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In this episode, David shares how a 2016 health scare became the catalyst for a profound lifestyle transformation. He rebuilt his health in his 60s and even hiked Mount Kilimanjaro, proving it’s never too late to reclaim your vitality. David’s mission and passion is to help others embrace a healthier lifestyle so they can fully enjoy life and participate in it, rather than remain a spectator. His latest project, Path Forward, is a fiction novel woven with stories and subtle “medicine” intended to gently guide readers toward lasting wellness. 

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David Medansky, also known as “The Health Guy,” is a best-selling, award-winning author, speaker, and founder of the LIFE 42 Health Community. A former divorce lawyer and world-class casino craps expert, David transformed his own life and now dedicates his work to helping others reclaim their energy, confidence, and vibrant health through seven simple, sustainable actions. Through his books, workshops, and speaking engagements, he empowers thousands to make lasting lifestyle changes that are both accessible and affordable.

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Rev. DeeAnne ‘Rose Hope’ Riendeau  B.Msc, HADM, PIDP, NLP is a thought leader in spiritual and business development whose mission is to elevate how we think and live. Experiencing a life of chronic illness, and 2 near death experiences, DeeAnne rebounded with 20 years of health education and a diverse health career.

She is known as the modern day Willy Wonka for giving away her company Your Holistic Earth, which is the first holistic health care system of its kind.  She is currently the owner of Rose Hope International, in which she helps those who are seeking more joy, love, freedom, and a deeper meaning in life using your souls library also known as the Akashic Records. 

She has spoken at Harvard University, appeared on Shaw TV, Global Television, and CTV and has been recognized as a visionary and business leader having been nominated for numerous awards including Alberta Business of Distinction. Along with being an entrepreneur, DeeAnne is a mom of 2 bright kids, publisher, popular speaker and international bestselling author who uses her heart and her head to guide others to create their best life. 

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Rev. Rose Hope: It's a treat to have our guest on the show today, David Medansky. David, also known as the health guy, is a best selling, award winning author, speaker, and the founder of the life 42 health community. After struggling with his own weight and health issues for years, David turned his life around when at age 61 he reversed a 95% chance of having a fatal heart attack, he dropped 50 pounds and hiked Mount Kilimanjaro at age 67 proving it's never too late for a new beginning. Drawing on an extensive background as a successful lawyer and Wellness Advocate, David is dedicated to empowering others to reclaim energy, confidence and regain vibrant health through seven simple actions without breaking the bank, he has inspired 1000s through his books, workshops and speaking engagements, including corporate and community events across the country. I hope you enjoy today's show.

Welcome back, everyone. We have another amazing guest. You just learned all about David in the bio, and I'm so excited to have you here, David. Welcome. Thank you for having me. You know, I was so shocked to learn how many books you've written, and a little bit about your story and previous conversation that we had, and I just found it so fascinating. And I thought this is a man who is really walking the talk, and I think it's so important that we really expose the people who are really, truly walking the talk. Because I think there's a lot of people who aren't these days, and I think it's about time we have more leadership, where people are really stepping into their truth and they are walking in integrity. So I'm so excited to have you and hear more about your story and to share some of these beautiful tools that you have developed over the course of your journey. Why don't you start us off by sharing the backstory? Because I want to know what brought you to you writing all these books and being the health guy that you are. So would you elaborate on that? Please?

Sure. When I was in my 20s and 30s, I was fit and trim, however life gets in the way with family, work, responsibility. Before I knew it, I stopped exercising, started eating convenient foods and fast foods, and the weight crept up on me. And five pounds a year doesn't seem like a lot, but after 10 years, that's 50 pounds. Yeah, I got my wake up call in July of 2016 when my doctor told me, based on my lab results and that I was fat, I had a 95% chance for a fatal heart attack.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, that's a pretty high number.

