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Irked, Venting and Over It!

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Things don’t really irk me much and once I write this out, it’ll be GONE! DONE! I don’t dwell anymore like I use to because life is SO grand and wonder-filled that I just don’t have time for it so, gonna put it out here and let it go!

(What I’m doing here is showing you how to live a stress-free life! So many would let something like this go on and on in their heads for DAYS! … and be binging while doing it. lol)

Anyway, I put out my blog from yesterday on a few sites I’m on and received some truly great responses. Thank you!

Today, I received a response from one person saying she was “shocked” at the price of my program! (What?? It’s too low? heh!) Well, I have to say, I’m shocked that she is shocked! (How’s that for a comeback? )

Since reading that, I’ve looked at it in various ways (this is good for you to do if you are planning programs yourself).

First, let’s start with my training. I began researching health and healing about 34 years ago. I spent 16 years in “formal” training which cost me literally thousands of dollars. I’ve got books, dvds, cds (again, investments of THOUSANDS of dollars) and articles (o.k., basically free except for the paper I printed them out on and the ink to print) which I’ve studied.

For 34 years I’ve used myself as the guinea pig in healing asthma, allergies, infections, depression, injuries, excess weight and more caused by various things including food choices, societal imprints, emotions and unawareness/consciousness.

I’ve got knowledge I’ve gained through my own study as well as knowledge gained from other people and their studies, knowledge and wisdom. I’ve got understanding from my own healings plus the hundreds of students and clients I’ve worked with. I’ve got wisdom from just staying alive for 60 plus years and the ongoing healing and health I’m experiencing.

So, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. The price of “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight“. Pretty much the price people charge for their trainings/coachings/teleclasses/webinars, etc. is arbitrary. If you ask them, I’m guessing they probably can’t tell you how they came up with their price.

Recently I paid $1995 for a program that was supposed to help me be a better marketer. I was sorely disappointed. The first few sessions were quite good. After she got past the “100% guarantee” part of the program (if you didn’t feel you were receiving your money’s worth by a certain time, you could receive your money back) the program went down-hill. It was sad. The first hour of the final 90 minutes of the program, she might just as well have been off the call. She even admitted she wasn’t only not present mentally, she was looking at her other site! The final half hour of that 90 minute session she spent upselling her next program. The “bonus” hour we received she spent ~ yes, upselling her next program.

I don’t DO that! The whole time, I am present; I am available, everyone interacts with me. At NO time do I spend time upselling my next, newest program. (I don’t HAVE one ~ well, not yet, anyway.)

Let’s break it down financially ~

The program runs 6 weeks with each call lasting approximately 90 minutes, PLUS, 2 half-hour one-on-one calls with me.

That’s a full 9 hours of semi-private interactive work/play PLUS, 1 full hour of private. That breaks down to $30 per hour. (I’ve never done this and am now thinking ~ I really need to raise my price EXCEPT! I want to make this affordable to as many people as possible!)

Add in the time I spend preparing for each session and the time I spend after, cleaning up the notes and adding in whatever I feel can make it even more informational and the hourly to me is even less.

ALSO, my engineer takes time out of HIS life to edit the audio and post it so participants can listen to it any time they feel to for FREE (to me). (Very often we’ll miss or forget something that happened that could be very relevant to one’s process so, it’s best to listen to the audio repeatedly).

*big sigh* Wow! O.k! I’m feeling better now.

On to what I REALLY wanted to write about today (which will most likely be uploaded tomorrow. Wait for it!)

Until then,

Yours in health,

Revvell

Bodacious Living

How I Gained Weight

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

I awakened this morning contemplating weight gain. How fun is that? lol

There are a few ways and reasons I gained in the first place.

First was possibly menopause yet, I’m not sure of that one. I hadn’t gained before I got married at 55 and I’d gone into it a few years before OR, maybe I just didn’t notice which we’ll get into in a bit ~ the noticing, I mean.

One thing I’m sure of is going out and eating. Once I realized how much I’d gained since getting married (we could blame the marriage yet, that would be the surface, same as most dieters do ~ blame the food), being me, I had to really look at my habits, my new cravings and my emotional eating patterns.

What happened was, 6 years or so ago, I met a man I wanted in my life forever. I’d ALWAYS said, I saw no purpose in ever getting married and, that was true, until we met.

After knowing him for about 10 months or so, I was headed over to his home country to meet his friends and family as well as visit his country.

A few weeks before going over, he told me that he’d called the embassy about how he could come to the U.S. and stay with me. Their response “Marry her”. When he told me this, I asked “Well, do you want to?” He said “what”? Me ~ “Get married?”. I think he said something like “well, I guess so”. Anyway, he started the paperwork on his end with the outcome being we’d get married in Denmark, then go to Copenhagen where I had to file to get him over here.

