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BEGINNING AGAIN

NOVEMBER 4th 2017

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates

I am here to make you think, think about your relationship to food, your relationships to the local community, and to the ecosystem around you and inside you. I am here to support you in the process of breaking up with fast food culture.

What is a Guided Nutrition Challenge?

Think of it as a course that is designed to help you end unhealthy cravings and habits, heal your digestive tract, strengthen your immune system and empower you to permanently change your lifestyle.

This course will challenge the way you think about food, it will change your tastes, it will alter your habits and your cravings. It could, quite possibly, change the emotional relationship you have with food, and with your body. It has the potential to impact the way you eat for the rest of your life.

What can you expect before, during and after the 28 days?

Start November off in a way that will nourish your mind, body and soul. Put away the bathroom scale. When focus is directed to irrelevant numbers on a dial, we miss out on the most dramatic and lifelong benefits the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge has to offer.

Grocery shopping, meal planning, dining out, explaining the program to friends and family, and dealing with time management decisions will all prove challenging at some point during the month of November. You'll be given you all the guidelines and resources you’ll need, so you can take responsibility for creating your own lifestyle with these tools.

When we eat well, sleep well, get outside and get moving, and we fill our minds with positive thoughts, we show ourselves the love we so deserve. November means reconnecting with healthier habits, creating warm n' cozy nutrient dense meals, and feeling invigorated both inside and out. Prepare for the GNC by cleaning out your pantry, grocery shopping, and doing some basic planning for the upcoming month. When the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge starts you will be ready for 4 weeks of meal plans filled with incredible recipes, shopping lists and prep guides - that will save you time, money and inspire you to change your relationship with food one meal at a time.

Planning and preparation are key. You may need just a day or two to prepare, or you may need a week to get your house (and your head) around the reset you’re about to begin. There is no one perfect timeline—you’ll have to decide what works best for you. So, as soon as your payment is received for the GNC, you will immediately be sent the Pantry Make Over Guide and the 28 Day GNC Calendar, the Lifestyle Design Survey, as well as the Growing Great Gut Gardens e-booklet.

By comparing your personal calendar and obligations for the month of November to the GNC Calendar, you will be able to anticipate and plan for obstacles that might pose difficulties. The 28 Day GNC Calendar will help you identify where stressful, difficult, or complicated situations might pop up (things like business lunches, family dinners, school activities, travel plans, a long day at work, parties, celebrations). Having a plan to navigate these situations means you’re far more likely to stick to your commitment.

The truth will set you free - but first, it will piss you off. - Gloria Steinem

In the 20+ page e-booklet 'Growing Great Gut Gardens' you will learn:

How the intestinal microbial world is key to having good health

Lifestyle and behaviours to avoid in order to improve the diversity and health of your microbes

The roles of pre-biotics, probiotics and nutrition in maintaining gut health

How to identify and how to avoid food-like products that undermine helpful gut microbes

Why local, seasonal, whole foods and fermented foods should be embraced

You’ve got to know what’s in your food to be in control of your health, and I am here to help you be your own food investigator, nutritionist, and food activist. When the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge begins on November 4th 2017, you will also receive the 30+ page pocket e-book 'Eat This Not That' to help you:

Navigate supermarkets, online shopping sites, and farmer markets like a health pro,

Inside you'll discover all the questions you need to be asking before you make your next purchase of meat, eggs, dairy, seafood, fruit and veg,

You'll then be able to breeze through sneaky food labels,

In a glance you'll know which fruit and produce are in season,

You'll avoid unhealthy ingredients and additives

After reading these guides you'll be able to confidently choose the foods, that you know are now inline, with your personal values and goals.

