As I was preparing food today, I was considering why we’re so
reluctant to eliminate food that we know “intellectually” is bad for
us. For me, it’s because I don’t relate the food with the bad other
than sometimes, how I feel the next day or even on some occasions, in the next hour, but mostly I relate to how good it tastes and the good times I’ve enjoyed.

Consider this ~ IF you have a bad experience with something, do you
tend to return to it? For instance, if no matter how many times you
go to a restaurant and enjoy the food, if you have ONE bad
experience, say, food poisoning or seeing a cockroach running across the table, wouldn’t you be reluctant to go back there? I know I would and, in actuality have. I went to a restaurant in Santa Monica one evening and within 3 hours, I was in the restroom doing something very unladylike. That is one restaurant I will never go to again.

The problem I see here is, it takes excess fat a bit of time for it
to cling to our hips, bellies, thighs, etc. It takes YEARS very often for us
to develop a lifestyle-related disease. By the time these things have
manifested, we’ve enjoyed YEARS of cheese-laden pizza; YEARS of meat, fish and poultry; YEARS of sugary sweets, YEARS for alcohol to destroy our liver, YEARS for cigarettes to destroy our lungs and now they’re bad for us? Since it took so long, it’s really tough for our minds to make the connections that what we did is causing the problem(s).

Then again, what about all the fun? The family get-togethers? The holidays? The bar-b-ques, picnics, etc.? AND, we LOVE this stuff! (Well, some of us love some of these things, some of us love all these things and some of us… well, don’t).

True that! Question is, how much do you enjoy life and living it?
People will tell me that if they can’t have a juicy steak, a glass of
scotch, a pizza whenever they want, then life isn’t worth living. My
question is, is this true?

As humans, we are VERY capable of change. For me, if I couldn’t ever
eat a ripe, juicy peach, or have watermelon juice dripping down my
chin, as much as I love them, I could live without them (hoping I
will never have to). The difference is, one is life-giving and the
other (pizza, steak, alcohol, etc.) is not.

One is full of life force, nutrients and health and the other is not.

So, the challenge as I see it is, what can we do to heal ourselves
and still enjoy life? Being someone who really enjoys fruit and many
veggies, it’s not as hard for me. But what about people who don’t?
Who’ve never gotten the taste for a sweet juicy melon? Those who feel
a meal isn’t a meal without a dead animal carcass on their plate?

I personally know hard core meat eaters who, previously, thought vegetables meant a piece of lettuce and slice of tomato on a burger, French fries, and ketchup and have become vegetarians.

Do we have to reach bottom before we can go back up?

I’ll be discussing this more thoroughly in my next post.

In the meantime, I’d suggest you pick up this GREAT dvd for anyone you know who could use some help in healing, eliminating excess weight, or just wish to be educated on how to upgrade their level of wellness.

Ease, not Dis-Ease,

Revvell

As I was out walking this morning, I was listening to some subliminal cd’s I’d recently purchased. One of them is called “Having it All”. Just as I was coming home I realized, I already have it all. I want for nothing.

I have enough money (and more), right now, to pay all my monthly bills ~ rent, utilities, food, etc. My car is a 2007 Prius, paid for. We have an older van ~ paid for. We don’t purchase unless we have the money ~ which we do. I rarely have owed anyone for anything and if I did it was because I knew I had the ways and means to pay it off. I wasn’t “hoping” the money would come in and, it was only one purchase at a time.

At one time I purchased a stereo set to begin building credit. I put a hefty down payment on it; paid it off in 3 months (no interest). Then I purchased a small piano. Same thing… large down payment, paid off w/in a year. (no interest). I could have paid for both of those things in cash but was told I needed credit so I started to build it. Then I stopped. I really didn’t “need” credit and couldn’t find more things I wanted to purchase to build it.

Now, I have no credit BUT, I also have no debt. Oh yes, I can hear some of you saying “Lucky you!”. Well, yes and no. I prefer to think of “conscious me”. I MADE my “luck” by paying attention. Never getting a credit card and always paying in cash keeps life simple.

