If you cannot imagine yourself to change your food choices, this is the right E-Book for you! With my most favorite recipes you can nourish yourself and gain your health back like I did it. A juice and a smoothie recipe, a salad recipe and even a special recipe for self-made chocolate. All made with natural and super healthy ingredients that definetly help your body to get back to its original shape.

looking back at my transformation

Since I started to eat more healthy so many things have changed in my life. Now I am looking back at a tremendous change in my own lifestyle. It is a huge release to gain back my well-being and to be able to do things I could not do before.

Because of my sickness and over-weight I saw my life stuck in a one-way road.

What went through my mind? Is it possible that in my age of 35 I was already to sick to do any kind of physical activities? Nearly ten years of just following my business career and forgetting about my real needs had its consequences. More than 40 kg of over-weight and frequent visits at doctors and hospitals were followed by a constant feeling of being unhealthy and sick. Read a previous post about how I changed:

5 facts that helped me change my food addiction

Because with a healthy choice on a daily basis I manage to transform my body and health continioulsy.

And I do it without dieting or extensive exercising!

And more surprising now I eat much more than before my weight-loss! Because I do the right choices now, my health is getting better day by day! No more hunger feelings and real satisfaction is included!

my transformation: healthy body change with natural and healthy food choices

its not a diet, its a lifestyle!

To summarise my todays food habits I would say:

I dont do diets, I am not a vegetarian or vegan and I never want to be hungry!

And in a positive way I summarize my habits:

I eat around 70 % raw food, lots of juices and smoothies. On a daily basis I eat salads and only little cooked food.

Here you can read more about my food choices in a previous post:

my 7 most addictive foods

If you had asked me before I would never have thought that it is possible to turn the clock back.

And regain my health and well-being so easily!

Due to the fact that I am fully convinced that this concept works for lots of people who are in a situation that I have been, I want to offer you my own experiences.

With my free E-Book “3+1 Power Recipes” I am sharing some of my most favorite health recipes.

These natural food recipes helped me to gain my life power back easy and quickly.

step by step change to better choices

You dont want to be a vegetarian? You dont want to be vegan? But you want to be healthy?

Then you have to change some of your habits!

Human beings are driven by their habits. When we want to change, our habits have a major influence on our lifestyle. That means establishing new habits for your lifestyle change is kind of mandatory. Because everybody needs habits and we want to loose old and unloved habits, we have to build up new ones step by step. In order to change yourself to better food choices you need to open yourself also for new alternatives and try out whats the best for yourself.

change yourself first to change the world

When you want to change the world you live in, you have to start with yourself first.

You are not going to believe the magic power of changing yourself.

Most of the people around you will recognise the personal change you go through and will be motivated by your example. You could spend hours to convince people by talking. But giving a positive example is much more powerful. Without saying anything people around you will feel your change and know that something positive is happening to you.

Thats what is happening to me and I can tell you it feels fantastic!

Start to change yourself and the world around you starts to change automatically.

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My recipes can be your first step to change your food habits!

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Lui

Why almost everybody loves sweet foods and chocolate treats?

One reason is because the majority of our receptors on our tongues are made to recognise sweet tastes. And the older we get the more we like to have sweet things. What not only kids want sweets?

Yes exactly, grown ups even have a bigger desire for all kinds of pure sweetness!

As soon as we accept this fact, we are able to develop the right choices for these desires.

healthy chocolate cream cake seducement: no sugar, no milk, no flour, only good ingredients

Therefore it was extremly important for my lifestyle change to find good and healthy alternatives for the vast amounts of sugarized foods I used to consume. As far as I can remember I always had a “sweeth tooth” and loved the sensation of tasting and enjoying sweet and chocolaty treats.

Is there really an alternative for Nutella & Co?

Again nearly every chocolate on the market is contaminated with exeptional amounts of refined sugars and other really unhealthy ingredients, like cheap plant based oils. Even darker chocolate has still big parts of bad sugars in it! So what to do if there is nothing ready to buy?

