do not read this unless you want to lose weight
You’re still reading . . . so I’m guessing you’ve “lost” weight only to find it again?
A few times? How many times in your life have you gained and lost 10 lbs.?
Or 20?
Did you just sigh, thinking about how many times you’ve been through that?
So many people are out there telling you how to lose weight, and
I am furious with most of them–including the M.D.s–who teach
ways of losing weight that damage your health in the process. Some just
want to grab their share of the big diet empire. And others? Well, maybe
they’re choosing to remain ignorant. Ignorant of what Dr. Joel Fuhrman says
is even MORE evidence that plant foods prevent disease than we have evidence
that smoking causes lung cancer!
Calorie counting backfires. Eating massive protein and minimizing carbs is a
cancer- and heart-disease-causing diet. Eating for your blood type is
based on bogus “science,” at best.
At GreenSmoothieGirl.com, I don’t support that kind of dieting, and I’ve told
you on this blog exactly what’s wrong with all those dieting approaches.
Y’all have asked me to create a COMPREHENSIVE weight loss program.
I’ve thought about it. But why re-invent the wheel, when it’s been done?
I’ve found that program, the one that will not only cause weight loss, but
VIBRANT HEALTH and minimized disease risk. It’s essentially what
I would write, if I wrote a targeted weight-loss program.
I’ll tell you tomorrow! Stay tuned, because you’ll have only three
days to jump in, at that point.
If it is the Diva girls program the “raw for 30 days” program isn’t it exactly what you have been teaching us? And if we follow everything you teach us in your 12 step program that we will naturally lose weight and find our natural weight without having to pay that huge amount of money that they are asking for & find our vibrant health? Isn’t it just fancy marketing? Don’t we know most of what they have to offer? We have you and everyone else on this blog cheering us on. why do we need to pay alot of money for a program we already have?
Augh, I’ll be out of town from this afternoon until Monday, there will be no three days for me! I still have about 15-20 lbs to lose, too!
I don’t want to spoil Robyns blog for tomorrow, but I want to share my experience with this topic. I have spent all my adulthood overweight and miserable. My weight went from 135 to 280 during that time. Most of the time I had skewed ideas that I was either too fat (when I weighed 135) and not that fat (when I weighed 280) My perception was always off. But I did know that I just didn’t feel good.
I have been on weight watchers, the soup diet, hard boiled egg diet, chinese tea, and every diet that came in magazines. I finally found that Atkins worked for me – three times! Funny that I would go off after several months and the weight would come back on, with its 30 lb friend! I realized that if I kept dieting that way I would completely ruin my health. I was so afraid to start another diet, so I decided to never diet again and just accept myself as I was.
I remarried at 210 lbs and within 3 years had put on 70 lbs with careless eating, primarily fast food. Then my DH was diagnosed with cancer (digestive related) and I found GSG. It was an answer to prayer because this is a LIFESTYLE – not a diet. In the last 9 mos I have lost 40 lbs, my skin glows, I am nearly off the medications I was taking for high blood pressure, arthritic aches and pains, and mucus. My wrinkles also are going away!
I will NEVER diet again because I can eat everything I want and truly enjoy it (even chocolate). I am never hungry because I have God’s fast food with me all the time (fruits). I have found that the more raw I eat the faster I lose weight. I am no longer fanatical about it and believe that my body will end up the weight I am supposed to be, not the way society says it should be. I just wish I had been able to learn this earlier in life.
Sorry about the long blog, but I feel that finding GSG and this blog has saved my life! Thanks, Robyn and every one else!
KAREN, you are darling, and I am unspeakably proud of you. That you did all this while caring for a cancer victim is SO INSPIRING. You knew intuitively what the truth was, and that you saw my CAR and went to the web site on it was just you knowing at some level what you and your husband needed.
LESLEE, valid question!
And my answer will be similar to my answer when asked why I suggest my readers consider the Arise & Shine cleanse (including home colonics). It may have been you, in fact, who pointed out THAT program isn’t cheap, and asked, can’t we achieve the same thing doing what you’re already teaching us?
(The Arise & Shine 28-day cleanse will run you about $250, plus a colema board/tips/etc.– if you get them, they will be at least $200. I don’t sell it–I just recommend it.)
And that answer is, you stick with 12 Steps to Whole Foods, over time, you will achieve your ideal weight and be vibrantly healthy. It’s a lifestyle you can commit to, and it’s very affordable. YES is the answer to your question.
So why do I love what Angela and Tera did here? (Angela lost 160 lbs.!) You should read my Inbox every day. Hundreds upon hundreds of people write me, begging for help. Be in the nutrition/health education biz, and you’ll find out–up close and personal!–how sick and overweight and desperate America is. It breaks my heart every day. I can’t even write them all back. This program is for them.
Some people–LOTS of people–need to hit it hard, and fast, NOW–or they’re gonna die way too young. I’m not exaggerating. They are miserable. They hate being in their own skin.
If you’re drinking a quart of GS daily, doing 12 Steps to WholeFoods, you’re learning, losing weight, and happy? You’ve conquered your emotional eating and aren’t binging on junk food? AWESOME! Over the long term, you’ll get TONS of cleansing (less need for Arise & Shine) and ALL the weight loss you need (no need for the Body Enlightenment System).
But, readers, if I described you up there–ill, suffering, desperate, overweight, and sick of it all, especially the yo-yo dieting–please consider joining Tera and Angela in this biannual Body Enlightenment System.
I wouldn’t recommend this if I didn’t think it is an excellent program that can transform people’s lives. Eating as close to 100% raw as possible is the best way I know of to lose weight AND be healthy. If I get up a couple of pounds, that’s what I do. Eating raw also readjusts your tastes to the way God made food, helping you let go of chemical addictions. (Sugar is a chemical addiction, because sugar is a chemical–ditto MSG and so many others.) Eat raw for 30 days on this program and the junk food you formerly craved will taste AWFUL to you.
I say this a lot, but if I have learned one thing about people through gsg.com, it is this: PEOPLE WANT TO EAT RIGHT. THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW. THEY NEED HELP.
As for the fact that it costs money? This is a basic principle of human behavior you can observe for yourself. If you gave people the program for free, very few would do it. If they pay for it, that means something to them. The sacrifice motivates them to DO the program rather than waste money. (Jenny Craig, Diet Center, etc. are all built on this principle. And for this reason, I have constant advice from others in the health/wellness education biz to increase the price of my 12 Steps program.)
Don’t join Tera and Angela’s program if you have a couple of pounds to lose. Join if you seriously need to address a weight/eating issue, if you have 15 lbs. or more to lose, if you know you need support and guidance and TOOLS. If you are ready to commit to the highest laws of nutrition.
Oh, and Karen, may I use your comments in my book?
Anyone else, later I’ll ask more formally rather than buried as a comment, but . . .
If you have had a great experience with GREEN SMOOTHIES or GREENSMOOTHIEGIRL.COM or 12 STEPS TO WHOLE FOODS, please write me your story/testimonial (here or in email) and tell me if I can use it in the future.
Thanks, love you all,
Robyn
Love your articles, Robyn! While i never had to lose weight myself, i am inspired by the stories found on your blog and share the news with the world myself.
I was just curious if you know anything about Vitalis… So many of my friends are caught up into it. While i would never believe in magic weight loss solutions, i have no argument against it rather than my own intuition and love for green smoothies and raw food in general.
I have to admit all these gals are indeed losing the weight with Visalus, but do we know what are the long term consequences? Can we at least warn them of any side effects?
Thanks!
Alina’s Green Smoothies – Calgary AB, Canada