What has been interesting is that about 10 months ago we were looking for a new place to live. Because we had no credit (he’s from Europe and hadn’t established it yet) we were turned down for the 3 places we tried for, only one of which I would really have liked to have gotten. I asked the owner why she wouldn’t lease to us and she said the other person had more credit. I said, “oh, how interesting. So, what you’re saying is, they have debt which makes them more lease-worthy and we, who have nothing to pay but our monthly bills are not?”

Suffice it to say, we did find a lovely place ~ the one we’re supposed to have in the area we’re supposed to have it. It’s perfect for us ~ for now!

Now, the major holidays are upon us. What are you going to do? Purchase gifts for people you don’t want to because they give you something every year? Have you thought they are thinking the same about you? Do you go into debt every year purchasing gifts? Want to re-consider that this year? What alternatives can you think of which will show you care ~ about you!?

Same with my last post. People feel obligated to do the same thing every year with the same people every year never considering that just maybe the others don’t want to do it any more than they do. Something to consider, eh?

Something else to consider ~ if these people are not people you can speak with about this (and who will tell you the truth), then maybe you shouldn’t be spending money on them or time with them anyway. What do you think?

By the way, last year I created a “playbook” of tools I used to bring me where I am today. I use it myself and keep on growing and learning. You might wish to check it out for yourself or, as a priceless gift for someone you love: “Revvellutionize Your Life in 30 Days”

Injoy,

Revvell

As the end of year holidays approach, how will you be celebrating them ~ or will you?

For me, I celebrate every day. I don’t wait for a man-made holiday before enjoying myself yet, it seems many do. They wait until Thanksgiving to be “thankful”; they wait until Christmas (or whichever holy day they “celebrate”) to be joyous yet, are they really?

I so often hear people say they HAVE to spend time with family. One month it’s “her” family; the next is “his” family. The way they say it really doesn’t sound like fun, celebration, joyousness to me. Sounds more like torture.

One of the things I am really grate-filled for is that many years ago, I had a chance to go to Hawaii for Christmas/new years. At first, I felt guilty for not going back to Connecticut to visit my mother yet, all I had to do was remember how it was spending my last Christmas with her. It was dismal. Did I need to repeat that? Noooooo. So! I went to Hawaii and stayed with some folk living on the north shore of Oahu. I got to be alone with me, on the beach for much of the time. They shared with me places the “natives” go rather than just the touristy places.

For the new year, we went to the main drag in Oahu and watched fireworks.

It was delightful to spend two weeks in Hawaii while much of the U.S. was enjoying the cold.

Many clients I work with tell me how they HAVE to be with their parents even though they don’t want to be. How old do people have to be for them to go out and enjoy EVERY moment of their lives without guilt? They are afraid of the often passive/aggressive manipulation their parents will put them through if they don’t do as expected. They want to be “nice” to the extent of creating frustration within themselves. How fun is that?

Is it any wonder that people become ill so often after the holidays? Do you know that ill-feelings, frustration, anger, etc. are just as much a part of suppression of the immune system as anything else is? That often goes on top of the feeling of HAVING to eat what’s on the table even though, we don’t want to. Family will often add guilt to that too ~ “It’s only ONE day!” “.. but I worked so HARD on this meal!” “.. go ahead, one bite wont hurt you!”… Sound supportive? Life-affirming? Loving?

Oh yeah, let’s drop the “they have good intentions”. Where do people come up with that one? Good intentions? For whom?

Consider this ~ We go where we don’t want to be, we eat what we don’t want to eat; we spend time with people we don’t want to spend time with watching them eat, drink and smoke ~ and we can’t/wont say anything about it because we know it wont do any good PLUS “..it’s the holidays!!! Have fun! Enjoy life..” even if it makes you sick!. Now, is that a recipe for joy and happiness?