Yes, he gave me two options, lose weight or find a new doctor, and he strongly encouraged me to find a new doctor, because he had been after me for eight years to lose the weight, and if I did lose weight on a diet, I gained it all back, and sometimes even more, this time was different. And during the next four months, I said 50 pounds, which was 25% of my total body weight. More importantly, I kept it off. And then in June of 2022 at age 67 I hiked up Mount Kilimanjaro, so I don't let people use age as an excuse for not becoming healthy.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, I love that you hold us accountable, because it is so easy for us to make that as an excuse, and I see it all the time. Oh, well, we're just getting old. So Right,

exactly, yeah, I wake up. I'm 70 now. I wake up in the morning. I don't have aches and pains. My knees don't hurt, my hips don't hurt, my shoulders don't hurt, my back doesn't hurt. I'm energetic. I can go hiking. I do a lot of things. I'm a participator in life instead of a spectator, yeah? And then I hear people in their 50s and 60s complaining about their aches and pains, like you said, their reasoning and excuses. It's just the aging process of getting old, right? It's not it's all preventable and reversible, yeah?

Rev. Rose Hope: And I think we need to be reminded of that as we continue. You know, I'm now in my mid 40s, which blows my mind, because time just flies by. And I remember when I was about, oh, I was probably about 14 years old, and my auntie was having her 30th birthday, and I remember thinking, Oh, my God, she's so. Old and and it's so it's interesting how our perception of age shifts. And I heard someone the other day they said, it's not age. I'm going up levels. So now she says she's in her 47th level, you know. And so it's so fascinating to me that our perspective in the aging process really can attribute to a lot of how we feel and how we're living. And I think, right, if you let this ageism become a thing, if we let this idea that, Oh, I'm getting old, so I can't go for a hike at Mount Kilimanjaro, I'm old, so I can't write my next book. I mean, we could make up all sorts of experience. Excuses, but I don't know about you, David, but I want to live fully. I want to live out all the way like I want to know that I did everything I possibly could and had as much joy as I possibly could. So you have now taken this experience and you become the health guy. How did that kind of start to manifest? Because you went through a pretty big overhaul, made some significant changes, and then you're like, hey, wait a second. Can you tell us about how that transitioned for you?

Yeah, Mike Keeney was a big factor in it. I'm a former divorce lawyer, and I had written a couple novels. I wrote six books on casino craps. I'm a world class expert at playing casino craps. Wow. Okay, and so I was at an author workshop, and Mike keening was a guest, and he says, I'm going to show you how to write your book in 30 days. And he told me what to do, and the first thing was write down 10 questions that people ask you about being an expert in your field, and then write down 10 questions people should ask you however they don't. So I wrote out about 30 questions about playing craps. Threw my pen down because I wasn't going to write another book about craps. He saw me, and he says, If you don't know what to write about, you're not an expert. Think about your transformation in life and write about that. Well, that was during my weight loss journey, wow. I started writing notes out about that. And the next speaker got up and he says, I lost 100 pounds in the last year, and started his presentation. So I went up and talked to him. I said, I'm thinking about writing a book on weight loss. He goes, Yeah. I said, What advice do you have? So he gave me some suggestions, and I started writing books on and as an attorney, I started doing research, and what I learned was that there's a lot of misconception out there, misinformation and just blatant lies. And so I want to educate people as to the basics. Because I read, I went back and read my books from the 1970s by Paul Patricia, Brack, Jacqueline, Richard Simmons, William Ducky, Sugar Blues, and they were talking about basic concepts, yep. Then I was reading books by current authors, and they're talking about their products, their programs, their methods, and it's like, if you didn't invest in them, you'd fail. Something's wrong here. Ah, you know, they're in it for the money, not for educating people. Wow. So now a path forward will be my sixth book. It's fiction fun. It's gonna

have it's a story with a lot of parables and Other Stories woven in beautiful so I think people enjoy because it's not lecturing or preaching or, yeah, what you should do or how to do. It's just