So, that’s the background story ~ now, the fat part.

In all my life I’d never been in a REALY healthy relationship. Every relationship I’d been in, I gave up me to be with he meaning none of what I did was as important as what he was doing so, I’d always get involved.

This relationship began similarly. First, I dropped my healthy eating habits. I still stayed vegetarian yet, when we went out to eat, which was often, I’d eat things I normally wouldn’t and I’d overeat. If/when we go to buffets, I felt I had to eat enough to get his money’s worth. Even when full, I’d finish because I didn’t want to leave food I’d chosen, on the plate AND, I’d always have dessert. Not much but SOME!

Secondly, even when we went out to a sit-down meal and was given more than I could eat, I’d finish it because “it’s only a few bites” ~ no matter how full I was.. “it’s only a few bites”. Well, those “few bites” cost in weight gain. If we’d only gone out occasionally, there probably would not have been an issue. Since we went out often…

Thirdly, I use to get up and out walking every morning, first thing. Did not turn on the computer, did not eat, did not do anything but get up, get out and get walking! Where I lived, there was a mountain “loop” where I could go up one side, down the other. It’s about 4.5 miles. When I didn’t do that, I lived in a hilly area and could do a different walk almost every day of the week.

After getting married I loved sleeping in and cuddling with him. I vowed I’d get out and walk later. Well, “later” rarely came. In the summer it was too hot. If I didn’t get out early, I didn’t get out. We’d also moved to a “flat” area which to me, was boring so, I’d talk myself out of walking. If I wanted to train with kbs, ropes, etc. I really needed to take everything to a park. Being the lazy wench I’d become… that rarely happened.

One night in class my teacher said 4 of us, including himself were overweight. I was one. When he asked how much I thought I could lose I said “about 20 pounds”. He said “try 25″. Yikes!!!! (He was being generous. It was actually 30).

One thing I really got was how easy it is to gain and not notice! Previously it was SO easy for me to drop weight. So easy in fact that, I’d not notice until someone pointed it out to me (which is the same thing that happened with the gain). At that time, when I was emotional about something (which was often), I’d not eat, therefore, weight loss! Now, when I’m upset, I’ve developed patterns of eating and overeating; comfort and habitual eating.

If you do it slow enough, when you go clothes shopping and you’ve gone up a size, you can rationalize that it’s a different manufacturer and their sizes run small.

So, between eating out often, eating and overeating for emotional reasons, cleaning my plate and not moving ~ as I use to … weight happened.

Oh! the other thing is, as I’d mentioned, I’d not been in a really good relationship EVER! Think there might be some unconscious “protection” going on?

Tomorrow, we’ll talk about weight elimination. In the meantime, feel free to check out my program and find out how to eliminate weight, stay on a healthy food program and drop the cravings, habits and and emotional eating patterns that lead to excess weight gain and sabotage your new year’s resolutions.

Until tomorrow ~

Revvell

Bodacious Living

Successful Weight Loss is Not About the Food

Monday, December 28th, 2009

When I first began learning EFT, I had a hard time with tapping on the negative part of the sentences. For so many years, I’ve been saying “Acknowledge but don’t focus” and here, we’re saying something negative and tapping on it?? To me, that was like tapping the negative INTO myself and I had SO much resistance.

What I have found since then though is that the reason we say the negative is to acknowledge and accept where we are. For instance, if someone says, “Even though I constantly self-sabotage…” that’s just saying what we’ve done previously… up to now… then we switch to “…. I choose to stay focused on the results and support myself completely”. That changes the energy via our words AND the tapping.

What we’re saying is I know what I need to work on; I acknowledge and accept I do this and, now, I’m changing it. Make sense?

It’s as though I’m in Connecticut and I want to go to Nevada. Well, if I don’t know, acknowledge and accept where I am, how can I get where I want to go? If I “wish” I were somewhere else, it’s not going to help. Saying I “wish” I were in California and I want to go to Nevada, then I’d be traveling east yet, I’m REALLY in Ct. and if I travel east, I’m I’ll end up in the ocean rather than Nevada, correct? So! First step ~ Acknowledge and accept where you are now to get you where you want to go.

I understand many have an issue with the word “accept”, as well. They think if they accept something, that means they don’t/wont change it. One definition of accept is “…to regard as true..”. So, all we’re doing is saying “this is true ~ now”. It doesn’t mean it will always be true. Some examples of this would be: “currently I am 100 pounds more than MY ideal weight…”; “currently, I have a tendency to sabotage my successes…”; “currently, I’m in a less than ideal relationship…”. That’s it! Currently! It doesn’t mean you can’t, wont or are unwilling to change. It’s just a place to start.

