My experience during Tim’s detox

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detox, fruits and vegetables, full body cleanse, organic food, weight loss

So Tim is on day 23 of his 27 day detox program. I know he’s been very good at posting regularly, but today I wanted to write, not only because I’ve really missed blogging, but because Tim has been extremely busy the past 2 days and I told him that I’d post about him today.

First, I want to share with you some of the things that I’VE noticed since he began this detox.  Tim is basically a completely different person since he began this process, and I mean different in so many ways! Tim now has this infectious smile that never seems to leave his face. I love it!! He’s in a better mood than I’ve ever seen him in.. and for weeks at a time. The smile… makes it all worth it for me!! This has been a pretty easy process, at least after the first couple of days. The biggest thing we had to adjust to was constantly having fruits and vegetables easily accessible. We always have fruits and veggies around, but many times they take preparation.. and when you’re hungry, the last thing you want to do is take a long time to prepare foods. We constantly have foods cut up now, and ready to eat. This has definitely been a learning experience for both of us.

Another very obvious thing that everyone has notice with Tim, is his weight loss and skin health. I can’t wait until this is over to buy him a new wardrobe… yay! All of his clothes are just hanging on him now, and I love the thought of shopping together! A third thing I’ve noticed is that he hardly snores at all now. Yes, it was a bit of a problem periodically (depending on his diet), but now, he doesn’t snore. He also has more energy than I’ve ever noticed before. He wakes up in a good mood, and ready to go.. with me the one wanting to sleep just that extra five minutes I wanted to let you know that none of this cleansing and detox was my idea. Tim came up with this plan all on his own, and of course I support him 110% I’m so extremely proud of him for, not only challenging himself to this, but sticking to it with passion. I’ll be honest, There were a couple of times that I ate something besides fruits and veggies… I had sushi a couple of times, but Tim held strong, not even interested in deviating from his course. He’s amazing! I want to think each of you who follow Tim’s blogs.. especially in the beginning, he was so excited and motivated to see that people were following his journey. Again.. I’m SO proud of him!  He speaks freely now about his experience and what he’s going through, which shows that he’s extremely comfortable with this choice, and even encourages others to join him.

Now.. on to me ….. I feel amazing during this cleanse as well… my skin has improved, my energy level and digestion is great.. overall, I’m doing great! As you know, we’ve been offering more and more cleanses this year, which is exciting and encouraging. I love sharing this wonderful experience and beautiful food with people who previously never considered eating this way. So far, we’ve had over 50 people experience some sort of cleanse with us this year.. I LOVE IT! Our current cleanse just started today, so I’ll let you know tomorrow how everyone is feeling.

So, there are several new features on our website. There is now a calendar that has upcoming events, you can now purchase 3 different types of cleanses and there is a store where you can purchase some of my favorite health and nutrition.  books. Another big and exciting step that we’re taking this week.. Sunday, Tim and I will be heading to LA to purchase a very large industrial commercial juicer. We’ve outgrown the juicers that we have, so we’re taking the next step… so I encourage you to let us know when you want some healing juice.. drink up!

Tomorrow is extra early for cleanse preparation, so I better close for now, don’t worry, Tim will be back tomorrow.

~B

Tim’s day 20…. looking forward to day 28

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cleanse, fat sick and nearly dead, full body detox, juice fast, organic cleanse, Tim Aranjo

Good Evening.

I hope everyone is having a great day today. You know it was really nasty outside tonight but I had a great day, seems like I have been having a few of those days.  Tomorrow it will be 3 weeks since my journey began.  Wow I can’t believe how fast these 3 weeks have went by.  I feel great.

