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Who Am I To Tell You About Nutrition (Part 4)

For over 10 years I worked serving fast food during the day while spending my nights learning about healthy food and cooking.  The in congruency was too much for me.  I decided to go back to school and get a degree in Nutrition, Health & Wellness.  At the completion of my degree, I wasn’t sure what came next.  I thought I wanted to become a Registered Dietician.  Along the way I realized my thoughts didn’t allign with the American Medical Association.  I became a Personal Trainer, incorporating nutrition and fitness.

During this same time frame my health required some careful consideration too.  Pre-cancer cells were found on my uterus just as my father was having a stem cell transplant to try and keep his terminal cancer at bay.  My joints and muscles were hurting.  My nails had ridges.  Fatigue was my new best friend.  And you don’t even want to know about the constipation.  My liver completely shut down during labor.  My cholesterol was too high and I was pre-diabetic.  My weight was around 170, with a lot of muscle thanks to regular heavy weight lifting.  How could I be falling apart when I was eating so “healthy”?

Something wasn’t right!

I started a new course of study based on the Weston A. Price Foundation and Sally Fallon’s Nourishing TraditionNourishing Traditionss.  If you don’t own this cookbook, go get it, it’s a life saver.  I came to realize that low/no fat dieting wasn’t helping me, it was hurting me.  It wasn’t about the amount of fat I ate, it was about the type of fats I ate and the quality of food I gave my body for fuel.  Finally, I was introduced to the Nutritional Therapy Association and the Nutritional Therapy Practitioner Degree Program.  Here I found people that really believed food can be therapy.  I found the next step I had been looking for and knew I could do what I loved!

Now, I’m putting it all together . . .

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Who Am I To Tell You About Nutrition (Part 3)

One evening I looked around my kitchen at the number of take out styrofoam containers sitting around and then took a long, hard look at myself.  Not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  Who was this person I’d become?  There might have been a smile on my face but it was a mask.  Time to get serious.

I dieted (still back to low/no fat though) and exercised for almost a month before I had the nerve to step on the scale.  Ultimately, I don’t know how heavy I really ended up – the scale that day read 182 pounds!  I joined a gym and “took it to the next level”.  Over the next couple of years I returned to 135 pounds including muscle tone and somewhat better health.

I met the man who is now my husband and went to work in his family business, McDonald’s Restaurants.  Yes, now we were the King & Queen of fast food.  I was proficient enough to become my own Owner/Operator and made a name for myself in the business.  In the beginning, with 12-14 hour days all on my feet plus continuing at the gym, I was able to gain only a bit of weight.  As the job morphed so did our eating habits and some of my weight.  But, as our relationship became more serious so did our desire to eat at home.  As I started wanting to prepare meals for him, it became obvious that I only knew my mother’s cooking.  As a single person, eating peas from the can while standing in my kitchen seemed acceptable, but not now.  I wanted more.  Note dear reader, my husband’s mother is a gourmet cook who has studied in multiple cities, so boxes and cans weren’t gonna cut it.  Here, he bought me cooking lessons, but for both of us.  Every Tuesday night we’d go learn our new techniques and spend the rest of the week honing our skills.  It seemed romantic . . .  little did either of us realize it would send me on a whole new path.

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Who Am I To Tell You About Nutrition (Part 2)

Even with dieting and exercising, my agent explained that I was “filling out too much” and needed to have surgery in order to stay in the business.  Yes, finally, in my early 20’s I was becoming a woman.  Washed up in the modeling/acting world by 24 years old.  Luckily I still had a day job.

My next big move, included a geographic change, a vocation change,and a relationship change.  I bought a 7-Eleven Store.  I was now the Queen of junk food.  Having been on a low/no fat diet for quite a while, my first taste of squirty nacho-cheese-type sauce with “chili” on chips made me sick for three days.  Slowly though, my body adapted and I could eat an old out-of-code corn dog washed down with beer with the best of ’em.  As my six plus year relationship came to an end, I found solace in chicken fried steak and gravy.  I knew how every diner in the area prepared theirs.  I might have been a connoisseur?  I contemplated that gravy might be a beverage?

It probably doesn’t need to be said, but my weight hit a new high and my health hit a new low.  Again, full disclosure, I’m including a picture from this time period.  I know this wasn’t me at my heaviest, but like many people uncomfortable with their size, I wasn’t a big fan of having my picture taken.

