Macelle Pick MSN OB - The Core Balance Diet: 28 Days to Boost Your Metabolism and Lose Weight for Good

ALSO BY MARCELLE PICK

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IS IT ME OR MY ADRENALS?: Your Proven 30-Day Program for Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue and Feeling Fantastic Again

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THE CORE BALANCE: Boost Your Metabolism and Lose Weight for Good

IS IT ME OR MY HORMONES?: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly about PMS, Perimenopause, and All the Crazy Things That Occur with Hormone Imbalance

ARE YOU TIRED AND WIRED: Your Proven 30-Day Program for Overcoming Adrenal Fatigue and Feeling Fantastic Again

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Copyright 2009 by Marcelle Pick

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

A Word to the Wise:No book can take the place of a caring medical professionals advice. If you are currently under a practitioners/doctors care, taking a prescription medicine, or working with a chronic disease such as diabetes, please check with your healthcare practitioner before starting this program. Most of my patients have easily incorporated The Core Balance Diet into their self-care routines, but it is always prudent to discuss any changes in diet and lifestyle with a caring medical professional, preferably one who understands both traditional and alternative methods of carean approach we call integrated medicine. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, I advise you to reconsider any weight loss programnow is not the time.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2012953969

ISBN: 978-1-4019-4289-2

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1st edition, April 2009

2nd edition, March 2013

Printed in the United States of America

For my children, Joshua, Micah, and Katya, and their future.

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CONTENTS

At one point in my life, I was as much as 40 pounds overweightand up until relatively recently I carried 15 to 20 stubborn extra pounds. From my early teens until my fifties, I was in a constant battle with my weight fueled by a lot of confusion and self-doubt. As a girl growing up in Australia, I never thought about my body. I ran and played and worked happily; I was healthy and strong and ate regular, home-cooked meals made from food my parents were able to grow, gather, or purchase for our home in the Outback. When I was 10 years old, my family moved to the States, and for the first time in my life I became body-conscious. Girls at school teased me for being bigger then they were (though I was hardly overweight) and I began to obsess over my size. Our diet changed as we began to integrate into American culture, though my mother still cooked for us every day. I was never overweight as a child, but I was never skinny. And boy, did I want to be skinny!

It was the 1960s and all of the cultural icons were stickslike Twiggy. Through high school, I engaged in all the typical skirmishes we women do to lose weight: I starved myself, I ate only grapefruit for a week, I yo-yoed back and forth between fad diets, and I stayed active on the pep team; but I never got really skinny, no matter how hard I tried. During my twenties and thirties, as I started my family, extra pounds crept on and I spent huge amounts of energy trying to lose them. I went on Weight Watchers, measured every ounce of food I ate, and oh-so-slowly lost weight at the agonizing rate of about a half a pound a week. I was stupefied when others in my group who were doing the exact same program would lose two to five in the same time period! It took me a year to lose 15 pounds, and it came right back on the moment I started eating normally again.

Had I known then what I know now, I would have immediately suspected some underlying issues that were getting in the way of my weight loss. But I didnt knowso I simply ate less, went to the gym early in the mornings, and blamed myself for not being disciplined enough to lose the weight. The silver lining to this experience was that I began to tune in to my diet and learn more about the importance of optimal nutrition and eating organically. I also began to explore holistic and then functional medicine. My weight was stable (even though I was heavier than I wanted to be) and I was healthy and full of energy. It was around then that three partners and I began Women to Women, one of the first medical clinics in the States to practice holistic healing for women by women, with a mission to change womens health for the better.