I’ve also found many have a problem tapping on the positive… “I totally and completely love and accept myself.” There’s a little voice inside that says… “.. no you don’t…” which is why so many of us self-sabotage and cannot be the weight we’d like to be, have the health we’d like to have or the other successes. We feel we don’t deserve.

One of the high points for one of my students was when she stopped reaching for the ice cream whenever she was stressed because she chose that ending (or something similar) whenever she tapped. She came to class and she was astounded at her success saying she’d NEVER felt love for herself until she tapped on that for a week.

What’s interesting too is how so many wont do the tapping. They’re resistant and will say things like “this is silly”; “this wont work, etc.” which is fine. EFT doesn’t need to be believed to “work” or make a difference. All I say is, do it and find out for yourself.

I even have a couple of students who call themselves “shower tappers”. They’ll do it in the shower yet feel silly doing it in front of anyone. Others tap anytime, anyplace, especially when they’re feeling unhealthy (for them) cravings coming up or anxiety coming up which leads to self-sabotage.

A quick definition of Emotional Freedom Technique or, EFT is a simple, direct approach to release and redirect blocked energy patterns in the body/mind. Some call it acupuncture without needles.

Founder Gary Craig explains it thusly: In essence, EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture wherein we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips. This addresses a new cause for emotional issues (unbalanced energy meridians). Properly done, this frequently reduces the therapeutic process from months or years down to hours or minutes. And, since emotional stress can contribute to pain, disease and physical ailments, we often find that EFT provides astonishing physical relief.

What’s great about it is, once you learn it, you can tap on anything to resolve numerous issues which is why on my “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight” page, I tell you you’ll be able to keep and use the tools I’ll be teaching during the live, interactive teleclass. EFT is only ONE of the tools I’ll be sharing.

For those who are interested in eliminating excess weight and the habits, cravings and emotional eating patterns that constantly sabotage diet and weight loss endeavors, my “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight” teleclass series begins Tuesday, Jan. 12, 5 p.m. Pacific; 8 p.m. Eastern. As I work individually with each person throughout the program, space is limited AND you’ll save $50 if you register before Jan. 1, 2010 (if seating lasts that long). Let this be the last year you put “go on a diet” as one of your new year’s resolutions!

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You Can’t Have It ~ Or Can You?

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

One of the fears I encounter with people who are interested in joining my program is, that they can’t have something. What happens when emotions come up and they can’t have that comfort food? Those starches? That chocolate? or, whatever it is they crave?

Well, the difference between my program and weight loss diets is, there is no “can’t have”. What it will come down to is “want to have”.

One of the most exciting moments (which continues on today) is when I “thought” I was hungry and “thought” I wanted cheese or bread, etc. and, I opened the fridge and realized “well, I CAN have this but, I don’t want it!!!” Next thought, “what is it I do want or need?”

Most of the time, when we’re addicted to food as our drug, we reach and eat before having time to decide on other options! With TIYIW, the cravings are eliminated and the joy of knowing you have choices remains! IF you still want the drug, you CAN have it. If not, the joy of knowing YOU are in control, supersedes whatever else was going on.

Being in control = self-empowerment.

This is why so many “fall off” their food programs ~ raw, or otherwise. They often feel deprived. They have it in their monkey mind that they can never have this or that. Well, we can ALWAYS have something. I’ve given myself permission to have anything I want. Our little monkey minds are like two year olds. Tell them they can’t have something and they want it even more.

Now mine wanted things I don’t normally even eat! I’ve RARELY ever wanted potato chips but, tell my lil monkey “you can’t have” and boyyyyy, she wants ‘em! (my husband often keeps strange things in our home ~ like ‘tato chips)

With EFT and other energy therapies, we become more aware of the cravings, habits and emotional eating patterns, often eliminating them completely. Now, for me, those things I craved, I don’t even want. They don’t look like food to me. When I AM hungry, I’ve got luscious food already prepared so I am good-to-go.

I invite you to stop the cravings, the habits and the emotional eating/overeating by joining (click there —->) “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight“. There’s a money back guarantee if you don’t feel it’s bringing you what YOU want!

Injoy,

Revvell

Habits, Cravings and Emotional Eating

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Last Monday night when training with my teacher and the group, I noticed that my teacher was looking like he’d gained some weight.

After class we were talking and he’d mentioned he’d gained back about 8-10 pounds (try 20, to my eye BUT, I didn’t notice it last week!)

He told me he realized it wasn’t about the food; he’d not been doing his former habit of binging and throwing up BUT he was overeating. What he did realize, for himself was that it was about having the good. This makes sense because when we reach a certain level of good which is beyond what we think we “should” have or deserve, we become anxious and will do SOMEthing to quel the anxiety. For many of us, it’s eat!