The conclusion is “Do it yourself”!

Because I know myself I needed a substitute for all the Mars, Snickers, Nutellas and Co. I started to make my own healthy “Nutella”.

a dream: self-made chocolate and fruit ice only with natural and healthy ingredients

One of the first things I had to understand what is my desire for! It is the sweet taste and also the cacao, that is inside every chocolate. Without getting to deep into details about cacao, we all know that certain messengers are reached when we eat cacao or a product that contains cacao.

And this makes most people happy and smile when they eat chocolate!

However I had to find out how to combine the cacao with sweet fruits in order to be able to produce a self-made chocolate that is going to satisfy me.

Chocolate self-made? Without sugar, milk and other unhealthy stuff?

Yes, that is the task to make something very sweet with lots of cacao and resign of ingredients we dont want to use.

First of all avoiding all refined and industrialized kinds of sugar.

Second is to use only healthy fats and third is to use a good quality of cacao. Because its the main ingredient I try to get a gently roasted or better a fermentized powder of cacao. And this cacao should be slightly de-oiled and as natural as possible. In order to avoid sugar I use fruits (date, banana, mango, etc) and good bee honey for the sweetness. As healthy fats there are coconut butter or olive oil to use. Also other oils like pumpkin seed or macadamia oils are great when available.

cacao plus banana, nuts and coconut fat make a healthy and satisfying chocolate cream

And this was a personal breakthrough, when I learned that the self-made chocolate is so much better.

In comparison to Nutella and other industrial sweets the taste is far better and contains only ingredients that are good for you!

Actually with this self-made chocolate your body gets healthier!

Advantages of my chocolate to Nutella & Co.

Basically I use almonds or hazelnuts and mix it with a healthy fat and pure cacao. As mentioned for the sweetness I use only natural ingredients.

This is more or less the combination ancient cultures already used hundrets of years to satisfy their needs for sweetness.

When comparing my chocolate habits before my lifestyle change with now, I have to testify that the amount of eaten chocolate has dropped. My conclusion is that when you get a real and true satisfaction from something this desire doesnt come up so often. Like my self-made chocolate I realized that with the great taste of nuts, sufficient amount of happy making cacao and a sweet taste you get satisfied quickly.

When I eat industrial made chocolate or sweets I never can stop!

And now its just so easy, because I feel a realistic satisfaction and lost the insatiable hunger for industry sugar.

Chocolate during my trip

When I started my trip in 2015, I knew that I am going to give up my kitchen and the possibility to make my own chocolate. But I figured it out very soon. No worries, only solutions. One of my lessons during my world trip. And because my recipe is no new invention, I just had to look for the right places in order to make right choices.

And also for my chocolate desire there is an easy solution while traveling around.

In almost one year traveling through mexico and central america very often I found cacao balls that are offered from local people on markets.  Because the cacao plant is everywhere, many local families prepare these pure cacao balls and have them ready for making a hot chocolate or other sweets.

natural cacao balls bought from a mayan family in Chiapas, Mexico

What an amazing personal experience knowing that even when traveling around it just there and has always been there!

I only didnt know about it before and never gave pure cacao a chance.

And now I also like to eat the roasted cacao bean, because already a few beans satisfy my desire for chocolate.

eating a raw cacao fruit in central america during a hike

Even better for your health is the raw cacao fruit. During hiking in my trip in central america I ate lots of cacao fruits.

Raw cacao fruits give a lot of energy and power.

Now I eat from them as often as possible!

Free E-Book in german & english

One of my personal goals for this year is to publish an E-Book 3+1 Power Recipes. This book contains basic recipes for a Juice, Smoothie, Salad and my self-made Chocolate that help you get your health back on track. As I reported about my food habits in the past I also want to make some of my favorite recipes available for anybody who is interested in knowing more about my lifestyle.

