Speaker 1: 0:00

Does the idea of going plant based or eating more plant foods, or just getting healthy in general, make you feel overwhelmed? I remember the time when I spent my days feeling exhausted, with my health struggles, not knowing what to do next, and praying for the answer. So today we're going to share with you three simple ways to make getting healthy uncomplicated. Let's do this, hey sister. Welcome to the Power On Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're Charity and I need to resell Christ. Followers, health care professionals, parents of four and big fans of great tasting food. We, too, tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes, and we weren't finding answers to traditional routes. So we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon sustainable plant based living. The truth is, you can eat more whole plant foods and it's not hard. You just need the way that's realistic and delicious, so you never feel deprived. If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant based cup of happy pop in those earbuds and let's get started. Friend, we are so glad you're here with us again today. We hear from so many of you telling us that you absolutely love hanging out with us week by week, because you feel like we're sitting right there with you running your errands, with you, taking that walk with you outside, and we feel the same way. We absolutely love getting together with you week after week, sharing what we know. But we don't only love hanging out with you. What we love is the results of what's happening when you start to take action on all the things that we're sharing with you. We get these letters week after week of all the changes, the life changes, the things I can do now that weren't possible. One of our listeners, one of our brothers, wrote in and told us how he's now taking hikes with his wife 20 plus miles into the mountains. He can do that before he started eating whole plant foods. We have others who tell us how they're playing with their children, more they're traveling, more they're doing all these things they can only dream about doing before. This is what lights us up. If you have a story like that, what I want you to do today is just summarize it here for us. We have this show, jared, and I read every single review and it means so much to us. But it also can be a ripple that you share, that you drop into this ocean of people who are all trying to figure out how to get better, and if they can just read your testimonial, they can just see hey, you said this and I did that. And here's what's happened my labs went from this to this, my blood pressure went from this to this, my cholesterol dropped from this to that. These are the things you guys are emailing us. This is crazy, incredible. This is life changing.

Speaker 2: 3:19

And the thing is is you're not the only person with this issue. I guarantee you there are tens of thousands of other people that are going through some of the same struggles and if you can get those results and leave a positive testimonial, it will encourage someone else to take those steps, to go forward and get those same results.

Speaker 1: 3:36

You might be the one answer to prayer that they've asked for today. That happened upon our podcast episode, and they think I'm going to look at the reviews and boom, there's your review, and God just places into their heart you need to do this too. This is the answer that you've been praying for. All that to say we're not just here just to hang out with you, you know, and just to have a little party. We love having a party, we love having get togethers, we love getting to know you more, but what lights us up is seeing you be able to go out and live the life that you were born to live.

Speaker 2: 4:05

It's a party with a purpose, a party with a purpose.

Speaker 1: 4:09

Oh no, I think we need another t-shirt. I totally love it. A plant-based party with a purpose, that's it. You just totally nailed it right there. So today, make sure that you leave your review, but be specific. It doesn't have to be long, it doesn't have to take you more than a minute. Share some specific things that you've had happen, the transformations in your life and what it's made possible for you that you can't, that you couldn't do before. I just love this so much. Okay. And then the next thing is this is step number two. These are your two things you want to do today. I'm giving it before we even get into the episode, because on one plant-based, to be uncomplicated for you and for all those out there who are praying for the answer, to know what to do to make healthy living sustainable so they actually enjoy their lives. So step number two is go to poweronplantscom. Yeah, that's like P-I-E, the slice of pie that we all love to eat. Yeah, we're plant-based and we still eat pie. Don't kid yourselves. We eat the good stuff. This is why we don't feel deprived. This is how you set yourself up for success. This is the pie you want to sink your teeth into today. Go to poweronplantscom, forward, slash P-I-E and join us in the podcast Insiders Experience. Jair and I look forward to meeting you there and getting to know you as an insider. As a part of our pop family, we have the most amazing fam. I mean there's no way that I can tell you and describe to you what each of you is like. We meet you, we know you and it's time for you to get to know one another. So go right now and join the podcast Insiders Experience. And today we are talking about when plant-based seems overwhelming, or just getting healthy in general. There are three simple ways to make it uncomplicated, and the first thing is it's our mentality. We think about diet. You even hear plant-based diet, jair, and I use those words sometimes because those are the words you're using. We use those words so you can find us, so you can understand. But we don't normally walk around talking about how we're on a diet, because it's not a diet in the traditional sense. This is a lifestyle. Now, I know you've probably heard that said before and maybe you're tempted to fast forward through this, but don't. This is one of the most important things that we're sharing with you today. It's a mindset shift, because when you think diet, you think deprivation. I can't have this instead of how can I have this in a way that will love my body back, that will be beneficial to my health, that I will still enjoy? So think about it for a minute. Were Adam and Eve counting calories in the garden? Were they keeping up with macros in the garden? God didn't tell us to do these things. He didn't tell us to keep up with points or limit the amount of food on our plate. He did tell us the most beneficial foods for our bodies in Genesis 1.29. These are the foods you were created to thrive on. So what you've got to start asking yourself is how do I build the lifestyle where I'm getting more of these amazing foods into my life on a regular basis in the way that works for me?

