What are the fastest fast foods – ever? Fresh fruits of course!

All you have to do is wash, open mouth, bite down, and chew!  Fill up on the fastest fast foods, along with fresh vegetables and lots of them, and lose weight and build your energy and health.

Is it that simple? Absolutely – it’s that simple! Wash, open mouth, bite, down and chew.

Love,

Dr. Leslie

Hello, dear friends,

It’s the New Year and a new beginning. If you’re ready, really ready, to get into those pants, you’ve got to have:

1. A simple plan

2. Hope

3. Support and Accountabilty

10+10 for Life is a simple, “I can do this” plan with three simple rules: Add, Stop, and Wiggle.

1. Add: Add and fill up on the best-for-you foods first – fresh fruits and vegetables, the same foods that prevent cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes AND weight gain.

2. Stop: Stop eating when your brain says, “I’m full,” that’s before your stomach begs for mercy.

3. Wiggle: Wiggle room – give yourself wiggle room or flexibility from the get go. 80% of the time when life is normal at home or work, plan, prepare, and make good choices. 20% of the time, no worries – eat what you want when you got out to dinner, have guests, or eat a special weekly brunch with your family.

There you have it. Just add, stop, wiggle your way into those pants!

For the complete article, hop into www.gettingintoyourpants.com and click article button.

Love,

Dr. Leslie

Okay – he’s a guy so does that count?? Shoot – most guys can lose weight if they change just one thing – like quitting the beer.

But us girls??? NO way! Shoot we have to do a bunch of things and keep doing them to get into those pants.

Regardless, Dr. Shawn Jonus decided to eat exactly like me – as soon as he sat down to lunch with me at a chiropractic seminar.

We’d never met! I went through my usual barrage of questions to the waitress to get some semblance of a good salad. Well, as he later told me, he ditched his first choice and said, “I’ll take what she’s having” – he didn’t even know my name! No kidding.

Then he picked my brain and picked my brain and picked it some more. He was dead-on serious. He’d been trying to lose weight for 20 years (sound familiar) and nothing noway nohow worked. He couldn’t figure out for the life of him – literally – why he couldn’t get this food and weight loss thing under control when he was very successful in every other walk of his life.

10+10 and Dr. Leslie made perfect sense to him. Go figure. And you know what? He decided to eat just like me and by golly – he did for the most part. Not an easy feat to go from meat TWICE a day to almost all (with a bit of wiggle room in there)  fruits and veggies and NO more meat!

And…he dropped 22 pounds in 6 weeks! He says it was easy. He’s not hungry any more. The cravings are gone. No more bloating. No more sluggishness when he wakes up. He has has more energy now than he’s had in 20 years.

 (Girls, no matter how excellent we eat, that great a weight loss in such a short period of time doesn’t typically happen for us. I know not fair!)

The best part Shawn says is he free from the food trap he’s been in all of his life. He loves that! It’s so easy to shop and prepare now and it takes almost no planning! And he saves hundreds of dollars – literally – every month on food.

As Shawn says, if he can do it, after struggling all his adult life, anyone can!

Let’s shoot for a 10 in 2010 with 10+10!!!

Love, always your cheerleader,

Dr. Leslie

You’ve got to be selfish to be self-less.

So do yourself a favor right now. Start a BE Selfish List right now. What will be the first item in your Be Selfish list. Mine is to get to bed earlier – by 10:30! Yours may be to walk every day, eat fruit only in the morning, eat a big veggie salad with 10 veggies for lunch, or pre-planning meals so you always have the best-food-for you on hand.

So, stop right now. Start your BE Selfish list – you’ve got to be selfish to self-less!

Love and hugs, Dr. Leslie

Have you ever noticed? It’s tough to shed pounds and keep them off.

Why do we forget that? Why are we so hard on ourselves? Why do we think that losing weight should be easy? We all know better than that!

Losing weight is one of the hardest things we do in our whole lives. It’s not just about losing. It’s about keeping it off in a culture that is constantly seducing us with those foods we have learned to love but just lay layers upon layers.

So give yourself a break. Be patient with yourself. Yes, think about what you are eating. Make wise choices every day. But give yourself that wiggle room.

Shoot for 2.5 pounds a month. If that is too hard, then 1 pound. 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 = 12 pounds – 12 pounds down in a year is huge….12 pounds lighter than you were! And then keep on going!

If one pound isn’t happening, relook at what you’re eating and be more vigilant.

And remember, the ONLY slip up is to give up!

You are not a quitter, huh, Susan???

Love,

Leslie

Dear friends,

Surround yourself with people who call forth your greatness and with whom you call forth their greatness. That is the magic that happens at our Pants Parties.  I am deeply touched by the depth of connection and synergy created by every one of its members.

And that, my dear friends, is what relationships are all about…calling forth the greatness in one another. Whew!

Love and many big hugs,

Dr. Leslie

Hello, dear friends

When we’re trying hard to stay on the weight loss path, we are all sabotaged by that darn Patty Perfect and Annie Antsie and Greta Greedy lurking inside of us. Be aware of your self-talk! Be kind to yourself and patient. The most amazing thing happens as you show yourself graciousness – you become more patient and non-judging of other people.

Be amazed at yourself as those doors of awareness open as you eat your way to a better body and better YOU!

I love you all!

Dr. Leslie

Oh, yeah, it’s true. Never thought it would happen again.

I am head over heels in love with YOU!!!

Thank you for making my life even fuller and richer than it already was – I love ALL of you and what we create together is ever so powerful!!

I’m here to cheer you on and lucky me – you’re here to cheer me on!

Love , Dr. Leslie

Hey, all!

Thought I’d share my perfect 10 RAW day yesterday. Be amazed at everything I put into my mouth – I ate a ton! But a ton of fruits (yummy time of year) and veggies: 5 bananas, 2 mangos, grapes, pint of strawberries, one whole watermelon (the small, seedless round ones), 1 apple, 6 necterines, 4 plums, 4 avocadoes (yes! 4!), one huge glass of homemade veggie juice with carrots, beets, celery, cukes, chard, cabbage, one lime, and one huge salad – largest pyrex bowl to the top – around 4ish with 3 lettuces from Nash’s organic farm, spinach, red cabbage, tomatoes, avocado, carrot, cucumber, peppers, two kinds of homegrown sprouts (that’s my garden), fresh lime and vinegar for dressing! Was I full and satisfied – ABSOLUTELY!!!                                      Love, Leslie