Lui

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Have fun and C U soon on Traveling Adventures!

Whenever I feel hungry or need more energy I have lots of nuts and seeds.

Nowadays about 20 % of my daily aliments are based on nuts and seeds. Because they are filled with lots of healthy proteins and also easily give you a great feeling of being satisfied. Therefore today I want to give an overview about this great food and why it got so important for me.

different nuts and seeds mixed for a snack, perfect when you are on the road

Helpless against temptations?

Always when I am on the road I have a selection of nuts and seeds with me. If suddenly I get hungry then I dont need to ask myself what to eat! Almost everybody knows this, the temptations are everywhere only waiting for us to get hungry! Even when you are not hungry they get you! And if not prepared well our brains are helpless against the gigantic marketing machine of the food industry. For myself a long time in my life I failed resisting the brainwashing that we all go through. Its nearly impossible to go out, travel or shop without having hundrets of chances to buy so called food that on a long term makes all of us sick.

selection of healthy nuts on a market in Oostende, Belgium

Therefore its necessary to find the right places to buy real food. And get ourselfes embattled in order to make good and healthy choices every day. Maybe you think this choice is expensive? From my point of view our health and well-being is priceless. And thats the reason why I spend on good and healthy nuts & seeds! However being ill or loosing your health is not an alternative.

Everything comes back to you

In comparison its always better to have a good quality and treat yourself with rescept and give your body the real fuel to fulfill its needs. And one rule of the universe is, that everything comes back to you! First of all Do good things and spread the truth. In addition the good is going to happen to you! As a result it is the same with our food and bodies. Love yourself and give your health every day a support. As a consequence your body will love you back! And it really works that easy! I am only one example of many people who manage to boost their health and return their body to the natural shape, only by eating the right things.

Nuts & seeds are a great in combination with other food

In most of my salads I love adding nuts or seeds. Especially when I have the feeling that a “normal” salad cannot satisfy me, I just add them as a super healthy ingredient. One of my favorites are hemp seeds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Because they have huge amounts of proteins they help me stay on track.

one of my salads tuned with lots of hemp seeds

And the list of using nuts in other foods is huge. For example in some smoothies they are a fantastic add-on. Or when you want to make your own healthy chocolate or cake definetly nuts and seeds are very important ingredients.

In my nextcoming article I am going to present some ideas about making your own chocolate and cakes that are very tasty and super healthy in the same time.

Your Lui

Fruits are magic food and made by the power of the sun, the nutrients of the earth and contain high amount of rain water filtered through the plant and its roots. What else do we need to nourish ourselfes?

Really not much more. Any fruit is a complete meal and we are ment to survive only with their energy and power provided. They have a big variety of flavours from sweet to bitter, full of natural and clean water and give a tremendous amount of vitamins, nutrients and are high in fiber.

all you can eat fruit buffet

The perfect food not only while traveling the world

Whenever its difficult to get fresh made juices or smoothies, I enjoy more fruits. And therefore in some countries like cuba with its nearly 100 % organic fruits and vegetables its just a joy to try fruits you know. And also new types you have maybe never tried before. Its not like there are no juices to buy. But especially in cuba nearly everything gets tuned up with lots of industrial and refined sugars. Yes cubans love their sweet foods! In order to compensate missing nutrients its a fantastic and tasty way to power yourself with nearly everything you need. And the big advantage is, you can still find fruits nearly everywhere.

a cashew fruit picked from a tree in the cuban jungle

Make it a daily adventure

And because I am so exited to try out new foods, it is my daily adventure! During a jungle hike in cuba we found a cashew tree.  And the fruits were ready to eat. Not the cashew but the cashew fruit that grows with the cashew we know. I am not going to forget this wonderful taste. And as soon a I will see a cashew tree I will eat some of these fruits again!

