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10 tips to Living a healthy Lifestyle 1.        Exercise consistently: Find one that you love and do it consistently. Just move, get out in nature hike, bike ride, dance! 2.        Don’t Diet: They don’t work, Live a healthy Life style! Diets promote eating disorders and binge eating, and worst metabolic damage. Its yo-yo life styles. Look at Oprah, When has one truly been sustainable. 3.        What we eat matters! Greasy, salty, sugary, chemically made highly proceeded food has no nutritional value.  This goes back to eating to live or living to eat.  Let’s go back to the basics  Health organic whole foods 4.        We all fail, We all fail.. Let go of being perfect! Enjoy life…. 5.        Water.. Water.. Water.. Especially first thing in the morning we think we are starving, uh no we are thirsty usually.. d...

It’s time to talk about diets in America. The fact is they are set up for you to fail. The diet industry is all about making money. They create these diets knowing you will eventually fall back to your old behaviors and lifestyle; regaining the weight you lost, plus some. Then, you will look for another diet or solution only to continue on the journey of insanity of the yo-yo world of dieting. I know this happens, because I used to live this life. I have tried vegan, raw, vegetarian, paleo, South Beach, Atkins, and ketogenic diet, to name a few. I have done countless detoxes, which can also be a form of dieting. I am a national fitness competitor and the ultimate diets I suffered from were anorexia and bulimia. Needless to say, I have tried them all. I can tell you, they don’t work. Another form of an eating disorder is over exercising. I have suffered from this as well. It all stemmed from trying to heal myself from the outside in. After placing 7 th  nationally, I was at the ...

It’s time to talk about diets in America. The fact is they are set up for you to fail. The diet industry is all about making money. They create these diets knowing you will eventually fall back to your old behaviors and lifestyle; regaining the weight you lost, plus some. Then, you will look for another diet or solution only to continue on the journey of insanity of the yo-yo world of dieting. I know this happens, because I used to live this life. I have tried vegan, raw, vegetarian, paleo, South Beach, Atkins, and ketogenic diet, to name a few. I have done countless detoxes, which can also be a form of dieting. I am a national fitness competitor and the ultimate diets I suffered from were anorexia and bulimia. Needless to say, I have tried them all. I can tell you, they don’t work. Another form of an eating disorder is over exercising. I have suffered from this as well. It all stemmed from trying to heal myself from the outside in. After placing 7 th nationally, I was at the low...

Top 12 things you should avoid 1.   Gluten 2.   GMO’s 3.   Artificial Sweeteners 4.   Added Sugar 5.   Alcohol 6.   Chlorine 7.   Pesticides 8.   Fungicides 9.   Chemical Cleaners 10.              Processed Foods 11.              Sodas 12.              Soy

Why do we have digestive issues??? Our healthy bacterium has been compromised due to: 1. Our environment 2. The food we eat and drink 3. The water we drink 4. The medication we have taken or are currently taking 5. Lack of cooking home cooked food A healthy bacterium is made up of about 85% healthy bacteria and 15% bad bacteria. The healthy bacteria surrounds and kills the unhealthy bacteria. When our body is unbalanced, the unhealthy bacteria takes over and causes digestive issues such as bloating, gas, constipation, and IBS. About 95% of people have an unbalance in their gut bacteria and are feeding the bad bacteria. The bad bacteria begins to take over the gut and the good bacteria is starving to survive.  What kills and feeds unhealthy bacteria??? 1. Antibiotics 2. Sugar/ simple carbohydrates 3. All artificial sweeteners (chewing gum) 4. Processed foods (anything packaged or canned, soda) To rebuild the healthy bacteria in your m...

Going back to your Roots #1 Nutrition Truth: "The more we eat like our ancestors, the better: fresh, whole foods that are locally and sustainable raised and minimally processed or not processed at all. These are the types of foods that your genes and biochemistry are adapted to and that will provide you with the ability to reverse and prevent most disease." -  Dr. Mercola I tell my clients all the time to "eat from the earth."  My clients ask me almost daily what I eat, and I tell them I eat from the earth.  For many years, I subscribed to the raw food/vegan way of life, and I still I support that community, but I no longer label myself as such.  Today, I don't belong to a box: I found boxes to be to restricting. Over time, I found that I was in a food community because my ego liked the label, not because that's what I believed in or because it was the most nutritious or what was best for my body. I struggled with leaving raw food/vegan-ism after ye...

The Truth When did it become wrong to tell people the truth?  Most of the time people don’t want to hear the truth and they definitely don’t want to do the work to change their digestive system.  As a society, we have been trained to respond this way: you go to the doctors, they give you a pill, and it masks the problem.  It typically will not solve the problem and it comes with a list of side effects, but it does give you instant relief. People used to use herbal remedies which, believe it or not, are very effective and potent.  Unfortunately, most people under estimate herbs and their effectiveness. A lot of clients come to me totally exhausted, feeling defeated and discouraged with typical western medicine.  Others simply have difficultly talking about their digestive issues, an emotional and psychological problem that has effected thousands of people in our society.  While not something most people are comfortable discussing, “Fecal matter...