I don't know if you remember, but a couple of months ago I wrote a blog about acceptance, accepting the things that you feel are negative about you or your life, just accepting them as they are in order to feel better about them - because feeling better about them causes positive change. I wrote about the things that I perceive as negative within me, and having slowly gained around 10kg over the previous 10 years was one of those things.
Shortly after I wrote that blog my business mentor contacted me saying that another of her customers, JJ Vigin, was about to launch her new book and she wanted to know if I wanted a free copy of it. She wanted to get it into the hands of business women who were influential.
I said yes, of course. I pre-ordered the book and it turned up on Christmas Eve. I felt the compulsion to read it right away and it blew me away.
In this book JJ explains how the majority of us eat inflammatory foods, how the body processes these foods that are inflammatory, how the immune system gets involved causing us to crave more of them, and what they do to our bodies.
As it was Christmas, and I was eating many of these inflammatory foods and would be over the next few days, I was given a window of awareness into my body. Every day I knew when I was eating these foods and now that I knew what they were doing to my body I could feel it, witnessing it first hand. I had bloating, I had intestinal discomfort, I had wind, I felt uncomfortable.
So as soon as January 1st came around I decided that I was going to eliminate all of these inflammatory foods, as JJ explains.
I eliminated: Gluten (in fact all grains except for brown rice), Dairy, Eggs, Sugar (only having natural sugars from fruit and honey), Soy (except for fermented soy in Miso), Peanuts and Corn.
I had already eliminated bad fats, meaning anything that isn't Olive Oil (cold only), Coconut Oil (cold or heated), Sesame Oil (cold or heated), Avocado & Animal fats.
I started to feel better instantly. My bloating disappeared. My intestinal discomfort disappeared. My wind was greatly reduced. I felt clearer in my mind. My weight started dropping quickly.
I was actually eating more than I used to with this way of eating. The calorie model just didn't work for me, no matter how few calories I had and however much exercise I did, the weight still slowly crept up instead of down. It didn't make sense while I was believing this calorie model. But as JJ says in her book, our bodies are not an engine, they are a chemistry lab. What we eat is far more important than how much we eat and much of what we have been taught about healthy food is just plain wrong.
Just 1 week into eating this way and realising that we have all been duped into believing marketing of foods as real science, I came across a message from a heart surgeon. He felt that he had to come clean, that what we have all been told about fat and cholestorol causing heart attacks and stroke is just plain incorrect.
He explains that INFLAMMATORY foods are the cause of heart attacks and stroke, along with many other of the big diseases that we have around now. The reaction that our immune system has to them causes damage to the inside of our arteries - like they have been scoured and scrubbed, they are inflamed and red raw. Then the fat or cholestorol can get caught on these ragged arteries causing the heart attacks and strokes. It's not the fat that causes it, in fact good fats are very good for us, as long as we take care of our arteries by not eating inflammatory foods.
Next I heard that someone had cured their Altzheimers disease by eating an imflammatory-free diet and adding plenty of coconut oil to their diet.
All of this information was coming to me at once and I was shocked at how we have all been misled by 'science' performed by people paid by those producing the products with these foods in them.
I now know how to easily lose the extra weight I had, without having to workout for long periods of time (that's another fallacy, working out for longer than 15 minutes is ageing and not good for us, short periods of very intense exercise is best and generally moving more the rest of the time, eg. moderate walking, swimming etc.) and without having to starve myself and feel hungry.
I easily dropped 4kg in 4 weeks, for the last week I have kept the at exactly the same weight every day. Now I know how I lose weight and how I maintain my weight easily. From now on I am going to lose 1kg of weight each week and remain steady at the weekends until the extra 5kg has gone.