cashew fruit: great taste like apple with lime

Therefore one of my worries not getting enough juices and smoothies during traveling turned into a new habit eating lots of fresh fruits for breakfast and during the day. And as a breakfast its also the best way to start with a lot of freshness and energy in your day! What I had to learn is about the amounts of fruits I need. For me it makes not much sense to eat little quantities of fruit. Because I would soon get hungry again. But when eating a complete pineapple, melon or bigger amounts of fruit, it serves me longer and keeps satisfied.

a complete breakfast: a huge pineapple

A present from god and the universe

And there are no doubts. Whatever we are planing to do for the day there is no greater support than using this present. And we all got it from god and the universe! To make every day a good day with natural food! I give you an example. Whenever I do my greatest hobby diving I have to drink a lot of water in order to feel well during a dive. Beetween 5 and 7 liters of water when doing a 2 tank dive is quite normal for me. That changed when I started to have fruits for breakfast. Because of the huge quantities of water in a pineapple, melon, papaya, banana or citrus fruit I have for breakfast, with 2 or 3 liters of additional water I am fine now.

make every day perfect with the right choice

Great availability nearly everywhere on our planet

Do you know the weird feeling during your change in lifestyle, when you think that there is nothing to eat left? When you start getting rid of your bad eating habits and realise that almost all products in commercial supermarkets are not good for you! And I also felt a little bit scared in those moments. But learning about the availability of healthy and natural food is a great release. This was a strange moment when I realised that there is nothing to be scared about! Good food is all around us! We just need to look at things in a different way.

thats a comfortable & healthy breakfast in Mexico City

And because I like to be lazy sometimes its nice and comfortable to have a healthy breakfast when its available as it is in bigger cities. But since I experienced the joy of going to local markets, this is a new habit and adventure in my life!

Real farmers market are my preferred dealers

One of the most beautiful markets I have visited is located in the mexican state chiapas in the city of san cristobal de las casas.

farmers market in san cristobal de las casas, mexico

Here on a farmers market there are no more worries to get enough good and natural food. Its all available and guaranted you are going to make the right choice! Whatever you buy, its going to be good for you! You know how difficult it is to make the right choice in a commercial supermarket!

natural food treated with respect & love

And when I see how the farmers treat every single fruit and vegetable and present their work in a beautiful way. Then I know thats food treated with respect and love. In conclusion food that is only treated industrially can never give you and you body what a real natural food can do. Natural and real food is a big amount of work combined with respect for the creation of mother earth. If you eat this kind of products your life is enbrightened by more love, energy and respect for all living creatures.

my new supermarkets: real farmers markets

And besides the fact that eating lots of fruits helps to strengthen your new habits and lifestyle, its every time a little adventure to go for shopping on farmers markets. Wherever I have been to local and real markets in this world the farmers providing us with natural food are very friendly, helping and know a lot about their products.

Motivation to write about my food inspiration

With my blog series of food inspiration, I want to help you! By showing you what great possibilities we really have in terms of making the right food choices. And it doesnt matter where we are, its possible nearly everywhere on our planet!

In my next post I will give an overview about my specials and like anybody I give myself also some treats. But how I do it on a healthy way, let me tell you in my nextcoming article!

Lui

The richness of nutrients and the great appearance of salads make me happy! But not only me.

I am surprised since I eat salads daily, my point of view concerning food changed. Also lots of restaurants offer great salad plates and really have some know-how about what to combine and what not. However, when I have the possibility I would prefer to prepare my own tasty salad combination, but sometimes its more chilly just to order your healthy food outside.

a lunch that makes happy: green chaya juice and a huge salad plate

salads are not a complete meal?

Its amazing to experience how I changed myself. Some years ago I remember not considering a salad as a complete meal.

I had the feeling that “only” a salad does not make me satisfied and creates disharmony in my digestive system.

