Life Begins With Food - how to lose weight fast

Let me tell you a little about myself. 28 years ago I was 5 months pregnant with my son, Chris. It was a few days after Christmas, December 28th to be exact. It was cold with a snow covered ground. Early that morning at 6:56 am, I woke up to the cat meowing fearlessly at the ceiling and the sound of my mother’s voice calling me from the same ceiling the cat was so aggressively trying to reach. I knew at that moment that my mother died. I woke my husband up and told him that mom just died. Of course he thought I was just dreaming and to go back to sleep. But a few seconds later, at 7:02 am, the phone rang and the fear overtook me as I knew of the impending news. It was my father calling me frantic as he stated “I can’t get your mother to breathe”. I dropped the phone and ran, 5 months pregnant down the street, in the freezing cold and snow to her house 2 acres away. When I got to her bedroom I was devastated beyond any words. She was not moving and every vain in her face was protruding and blue. I mean smurf blue and I knew she was gone. My mom died just when I needed her most, as I was about to have a baby. We found out that she had a heart attack, she just turned 49 years old the month before. How could this happen at such a young age?   Well, my mom was about 100 pounds overweight and ate the Standard American Diet (SAD Diet), that’s how.  She did have high blood pressure but took medicine and had regular blood work and doctors’ appointments for the hypertension and just plain wellness visits. Obviously the doctor visits and medication wasn’t enough to prevent, help, or resolve her problems. It was just a bandage that covered up her symptoms but never got to the root cause of her problem, Hence, the heart failure. What a shame, what a failure of modern medicine I thought. 

 Let me back up a little. A few years before her fatal attack she had been having chest pains. So bad that she would cry. She went to the emergency room on two separate occasions and both times they sent her home, telling her it was just gas. The second time, I went with her to the emergency room and they didn’t even do an EKG or blood work, just took her vitals gave her a chalky substance to drink, told her it was gas and sent her home again. They made her feel like she was just being silly so she didn’t want to go back anymore and that’s why it killed her the very next time she had the same exact pains, which was within a month of her last visit to the ER. The difference this time was that she decided to go to sleep with the pains instead of staying awake, that’s when she died.  Could there have been anything she could have done to prevent or reverse it?  Why was getting to a normal weight so hard for her?  If she was going to the doctors on a regular basis and taking a medication, as prescribed, why did this happen to her and ultimately me because I suffered immensely from the loss of my wonderful, beautiful mother. I lost a grandmother to my unborn son, and that special person to share in all my joys and sadness through the years. That began my long journey into natural health, research, school and investigative work into the truth about health and wellness. And YES there was many things my dear mom could have done to reverse her heart problem and weight herself.   

Shortly after my mom passed, I gave birth to my son and shortly after that I began looking into natural self-health help (ha-ha say that three times quick) and came upon The Natural School of Healing with the works and teachings of Dr. John Christopher, famous healer of herbal medicine. I signed up and took that course and in about 2 years became an herbalist too. Now maybe I had the tools to get to the root cause of all health conditions. We were taught about food and nutrition, but like the majority of people I kinda skipped over and ignored that portion of my training simple because...well, I didn’t want to give up my SAD Diet. Who wants to hear bad news about their bad habits?   Plus, I was still young and smart but naive about the true cause of disease. I didn’t have all the pieces to the puzzle yet. I started using herbal medicine for any sickness, first aid and ailments any of my family had for many years with great success. I even had an herbal store called The Herb Barn for a number of years. Did I help people?  You bet, but I couldn’t not get their bodies to cure or even halt everything. Herbal medicine works great on acute conditions but not so well on chronic conditions. I had to do more digging.  I tried fasting, with no success (long term) on weight loss or chronic conditions. I tried for a full year juicing. I juiced 120 ounces a day of the most wonderful and organic greens. I drank all of that every day for a year. It wasn’t the answer to weight loss or chronic conditions either. I started doing the “Eat for your Blood Type” for a year with no truer success as the rest of the things I tried. I tried mega Herbal, vitamin and minerals supplements for a full year. I was taking 150 pills a day for a year and still I couldn’t lose and maintain weight loss or get rid of chronic conditions.    I joined a gym for 2 years and went every day for 2 hrs. and worked everything from the treadmill to weights. What I did learn from the  gym is that YOU CANT OUT EXERCISE A BAD DIET. I tried many other things too all for at least a year each. I believed in giving everything a fair shake for at least a full year. I even tried every one of these things together for at least a year and ....nope nothing substantial. 

