Anita: 0:00

Recently, jared and I were talking about how sad it is that people think they will be missing out on something if they start eating whole food plant-based, but the happy reality is that there are things that we just do not miss at all. Now that we're whole food plant-based, we don't waste our time thinking about the things that we miss, because there isn't anything we miss. We set ourselves up in a way that we don't miss the old things and we love the new way we live. You must learn how to make whole food plant-based eating enjoyable so that it lasts, and we're going to talk to you today about the 12 things that we don't miss now that we eat whole food plant-based. You do not want to miss this.

Anita: 0:41

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 the energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're Jared and Anita Roussel, christ followers, healthcare 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.

Anita: 1:52

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Anita: 2:23

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Anita: 2:55

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Jarrod: 3:23

Now that we eat whole food, plant-based, that power on plants way, the first thing we don't miss is feeling like we need to deeply disinfect the entire kitchen after each meal absolutely do not underestimate how much time that you will waste doing this, and if you don't, then you very well may be going to bed at night thinking, oh, what is on my kitchen surfaces that I did not take care of?

Anita: 3:48

Oh my word, have you ever seen the YouTube video? If you haven't, you need to go and Google this. I wish I knew the exact words to tell you to Google, but you could find this on YouTube. There's a video and I'm sure there's probably more than one of these women cooking in their kitchen and they think they're being clean and they're washing their hands all the time, but they're using chicken, they're cooking with chicken and meat and they go back later with a blue light and they show everything the women have touched and all this potential for salmonella and all the different bacteria that are in chicken.

Anita: 4:17

And this is really important when it comes to chicken and other meats, because we do know that not only can it make you sick and give you GI bugs and cause all kinds of problems, they're also linking just touching chicken with increase in UTIs urinary tract infections. So this is something really important to note. That's another thing. You don't have to miss All the urinary tract infections. Let's just talk about that for a moment. As a woman who had to deal with a lot of those in my past, that's a bonus for you. We don't miss those at all. But what I want to point out is all the time I wasted and Jared wasted feeling like we needed to deeply disinfect our entire kitchen after every meal because of the meat products that we were using.

Jarrod: 5:02

The juices and all that stuff that got around the kitchen and it just happens. You can say you're going to be careful, but splatters happen. And I did want to mention something because you said UTIs. You may think I will just wash my hands and that will take care of it. Nope, sorry. The science shows when you touch it you're already exposed to it and really there's no amount of hand washing that gets rid of that. So that's not even just on your surfaces, that's on your hand. If it gets on your skin it's going to make its way to the rest of your body. It just is.

Anita: 5:35

Isn't that gross.

Jarrod: 5:36

I'm sorry to gross y'all out.

Anita: 5:37

But look, these are the things we wish somebody had told us years ago, and you're getting it right here and you don't have to try to figure this stuff out on your own. We're just going to share it with you. So number one is we don't miss out on that feeling of needing to deeply disinfect our entire kitchen after each meal, which leads us to the second thing that we don't miss out on, now that we eat whole food, plant-based, which is a greasy oily kitchen, or having to clean our cabinets and our counters with oil removers or things that take the grease and the grime off our countertops and our pots and our pans and our cabinets. Yes, we still clean our kitchen, but it is so much faster, I mean, without the oil covering everything. Think about your stovetop and how it pops and gets all into your stove and everything and so we cook oil free which makes a huge difference.

Anita: 6:23

So we're not pouring oil into everything or frying things, but we're also not getting the oils and fats coming off of the meat as it's cooked, because we don't cook meat anymore and when you don't cook meat you don't have the splatters and the oil and the grease that gets into the air and gets onto your things and covers your cabinets over time. It is just so gross and we don't miss it at all.

Jarrod: 6:46

If you've ever seen that shellac that's on the hood or on the cabinets near your stove, that's what that is. But that has been baked on by time and heat and it gets thick and it's hard to remove.

Anita: 6:58

Yeah, even if you wipe it off every time, if you're diligent every time, it is just such a pain to try to get that oily greasiness off of everything. And I want to throw this in there. If it's doing this to your cabinets and your countertops and your pots and your pans, what are these foods doing to the inside of your body, to your digestive tract, to your vessels, to your good bacteria, to your energy levels? Let's just throw that out there. You have to think these things through to their natural end. So that's the second thing. We don't miss Greasy and oily kitchen cabinets, countertops, pots and pans.

Jarrod: 7:35

Number three food hangover After one of these non-plant based meals.

Anita: 7:40

Now, jared coined this term and I think it confuses a lot of people because they still think it has to do with alcohol, with the hangover. So you've got to clarify what a food hangover is.

Jarrod: 7:48

Food hangover is when you eat that traditional, standard American diet meal. You feel that sluggishness and lack of energy. I used to think that that was a sign of a good meal because my body was having to rest and digest. But I later found out, no, it was my body, I won't say rebelling.