Rev. Rose Hope: a story, story with some medicine in it,

exactly, wow. So I'm excited about that. So that's how I got started in it. And a friend of mine, Mickey Gaffin stone, has a saying. She says the food companies will get you sick, Big Pharma will keep you sick, and the diet and weight loss industries are aiding and abetting both of them. Whoa. So in my research, I learned that the average person will attempt four to five new diets each year, and over a lifetime, 126 different diets. What does that tell you? Diets don't work? Yeah, they're extreme, temporary, hard to stick with, and a lot of them are potentially dangerous to your health. Yeah, if those diets did work, the companies would be out of business after a few years. So you all be thin and healthier. So they look for repeat customers, of course. So I advocate lifestyle beautiful, and what I teach, I teach nine simple, golden rules that I give away, and we'll go through them if you'd like.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yes, I Yeah, can you please? Sure, amazing.

So the first one is to drink more pure water. And what I mean by pure water is either distilled water, spring water from high quality companies, or six stage reverse. Osmosis, okay? And the reason I say that is, if you ask one expert, they'll say distilled water. If he asks another expert, they'll say spring water. If you ask a third expert, he'll tell you the first two are both wrong and give you something else, right? Yes. The other thing is, 75% of the US population is chronically dehydrated, which is a direct correlation to 73% of the US population being overweight. Now, when I started writing about this, it was 71% so it's gone up 2% well in the last few years, we're going in the wrong direction. Yeah, completely. And a lot of times when we're we think we're hungry, we're actually thirsty, yes, so drink water. But the other thing is, our bodies are 60 to 70% water, not soda, diet soda, fruit juices or fruit flavor beverages, right? Number two is to avoid the highly processed, ultra processed and manufactured foods. Yes, read the ingredients on packaging. The other thing, there's a free app called yucca, spelled y, u, K, a, okay, and you can scan the product, and it'll tell you if it's healthier or not. Brilliant. Gives ratings. It also works on cosmetics and shampoos.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, okay, yuca, y u k, a,

y u k a. So if you're not sure, scan it, it'll tell you whether you should purchase it or not. Wow. The third golden rule is, Eat Real holistic Whole Foods instead of drinking a glass of orange juice, which is, in my opinion, unhealthy because of all the sugar in it, right? There's it takes four to eight medium oranges to make a glass of orange juice. That's how much sugar you put in your body. And the question is, would you eat four to eight medium oranges at one time? No, never eat the orange. Eat the apple. Eat real foods, none of the imitation meats, right? Possible burgers? Beyond burgers, those have a lot of chemicals in it, and they're more unhealthy for you than if you just ate beef. Wow, wow. Number four, eat slower. We're all in a hurry. I call it mindless eating. How many times are you working at your desk? You're driving a car. You just gone through a drive through. You're watching TV, and whatever you're eating is gone. You look down. Where did it go? Well, you ate it without realizing it.

Rev. Rose Hope: Yes, I once had a coach say it's not necessarily just what you eat, it's how you eat it,

exactly and where you eat it. Ah,

Rev. Rose Hope: huh, in the car, in the office, versus at the table, communing with others, right?

Environment, yeah, yeah. Mark David wrote a book called The slow down diet, and in there, he advocates, if you take five minutes for breakfast, give yourself 10 and a minimum, 30 minutes for lunch, 30 minutes for dinner. Now I'm not advocating three meals a day. I'm just saying, if that's what you do, yeah, that's how much time you should give yourself. Brilliant, yeah, number five, great. Eat smaller portions. Our portion sizes have been supersized without people realizing it. Yep, right. The average size dinner plate in the 1900s was nine inches in diameter. Today it's 12, and at restaurants, a serving platter can be 13 to 15 inches. Whoa. So if you're eating out, what I recommend is get it to go box right away. Yeah, split your meal in half. But have to go so you get two meals for the price of one. You're saving money totally. Or split the meal with someone else. Yes. Yes. The other thing is, I use a salad plate instead of a dinner size plate let me chew and in Europe, except for the UK, dinner size plates are still nine inches in diameter. The other thing is, I use a blue salad plate because blue is a natural appetite suppressant.