Have you defined your values and goals? The 13 page Lifestyle Design Survey is a series of questions to prompt your thought process and to have you begin to consider what your best lifestyle looks like - at this stage of your life. Without your own clear vision, other people’s views and circumstances will determine the course of direction. In this survey, which takes about 60 minutes, you will be provoked to ponder:

Your current habits vs your ideal habits concerning time, money and energy

Your current relationship with cooking: eating style, food preparation, cultural influences

Your sleeping patterns and coping mechanisms for stress

Your activity levels and how you connect with nature

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you. - Robin S. Sharma

Nothing evolves or survives on its own. All life co-evolves through relationships and networks. For many of you, the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge will be more than a reset; it will be a lifestyle change—and that kind of change is tough if you’re going it alone. Building a support network will keep you motivated, inspired, and accountable during and after the month of November is an important element. Change always feels vulnerable so here is how you will be supported to get - and stay connected:

There will be daily emails (day zero to day 29).

Every email will be filled with guidance (especially in the first week);

Resources to make shopping, prepping, cooking, getting active outdoors, sleeping, and managing your stress that much easier during your reset month; and,

These emails will give you the introspective assignments designed to keep you focused and aware during every week of the challenge.

There will also be a weekly wrap up meeting with A's to your Q's as well as guided discussions - in real time!

Interact with others on the Private Facebook Forum Page. You will find it to be very friendly, incredibly collaborative, and wildly supportive. This space will allow you to share your day-to-day experience with our private group. Feel free to post pictures and relevant articles, ask questions, or connect with our fantastic group members during (and after) your 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge. What we can do as part of a network, as part of a collective, is far more impactful than what we can do all by ourselves.

Share the program with those you care about. Tell loved ones about your current struggles, goals, and all of the ways you believe the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge will make you healthier and happier. When you ask directly support, this lets family and friends know how important the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge is to you, and how much their encouragement and help matters.

CLAIM YOUR SPOT

Is the Guided Nutrition Challenge a good fit with your goals for this season?

The 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge might be for you if:

You feel a bit paralyzed on where to begin and you want the guesswork, organizational leg work, and research taken off your plate

You want a new vision and a starting place for what will be the best possible life for yourself

You thrive on inspiration, learning and accountability

You value empowerment and you are committed to personal growth

You crave meaningful connections and conversations

You want healthy habits, routines and supports in place before the Holiday season begins

You may not be ready for the 28 Day Guided Nutrition Challenge if:

You don’t like to read and you don't like to write

You don’t want to participate, on a regular basis, in a learning community of dreamers, doer’s and shit starters

You don’t want to change how you shop, plan, prepare or cook your food

You aren’t ready to examine, and take full responsibility for, your own food traditions, personal food culture and current habits

You aren't going to give yourself at least 30 minutes a day for 28 days

You expect all changes are going to be fast, cheap and easy

What am I getting for investing my time, effort, and 349$ of my money?

Upon paid registration you will immediately receive:

(1) Boreal Food Studio Life Style Survey, (2) Growing Great Gut Gardens e-booklet & companion guide The 5R's of Gut Gardens, (3) Pantry Organization Guide and (4) GNC Planning Calendar

JOIN NOW & SAVE YOUR SPOT

When the course begins on Sunday November 4th, you will receive:

"Eat This, Not That" 30 page pocket guide to grocery shopping and a private invitation to join the GNC Facebook Group

Over the next 28 days you will be delivered:

4 Weekly Meal Plans (3 meals and 2 snacks/day) designed by a certified Culinary Nutrition expert

Over 75 recipes with photos and multiple variations and options

4 Weekly Shopping Lists

30 emails that include a daily written affirmation exercise, thought provoking motivational notes, links to further reading and evidence based research

7 weekly challenges, plus one big challenge for a total of 8 over 28 days, to be completed and submitted for accountability and feedback from your program coach

Weekly wrap-up meetings hosted live by a professional Culinary Nutrition expert who will lead discussion and answer your most popular questions.

You will learn new skills and be given a new lens to see old problems in a new light so you can implement solutions and create happiness in the lifestyle you are craving. This is the opportunity to say " I want more joy, more time and more connection and I'm willing to get started now.'

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