Nowadays I feel and know the difference and I want to eat a healthy and mainly raw salad ever day.

a raw power salad with beetroot, carrots, kale and many other tasty and healthy ingredients

minimalistic yucca salad with bell pepper and onions and some herbs

how I eat salads

How did I manage to convince myself? First of all I never was eating the salad in the right order. What did I do? For example after a cooked or heavy meal I would still feel hungry and then I would eat the salad.

Yes, now I know that was completely wrong for me!

For sure a salad is very easy to digest, but when eaten after a heavy and cooked meal, the salad cannot be digested well. Therefore it has to wait until the heavy food is digested and in that time the salad created a big disharmony inside me. And after just changing the order of eating, first the easy to digest salad and afterwards the heavier meal, I had a big improvement in my health and well-being.

make it on your own: a self made salad with sprouts during traveling and the juice never is missing

can salads satisfy you?

And another effect was that I started to get a really good feeling of being satisfied with salads and learned which ingredients to add to my salads. Sometimes during traveling its not that easy, but still there are many solutions how I can get my daily salad. And when I cannot prepare a complete salad, I would buy a ready to eat salad from the market, trow away the including dressing and tune it up by adding ingredients like avocados, sprouts, nuts and seeds.

My task is to give the salad a certain amount of greens, healthy fats and proteins.

Therefore I add to a green salad also good fats like avocado, olive or coconut oil. And in order to get the additional proteins and satisfying ingredients in my salad I add goat cheese, beans, lentils and different kind of seeds or nuts.

lots of ingredients combined make a salad that will definetly satisfy

salads tastes boring!

For most people salads taste boring and something is missing. What is it? After we have been manipulated all our life by huge amounts of taste improvers and industrial sugar in processed foods, I found out for me that I have to teach my taste senses to enjoy new flavours. And why not add healthy spices to your salad?

In the last years I have developed many salad recipes where I always add certain spices.

Most salads contain salt and pepper and that’s it! In conclusion I started to add spices like clove, curcuma, cumin, nutmeg and many more. And everybody who tried my salads knows what I am talking about!

Hope you enjoyed my todays post and maybe it motivates you to make a salad! Below this post you can get a free salad recipe from my E-Book 3+1 Power Recipes!

Enjoy the flavour of natural food!

Lui

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Drinking smoothies is not only a style. But it is a great possibilty to enjoy fruits, vegetables and more natural food in new and surprising combinations.

However a big advantage is that they are quickly prepared and a super healthy drink. And it is also a very satisfying meal in the same time.

In comparison to juicing it is much faster and also a lot cheaper!

Because you are using the complete fruits and vegetables, it allows you also to transform more expensive produce, like grapes, pineapple and fresh spinach to a healthy drink.

And sometimes even the best juicers are not able to get an appreciable amount of liquids out of the produce.

Like with bananas, nuts or very leafy greens.

a fantastic drink blended out of different grapes

very sweet and a great cleanser: a pineapple with mango smoothie

one of my favorite smoothies: grapefruits, oranges and lime or lemon

combine a juice with a smoothie

In my opinion making smoothies and juices are a great combination. Therefore its not a discussion whats better a juice or a smoothie.

If using both systems this allows you to get the best out of your choosen produce!

And for some recipes its great to combine a juicer and a blender. Here is one example where I use both devices to make a lifesaving spinach carrot drink.

carrot prepared with a juicer and the spinach blended with the carrot juice

In conclusion the right philosophy is to use both machine concepts in combination. And the result for you is that you can get the most out your fruits and vegetables, even when you invest in more expensive produce or prefer to buy organic.

In my own experience its great to have both systems!

In the next post “my food inspiration: salads“ I will give you some secrects how to make wonderful salads that really satisfy you, even if you are a very hungry person like me.

Your Lui

blender suggestions

If you are looking for the right blender here you find links for very popular machines. However dependent on how often you are using a blender, it makes a lot of sense to get good and proven quality. Like for any device the market has a tremendous variety. And I remember how much time I spend in finding and choosing the right machine. In order to make it easier for you, here some great blenders I use:

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I love juices because they helped me to change to a healthier and better person! Therefore in this and the following posts I am presenting you a series of my food inspirations.