I had some dairy by mistake one day, some whey protein was in a product that I ate. As soon as it was in my mouth my tongue tingled, the tingling spread to my lips and then whole face, then down my legs. My face started to swell and my throat started to swell. Luckily the allergic reaction stopped there and reversed. I felt nauseous, I felt paranoid, I felt down, I felt like there was something wrong, those feelings lasted 24 hours and were a direct result of the dairy. It reminded me of when I had eaten some cheese on a sandwich years ago and had had the same allergic reaction. Milk and yoghurt had always made me feel low and phlegmy, so I have avoided them for years. But I still had cheese occasionally. I usually ate cheese on crackers with wine. I had often wondered why sometimes I felt fine the next morning after sharing a bottle of wine, and sometimes I felt terrible - after the same amount and the same type of wine. There was my answer - it was the cheese I was feeling, the nausea and feeling horrible after the evenings I had eaten cheese with the wine.
I also learned that I am highly sensitive to raw garlic. It causes instant headaches when I have it. I learned that raw garlic has a chemical that is identican to the 'headache' chemical that the brain produces to give you the headache feeling! Again, raw garlic was one of those foods that I used to have when drinking wine, I would rub it on some toasted sourdough with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil as a snack. Then I would wonder why the wine had given me a headache the next day!
I am so happy and grateful that the universe showed me how to understand my body, it has changed my life!
I would like to share this with you so that you can change your life too.
Shortly after I wrote that blog my business mentor contacted me saying that another of her customers, JJ Vigin, was about to launch her new book and she wanted to know if I wanted a free copy of it. She wanted to get it into the hands of business women who were influential.
I said yes, of course. I pre-ordered the book and it turned up on Christmas Eve. I felt the compulsion to read it right away and it blew me away.
In this book JJ explains how the majority of us eat inflammatory foods, how the body processes these foods that are inflammatory, how the immune system gets involved causing us to crave more of them, and what they do to our bodies.
As it was Christmas, and I was eating many of these inflammatory foods and would be over the next few days, I was given a window of awareness into my body. Every day I knew when I was eating these foods and now that I knew what they were doing to my body I could feel it, witnessing it first hand. I had bloating, I had intestinal discomfort, I had wind, I felt uncomfortable.
So as soon as January 1st came around I decided that I was going to eliminate all of these inflammatory foods, as JJ explains.
I eliminated: Gluten (in fact all grains except for brown rice), Dairy, Eggs, Sugar (only having natural sugars from fruit and honey), Soy (except for fermented soy in Miso), Peanuts and Corn.
I had already eliminated bad fats, meaning anything that isn't Olive Oil (cold only), Coconut Oil (cold or heated), Sesame Oil (cold or heated), Avocado & Animal fats.
I started to feel better instantly. My bloating disappeared. My intestinal discomfort disappeared. My wind was greatly reduced. I felt clearer in my mind. My weight started dropping quickly.
I was actually eating more than I used to with this way of eating. The calorie model just didn't work for me, no matter how few calories I had and however much exercise I did, the weight still slowly crept up instead of down. It didn't make sense while I was believing this calorie model. But as JJ says in her book, our bodies are not an engine, they are a chemistry lab. What we eat is far more important than how much we eat and much of what we have been taught about healthy food is just plain wrong.
Just 1 week into eating this way and realising that we have all been duped into believing marketing of foods as real science, I came across a message from a heart surgeon. He felt that he had to come clean, that what we have all been told about fat and cholestorol causing heart attacks and stroke is just plain incorrect.
He explains that INFLAMMATORY foods are the cause of heart attacks and stroke, along with many other of the big diseases that we have around now. The reaction that our immune system has to them causes damage to the inside of our arteries - like they have been scoured and scrubbed, they are inflamed and red raw. Then the fat or cholestorol can get caught on these ragged arteries causing the heart attacks and strokes. It's not the fat that causes it, in fact good fats are very good for us, as long as we take care of our arteries by not eating inflammatory foods.
Next I heard that someone had cured their Altzheimers disease by eating an imflammatory-free diet and adding plenty of coconut oil to their diet.
