If you are suffering from illness, disease, obesity, low energy, and vitality, and you want to lose some weight, be more active, and feel better in your body, you are an excellent candidate for the Lifestyle Transformation Journey.  No, this is a program you sign up for or a book you buy.  It is a choice that you make.  It is a choice you make to do things differently than you have in the past so that you can have a different result in your life.

If you keep doing what you have always done, you will continue to get what you always got.  But if you want a different result, you will need to do things differently.

Weight Loss issues can have a lot of different causes.  Your metabolism may be out of wack, you may be eating too much, or too much of the wrong thing.  You may not be active enough.  You may have food addictions or intolerances.

Going on a whole-food plant-based diet, or at the very least a whole-food diet is the place to start.  This means eliminating junk food and processed food and replacing it with whole foods, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes, and whole grains like oats and quinoa, and if you choose to continue eating meat or dairy, keep to grass-fed, organic high-quality products.

This is a journey for most people who have grown accustomed to the Standard American Diet (SAD,) Even if you have cleaned up your diet and are not eating all the things you used to, you may be ready to adjust your diet and lifestyle even more now to have greater results.

The first thing you will need to do is commit yourself.  Be willing to be on your own team and do what is necessary to have the results you desire.  This may involve confronting your inner demons or shadow.  It may involve getting to know yourself on a much deeper level.  You may have to confront your emotions, addictions, and coping mechanisms.  Because to transform your lifestyle is to move beyond the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

When you take this journey, you reach deep within yourself and cultivate self-trust, self-love, and self-discipline.  You develop inner strength and resilience.  You focus on changing the “inner” so that you can see and feel a change outwardly.

With standard weight loss programs, you become focused on losing weight so you can see an external change.  The belief is that if you see an external change, you will feel better inside.  All the effort is put on trying to get the body to look better.  But the deeper truth is you need to start on the inside and you will begin to feel better as you make consistent changes.  The body, in its outward appearance, will begin to mirror the inner changes you are undergoing.  You will get healthier, more vibrant, and have more vitality, and self-worth.

The journey is well worth the effort, but it isn’t easy.  It takes time and commitment.  It isn’t a quick fix.  But it is a permanent shift.  The person you are on the other side of the journey is not the same one you were in the beginning.

To get started, I would recommend starting to replace the food in your cupboards and refrigerator with whole foods and starting to clean out the processed food and junk food.  Don’t eat them.  Throw them out.  Start right away.  It is the only time to start.  Write down a plan that you can stick to and start working your plan.  When things come up for you, find ways to deal with them.  Face the fear, the discomfort, and the emotional pain.  Get help if you need to.

Embrace the journey.  It will be one of the best things you have ever done for yourself.