Well, last night I was contemplating our conversation and at one level, I do agree, it’s not about the food YET, many of us are addicted to certain foods we turn to when we’ve got emotions we can’t handle, rewards we give ourselves, etc. For many, it’s chocolate. For me, and others of course, it was starches. Give me pizza, pasta, potatoes.. anything white. At one time it was sugar.

I’d also had problems with cheese.

Before getting married, most of these were not an issue because I didn’t have them in my home. After getting married ~ well, he’s the original pizza man. He loves his pizza, his pasta, his bread and cheese.

For awhile, I was into the cheese, bread, pasta and pizza myself. Any wonder after eating raw for so long I gained weight?

So, what to do. Oh! btw, it wasn’t JUST the food! It was also the fact that I’d gotten married to someone I barely knew (met on the internet and he lived in another country and much of our communication was via email, phone calls, vid cams, etc.) after NEVER having had decent relationship that lasted more than 3 months. Think I wasn’t doing some emotional eating? Uh huh!

Well, I tried using willpower. Opened fridge and would ask myself, “fit or fat”? Now, that brought SOME awareness to the issue because most of the time, I’d choose fit and it wasn’t cheese! BUT, when I was out of balance, “fit” went out the door and I rationalized… o.k., one slice of cheese wont hurt and, I’ll eat a salad. O.k., I’m putting LOTS of tomatoes, lettuce, cukes, etc. between the bread so, that’s o.k. Well, it wasn’t.

The next morning, I’m feeling mucusy and my eyes are all gummy and yucky, not to mention, the scale either wasn’t moving or, it was moving up! Not what I wanted.

So, what was the solution? It’s a combination of things. First off, bring more awareness to what I was eating when I ate it. I soon found that, there’s not much real taste to cheese. If this is your addiction, sit with a slice of cheese and just be with it. The texture is yucky and the taste? Might as well be eating tofu. Nasty!

Now, bread, pasta, etc. Sit with it; really chew it; savor it…. not much to savor is there? Mostly what these things are are transport vehicles. They transport the things that do taste good, to your mouth.

Think about what you’re eating when you eat pasta. Italian name for paste. Flour and water. Remember as a kid we use to make that? Bread? Basically the same thing. Not much flavor, not many nutrients.

O.k., so, that’s dealing with the food itself.

What I HAVE found though is, the monkey mind looks in the fridge and the cheese is at eye level so, when IT wants some cheese I basically have to remind myself, I REALLY don’t like it! Why eat something I don’t like? Where’s the satisfaction? Not to mention, how I feel the next day (isn’t that the way with addicts? They usually feel crappy the next day after they indulge in their addiction?)

Another thing to look at is, habits. When, where, why, how and what do I eat? Well, even though I’ve just finished eating not that long ago, I’d often find myself looking in the the fridge or on the counter for something to eat. Because of all the work I’ve been doing with myself, students and clients, I now, very often, check myself and ask, “wow! Am I even hungry?” Very often the answer is “noooo”. So, what is it? Very often I AM thirsty! But also, very often, something emotional has come up ~ and, it can be something very subtle that I’m not aware of ~ I just KNOW, I’m doing something out of balance and, I’m not hungry so there MUST be something going on. What to do? One of my favorite things is to walk. I have nothing much to distract me; I’m getting energy moving and, I’m talking to myself. Another, write. I tell my students and clients to write and do it often. Whenever you’re feeling out-of-sorts and reaching for the food, write it out.

Other things are energy therapy. Could be EFT, sentence completions, emcode, etc. Once I find out what’s going on, it’s easy to eliminate these things without succumbing to food!

For me, having so many tools and awarenesses available has been and is, such a blessing! I no longer just eat out of habit, cravings or due to emotions. I no longer get that “I don’t care ~ I’m eating it anyway” desperation.

Oh! One thing I REALLY got last night is when I was working with my teacher well over two decades ago, I had asthma so bad it almost killed me a couple of times. Almost every time we had a session, I’d have an attack. Now, we never did anything specifically with the asthma itself. We changed my food program and, eliminated my future nemisis’s (sp) wheat and dairy yet, I was still having issues with asthma so it HAD to be emotional.

Again, we didn’t do anything specific with the asthma. We worked in general to bring me fully ~ physically, mentally and emotionally ~ into balance.

I really got that in last night’s class. Much of the time we weren’t working specifically with weight. What we were working with was our self-esteem, our tendency to sabotage, our fears of success (and failure), etc. As we work together and bring our selves to more and more balance the weight will take care of itself as the asthma did because we wont NEED that crutch anymore!