All of this information was coming to me at once and I was shocked at how we have all been misled by 'science' performed by people paid by those producing the products with these foods in them.
I now know how to easily lose the extra weight I had, without having to workout for long periods of time (that's another fallacy, working out for longer than 15 minutes is ageing and not good for us, short periods of very intense exercise is best and generally moving more the rest of the time, eg. moderate walking, swimming etc.) and without having to starve myself and feel hungry.
I easily dropped 4kg in 4 weeks, for the last week I have kept the at exactly the same weight every day. Now I know how I lose weight and how I maintain my weight easily. From now on I am going to lose 1kg of weight each week and remain steady at the weekends until the extra 5kg has gone.
I had some dairy by mistake one day, some whey protein was in a product that I ate. As soon as it was in my mouth my tongue tingled, the tingling spread to my lips and then whole face, then down my legs. My face started to swell and my throat started to swell. Luckily the allergic reaction stopped there and reversed. I felt nauseous, I felt paranoid, I felt down, I felt like there was something wrong, those feelings lasted 24 hours and were a direct result of the dairy. It reminded me of when I had eaten some cheese on a sandwich years ago and had had the same allergic reaction. Milk and yoghurt had always made me feel low and phlegmy, so I have avoided them for years. But I still had cheese occasionally. I usually ate cheese on crackers with wine. I had often wondered why sometimes I felt fine the next morning after sharing a bottle of wine, and sometimes I felt terrible - after the same amount and the same type of wine. There was my answer - it was the cheese I was feeling, the nausea and feeling horrible after the evenings I had eaten cheese with the wine.
I also learned that I am highly sensitive to raw garlic. It causes instant headaches when I have it. I learned that raw garlic has a chemical that is identican to the 'headache' chemical that the brain produces to give you the headache feeling! Again, raw garlic was one of those foods that I used to have when drinking wine, I would rub it on some toasted sourdough with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil as a snack. Then I would wonder why the wine had given me a headache the next day!
I am so happy and grateful that the universe showed me how to understand my body, it has changed my life!
I would like to share this with you so that you can change your life too.
So I have a challenge for you if you choose to accept it!
Do you want to be in control of your weight easily in this same way?
Do you want to learn how to really care for your health?
As synchronicity would have it, the company whose products I love, and whose philosophy I love, have just launched a new product to help you to get on track as I have.
Their Vitality Challenge is a 10 day challenge, with all the information and products that you need to follow this 10 day detox program.
I would highly recommend purchasing JJ Virgin's book The Virgin Diet, it's available by clicking here. This will teach you about what these foods that you might have believed were healthy are actually doing to your body and how to eliminate them and reintroducce them in a way that allows you to listen to your unique body chemistry and what it is telling you, so that you will know exactly what your body can tolerate and what it can't.
Then I would recommend purchasing the Vitality Challenge pack, to give your body an extra detox to get your started. It also gives you access to the full products for the health maintenance plan available at a reduced price.
There are 3 products in this pack that I eat every day and have done for over 2 years.
InLiven - is a probiotic with a difference. It is made by first juicing grasses, seeds and vegetables to feed the cultures (simlar products that do not use the juicing method can cause wind and bloating), then it is dried and fermented to activate the cultures. It delivers a mighty dose of probiotics in a form that is readily available to the body. It is, in my opinion, the best probiotic in the world.
DeepGreen - is a highly alkalising blend of superfoods that your body will love you for. When most people start to take this product it tastes like pond scum to them, myself included when I first started. But this is just the body's taste bud reaction to a foodstuff that is highly detoxifying. Once your body is detoxed by it, it starts to taste good, it might take you some time, but you will begin to like the taste. It begins to taste soft and nourishing, like a cucumber does to most people.
