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MEET PETE VINCENT

Leaving Fire Behind by Pete Vincent

Unlike many raw stories, mine doesn’t start with a serious health problem or the diagnosis of a serious “incurable” disease. I became just one of the millions of people suffering from lack of motivation, low energy levels and minor aches and pains. At the tender age of 30, I became aware that my health wasn’t as it should be for my age. It is pretty obvious to me now looking back, that I was in a state of pre disease. I am convinced that if I hadn’t taken responsibility for my health, then a serious disease was waiting for me just around the corner. How many people do you know now suffering from similar ailments, lack of energy, no motivation, headaches, aching joints, straining eyes, irritability and short temper, difficulty in shaking off hangovers, constant need to eat, bad breath, bad digestion, mild IBS, occasional constipation, accompanied by excessive wind, spotty skin, dry skin etc. There are quite literally millions of people suffering from one or more of the above and are relying on the man in the white coat to fix them. Each ailment also has a billion dollar industry trying to cure each individual ailment. They definitely didn’t work for me, so I knew that I was going to have to do something else.

I was born in Exmouth, England on the 4th of September 1968 and received a pretty average meat and two veg upbringing and I was rarely ever very sick. I developed hollow legs at school and could eat like a horse and not put on weight. My vital statistics when I entered the Royal Air Force at the age of 17 was 34, 34, 34. I was 11 stone and 6ft 3inch tall. Skinny was my middle name. If you could have seen how much I used to eat, you would not have believed that I could have remained so slim. My thinking then was that I had to eat to put on weight. With that in mind I started to eat for Britain. A typical day would have consisted of a fry up for breakfast (a big fry up!), then pizza, chips and cooked vegetables or something similar for lunch and numerous slices of bread, followed by steak, roast potatoes, veg and a pudding for dinner (something stodgy with custard usually or some chocolate biscuits). When working shift, I would have an additional late supper at midnight and at three in the morning an extra breakfast, just to break up the boring night shift. My weight gain diet was without doubt aided by the introduction of beer. I can remember most nights consisted of drinking copious amounts of ale, finished off with a Chinese from Franks just outside the camp main gate. Amazingly my medical file remained thin and I escaped any serious health conditions. Towards the end of my military career however I did start to notice a decline in my health. So much so that I started to seek out the help from the people whom I believed knew best at that time. My concerns for my health did not seem to concern the RAF doctors who I went to see. All I could tell them was that I had a feeling that something wasn’t right. They would do all the usual prods and would ask me all the usual questions and then I would have the usual blood tests, and every time the results would come back negative much to my disappointment. At least if they had found something wrong, I would have at least known what I was up against and have done something about it. As it turned out I would be re-assured that everything was OK, told not to worry and sent packing with pills in hand. Its pretty safe to say that if you get told that everything is OK and believe that nothing is wrong with you, then you are not going to change any bad habits that you may have. Its important to mention at this point that continuing to do the same things and expecting different results is a good definition of insanity. So I continued on the same path and low and behold things didn’t get any better. I got measured up for a pair of glasses to address the eyestrain problem and was given aspirin for headaches. For the achy joints I would receive a sick note and a bottle of anti-inflammatory tablets. I started to pick up injuries easily. After lifting somebody into an ambulance I hurt my back and it ended up giving me a recurring problem in that area. I knew the pills weren’t working but what else can I do?