Last night Brandy Jo and I were talking and she asked me if I would just start the juice fast like on the movie Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. Of course, I stepped up and told her of course I would do it.  I’m not sure what I got myself into but I’m doing it so today was the first day of my juice fast and you know, I haven’t missed anything just yet.  It does feel a little weird just juicing and not having anything else but I think I can get past this as well.  You know when Brandy Jo first suggested that we do this I was like “yeah right (when pigs fly out of me arse)” but after I thought about it, I realized I was wanting to tweak what I was doing anyway, so I committed.  Of course, she is doing it as well, although I think it is real easy for her.  Our plan is to do this till we have the viewing of Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, next week at the Yoga Seed Collective, it is going to be great!  This morning we had a visitor. Sukhbir showed up and told us that she was going to be joining us for the juice fast as well. When she said this, I couldn’t believe it!  I was really taken back by her will power because she is the owner of a restaurant and is around “real” food everyday (and beer).  She owns Dad’s Kitchen here in Sacramento… I love the place! especially the Angry Man Sandwhich mmmmmm   it is my favorite.  I can’t believe she has to be around this stuff daily.  Just to say she wanted to try and do the juice fast is awesome.  I really hope she is able to pull it off because I know it will be really good for her, and will instill more of a sense of discipline that it takes to change our diets. So YAY Sukhbir.

It’s odd, this evening I had a little bit of headache, not sure if it is just the juice fast or if it is my vision it could be either right now.  I will be sure to let everyone know tomorrow.  I can’t believe how busy Brandy Jo and I have been ~ it’s a full time job trying to keep up with her and her business.  I’m really enjoying it though, it’s really fun being around her and her clients, especially when I see so many of them improving right before my eyes.  A few of the ladies that stopped in today, of course brought up food and each of their relationships with food and I found it very interesting how food can effect everyone differently but also something I didn’t think is that there were a lot of similiarities in some of our habits.  A funny comment that Corri, made was that it  much easier when we DIDN’T know how to eat.. ignorance is sometimes bliss. I’m not trying to sound neurotic, but at the same time I think there is a new level of awareness on my part that I’m grateful for.  I really think everyone needs more education in nutrition across the board.  For those of you that do know about nutrition, I encourage you to share that knowledge whenever you can.  There are many people out there hungry for what you know about food.  As I said in the past, if you are close enough, come to one of Brandy’s workshops or set up a consult you will be glad you did.

As it gets closer, I’m kind of getting excited about the 28th I’m looking forward to seeing what the Fried Yard Bird or the Pizza is going to taste like.  I’m sure I will enjoy the taste of which ever I decide (I’m just not so sure I’m looking forward to the outcome.)  I also know that I’m going to an event called Winterfest that evening, 3 hours of wine and beer tasting that should be a pretty good time, although I am a little worried about that outcome as well.  I’m not sure what my stomach will be able to handle, it might be a short night .  Although I’m looking forward to splurging a little bit on some “guilty food” I’m also very excited to continue eating healthy.  It’s something I don’t want to ever stop doing.  Thats me folks.

Tim

Tim’s day 18 and 19… look at my new picture

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detox, juice cleanse, organic food

This is me TODAY

 

 

                          This is me 3 weeks ago

 

Good Morning,

 

It’s 11 am and this is the first time I have been able to write about day 18 and day 19,  I still feel great and I’m super excited about how my body has been changing physically.  All of my efforts have been totally worth it.  I can’t believe its already the 19the of Jan.  It literally feels like the year just started, not to mention this cleanse.  I can’t believe that I have been doing this for almost 3 weeks already. 

 

Last night Brandy Jo had a speaking engagement. She spoke to a group of women who are surviving breast cancer. Prior to Brandy Jo speaking, there were 3 doctors speaking that are in the process of inventing new technology for Breast Cancer detection, it was pretty awesome.  I was so impressed that these Dr’s from UC Davis would come and speak to the group, but not only did they speak to group about what they were in the process of doing they also volunteered to return to speak to the group at a later date. I thought that was pretty cool of them to offer their time to these women.  It was very informative and I really took a lot from his speech and the ladies were full of great questions, they are a very intelligent group of women.  So after the Drs spoke our Brandy Jo followed them up and just did an amazing job. She spoke to the group about sugar and the effects on the body.  Brandy did such a great job, very professional and very informative even though I’m around her daily I felt like I took something away from her presentation.  It is great that even though I am around her so much that she can continue to educate me on nutrition.  If any of you have a chance to hear her speak I would highly recommend it.  So Brandy Jo talked about the different kinds of sugars and how we really needed to be careful, even if it is something as simple as fruit with natural sugars, it was really good information.  While the Dr.s were speaking, they said that they inject sugar with radiation and it goes straight to the cancerous places in the body in about a 30 minute time frame.  In the past Brandy Jo had mentioned to me that sugar feeds on cancer and cancer uses it as a vehicle to spread throughout your body and it all makes sense.  Of course you need sugar to function but it is something we really need to be careful with. It is amazing how something so simple can affect your body so adversely.  I found it very interesting that the Drs use the sugar to go to the cancer so they could take images of the cancer and that the sugar goes straight to it in 30 minutes.  Are you serious.  Granted all this information is new to me but I’m trying to figure out why aren’t we hearing more about this. We hear about smoking, we hear about drinking and all the other dangerous things but they leave out this danger?  It seems like it is one of the most dangerous things out there because it is something everybody does, we all eat daily but hear nothing about this.  Yes there are plenty of people that know of this, but it is not getting the same kind of attention as these other dangers we really need to educate ourselves on food.