First of all I want to write about juices. What can I eat and how does good food look like? One of the big questions I had after I decided to change my food addictions.

However I needed habits that help me to stay motivated in preparing healthy food and make the right choices every day!

So you can take this as an inspiration for yourself and enjoy the great colours and flavours we are provided by mother earth.

juices during traveling

Yes you are right, they are expensive and when made by yourself also very time consuming, but when made fresh it is worth the time and money. The best of the best of each fruit and vegetable in great combinations and different variations.

Therefore I would even say that juices had the biggest impact on my health condition!

And this is why I love all kinds of juices! First of all you will find new flavours, amazing colours and immediately everybody can feel the good vibrations!

real joy of colours: green wheatgrass juice, orange carrot juice and red beetroot juice

pure health every day: my carrot juice, a green juice made with spinach and pure orange

Whenever I am on the road and I have no possibility to use a juicing machine, I buy my fresh juices. Especially in the first part of my trip I found out that there is already a huge juicing culture in the USA, Mexico and all Central America.

Almost wherever you are its so easy to buy all kinds of juices and healthy foods!

Because some shops mights use industrial sugar to tune up the sweetness of their product, I also have to take care. For sure this is not what I am looking for and its better to watch how the order is made to make sure there are no added sugars inside.

keep it simple: preparing my orange juice breakfast with a squeezer during traveling

However in some areas you will not find any place that prepares or sells fresh juices.

Due to this reason sometimes I use my manual squeezer to press grapefruits, oranges and lime.

This little squeezer is now traveling for more than one and a half years with me!

juicing at home

Before I started full time traveling, two or three times a week I invested the time to make my juices for the nextcoming days. For the whole procedure I would spend about 2 hours to produce several liters. In order to store them properly I put them in bottles.

And this is how I was drinking my daily juices also during my work time!

Here are some pictures showing my juicing action at home.

beetroot juice with apples and pears

a carrot juice with apples

real juicing action: all ready to make several juices at once

Because you already started successfully to change your habits, also you will start with implementing daily juices in your life.

As a result it will add a new scope of flavours in your life and will give your body what it really needs.

In conclusion they are the most powerful food you can use to heal, nourish and protect yourself.

Stay tuned and read also my nextcoming post “my food inspiration: smoothies”.

Your Lui

juicer suggestions

Here you find some links for juicers in different price ranges, that I can recommend. I worked with all of the by myself and they all help you to make good and healthy juices. For sure there are differences in quality and performance, but here you find a nice device thats fits any purse:

literature references

If you want to read and learn more about this topic, I also can recommend you some great books. The author Gerson is one of the first persons in the medical area who found out about the healing power of fresh pressed fruits and vegetables. And since then the Gerson Therapy cured many kinds of sicknesses and also cancer. Here I have some book suggestions in german, spanish and english for you:

Because the Gerson Therapy works so good, it is actually forbidden to practise his therapy in Europe and the USA on a professional level?!

What a surprise!!!

But its not forbidden to buy and use his books! Lets learn and practise this great knowledge and spread the good word!

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Is it possible that we are all on addictive foods and are only laboratory animals for the food industry? No, I was not able to realize this until I got seriously sick.

My believe in a clean and secure food industry was very big.

Within a time period of 3 years I had  9 different operations and I consulted more than 10 doctors to help me.

It was a very difficult time knowing that I have to enter the hospital every 3 or 4 months. And again they are going to cut something out of my body! None of all the medical experts where able to tell me what was going on with me.

Then I decided to take the responsibility for my addictive foods and not leave it to doctors or hospitals.