Once I spent the first Christmas out enjoying MY life, doing it again became easier and more enjoyable. I’d rather have a little bit of guilt and enjoying myself for the rest of the time, than to spend two weeks being miserable with a few minutes of pleasure.

Of course, many people enjoy getting together with their families over the holidays and to them, I salute you! (with a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice, of course).

Revvell

P.S. Less than three weeks left before this sale runs out. Get ‘em before I run out of them or the price goes up. They are normally $28.

This morning I received this understanding from my friend Sandy Brewer in her Inspirational thought for the Week: “It took me a long time to understand that I could be what I choose to be, that I am, indeed, that which has the capacity to look fear in the eye and dissolve it. No problem can be resolved from the point of view of the problem. I learned to ask myself, “What’s another way of looking at this?”

I’m going to extract one sentence from this that struck me: “No problem can be resolved from the point of view of the problem.” As a health practitioner and educator, I see people all the time coming from the “point of view of the problem”… in health, it’s the symptoms. How can I stop the symptoms? The symptoms are the “.. point of view of the problem”… they aren’t the cause, they aren’t the root, they are the warning signals that something is wrong.

So, what do we do? Let’s take the case of cancer since people are focused on that this month. Symptoms ~ lumps, tumors, skin lesions, etc. What do doctors do? They poison, burn and mutilate to eliminate the symptoms. What they DON’T do, is find the cause! Helllooooo! Anybody home? They then send the patient home to do what they’ve been doing to cause the problem in the first place! Do you know that IF the patient lives 5 years, that means they’ve cured cancer? Even if they die in the 6th (or, during the 5th)? That’s ridiculous!

Heart disease ~ same thing! We can stick some valves and some stents in to open up the arteries.. Hey! let’s take a vein out of the leg and use that! well, how cool is that? Now, go home and continue eating, drinking, smoking and living as you were, we’ll see you again in a few years.

Diabetes! Here, have some insulin and shoot up every day. You’ll be fine. Oh, and carry some candy around in case you mess up.

Am I the only one who sees how ridiculous this is?

Do you know that the majority of Americans in this country experience detectable cancer approximately 6 times in their lives? Cancer cells, from my understanding, live in our bodies. For them to get to a detectable stage takes YEARS of eating and doing the wrong things.

Do you know that the majority of people who have Type 2 diabetes can be diabetes free in as little as 3 days and sometimes up to 2 weeks? AND, many with Type 1 have eliminated insulin shots altogether or at least dropped the dosage significantly?

Do you know that heart disease can almost always be reversed w/in a few months?

So, why don’t doctors tell people this? There’s no money in it! At least not enough to keep them in the style to which they’ve become accustomed to.

How can you find out more? Check out these two videos as a first step.. There’s over 3 hours of interviews with accredited doctors, excerpts taken from many prestigious medical journals and interviews with people who’ve healed themselves without poisons, burning and mutilation. I’ve got these on sale until the end of the month of Oct. ‘08. $20 (and taking action on what you see) may save your life or that of someone you love. “Healing Cancer From the Inside” and “Eating“. Get them while I’ve got them in stock at that price!

If you know someone who has diabetes, there’s a new dvd out which addresses that specifically. It shows the journeys of 6 people diagnosed with diabetes ~ 5 with diabetes 2 and 1 with diabetes 1. All but one were insulin-injection free w/in 2 weeks… most w/in 3 days. It’s called: “Simply Raw ~ Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days“.

Yes, the holidays are coming up yet, what a great way to start the new year… taking better care of oneself. What do you think?

By the way, I’ve currently got openings for two clients for consultation. If you’re interested in working with me, please contact me at: Revvell@Revvellations.com and put “Potential Client” in the subject line.

Yours in health,

Revvell

One thing I’ve been noticing recently is that people are really not aware that they have upper (and lower) limits for living. What does that mean?

One way we could put it is, we all have what we call a comfort level. When we step beyond that comfort level, we become anxious and pull back.