 

Yesterday, I was running around like a crazy man. I was here I was there I was everywhere (dr seuss).  I did not get side tracked, I added a few things to my list and it took me a few minutes to reassess the situation, but I eventually got it going again and in a timely manner.  I felt good.  Seems like I was in cruise control today but the funny thing about it is, you ask me today what I did yesterday and I’m sure i wouldn’t be able to tell you straight away because there was so much going on, but the important thing is that I was taking care of business yesterday TCB!!!   Again I know I still forget things and I still have residual things going on like yesterday I felt off balance like my equilibrium was off to the point it made me dizzy, but it was manageable I really feel like this diet helps me greatly.  You really are what you eat but I think it should be “you are who you are because of what you eat.”  Kind of fell of track yesterday with my pushups and crunches just didn’t have time.  I will have to make up for that today.

 

Day 19, is going well.  I/we got to work this morning I made some juice for us and finished up the dished so between the two it probably took about 15 minutes for juice and dishes, that is pretty good.  The juice just kind of starts the day off right for me. It is very filling and doesn’t leave you miserable like I use to think you had to be to be satisfied.  Seemed like it was a great breakfast unless you felt miserable afterwards and I’m guessing you know the feeling You know, the feeling like you just want to go back to bed and take a nap and be lazy all day long.  I’m so glad I replaced that with juice.  Don’t get me wrong, every now and then some pancakes and bacon sound good or some biscuits and gravy but I also remember how miserable I felt afterwards.  What the hell was I thinking?????  I feel so much better this way and believe it or not people are telling me about it.  Last night after Brandy Jo finished her speech I had a woman come up to me and talk about how amazing my skin looked. I don’t think I have ever gotten the comment before but it did feel good to hear it.  I really feel like my efforts are paying off two fold not only am I feeling better people are noticing it and telling me about it.  I have never been one for people to compliment me on my looks, as a matter of fact i recall shrugging it off in the past, but it feels like I’m dealing with it now and accepting it for what it is. I guess because I’m doing something I’m proud of I’m doing something to make myself feel better.  I’m not doing it for compliments I’m doing it to feel better but when you feel better people notice it!!!  To everybody still reading thank you.  To everyone on their own little journey I wish you the best of luck and I know for a fact it is worth all the effort.

Only 10 more days to go!

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detox, emotional eating, full body cleane, integrative wellness, weight loss

Wow I can’t believe it 10 days to go and my 27 day challenge will be over.  It has gone so fast.  It seems like I just started this journey, but that’s a good thing.  Can you believe I actually thought I wanted to go out running? of course Brandy Jo talked some sense into me since my knee is still jacked up, it probably wouldn’t be that great of an idea but I’m feeling that good now.

You know, I thought about it again today, what am I going to do when I’m done with this 27 day challenge and I kinda already know.  I’m going to be miserable on the 28th day.  I was recently invited to  Winterfest,  its a funraiser where there will be 30 mircro breweries and 10 wine companies doing sampling and I plan on attending the event.  It’s for a good cause and I’m happy to be a part of it but I’m thinking to myself how is that beer going to taste?  How is it going to effect my body, is it going to jack my stomach up and I’m thinking 100% YES.  I’m also 100% certain that after day 28 I will be back to eating the way I have been since the new year.  I’m looking forward to the beer but I already feel a little guilty about it.  I guess I will see how this all works out when I get to day 28.

