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T he information contained in this book is for your education. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure any medical condition or dispense medical advice. If you decide to follow my plan, you should seek the advice and counsel of your licensed health professional and then use your own judgment.

It is important to obtain proper medical advice before you make any decisions about nutrition, diet, supplements, or other health-related issues that are discussed in this book. Neither the author nor the publisher is qualified to provide medical, financial, or psychological advice or services. The reader should consult an appropriate healthcare professional before heeding any of the advice given in this book.

I am a nutritionist and certified weight-management expert who has seen firsthand that what you eat is the most crucial aspect of managing weight and is much more important than traditional dieting or exercising. I wrote this book because I made a personal commitment to help others get slimmer, sexier, and healthier. My goal is to give you all the information you need to lose weight and get healthy. I will provide you with the knowledge, skills, and guidelines that you can use in your life not only to lose weight but also to restore your health and energy.

When I was in my twenties, I could eat anything I wanted and still stay slim. Unfortunately, I practiced poor eating habits. I was a junk-food and fast-food junkie. When I was in my thirties, my health began to deteriorate, and as my metabolism slowed, my weight began to increase. I eventually gained forty pounds and went up four dress sizes. However, of even greater concern were the numerous health ailments and illnesses that I began to experience.

I tried many popular diets, but they required too much discipline and only worked as long as I stayed on them. But who wants to be on a diet all the time? I learned that if you go on a diet, at some point, when you go off the diet, you typically gain the weight back. While youre on it, you starve and crave foods, and as soon as you go off it, you eat all the foods that caused you to gain weight in the first place. In order to be successful, you have to break the addiction to foods that cause you to gain weight. If you crave them, you will always fail on a diet... until the addiction is broken once and for all. So, I got off diets and changed my lifestyle to lose weight, regain energy, and restore my health.

At one point, when I was in my twenties, my doctors gave me antibiotics that I took every day for several months to cure acne. Years later, I found out that this lengthy period of medication had taken a toll on the internal balance in my system: I had an overgrowth of intestinal bacteria and was diagnosed with candidiasis. Furthermore, for years, I kept getting sick with numerous ailments and illnesses. I was diagnosed with sinus infections, yeast infections, arthritis, chronic fatigue, prediabetes/insulin resistance, hernias, polyps, and ovarian cysts. Many of these conditions required surgery. Sometimes, I just felt generally rundown and exhausted, having little to no energy. I became frustrated! The doctors answers were not getting me well. So I researched everything I could about different ways to heal my body and get healthy. The more techniques I tried, the better I started to look and feel. In fact, something very interesting happened. The more I applied natural practices of healing, the more I slimmed down and the more youthful I began to look. It was as though I was turning back the hands of time. At that point, I knew I was on the right path toward staying slim and healthy and getting my life back!

By the time I was in my late thirties, I had really started to heavily research, study, and apply knowledge about how to heal my body and lose weight. I learned the science of how the body responds to different foods, how hormones play a role in weight gain, and how to speed up my metabolism to reverse the natural slowing of metabolism that happens as we age. I began to get amazing results. I even went on to receive several certificationsone as a certified nutritionist and another as a certified weight-management expert. Now, in my forties, I teach my numerous clients these techniques to stay slim, restore health, and get their sexy back!

I realized that by adopting a healthy diet and lifestyleone that involved regular internal cleansing and detoxificationI could regain control of my body and my well-being. Since then, it has become my passion to educate others and share with them the natural remedies that helped me achieve the superb health that I enjoy today. I have dedicated my life to the field of healthy eating and living. I have studied many philosophies of health and natural healing and learned from some of the great teachers of our time.