Doesn live-foods take a lot of discipline and self-restraint?
This depends on how you approach live-food: as a diet or a lifestyle. I certainly do not recommend living foods as a crash diet or a way to simply lose weight. As with any ‘diet’, the concept of crash dieting involves restraint – depriving ourselves of the foods we are craving. Unfortunately, as human nature has proven time and time again, restraint is almost followed by indulgence. Our subconscious automatically wants to aggressively consume foods that the conscious mind is actively depriving. This is no way to live, bouncing back and forth between extremes. A more sensible solution is the middle path of balance, neither depriving nor indulging… in other words, eating to live instead of living to eat. People often become vegetarian or get into live-foods simply because they want to lose weight. However, the reasons for eating a vegetarian diet are much bigger than weight loss or sounding cool & mysterious. It takes a sincere grasp of some of these reasons and literally a ‘shift in c
