These are The 7 Healthy Success Results Every Body Wants and they can be achieved all at the same time, with a micronutrient-rich "superfood" eating style.

1)   A Detoxified Body

2)   Natural Weight Loss

3)   Dramatically Improved Health

4)   Disease Reversal (obesity, heart disease and diabetes, etc.)

5)   Slower Aging

6)   A Younger Look

7)   Maximized Longevity

How many times have you heard commercials promising weight loss-only, by restricting calories, carbs, fat, and telling you to eat more animal protein? This is the standard way to lose weight; the only problem is that these are unhealthy and unattainable ways to eat.

Switching to nutrient rich healthy eating is different. When you make the Switch you are not focused on weight loss-only. You are focused on achieving all 7 of these Success Results.

All 7 of these Success Results are the natural outcomes for anyone who embraces the nutrient-rich way of eating. And, they happen in order, one by one, symbiotically, each one adding to the success of the previous one. When you detoxify your body, you will lose weight naturally, dramatically improve your health, reverse lifestyle-induced diseases (obesity, heart disease and diabetes, etc.), age slower, look younger, and maximize your longevity!

Imagine detoxifying your body from the accumulation of the chemicals and toxins that cause the overweight condition and health complications. You will feel cleaner and lighter than ever before. Your body will start to self-heal, and your digestion will improve. You will have more energy, a lifted mood, and your skin will begin to glow and emit a more youthful radiance.

Now, while your body is becoming cleaner, it will become lighter, as you lose weight naturally. You will finally be eating the way you were meant to eat, in-tune with your body’s natural eating and fasting cycles. Your body has always been trending toward being healthy, desiring healthy foods, and you are finally appeasing it, by feeding it what it wants—nutrients!

As the toxins leave your body, and you are losing weight, your overall health will begin to improve dramatically because you are no longer overwhelming it with toxic foodstuffs and excess calories. The continued weight loss and new-found bliss will naturally inspire you to exercise and perform better. Relationships, work, and even sex will begin to improve, too. It is only natural!

Remember how you used to get headaches, colds, and general aches and pains? Now, you will start noticing that they too have dissipated, if not yet entirely disappeared. Because you are finally nourishing your cells, with the much-needed micronutrients that are only found in the types of foods you are now eating, your body is being fueled properly, with a fully-functioning immune system. If you continue eating the nutrient-rich way, your diabetes, heart disease, or other lifestyle-induced diseases, will reverse. And, being overweight will become a symptom of the past. For probably the first time in your life, you and your body will be on the same team.

Now, you will really start turning heads. People will start noticing your smaller frame, healthy-looking skin, your smile and inner glow. They will start asking you what you are doing differently, as they note your now more youthful look, and overall appearance. Now, it is up to you to spill the beans and tell them your secret, or leave them guessing!

Because you are finally eating the way you were meant to eat, your body is slowing down. And, that is a good thing. Forget what you have been told about speeding up your metabolism. The faster that speeds up, the faster you age and stimulate undesirable developments inside your body. Eating the nutrient-rich way causes you to age slower and look younger. Who doesn’t want that type of sparkle?

Now, you can start to really daydream about your golden years—picturing yourself enjoying your time, with a healthy body, free of the supposed ailments of old age. Imagine how it will feel to RUN around with your grandchildren, enjoying every single luscious moment, knowing you did all you could to be as healthy as possible, and continuing to reap the rewards, with maximized longevity.

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No one was disappointed!

FORKS OVER KNIVES examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the so-called “diseases of affluence” that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed (refined) foods. The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Read More...

I should emphasize the under-appreciation for these two research and medical professionals and down right fine people. The reason is simple; what they are saying is true but just not good for the "HUGE inter-connected, money-driven “Med-Pharma-USDA-Academia-Food-Insurance-Media system” which my new friend and associate Jim Hicks, talks about in his new book Healthy Eating, Healthy World. His research indicates that 70 to 80% of our health care dollars ($2 trillion of them) are driven by what we eat — our toxic western diet. (You can read about all of the above in Chapter 8 of his book.)

Personally, I have a great deal of experience with both Dr's having assembled The Top 12 Findings of The China Study with the Campbells (Father and Son) who wrote this hugely successful book revealing the relationship between diet (lifestyle) weight loss and long term health, and having learned from and promoted Dr. Esselstyn's work for years. He is the author of Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease and a long time senior medical officer at The Cleveland Clinic.

These gentleman are major players in the plant based food movement now in the later half of their careers, both of which ironically began promoting or serving the effects of animal based diets. They were major players in their fields even before the switch to plant based nutrient rich foods began and made the switch themselves when they realized that animal based diets also rich in refined and process foods, causes disease.