BerryRadical - is an antioxidant formula and you want even better news? You can make it into a hot chocolate drink by mixing it with a little raw honey and pouring hot water on, then adding a little coconut cream to it. It's delicious and it satisfies those chocolate cravings, whilst delivering a huge dose of antioxidants that will deliver the equivalent of 8 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.
What's even better about this company that I adore is that they are committed to making products that are 100% active ingredients, meaning no water, no fillers, no preservatives, no anything that isn't 100% good for you. I love all of their products and not only use these 3 superfood products every day, I also use their toothpaste, body wash, hand wash, whole facial range, dishwashing liquid, cosmetics, body scrub, natural perfumes, body moisturiser,... almost everything that they produce. It's top quality and it has eliminated my skin sensitivities, psoriasis and excema that used to plague me even with all the other supposedly natural organic products out there.
Are you ready for the challenge?
Click here to read more about it
JJ Virgin's book will tell you all about what you should and shouldn't be eating and she also offers some great recipes to help you switch over from your old foods.
If you would like to join my support group for recipe ideas, support while you are going through this challenge and support for any challenges that you might face along the way, leave a comment after this or get in touch with me on facebook and I will add you to it!
Here's to our health!
Do you want to be in control of your weight easily in this same way?
Do you want to learn how to really care for your health?
As synchronicity would have it, the company whose products I love, and whose philosophy I love, have just launched a new product to help you to get on track as I have.
Their Vitality Challenge is a 10 day challenge, with all the information and products that you need to follow this 10 day detox program.
I would highly recommend purchasing JJ Virgin's book The Virgin Diet, it's available by clicking here. This will teach you about what these foods that you might have believed were healthy are actually doing to your body and how to eliminate them and reintroducce them in a way that allows you to listen to your unique body chemistry and what it is telling you, so that you will know exactly what your body can tolerate and what it can't.
Then I would recommend purchasing the Vitality Challenge pack, to give your body an extra detox to get your started. It also gives you access to the full products for the health maintenance plan available at a reduced price.
There are 3 products in this pack that I eat every day and have done for over 2 years.
InLiven - is a probiotic with a difference. It is made by first juicing grasses, seeds and vegetables to feed the cultures (simlar products that do not use the juicing method can cause wind and bloating), then it is dried and fermented to activate the cultures. It delivers a mighty dose of probiotics in a form that is readily available to the body. It is, in my opinion, the best probiotic in the world.
DeepGreen - is a highly alkalising blend of superfoods that your body will love you for. When most people start to take this product it tastes like pond scum to them, myself included when I first started. But this is just the body's taste bud reaction to a foodstuff that is highly detoxifying. Once your body is detoxed by it, it starts to taste good, it might take you some time, but you will begin to like the taste. It begins to taste soft and nourishing, like a cucumber does to most people.
BerryRadical - is an antioxidant formula and you want even better news? You can make it into a hot chocolate drink by mixing it with a little raw honey and pouring hot water on, then adding a little coconut cream to it. It's delicious and it satisfies those chocolate cravings, whilst delivering a huge dose of antioxidants that will deliver the equivalent of 8 servings of fruits and vegetables each day.
What's even better about this company that I adore is that they are committed to making products that are 100% active ingredients, meaning no water, no fillers, no preservatives, no anything that isn't 100% good for you. I love all of their products and not only use these 3 superfood products every day, I also use their toothpaste, body wash, hand wash, whole facial range, dishwashing liquid, cosmetics, body scrub, natural perfumes, body moisturiser,... almost everything that they produce. It's top quality and it has eliminated my skin sensitivities, psoriasis and excema that used to plague me even with all the other supposedly natural organic products out there.
Are you ready for the challenge?
Click here to read more about it
JJ Virgin's book will tell you all about what you should and shouldn't be eating and she also offers some great recipes to help you switch over from your old foods.
If you would like to join my support group for recipe ideas, support while you are going through this challenge and support for any challenges that you might face along the way, leave a comment after this or get in touch with me on facebook and I will add you to it!
Here's to our health!
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