Speaker 2: 7:16

Back then, adam had no concept, as far as we know, of protein, carbohydrates, calcium, magnesium, all these different things that we tend to obsess upon, and they are important, but we don't have to obsess upon them. When we eat their foods that are abundant in these nutrients and we get a nice wide variety of these things on a regular basis, we get what we need, just like Adam and Eve back in the very beginning when they were in the garden.

Speaker 1: 7:43

And even the protein. Please don't worry about the protein. You're getting the protein you need if you're getting the calories that you need on a daily basis. I don't know any of us who aren't getting the calories that we need. We're blessed in that way. We need to thank God for our blessings, that we have the ability to eat enough food to get the calories we need in a day, so we don't need to be worrying about protein. You just gotta drop that right here and let it go. And if you haven't heard our episodes about protein and you wanna know more about that, go back and listen to episode 215, debunking protein myths and unleashing the power of plant-based nutrition. Or 61, the shocking things you should know about protein combining. Or you might like 55, how do you get protein on a plant-based diet? These are just three of the episodes we've done about protein. So you've gotta drop these dieting mentality mindsets and get the mindset shift that you need. I need an enjoyable lifestyle. I don't need a diet that's gonna make me feel deprived and constantly be worrying about things that don't matter when I'm missing out on the things that do. Okay, let's say you're out eating, You're looking over the menu, counting calories, carbs, blah, blah, blah of all these things, worrying about what you're gonna eat Instead of going with a plan, knowing what you can eat that actually is beneficial and healthy for you, and not spending 20 minutes trying to decide while the conversation and the relationships are being built at the table around you. Calories, points, All these things are there, sucking you away from what really matters in your life, robbing you of the joy you were created to have around food. Food is meant to fuel your body, and to fuel it well, not to be the thing that makes you sluggish. It gives you disease.

Speaker 2: 9:20

And we were meant to enjoy it. And when you get it in a whole food, plant-based form where it's got all the flavor and the textures, it's just the goodness that's in it. It is enjoyable. So you absolutely can enjoy this way of living. And if for you diet's a four-letter word, remember we're going back to the old school way of using the word diet. It's a way of eating, it's not a deprivation, it's not that I can only have certain things or I can only have small portions of it. So we talk about the whole food, plant-based diet, but not dieting, because when you do it right, you can eat until you're satisfied, get what you need, but still be able to fight disease, still be able to get down to a normal weight and have the energy and do all those things that you want.

Speaker 1: 10:08

Naturally, so the first step to getting away from the overwhelm when it comes to getting healthy is to run from regular diets and dieting mentality and to really enjoy eating more whole plant foods For me. For me, that means I can't be making things that take a lot of time or cause brain strain, so the meals have to be quick and easy to make. And you know what's more important to me. You know, if you've been around here very long, I've got to really enjoy how the meal tastes. Now maybe that's not as important to you as it is to me, but I grew up in a down-home barbecue restaurant, eating really tasty food from people who knew how to cook well. Now, I'm not gonna make you become a chef or learn how to do complicated things or use a bunch of crazy ingredients. That's not what I do. My specialty is making it simple and easy for you.

Speaker 2: 10:58

But she's not gonna make it easy, but taste nasty. She is not gonna sacrifice flavor for ease.

