3 questions for you..

The other day I had a consultation with a potential client and as usual, nutrition came up, and she showed me her entire week of food journals.

The good part was that she was very honest and wrote EVERYTHING down she had eaten…

... the bad part was that there was nothing healthy on there. I’m talking pizza, hot pockets, beer, coffee, cinnamon buns, chimichangas, etc, etc. So I advised her what to do to get on track, and kept it nice and simple for her to make it easy to take the next step.

Then I asked her if she had any questions.. and she started asking me really “advanced stuff”.. (that was sarcastic…)

“Should I go for grass-fed beef instead of regular beef?”

“When should I take my chia seeds?”

“What do you think of the lemon cleanse?”

“Which fat burner do you recommend?”

.. and other questions like that. And to me this didn’t make any sense at all.  I looked at her amazed and shocked, then I politely said, “ARE YOU KIDDING ME OR ARE YOU NUTS?”  I was serious! (and oh yeah, thats a plug for my book - let me know if you want a free copy)

We just went over a program and no where did we discuss anything she had asked me!  I started looking around for the camera crew because I felt like I was being “Punk’d” or for us old timers, maybe even on “Candid Camera.”  I was ready to grab a barbell and my leather jacket so I would look cool on TV!!!

Because, if you don’t even have the basics right, how can you step to the next level?  So I told her what I’m about to tell you:

You HAVE to know where you currently are in order to know what to do next.  What I mean is.. if right now you are not eating vegetables every single day, then my advice is simple:

Start eating vegetables.

I don’t CARE if they’re organic or not. The most important thing you can do is actually eat them.  Just like working out, the most important thing is to start - no matter what you do, the universe will reward your DECISION to take action.  I learned something a long time ago and it goes like this:  “it’s the START that STOPS you,” think about that.  Most of us stop something before we start it, because “it is too hard” or “it is too difficult” or “I’ll never do that for that long”…. And more BS excuses like that.  For Pete’s sake, just try it, just START something and you will see you can do it.  You will see that after “Day 1” it’s easy, just repeat “Day 1” on “Day 2” and so on…..

So, eat vegetables for 21 days straight.. make it a habit.. THEN we can start talking about the "next level" stuff.

Know what I mean?

Get the basics down first.

So with that said, here’s a little audit you can do right now for yourself to see where you are.

I’m going to ask you 3 simple questions, and if you can answer

“yes” to all three, then you have a foundation..

-1- Do you get at least 2 servings of vegetables EVERY single day?

-2- Do you drink at least half your bodyweight in ounces of water EVERY single day? (even if you eat 100% perfect, nothing matters if you’re dehydrated)

-3- Do you do some type of exercise EVERY single day? (anything at all-even a walk)

If you answered ‘yes’ to all three questions, then that's awesome. If you didn’t, then just remember....

“It’s never too late to become what you might have been”

(one of my favorite quotes)

Take it one step at a time. Skip the ‘shiny objects’ that you see in the media and just keep it simple :)

Hope this made sense!

Yours in health,
Greg


Greg DiRenzo, PhD
"Small Hinges Swing Big Doors"