  Next year I’ll be 49 yrs. old, the same age my mom was when she died. I had a family member remind me about my mother passing away. I was silent. Were they being malicious and cruel? It sounded to me like judgement. But ultimately that statement woke me up. Everything from that point on changed my life. My whole life I researched, went to school, did my own trials on myself and incorporated other people too, and all the investigative work didn’t have me any closer to the solution. I came to realize that this family member was being concerned not judge-mental. For that, I thanked them, as this forced me, with urgency to find the last puzzle piece that I always knew but always ignored. It wasn’t long, oh maybe a week later, I came across a book named “The China Study” by Colin Campbell and it changed everything. The China Study examines the link between the consumption of animal products (including dairy) and chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and bowl cancer.   The authors conclude that people who eat a predominantly whole-food, plant based diet avoiding animal products as a main source of nutrition, including beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydrates will escape, reduce, or reverse the development of numerous diseases. They write that "eating foods that contain any cholesterol above 0 mg is unhealthy".  The book recommends sunshine exposure or dietary supplements to maintain adequate levels of vitamin D3 and supplements of vitamin B12 in case of complete avoidance of animal products.  It criticizes low carb diets, such as the Atkins diet, which include restrictions on the percentage of calories derived from carbohydrates. I was intrigued and began more research which led me to Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn.  Both have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.

 I started following his protocol for reversing heart disease and chronic conditions and guess what?  Weight started pouring off me effortlessly. Omg!  Did I finally have the whole answer?  I went from 259 lbs. to 122 lbs. in 9 months with no plateaus and no exercise. Amazing!  And my body was reversing any genes that were going to express heart disease, chronic disease including cancer. I no longer had to worry about that. The herbal medicine, juicing, fasting, different diets, mega vitamin and mineral therapies do work but not on their own. They can only work in a clean body. The supplements and juice can’t get through all the sludge (SAD Diet) it was the food. The food had to come first and now everything I had tried before would work amazingly better. That’s when I learned that LIFE BEGINS WITH FOOD. Let me also add that during this quest of decades, my dad began having heart trouble actually right about 5 1/2 yrs. after my mother passed. A heart attack. Both parents, my future looked grim. My dad suffered until his death in March of 2017 with 5 heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, stents, defibrillator, diabetes, not being able to breath, kidney disease and finally organ failure. Oh and the medications and doctor visits were not for the faint of heart. This was all crazy to me and now I had to help other people and tell them of all my hard work and experiences for decades. I wanted to shout from the tallest mountain that "IT"S THE FOOD". The food is doing all of this to you and your loved ones. LIFE TRULY BEGINS WITH FOOD. I have not a single doubt and now you will know and be able to change your so called “destiny”. Your genes are not going to dictate your family history anymore. Your family members all have the same diseases simple because they all do and have the same lifestyles, because you were all raised the same way with all the same bad habits.  Your gun is loaded but you’re not going to pull the trigger anymore. You can become healthy, loose that extra weight, have tremendous energy and get rid or arrest your acute and chronic health conditions...all with food.  

After 9 months and I lost all the weight, I started incorporating an exercise program too. I just started plain walking and/or marching around the house. I now take between 50,000 -70,000 steps a day, that’s the equivalent of 15-20 miles a day. Sometimes I do bicycling or rebounding (mini trampoline), whatever I can get in. JUST MOVE. You can have a healthier, leaner life that starts with food. Simple, clean food.

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