For those who’ve read my post about my heart, when I really delved into that, I realized it was retracing from when I had the asthma. Some unconscious part of me was, in it’s own way, “trying” to keep me safe and my heart was weakened previously from the asthma. I’m going into new physical and mental/emotional territories and my doing so scared the crap out of parts of myself so, it created the heart stuff. The mental/emotional manifested the physical. Now that all that’s resolved mental/emotionally, my heart has stopped scaring itself ~ and me!

If interested in joining my teleclass, I’m beginning a new one Wed., Nov. 4 at 10 a.m. pacific time; 1p.m. eastern. I’m also available for one-on-one sessions. For more information on that, please go to Bodacious Living.

Thank you for taking the time to read all this.

Injoy,

Revvell

Change My Name Contest

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

As I’ve been promoting my program “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight ~ a 4-Week Transformation”, I’ve been realizing that not EVERYone who is eating differently is having a weight problem, they’re just having problems with eating healthily because of cravings and temptations.

I totally understand that! When I was working movie sets, there was plenty of food around and to not be tempted by the “bad” or not-so-good offerings was TOUGH! I KNEW better BUT, the other stuff tasted pretty darn good!

I also know many have spouses and other family members they have to prepare for and it’s easier to just eat what they eat even though they’d prefer not to for health and/or weight issues. Also, when going out with friends, that pizza, although it’s not the best choice, sure looks good!

I’m going to give you some background so you’ll understand what I’m doing, I think.

One reason, as I said, that many people eat unhealthily or overeat  is because of various situations ~ first, they’ve almost always eaten for any reason besides nutrition and sustenance. They eat because they’re sad, they’re angry, they’re bored or restless; they eat because they’re out shopping. They eat because it’s there; because others are; because they “think they should”. We even reward ourselves with food.

Well, as I said, I’ve begun a program entitled, “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight”. My reasoning behind it is that many people go on raw food or other programs to eliminate weight. Again, as I said, they tend to go OFF those programs because of the many issues I’ve already stated ~ and more.

The program works like this ~ Rather than staying at the very surface of our reasons for gaining weight, we go to the deeper levels.

Although many have eliminated excess weight with weight loss and raw diets, for some reason they go off the program and will gain the weight back ~ and then some. Although eating raw can make a difference in many aspects of our lives, we cannot handle our feelings OR keep the weight off, by changing our food program. If that were possible then, eating raw or a plant-based diet or any of the weight-loss programs available, would fix everything and, they don’t. I’ve seen and heard so MANY women say that they were stressed and ate everything in the house ~ that wasn’t good for them. Once they do that, the monkey mind will jump in and say “what’s the use? This diet/food program doesn’t work”. In actuality, it’s not the food program, it’s the programming!

We’ve programmed ourselves to numb our feelings with food. As one person said, it’s hard to digest our emotions and food at the same time. A change in food program, whatever it is, will bring up emotions we’ve not dealt with. Eliminating weight will bring up emotions as well since we’re so use to stuffing them down and mostly, not doing that anymore.

Rather than staying at the surface the program I’ve created gets to the root cause, the emotions, the habits, the cravings ~ and digs them out and eliminates them. This is done via various energetic techniques that I teach and which can be used for all kinds of things including finances, procrastination, success across the board, etc.

What I’m looking to do is change the name. That’s where the contest comes in. I need a new name for the program. I really love “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight” yet, I’m realizing there is more than weight involved. Many who would like what I have to offer are put off by the name because they have more of a craving/habit issue than a weight issue.

This is where you come in. Come up with a name.

What’s in it for you? Well, the winners ~ there will be two ~ will receive their choice of a brand new soft-cover copy of my book Smoothies and Smoozies for Life OR, an item of their choice from my clothing store. Remember, either of these will make great gifts for the holidays if you don’t want them for yourself!

So, how will the contest work you ask? Come up with some names. To participate, please go to Bodacious Living Contest. I’ll eliminate the ones I don’t like immediately for me yet, enter all of them into the contest so everyone who took their time to enter will have a chance to win. We’ll have a vote-off to choose THE name that YOU think most fits my program.

Just know this. Eventually, I’ll probably choose the name “I” like which may be different from what YOU like BUT, the 1st and 2nd place winners of the vote-off will have their choice of the prizes.

If you don’t understand what my program is about, please go to Bodacious Living. Feel free to email me at Revvell@BodaciousLiving.com with any questions for clarity.

First phase of this contest ends, midnight, Oct. 4, 2009. Please go now to Bodacious Living Contest to vote!

Thank you for your help on this. I truly appreciate your time and creativity.

In health,

Revvell

Raw Spirit Festival, Prescott, Az.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Made it back. Looooong ride out. Began at 7 a.m. Friday, stopping at Henry’s to pick up some food because I knew I’d be tired and didn’t want to have to search out a place to eat in drive-time traffic. Got some large Romaine lettuce leave, tomatoes, avos, olives, bananas and apples. I’d also made some coleslaw with home made dressing.

