Why Our Job Is To Teach Not Preach How To Eat Right

It’s the end of the year 2022 and all is NOT well.

 

After eating rich meals of foods rarely eaten is your gut swollen past recognition? Are you bloated, sleepy, and unable to go to the bathroom without camping out with a magazine? (I know, too much information, right?)

Were you dieting like gang-busters the week before in hopes you could indulge in all of grandma’s goodies and the meal stacked on the table a mile high? Sweetie, it simply doesn’t work like that.

Let me share one teenager’s story with you. Let a youngster inspire you to sit up, listen, and then …

My granddaughter is 18 now, but her journey began when she was just 14. Her health issues began at birth when she was born prematurely and spent three months in the hospital unable to go home with her parents.

For the last two decades, I’ve been working on getting healthier myself. It wasn’t until the last six years that I began learning about foods, my body, and its systems; how they work together for beneficial nutrients and energy.  Discovering that vitamins are equally as important in a different way than I had previously thought was something new to me. My family watched as so many of my health issues disappeared and when I lost 70 pounds and kept it off they were more than pleased.

One benefit I never expected was to help my family learn about their health just by setting an example. Simply by watching and being inquisitive kids they asked to make changes in their diets, too. My granddaughter had always struggled with respiratory issues and phlegm was a huge issue for her. When she watched the documentary I recommended to her mom, she decided she wanted to ditch the grains and milk for healthier alternatives, too.  She ate what her mom fixed for dinner but like any kid, her mom couldn’t watch what she ate when she was with friends.

I wish I could tell you that I always educated without preaching. However, that wasn’t the case. Don’t you get passionate about protecting your loved ones from danger, too? I didn’t know if she was absorbing any of it, but I kept talking. She kept taking her customized nutrition and made little, but major changes in her diet including almond and coconut milk instead of cow’s milk. It wasn’t long and her phlegm issue was resolved 100%. The better she felt the more questions she asked and the more changes she asked to make.

Weight was never the topic, total health was.

The food and lifestyle choices my granddaughter made did more than get her body healthy. Because she had much more energy and felt better her confidence rose and so did many activities she chose to take part in. Her entire attitude changed. She has taken on physical activities like horseback riding classes, and piano lessons and now has taken on teaching little tots how to do the same. Instead of feeling deprived of the things she thought she was “missing,” she feels liberated, full of life realizing that she is no longer addicted to unhealthy food and feels in control of her body and moods.

This is my entire mission – to make people feel in complete control over their bodies and realize NOTHING has to stay the way that it is. The icing on the cake is when women who crave change feel liberated, mind, body, and soul by setting stubborn but healthy boundaries.

And now as a young adult, she is sharing her lifestyle with her friends, one family at a time. My friend, if an 18-year-old can take charge of how she eats, exercises, and lives her life daily why can’t you?

You can.

What we do in our Facebook Health Group called Bedrock is going to spill over to your whole family including giving your kids and grandkids the knowledge to make their own lives healthier.

Send me a message that says “I want to“. Let’s chat to plot out your customized plan. Let’s get started working to help your body purge the bloat, gas, and all that goes with it.