Some more health tips to lose weight and keep it off

I read the book "Healthy at 100" and it helped tremendously!

There has never been a culture that is vegan. The four cultures who live over 100 eat either fish or drink raw goat’s milk. I put wild salmon into my diet, some organic yogurt, and eggs(free range). I ended up going on the rawfoodbootcamp diet and have lost almost 20 pounds. However, with the holidays, I haven’t been motivated to get on the scale.

Things that have helped me to keep the weight off:

1. When hungry, eat raw!

2. Up the cardio–walk an hour a day or do 60 min cardio video like a walk video by Leslie Sansone

3. I just watched a dvd made by a dad how to stay fit at home. I think it’s called Weightless Fitness. So I incorporating quats, lunges, abs, push-ups, seated wall squats, tricep dips and calf raises to my work out every other day and have noticed a difference

4. He recommends doing at least 4 cardio blasts during the hour work out where you can hardly breathe such as jump rope or jumping jacks

5. When I eat just fruit for breakfast and a salad for lunch-I do the best!

Conversation on a Yahoo Grp about Health and Fitness

"Here are some of my responses to different health questions. I cut and pasted. I am by no means an expert but I have read almost every nutrition book out there now! (Well, if that were possible).

"I just wanted to say I ordered two exercise videos recently for those days I can’t get outside for walks or to the gym. One is really hard and intense and just a great workout! It’s called The Firm The 500 calorie workout! The other one that is also fun is Jazzercise Live Total Body Dance Workout! I was getting So sick of my Leslie Sansone videos and they never got my heart rate up."

"It’s so funny, the more you read, the more you realize that there’s not much that is okay to eat!I mean, when you read Cousens book, the bottom line, is greens and beans and nuts. When I talked to Furhman last yr, his recommendation–greens and beans! Even Mercola says on his website he eats 90% raw greens!

Anyway, this morning, I juiced vegetable juice for the first time in a LONG time and I felt fabulous! In fact, I still feel GREAT!!!I did kale, apple, beet and added in two overflowing t-spoons of Spurilina that I bought a long time ago from bulkherstore.com which are the children of the Pearls. I would have added celery or cucumbers plus carrots but didn’t have any. The Kale did not juice that much so I wouldn’t recommend it again. Maybe collard greens would be better?

Well off to services. Actually, I am late. My husband went to a homeschool dad’s breakfast and never came home yet! It’s also his b-day today. Again, I feel fabulous after juicing.

I am taking a PCOS supplement that has that CoQ in it and also Bs and Ds.Ds are usually low this time of year.

Oh and what Trish said about Barley Green, Hallelujah Acres sells Barley Green and rec taking it for breakfast and two times a half hour before lunch and dinner. I used to do that all the time and I was slimmer back then. I have been thinking of purchasing some again but just haven’t had the money or time to get online and do it. Cousens rec either barley green, spirulina or chorella. Some high protein greens in your breakfast juice or smoothie."

Answers to questions about nails breaking and bones: 1–Furhman says that finger nails get weak from washing all those fruits and veggies. Are you using gloves? I also heard sesame seeds? I heard that’s good too.Not sure about 2 but if you think you are not getting enough protein (which is rare in America), then eat beans and nuts and seeds.For 3, I thought taking calcium is actually worse for you. I saw it on a Furhman video once how he showed that taking calcium makes you leak it out.

Hallelujah Acres has a search section too. By the way, I just finished reading the book, There is Cure for Diabetes by Gabriel Cousens. He is a famous health guru in Israel that people go to for healing. He is extremely New Age and out there spiritually. Here’s what he does with people.

First week:Vegetable Juice Feast (mostly greens and a beet or carrot and some high protein greens like spurilina)

Second week: Continue with juicing but add in salads and soups

Third Week: All of above but a little bit of low gylcemic fruit like berries and apples.  Some grains in moderation: beans, oatmeal, millet.

He says to stay away from olive oil because it has a bad affect on cardiovascular health! He rec other oils like sesame, coconut, red palm. (be careful with too much coconut oil or it’s bad for high blood pressure) Flax oil is good but you have to be careful it doesn’t go rancid.

Rec 80% raw. Says to stay away from dairy, soy and meat. Dairy causes cancer (acc to China Study), soy has links to cancer and meat is too acidic. (I don’t believe eating meat is a sin, just telling you what his book says). His diet is different in what I have been doing in many ways: 1-On raw food boot camp, I ate all the fruit I wanted. Here, he is saying low glycemic fruit only in moderation. Not more than two fruits a day.2-He says seeds, nuts are really good for you. But he still wants you to limit your fat to 15-20% a day. On raw food boot camp, I wasn’t allowed any nuts or seeds.3–He says to stay away from the cooked grains at least initially (but then in his recipe section has tons of recipes with beans and one with oatmeal!) I knew that whenever I ate wheat, I would get headaches.

He says for insulin resistance to def stay away from wheat! So these are all good eye openers for me! God bless in our search for health." Rhonda Gordon

Verdict is out: Raw best for PCOS

So I met somone on a mommy website who has PCOS too and was completely healed following three books advice. She e-mailed me one of the books and what did it say: Juice Fasting and at least 70% Raw!OK I know this but why do I know it in my head but can’t follow it at home!

Found a Gem Health Book

I have read almost every book out there and finally found a good one! It’s called Perfect Health the natural way and the writer is a Christian. Her name is Mary-Ann Shearer.Some of her tips:Eat three peices of fruit every morning for breakfast with nothing elseEat avocado every day to kick cravings for fat If you are a vegetarian, eat nuts 3 times per week (about a half a cup)Don’t mix protein and carbsEat 80% rawIf you can, try to stay away from dairy and gluten. It takes 6 weeks to see if you are gluten intolerant.