Rev. Rose Hope: Ah, oh, I love that tip. I'm gonna go buy blue plates.

Red and yellow are appetite stimulants. That's why McDonald's Burger King, Denny's, Wendy's all the fast food places he's red and yellow in their marketing. Wow. Fascinating. Number six is to get adequate sleep, at least seven to eight hours of quality sleep. Hey, if you have a TV or electronics in the bedroom, I advocate to take them out. Rib them, yeah, cell phones leaving a different room. Yeah, yeah. Number. Seven. I call it rest to digest. It's an intermittent fast, okay, 12 hours. And people roll their eyes when they hear about it, until they understand they're doing it already. If you stop eating three hours before you go to bed, yep. And you get seven, eight hours of quality sleep, yep. And when you wake up, you drink, I drink 20 ounces of water, but drink a glass of water to rehydrate. Water is also a natural appetite suppressant, correct? And your first meal is two or three hours later. Yeah, that's two to three hours. That's 12 to 13 hours. That's considered an intermittent

Rev. Rose Hope: fast it's perfect. Okay, so I'm, technically I'm intermittent fasting, because I typically don't eat after seven, and then when I wake up, I usually eat up. Wasn't we eat within an hour or two? But I think I've got at least 12 hours in there.

Yeah, exactly. You don't have to be perfect, and it doesn't have to be all the time, but just more often than not. And so, like I said, people are doing without realizing it when they hear it like, oh,

Rev. Rose Hope: that's doable. Yeah, right, yeah. Love that.

Number eight is to think positive because 80% of our thoughts are negative, yeah, imagine if we flipped it to 80% positive, right? And then number nine is to walk each day. I recommend 30 minutes. Yes, walking is the most underrated physical activity you can do 100% Yeah, Rebel Wilson lost 70 pounds walking an hour each day. Wow. In a year, she did that. Now I understand that everybody has an hour to devote to walking. Yeah, however, Mindy Kaling lost weight in what she did is when she had a 10 or 15 minute break, instead of being on social media or texting friends, yeah, she would go for a 10 or 15 minute walk. Well, if you do that four or five times throughout the day, that's 40 to 50 minutes to an hour. Yes. So again, it's not what we can do, it's what we will do. Yeah, isn't that the truth? So those are the nine simple golden rules,

Rev. Rose Hope: and they really are simple, like they I feel like they should be fairly easy to do, and yet, I would argue that most of the population is not doing half of these. Would you agree with that? Like, do you know if there's a stat on that?

I don't know about a stat, but I can tell you that at least 75% of the population is not doing it.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, is that something and basic stuff. I mean, I do find it a little bit tough with the high processed food with young kids, because it seems to me that like, oh, like I had, I remember my kids when they were younger, and they'd say, But Mom, this person has a bear paw in their lunch. Why can't we have bear paws? And these bear paws are full of garbage, like they're not real food. And so I've always felt like I had to fight that, because society has made it so easy that the kids just get these processed food packages in their lunch. Yeah, and, and, you know, I've fallen into that trap. But when I look at this list and I think about, you know, what I do? I do most of these things fairly consciously. The biggest one for me was the eat slower, and that's something I absolutely am practicing right now, because there's a tendency of, you know, oh, there's stuff I got to do. And as a busy parent as well, you know, oftentimes it was like, I'll get mommed before I'm done eating my meal. So I got into this habit when the kids were young that I would just scarf down my food so then I could be available to them, and I'm undoing that now.