In a flash, thirteen years passed and it was time for me to rejoin the civilian world. By this time, and after three, six month detachments to sunny Ascension Island consisting of endless Barbeques and fridges filled with ice cold beer tins, a couple of detachments to Italy, the land of pizza and pasta and of course not forgetting the 13 years of military rations, I wasn’t quite so skinny. I was about 15 and a half stone and my waist measurement had increased from 34 to nearly 37 inches. It had been so gradual that I hadn’t noticed it happening until one day the penny finally dropped. I decided to listen to all the hints my body had been giving me and do something about it myself. My health journey started right there. Just by paying more attention to what I ate, turned my health around. It wasn’t easy at first because there is so much conflicting information out there. In this modern world of ours, it has been made easy for us to be lazy. We have fast foods to make eating easy, we have TV to make entertaining ourselves easy, we have drugs to give us a fast way to good feelings and good times and we have doctors and their drugs to fix us fast so that we have to change nothing ourselves. All this so that we can return to doing all the things that got us the doctor’s appointment in the first place. Our fast lives prevent us from taking a step back and seeing all this craziness. Listening to some Anthony Robbins tapes had changed the way I viewed new information. It was around this time that my Aunt Sue handed me a copy of The Raw Food Diet by Nature’s first Law. Even with my newly acquired inquisitive, questioning mind, I still felt that a 100% raw food diet was too extreme and impossible to do. I even thought that maybe my Aunt had gone a bit doo-lally. At this point, I would just like to say how important I think it is, to remember your own first reaction on hearing about the raw food diet, so that when you mention it to someone else, you are not shocked that they think you are strange.

By the time I had finished the book, I was totally convinced that this was the way to go, and that eating raw food was the way forward. Actually doing it was another thing all together. By this time I was working in a very strenuous job as a fire fighter and just the thought of eating nothing but fruit and veg made my stomach rumble and my mates roar with laughter. What about all the crew meals I was going to have to miss out on I thought? I had already started to make my mark as the section health guru, but this move to not cook my food was a step too far in many eyes. I knew better and so I commenced, slowly at first, gradually trying to extend the period of eating nothing but fruit until midday further and further. By around eleven o’clock I would be starving and have to have something else to fill the gap. I even had a few early failed attempts at going 100% which usually resulted in a chocolate bar frenzy accompanied by hoots of laughter from my colleagues. I even had a competition with one of my crew. He reckoned that he could last longer eating nothing but biscuits than I could eating nothing but raw food. Much to my annoyance he won. I lost the bet when somebody brought out a big plate of jam doughnuts. What a cruel trick.

I continued on my quest and gained confidence and knowledge by reading books on the subject. I started to notice results. My energy levels increased and my weight decreased. It was the arrival of weight loss man, and the skinny taunts came back to haunt me with a vengeance. It was my worst nightmare and even though I felt great and I knew that what I was doing was right, the weight loss didn’t do anything to convince anybody else. My boss thought I was trying to escape piece by piece! When the photographer arrived to take my photo for the 2003 fire-fighter calendar, my mates asked whether or not people would be able to see me hiding behind the hose? This was just the start. My weight gradually dropped from 15 stone to under 11 stone. My jumper started to look baggy on me and all my trousers started falling off my hips. People started to say I looked as though I was ill. When I think for a minute, when I looked healthy and everyone said I looked healthy I felt rubbish in myself and yet when everybody started saying I looked thin and unhealthy I started to feel great in myself. I was back to the weight I was when I joined the RAF and I remembered my decision to gain weight by eating for England. For thirteen years I had followed that path of eating to gain weight not realising that the weight was just rotting pizza and animal flesh in my blocked up colon. I felt as though now I had a second attempt with which to do things properly as nature intended.

I knew I was on the right path when I came into contact with Karen Knowler and The Fresh Network. Something just clicked, in more ways than one. I was so sure that raw food was the way to go, that I quite literally left fire behind. I left the secure life-saving job as a fire fighter, for the insecure, paradigm-changing world of raw and living food promoting. My aim for the future is to keep following the path that continues to bring me better health and at the same time allows me to live a happy active full life. In order to do this, I believe you have to assess and reassess your situation often, keep an open mind to new information and change the things that aren’t working and try something else. I hope to help take all this information out to as many people as I can, so that they too can experience the health improvements that I have experienced myself. You can contact me by Emailing pete@fresh-network.com. All the best
Pete Vincent