Arrived about 3:30 or so after having stopped at a couple of rest areas for food, water and relief.

I was pretty tired and it was pretty hot. The room at the Apache Motel was soooo nice and cool; large and comfy. Just relaxed that evening.

Fell asleep fairly early. As I don’t wear watches, not sure what time that was. Awakened at 1 a.m.; responded to email and watched a couple of shows on HULU, then, back to sleep. Got up about 6:30, went out for a walk. It was friggin’ cold! It’s amazing how it can be 105 during the day and 50 degrees at night.

I was hoping I could walk to the festival so, did a tour to see if that was feasible. It wasn’t so, went back to the motel, got dressed and headed out.

Beautiful location totally surrounded by rocks. The usual suspects were not in site, i.e. the “big names” in the raw food arena.

I hung out with Ronnie and Minh for the most part and spoke with a few vendors. It seems the few people who did show were ready to circulate money, especially on Saturday.

Guessing, I’d say no more than 200-300 people showed. Certainly glad I didn’t have a booth OR, pay to get in. I’d have been asking for my money back.

What was good ~ the food. Elaina Love was there. She’s my favorite and the only one I purchased from. I got her salad in the afternoon and brought her kelp noodles and ninja roll to the motel for dinner.

Next day, wasn’t really hungry all day (that’s different) so, after I spoke I stopped and got a salad and ninja roll to go on the ride home.

The other thing that was good, the location. The rocks that surrounded the event and that it was on grass rather than dirt as S.B. was, was delicious.

Saturday, anyone listening to the main speaker did so in the sun and they sat quite aways from the stage because it was set on a hill. On Sunday, they put up some canopies so folk could sit under some shade.

There’s really not much else to say about RSF other than it was disappointing. Low turnout; you had to walk in 102 degrees up a hill to watch the food demos; the “Bodhisattva Lounge” where the other speakers were was tucked into a corner and the speakers were drowned out by the speakers on the main stage.

The agenda was changed at the last minute and some who were supposed to speak didn’t show up or showed up on the wrong day and time because they weren’t notified of the changes.

On the program, many speakers, including myself, just had their names listed, not their topics so, if someone didn’t know them, no one went to listen.

For me, it was not worth the 8-hour drive out; the 6-hour drive back (different route, fewer stops); the gas, the time, etc. for the festival itself. Getting to hang out with Ronnie and Minh, meeting RawDawg Rory and his lady, Jason Firth and eating Elaina’s food… well, I’m glad about all that AND, having some quiet, relaxing time at the motel. Nothing to do there but be. What was sweet about it, 102 degrees outside and the room was cool without a/c. Don’t know how that happened yet, loved it! And the shower was AWESOME! I LOVE a good shower!

Back to work this morning. The more I talk about it; the more I see, the more I KNOW what I’m doing with Tap Into Your Ideal Weight is SO needed. I saw so many women at the festival who were overweight and “trying” to stay raw. It is SO hard when they’re cravings sabotage every food program they try.

I was so amazed at myself. Usually when I’m home alone ~ I eat. Out at a venue like I was, I eat. Bored, I eat. Watch vids, I eat… I didn’t! I mean I ate, but, normally, I’ll be prepared with what seems good when I buy it yet, never eat it. I’ll go out to a restaurant and eat/overeat and not good food. Well, didn’t do that. Had no desire! Didn’t even consider it!

I made my raw “burritos” with the Romaine wrapped around sliced tomatoes, avos and olives. Two of those and I was satisfied. An hour or two later, had a banana. No cravings!!!

Yesterday, I was up at one a.m. Realized I was hungry about 3 a.m. so, had a small salad from Elaina Love’s. Slept for a couple of hours, had two glasses of orange juice which I’d brought with me, then headed over to the festival about 11 a.m. Not hungry.

After speaking, I stopped at Elaina’s, got salad and roll to go, headed home about 2 p.m. Still not hungry. No cravings whatsoever! Stopped about 4:30, had the roll and a few olives I’d picked up at the festival. That was it until 9 p.m. when I had a small salad and some o.j. Bo’d made for me.

This is the first time in my life I’ve ever been so aware of myself, my food habits and hunger. So often I’ll think ~ “right now, I’d normally be eating but, I’m not hungry!”

I know hanging out at a festival with nothing really to do, I’d normally be eating. Didn’t happen. Driving home to relieve boredom, eat. Nope! In my room alone, watching vids or reading ~ eat. Nooope! I ate when I wasn’t watching a vid or reading. Totally focused and savoring my food and how I felt eating it. Soooo pleasurable.

