Once we hit the vortex of the canyon and say for some refreshments, it hit me like a lightning bolt out of the sky!

The Wine, Cheese & Chocolate Diet:
How Pleasure is the Missing Ingredient in Lasting Weight Loss

Do you want to be fit, fabulous and enjoy your life? Me too!! That’s why I am writing this book! Enough of the STARVATION and KILL YOURSELF WORKOUTS!!

This is why America is FAT! We think of getting fit and healthy as being TIME CONSUMING, TASTELESS, HARD and PAINFUL. It doesn’t have to be that way.

I love living a healthy life that includes my three favorite
indulgences: wine, cheese and chocolate and I plan to share with you how youcan include these foods or other favorites that you have and still lose weight.
About half of the population is still “dieting”, still gaining weight and not working out. WHY? I believe it’s because of our mindset about health and exercise.

It has been reported that the world now has more people who are overweight than people who are hungry.(PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2007)
According to the World Health Organization, The US is the world’s fattest nation,with over half of adults overweight or obese. But China and India are growing fatter at a faster pace. By 2015, the number of overweight and obese adults in China and India will grow by 66% and 44% respectively
(PricewaterhouseCoopers 2007). It’s time to do something differently!
I have been calling myself “the wine, cheese and chocolate trainer” for about five years to let my clients know that I believe in a balanced, realistic approach to weight loss and health.

Many of my fitness counterparts on TV represent a style or mindset about exercise that I consider extreme. When you watch some of those very popular fitness shows—all you see is PAIN.

They dedicate hours and weeks to exercise and cutting back food so the American population has been brainwashed to think that you need to give up life as you know it in order to lose weight and stay that way. Not true!
Some of these “celebrity trainers” have programs that body build or do extreme sports and some that I call “boot camp” trainers promote a military style of pushing until you drop. The benefit of pushing someone that hard usually creates fast, dramatic results. America watches every week as contestants lose 5-20 pounds on reality TV shows!

What America doesn’t see or hear about are the risks involved with this dramatic lifestyle change. The risks are usually joint injuries and muscle strain—the body worked at a level it wasn’t prepared for.

The average person can’t realistically commit hours of time and energy every day towards exercise in the prime stages of life. If you have a job and a family, creating time for exercise can sometimes be challenging.

I believe your diet and exercise program should change as your life changes. At every stage, you need something different. At every stage, you may have a different lifestyle. If your program doesn’t fit into your life then it most likely will be temporary andtherefore ineffective over time.

I started this book in 2008/2009 and shelved it when I got the contract for Knack Absolute Abs- Routines for a Fit and Firm Core.  But it’s always in my conversations and in my mind.

I have decided to beta test the Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Diet Program to test my theories in the book and prove that PLEASURE is the missing ingredient for lasting weight loss.

I will be unveiling it soon so stay tuned!  And drop me a reply here and let me know what you think of this idea!

Please take a minute to read one of my favorite speeches given by Marianne Williamson. I think the title of this is ” Don’t Shrink”.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves,“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Every time I read that I feel like there is nothing else I could say to make this point any clearer. You always have at least 2 options.  You could go left or right, think of something as right or wrong, go forward or backward as well as many other choices, I am sure you get the picture.  And in life, I believe you have the choice to believe that you are here to serve the world or you are here to get from the world.

Can you have both of those beliefs at the same time?  Of course, but on a day to day basis how do you look at the world and what do you expect?  From way back in my childhood, I can remember KNOWING that I had to give back, serve the world and help people.   And through my journey, it has been revealed to me the most effective and joyous ways I can do that.  Just be me.

Live my life to the best of my ability and be an example of what it is I stand for.  Walk my walk and talk my talk. As I learn and grow, I share that with people around me.  I use my life as an example for others to learn from.  I put it ALL out there because I feel that is how I connect with the teachers I have as well.

It’s inspiring to me to watch other women grow, change, become wildly successful, find their perfect mate, be insanely happy and that inspires me to do the same.  If I looked around, read the paper, watched the news every day, I would probably believe that life is hopeless, hard, unhappy and negative.  But I don’t.

I CHOOSE my thoughts.  I search for inspiration. I choose to live my life as an example of inspiration to others who might not otherwise believe in themselves.  I create products and programs that serve as a way for me to reach out and help others overcome the obstacles in their way.  I love what I do and I love who I am.  And everything I stand for is also about helping you to love who you are too.

“Hi JJ, I had to write to tell you I think you are really gifted at what you do and are passionate about. I can’t tell you how much your own openness and naked honesty about yourself helps me and encourages me in my journey to health, wealth and overall life satisfaction!

I am feeling very encouraged today and feel this sense of encouragement and empowerment that came from our session today will carry me over to the next week, and so on. Thank You again for being true and authentic!” Brenda R, CA