I’m extremely happy right now and you woudn’t believe how many people can tell that I am looking better and feeling better.  It’s one thing for me to sit here and tell you how I feel but when I have other people tell me it makes me feel great.  I really am changing in appearance and I feel great about it.  I feel like some of my confidence prior to the accident is coming back, that or I’m just coping with things better, whatever it is I’m grateful.

So today Brandy Jo got an email from a woman that just recently did the cleanse with us last week and she felt great afterwards, she didn’t want to stop eating this way.  She couldn’t believe how great she was feeling and the funniest thing is that she mentioned that she thought the food she was eating in the past was causing stress to her body and that she really believed some of it was emotional she thinks.  Thats the strange thing about all this food has brought out emotions in her as well and that has me believing that there is something to eating and emotions. Of course, everyone says that but when you see it and hear it you know its true.    She is traveling right now with work and of course can’t eat like she wants to, but she is doing her best.  I think it’s great that even though she was taken outside of her home and she is traveling that she is making an attempt to be good and honor herself.  She found out what it’s like to feel good and doesn’t want to lose that feeling (thats funny I think I said something similiar to that myself).  Well I hope she contineus to do good.

Brandy Jo’s cousin’s Josh, Leslie and Andrew are all doing the cleanse. They reported that things were a little bit rough for them the first couple of days with the normal detox symptoms but today things are already getting better.  So we will keep you updated with their experience with this as well.  I think it’s so awesome that people are at home in Missouri doing the cleanse on their own.  Brandy Jo tries to offer as much support from afar but I could imagine that it would still be a little bit harder and with that being said, keep up the great work everybody we are thinking about you!

It is 11:27 and I am just finishing this up this evening. Its late but wow we have been busy at work!  Brandy Jo has a speaking engagement tomorrow so we have been preparing for that. Brandy is going to talk about juicing and the benefits, I’m pretty excited for her to have this opportunity to speak to a group of women I know she is going to do great.  I can’t wait.  Hopefully I can get tomorrows entry in a little earlier.  Well thats me and its bedtime.  Good night everyone Sleep Well!

Tim’s day 16…. Grocery store adventures

Hello Everybody!!!

Only 12 more days left on my 27 day challenge.  It has been pretty easy so far.  I have learned quite a bit on my little journey that I have been on since the New Year.  I feel great.

So, today I noticed myself in the mirror and thought “who the hell is that guy looking at me.”  I can totally tell a difference in my appearance already.  My clothes are fitting way different. (Brandy Jo keeps saying we need to shop for new clothes) I can’t believe that it has been just a little over 2 weeks and I already can tell this big a difference.  I never did weigh myself prior to changing my eating habits so I can’t really tell you how much weight I’ve lost, but I feel lighter. I like to think of myself as a confident person and I really did feel that way, but the way I’m feeling right now is giving me more confidence. I think prior to the accident, I was larger then life and after that I was very self conscious of myself because I knew there was something wrong with me, and I was worried about people noticing. I think I was concerned with the way I spoke, especially when I’d say things like “packback”,  but I’m finding myself caring less if I say things wrong or not.  I’m not totally sure it’s the change in my eating habit that has brought this on, but I’m enjoying the feeling.  I know there are still things I’m not saying properly or even understanding at times, but the way I deal with it is much better.  In the past it use to frustrate me that these things would happen, I really would just get angry and not know why.  I talked a little bit about it yesterday but my change in eating habits has really stirred some emotions and for the better.

Tonight I was walking through the grocery store and went to the big chain grocery store that we find on every corner here in Cali, and I couldn’t help myself but notice what people had in their carts, as well as their hand baskets, thinking to myself “wow are you really going to eat that (yikes) do you know how bad that is (yikes)” I didn’t say anything but I noticed it for sure!  Then I saw this chick talking on her cell phone while she was shopping, so needless to say, she was oblivious to everyone around her, all she cared about was getting her stuff and talking to whom ever it was on the other end of the phone.  Well the first time I saw her I thought wow I better move because you are going to run me over with your cart so I totally looked to see what was in the cart before it hit me.  I saw some mix for soft batch cookies some milk and a bunch of bars and some prepared meals that come in the box and some potato chips (yum) the triangle shaped ones that end in OS which I use to love!!!  Anyways, I avoided the cart, the buggy missed me by an inch thank goodness. I’m lighter on my feet and I was able to avoid it.  Then I hear her as she is walking by me as she is explaining to the other person that she is in the store looking for the healthy stuff because she is trying to be healthy and I thought to myself wow you are way off track.  She was in good shape and looked like that she had just came from yoga or something so it probably wasn’t going to affect her immediately by eating that way but it will later.  Did she really think that was healthy eating???  Then it made me think, I thought I was eating healthy in the past, boy was I wrong.  I’m goin to have to say that knowledge is essential in changing eating habits as well as eating the right thing.  I’m glad I have Brandy Jo!!!

