Changing your diet is hard, right? What will you do when your friends want to eat at restaurants....and split dessert? It's HARD!
You've struggled with your weight and health, but then again, so has your family. It's genetic. It's not your fault and even if you lose a few pounds it probably won't last, right?
It doesn't have to be this way. Can I tell you a story?
My dad died from skin cancer. That puts me in a high risk category. I'm female, light-haired and light-skinned - those factors put me in the highest risk category. At age 38, I was diagnosed with a tumor.
At the time I was seriously depressed (all the therapists I visited wanted me to be on antidepressants), weighed 155 (I'm 5'1") and had arthritis. In fact, my oncologist ordered a full spinal MRI and when I went to get the results, she FREAKED OUT because she thought I had ankylosing spondylitis - a genetic disease which causes your spine to fuse together into one piece.
Turns out I don't have the genetic markers, but I had enough calcium deposits on my spine to make her believe that's what was happening!
I knew I had to make changes. I was embarrassed about my weight but that seemed like the right place to start. My motivation was very high, so considering whether it would be easy or hard never entered my mind. I had been so miserable for so long...and one day I realized that I didn't want to spend each day for the next 50 years crying about my miserable life. I could have chosen to not change, but I wanted to have my life so much, that it wasn't really an option. When you have clear motivation, and it's something that truly touches your heart, change is easy. When your need comes from deep inside of you - not what someone else is telling you - commitment comes naturally because you are making choices that serve your best interest.
I hate to struggle. I've spent years struggling, so instead I wondered what this would be like if it was easy? That small question made me approach the change in an entirely new way. What if you could be Columbo or Columbus and discover a new way of life? Simply discover rather than change.
Over the years I've read a lot of scientific proof and anecdotal stories about people reversing all kind of health issues - even terminal or undiagnosable ones. Nowadays there are so many documentaries about these that it seems like anything is curable through food and lifestyle. I've personally met people who have changed diabetes, cancer, MS, fibromyalgia, migraines and heart disease. Last year I spoke at an event with T. Colin Campbell - author of the China Study, which irrefutably proves that cancer genes can be turned on and off through dietary choices.
When you approach change with the idea that it will be easy, you begin to notice all the ways in which it IS easy.
Traditional nutritionists and dieticians might tell you "don't eat this, give up that." But you already know that you should not eat so much candy/cake/bread and eat more vegetables and fruit. Doesn't make you do it, right? Or maybe you DO eat more of what you should....for a while. Until that inner child gets sick of it and rebels. And when he/she does...it's with the whole pint of ice cream or the whole bag of cookies!
When you focus on what to ADD to your diet rather than what to leave out, you feel free to make choices! You feel abundant! Suddenly when you go to a restaurant with friends, you notice a lot of healthy dishes on the menu. After a while the other food doesn't even interest you.
This is the approach I've used for seven years now. I released the extra 55 pounds, the tumor, the depression and the anger which was underneath. Noticing what I can have has empowered me to travel the world and always have good food choices available.
So, if you're afraid that dietary changes will be restrictive and hard; afraid that it'll kill your social life; if you feel like a victim of genetics...know that these are merely ideas. Believing them has kept you where you are. What if you simply tried believing something else...just for a day? What would it feel like to believe that changing your diet could be easy and that you could have greater health?
You've struggled with your weight and health, but then again, so has your family. It's genetic. It's not your fault and even if you lose a few pounds it probably won't last, right?
It doesn't have to be this way. Can I tell you a story?
My dad died from skin cancer. That puts me in a high risk category. I'm female, light-haired and light-skinned - those factors put me in the highest risk category. At age 38, I was diagnosed with a tumor.
At the time I was seriously depressed (all the therapists I visited wanted me to be on antidepressants), weighed 155 (I'm 5'1") and had arthritis. In fact, my oncologist ordered a full spinal MRI and when I went to get the results, she FREAKED OUT because she thought I had ankylosing spondylitis - a genetic disease which causes your spine to fuse together into one piece.
Turns out I don't have the genetic markers, but I had enough calcium deposits on my spine to make her believe that's what was happening!
I knew I had to make changes. I was embarrassed about my weight but that seemed like the right place to start. My motivation was very high, so considering whether it would be easy or hard never entered my mind. I had been so miserable for so long...and one day I realized that I didn't want to spend each day for the next 50 years crying about my miserable life. I could have chosen to not change, but I wanted to have my life so much, that it wasn't really an option. When you have clear motivation, and it's something that truly touches your heart, change is easy. When your need comes from deep inside of you - not what someone else is telling you - commitment comes naturally because you are making choices that serve your best interest.
I hate to struggle. I've spent years struggling, so instead I wondered what this would be like if it was easy? That small question made me approach the change in an entirely new way. What if you could be Columbo or Columbus and discover a new way of life? Simply discover rather than change.
Over the years I've read a lot of scientific proof and anecdotal stories about people reversing all kind of health issues - even terminal or undiagnosable ones. Nowadays there are so many documentaries about these that it seems like anything is curable through food and lifestyle. I've personally met people who have changed diabetes, cancer, MS, fibromyalgia, migraines and heart disease. Last year I spoke at an event with T. Colin Campbell - author of the China Study, which irrefutably proves that cancer genes can be turned on and off through dietary choices.
When you approach change with the idea that it will be easy, you begin to notice all the ways in which it IS easy.
Traditional nutritionists and dieticians might tell you "don't eat this, give up that." But you already know that you should not eat so much candy/cake/bread and eat more vegetables and fruit. Doesn't make you do it, right? Or maybe you DO eat more of what you should....for a while. Until that inner child gets sick of it and rebels. And when he/she does...it's with the whole pint of ice cream or the whole bag of cookies!
When you focus on what to ADD to your diet rather than what to leave out, you feel free to make choices! You feel abundant! Suddenly when you go to a restaurant with friends, you notice a lot of healthy dishes on the menu. After a while the other food doesn't even interest you.
This is the approach I've used for seven years now. I released the extra 55 pounds, the tumor, the depression and the anger which was underneath. Noticing what I can have has empowered me to travel the world and always have good food choices available.
So, if you're afraid that dietary changes will be restrictive and hard; afraid that it'll kill your social life; if you feel like a victim of genetics...know that these are merely ideas. Believing them has kept you where you are. What if you simply tried believing something else...just for a day? What would it feel like to believe that changing your diet could be easy and that you could have greater health?