In this post I am analysing addictive foods and reporting how I convinced myself  to loose my 7 most addictive foods and recover my health and body.

addictive foods I banished from my life

1. artifical sweeteners
2. industrial sugar & sweets
3. taste & flavour improvers
4. cow milk & milk products
5. fast food & processed meat
6. fried food & vegetable oils
7. wheat products, bread & pasta

artifical sweeteners

are in all so called “light” or “diet” products. They are designed to convince the consumer that the amount of sugar in our daily diet is too high. The industry solutions are products on a base of lower calories. Thats what I got told for many years, your intake is too high. Use artificial sweeteners in order to reduce your amount of calories. What was the effect of artifical sweeteners on me?

My craving for sugar was even higher than before consuming it!

I had lack of concentraion, permanent nervousness and frequent headaches. In my consideration all kinds of artifical sweeteners are highly addcitive foods.

industrial sugar & sweets

like most humans I also have a “sweet tooth” and love to taste and enjoy sweet things. When I stopped consuming artifical sweeteners I knew that I had to stopp consuming all kinds of industrialized sugars provided by the market. In my opinion the main problems is that industry sugar is an extract of a plant. Many human bodies cannot process this extracted products properly.

The consequence is that when you consume exctracts you disable too many of your body functions.

Instead of providing me with energy, extracted sugar slowes me down, makes me tired and for sure kept me overwheight for a long time.

taste & flavour improvers

from my point of view these are devilish chemicals with a high addictive potential.

Taste improvers make us eat food that is no real food!

Everybody already knows about it, its nearly in all processed foods and your kitchen is full of it. One day I decided to clean my kitchen from all taste enhancers. I filled two huge dust bins with aliments that where contaminated by these chemicals. When I found out how my body reacts to taste improvers, I had no more questions left.

After cleansing my body for several months from taste enhancers during work I envited one of my customers to a lunch brake.

His wish was to visit a chinese restaurant. I knew this is going to be hard for me but I took my customer to a chinese buffet. That day I only ate the white rice without anything. What happened? Within minutes I was sweating all over my body and becoming completely wet. I was just sitting at a table and eating rice.

Even my customer asked me what was wrong with me.

I told him that he just witnessed my intolerance for taste enhancers, like the glutamate that was inside the white rice.

cow milk and milk products

are healthy for you. They are important for your bone structure and provide you with lots of vitamins and calcium. Even in early school years this was a constant speech we all heard many times.

Did you ever ask yourself why human beings are the only adult animal that consumes milk?

What is cow milk made for? It helps a new born calf with 40 kg to grow rapidly to a cow with more than 400 kg. It gets more than 10 times bigger! Why should we drink milk then?

Since not consuming cow milk products I feel a great impact on my health.

Many friends and people reported me that especially their respiration and digestive system recovered very quickly after not using dairy products from cow milk.

fast food & processed food

is everywhere and very cheap, but its one of the worst things I did to myself. Now I understand that all these food concepts can only work with lots of taste and flavour enhancers. Otherwise we could not eat them.

Here is one interesting test I made after not eating fast food for months.

With friends we visited a big burger chain for dinner. I ordered french fries but asked not to use any salt on my fries. Try this out for yourself and you will realize that its impossible to eat fries from a fast food chain without the “salt” they use.

The reason is that the used salt contains huge quantities of flavour improvers.

Once I removed chemicals from my daily diet its was easy to stop with burgers, pizza and all other quickly prepared and processed aliments.

fried food & vegetable oil

any fried food is tasty and smells irresistible when prepared.

But the reality is, its a reason for lots of diseases and its on the same level with fast food in terms of harmfulness foods.

The combination of heat and different plant based oils on any kind of food is poison for our body. Besides the fact that any kind of nutrients that have remained in the food are killed through the hot frying temperatures. Most of vegetable oils are not made for heating them up and develop a dangerous composition that I banished from my aliment list.

wheat products

like bread or pasta are an irreplaceable ingredient in most cultures around the globe. In germany I lived in bread paradise, here they are the real champions of making bread in various kinds. Its called the best bread in the world.

Whenever I was traveling, I remember missing the german bread.

