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Ongoing Groups
Discover ongoing discussion geared to the step you are on, or special considerations like depression, parenting or fitness.
Radiant Coaching
Coaching is individualized support. We are just started a new
foundation sequence for beginners so if you are starting the program and would like to have individualized support from Kathleen, please come join us. The commitment is for 2 week intervals.
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“Most sugar addicts who have not started to heal do not plan much. ”
Okay, I am just too excited to not share some of my experimentation.
The last two mornings
I've eaten thermos-cooked cream of buckwheat cereal. I have a little travel coffee pot that actually boils water and I used it to heat the water. Then I tempered the thermos with the water and boiled more water. I mixed the cereal with water, salt and butter, put the lid on and then zipped it inside my insulated lunch bag to help retain some of the heat. It was yummy!
I made chicken and pasta with alfredo sauce in my rice cooker and magic bullet blender. I diced up raw chicken breast and
steamed it in the steamer basket that came with my rice cooker while pasta cooked below. As this cooked I made alfredo sauce in my magic bullet. I used the steamer basket as a colander to drain the pasta and then I mixed it all together.
I still have a few other things I want to try making. This is such a cook gadget. I did some research on the internet and it's amazing what you can cook in a rice cooker. This will be nice during the summer months because it doesn't heat up the kitchen
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I thought you would enjoy a little of the back story of Restore. As some of you may remember, a few years ago, our vendor reneged at the last minute and informed us that they were unwilling to process our regular order. They have recently been purchased by a much larger operation and decided that they did not want to serve small business. Most of
their runs do 20,000 to 1,000,000 units at a time. A little 1,000 unit run just was not interesting to them. And unfortunately, they gave us a very short lead time to deal with this. Had we known 4 months earlier, we would have been able to secure an alternative production company before our run-out date. So we had a *gap* in product.The good news was that we found a blender who can turn things around in a very short time. I worked 10 hours a day to find suppliers, get things ordered,
determine amounts, change the label, get it printed and get all the materials to the blender. The process was grueling and involved hundreds of emails, many, many phone calls and details beyond my imagination. And all of it had to be exactly correct. Change the type of jar ever so slightly, and you have to redesign the label and make a new die to hold it in place for printing. But I went through every single issue piece by piece or perhaps nano by nano. We have generated the
ability to order much sooner and with far more control over delivery date, which means WE WILL NOT RUN OUT. That year was a nightmare for me in having to go through these back-order blips. I can say that being *down and dirty* with the materials at this level has given me a whole different appreciation for how unique our product is. The blender says, *And what about the sweetener?* And I say, *We don't put any in,* and they are confused. They say, *You only have 2 ingredients?* And
I say, *Yes...the power comes with the synergy of them...the formula creates a unique taste.* And now I can attest to the source of all the ingredients...and I learned that the whey protein isolate actually comes from New Mexico cows. That was a sweet twist for all the hassle of the last few weeks. The milk concentrate comes from Idaho. Everything gets shipped to California to be packaged. We have not compromised on the quality. Read other labels and see the ratio of the grams of protein
to the total grams of product. Most companies are upping the *other* ingredients (rather than whey protein isolate) because they are cheaper. Most companies are putting all sorts of other things in. We are not. We were the first to make a *sugars free* product. We do not add sweetener. I developed a formula that makes an incredible taste. So you are getting a fabulous product from a woman-owned company using US ingredients from the finest suppliers. When David and I tasted the blend, we
both agreed it tastes better than the old. I am deeply thankful for your patience with all this. Your loyalty and kindness is the reason I took on the task of making sure that OUR shake continues. And once we get this project settled, I will turn to adding a new product called George's� Vitamins. Put your orders in
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Terri's Experiments
Okay, I am just too excited to not share some of my experimentation.
The last two mornings I've eaten thermos-cooked cream of buckwheat cereal. I have a little travel coffee pot that actually boils water and I used it to heat the water. Then I tempered the thermos with the water and boiled more
water. I mixed the cereal with water, salt and butter, put the lid on and then zipped it inside my insulated lunch bag to help retain some of the heat. It was yummy!
I made chicken and pasta with alfredo sauce in my rice cooker and magic bullet blender. I diced up raw chicken breast and steamed it in the steamer basket that came with my rice cooker while pasta cooked below. As this cooked I made alfredo sauce in my magic bullet. I used the steamer basket as a colander to drain the pasta and
then I mixed it all together.
I still have a few other things I want to try making. This is such a cook gadget. I did some research on the internet and it's amazing what you can cook in a rice cooker. This will be nice during the summer months because it doesn't heat up the kitchen much.
Terri |
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The program works beyond anything I ever imagined. And it is hard to do because it is sooooo different from all the diets you have done. We do maintenance first. And the hardest thing is to settle in to learn skills before glamor of 30 pounds in 30 days. We literally reprogram all those messages.
I am thinking it would be fun for you to hear some of the success stories. Because I put so much
emphasis on *healing*, sometimes I forget to pass on the reports of weight loss. This is going to be interesting since I do not define success as a number.
We will be starting the Obesity Myth Class this week.
Come to chat, join the private list for members.
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Some of the old timers wanted to know where to talk about their process. They wanted to have a place to share about *refinements* and *life enhancements*. We have support for
depression and cooking and fitness, but nowhere to look at *life* stuff. The logical option is Radiant Living. It is kinda the *after the steps* place.
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Kathleen DesMaisons, Ph.D.
People often ask me how they can sort something out. You say, *Kathleen, I just can't figure out what to do.* Often you are desperate and feel that you have to know NOW.
Well, first of all, the haziness, that sort of fog and cloudy sense of not knowing, is often induced by what you are
eating, or by when you are eating. Skip a meal and get dumb. Have sugar and whites and get foggy and not be able to make sense of anything. These are the times when you push forward trying to find answers and you feel as if you are pushing into cotton. Nothing comes, even if you wrestle for hours.
The first way out, of course, is doing the steps. I know you thought that doing the food would just deal with cravings and your weight, and maybe mood. But there is a huge payoff...you get clarity
as well. The fog lifts. Things make sense. Answers come unbidden without thrashing.
But let's say you have a problem now. You can't wait for step 7. You need some practical skills today. So let's do some of those.
Usually, sugar-sensitive people munch - this means you say, "Is it this? Is it that? Is it this? Is it that?" You never find anything, you just fret for hours. The task is to go under what appears to be the question and seek a deep answer. Go under the surface, see what it
conceals.
When you start you will often think you are too busy to sit with it. Or if you sit, you just munch so why bother. This is different. You take one issue, and you decide to focus on it. You call a sense of clarity. You basically decide to leave the munch and ask the real question. Let me give you an example.
I recently had a discussion with a friend who is trying to figure out some major life choices. Should she go to graduate school, what if she gets the new job she was
interviewed for, should she stay with the old job, what if she has to move, how will she have enough money? Sound familiar? So I suggested this technique of going under the munching. I asked her what she wanted in her life in 5 years. I asked her to sit with that in stillness for maybe 30 minutes and let all the *stuff* quiet. This is going under the surface. Not the munching, but the real question.
She did. And she discovered that she really, really wants to be an art therapist. You
might imagine that all the munching faded away. Once she was clear, the choices were clear. She didn't have to wait for step 7. And she realized that she had been munching for weeks and had never stopped to ask what was underneath.
Once she was clear, she focused her energy and in 3 days, all those issues were settled. Concentrated focus is a mighty tool but we rarely use it. We dissipate it with sugar or munching. This is a learned skill. We will talk more about it as we go. Practice the
first piece.
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