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Eating For Energy-Do you have The Passion it Takes?

August 6th, 2010

images (1)When you want to pursue a specific dream do you have the passion it takes? As a child can you remember your favorite dream. Was it to be an astronaut, a Doctor and save the world? Do you remember how that dream went to bed with you at night and woke up with you in the morning.

As a child, the Passion was easy to embrace. Your health and overall wellbeing was not your main “Focus”. Your dream took up your whole life and carried you on a personal journey everyday. Do you remember? You had tremendous “Focus” and incredible “Passion”. Where is all that zest for life, today?

If you are overweight, obese, sick or discouraged, you have no focus and you certainly have little or no passion. Do you understand what I am talking about?

Eating for Energy will give you the tools to get your mind free of the cobwebs. It will take you back to the days when your thoughts where only of those goals and dreams.

Passion is the second element you must have in order to pursue those dreams. Being fit, in good health and having your mind back will give you the boost you need to work on what is really important to you. Your mind will no longer spend all it’s time worrying about your physical well being.

Don’t get me wrong here. Passion often overwhelms people. The physical health of many tremendous people often lay forgotten in their quest for greatness. We only have to think of the Micheal Jackson’s, Elvis’s, Mozart’s and many others. Their health often took a back seat in their passion to pursue their dreams.

I am thinking more of the Micheal Jordan’s, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s, Tiger Woods’s, Jack Nicklaus’s, Lance Armstrong’s, who often, even through  great adversity, let their passion lead them to success. That type of passion, now that your mindset is more focused, is what I am talking about.

Pull those dreams out of your closet. Shake them up, let them live in your mind. Get healthy, eat for energy, get fit, establish the “Mindset” you need to focus and let your “Passion” carry you over the finish line.

Enough said. Stay tuned as Fitter Than The Pros is about to take your mindset to the next level. Yuri and his team has put together an incredible program that includes all the tools to help you make many of those dreams very attainable. Your health first, your goals and dreams will follow.

Pierre & Pierrette Trudel

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

P.S. Leave your comments and questions. We will be very happy to hear from you.

P.S.S Eating For Energy. If you do not have it yet, what are you waiting for? Buy it Today.


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Eating For Energy-How To focus To Obtain Results

August 5th, 2010

chronicstressMany of us dream of having that Perfect Body or even just being able to have better health in general. Pierrette & I wondered for the longest time why we were always unable to “focus” on a particular dream or goal.

We looked at it from the inside out and tried to understand why our bodies seemed to be unable to sustain constant “focus” on achieving consistent results. You know what I mean, you see the stars on “TV” and wonder, how do they do that? You read stories of success, by seemingly ordinary people just like you and you wonder, what is missing in me to do that?

We have talked and interviewed hundreds of people and found that most of us share very common traits. We all seem to have an ability to dream big dreams, set written goals and take pictures of them. We all understand the mechanics behind setting deadlines and taking action.

If most of us understand” how”, know “why” we need to have dreams, seemingly have the answers  to most of the questions, why do most of us “fail” at obtaining the results we want?

We searched for a common denominator that seems to make it next to impossible to realize our full potential when it comes to obtaining the things we really want out of life.Why?

Stay with me here, “FOCUS”

There are many answers to that statement but it all starts with our inability to “focus”. Yes our inability to send a constant message to our brain to have it convert those dreams into reality.

Many of you have read the book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne  that puts forth the well know vision about the Law of Attraction.Why do we read such books, get all pumped up, and yet some few short weeks later are exactly where we were before, no where, still looking for the magic bullet that will help us realize what we can only dream of.

We then asked ourselves the question,”What is our brain doing that is preventing it from maintaining “focus” on our dreams?” What is more important than making us rich, starting that new business, becoming a singing star or a pro-athlete?

Well, we found the answer. “Our brain is to busy taking care of other bodily functions and has no time left over to give in to all those whims that are circulating in our brain”.

  • Why do Lions sleep(rest) up to 20 hours or more a day? Ask Google
  • Why do bears hibernate for up to 100 days? Ask Google

Stay with me here, “FOCUS”.

Eating For Energy instead of eating just to fill our bellies is the answer to all these questions. Our ability to focus is deterred because we eat so poorly and our brains “focus” is on getting all that food through our bodies and keeping us alive.

