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Stop the bloating and discomfort by.....

3/26/2020

Over the past 4 to 5 years I've been experimenting with a number of diets and health protocols in an attempt to repair my digestion. In doing so I've come to a few conclusions that I would like to share:

1. elimination is a requirement for change.

2. professional guidance is a time-money-energy saver.

3. you have to work from the inside out.

4. it takes time.....a long time.

5. good health far out weighs any of your other priorities.

Now let me dive in and explain each point a little further.

In my youth, like most youth, I took my health for granted, I had so much of it that I didn't know what it was like to be without it, and therefore I felt invincible. This feeling of invincibility enabled me to pursue whatever physical goals I wanted to with a level of recklessness and disregard that would later prove costly.

Many years of training incorrectly, eating incorrectly, and living incorrectly, started to slowly chip away at my health.....but it was this super slow pace of health deterioration that allowed me to ignore the change, giving myself easy excuses and viewing abnormalities as everyday normalcy.

Over time my health progressively got worse and I finally reached that unfortunate point that so many of us do before actually making a change.

My digestion had totally deteriorated....bloating and discomfort was a regularity in my life....the days of enjoying everything and anything that comes across my plate were now gone.

I decided to try health-diet after health-diet, supplement after supplement. Through this process I discovered that self treatment wasn't going to work, I simply didn't have enough skill to repair what was a deep internal dysfunction that I had developed over years of neglect and abuse. I also discovered that most diets work by eliminating something and it was this elimination of aggravating foods and supplements that actually did offer some relief, although it alone wouldn't be enough either. More time passed, I tried more things, and while I learned how to avoid aggravating my symptoms most of the time, I wasn't getting any better.

Step in: professional guidance.

I finally decided to accept some professional guidance (special thanks to The Migraine Professional) and it was through this guidance that I finally started to take a cohesive approach that would lead me to a slow recovery of my digestive and overall health. It was with some professional insight that I realized there were many connected and underlying issues that had to be corrected from a wholistic approach if I had any hope of actually repairing my health instead of just avoiding reactions/symptoms. We started a wholistic approach almost 1.5 years ago and I've seen some great improvements in both my energy levels and my digestion (even my skin and hair has improved) but I understand that the road is longer still, and more importantly, I accept that and stay committed to the course. Had I sought professional guidance earlier, I would have not only avoided deteriorating my health as far as I did, but I would have saved thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours, and an unmeasurable amount of energy trying to get my health back.

I made the necessary changes to my lifestyle and in turn regained some of my health. With an eye on the future and better health still to come, I sit here writing and reflecting, and I can say that without a doubt, my health must come first and all those other priorities simply have to move down in order of priority.

If you too, are suffering, don't know what to do, are failing with what you've tried, or feel helpless and defeated by something you think you can't fix.........reach out and seek the helping hand of a wholistic guide.....make an investment and a commitment to your wellbeing. #QUALITY OF LIFE MATTERS

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What's the best diet?

4/23/2019

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The best diet it is the one that you can sustain and that will sustain you.

Often we become obsessed with the newest diet fad, we chase it and then we let it go like all those that came before it. But the biggest mistake we make is thinking of a diet as a one-and-done undertaking instead of a long-term strategy. It's great if you can jump on a keto diet, follow it for a few weeks, and lose those extra pounds that you wanted to...but then what.....what happens when you get off of the keto diet? As with most diets, the moment they end is the same moment that the pounds or bad health effects start coming back. This is why one of the most important parts of undertaking a diet is the pre-diet and post-diet plan. You should always develop a pre-diet plan that allows you to gradually eliminate (over the course of a few weeks or months) some but not all of the items that you will be removing on the actual "diet". This serves 2 purposes:
1) you get to gradually work on eliminating the worst offenders, alleviating a sharp and often self-sabotaging physiological response, while getting to experience many of the health improvements even at this early/easy stage of your journey.
2) just like when you start to weight train, you do yourself a dis-service by jumping right into the most advanced workout regimen, instead you could be seeing great gains and improvements even with novice level training, which allows you to continue to progress into more intense training, experiencing continuous results the entire way instead of plateauing or sabotaging your progress right at the start. Dieting works the same way.
The post-diet plan on the other hand is akin to an exit-strategy. Upon successful completion of your diet you want to be able to transition into a healthy and sustainable lifestyle that takes away some of the most valuable or most liveable components of your deit and incorporates them into your daily life moving forward. Examples might include: removing 90% of refined sugar; replacing 90% of high-carb and/or high glycemic meal side dishes with vegetable and/or low-glycemic side dishes; removing meat from your diet except for post workout meals; removing 100% of dairy/gluten/other aggravating foods; etc. The number of examples, just like the number of diets are endless.

So the takeaway here is:
1. based on my next diet, what gradual changes will I make in the weeks/months leading up to starting?
2. once on my diet, I will commit 110%, there are no things such as cheat days!
3. based on and after my diet, what lifelong (or at least year long) dietary changes will I take away and make a part of my daily lifestyle moving forward?

Enjoy the journey and see you at the gym,
Team Fitness Etc

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