How to Prepare Your Body for the pH Diet?
After a life of acidic foods, just how difficult will it be to follow this diet? It seems that if you’ve been used to eating a certain way that it might be a little challenging to eat in a completely different way.
pH Diet – Slow and Easy
Your life is about to become quite different – that is certain. And no matter what your reasons for trying the pH Diet, you can see just how challenging it might be for those who are accustomed to the fast food, conveniently packaged and microwaved diet.
The best advice for anyone who wants to make these sorts of big changes is to start out slowly. After all, you didn’t end up with your current diet overnight, so it’s really not realistic to think you will just start over with a new diet overnight.
The slow and easy process is outlined in the following sections to help you see what steps needs to be taken in order to get yourself to the pH Diet plan. Some may find that rearranging the steps works better for them, so feel free to adjust the order if you like.
But what you will want to remind yourself is that you can spend as long a time as you like on each step. Know that it takes about 21 days to build a new habit, so if you like, spend three weeks to a month on each step. This will help to guarantee that the changes you are making are permanent changes.
When you make too quick of changes, it will be easier to revert back to your old lifestyle – the one that made you feel tired and sluggish.
Some people who have completely changed their diets to the pH Diet plan have noted that it took them a few years before they were completely balanced in their eating. There is no rush to this plan. Go at your own pace knowing that each step is a step towards big health improvements.
pH Diet – Little Bites Add Up to Big Results
While it sounds like too simple of a step, eating smaller bites right now will help you transition to the pH Diet plan. Your body is a system that requires each step of the process to be as efficient as possible. Now, as you include more pH friendly food choices into your life, your body will be able to run more smoothly.
But this is not an overnight step nor does the inclusion of new foods into your diet mean that you don’t have to do anything else with your diet. While your body and your stomach help to digest the foods you eat, it’s your teeth and your chewing process that will help to encourage even better digestion.
Food should be a liquid when it hits your stomach, not partially chewed. So, when you take smaller bites and you chew more, you will be able to increase the rate of digestion of your foods, which is going to help your body begin to balance itself more naturally.
As a result, you will also find you are eating less which also helps to decrease the rate at which acidic foods enter your blood stream.
Taking smaller bites seems like such a small step – and it is. But it’s a step which will allow you to support a healthy body.
pH Diet -The Raw Food Step
One of the trendy diet fads right now is one that’s been around for a long period of time, though we might not have realized it. In the ancient times and even just a few hundred years ago, people did not have microwaves and ovens in which to cook their foods. They simply ate the food as it came off the plant or from the ground.
This allowed the food to have all of the inherent nutritional value without any heating necessary. The raw food movement proposes the same idea. When you cook a food, you break down the chemical structure of the food. This changes the taste, and it can also change the way the food is processed in the body – turning some foods which are not usually acidic into acid-producing ingredients.
When you refrain from cooking foods at high temperatures, you can begin to stop the breakdown of these chemicals. Raw foodists will not cook any of their meals above temperatures of 118 degrees Fahrenheit, for example. This allows the foods to be slightly warm, but still retain all of the nutrition.
While it might sound unsafe to cook foods at these temperatures, it is not. When you purchase organic produce and you abstain from meat and dairy products, there is nothing to worry about. In fact, these uncooked foods are probably safer than traditional fare as they are filled with nutrition which bolsters the immune system.
In adding raw foods to your diet, you are well on your way to creating a pH balanced diet, almost without trying. The ingredients of this diet are simple and pH balanced, and without cooking, you can even save some time in the kitchen.
pH Diet -No More Sweets?
One of the most difficult steps for many people to tackle during the transition to the pH Diet is removing sweets and sugars from their daily routine. We are a culture which is hooked on sugar, eating many tons of sugar in our lifetimes.
Even when we try to avoid eating too may sweets, we can still find ourselves we no other options. High fructose corn syrup seems to be a part of nearly all packaged foods and is nearly impossible to avoid completely.
But sugar is something our bodies can not necessarily process the way humankind used to. In moderation, sugar does provide energy, but when fruits and vegetables have natural sugars present, it seems unnecessary to add sugar as an additional meal ingredient.
The main goal of this step of your transition should be to remove as many processed sugars as possible from your life. Look at all of the ingredient levels you can and see just how much sugar is already in your life.
Start by taking away one sugared food at a time until you finally find that you are able to enjoy natural sugars that are already inherent in natural foods.
Now, the trick is that you don’t want to ever veer from your sugar-free lifestyle. Once you are ‘off’ the sugar, you will find that those sorts of treats are much too sweet and almost intolerable. This is a good thing.
When your body ingests sugar, it has to spend a lot of energy breaking this down into nutrients it can use – and there aren’t many. Most of the time, the body doesn’t need these carbohydrates and so the excess gets stored as fat or the sugar build up in the blood stream, changing the pH and causing the body to be more prone to diseases like diabetes.
The good news is that once your taste buds begin to adjust to the no sweets lifestyle, you will enjoy the sweetness of a grapefruit or other fruit far more than you might ever enjoy a candy bar again.
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