Eating For Energy will give you all the nutritional advice you need in order to take pressure away from your brain and help it do what you want it to do. Pierrette calls it a “switch” that turns on or off, depending on how you feed yourself.

Eat junk and your body focuses on digestion and how it is going to get all that “Junk” in and out of your system. Eat the wrong food combinations and your mind “Focuses” on separating the good from the bad. Do you understand?

One of the first things we realized by following Yuri’s advice was, that we had all this energy left over to concentrate on others things.

  1. Wow, that was a big AHA moment for us.
  2. Goals became clearer, and we realized that we had time to spare.
  3. We sleep more soundly.
  4. We digest faster and eliminate better…

Yes, Eating For Energy by Yuri Elkaim can be the beginning of all those dreams you have in the back of your mind, just waiting to jump out and “Grab” you…

Stay with me here,”FOCUS”.

Make sure you have a copy of Eating For Energy on your computer or on your kitchen table. It will give you the time and Energy to take the first steps.”Focus”,”Focus”,…

Pierrette & I believe that Eating For Energy is the first step you need to take in order to concentrate on all the others outlined by Yuri on your journey to Perfect Health, and more.

Pierre & Pierrette Trudel

Thee Quest For Perfect Health

P.S. Leave us your comments below and stay tuned for more.

P.S.S If you are still here your ability to “FOCUS” got you here.

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How food sensitive are you?

August 4th, 2010

One thing that a lot of people that I’ve talked to about my fibromyalgia agrees on is that learning to deal with food sensitivities play a big part in the recovery.  Food sensitivies can show themselves in something as innocuous as indigestion after eating to asthma and full blown allergic reactions.  Fortunately most of us never have to experience the effect of a full blown allergic reaction, but to the friends I have with peanut allergies it is a most terrifying experience.

Most of us never fully recognize that we are suffering from food senstivities as most reactions never produce anything that we would consider more than a slight inconvenience in our lives.  Runny noses, rosacea, acne outbreaks, muscle cramps, irritability are often attributed to daily life instead of what we are eating, but they generally don’t stop us from living our lives. 

Another thing that makes sensitivities hard to determine is that sometimes it can take over 48hrs for the symptoms to show.  It difficult to relate that piece of wheat bread you had on a Monday with the flu like symptoms you experience  later that week unless you are keeping a very detailed food diary.   An example of a such a senstivity would be my mother’s rosacia.  When my she was doing a low-carb diet last year she cut out/dramatically limited eating wheat and other grains, she never noticed until I asked her, but her rosacia improved after only a couple of days of no grains.   When she started eating grains again, the rosacia reappeared.

One advantage of following “Eating For Energy” is that most foods that cause sensitivites are easily avoided.  Generally sensitivies are cause by foods that you don’t encounter when you are eating raw, the exceptions being the nightshade veggies (tomatoes, peppers, etc), citrus and some of the nuts.   Even if you are not planning to following a 100% raw diet, you can use the plan to identify what foods you react to.  Follow the plan for 3-5 days and then reintroduce ONE of the common foods that cause sensitivies ie: something with gluten.  Follow the plan for the next couple of days and track your body’s reaction.  Did you suffer from increased allergies? sore muscles? heart burn? acne? sore ears? IBS?  Bloating? Constipation?  Repeat the process the next week with a different food.  I can tell you that from my reaction to having a toasted BLT over the weekend, the reaction for me was enough to avoid trying that food again for a long, long time….

The second advantage to “Eating For Energy” is that over time your sensitivities should decrease.  One reason may be that eating raw foods restores the body’s digestive process and can help correct leaky gut syndrome (another common symptom in fibromyalgia patients).  Leaky gut syndrome causes the body to have an auto immune response to the foreign particles in the blood stream.   Rheumatoid arthritis is another affliction that is classified as auto immune which may also respond well to a raw food diet.   

It was actually through digging though internet articles on Leaky Gut that I found the recommendation to eat raw foods to correct the condition.  The same articles were also enough to scare me into realising that it was a condition I had to take seriously if I was to ever get my health back.    If anyone is interested in reading the articles, let me know I have links to them at work that I can post here. 