Yeah, yeah, it takes effort. I'm a very, very fast eater. My nickname in college was turbo, short for turbocharger, because I ate so fast. One story was, we were we played cards on Friday night, and they'd order pizza, and one of the other, you know, players said, I only got one slice of pizza. It was, I got one. I got one. They looked at me. I said, I guess I ate the rest. I ate about three quarters of a pizza by myself before they even finish one slice. So after that, they said, you're limited to two slices. Wow, I learned to eat slow. In fact, when I was a teenager, we had a friend, or my mom made lunch for us, and my twin brother asked my mom, aren't you going to serve Dave? And she was, I did. He's done already. I had finished before she got done, serving the other my brother, my friend. Wow, so I understand that, but when you put a small portion on a plate and you see how little you're eating, which is more than enough, you learn to slow down and appreciate it and enjoy it.

Rev. Rose Hope: So true, isn't that something? Saying and again, getting

back to the food, it's not the food we're eating now, it's what they've done to the food, right? For example, when I was growing up, my mom would put a Hershey bar for lunch, yeah, and everything's, oh, that's unhealthy. Yeah, it is. However, at the time, it was made with sugar cane sugar. Today, it's made with high fructose corn syrup, right? Totally different was growing up. High fructose corn syrup wasn't around. It wasn't introduced into the late 1970s fat free wasn't introduced with Olean and Olestra into the 1980s they're all based on drugs they were working on. Wow, yeah, aspartame, same thing. Our Haitian sweetener wasn't around back then. It was saccharin, yeah. And so if you look at the ingredients, Gatorade is the example I use. When it first came out in late 1970s it had six ingredients. Today it has over 13, and the only two original ingredients are sugar and water. Wow. Wow. So, yeah, so it's what they've done to do. So that's why you have to be careful.

Rev. Rose Hope: You do have to be careful. And I think that many of us are blind to that. You know, we just buy the products and we're told certain things, and so we just kind of fall into that. But I think this is about empowering people to take charge over this and to not just fall under the, you know, the typical of like, well, everyone else does it. Or, you know, this is what's normal. I'm curious to know, you know, when you, when you go and get groceries and you're picking your foods, like, do you do meal prepping and things like that? Is that part of your lifestyle as well.

No, but I advocated for my members who are busier than I am, you know, working full time, have kids, so I usually recommend Sunday nights that they do their meal prep. And it works really well for them, because they can, you know, cook whatever they're going to cook, put in a refrigerator or freeze it, and then wait it for them to go exactly?

Rev. Rose Hope: Yeah, it's something that I started to do as well for myself, because it's so easy if you don't have something prepped, and your day goes sideways, or you get busy, and then what are you grabbing while you're grabbing a granola bar, or you're grabbing something processed, typically, right?

Yeah, my wife doesn't eat like I do. So when we go grocery shopping, it's fun, because she will look at someone she says, This isn't healthy for me. Said, No, I don't say anything else, because Happy wife, happy life. She's getting better, but she's like, I'm gonna enjoy I said, okay, and then she'll start looking at the ingredients. I don't like this.

Rev. Rose Hope: Whoa, yeah. And yeah, I think, I think it takes a little bit of time, and I think it's important that we're not overly critical of ourselves as we're making some of the small adjustments. And, you know, just for example, like I've adjusted into more natural shampoos and conditioners, you know, that was kind of one step I wanted to take natural detergents, you know. And as it relates to the food, I definitely make sure that the kids are having way more whole foods than I have in the past as well. So, you know, it's taking some time, but little by little, you know, you really start to make a difference. Until all of a sudden, my dream is to have all the processed food out of the house and the kids loving their vegetables.

Well, fruit, you know, like I said, a pear, a plum, oranges, apples are great. Bananas are okay. Little bit fattening. Sometimes that they're too ripe because of the sugar, right? But again, I tell people avoid grapes. Oh, my sugar in there. Yeah, cherries are excellent because they're low glycemic. Grapes are high glycemic.

Rev. Rose Hope: Ah, okay, okay, that's good to know.

So I don't eat grapes. There's certain things I just want to touch. I usually don't eat chicken because of what they've done to the chickens. If you look at a picture of a size of a chicken in the 1940s and 50s. It's about a fourth of what it is today. They're four times bigger. My wife went to the grocery store. She bought what she thought was four chicken breasts. There were two. I wouldn't touch it, but we cooked it. The dogs wouldn't even eat it, really. Yeah? Now my mom did the same thing. She says, Yeah, I bought these chicken breasts thinking there were four. There were only two. It's not natural for me that big. She says I didn't even bother cooking. I just threw it out.

