Didn’t go out for a walk yesterday morning. Didn’t have plans for WHAT to do except work and relax. He had a gig so, I knew I was going to be alone.

I have an invite to vend and speak at an event held at a mall in Orange County so, thought I’d take a drive down there. An hour down and an hour back! *shudders* When I told Him where I was going, He said, “That’s where my wedding is!” Well, hey now! Ummm, could you, would you… ummm, go a bit early and check out this mall? I want to see what kind of crowd they have there on Sunday before I commit? He said “YES!” so, I got to stay home and go up to the event the stationary store up the street was holding. Made my appearance there (looked for my books ~ sold out maybe?) then decided it was such a lovely day, I NEEDED to walk so, I did. Very strange to be walking the streets during the day. Can actually see something.

Anyway, walk I did. The weather is now just so PERFECT!

I’ve been eating 3 salads a day and fruit when otherwise hungry. I feel so clean. Yup! Salad for breakfast. Going to have one in just a lil bit.

btw ~ IF you’re straddling the fence on “Tap Into Your Ideal Weight“, today’s the LAST day to get the BEST price! I’ll never go that low again. If you, or someone you know is tired of the struggle; tired of the diets; having trouble staying on raw because of cravings, social obligations ~ whatever! I’ll be sharing numerous tools that you can use to stop the downward spiral.

I was chatting with a friend yesterday. We met at the Raw Spirit Festival in Santa Barbara and she, her friend and I pretty much spent 3 days together.

She told me about all the great raw food she makes and invited me over to her trailer to share some. She’s an amazing raw food chef so, I encouraged her to make and share, which she did. Of course, people started asking for recipes; asking to purchase some of her food; asking for classes.

Recently she held her very first class. People, of course, were amazed at how good raw food can be! What was really amazing to one person in particular was when she asked my friend the ingredients in one desert. There were about 2. She could not BELIEVE it! She said there HAD to be more!

What Roe and I discussed was the fact that people think life, changes, THINGS, have to be complicated and convoluted. There HAS to be more!

I get that even now in my classes. “I still don’t believe that’s all I have to do”. So, I give them more to do so they’ll feel better. lol It’s all good stuff! But no, stopping the emotional eating; dealing with social obligations; loving yourself enough to care does NOT have to be difficult.

Join me, wont you? “Tap Into You Ideal Weight” NOW! If not now, when? What are you waiting for?

Yours in Health,

Revvell

How did our language devolve to where we “fight” against what it is we don’t like/want?

For instance, I just saw someone ask another if they were going to give up their lunch today to “fight hunger”. Huh? How does one person being hungry help another to not be?

We’ve all heard “fight” heart disease, “fight” diabetes; the “war on drugs”, etc. Well, how are these working?

In my opinion, teaching someone to grow their own food will assist them in not being hungry rather than another giving up their food and and joining the hungry (I know, not QUITE the same but, you get the gist. Being poor doesn’t help the poor; being hungry doesn’t help the hungry). So, what are solutions?

For hunger ~ teach people about sprouting; community gardens; HOW to live in the city (or wherever) and become self-sustainable ~ in other words, EDUCATION!!!! I know people who live in the heart of downtown Hollywood and they grow their own food, compost in their kitchen, etc. There are others who participate in a community garden or CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Teach and educate and if people don’t want to learn.. well, what to do? Fight them or leave them to their otherness?

As far as “fighting” dis-ease… that’s not seemed to work. The big 3 are still there and going strong so, again, EDUCATION! The top 3 dis-eases are all life-style created! So, what’s that tell you! Change the lifestyle, get to the root of the problem, change health. People will say “It runs in my family”. Well, as Dick Gregory said “Just because it runs in your family, doesn’t mean you have to run with it”. And really, it’s not the dis-ease that runs in your family, it’s your lifestyle.

So, we’ve been staging the “war on drugs” for about 30 years or so now. How’s that going? My only answer for that is, be the change YOU want to see… so, stop supporting the legal drug industry yourself! Clean out your medicine chest and find alternative ways to deal with your issues. If they’re mental/emotional, find someone to help you resolve them; physical? Most likely, changing your lifestyle will help you resolve them (yes, I know there are exceptions but I’m not talking about them). Turn off the t.v. and stop looking at the ads for this drug or that drug to supposedly assist you in all your aches and pains. Find alternative solutions which will assist you in regaining your health and support you in living the best life you could ever imagine.

When you die do you want to lay on your bed wishing things were different? The only one who can make the difference is you. Educate if you know; learn if you don’t. Yes, it’s that simple ~ BUT, I’m not saying it’s easy.

Injoy ~

Revvell

I currently have time available for 2 clients who wish to know more about living a Self-Empowered Life. I’m the author of “Smoothies and Smoozies for Life” and the playbook “Revvellutionize Your Life in 30 Days ~ a Self-Empowering Playbook” and the host of numerous online radio programs including “Celebrating Your Potential“.

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

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

… 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’m reading the usual bad news in the latest AARP Bulletin about Sick Care (o.k, they call it “health” care but you’ve got to be sick in order to take advantage of it) I’m truly amazed at the advice given including:

Nowhere does it say ~ Stop expecting others to do what you can do for yourself ~ Change your lifestyle and become healthy! It’s your health! Your life! Your body!

The American Cancer Society, with all it’s billions of dollars will never find a cure for cancer as long as humans keep creating it! The American Heart Association will never find a cure for heart disease as long as humans keep creating it! Consider this ~ IF the AMA and ACS go out of business, what happens to our economy? THOUSANDS of people will be out of work, lose their homes, etc. THOUSANDS of people who are living off the laziness of others. Yes, you read that right. People have told me straight out that IF someone else made the food for them they’d eat it. MANY have told me they don’t have time! My question is, if you don’t have time to make a simple smoothie that takes less than 15 minutes a day including clean-up, how are you going to have the time to go to doctors? How are you going to have time to recover from the treatments? When will you find the time to have surgery? How will you take care of loved ones when you are ill? Who will take care of you?

Changing you lifestyle and eating healthy is waaaaay less expensive than paying off hospital bills. 

This is YOUR life and YOUR life is your responsibility! 

There is no CURE for what WE are doing to ourselves other than to stop doing it!!! Drugs do not cure! Radiation treats symptom. Surgery removes symptoms! Get to the cause! Illness is almost 95 percent lifestyle caused. WE are the cause, we are also the cure!

I’ve started a mastermind group where you can learn how to take back YOUR health starting from where you are now. Contact me for more information. 

This special includes the newly released second soft-cover edition of my book “Smoothies and Smoozies for Life” and Mike Anderson’s 110 minute dvd “Eating Plus”.