Usually it was the first thing I ate when I returned home from a long trip. Make myself not eating bread was definetly the toughest part of my personal lifestyle change. It is so deep inside our habit structure to eat frequently bread, that its very difficult to imagine a life without it.

Why is bread so harmful to our health?

From my research and experience its the combination of an extract (a part of the wheat corn), a genetically modified plant and addionally filled with high quantities of industrial sugar to accelerate the production process. I cannot list all the other stuff the industry puts inside the bread for example to give colour and make it last longer.

What I can report from my own record is that loosing my bread eating habit helped my health condition enormously and had the greatest effect on weight loss.

In the past 5 years I have been continiously improving my health situation and changing little by little my food habits. As recommend in my previous post, realize about your addictions, make a list of your worst addictions and start with what you are most comfortable. Follow my example and start your life with a new quality in enjoying, tasting and living.

Don’t wait and start today to do something good for yourself!

Enjoying a fresh pressed orange juice

Lui

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Only some years ago I have been highly addicted to fast food, sodas and lots of processed food. I didn’t really care about my health or the well being of my body. Believing the food industry is good and clean I wanted to try and eat everything the market provided.

Especially when I was traveling in new countries I was craving to try all the new stuff. Working lots of hours, sitting in offices, meetings, dining with customers, traveling for business in cars and planes also helped me in not spending time to think about myself and nurish my food addiction.

before and after my lifestyle change

same shirt, different lifestyle, new body

Everybody knows this situation in life when you start concentrating on unimportant things.

Doing this for a vast period of time made me overweight, sick and really tired!

With my todays post I want to share my long term experiences how I was able to start my change of lifestyle, maintain the new good habits and continously improve my health situation. Since last year I am traveling full time and able to walk around all day, climb on mountains or carry my quite heavy backpacks for 3 or 4 hours if necessary.

Thanks to my lifestyle change from my food addiction to loving natural food!

my 5 most important facts that helped me change:

1. realize my food addiction, like artificial sweeteners and processed food
2. make a list of all your addictions (I counted nearly 50!)
3. start replacing the worst addictions with new and good habits
4. listen to your body, never put pressure on yourself
5. enjoy the new feelings and nurish your soul, mind and body

realize whats obvious

Most people don’t consider the fast food or food we buy in supermarkets as addictive. When you buy cigarettes or tobacco you get warned that your doing bad for your health. I never considered food as addictive, I only thougt that I eat too much, but I found out that this was wrong for me.

recognize your addictions

However, everbody is different and so I started to sort out certain foods and just tried out how I feel when I don’t consume certain things. My first step and biggest addiction was drinking sodas, mainly so called “light” or “diet” sodas, like any brands of coke. For more than a decade my daily input was about 2 liters of diet coke or light pepsi.

find a better way for yourself

Now that I decided to loose my soda habit, I changed my mind set and started preparing water with lemon and orange flavour that I made myself. Just press the fresh fruit into the water and cool it in your refrigerator. Yes its sounds so simple, tastes good and it works for me!

your body is talking to you, start listening

Never I thought that the impact of not drinking soda is so huge and strong on my body. After only 3 weeks without sodas I started feeling much better! Immediately I felt more relaxed, less nervous and what a surprise I had no appetite on sweet drinks.

feeling the freedom

Can you imagine how great it feels not to have to drink a pepsi or coke, only because you don’t want it any more? Yes you can, its a new dimension of freedom in your daily motion and saved me from getting more sick and addicted. Not taking care for my daily consumption of sodas, was a big release, not only on my purse.

After I managed to change my first bad habit, I felt the energy and growing motivation to change my next addictions. And this is how everybody can do it also, try out my 5 most important steps. Ask yourself the right questions, realize your problem and work on a solution that fits you.

my transformation from unhealthy to happy

my pants before and after changing

You will find out that its so easy and so much fun!

If I can do it you can do it!

Your Lui

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