Sorry this came out a little later then normal but today was busy.  I believe Brandy Jo saw 8 clients and I talked to like a million people about the Groupon, but get this, I loved it! I really enjoyed having to be busy and feeling the pressure. I’m not going to say that there weren’t times when I had to regroup and gather my thoughts but I loved the tempo it feels good..  Seems like I was enjoying the controlled chaos.  Well that is me for tonight.

Oh yes Josh (Brandy’s cousin)  is doing great on his first day, but forgot his healthy snacks today so he was a little hungry but powered through it so good on him.  Keep up the great work brother I’m pulling for you!!

Tim’s day 14 & 15…. Learning about emotional eating

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Brandy Jo, detox, emotional eating, integrative wellness, organic food, sacramento blog, Tim Aranjo

Hey there, Day 14-15.

I still feel great.  I was telling Brandy Jo, I wish there was a day I just felt like crap so I could actually relay that to everyone reading this.  That is not the case though, I feel great I have had plenty of energy and WOW you will not believe the sound sleep that I have been getting.  All week long we were up and at it early in the morning. This morning was a treat, we got to sleep in, and it was amazing!  I woke up at 820 or so and felt so awesome!!!!!  Seems like the change in eating has also changed my sleep.

 Day 14 was the last day of the 6~day cleanse that Brandy Jo was doing for her clients, everyone was doing great and feeling good. In the past, when I did the 6 day cleanses, I never did experience anything emotional and it was odd because it seems like it would cause emotions in other people. Yesterday, while talking to some clients who experienced emotions during this process, I realized that I too, have been feeling something.  I find it hard sometimes to figure out what emotion I’m feeling since I’m still kind of identifying them myself.  I don’t think I can identify a feeling every time but I’m sure I was feeling something.  The reason I mention all of this is because I never associated emotions with eating, it never really made sense till now.  Food really IS an emotional habit!  I think knowing this is key to being successful, because in order to kick some of our bad habits we have to know what bring them on and emotions really do bring on eating. Some people medicate, some people drink and some people eat.  I’m not sure I was always an emotional eater, but I definitely notice it now. Anyway, this was just a thought of mine, right wrong indifferent it seems to apply to me.  Day 15 as I said I slept in this morning, and it as AWESOME.  Brandy Jo let me sleep in finally!!!!!  She is dedicated to her work and her clients, that’s for sure! Seems like we have been running all day, however, the fact that I kept fed kept me going. One of our projects we completed today was a trip to the store to buy “props” for one of Brandy Jo’s upcoming presentations.  This project consisted of us actually shopping at Safeway (I know, I know….) We wanted to purchase some healthy looking items that contained crazy amounts of sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup. Some of the items we purchased were: Greek Yogurt, some rice cakes, fruit cups, fruit drinks, sport drinks, energy bars and other things. Thank goodness for Brandy Jo, I had no idea that some of those so called healthy things were actually bad for you.  I could not believe the ingredients in some of the things we purchased. It should be simple to explain fruit in a cup but their were a million things in it besides just fruit and juice.  She showed me the fine art of label reading 101. In the past, I would read the calories and fats, the things I thought I should be looking at. Truth is, I didn’t know what I was looking for.  I feel very enlightened and I’m grateful for my trip to the store with her. Brandy Jo usually buys our food or tells me which food to purchase, I just wasn’t sure how she came to those conclusions, now I know!