I call it an upper limits question. A few examples:

Been sick with one thing or another for years. Use to having people respond a certain way; attract a lot of caretakers; aren’t responsible for certain things due to the illness and then choose to do what’s necessary to heal. Now, everyone around has to change. The person who is ill is healing, what happens to their role? Either they have to change or leave. The ill person, has to get use to who s/he is now (who would you be if you weren’t ill?), get use to not being so cared for, start taking responsibility for themselves more, etc. That will bring anxiety and fear.

Another example is one who is eliminating excess fat. Same thing. As they start transforming, the people around them get anxious and pass that anxiety to them. They start hearing how they are losing “too fast”, looking “skinny”, not eating enough, having food put in front of then and being told “one bite wont hurt you”, etc. In their own heads, they’re having to deal with their own emotions ~ the ones they kept suppressed by overeating. Tough to bear, don’t you think? Well, that’s why we coaches are around to help people through these times.

How about someone who leaves a corporate position to become an entrepreneur? Think they don’t have fear? Someone who comes into a lot of money and is afraid to spend it OR spends it all so they can feel comfortable again.

IF we truly want to truly live and truly be alive, we have to make changes in our lives. We could just go through our mundane lives, going to our mundane jobs, coming home to our mundane families, watching mundane t.v. shows, going to bed then doing it again in the a.m. and on weekends, sitting home watching our mundane football games with chips and beer (now that’s REALLY living!) or, the women hanging out with the girls, going shopping, eating bad food, etc., or, we could do what it takes to make our lives fantastically exciting by eliminating excess weight, making ourselves healthy by doing what THAT takes even if others don’t agree; leaving our boring mundane jobs.. taking chances!

At the end of our lives, do we want to say ~ “I LIVED”! Or, “I wish I had lived”?

Remember we are often reflections of other peoples’ fear. Look at their lives. Is that how YOU want to live?
Until next time,

Yours in health,

Revvell

P.S. As this is “Breast Cancer Awareness Month“, I am offering a special on two dvd’s ~ “Healing Cancer From Within” and “Eating” for only $20 ~ a $29 value; (plus Ca. tx. where necessary, s & h). Cancer is a lifestyle-caused disease. Stop the cause; healing happnes. Yes, it really can be that simple as stated by numerous doctors in the dvd’s and those who’ve healed themselves. Click here for more information.

In her time Revvell Revati has dealt personally with suicidal depression, life-threatening asthma, parental abuse, rape, abandonment, poverty and other issues. She’s been helping clients and students for over 22 years heal themselves to get beyond their fear of life and live in joy, appreciation and wonder.

Yesterday, after finding out an acquaintance has just been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, I received a newsletter from Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Now, I have to tell you ~ this is supposed to be one of the most prestigious medical centers in the U.S. if not the world.

Before I go into the newsletter, let me tell you MY experience with this place. Back around 1980 I knew I didn’t want to have children and chose to have my tubes tied. I went through all the counseling, all the fears, etc., then had a friend drive me over as it’s an out-patient operation and one can’t drive themselves home. They do a final blood test before doing the operation and come back to inform me that I’m pregnant. Well heyyy! The woman next to me is obviously pregnant! I am NOT! 13 years on “the pill” and I go to get my tubes tied and I’m told I’m pregnant?

They tell me they cannot do the operation and to come back in two weeks. Well, I KNOW I’m not pregnant. I go back and another doctor tells me I have no signs of pregnancy. I tell her, “well, there’s a reason for that ~ I’m not pregnant”. She then asks me what I want to do? Reschedule the operation? Um, no, I don’t think so.

This was the second time I’d been misdiagnosed and that was the last time I’ve been to a doctor.

Now, the GAMC newsletter. Front page: “Treatment You Can Trust”… “Over the course of a lifetime, one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer….. What kind of surgery do I need?” Then they go on to talk about surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and plastic surgeons! Not one word about any other way of eliminating a lifestyle-caused dis-ease!!!

Here’s the topper ~ “Your best defense agains breast cancer ~ Annual mammograms…”. The thing that CAUSES cancer is your best defense?