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	MEET PETE VINCENT Leaving Fire Behind by Pete Vincent Unlike many raw stories, mine doesn’t start with a serious health problem or the diagnosis of a serious “incurable” disease. I became just one of the millions of people suffering from lack of motivation, low energy levels and minor aches and pains. At the tender age of 30, I became aware that my health wasn’t as it should be for my age. It is pretty obvious to me now looking back, that I was in a state of pre disease. I am convinced that if I hadn’t taken responsibility for my health, then a serious disease was waiting for me just around the corner. How many people do you know now suffering from similar ailments, lack of energy, no motivation, headaches, aching joints, straining eyes, irritability and short temper, difficulty in shaking off hangovers, constant need to eat, bad breath, bad digestion, mild IBS, occasional constipation, accompanied by excessive wind, spotty skin, dry skin etc. There are quite literally millions of people suffering from one or more of the above and are relying on the man in the white coat to fix them. Each ailment also has a billion dollar industry trying to cure each individual ailment. They definitely didn’t work for me, so I knew that I was going to have to do something else. I was born in Exmouth, England on the 4th of September 1968 and received a pretty average meat and two veg upbringing and I was rarely ever very sick. I developed hollow legs at school and could eat like a horse and not put on weight. My vital statistics when I entered the Royal Air Force at the age of 17 was 34, 34, 34. I was 11 stone and 6ft 3inch tall. Skinny was my middle name. If you could have seen how much I used to eat, you would not have believed that I could have remained so slim. My thinking then was that I had to eat to put on weight. With that in mind I started to eat for Britain. A typical day would have consisted of a fry up for breakfast (a big fry up!), then pizza, chips and cooked vegetables or something similar for lunch and numerous slices of bread, followed by steak, roast potatoes, veg and a pudding for dinner (something stodgy with custard usually or some chocolate biscuits). When working shift, I would have an additional late supper at midnight and at three in the morning an extra breakfast, just to break up the boring night shift. My weight gain diet was without doubt aided by the introduction of beer. I can remember most nights consisted of drinking copious amounts of ale, finished off with a Chinese from Franks just outside the camp main gate. Amazingly my medical file remained thin and I escaped any serious health conditions. Towards the end of my military career however I did start to notice a decline in my health. So much so that I started to seek out the help from the people whom I believed knew best at that time. My concerns for my health did not seem to concern the RAF doctors who I went to see. All I could tell them was that I had a feeling that something wasn’t right. They would do all the usual prods and would ask me all the usual questions and then I would have the usual blood tests, and every time the results would come back negative much to my disappointment. At least if they had found something wrong, I would have at least known what I was up against and have done something about it. As it turned out I would be re-assured that everything was OK, told not to worry and sent packing with pills in hand. Its pretty safe to say that if you get told that everything is OK and believe that nothing is wrong with you, then you are not going to change any bad habits that you may have. Its important to mention at this point that continuing to do the same things and expecting different results is a good definition of insanity. So I continued on the same path and low and behold things didn’t get any better. I got measured up for a pair of glasses to address the eyestrain problem and was given aspirin for headaches. For the achy joints I would receive a sick note and a bottle of anti-inflammatory tablets. I started to pick up injuries easily. After lifting somebody into an ambulance I hurt my back and it ended up giving me a recurring problem in that area. I knew the pills weren’t working but what else can I do? In a flash, thirteen years passed and it was time for me to rejoin the civilian world. By this time, and after three, six month detachments to sunny Ascension Island consisting of endless Barbeques and fridges filled with ice cold beer tins, a couple of detachments to Italy, the land of pizza and pasta and of course not forgetting the 13 years of military rations, I wasn’t quite so skinny. I was about 15 and a half stone and my waist measurement had increased from 34 to nearly 37 inches. It had been so gradual that I hadn’t noticed it happening until one day the penny finally dropped. I decided to listen to all the hints my body had been giving me and do something about it myself. My health journey started right there. Just by paying more attention to what I ate, turned my health around. It wasn’t easy at first because there is so much conflicting information out there. In