I guess I’m 12 days away from my 27 days, I have to say that it has flown by.  I haven’t really missed the bad food at all.  The only times that I have really missed food or wanted bad things is when I was hungry.  Brandy Jo’s cousin Josh and I were talking the other day and he informed me that he was going to do a detox this upcoming week, I’m super stoked for him and Brandy is even more excited for him.  I can’t wait to be able to write how he feels after the cleanse.  I wish I was there to support him and go through this week with him, it would be such a great time.  Funny story: Josh and I were talking on facebook about a year ago about how we needed to visit each other and drink beer and hang out, which was very possible since we lived only an hour apart. We were coming up with our master plan on our facebook wall, so everyone could read it, and Brandy Jo of course had to add her two cents. She told us that maybe instead of beer we could go have a smoothie or a juice or something and we laughed at this gesture and explained to her that it was a silly idea. Now I think that actually sounds like a good idea!  Josh is not the only one in Missouri doing the cleanse right now, I believe Leslie and Andrew started today, so we will support them as well.  I will keep everyone posted, as I know they will do well.  Till next time.

ps. Brandy Jo and I went to the movie yesterday and we DIDN’T have popcorn!!

Redeeming Your Groupon

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detox, groupon

Our GROUPON detox offer was a huge success!

If you purchased a groupon, I’d like to congratulate you on deciding to treat yourself to this much needed maintenance program for yourself.

During this program, you will have constant support and guidance. We are here to answer all of your questions and discuss your concerns, as well as personalize the program according to any food allergies.

The GROUPON offer includes a 30 minute nutrition consult, which will consist of Nutrition Response Muscle Testing and a Q&A session regarding your cleanse program. Prior to this appointment, you will fill out 2 forms that will help me during this session. You can choose to have this session either before or during your detox program.

We will be offering this cleanse program on specific dates, all starting on Monday or Thursday. We will be offering this program to a limited amount of people each time, so you will be required to sign up at least one week in advance. The fastest and easiest way to sign up is to email us with your name and the number of days you will be joining us for the cleanse. At this point, we can hold your spot for the date desired and get you set up for the nutrition consult.

The 3 or 5 day cleanse will start on these dates:

January 23rd

Feb 6th

Feb 20

March 5th

March 19th

April 2nd

3-day cleanses that will start on Thursday:

Feb 9th

March 8th

April 5th

Contact info: Brandyjo@integrativewellness.net

916-494-3185

Tim’s day 13…. Can I enjoy this movie without popcorn??

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full body cleanse, juice detox, movie popcorn, organic food

Good Morning Everyone!!!!

Well today is day 13! You know what, I think I’m going to stop counting my days.  Today is day 5 for the people doing the cleanse with Brandy Jo, and everyone is feeling great.  More energy and things moving ~ it’s amazing how these cleanses work for people, it seems like it effects everybody differently and I really enjoy hearing the stories from all of her clients, and I can totally relate to some of the stories.  It motivates me to continue to do well.

Funny story this morning ~ here it is.  There is a movie debuting tonight!!!!! Contraband!!!!!!  I want to see it really bad and I told Brandy Jo that, and of course, she said lets go tonight and watch the movie and I was so excited.  I still am excited, but then I was thinking “damn you can’t watch a movie without eating the popcorn and having the drink its just part of the movie process.”  It put me in a bit of a conundrum: my first thought was “I have been doing so well, and I deserve this, I can eat popcorn and it will be alright” but as I thought about it, I started feeling guilty, and came to the conclusion that I can go to the movie and NOT have the big popcorn and big drink.  I can just go there and enjoy the movie.  The movie is the treat not the popcorn or the drink.  I have to be honest ~ it sounded wonderful! Popcorn and a movie with my hot wife, what a great night! But I need to stay true to myself and honestly, even though people may not be reading this I would hate to have to write about not making it to my 27 days without cheating.  I’m better then that.  I have been through a lot harder things in my life this should be easy.

