Think and Go Raw 

Am I Making False Claims?

I got an email from a woman claiming I'm making false claims about what I wrote last week in the "33 Tips For Cooked Food Addicts." I don't mind people honestly and respectfully disputing my claims, but this woman certainly didn't take that approach?

She basically called me a liar and I don't appreciate that. She rushed to judgment without complete knowledge. I don't know anything about her except what she wrote in the email, but that told me quite a bit.

I'll post her email and respond below. You be the judge.

The sad thing is that this woman is criticizing the very information I believe she desperately needs. Hopefully, she'll open her mind when she realizes the miscalculation she's made. It looks like she didn't even read the full article or comprehend what I wrote.

Her email is below and is indented. My responses are contained within the [RH: ....] and are not indented.

Woman's Email: I won't divulge her name. I've inserted my reponse in the body of her email.

I just read over your advertisement for "Think and Go Raw" and have to say that you make a lot false claims in it.

[RH: We'll see about that.]

As someone who HAS been 100% raw for 5 months

[RH: Big deal, I was 100% raw for between two and three months at least five times over a period of five years before I learned how to do the raw food diet correctly. It took me five years experimentation and lots of needless mistakes before I finally figured out the right way to go raw.

I know a woman who easily stayed raw her first six months. Only for her to be in a constant struggle to stay raw since then. Do you want to waste five years trying to get this right or worse yet, give up completely because you made a few simple errors?]

and then CHOSEN to switch back to partially cooked (I fluctuate between 80%-90% these days), I will disagree first off with your statement "It is easier to go 100% raw than 80%". No, it's not.

[RH: Actually, yes it is for most people. It's hard to stay 80% raw because you end up eating a lot more cooked food than you planned to. That 20% of cooked food is incredibly addictive. And even if you do stay 80% raw that other twenty percent cooked is often very poor quality cooked food.

I was 70% raw for a number of years, when I cheated on cooked food, it was bad. I figured I was treating myself and I might as well eat what I really wanted, regardless of the health consequences. When I ate cooked food, it usually turned into an unhealthy feast.

And what is 80% raw anyway? Trust me when people say that they eat 80%, 50% or 90% raw, it's really just a very rough estimate, they don't actually measure it out in calories consumed raw or cooked.]

I bet maybe if you live in certain areas of the country where this diet is available and accepted it is, but not so for most of us.

[RH: Here's where she's starting to show her ignorance and precisely why she needs to read my ebook, Think and Go Raw. First off, there are people eating a raw food diet all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and the rest of the world. There's even a group of raw foodists in Alaska. If you can eat raw in Alaska, you can do it just about anywhere.

If you have access to a supermarket that brings in a variety of fresh produce year round, then you can stay 100% raw. It doesn’t even have to be fresh organic produce, although that is preferable.

Of course, if you can't get or can't afford enough raw food, then you're going to have a problem staying 100% raw. But this is not a part of my argument or claims anyway. Eating raw is not super expensive, but it does cost more than eating a diet of rice, beans, bread and noodles.

Then she makes another excuse, stating that in some parts of the country, eating raw is not accepted.

So what! That's true in every single part of the country and the world and yet people are eating raw everywhere these days. The mind gets stuck in it's ways and therefore in most places the people won't accept a raw food diet. But who cares what they think?

Many of my friends and family didn't accept me eating raw, but I did it anyway. They tried to convince me to go back to cooked food and they were successful at times. But I eventually won out.

Do you make your health decisions based on what other people think? Do you smoke cigarettes because other people tell you to do so? Eating cooked food is as dangerous to your health, if not more dangerous than smoking.

This is an uniformed excuse but unfortunately it's quite common. Many people don't understand what I call the "Freedom Principles," and therefore they are slaves to what others want from them, instead of what is most important for their own happiness.

They don't realize they've been enslaved by rules that are meant to help the society or group, at the expense of the individual's happiness. Everyone can be free and be much happier, if they allow themselves to be free of the group, family, government and other kinds of traps.

Had she opened her mind and read my book, Think and Go Raw she'd understand the freedom principles as they pertain to going raw and not blame society or what others think on her inability to stay raw.]

And even by the end of thsoe 5 months, it was still a huge daily struggle to stay raw. Too much willpower involved, and it was taking over my life.

[RH: If after five months of being 100% raw, you still need a heavy dose of willpower to stay raw, then it's almost certain you're doing something wrong with your diet. Eating raw is simple and not time consuming, when you do it the Optimal Raw Food Diet way.

What she obviously missed in my article was this key statement:

"assuming you're doing the raw food diet in a sustainable and healthy manner. Lots of people fail at the raw food diet, not because they can't motivate themselves to do it, but because they don't know how to do it correctly."

This was my constant obstacle to success with staying 100% raw, I just didn't know how to do it correctly. It does take willpower when you are making mistakes such as not consuming enough calories or getting enough greens.

Yet I can say with certainty that even if you read what I just said, it's very likely you still won't be consuming enough calories and or getting enough in the way of greens. New raw foodists just don't seem to get it, they need someone to guide them who's currently successful with eating and staying raw.

When you are happy and satisfied with what you eat, then eventually the cooked food habit just drops away. But when you've neglected to do one or more aspects of the diet correctly, then you'll need willpower because your nutritional needs are not being met.

