Once a week Pierrette & I have our “Junk Food Day”. After two and one half years we have maintained that day just as a compass to keep us in the right direction.
Yuri Elkaim did not and does not dictate to us and his guidance has given us the strength to reach Perfect Health because we want to,not because “”He” wants us to.
We now understand the obligation we have to ourselves to learn all we can about our bodies, our food and how all of it works together. In all our research, we could not find any one person that could make us all understand all of it, by ourselves, for ourselves and at the rythm we were ready to go at.
The 12 week plan is a plan not an absolute. We tried many recipes and added this or that to our taste. Nowhere is it written that Yuri would chastise us if we did not follow his every word.
Understanding why we ate the way we do was a real learning experience. I have become a resource person for people at work because they see a miracle unfolding in front of their very eyes. I am so proud of Pierrette & I for following such a great human being. Being part of your life journey is one of the greatest experiences of our lives.
Back to Junk Food Day for a moment. When we tell people they need to learn how to change their way of eating, we are always meet with incredible resistance. There fear of losing, some of the foods they dearly love, makes them defensive immediately. Have you encountered this?
Pierrette & I made an oath to ourselves when we started our journey, “Never to let anyone take the decisions in our place”. Yuri understands this and Junk Food Day has become our way of never forgetting how we use to eat. Often we could just forget about it but we want to always have it fresh in our minds.
Eating for Energy has helped me to get to a very healthy, unmedicated 165 lbs from an unhealthy over medicated 242 lbs. Pierrette has gone from an unhealthy 195 (5′4″) down to a healthy 128 lbs. You do remember we are 58 years young?
Back to Junk Food Day for another moment. We eat chocolate, french fries and fried chicken. Potato chips, and candy are always part of a Junk Food Day and we now realize that we are in control of our bodies, not the other way around.
Follow Yuri yet use your own judgement. Read the book as a guide and keep it close. Discuss it with friends and family and join the Eating For Energy bandwagon, as we have.
Thank you Yuri for being who “You” are, not what others think you should be.
Pierre
Pierre & Pierrette
Thee Quest For Perfect Health.
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Hi Pierre,
Liking your “junk food day” concept very much!!
Brilliant!
Thanks Audra.
In the beginning, Pierrette & I used “Junk Food Day” as a reward. Now we use it as a constant reminder.
P.S. It is always a day off from work(it gives us no energy).
If you have co-workers that follow you, be careful, Junk Food Day is the first things they give up when they start eating right. We found that to be a mistake.
Take care,
Pierre & Pierrette