I know my program works. I am SO thrilled with it! I’ve never found anything that I’ve done I’ve been so happy with. I just have this strong feeling of contentment and joy knowing that women (and maybe, eventually, I’ll do a men’s program) do NOT have to continue going on endless weight-loss diets only to be frustrated one more time! It’s over!

AND, by referring others who sign up, they can virtually pay for this totally risk-free program. I truly wish everyone could feel the way I’m feeling now about food, cravings, emotional eating, etc. Oh! What am I saying? They can! Yet, will they?

Injoy,

Revvell

My Incredible Life and a Mysterious Moment

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

I’m sitting here eating one of Rawmazing’s wonderful crepes and marveling at the last 4 days or so.
One thing that’s amazing to me is how many people say to eliminate weight, cut out the fats. I don’t know what fat they’re talking about because I ate 4, count ‘em 4 crepes last night and this morning I’m down another pound. When I went raw about 14 years ago, we really didn’t have the resources that are available now so pretty much all we had were nut and seed-based recipes. Burgers, breads, crackers, etc. and we ALL (six of us) eliminated excess weight. I didn’t have that much to drop but it was leaving!

Also, on one of my interview shows, I think it was Susan Schenck on Let’s Talk Raw, who talked about her fat elimination method and that was 400 calories a meal, 4 times a day, including raw fat w/ each meal. Well, I’m not a calorie counter but I went out and got some avos, olives and coconut oil. With each meal (mostly various salads yet, sometimes just a banana or two) I had either a few olives, OR 1/4 (or so) avo, OR a couple of teaspoons of fudge, made with coconut oil. Did that add up to 1600 calories? *shrug* I dunno. All I can say is, my stomach is flatter than it’s been in a long time; pants I was not able to put a leg into a couple of months ago I can now wear again comfortably and I feel good!

Now, to help me stay on the regimen, I’m also using the tools I’m teaching women in my classes. Know this! I am NOT starving; I don’t feel deprived in the least. I’m eating full, satisfying meals with natural nutrients and enzymes.

My husband is not raw ~ not even close. The only thing he eats that has any vitality at all is freshly squeezed oj. His favorites are bread, pasta, pizza, chicken whatever and fish.

Being vegetarian for 23+ years, the chicken and fish has not been a problem but the starches???? Oh yes, I’ve succumbed but, not for awhile now!

In one of my blog posts I mentioned how, when He was gone on a gig I’d eat and overeat HIS stuff. One night I even ate a whole pizza! Well, that’s ended. He’s been working a LOT lately and I stay raw and sane in my food choices! I make sure I have food “I” like and want; have NO desire to check the cupboards for bread or pretzels; never even LOOK in the freezer for pizza or potatoes….. NO desire whatsoever!!! Cheese is staring me in the face. My mind is like ~ “what’s that? Is that even edible?”

It is SO cool to not want any of that stuff!

The first to go was sweets. I remember being at weddings or birthday parties and sticking my finger into the frosting on the cake. I’d always want the corner piece where most of the frosting was. Forget the cake, just give me frosting. That doesn’t even look like something someone should put in their body to me anymore. I remember that sickly sweet taste and eeeeeuuuuwww! Yuck! So, that craving is GONE!

If you look at my squeezepage, you’ll see one of MY former downfalls. Sneaking food! See the woman with the potato chips next to her? That use to be me. In another blog post I mentioned how, when I was a child, I’d sneak into the cupboards when my mother was gone. Well, I found myself doing that as an adult. Using the tools I share, that lil habit is GONE!

Oh! The mysterious moment. Yesterday morning I was out walking and at one point, before even heading back, I was wishing I’d have drunk some water or brought some with me. My mouth was dry. A couple of houses from that thought, I saw what appeared to be a bottle of water. It was! AND, it was full, never opened!!! DAYUM!!!! Well, I opened it; drank it. It was soooo good! Now, I was also hoping I’d see the bear that’s been frequenting the area I walk. Didn’t get that wish.

O.k! Here’s what’s been happening business-wise. I realized that many of us have issues around the holidays. There comes this cycle where we go to friends’/relatives’ homes and we overeat ~ OR, we stay home and ~ overeat. We rationalize that these holidays come only once a year so, going to indulge. In actuality, we act as though we’ve not eaten all year and we’ll never eat again! At the end of the holidays we feel as though we SHOULD never eat again since we ate so much.

In January, we do the “I’ve GOT to lose this weight – I’m going on a diet” resolution. (how many of those have you done and kept?)scalegirlr

How would it be if you could enjoy the holidays, enjoy the food, enjoy the company FULLY and TOTALLY without overeating? How would it be if in January, you didn’t feel the need or urge to go on another weight loss diet because you savored your food instead of stuffed it? (listen to what the monkey mind has to say about that ~ Oh, stuffing yourself is part of the fun! Is it REALLY? )

How would it be if you could share the information I’m about to give you and create over $24 as holiday income for every person you referred who joined in?