These days, T Colin Campbell PhD and Caldwell Esselstyn MD have become "very" well known as President Clinton recently mentioned their names in a viral CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer, as he explained his own transition to a plant based diet to finally resolve his own heart disease.

The mass movement to whole foods, plant based, nutrient rich diets, is driven by one simple reality,'calorie rich / nutrient poor foods cause "lifestyle induced" diseases like heart disease and shorten your life plan. That is the main reason why the switch to a diet based predominantly on nutrient rich foods is on for so many people.

While at the event, I met up with Rip Esselstyn, son of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who is now becoming quite well known as the author of the Engine 2 Diet, a plant based, or should I say "plant strong" diet, that he put together while working in an Austin, TX fire department that helped his fellow firefighters lose weight, lower their cholesterol, and prevent disease. A former professional IronMan athlete, Rip has been eating a plant based diet for over 25 years now (even while training as an athlete) and had some amazing information to share.

He said "I switched to plant based diet so that I could get an performance edge".

Don't believe the hype when people tell you, you should be running your body on nutrient poor animal protein and saturated fat with a side dish of nutrient rich vegetables anymore, when a true nutrient rich diet is the way to go.

I also caught up with with Dr Pam Popper of The Wellness Forum, in Columbus Ohio; she and Rip Esselstyn were conducting a plant strong Education Immersion at Whole Foods. We talked about having never seen the switch to plant based nutrient rich foods be so strong, and how the movement is happening in an accelerated fashion now in part because of movies like Forks Over Knives. A movie like this is all the more powerful now having decades of amazing data and insights, like those from Dr's Esselstyn and Campbell's work, to convey in the cinema. Gone are the days of passion and principle alone; today, plant based diets are proven with sound science.

Look for a location near you and watch this movie!

Forks Over Knives is rich in incredible insights about healthy eating and it will inspire you when you see how everyday people right off the street are making incredible transformations in their health, weight and outlook because they are no longer eating foods that cause disease and are learning how to make the switch to eating nutrient rich healthy foods.

You too will be shocked and awed by how incredibly tasty nutrient rich foods really are, and wonder why you haven't been eating plant based nutrient Rich, your entire life!

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If you say “I am going on a diet” you are essentially saying that you are going to eat less for a period of time to lose weight and then go back to the way you’ve always lived, albeit with perhaps a few improvements here and there. In this case you are going to have a very different experience and get very different results than if you say “I am getting into a new diet style or lifestyle”. In this case, you are saying you will eat better quality foods in great tasting ways that promote your health and happiness, build this mindset and make it a reality in your every day life. Here you are not leaving your present reality overnight, nor living the new reality over night either. You have the option to move forward at a pace you can handle well.

This is the art of transitioning.

For some the pace of transitioning is fast, depending on their capabilities, for others this will take more time. Either way, the path to eating a Nutrient Rich diet is a transition. Get used to that word.

This is important to know when it comes to eating Nutrient Rich food, 90% or more of the time. Short of going on “Nutrient Rich Diet” for a short period of time, you will find for a host of reasons that you will be no more successful trying to make this change overnight than you will be trying to get financially successful overnight. It just doesn’t work really well; it’s too much too fast and just is as fun as when you get into a process of lifestyle change, and transition successfully.

Underlying your approach are two different time frames. One tries to overcome the effects of a poor diet and lifestyle overnight, while the other, characterized by no less of an intention for better results as soon as possible, recognizes that you’ll go as fast as you can go as long as you don’t compromise your health and happiness. This is the different between going on a diet and transitioning.

I don’t know what your experience has been but I can tell you this, if you’re like me, or the thousands of people I have worked with, you probably haven’t been very successful trying to change overweight. Yet this is what most commercial diets ask you to do. You buy the program and “go on it” overnight.

Essentially, you trying to transition to someone else’s lifestyle overnight, even if for only a short period of time.

And then, like the smoker who says this is my last cigarette, you may have said something like “I’m going to eat this last piece of chocolate cake and then I’m going to start my diet, I’m not going to eat cake any more and only eat low calorie, or low fat food or low carb foods”. I might add, drink meal replacement shakes or do what ever the common commercial solution you’re engaged in says you should do.

Clearly this idea of trying to stick to diet programs, without a fundamental decision to start eating "nutrient rich foods" as part of your lifestyle, is going to be hard. Despite the advertising and celebrity promotions and the testimonials from successful followers, diet programs do not work sustainably. It’s because life doesn’t work this way. It works if you’re aim is to win a Lamborghini or get your picture in a magazine; you heroically diet and workout for 8-12 weeks and get a quick tan in this highly motivating scenario. There is some benefit to this, but it says little for how you will be living 1 year from now, let alone the week following your effort.