Rev. Rose Hope: Wow, yeah, that's really interesting. We actually, last year we raised chickens, and we butchered the chickens ourselves, and we have been living off mostly those chickens. We know what they were eating. You know, we loved them. We did everything that we could to make sure that they were as healthy as possible, but it was a huge amount of work for very little perceived gain, at least. So we're not doing it again, because it was just such a huge undertaking. But oftentimes. So what we'll do is we'll we'll go to our like Hutterite colonies, where they don't use a lot of those chemicals or antibiotics, or we'll try and source as locally as we can as well. And we do find that sometimes that makes a difference. But I even noticed the other day, actually, and it was chicken, and it didn't even feel like chicken, like I feel like it might have been whatever they're making. Now, in I don't even know why, and I could hardly even eat the chicken, like it was so stringy and tough, like I had to spit some of it out and I ended up chucking it. Yeah.

Now the other thing is, if you read the label on package of chicken, yeah, it'll say 20 to 25% water or vegetable broth. Oh, so they're injecting the chicken after it's processed. And the reason they do that is they want to increase the weight, because they sell it by weight. Of course, I do eat chicken in foreign countries, and the reason I do that because I see that the size is a lot smaller, so I feel more comfortable, because I don't think they adulterate the chickens down there like they do up here.

Rev. Rose Hope: That's right, yeah, totally different. Oh, isn't that fascinating?

Yeah, when we were in Italy, the food there is so much better, and it's hard to explain to people why pizza there tastes so much better because it's fresh. They use real mozzarella cheese

Rev. Rose Hope: products. You know,

the pasta is made fresh daily. It's not from a box, yeah, yeah. There. We didn't my wife and I, we didn't gain any weight, and we were eating pasta, pizza, gelato, croissants, yeah, and it's, how did that happen? It's like, it's all high quality,

Rev. Rose Hope: real, real ingredients, real food. Yeah, isn't that something? So David, you now do this work. You've retired completely from your lawyer life. Yes, yes. And so what is it, you know? So if someone said, Oh my gosh, you know what David said was so basic, so simple. I need to talk to this guy. You know, what do you offer for your clients? What is the work that you do with your clients? If someone feels like they're ready to really step into their health journey,

well, they can be part of the life 42 health reset community. It's only $10 a month. It's a $99 a month value. And people are always saying you're under charging. Yes, I do that intentionally, because now you have no excuse to say it's not financially, you know, viable for you. There's one less

Rev. Rose Hope: excuse exactly. I love that you work that way. I work that way in much of the work that I do as well, because I want people to have access. I don't want them to be getting stuck and spinning their wheels. You know, I think if you and I are both coming from this place of wanting to serve humanity and to be on the mission of, you know, shining our light, or, you know, changing the world, if you will, however you want to put that, I think it's so important that we just open the floodgates, in a way, and still making it obviously viable and sustainable for ourselves. I really appreciate that, and I value that, because I will tell you that, like, this month, particularly, you know, going to get groceries, and the fact that they've doubled in price they've, like, now it costs me to get the same amount of groceries it is is costing me double. Yeah, it's staggering, but I'm feeling like, everywhere I turn, it's a money grab. Everywhere I turn, people are leaning into this profiteering. You know, let's get more profit, more profit, more profit. And we've lost touch with what really matters here. We've lost touch with that.