How would it be if YOU could stay raw with no effort? Wouldn’t that be awesome???

Well, one thing I’ve found out on my journey. ALL weight loss diets “work” IF you can stay on them. That’s the catch. How many food programs have you been on? Even staying on raw ~ as soon as stress comes up, what do we do? What we’ve always done ~ eat! and, not raw, either, yes?

Check it out. If it makes sense to you, join me and some new friends on my pre-holiday support program. Support yourself by eliminating those fears and emotions which cause you to overeat and potentially make some cash to support you in your journey.

Enough for now,

Revvell

Book Signing, Fire Update, New Class

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Last night part of the neighborhood got together for a local book signing. Pretty cool! It was held at Webster’s Fine Stationers and we were all right by the door when folks came in.

I also had an opportunity to do smoozie demos. I didn’t get a lot of action but some of the other authors did. People either knew them or had heard of them. No one knew me unless they were “friends” from Facebook. Was nice to meet the other authors, one I knew from her writing and the other whose name I knew but him, I didn’t know.

Anyway, my name is slowly getting out there and, it was a pleasant evening.

The fire is still going on. There’s a $150,000 reward for the jamoke who started it. One good thing about the fire ~ fire “season” hasn’t really started yet with the Santa Ana winds and such but now, there’s little fuel to burn.

It’s only 49% contained which means IF the winds start up, the fire can do even MORE damage.

The air here is bad. I went out to water my suffering garden and my throat is raw from all the smoke. Raw honey helps a lot in this situation.

Between trips to the beach where I really don’t want to work and time here, I’m working on my newest teleclass beginning in October. 7 weeks with 3 1/2 hour private sessions. It’s going to be AWESOME! We’re setting up an affiliate program for anyone who’d like to spread the word and create some income. Costs you nothing!

A new Let’s Talk Raw is happening tomorrow evening (Monday, Sept. 7) with Jim Carey (no, not the comedian).

Enough for now ~

Revvell

We’re Home Again

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Whew! This has been an amazing week or so. He came to me yesterday and asked what I was doing last evening. Well, I’ve got a teleclass, why? He said his throat was sore from breathing the smoke and would like to get out, get some fresh air, etc. Sure! We can do that. One great thing about doing teleclasses, they can be done ANYwhere!

So, we packed up necessities for the day and headed out. I had a meeting at 3 (by phone) and then the teleclass. Between the two, we were at the beach OR checking out the Trikke! My plan is to get the T12. Riding it is a challenge and FUN!!! Human Powered Vehicle. When you look at it you wonder ~ how does s/he make it go???

We first saw someone riding one on Sunday at the motel. It’s funny how that turned out because we’d gotten what we thought was a good deal at another motel and something told me to try the one across the street so, we did. It was only $6 less than the other yet, it was $6 less than the other and the rooms looked the same.

Well, there was a reason to stay there and that was to learn about the Trikke! Steve was riding it in the parking lot that afternoon and as we were going to the beach I asked him about it. He explained it then asked if I wanted to give it a shot. Oh yeah, sure!!! Well, I couldn’t get it to move for nuthin’! Not even downhill!

Himself got it moving a bit. I want one!!!

Steve told us about a dealer, so since we were headed in that direction, we went there yesterday. He is a better teacher. Within a few minutes he got me riding down the street; turning around (really badly) and riding back!!! I got to see ~ and ride ~ the various models so I could make a good decision. We had to leave because I had a business call yet, we’ll be back.

We stopped in at Pantera for the class and to have some eats. They make a decent salad.

The beach was BEAUTIFUL!!! I could really live there! This fire has been a pita yet, because we have the time and means to get away and because of places like Pantera with WiFi access, we can still take care of biz. We stayed until about 8 p.m. walking and exploring the area. Came home, much of the smoke dissipated but it’s back this morning!

My throat is hurting already. We just MAY have to head out again. I really could live at Redondo Beach. So many people are SO active there! Roller blading, surfing, body boarding, running up and down the stairs and ramps… so many fit people! I want to BE one of them!

Oh! Received a compliment from Steve mentioned above. Two, actually. He asked my age range and I told him I’m 60 and he said he’d have guessed 10-15 years younger (I’d not have guessed he was 50) and he also complimented us on getting on and trying the Trikke. He said many are fascinated but few will actually get on and give it a shot. Well, I live once and don’t want to pass up a minute!

As of this writing, it’s 5 hours before the Wed. morning edition of “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight“. If you’ve been struggling to stay on a food program, been on/off the diet roller coaster, etc., might want to look into it. Once we get started, the doors are closed!

bfn,

Revvell

T-12 Trikke

T-12 Trikke