Welcome to the July 15th Edition of Helping Reshape the World.

Day 4 done and going strong.

Had to be a bit flexible yesterday and did not beat myself up for it.

Breakfast was out of Bananas, so my juice was organges and strawberries only and it was wonderful.

Went out to lunch so I ordered a large plain salad.  Put plain vinegar on it and then wondered if that was a good or bad thing.  Stopped on the way home to pick up sunflowers to soak and took all of the lunch ingredients on the cleanse and threw on my left over salad. So lunch was kind of two part and switched with dinner.

My son made my Penny’s Pate for me (was laying down with headache 4 days in a row) he served it up to me garnished with cilantro and a few of the sunflower seeds on top.  OH MY GOSH…10 STARS for that recipe.  Gave a bite to my husband to try and took another one.  He thought it was fabulous too.

Yesterday I shared how I started my vegetarian journey by giving up chicken and turkey.  After about 6-9 months, I called the nutritionist to ask her for a book recommendation.  I wanted to read a book about beef which would impact me the way Fit For Life did about poultry and she gave me Beyond Beef.  That was in 1995 and have never had ANY kind of beef since I finished reading the book.

Looking forward to Day 5 and excited to be on this journey with each of you.

Helping REshape the World,

Judi

Weight Loss and Support Coach
Team Beachbody Founding Diamond Coach

Welcome to the July 8th Edition of Helping Reshape the World.

Woo Hoo Day 3!

Am still so excited and just whipped up my Banana OJ Smoothie and it totally rawks!  Loving it.  Had a headache most of the afternoon and evening yesterday so took a nap.  Very hard for my Type A personality type, but am working to honor my body, not abuse during these 21 days.

For my salad yesterday, added cauliflower and portabello mushrooms and chickened out on adding the beet.  Still recovering mentally from my bad green smoothie experience a few weeks ago.  Added fresh rosemary and lemon thyme from my garden to the dressing.

The Kale Wraps were ok and glad I did not eat at the same time as my family who was having fresh pesto and whole wheat pasta.  Almost wanted to take a taste and decided not too.

Am switching up lunch and dinner today, since I need Kevin to come home to open the coconut for me.  Still trying to decide on just the cherries or the cherries and apple pie for lunch.  Have been soaking my almonds all night in case I want both.

Have not started my journaling yet and want to get caught up on that today. Maybe there is something there I don’t want to see?????

Love the support and comraderie of this group!

Helping Reshape the World,

Judi

Weight Loss Coach
Team Beachbody Founding Diamond Coach

I’m back and yesterday was great!  Felt good all day and actually was filled by each of the meals.  Am stuffed this morning from so much great grapefruit juice.  I was most worried about giving up my caffeinated teas and did not have a problem.  Had a great cup of herbal tea last night and was fine.  All I noticed was a tiny headache before bed which was gone this morning.

Yesterday was the first time I had ever personally made Tabouli or Guacamole and loved both of them.  Looking forward to today’s meals too.

I started becoming vegetarian a little over 15 years ago.  At the time I sold Real Estate and was attending a big retreat in Palm Desert, CA.  The host brought a nutritionist to speak to us one day after the normal program and I stayed to listen.  Who would have thought how much my life would change starting that day.

One of the books she recommended was Fit For Life by Marilyn and Harvey Diamond which I immediately bought.  One impact of that book was I never have eaten chicken or turkey in my life since finishing reading Fit For Life.

Weight has really been my biggest struggle in life and I dubbed myself the “Queen of the Weight Lost and Found Department” since I have lost and found over 1500 pounds in the last 25 years.  I have set the intention to lose 5 or more pounds during this 21 day program.

More later, off to finish my grapefruit juice before it is time for lunch.

Helping Reshape the World,

Judi
Weight Loss Coach
Team Beachbody Diamond Founding Coach

So excited and nervous to be starting this journey.

After over 15 years of being vegetarian, raw seemed to be a natural next step both for my health and achieving and maintaining my ideal weight.

Over this holiday weekend, I have been thinking alot about how grateful I am to be free from dieting. Choosing to make healthy choices every day is so much more empowering than being told what I can and can’t eat.

I have been feeling a desire to return to vegan over the past several months and this is a great opportunity to do so in a supported fashion.

I have set a goal to lose five pounds or more over these three weeks and I feel it’s a very reasonable goal. There is a 28 day Transition to Raw program which begins following this and am considering doing that too. Would give me seven weeks raw. Keeping my options open.

Starting today off with fresh squeezed OJ and don’t remember the last time I had this. Totally delicious.

If you’re reading this in my Helping Reshape the World Blog, know that it is also being posted on my forum for my cleanse and vice versa. So depending on which group you are in, some things may seem obvious and that’s why.

Judi
Helping REshape the World
Team Beachbody Diamond Founding Coach

Welcome to the July 1st Edition of Helping Reshape the World.

