The Ultimate Reset Gave Me My Life Back

Love yourself enough to NEVER lower your standards for anyone! And that includes never lowering them for yourself either.

WELL… let me just say that this statement hit home. (visualize a baseball being thrown into your front living room window and glass going everywhere kind of hit) For soooooooo many years, I set the bar about my health and fitness journey up there with an athlete because I believed I was worth more than how others had treated me and my body growing up. I was going to show them!

THE RESET GAVE ME THE REAL ME BACK.

I set a standard that kept me there and I worked hard to maintain and prove to myself I WAS worth more.

Then one day I heard those three words that NO ONE should ever have to hear… YOU HAVE CANCER!  Talk about a wake up call… I kept asking myself, why me?  I was healthy, ate right, exercised blah blah blah. Now before you go and say see why should I exercise and eat right, Jill did and look what happened to her, STOP RIGHT THERE!  

Let me tell you although no one can plan for it, being healthy and fit gave me a HUGE advantage over so many others I saw in the cancer ward for the next 12 months and even beyond. (Be healthy before you need to be healthy is what I always say) I had complications and to make a long story short, was thrown into full blown menopause.  I was clinically depressed, hated the version of me I was becoming( Dr; Jeckyl, Mr. Hyde) and so did my family.  Mind you I knew what to do to get myself back on track, but nothing I did seemed to work.  Sure I was back exercising and eating right, but I just couldn’t get the weight off or change my mental state which was in the toilet at this point.  

Ultimate Reset came out and after doing some serious research, I decided to give it a try.  Well Holy Batman!  I was sleeping better by the end of the first week, my mood swings were not as bad, and my hot flashes were starting to subside.  That in of itself was worth it right there.  By the end of week 2, my mind was clearer, I was more focused, no longer dragging by the middle of the afternoon, and well just a happier version of myself.  I was SOLD.  Week 3 was just more of the same but even better and clothes were fitting for the first time in months.  I was seeing a change in the mirror.  

Overall:

• I lost 12 inches

• I Lost 15 lbs

• My hot flashes disappeared

• My mind is clear 

• I am HAPPY

Even more importantly I gained ME back. I was able to go off my anti depressants, my mood swings were gone, and I had tons of focus and energy.  What was even better was that I continued to lose even after I finished the program and got back to the healthiest version of me possible. The Ultimate Reset was a GAME CHANGER, MY GAME CHANGER….

Fast forward to this past November when I was diagnosed with PTSD.  Now while this had no where near the same impact on me initially as those other 3 words, it began to take its toll, and I started to slip back to a dangerous place.

Unfortunately, the negative self talk and doubt has begun to slowly creep back into my head. I have allowed myself to lower the bar (think going with pass/fail for a grade instead of an A,B, or C) I had worked so hard to set. I began to allow myself to think that I’m getting older, why shouldn’t I have that cupcake or two, maybe this is how I am going to feel from now on(picture woman in pjs tired ALL the time, and not wanting to go out and socialize with friends) I will never forget the words Rob Lowe once said, “it is easy to get old, but it is hard to stay young.”  How true those words are, and yet staying young is DEFINITELY doable.  It starts with a healthy lifestyle, good nutrition, the right mindset, and getting your body moving.

So instead of staying on the Pity Party Train, I decided to hop off at Get Over yourself station, and catch the Do something about it express.  

The Do something about it drops you right at the Beginning of The New You.  You just have to take a detour to Make a Decision, get off your butt, and GO FOR IT.

Go for it to me means getting started with the Ultimate Reset.  Why?  Well here is the key so listen closely.  The reset isn’t a liquid cleanse.  Heck, it’s more food than I probably eat on a regular basis, the difference being that it is ALL healthy food.  You wean yourself off of different types of food as the 21 days progresses and you are ridding your body of toxins in the process.  You may even experience feeling cold while doing the Reset which just means that your kidneys are beginning to detoxify. It gives your body the opportunity to rid itself of waste that has been building up in your body, and to see what foods you do best on.  Many of the recipes I still use even when I am not on the Reset because they are so delicious. It jump starts my metabolism, I sleep better than I ever have, my mind is more focused and clearer, I have tons more energy, and a nice side effect is the weight loss and inches.  Give me one reason why I shouldn’t do this? My husband gets a happier version of me, and I get the real me back.  That my friends is a no brainer in my book.

Don’t misunderstand me, it no one’s fault but MY OWN and I own that. I have learned with PTSD that sometimes you have to take a step back and acknowledge the(insert here whatever you may be feeling) so that you can move forward. So once again, I am turning to what I know can pull me from that place inside my head and that my friends is –health and fitness. It is tuning the body up and fueling the mind and muscles with good nutrition. It is healing my body from within and resetting it with the tools it needs to succeed and to RAISE the standard. The reset did it for me before and it will do it again. Why? BECAUSE I have raised the bar. I don’t have to be stuck here and neither do you if this is how you feel…..