Off to go make a waldorf salad for lunch tomorrow…

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Living On Live Foods is Not Just A Dream-It is a Life Choice

August 3rd, 2010

images (1)How do you choose to live a dream? You need a vision. You need a plan. And, finally you need to take action.

Having the right “mindset” when your brain is in a haze, often seems to cloud and overshadow what is important and what is not. Your Dreams needs to be clear. You need to believe it is attainable and you need to write it down and take pictures in your mind(real ones too) to be able to visualize them everyday.

When I was eating Big Mac’s to survive my mind was focused, more often than not, on just getting through the day and on to sleep mode. I now realize that it was my eating habits that where hindering my mindset. It was not my dreams, it was not my desire, is was not my will to get things done, it was what I was eating.

Eating dead food all day long was not my intention. It was all I knew how to do. I had no direction, no eating plan, no coach to mentor my way to seemingly impossible good health. Eating dead foods meant I was dead, just waiting to be buried. Isn’t that an incredible truth?

Living on live foods perked my energy level up a notch and got my motor into gear. It gave my body the tune up it needed to liberate my mindset to start working on all those dreams I had.

Having the right “mindset” is impossible if you are not Eating For Energy. I repeat, having the right “mindset” is impossible if you are not  Eating For Energy!

Learning how to live on live foods is a wake up call. It is a warning signal. It is the engine light turning on “Red” not yellow.

How you do it, what are the right foods for you, how you adapt it to your lifestyle, how you find the ways to eat right on the road, on holiday’s, at the bosses party, at uncle John’s barbecue… becomes perfectly clear to you but, only if your “mindset” is free of the cobwebs that have been holding it together for so long.

Living On Live Foods is Not Just A Dream-It is a Life Choice

Yuri’s surprises in the next week or so will unlock many dream doors for many of us. Now that our mind’s are clear, we will have a much greater appreciation of the knowledge he is about to share with us all. I just can’t wait.

Pierre Trudel

Thee Quest for Perfect Health

P.S. If you have any questions for me or Pierrette just leave them in the comment box below and we will enjoy answering you.

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How to Live on Live Foods

August 3rd, 2010

When you tell people that you are eating an all raw food diet, one of the most common questions you will face is “how can you survive on that?” Of course, questions like this usually come from people who spend very little time considering what they are eating – people for whom a healthy choice for dinner is a whole wheat crust on their fully loaded pizza.

These sorts of people would consider a raw food diet to be the equivalent of food torture. They would think raw, and only be able to think of salads and “rabbit food”. And surely, no sane person would try to live on rabbit food, would they? Vegetables, these folks will scoff? Vegetables aren’t food – they are what food eats!

If you’re here trying to find a way to convince people like that about the benefits of a healthy, raw food existence, I have three words for you:

Save your breath.

Certainly, it is possible to not only survive, but thrive on a raw food diet; but winning over everyone you know with facts and real-world examples is impossible. Instead, concentrate on winning the important battles – like living the best life possible – part of which can be your pursuit of the best raw foods available.

Rather than focus on ingredients, however, let’s talk more in general about living on live foods. Because recipes and shopping lists are not something that can be printed out once and followed by everyone. Foods are available only in some places at some times; tastes are subjective and open to interpretation; and budget constraints can limit some people to different types of raw foods.

So, here are some tips for living well on a live food diet.

Shop often. Raw, living foods are at their best when they are as fresh as possible. Many families with busy lives will limit themselves to one massive shopping expedition per week, which can work when all you are buying is frozen lasagnas and breakfast cereal. The best produce is the stuff that doesn’t get sprayed to make it last longer, and it means in order to truly appreciate the best flavors, you will need to be in the market at least three times a week. But don’t despair - you won’t be there nearly as long as before.

Shop locally. You may love a certain fruit, but when it is trucked in from across the world, it is not nearly as fresh, and costs a lot more. Find some local favorites in your produce section, and you will be eating much fresher foods.

Keep your eyes (and mind) open. Inspiration for a new raw food dish can strike at any time. When you see something that looks good on television, ask yourself, how could I do that with raw foods? You’ll be surprised at what you can come up with, after a little bit of practice.

Find your favorite. While it is always good to try new things, there will be days when you crave the familiar. Don’t let that comfort food be something from a previous eating style. Find something raw that you absolutely love, and make sure you always have it on hand.

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