups 2-4 times daily, increasing by one push up every day. So if you can do 5 push ups, then start with 2 push ups, 2-4 times daily. Next day do 3 push ups, 2-4 times daily. Keep this up until you're doing at least 100 push ups.

As for Super Foods, my favorite strength foods include:

• Chocolate Bliss with added greens like Greener Grasses & VitaMineral Green
  
• Fiesta Mole blended soups with additional Golden Flax, Hemp Seeds & Chia Seeds
  
• Chia Pudding as Chia is amazing for enhancing oxygen metabolism and building tissue strength
  

3. You're eating Raw Food and losing weight or gaining weight faster than desired

This is probably due to rapid cycling which we talked about earlier. Weight gain is expected with Raw Food, because nutrient dense food builds stronger, denser cells.

With Raw Food expect to lose inches, gain weight and maximize your beauty, vitality & charisma.

Some Raw Fooders gain weight because they're still eating on automatic, due to emotional and psycho-spiritual issues. Best to be conscious of your eating and ensure you're feeding your body, rather than some outdated patterning. Do this by eating slowly and consciously.

As nutrient density increase, food intake should naturally decrease. When you start eating Raw Super Foods expect to eat voraciously as your body replenishes your nutrient reserves. If this persists for months and your awareness suggests an emotional or psycho-spiritual component, best to consider expanding your healing in these realms.