Let’s go to page 3 ~ “reduce risk” ~

* More intensive screening. To find any potential cancer in its beginning stages you may be closely monitored with mammograms, ultra-sounds of the breast and ovaries, breast MRIs and other screen tests.
* Risk-reducing drugs. Certain prescription medications may help reduce, although not eliminate, the risk of breast or ovarian cancer.
*Prophylactic surgery. Surgically removing HEALTHY ovaries or breasts, or both, before they become cancerous.

Does anybody else see the insanity here? They will “screen” women with the stuff that CAUSES cancer, and remove HEALTHY organs and tissue. Nowhere does it say that lifestyle-caused disease can be reversed by stopping what’s causing the cancer. Nowhere does it say that disease cannot live in an alkaline/oxygenated environment. Nowhere does it say that ones’ thoughts and environment as much as anything else, can cause cancer and once those change, the cancer can disappear. Nowhere does it say there are other ways of healing oneself other than drugs and mutilation.

You know what I love? People are giving BILLIONS of dollars every year to the ACA to find a cure for cancer and it’s already there ~ it’s called our immune system.

What’s truly funny to me (not funny ha ha but funny peculiar) is that, every once in awhile they pretend to have come up with something new ~ a new drug, they’ve isolated some cancer cell or cancer “gene” to make people think they’re really doing something. Well, I’m here to tell you, we’ve all got cancer cells inside us from what I understand and a strong immune system is what’s keeping them at bay.

Also, if any of these things worked, why, are their only choices the same they’ve been for over 30 years now ~ Radiation, chemotherapy and mutilation?

Now, I don’t think I’ve ever seen where they suggest men have their prostates or their testicles removed to prevent cancer. I guess women’s body parts are expendable.

Oh! BTW ~ the surgeons they are promoting on the front page ~ are all women.

Enjoy your day,

Revvell
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Whew! Just came back from the Raw Spirit Festival. I don’t normally go to places like this ~ or stay when I do, yet it was really fun! I went as “media” because of Rawkin Radio. Got to meet lots of people I “know” from online ~ mostly Twitter (Helene Laurence, Rawbin, DeaLivingLotus, Wendidee and SO many more) but from Raw Food Talk, Annavon  made it a point to meet me. What a delight she is. Oh! She got to watch me almost die from choking on bee pollen and cacao nibs ~ I’m sure that was a treat for her. lol (Bo, Helene and I have had a few laughs about that since because we were right outside the meditation tent and they became upset because I was coughing and choking. Oh, so sorry to disturb.. how about if I just crawl over there and die, that o.k. with you?)

Everyone received one meal a day. The first meal was prepared by Bruce Horowitz. Sorry to say but it was the least liked by me. There was a blob of blue-green algae in the middle, not my idea of good-tasting. The dessert was a packaged Raw Revolution cookie. I’ve still got it. Saturday’s meal was prepared by Melissa Davison. SO much better. She’d prepared a cole-slaw with just the right, light dressing and a salad with a creamy dressing. As always, her dessert was mahvelous! Sunday’s meal topped that. It contained a red cabbage saurkraut (best way I can describe it), some type of nut pate/burger on fresh spring mix, topped with crispy nori strips. There was also a freshly made brownie topped with goji berries. It was soooooo good! (could be wrong about what was ACTUALLY in it as far as it being “saurkraut” and/or type of “burger” but, it was just wonderful!) That was prepared by Cosmo Means.

Highlights and what’s coming up for you here, on RawkinRadio and also on Natural Products Radio. We’ll be posting as they are edited. Best to subscribe so you don’t miss anything.

Here are some highlights you can expect:

Full presentations from David Wolfe, Markus Rothkranz, Doug Graham, Gabriel Cousens, and more.

Interviews with Victoria Boutenko (what’s the truth about her weight?); Angela Elliott, author of Alive in 5: Health Ranger Mike Adams, NaturalNews.com; (is he as cute in person? how’s he make his money? Is he single?) ~ all the pertinent questions one needs answered); David Wolfe, and more.