Sometime around Christmas time I was thinking (seems like I do that alot these days) but I was thinking that I found myself in some crazy places in my life and I’m probably lucky to be alive and still have all of my body parts.  I have a lot of friends that aren’t here anymore, but I am.  I was spared for whatever reason.  Well with all that being said it dawned on me, I was spared because I’m suppose to be doing something extraordinary in my life.  So right after Christmas I told myself that I need to live extraordinary not ordinary.  I need to make the most out of every minute that God has given me.  Since the 1st when I started this journey I, like everyone else, came up with challenges and I am using this challenge to grow as a person.  Some of my friends that aren’t here anymore, have no options, but if they were here and were given the opportunity to make the right decision, they would definitely make the right choice now, knowing the alternative, this is a no brainer!! They would do whatever they had to do to be alive today.  So its that simple, I’m here today to make the right decisions because I have been given that opportunity to do so. For whatever reason, I’m still here to do something wonderful, even extraordinary. Wow those are some deep thoughts for 10 in the morning.

I just want to say hi and mention some of the people that have been motivating me through my journey.  Kathryn and Ryan, you two ROCK, they have been doing a juice fast which is way more intense then what I’m doing but they are pretty awesome for doing so. This is their second go around with the juice fast. They are a dedicated couple! Anyone who would take their juicer to Vegas has got to be somewhat committed to doing well, or at least trying haha.  Jennifer, Viki, Scott, Jean, Jody, Karen, Lisa, (these are just some of the people following)  I would like to thank for your support you all make me feel accountable for my actions.  It’s like I don’t want to let anyone down, even though I know that you wouldn’t be upset with me I have that personal feeling.  The last person I would like to thank for following this is Joshua, I actually got a text from him last night and it made my evening, so thank you Mr Joshua Hesse.  We look forward to seeing everyone soon! Hey, and remember you can always come out to Sunny California to visit.  We have to hang out next time we are in Missouri!!!!

Tim’s day 11 and 12… thinking about Fried Chicken!

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27 day detox, cravings, fried chicken, juice, nutritional consult, organic foods, Tim Aranjo

 

Hello Everyone still following,

Well Yesterday was day 11 and wow what a hectic day it was.  Things were a little busy to say the least.  I’m very sorry that I did not get to write for the 11th but I will include some things that I noticed from my day 11 as well as my day 12.   I still feel great and have great energy for work. We have been doing a cleanse for Brandy Jo’s clients and we have 17 people that signed up for this particular cleanse so that is a good amount.  Truth be known, I’m actually a little surprised it wasn’t bigger with it being the start of a New Year.  Brandy Jo and I get up and prepare all the food daily and needless to say that requires us to get up early to have all of our stuff prepared by 7:30 in the morning.  I have had great energy for the entire day.  From when we get started till about 8 in the evening we are at the office doing work.  I’m not complaining though. I’m grateful for all that we have and I really appreciate the people that choose to share their lives with us both at work and home.  It is the coolest thing ever to hear people say that they feel good again!!

Alright well yesterday was epic for me, I was wanting comfort food so bad!  I really struggled with it, especially towards dinner time. I was so ready  to eat anything and it seems like the worse it was for you, the more I wanted it, but I was able to refrain. Once I started eating, I realized that I really didn’t want that bad food at all, it was just an old habit I identified.  As I mentioned earlier Brandy Jo and I are busy with the cleanse stuff, so busy, in fact, that I let myself get to the starving point and I shouldn’t have. This feeling triggered the instinctive habit, which was to grab something quick and easy, which normally meant something really bad, and thats what  I was wanting… something really bad. However, like I said I ate and realized I didn’t want the bad food at all, I just wanted something.  I learned a valuable lesson last night ~ don’t let yourself get to the starving point! Make time to feed yourself something good before it gets to the “I want something bad” stage.  I got to the house and started eating my soup, reluctantly of course, because I was still thinking of all the bad things I wanted, but halfway through my meal I realized I honestly didn’t want that at all.  So if you are reading this and you are trying to figure out how to do something like this without cheating I would highly suggest making time for yourself and eat.  Take care of your body you only have the one life!!!   So that was a little about my 11th day.