this modern world of ours, it has been made easy for us to be lazy. We have fast foods to make eating easy, we have TV to make entertaining ourselves easy, we have drugs to give us a fast way to good feelings and good times and we have doctors and their drugs to fix us fast so that we have to change nothing ourselves. All this so that we can return to doing all the things that got us the doctor’s appointment in the first place. Our fast lives prevent us from taking a step back and seeing all this craziness. Listening to some Anthony Robbins tapes had changed the way I viewed new information. It was around this time that my Aunt Sue handed me a copy of The Raw Food Diet by Nature’s first Law. Even with my newly acquired inquisitive, questioning mind, I still felt that a 100% raw food diet was too extreme and impossible to do. I even thought that maybe my Aunt had gone a bit doo-lally. At this point, I would just like to say how important I think it is, to remember your own first reaction on hearing about the raw food diet, so that when you mention it to someone else, you are not shocked that they think you are strange. By the time I had finished the book, I was totally convinced that this was the way to go, and that eating raw food was the way forward. Actually doing it was another thing all together. By this time I was working in a very strenuous job as a fire fighter and just the thought of eating nothing but fruit and veg made my stomach rumble and my mates roar with laughter. What about all the crew meals I was going to have to miss out on I thought? I had already started to make my mark as the section health guru, but this move to not cook my food was a step too far in many eyes. I knew better and so I commenced, slowly at first, gradually trying to extend the period of eating nothing but fruit until midday further and further. By around eleven o’clock I would be starving and have to have something else to fill the gap. I even had a few early failed attempts at going 100% which usually resulted in a chocolate bar frenzy accompanied by hoots of laughter from my colleagues. I even had a competition with one of my crew. He reckoned that he could last longer eating nothing but biscuits than I could eating nothing but raw food. Much to my annoyance he won. I lost the bet when somebody brought out a big plate of jam doughnuts. What a cruel trick. I continued on my quest and gained confidence and knowledge by reading books on the subject. I started to notice results. My energy levels increased and my weight decreased. It was the arrival of weight loss man, and the skinny taunts came back to haunt me with a vengeance. It was my worst nightmare and even though I felt great and I knew that what I was doing was right, the weight loss didn’t do anything to convince anybody else. My boss thought I was trying to escape piece by piece! When the photographer arrived to take my photo for the 2003 fire-fighter calendar, my mates asked whether or not people would be able to see me hiding behind the hose? This was just the start. My weight gradually dropped from 15 stone to under 11 stone. My jumper started to look baggy on me and all my trousers started falling off my hips. People started to say I looked as though I was ill. When I think for a minute, when I looked healthy and everyone said I looked healthy I felt rubbish in myself and yet when everybody started saying I looked thin and unhealthy I started to feel great in myself. I was back to the weight I was when I joined the RAF and I remembered my decision to gain weight by eating for England. For thirteen years I had followed that path of eating to gain weight not realising that the weight was just rotting pizza and animal flesh in my blocked up colon. I felt as though now I had a second attempt with which to do things properly as nature intended. I knew I was on the right path when I came into contact with Karen Knowler and The Fresh Network. Something just clicked, in more ways than one. I was so sure that raw food was the way to go, that I quite literally left fire behind. I left the secure life-saving job as a fire fighter, for the insecure, paradigm-changing world of raw and living food promoting. My aim for the future is to keep following the path that continues to bring me better health and at the same time allows me to live a happy active full life. In order to do this, I believe you have to assess and reassess your situation often, keep an open mind to new information and change the things that aren’t working and try something else. I hope to help take all this information out to as many people as I can, so that they too can experience the health improvements that I have experienced myself. You can contact me by Emailing pete@fresh-network.com. All the best Pete Vincent How To Contact Pete Vincent The Fresh Network www.fresh-network.com To return to REAL LIFE RAW FOOD TESTIMONIALS main page click here. MEET SHELLY - Meet the owner of RawandJuicy.com and find out how she reversed her LGS (Leaky Gut Syndrome), Fibromyalgia, insomnia, migraines, and chronic sinusitis with a raw foods diet and other natural steps.
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