Attended a great meet up cooking demo Friday night and met lots of wonderful people exploring raw foods.  Came home so motivated, made my first vegan raw pie recipe yesterday – Banana Butter Pie and everyone gave it a 10!  This recipe did not call for a crust and will add one next time.  Delish and healthy and still made sure I had only a tiny piece with calories counted.  From the book:

This will make a great story to look back on someday.  I have butterflies in my stomach as I think about writing this post and it is very personal and may not suit everyone’s idea of what is ok to share.  When I am earning one million dollars a year with Beachbody, I can say “remember when?”

As I am watching five to six birds, including a hummer outside my office, I am overwhelmed with gratitude they are there.  More about that later.  It hit me how important it is to value and appreciate all we have in our lives beginning with just being alive. And I am feeling very alive and grateful this morning.

The last six weeks have been some of the most challenging I have experienced ever in my professional life.  And I welcomed and really worked hard at embracing the challenges because I know it is all leading me in the direction I am destined to go.

May 1, after I sold Team Women, I realized I had to have an emotional and financial closure to move forward.  Team Women had been my passion and my baby for the last five years and letting it go was ever so much harder than I could imagine.  The only reason I was able to transition was because of my wonderful friend and amazing new owner, Michele DeKinder Smith.  Thanks Michele and click here to see the new Team Women.

The actual process involved closing all phone lines (home office, office, cell), office internet turned off, all checking accounts closed etc.  For four weeks I was without phones completely.  Life gets pretty quiet when you are living outside of the grid.  Many of my online services (Ning Groups, Constant Contact, Merchant Services, Go to Webinar) were also closed.  I felt like I had literally dropped off the face of the earth and I had in a way.

Thanks to those of you who reached out to check on me and were concerned.  You will never know how much that means to me.  I had coaching calls I could not make, appointments I did not keep, commitments I did not keep, follow through which fell through the cracks and basically was really in a sad state mentally.  If you are one of the people I let down, I am truly sorry and hope you will forgive me.

Another event which coincided with all of this was I ran out of my anti-depressants.  I have never just admitted out loud I am on medication for depression.  A long time ago, I would have just told myself to get over it and handle it.  However, about 10 years ago in an Optifast Class (of all places) a psychiatrist came in and talked about the signs of depression and almost all of them fit me like Cinderella’s slipper.

After several months of trial and error, I found what worked for me and have been on ever since.  I know there are lots of opinions about depression and whether it is mental or physical and I know for me it truly is a brain thing.   And the last six weeks have been proof of that to me.

I have been out for a couple of days before, however never for six weeks.  What I noticed was each day was I did less, cared less about doing less and feel the physical difference in my body.  Normally a very chatty person (ask Kevin) I went long periods without talking and actually took to laying on the coach for several hours every afternoon watching television.

Am very proud I continued to eat healthy 85% of the time (only had one really bad food choice and may I add quesadillas did not taste anything good like I remembered.) My weight has fluctuated up and down three pounds and am thrilled with that.  I also continued to work out (not as much as I wanted, but still was making the effort sometimes.)  My weekly newsletters were going out late and this week not at all.  Could not motivate myself to do them and I know of all people how important they are.  The Coaches on Fire Calls had to be cancelled since I had no phone or Go to Webinar. And the list goes on.

Right as this was all starting I had created a 100 Pound Countdown Group on Facebook.  With only 11 pounds left to release before my last 100 I wanted to do it together with others.  Since I started it (60 great members) I haven’t lost any yet.  Don’t give up on me peeps!

Life has definitely been in session.  Kevin came home yesterday with my new RX and by 8 pm last night I was noticing a physical difference in me and Kevin could also.  Lesson learned from that was depression is not your imagination.  It is your brain chemicals not working right (not a doctor, obviously.)  I feel better today than in quite a while and it feels great.  The cell phone is back on as of last Friday and Home office phone on yesterday.  Our phone and internet at the office will be operational by Monday and continuing to prioritize and start over with Beachbody Coaching as my sole purpose in life.

And about the birds…  When we were evaluating carefully where we put every penny, birdseed was not in the budget.  So I have been looking at our empty feeders for the last month and a half.  Day before yesterday I bought the main type they eat and am so excited to see a couple of birds out there today.  Have been dropping by one by one and guess they need some time to forgive me too.

When you give things up, you truly learn the value of them and can decide how important to you each of them really is.  Lots of lessons learned, eating healthy, on Day Four of my Summer P90X Challenge and planning on sending out a note in lieu of my newsletter this week.

Appreciate everyone and everything in your life. Thanks for being part of mine. Xoxo

Helping Reshape the World,

Judi

P. S.  If you are one of the folks I owe a call, an email or let you down; I am so sorry and working on getting caught up…xoxo  And thanks to everyone who has been there for me.