How exciting, you have focused and implemented and as a result you have busted out of your cocoon.  Clothes are fitting, people are noticing and the compliments are flying.  You feel invincible, you have done the impossible and now you can venture out and create your dream life.

This my friend, is the result of true transformation.  However, remember 95% of people who lose weight regain it plus more!  The reason I became a Holistic Health Expert is to assist others in RELEASING weight forever.  I don’t use the word LOSE because when you lose something you always seem to find it.  Instead, when we release weight, we shake it off and it goes away.

To truly live your life in “releasing mode” however, a total lifestyle change is required.  Your old ways won’t fit in your new days.  Not to say that you have to be perfect, remember I am all about imperfection.  When you make a choice that may not be supportive to your health, acknowledge it, let it go and jump right back on the wagon.

The Institute for Integrative Nutrition has conducted many years of research on the food pyramid and as you can see from the illustration above  it is more a circle than a triangle.

Everything is food
We are not only fed by food but by other factors in our lives. Healthy relationships, a fulfilling career, regular physical activity and a spiritual practice are essential forms of nourishment. When these “primary foods” are balanced, what you eat becomes secondary. Our primary foods have nothing to do with carbohydrates and proteins and everything to do with how we live our lives.    When these primary foods are even we only use our secondary food, or the food we put in our mouths, for nourishment.  However, what happens when one of these primary foods lose steam?  We tend to dip into the center hoping that what we eat will even us out.   As you can guess, we don’t even out, instead we jeopardize our health, gain weight and live in self-induced haze.

My duty as your Holistic Health Expert involves teaching and supporting you as you live your life in the red circle.