More nutritional discernment!

(Wrote this in 2008)

So last night I was reading a health testimony of a woman who is a super-model. She was 34 and her body was breaking down and she was embarrassed and hiding behind rocks. She didn’t want to come out in her bathing suit for a photo shoot because she was so bloated. She saw the girls in their 20′s and everyone giving them lots of attention and she realized that she just wasn’t like that girl anymore.

Ok, so I can really relate to this girl. Don’t forget I was a super aerobic instructor. People begged me for personal instruction. People swarmed to my classes. One class in Hawaii had 75 people!!! Here I am 35 and two kids later and people have asked me everything from "when are you due" to "what are you eating to make you look like that" to "do you have a hormonal disorder?" My husband tells me to wear baggy shirts as to not embarrass myself, esp when I am dancing for the Lord.

So what is her secret to changing this decay? She went on a raw food diet! But here is the interesting thing…she went to see this naturopathic dr in LA who told her to be raw but not vegan! He wants her to have raw dairy, fish and she’s allowed organic meat. He actually took her hair and tested it to see what diet was right for her. Who knows how much this costs?

But anyway, it is interesting because after reading almost every diet book out there now, I have come to the conclusion that raw is best but vegan is not. But the dairy should be raw because of the China Study and low mercury fish should be fine because, hey, the Okinawas eat fish from polluted waters and live over 100 (but also eat 10 servings a day of raw veggies). Anyway, this lady looked outrageous. I am not trying to look like her. I just want to regain my health. She doesn’t do 100% raw but 80%. So I think I am finally figuring out what I should do. I am loading up on the raw veggies and fruit but also eating salmon, organic eggs and raw dairy! Sounds healthy I hope?So far, the only diet I ever had success on is Rawfoodbootcamp!

Another Praise for Raw Eating

This was posted on one of the yahoo groups I am on:Just last week, I found out about a documentary film called Simply Raw. This film follows 6 diabetics (both type 1 and type 2) as they travel to a healing center where they live for a month, eating only raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Their transformation was AMAZING! By day 3 many of the people were off of insulin ENTIRELY, and the others had cut down dramatically. I don’t want to ruin the surprise of how it all turns out, but I can tell you that I am completely convinced that diabetes can be cured by changing what we’re eating. If you or someone you love is a diabetic or is at risk for it, I would definitely encourage you to check out this film. http://www.rawfor30days.com/It comes with some wonderful downloadable bonus items as well.Enjoy!

What is the healthiest diet?

May 4, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxVfi632Xw

Here is a debate between two of my favorite health gurus.Enjoy!

Another tidbit of information on health...

I was listening to Paul Nison on RawMOM Summiit. He was excellent and I found out he’s a believer in Yeshua which makes me evern more excited! He was saying that a long time ago, people ate only two meals a day: breakfast and lunch which was called dinner. Once, people started working long hours and didn’t have time to eat lunch, they would drink a drink at lunch and then at supper, they would have something light like soup. He says we are eating way too much now. Not only three meals a day but snacks in between! He says we really shouldn’t be eating more than two meals a day. I also heard this advice from Gabriel Cousens although he didn’t reccommend that for children.

PCOS Solutions

I recently had an article called, Finding Contentment, published in an Above Rubies magazine. I have been getting swamped with e-mails about what things helped me with PCOS. Last yr I had cysts all over both of my ovaries and I bled for 4 weeks straight! Now, I am pregnant with our third and no cysts. I did mention in that article that an elder of my congregation annoited me with oil and prayed over me in Y’shua (Jesus) name and that week, I conceived!

These are also some other things I did to try to help my body along:

1. On Dr Mercola’s website, he said there was a connection between Vit D deficiency and PCOS so I decided to have my dr check my D level and it was low!

2. There are herbs that you can take from Insulite Labs that help with cysts and infertility, etc  Glucaphage seems to work in a lot of people too but I heard it is hard on your liver. Go to www.Insulitelabs.com(I do not get commission on this. I wish I did! If you want to send in a donation to Jews for Jesus in our name that would be wonderful)

 3. I did a diet called Raw Food Boot Camp but kept in a little eggs and fish (wild salmon only) due to the low Vit D It was the ONLY diet that has ever worked for me. You can google it online. It’s not easy but it works. I did 70-80% raw.

4. Healthy at 100 was my favorite health book of all that I read–it looks at the cultures that live over 100 and none of them are vegan but mostly vegetarian. They do eat 10 servings a day of raw veggies.

(I have read hundreds of books on diet and nutrition and this was by far one of the best. Don’t waste your time and money on anything else!)

When I gave up on having any more children, that’s when God gave us a gift of a child.Are you on the aboverubies yahoo group? It is a good way to stay in touch with a lot of women like us!

A marriage book that helped me with my emotions: Created to Be His Helpmeet by Debi Pearl. I know it’s contraversial but at least read it before you judge. A book about why conceive at all: Be Fruitful and Multiply by Above rubies ministry.Let me know when you get pregnant! Don’t give up!

Love,Rhonda Gordon

Found a Gem Health Book

I have read almost every book out there and this one is worth the read! It's called Perfect Health the natural way and the writer is a Christian. Her name is Mary-Ann Shearer.

Some of her tips:

Eat three peices of fruit every morning for breakfast with nothing else.

Eat avocado every day to kick cravings for fat.

If you are a vegetarian, eat nuts three times per week (about a half a cup)

Don't mix protien and carbs

Eat 80% raw

If you can, stay away from dairy and gluten. It takes 6 weeks to see if you are gluten intolerant.

I blew this all today but there's always tomorrow!