Speaker 1: 11:04

And that's the point here. It's got to taste good, and time and again that's when I see people buying our cookbook or they come into Power and Plant Society or group coaching program and they're freaking out OMG, this tastes so good. What in the world when has this been all my life? Where's this Alfredo sauce been? Where's this tomato sauce been? Are you seriously telling me I can make potato chips that taste like Pringles, really, without any oil, in about two minutes in my home, without any special ingredients? Yes, you can, it's not hard. All these things that you love, I love good milk. Gotta be able to have milk on my oats, or just a glass of it. I want it to actually taste good. I think about a story from just yesterday. No joke, our 11 year old daughter blew our minds, so she has been working on tweaking a recipe that she actually came up with because I was trying to eat less sweet. Now, I don't have a known gluten sensitivity or anything like that, but a lot of our members don't eat wheat or they do have gluten sensitivities, and so I'm constantly looking for ways to make things easier and simpler for them, and most of our recipes either are gluten free or they have a gluten free option. So she decided she was going to tweak our chocolate cake recipe and make something similar and make like a chocolate cupcake. For me that's gluten free and she's been working it for a little while and it's been really good. But last night she upped her game and can I tell you we were freaking out. It met that criteria that all the recipes make before they go into our cookbook. And I told her this is going into the membership this week or next week. It is going in Like as soon as we get it written down. It's in there. But the funny thing was so I take it to Jared and it's got our chocolate icing on it and he's diving in and you just hear hmm, this is so, oh, this is amazing. Who made this? Where did this come from? And of course I was telling him Kate made it and so he makes this comment and I was just dying laughing. It was so funny.

Speaker 2: 12:59

Well, there's a comedian that we heard a few years ago, but we heard it again recently, where he's kind of poking fun at a vegan bakery. In his comedy routine he talks about walking by a bakery and it looks amazing and delicious and he walks in. And his mouth's watering and he's looking at everything in the bakery case, and so he asked what the particular pastry was that he was interested in, and they said it was a root beer float doughnut. She said do you want one? He said, no, I want two, but only put one in the bag because the other one's not making it out of this store. So he gets it in hand, he takes a bite and then on stage he just shows this face oh, like it was horrible, like it was bland, no flavor.

Speaker 1: 13:36

She notices what he's doing.

Speaker 2: 13:38

Yes, he said, sir, did you know this was a vegan bakery? And he says no, I did not. And then he makes some other jokes and all that. But last night I told Anita, I said, if Josh Snead had bitten into this, that would have completely ruined his whole comedy routine, because this is delicious. This is moist, has the perfect consistency and he would have never known.

Speaker 1: 14:00

He would have never known. And that's what we aim for with all our recipes, and that's what I want you to aim for when you're coming up with your new favorites. Your goal is to find your new favorites, not to find something that might kind of sort of work for you. No, you want your new favorites.

Speaker 2: 14:14

Don't settle. No, if you love chili, you don't have to.

Speaker 1: 14:17

You don't have to. If you love chili, you gotta find a darn good chili that you like just as much or even more. If you like chips, you better be finding your chips up. Or a cracker sub, if you like crackers. If you like lasagna, if you like Alfredo sauce, if you like Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana, you know I gotta have my creamy, cheesy things. We've talked about that before. Find those things that you like. That's how you're gonna set yourself up. So you've got to run from regular dining mentality and start focusing on how to create replacements, how to create the things, and start focusing on how do you find the enjoyable way to get the most nutrient, dense foods on the planet into your life, the things that will work with your busy schedule. That lights you up. You gotta have recipes that light you up. It's gotta be quick and easy, it's gotta work, but it's gotta light you up. It's gotta taste good. Number two never leave an empty place. This is a biblical principle. Okay, you do not wanna leave an empty hole where something bad once was in your life, because it's gonna come back with a vengeance and it's gonna bite your behind.