It's simple little distinctions that I make for my coaching clients that spell the difference between failure and success. This is true even with people who have been trying to go raw for years. Once they get some coaching usually the light goes off in their heads and they can finally do it.

Think and Go Raw also shows you how to do the Optimal Raw Food Diet correctly. Some people can provide their own motivation like I did, but can't get past doing the diet incorrectly.

You can have all the motivation and will power in the world, but if you're doing the diet incorrectly, then at some point you'll just be forced to give up on the 100% raw food diet.]

I wasn't about to keep spending all my energy on a diet that....wasn't doing me any good.

[RH: I agree with you, if it isn't working for you, don't do it. It didn't work for me at least five times and I was forced to stop being 100% raw every time.

Eventually I got it right. My key to success was finding the right information and getting a mentor to help me get past my cooked food mindset. I needed a total re-education and reading raw books and even going to raw food lectures was not enough. I needed a mentor as well. My subconscious cooked food nutritional beliefs were just too hard to throw off by myself.

You'd be shocked at how many people going raw do it incorrectly and then they blame the diet as being insufficient. I'd say 80 to 90% of the people I coach and who've read many raw food books, still don't do the diet correctly. I have to know what they eat and give them feedback on how to optimize their program. But when they start eating correctly they find it much easier to stay raw.

Here's an example from one of my telephone coaching clients who had been trying to go 100% raw for many years without success. One of his setbacks to staying 100% raw was not eating nearly enough greens, even though he thought he was. Now he eats only 100% raw and mono meals and is quite satisfied.

I've been 100% raw ever since we had our last telephone coaching session and I'm doing great. I found that I pretty much eat greens at every other meal...so 50% of my meals - MOST of the time (not 50% of my calories - this is an easy way for me since I don't like counting calories). Sometimes, maybe 2 times a week, I'll eat 2 or even (at the most) 3 fruit meals in a row...then I'll get right back on greens.

Anyways, thanks so much. I look forward to my life as a mono sequential raw foodist and towards anything that comes up in our paths. So I just wanted to give you an update and a thanks. You were the missing link to where I was and my success.

Gershom
http://Gershom.tv

A big part of my coaching success is making sure people follow the diet in a sustainable fashion. Most people need a bit of back and forth feedback and coaching like I provide our members at http://HowToGoRaw.com or with my telephone coaching, before they fully understand how to do the raw diet correctly and how to handle and thrive in daily life as a raw foodist.

Eating raw is so different from what the average person is used to eating that they just have no clue how to do it correctly, even after reading many books. This is one area where coaching and support from other raw foodists on a similar path is really useful.]

Please don't claim "After a while, being raw is a normal and automatic part of your life. No willpower is necessary." That simply isn't true.

[RH: I'll claim it all I want because I know for a fact that it is true. I have experience with hundreds of raw foodists from all over the world and know this to be true. All the long time successful raw foodists have told me that the longer they stayed raw the easier it was.

But you have to do the diet correctly as I've mentioned above and in the original article that you've ignorantly been criticizing.]

I'm sure all of what you say is easy for you to say because you're one of those lucky people who doesn't really struggle with things like willpower, etc. Must be nice.

[RH: You've got to be kidding me. I was a total cooked food addict. This person obviously doesn't know anything about my background. It was not easy for me to go raw. I had lots of struggle.

I've spent years studying self-help and spiritual practices which has allowed me to move beyond willpower. The knowledge I attained helped me go beyond the weak practice trying to stick to a new habit with willpower alone. That's for children. Once you learn my strategies you'll realize that willpower isn't necessary or even needed.

My initial struggles to be raw didn't have to happen. If I were to start over in going raw these days, it would be a piece of cake because of my current level of knowledge. The right ideas make all the difference.

Do the diet correctly, learn my proprietary motivational strategies and then going raw is relatively easy. You just have to get past the initial 30 to 60 days and then it's simple from there on in.

The longer you go raw the easier it becomes. There are periods of ups and downs but generally, over time it gets much easier. Each year I stay 100% raw, it gets easier and more enjoyable for me. For me cooked food simply isn't an option, I don't think about it anymore and I don't crave it. But trust me, I used to.

I've met a few people who it was easy to go raw for them, but I was nowhere near being one of them. I used to go out to eat cooked food 7 days a week and I loved it. Giving up Thai and other Asians foods was not something I ever wanted to do. Going 100% raw was a major project for me at the time.]

Most people aren't like that, and you're really misleading them by saying things like those I mentioned above. It's just not entirely ethical.

[RH: Not entirely ethical? Are you calling me a liar? I hope I've changed your mind after reading the above. I might have pissed you off, but then again maybe that is what you need to wake yourself up. Early on in my raw food attempts I believed just as you did. But I kept my mind open and found a way.]

Peace to you and best of success, Roger

Am I Really Making False Claims?

This woman seemed to believe that to be true. But then again she made her judgment on much less than complete information. Not only that, she never even read my book, Think and Go Raw.

I hope this information has helped you in some way. If you're serious about getting the many health, happiness and peak performance benefits of the Optimal Raw Food Diet, then I suggest you get the right information and the right coaching and support at http://HowToGoRaw.com.

It's not about struggle, it's about having the right ideas, so you don't have to struggle.

To Your Radiant Health, Happiness and Fitness, Roger Haeske

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