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Who Am I To Tell You About Nutrition (Part I)

The question of my background always comes up when I tell people I’m a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.  So, let’s go there.  First, know that I grew up in an interesting family.  My father weighed well over 300 pounds at points in my youth.  How he got there on the food my mother made is questionable to this day.  Yes, my mother can not cook.  If it didn’t come in a box or can – look out!  To this day we reminisce about the now infamous “Hawaiian Delight” – ground Spam balls baked with canned pineapple.  Old friends still joke about our family’s ability to make a meal out of Rice-A-Roni and ground hamburger.  I was the only person at college that thought the dorm food was a gourmet meal.  Thanks to a position with the school’s Dance Company, regular exercise, and a pretty small stomach (yours would be too after 18 years of bad food), I didn’t gain the freshman fifteen and maintained 119 pounds.

Needless to say, my knowledge base regarding nutrition was nil.  By my second year of college I was living in my own apartment and had to start creating my own meals.  I remember calling my mom to get the recipe for her weekly special (when my dad was bowling) – creamed tuna on toast.  Yep, it wasn’t long before the weight started coming on and my health started declining.  This being the late ’80’s, “healthy” was all about juicing; so, I bought myself a juicer and learned about fasting.  Weight and health both improved, in a fashion.

After college, the early ’90’s brought “healthy” being low/no fat diets.  I was right on board.  Yes, I did get thin.  Thin enough to get extra work as a model/actress.  I carried a dial on my key chain and logged every bite of fat I ate.  I still juiced.  In fact, every time I left my then-boyfriend I’d show up at my friends house with my dog on a leash and my juicer under my arm – the only things I needed.  For full disclosure, I found a picture from this time frame – it’s a bit grainy since it’s an old slide, but it gives you an idea.  Mostly skin and bones, no muscle or tone, weight about 130 pounds.

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Liver/Gallbladder Cleanse – I Was an Attack Waiting to Happen!

Liver/Gallbladder Cleanse

Cleansing the liver and gallbladder from gallstones is one of the most powerful approaches to improving your health.  It is simple to do, taking only a week, with very little disruption of your regular schedule.  I gave it a try for the first time last month.  The plan involves drinking 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in one cup of water, four times a day for six days.  On the sixth day I had a colon hydrotherapy treatment.  Then nothing but water after 2 p.m.  In the evening, at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. I drank Epsom salt in water – not all that tasty, but I’ve had worse.  Next an olive oil/grapefruit juice mix at 10 p.m. and laying down immediately.  Lying there perfectly still for 20 minutes without speaking was a great moment for meditation. Sleep.  Back to the Epsom salt drink at 6 a.m. & 8 a.m.  Fresh pressed fruit juice at 10 a.m., fresh fruit at 10:30 a.m. and light lunch at 11:30 a.m.

Liver/Gallbladder Results

The results were amazing!!!!!  I quit counting at 282 pea-size or bigger stones.  I didn’t even count the little ones – they would have been in the thousands.  Most of the gallstones were pea green and float because they contain bile compounds.  Yeah, I looked and touched.  The stones were soft as putty, thanks to the action of the apple cider vinegar.  Which is why there was no discomfort in passing them.  My liver began to function more efficiently, my energy was increased, and my clarity of mind was improved considerably.  But I soon learned that all the stones were not removed in one cleanse.  Stones from the rear of the liver will travel “forward” toward the two main bile ducts exiting the liver, so I waited until now to go another round.

The results continue to be amazing!!!!  There were fewer gallstones but some were as much as one inch in diameter.  There were more tan and white stones which sink.  These are calcified gallstones that were released from the gallbladder and contain heavier toxic substances.  Incredibly the liver’s self-repair and cleansing responses increased significantly, adding a great deal of effectiveness to this very important organ.  I can’t believe how amazing I feel now.  It’s like a whole new me has returned.  I’ve got tons more energy, a spring in my step, better mental acuity, and a calmer demeanor.

Maybe I’ll do another one after the first of the year.  Now that I’ve started cleansing my liver and gallbladder, I’d like to keep going until no stones come out.

UPDATE: To help people with cleansing their beets I’ve produced a couple videos with recipes.  Take a look here.

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