I need to say there is nothing wrong with a heroic effort, IF, what you’re doing is health promoting and you are taking an aggressive approach that acknowledges what you’re doing and the potential consequences, that way you can respond accordingly. But this is not the case for most who find either they can’t stick with it or when their program is over, it’s time for things to return to normal and that usually means more of the same that got them into trouble to begin with.

For you to be successful at healthy eating, it has to be normal and natural. Not necessarily common, but something you could do normally or naturally for the rest of your life with a smile on your face.

So I want to introduce you to the concept of "transitioning". It is the path to eating a Nutrient Rich diet. When you master the art of transitioning, you discover diet traps for what they are and learn how to avoid them and this path inevitably leads you to eating a nutrient rich diet.

Basically, the entire diet industry is a trap, focused mainly on short term weight loss goals and that usually means manipulating diet's that don't promote health. And if the diet does promote healthy, manipulative or obsessive ways of thinking that have little to do with the food itself, become the trap.

Truth is, you don't have eat an unhealthy diet to lose weight, you need to learn how to Lose weight the Nutrient Rich Way. But before you can do that successfully, you really want to transition to a nutrient rich diet so that you start on a solid foundation. It's one thing to lose weight eating healthy, but if you are trying to do that, on top of the transition from a diet that was formerly 80-90% nutrient poor, that's is going to be one overly challenging process.

Up Next, I'll be sharing the basic process of transitioning (transformation) most people go through.

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This Was Then: Rosie in May 2010

She's my partner Rosie Battista.

Not only did she lose weight in a Nutrient Rich way, she fulfilled a long held ambitious dream to compete in a figure competition and better yet with her 20 year old daughter who is also a site to behold.

Rosie joined me about 10 months ago, to help me found the new nutrientrich.com and The Lifestyle Coaching Center where we operate from, when the dream to compete in a figure competition entered her mind.

This was not a simple decision for Rosie; at that time she was dealing with some major life stresses that warranted changes she needed to be make; in addition to facing all the challenges that would face her preparing for her first figure competition ever.

Not only had she never done something like this before, but she was going to do it with her 20 year old daughter, while turning 50, while selling her home, while moving, and getting into a new aspect of her career. All of  this meant she was going to face at times overwhelming changes, emotions, and demands on her energy.

I was suspect that this was a good idea, given all that she was in process with to restructure her life, and it was challenging for me, because as someone promoting health, most body building and figure competitions promote the exact opposite (even though it is healthy to lose weight) and I know from having been an amateur body builder years ago.

But Rosie, was determined to do it and determined to do it in a healthy way.

The Turning Point Was In Her Kitchen.

Now when Rosie makes a decision she really makes a decision as I look back in retrospect. Things had been very challenging for her last year with some major life changes that prompted the need for hard decisions. Stress of that kind has a major impact on you, and your weight, often times even if you are eating healthy. Cortisol and stress hormones and the stress that cause their release are great weight gainers. Even if you are eating nutrient rich foods, you can gain weight if you are eating for the wrong reasons and when you are not hungry. That was the problem for Rosie, and she didn't have a goal other than weight loss. (more on that later).

This is Now: Rosie in August 2010

It took some weeks of contemplation, (can you imagine?) but once she did, Rosie provided any lookers on, one of the most compelling examples of transformation one could want to witness. (I watched it)

I can't be prouder of Rosie, and frankly because of her I'm competing in a 10k race next week following a month of training running 3-6 miles per training day. She helped me make needed changes from where I was at and I thank her. Actually she's been coaching me on taking my diet to the next level of healthy eating!

I hope that at some point you get a chance to work with Rosie or take one of her courses; she has lots of experience to share.

We'll be sharing more about Rosie's Transformation; particularly how she lost weight the Nutrient Rich way and exercised while achieving her most ambitious life goal and without burning out to stand side by side her also beautiful daughter with tantalizing Allure, Beauty and Grace.

Stay tuned.

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Perfect fat for athletes

I found this great article from Body Sport.com that addresses one of the biggest nutritional myths ever~that a low fat diet will equal weight loss.

I have been eating a lot of avocado's lately and loving them. Not only becuase they are creamy, satisfying and delicious but becuase they helped me lose weight- 30 pounds!

Currently, while preparing for a figure competition,  I added an avocado a day into my meal plan and the weight just kept coming off.   I never allowed myself to eat an avocado prior to this experience as I always thought they were FAT and would make me FAT. Well nothing can be further from the truth.

Figure competitors have low body fat and eat avocado's which proves the point that nutrient rich fats are healthy and promote natural weight loss.

