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COMMUNITY FORUM Share with others, ask questions, explore everything and anything about your program without a charge. A great place for newcomers.
GROUPS Learn the steps, get fit safely, learn creative program cooking, learn about depression, learn with parents, share in local areas. There is no charge for groups.
CLASSES
Classes are either done on the step lists, in YLD or by Kathleen in special classrooms. Classes are done by email, so there are no specific time constraints to
be present. WORKING WITH KATHLEEN
I feel very strongly about offering you a way to work with me directly. I have set up a whole range of options for you to do that - going from private coaching to being involved in small groups. This link will show you all the choices. Coaching Apprentice is open to people on steps 1-3 who are starting their program. Coaching Skilled is for people who are on step 7 and want to look at other issues more in-depth. Coaching Return to Radiance is for people who have worked the program successfully and left for whatever reason and decided to come back Signature Coaching is for those who want to work individually with Kathleen in a 90-day process. Signature is the top of the line. All who have done it talk about their lives being changed.
Another option is setting up a one hour assessment and then making a decision based on that conversation. And you can always call 505-345-3737 and
ask me about how each one works.
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"The fun thing will be to see how your feelings emerge as you do the program."
*That point in a meal full of vegetables and best browns when my body sighs contentedly and feels well fed.
For me this is the serotonin feeling. Cushioned, contented and calm. I find the image of serotonin as insulator helpful. It feels as if serotonin assists in getting the messages through without
distractions, and stops my nerves making electrical links where they shouldn't or shorting out. Kath |
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This is David DesMaisons, your Radiant Recovery® Concierge
Come visit our STORE. Call 505-345-3737 if you have questions. David, the store manager, is always happy to help.
We have these little snack holders. They are great for school and go right in a backpack. they are great for work as you can put them right in your desk. I love mine.
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This is another post Mosaic did on the forum. Charity asked about lunch protein ideas. I loved what she had to say and printed this for the inside door of my cupboard.
Great thread topic thanks Charity! Have you discovered some nice easy ones ? I think Easy is the top criteria for me!
I am remembering step three. Second go round..... ( don't remember much about first go ) I found Lunch the most difficult of all. What to choose? it seems crazy to remember I didn't think there was Anything to eat !
I am sure, what helped most was the planned - overs idea. A very new idea to me. Leftovers ? Never had any Ate it all LOL. But _ I could
double up my usual recipes and freeze half, in serving sizes. That was particularly useful with things like - chilli
- meatballs in tomato sauce
- chicken stew
- chicken satay
- shepherds pie
- moussaka
- any sort of curry, including dhal
I still do that all the time *blushing here * to the extent that in the freezer they go and my freezer gets overstocked. I have to remember to
take them out and use them LOL. Another thing I freeze most successfully for other peoples lunchboxes all the time are - fish stew and rice
- oven baked risotto, vegetarian and meat versions
- Paella
- enchilada
- ww Chinese noodles stir fry with vegetables/meat
- need access to a micro though ….
my current favourite lunches, probably because the weather is so
hot
- nibble plate : cold meat saved from sunday roast, cheese, olives - so whatevers in the fridge, I adore the variety
- cooked saved chicken drumsticks/ baked with chilli and lime, or piri piri
- soft boiled eggs and some cheese alongside
- Quiche, Lorraine or mushroom
- chef salad with supermarket meat like peppered roast beef or Wiltshire ham, boiled egg slices, cheese. I like bagged salad at lunch , is more expensive, but worth it for grabbability
- cold sausage and cold roasted red peppers
I remember once in Chat, Kathleen suggested to set a timer if about to get engrossed something. Not a bad idea, as in my step three I had no hunger signal to remind me
( perpetually hungry) I sort of ate by the clock for a
long time
Love some more inspiration ! Your favourites?
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Radiant Living is geared to looking at Step 7 issues. I am in the process of the revision of Potatoes not Prozac and am adding a fair amount of information on *radiant living* which
is really Step 7. This is where we are looking at a Step 7 life with all its quirks. This means feelings, healing old trauma and remodeling our bodies.
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I just want to lose weight. Is this the right place for me?
It is the best place in the world for you. You won't get this information anywhere else, I guarantee. Make sure to come to chat. I am going to expand what we are
doing in chat and will outline it in the article section below.
I am just starting the steps. Does it make sense to join now? Yes, it does. We have found that the people who come to chats do the best with the steps. The connection in chat is awesome. You get a chance to talk with the old timers, you can ask questions and I am right there to guide you, It really is an incredible opportunity.
Here are the topics for YLD chat in August
AUGUST: Fat Terror
August 1st: Definition of Fat Terror Aug 8th: How Fat Terror affects you Aug 15th: Healing Fat Terror August 22nd: Restriction and how it connects to Fat Terror August 29th: Cellular Fat Terror
If you are not a member yet, come and join us. If you are a current member and want to join us in the new chat room, come to the landing page. We will send you the pass words after you join.
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Vitamins
Kathleen DesMaisons,
PhD
The vitamins you start taking in Step 4 will be helpful, but dont forget that the most crucial element of this program is eating food. Food provides vitamins naturally and promotes healing. Preparing food and meals provides much more than that. Buying, preparing and eating nutritious food requires
specific behavior changes and makes you become conscious about what you are eating. Most people who have relied on sugar for a long time have very little experience with the type of behavioral change required for planning meals. Doing your food plan calls for you to make plans for regular meals and follow through on them. It means learning to devise alternative plans of action (like figuring out what and when to eat when your schedule suddenly changes), which reinforces flexibility and creative
problem-solving. Doing a full food plan rather than just taking vitamins and hoping they will make you healthy also teaches you to make discriminating judgments about what is good specifically for you. All of these things are incredibly self-empowering.
As you will see, what you initiate with the food plan will have a far bigger impact than just eating three times a day. You will learn to pay attention to your body in a consistent way and make a connection between how you feel and what you are eating. As your food gets stable, you will become more and more interested in what works for
your body and your needs. As you eat three meals a day at regular intervals and take your vitamins, you may find yourself getting impatient. This happened with a client of mine named Mary.
Mary had been doing her food journal and eating three meals pretty much every day. But she was getting impatient. She wanted to go faster. She wanted to do the rest of the steps right away. She was even ready to completely stop using sugar, she told me. And couldn't she also stop using caffeine now, she asked. Mary felt she was done with Steps 1 and 2. She didn't want to keep her food journal
anymore because she was eating three meals most days. She wanted to be in charge of her own plan.
Mary confronted me with a dilemma. I wanted to support her in taking charge of her own process but at the same time I knew from my work with other clients how important it is to follow the steps in sequence. I stuck to my guns. I encouraged Mary to continue her food journal and master having three meals every single day before she made any other changes. I knew that doing this would create the stability Mary needed for making the changes called for in Steps 3 through 7. Skip the first two
steps (or stop doing them) and the process will not work.
Remember, it absolutely
does not matter how long it takes to master each of these steps. You, like Mary, will get to negotiate the order in which you make change after you have done the first three steps. But always begin with the journal and keep doing it. It is your key to understanding where you started. Without a food journal, the process is just talk. It is a waste of your time to try to do the whole program and the changes it involves without doing the journal. You will not have to do a journal forever, but
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