Speaker 2: 15:22

I'm just saying this is probably one of the biggest things that sabotages people's attempt to go whole food plant based. So I have something that they just absolutely love and maybe holds memories. We talked about that in prior episodes. Maybe it reminds them of grandma's Thanksgiving dish, of something, and so then you're left with this whole. But if you don't find something to put back in its place maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually you're going to go back to that thing and think I just want it so badly. I'll have it one time, and then you fall back into the same routine and then-. You quote, fall off the wagon Fall off the wagon and now that may happen once or twice, and we've covered that on other episodes as well. You haven't really truly fallen off the wagon, but in this case, if you're just trying to start, these things can and will sabotage your attempt if you're not aware of it and you don't plan for it ahead of time. So you find that one thing, think, okay, how can I make this plant-based so that I enjoy it just as much or even more? Because we found so many things that we love even more than the original.

Speaker 1: 16:26

So you take the thing that you used to love, you get it out of your life, or out of your life in that way, and you find its new replacement. You've got to put something back in its place. That's the whole point. It's not what I can't have anymore, it's what can I have that I will like just as much or even better. That's going to love my body back, and what I mean by that is it's going to actually fuel you well, so that you feel better, so that you can start living the full active life that God put you here to live.

Speaker 2: 16:58

That's what we're after, and I think key number two here is probably the biggest thing that leads to success in doing a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.

Speaker 1: 17:07

I would say that in being in community, you have an absolutely 100% got to be in community. Those are huge things, but if you're talking about just the food and the steps you're going to take with the food, absolutely this is it Never leave an empty space or a hole where something you loved once was Because you're going to dream about that thing, you're going to go crazy on that thing. Then you're going to feel guilty. That goes back to step number one, that's dieting mentality. You don't have to give up the great stuff and not only do you not have to and you're going to find your new favorites. You're going to find new favorites you didn't even have before. That's not replacing anything else, it's just something brand new you didn't even know existed. You're going to be trying different things and finding things you love that were not even on your radar. That's the beauty of eating this way. You think, oh, I'm going to be limited, I'm only going to be able to eat this or that. No, your horizons are about to expand, girl. Your horizons are about to expand. Mark my words when you learn how to do this the right way, it only gets better over time. I wish I could line up right now and put in front of this microphone every single one of my members for you. Every one of them will tell you the exact same thing. It's just going to keep getting better over time. That's how it is. When you find the right way to do this, it just gets better and better. And step number three focus on growing your list of new favorite recipes. We touched on this a little bit just then, but we call them recipes and unrecipes. This is something Jair and I are really big on. So this is the food formulas like how do you make bowls? How do you make a salad bowl? How do you make a grain bowl? How do you make sandwiches? What are your food formulas? We have specific food formulas that we teach. You need to learn those. Those are unrecipes. These are some of the things you make when you don't even have time for a recipe. That is, by definition, unrecipes. This is the term that we use all the time to describe what you make when you don't have time. You're busy. We don't always have time to pull out a recipe and measure stuff. You might have a go-to list of these unrecipes, though. I want you to get them on your go-to favorites list because and you can jot down what you put in there these are some of my favorite ingredients, or here are my brainstorms about some things that I can do with this in the future, because if you don't put down the ideas, you're gonna forget what you did. I don't care if it's your favorite avocado toast, I don't care if you love that combo so much on your baked potato you think you're never gonna forget it. You will. You will Because you're gonna be busy, you're gonna come into the door and you're gonna have a little brain space and you're gonna be flustered and you're not gonna know what to eat. And if you just got a list of stuff, you can pull up this recipes and done, recipes that you don't even have to measure out. You just got these food formulas in there of this plus this plus this plus this, boom done and you're done in dinners on the table in 10 minutes. You can't even sit in a fast food drive-thru and get something and bring it home and eat it that fast. That's the reality of living the power on plant's way.

Speaker 2: 19:58

We even had that very same thing. We were going back through our community, kind of looking back in a couple years ago, and you had even found a couple recipes or, I'm sorry, unrecipes and you forgot about them. That's why we're now doing hashtag unrecipe in our community, because our entire community is searchable, so you just type in hashtag unrecipe and then boom, you've got that entire list.

Speaker 1: 20:21

But yeah, jared's talking about the community that's in power on plant society or group coaching program, because we set it up intentionally for everything to be searchable. So all the words are searchable, but all the videos are searchable too, so you can find those recipes and unrecipes when you need them. And this is key. And what he's saying is we share these things with you because we've forgotten in the past.