This is one diet trap that I am happy to have broken free of. By the way there are many, many other diet traps that keep ups stuck in dieting hell.  If you are unfamiliar with what a diet trap is Click here for a free report and leave a comment on some of the diet traps you've personally experienced and what you have discovered.

Rosie Battista

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This is the natural weight loss transformation of Tracie Boyle who was able to lose weight naturally by doing it the nutrient rich way, after years of hopping from one nutrient poor diet to another.

We met Tracie at the North Jersey Nutritarian Meet Up at The Lifestyle Coaching Center in Livingston NJ, were we socialize around eating nutrient rich, nutrient dense foods and have a lot of fun. It was there that Tracie shared her story of natural weight loss transformation by eating a nutrient rich diet.

She tells her story below; she shares what inspired her and the book that really started it all for her, and  has even provided her cooking blog where Tracie Cooks Stuff, and you can see what foods she's eating.

Here's her story:

Most people don't know the day their life changed, but I do: May 17, 2008.

Farm Sanctuary, a farm animal protection organization, was having their annual gala and since there was going to be some celebrities in attendance, which we liked, my friends and I decided to go and check them out on the red carpet.

Little did I know that the events of that day would change my life forever.

A little history: Sometime between the ages of 10 and 11, I began to gain weight and continued to gain (and lose) for most of my teenage and adult years. My weight never prevented me from enjoying my high school years; I had great friends, participated in the high school band, plays and other activities but it did prevent me from stepping out of my comfort zone, taking chances and continued to do so even after I graduated.

Throughout my 20's, I had a good group of friends but there were so many things that I had wanted to do but didn't because of my weight; it was holding me back from who I could be. Over the years, I had tried a bunch of different diets but none worked long term. Most of my family is overweight, so eventually I figured that it was part of my biology and that there wasn't anything that could be done about it.

By the time I hit 30, in January 2008, I weighed around 210lbs (I'm 5'7") and was going through a really rough patch. I needed to do something, but I didn't know what that 'something' was.

Then I went to the gala.

Shortly after arriving, we met up with two other people that were also there for the gala, and spent the afternoon hanging out together. At one point, one of the guys mentioned a book called "Skinny Bitch". I remember laughing at the name and thinking "Who would name a book that?" but the name stuck with me and mentally filed it away for later.

A few hours later, the gala let out and one of attendees randomly handed me his goodie bag which was a Matt & Nat shopping bag filled with tons of vegan goodies: cookies, a water bottle, VegNews, snacks, shirt, chocolate and lots of other stuff.

We had a great time and wound up meeting some awesome celebrities, but due to some poor planning, found ourselves stuck overnight in New York City until 5am the next morning. I spent the rest of the night, at Port Authority, immersing myself in VegNews and checking out the other items in the bag.

I was inspired.

The next day, I went to the bookstore and bought "Skinny Bitch". I finished reading it in about a day and it made me want more - more information, more out of life – just more. I don’t jump into anything blind, so I spent the next two weeks doing my own research on veganism, weight loss, general health and nutrition and figured out a plan that I thought would work for me. I made the decision to stop dieting and change my life by changing my lifestyle.

I started to pay attention to what I was putting into my body, ate normal portion sizes, began to choose healthier options (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and other plant based foods) and made a bunch of other little changes that wound up adding up to something bigger. {she transitioned to a nutrient rich diet and improved her lifestyle}

I didn’t go into this expecting to lose weight – I just wanted to be healthy – but one year later, I was down 70 lbs and everything changed. I was truly, genuinely happy for the first time in my life. My weight no longer was holding me back, I was getting out there and trying new things, discovered a love of clothes shopping and had become more conscious of the things going on around me and what I was putting into my body. I never felt like I was giving anything up or depriving myself.

Now, well into my 2nd year, I've maintained that weight loss and have continued my quest for knowledge by reading whatever new and old information I can about health, nutrition and overall well-being.

My mission is now to help people to change their lives by changing the way they think about food. I didn’t have a personal trainer or dietitian. I didn’t deprive myself or go on a fad diet. I just learned how to eat. Food is fuel and in order for our bodies to run efficiently, we have to put in the best ‘fuel’ that we possibly can. If we put crappy foods with empty calories into our bodies, how can we expect for it to run efficiently? You’re going to feel sluggish and depressed. But if you put good foods, full of nutrients into it, you’re going to feel energized and happy.

I often wonder where I'd be now if I hadn't gone to that gala or been told about Skinny Bitch or the random stranger hadn't given me bag or I hadn't been stuck in NYC overnight but I truly believe that everything happens for a reason and those events set me on my current path and I couldn’t be happier. I’m looking forward to seeing what the future holds and continuing on this path, one step at a time.

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