We’ve got numerous pics, videos and audio you don’t want to miss! I’ll post links on Twitter so, follow me there or subscribe to my radio shows ~ RawkinRadio and Natural Products Radio.

There were lots of chocolate sellers. I loved Vanessa’s Gnosis chocolate but at $12 per bar… Did an interview with her as well.

I’m excited to be able to share all of this with you. We really didn’t have enough time to get all I wanted.

Personally, I was considering buying cacao powder. Spent 3 days thinking about it and figured if I had to think THAT much, then, I didn’t really want it. I did get a bag of raw carob and a bag of raw vanilla powder from Matt Monarch and two bottles of olives from David Wolfe’s table.

Brian Au gave me a video and some green flaky stuff. Oh! got a short interview with him as well. I really didn’t like his aggressive marketing approach when I’d originally met him about 3 years ago or so but he is a VERY sweet, lovely man and I’m glad I stopped to chat with him. I think you’ll enjoy him as well.

I’ve changed my mind about Doug Graham’s 80/10/10 approach. He really makes a lot of sense. I still go with Alissa’s idea of “Eat what you want, when you want, as long as it’s raw” for people getting started who can handle it! Many can’t. That’s where Victoria’s ideas some in ~ green smoothies for 2-3 months to get the digestive system functioning better first. In our interview she said that she’s found many people can’t even handle that and for them, she suggests green juices. My feeling is, IF one attains 100% raw, THEN, they’ll evolve to where Doug Graham is, naturally ~ less fats, less (focus on) protein. Protein (amino acids) is in EVERY fruit and or vegetable we eat. As he said in his presentation, one would have to work very hard to not get enough, if not more than enough, protein.

I purchased two of Doug Graham’s books as well ~ one describing the 80/10/10 food program and the other with just recipes. More on those here later.

More personal highlights:

I got hugged by Marcus Rothkranz ~ twice ~ and a kiss on the hand from David Wolfe.

There were a lot of parties. Bo and I went to the one on Thursday night thrown by Kevin Gianni of Renegade Health. That’s where I met a few people we got to chat with and interview. Friday night, Vanessa threw a chocolate party. We’d left early so missed hearing about that until after it was over. I heard there was a durian party as well. Saturday night my throat was sore from trying not to die from choking so didn’t make it to the dance party at Relics in Sedona. Sunday we stayed fairly late (for us) at the festival and I’m sure there was another closing party somewhere.

OH! Most fun of all is, we were sitting in a cafe Thursday morning and a young woman came over, introduced herself and said how much she enjoys RawkinRadio and just wanted me to know that ~ then walked away. A few moments later a gentleman came over and said he was in the entertainment industry and could he give me his card? We had people coming up for the next three days saying they listen to the show, it’s been an inspiration to them… talk about frosting on the cake! So SWEEEEET!

If any of you reading this did this, thank you! You truly made the festival worth the trip.

That’s all I can remember for now. More later ~ much more. Check in with all the above links and stay tuned. More coming soon.

BTW ~ feel free to leave comments HERE. I muchly appreciate it.

Injoy,

Revvell

… as will not see.

Recently a thread was started on a forum about the movie Simply Raw, Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days and the poster was celebrating that people CAN cure themselves of diabetes.

One person came on and said there was no cure and that ” I am confident that there is no cure because if there was, we would ALL know about it.”

As I was out walking, I was considering this statement… ALL would know about it! How? Even SHE, on a raw food board, refuses to look at the movie. She is steadfast that there IS no cure. Being certain that there are many like her out there, if there was a cure, how would they know? If they refuse to look outside their little world of doctors and drugs, how will they know? Even one of the participants in the movie heard from doctors since he was a child (juvenile diabetes) that he would ALWAYS have to take insulin and that diabetes can never be cured and he, being diagnosed with diabetes 1, dropped his insulin from 30 daily units to 5.