So, yeah, so that's life. 42 is a community. Members interact with each other, support each other. You get individual coaching with me. You get group coaching. They get a copy of my book, jaded health, wonderful. And when path forward comes out, we'll switch it out. And they get a daily tracker for the 42 days. Awesome. And it's doing seven daily task actions, and I'll go through those, if it's okay, sure, yeah, so the first one is to read 10 pages in a self help book. And if you're religious, the Bible counts, because I have members that are religious and they read the Bible every day, yep, the second is to recite an affirmation. It's everything I eat and drink heals and nourishes my body, which helps me to achieve and maintain excellent health. Love it. Drink an adequate amount of water, minimum 64 ounces, or one half your total body weight, and avoid the soda diet, soda, fruit juices, fruit flavor beverages, no alcohol. However, there's five days of grace, so you don't have to be perfect for 42 days. If you go five days, you're okay. If you do six days, you're. You need to start over. And the people that start over two or three times are happy to do it because, again, they're getting better each time. Yeah? It's not a race. And even when you finish the 42 days, you just keep going, because it's a starting point, right? It's a jump start. Yeah? So again, if you want to celebrate it, birthday, anniversary, wedding, whatever you can have a glass of wine, have some alcohol. You're not going to be penalized. Yeah, got it. Do 30 minutes of physical activity each day. Yeah, the 30 minutes can be walking, walking the dog, gardening, house, cleaning, whatever you're doing that you're moving, it counts, and again, it can be broken up into 130, minute session, 215, minute sessions or 310, minute sessions, perfect. And all you gotta do is check the box whether you did it or not. It's not you got to write everything down. It's just you did it

or you did not. Yeah, and I think that's all seven of them,

Rev. Rose Hope: read 10 pages, recite the affirmation, drink 64 ounces, no alcohol, 30 minutes of activity a day.

Oh, avoid processed food, ultra processed food and holistic Whole Foods. Those are the two others.

Rev. Rose Hope: Beautiful, yeah. Love it

again. I asked people, can you do this? Oh, yeah, I can do it. And then the question is, Will you do it?

Rev. Rose Hope: That is right. That is the big question. Well, you know, David, I felt compelled in September to do 30 days cleanse, September so there was no alcohol, I eliminated sugar, and I honestly felt more clear and vibrant than I had in a really long time. I lost 13, about 13 pounds, just in that alone. Yeah, and so that, it felt so good. And I think if we, if we start to do this, and we create lifestyle around it, like you said, you believe in changing the lifestyle. This isn't a diet. This is actually creating really positive, helpful habits. That's what this is about, right? Is creating now habits that are actually filling us up instead of depleting us?

Well, it's habits that you enjoy, yeah, that work for you, because everybody's different, right? And I have members that I've been working with for two years. They go on cruises, they go on all inclusive vacations, they come back, they either gain no weight, or maybe a half a pound, and they're enjoying everything they don't feel like when they're all inclusive, they have to eat the buffet and eat as much as they can to get their Bunny's worth. They just eat what they want. They enjoy that. And the main thing is, most of lost between 20 and 50 pounds. Wow. And they one, one of the members at Easter, her relatives said, what diet are you on? And she said that I lifestyle change nice. And that's the beauty of it is, again, it's a lifestyle that you want to do and that works for you.

Rev. Rose Hope: I think this is brilliant, and I love this concept and how you've just made it really accessible for people to be able to make these changes with ease. David, it's been such a treat to have you on the show. Thank you so much for sharing so much. I took some new things away that I didn't know today, and I hope all of you listening took some valuable reminders, or maybe you got some new insight too, so that you can start making some lifestyle changes. David, thank you so much again for coming on the show, and for those of you listening, we'll have all the contact information in the show notes for David, so if you want to join life 42 you absolutely can join the community. It's only 10 bucks a month, so it might be worth it just to lean in thank you again, David, any final words from you?

Just thank you, DeeAnne, for having me as a guest, and I appreciate your allowing me to share the message.

Rev. Rose Hope: Thank you. I think it's an important one, and we need it more now than ever before. You can tell that you're very passionate about this work, and again, you had so much wisdom and knowledge that you've added to what I already had in my wheelhouse. So thank you so much for your sharing, and thank you everyone for listening until next time. Be well. Bye for now.

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