Speaker 2: 20:43

We know by experience.

Speaker 1: 20:44

I'm sharing this because just recently, like within the past year or so, we've started writing down our unrecipes and keeping a list of them somewhere. That works for us, that I can easily pull those back up and I'm still going back and adding to those. Well, just this week I was going back through the community and looking at it and going I cannot believe we've forgotten this. So I was watching old replays.

Speaker 2: 21:03

There was something a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1: 21:04

Even replays of the coaching programs. And then I tagged a couple of our members about it and they're going. I totally forgot I did this. I didn't remember. I totally forgot about this meal. I'm totally making this again. I said, girl, get it on your unrecipe list, Get it on your go-to favorites list so that you won't forget about it again. Keeping this list of go-to favorites is going to keep you from forgetting the things that you absolutely love the most, that you think you're never going to forget. But you are, you are. It just happens we only have so much brain space in the day.

Speaker 2: 21:35

Think of this as the equivalent of your mother or grandmother's three-ring binder just stuff full of all those papers, kind of halfway hanging out with all those different recipes. This is the modern version of that Creating on your phone, on, like you've mentioned, like a Word document. We have our favorite app that we keep it in. We have a Love that.

Speaker 1: 21:54

Yeah, we have the course built in to the community where we teach all about how do you go through this app and how do you make it super simple. But if you're just getting started, get it into notes or into Word or in a notebook, whatever works best for you. The key is to just get started. Just do it. Do it today, start today, think, don't think I have all these things I'm making. Or don't think I don't even know where to start, because I'm just now starting plant-based. I've tried like one thing and I didn't like it. That's okay, because there are many things out there that you are gonna love. When you get the right recipes and un-recipes in your hand, it is going to blow your mind. Look, it still happens to us. Our daughter blew our mind with these chocolate muffins last night. It just never gets old. That's why we get so excited and so pumped up about this and we're saying do this, just do it. Just take that step, girl, just do it. This is why Because we know that when you start taking action and you get yourself inside that community where people are doing the same thing, you're gonna learn and grow together in ways you never could have done by yourself and you're gonna start feeling better and, as a result, start living the life you were created to live, being active and doing those things that you've wanted to do for so long. So if you're feeling overwhelmed and you just think I don't know how to make health uncomplicated, I want to heal. Naturally. I wanna get to the root of my health problems and stop having to rely on medicine after medicine and medicines to deal with those medicines. This is how you do it. Step one make plant-based sustainable. You've got this. We've told you exactly how to do that on this exact episode. And step number two is never leave an empty space. You are going to fill that hole with some plant-based goodness that you are going to love. Girl, it's gonna light you up. Step number three is focus on growing your list of new favorite recipes and unrecipes. We are all about this. Well, how do you do that? Where do you start? First, get the Power On Plants Cookbook. If you think I don't know what to do, go right now to poweronplantscom. Forward slash cookbook and get your copy and start cooking your way through it. Find your new favorites. Oh well, I like Delfreda Sauce. I'm gonna start there. Or maybe you're thinking I love beef stew? Well, we're gonna show you how to make beefless stew. Or maybe you're thinking I just love a meaty sauce on my spaghetti. That's there waiting for you the Bolognese sauce. It is an absolute winner, you're gonna love it.

Speaker 2: 24:19

It's a favorite.

Speaker 1: 24:21

It's a favorite. And then what's your next step? You need to get inside community. I cannot explain to you enough how this is going to skyrocket you to plant-based success. Go to poweronplantscom, forward. Slash P-I-E. That's pie, because we all love tasty treats and being in community with like-minded people is gonna be better than any tasty treat you can imagine. Become an insider today and don't just join and get in there. Start sharing what you're doing. Snap a picture of your recipe that you've tried and share your experience with it. Or snap a picture of an un-recipe that you threw together. I put this, this, that and this together. It was amazing. Or I would leave that out next time, or what would you suggest? This is the place to do that, so you can get to know each other and start encouraging each other on your journey to healing naturally and feeling great. There's absolutely nothing like this lifestyle. It is gonna change everything for you. Sister, we cannot wait to meet you as a Power On Plants Insider and we'll see you next time on the Power On Plants podcast title piano music gives your child joy and panic. You.