My question is, how is it a lifestyle-caused disease (diabetes 2, not 1 which, I am informed, is an immune-system disease ~ see comment #1 below) cannot be cured? Answer seems fairly simple ~ stop doing what’s causing the problem. Overweight? Change your food program, get out and move, find out what the need is which is being replaced by food and fill it. High Cholesterol? Animal products are the only “foods” that contain cholesterol ~ stop eating them! Heart disease? Again, animal products, plus caffeine and/or nicotene, and/or alcohol and, lack of movement.

Yes, I hear the excuses. My suggestion ~ stop looking for excuses for why you can’t and start finding reasons and ways for how you can. Life and health are simpler than we make it. Live and living food, water, rest, movement, appreciations and making conscious choices will get you where you want to be and yes, it is that simple… just not always that easy … yet like many things it just takes making the first step.. then following that with the next step and the next…

Injoy,

Revvell

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If you, or someone you know has diabetes 1 or 2, they MUST see this film. It’s a very heart-warming and touching piece of work relating the journeys of 6 people who went to Gabriel Cousens Tree of Life facility. It really relates how self-talk can sabotage us and how love and support can keep us hanging on.

I don’t want to give away the whole story here as there are some surprises and yes, it’s all about real life.

The film begins by introducing us to the participants and many of their families. They talk about what they love the most about food and shows us how they live.

They explain that 5 out of the 6 have type 2 diabetes and one has type 1. Dr. Cousens tells the participants that the best food program for them will be raw, high fiber, high carbohydrate (complex), low protein and low fat. There will be no meat, dairy, alcohol, sugar or caffeine. They will be served all they can eat, 3 meals a day.

They show where everyone is on day one and where a few people are at day 3, 5, 7, 12, 15, 17, 24, 27 and 30. They talk about their glucose level, cholesterol, blood pressure and weight in many instances. All, eliminated some excess weight.

What I loved about the film was the support the participants gave each other. I felt there should have been someone there to assist more with the mind-set though as it’s never just about the food. (Maybe there was but it wasn’t really brought out).

They showed some quick classes that were held including a chocolate class, a nori roll class and a healthy cooked food class on the final day to assist them in making better decisions during their transitions.

At the end we got to see how some people were faring ~ Day 3 with Pam and 60 days out with Kirt as well as a run-down of how everyone was doing at the very end.

I’d love to see all these people one year from now.

Other participants in the film were Morgan Spurlock, Fred Bisci, Ph.D, David Wolfe, the Reverend Michael Beckwith, Woody Harrelson and Anthony Robbins.

Get this film and share it! Simply Raw

As I was out walking the streets this morning, I was thinking how life is sort of like that. There are ups and downs and flats.

In my classes and with students/clients, I’m often talking about upper/lower limits. Some call it the “comfort zone.”

I’ve noticed that when people come up against an upper limit of good they (unconsciously) think they can have, they’ll often (unconsciously, again) become anxious or fearful, smack up against that upper limit, then slam back down to where they are more comfortable. At that point, they have choices; sideways, or up.

To me, this is like climbing hilly streets. If one is not in shape, one of the best ways up is to go up as far as you can, then go sideways awhile, then up the next street, sideways and up. Instead, many will go all the say up, then all the way down and the next morning, they’re so sore, they don’t want to go out again and don’t ~ until they talk themselves into doing it again ~ if ever. They’re back in their “comfort zone”.

Sometimes people will get up to a certain place (plateau), stay there awhile, then move up some more. That’s how I got myself in shape to climb a local mountain… climb, stop, breathe, climb, stop, breathe, until I reached the top.

It seems many of us are in a hurry to have things happen. When they open up, we want to take advantage. Not a problem. Just know that, if you go up, when you come down, you wont be down as far as you were when you started. You’ll have some learnings under your belt; you may be healthier; maybe have made more connections… all well and good! Excellent even!

Just remember to stop, breathe and carry on! As long as you’re moving… life will support you.. Always has so far, hasn’t it?

Enjoy and Injoy,

Revvell
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