Day 12 Awesome!!  I still have plenty of energy and Brandy Jo and I were in the Co-op shopping for the food that we will need for the cleansers tomorrow morning and it kind of hit me.  I couldn’t believe that I was thinking about introducing regular food back into my system, not necessarily bad food but just food back into my diet and I was a little nervous about it.  I was thinking and hoping when I do decide to eat something regular, is it going to change the way I feel?  I don’t want to lose the “feeling good” feeling.  Yes I know I’m going to eat something bad, and I’m sure I didn’t change my eating habits in 12 days but I can honestly say that I feel like I have had another break through.  Most of Brandy Jo’s clients that come in regularly know that I’ve made a decision to change my eating habits for good and that this 27 challenge is the start of something new.  This seems to always bring up the conversation of what I miss and don’t miss.  Something I loved prior to changing my eating habits was some Fried Chicken from Sandra Dees down here in Midtown.  Oh man they have some damn good fried chicken and I love it.  It’s truly authentic Southern Fried Chicken and I loved it!!!!!!  So it keeps coming up in conversation where everyones favorite place is.  You know after this day 27 I totally thought I wanted the fried chicken or the pizza but it seems like I have entered some debate with myself.  Is that really what I want??  I don’t know honestly and it’s weird because I’m sure in the past it would of been “hell yeah I want the fried chicken”.  I guess I will have to see when I get to that point and see what I end up doing.  I hope for those of you reading this still know that all this is coming from the heart, this is truly what I feel.  I do not try to hype anything up for you because if you choose to do this I’m sure you will have some of the same stories, but everyone is different and everyone will have to find out what works for them or what doesn’t.  This is just how it’s working for me and yes it really does take some effort on your part to make a change but I want it bad.

If you are reading this and you live close enough and want to make a change in your life I would suggest that you make an appointment with Brandy Jo,  again I’m not trying to sell anything here but she has changed the way I look at food entirely.  She has made me very aware.  Yes we are married and I’m sure some of you think this might be a biased statement, but everything that i’m doing now is because she enlightened me.  I have learned a lot from her and learn more everyday.  So if you are stuck or need motivation she is your lady.  She won’t do it for you but she will coach you through the change if you really want it, because it only works if you want to make a change and you are ready to do your part.

Well thats me for now.

Tim’s day 10

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cleanse, detox, integrative wellness, organic food detox, Sugar, Tim Aranjo

I still can’t believe it is day 10 already.  It was another early morning but I had plenty of energy when I woke up this morning.  We went to bed around 1030 last night and woke up early this morning and it was not bad at all.  I felt well rested and ready to get the day on.  I have to say that I slept very sound last night.  I am a fairly light sleeper and for me to sleep sound is a special event, as it is rare that I can relax to the point where I sleep that heavy and actually feel that rested.  Dont get me wrong I sleep good at night but last night was Deep Sound Sleep.

So yesterday while I was snacking on something I noticed I got a runny nose almost instantly and wondered why that happened and just shrugged it off as being odd and went about my business.  Well again, snacking in the evening I had a pineapple  and sure as shit my runny nose was back almost instantly.  Then I sat there a bit and realized that it was fruit earlier that day that made my nose run as well.  Then it dawned on me that fruit with lots of sugar in it are probably not the best for me right now.  For the most part I will try to avoid them for the time being until I get over this event.  I can’t believe I am realizing things like that now.  OH yes I am loving loving loving artichoke hearts they are delicious and I am kicking myself for never trying them earlier then when I did.   My first time trying Artichoke Hearts was probably about a month ago.  I just thought I wouldn’t like them because they didn’t look very yummy, but I sure was wrong!  Yesterday I had a cauliflower soup that was amazing.  I’m so glad Brandy Jo is here for me, especially when it came to that soup last night.  Just for the record I do cook and actually love to cook. I just have to learn how to prepare different kinds of meals now.  I’m actually kinda having fun with it.  Believe me if you told me a year ago that I would be trying out different ways to prepare meals with no meat included I probably would of laughed at you then chugged my beer in the same breath .  So for those of you who were, or are like me, and just felt like you had to have meat in a meal I have found that mushrooms and artichokes are my new friend.

I didn’t reach 200 in my crunches again but I’m getting closer I think I need to start that earlier.  The push-ups aren’t bad I’m still knocking those out 50-60 at a time so I make it to 200 fairly quickly with those.  Anyways I’m not going to think of not making it to 200 as a failure at least I’m doing some and that is a improvement from not doing any at all.

For everyone following this, if anyone, I would encourage you to try the change in diet it truly does make a difference.

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