Anita: 8:07

I was thinking revolting.

Jarrod: 8:09

I was thinking. It was more like my body, and I tell my patients this whenever I'm discussing this. My body is saying Jared, I can no longer support the decisions you're making. We've got to shut you down for a little while while we clean up. We are not happy with the choices you have made. Go take a nap for an hour. Quit doing this to us. Let us have some semblance of a cleanup period here.

Anita: 8:33

Right, but the thing is, you did this meal after meal after meal. I mean, that's what we used to do. We would always have some meat or some cheese or some dairy or some oil or, if we're being quite honest, a combo of all of these, meal after meal after meal, and so your body really doesn't ever get to recover.

Jarrod: 8:52

And I think that's why some people have trouble believing what we say about plant-based meals and how they affect our energy is because they've never felt that after a meal.

Anita: 9:02

Yeah, it's amazing.

Jarrod: 9:03

All they've ever felt is that hangover sensation. So it's just normal, it's just the way that it is.

Anita: 9:10

You can totally be free from this. One of our clients called this food freedom. She coined it One of our first clients we ever worked with. She said you have given me food freedom. Food doesn't have a hold on me. I don't get the sluggishness, heaviness, all those feelings that I used to get from food anymore. I actually love my food and my food loves my body back. That is food freedom.

Jarrod: 9:31

Which then takes us into point number four, that constant low energy. So when your body is sluggish and we do know that your blood actually gets thicker with all those oils and the greasiness of the meat, but when that happens, what is that going to do to your energy?

Anita: 9:47

Oh, it just tanks it. I mean that's how I lived constantly. It was a constant battle with my energy. I was always tired. I didn't understand why we were eating free range, cage free, organic nitrate, nitrite free, no RBS, hormone added, I mean you name it. We were buying it from the farm, fresh pasteurized milk, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I mean we were doing all this stuff to eat quote, clean, and yet we were our sickest we had ever been. I mean that was at age 40. Now I'm at 53. And it's like I reach nighttime and I'm having to force myself to go to bed. That is a totally different kind of problem to have than having to drag yourself through the day. When your husband comes home, you're like, look, if I'm going to possibly get you any kind of meal, I'm going to have to pull a stool up to the stove to cook it for you while you go take care of the kids. That is just no way to live.

Jarrod: 10:37

No, it was. Take these kids if you have any hope of a dinner.

Anita: 10:41

Constant low energy, we do not miss. We happily kiss you goodbye forever.

Jarrod: 10:46

Bye-bye.

Anita: 10:49

Next, the daily aches and pains. I dealt with this constantly. I mean joint pain, constant aching, hurting, not feeling good, my arms, my shoulder I've healed from frozen shoulder two times. I've had all kinds of crazy stuff with my body just unexplained aches and pains.

Anita: 11:07

And we just start to think, oh, that's normal, oh, it's just a part of aging. I mean, we hear it. It becomes a part of the lingo in our society, which is absolutely ridiculous. Don't be saying stuff like that oh, I'm just getting older. Oh well, you know how it is. As you get older, watch your lingo.

Anita: 11:23

We start saying things. Then we start believing the things we say and we start living into the things we speak because that's what we believe. But it's not true. That is not normal. It's not normal to ache and have pains as you get older. We should be going from strength to strength.

Anita: 11:40

Specifically, as a Bible believer, I want you to start looking at these things, start wrapping your mind around the things like hey, when Moses went to be with the Lord, he was quite old and he climbed up a mountain where God took him.

Anita: 11:53

Okay, he didn't need some assistive devices and his vision was not dimmed. Look at Joshua, look at Caleb when they went to go into the land, he said no, I feel so good, Give me the hill country. Okay, it's not normal for us to be sluggish and not feel good, but we've let the enemy lie to us for far too long and it's time to break free. That is why I absolutely love our course accelerator, because I take you through these biblical principles as well of why it is that we believe these things for far too long. What are the lies that we believe that are keeping us stuck? And once you can get free from the stuff and see it, you can't unsee it Like you cannot unsee it and you will never talk to yourself the same way and you will not be stuck anymore. You can get free from the constant low energy and daily aches and pains because they are not normal as you age.

Jarrod: 12:43

We think that we believe these things because they're true, but actually it's because we believe them that we think they're true. So we believe that aches and pains are a normal process of aging. So then that must be truth. But it's not.

Anita: 12:58

So what you're saying is we let our experience define our outcome. We let our experience define our truth, instead of like truth define our experience.

Jarrod: 13:09

Exactly, that's a whole different thing.

Anita: 13:11

It's a whole different life to live. You do not have to stay stuck there. So we do not miss flow of energy, we do not miss the constant aches and pains, and the other thing we don't miss is the dieting mentality.

Jarrod: 13:23

Oh, that is so pervasive.

Anita: 13:25

Are you kidding me?

Jarrod: 13:27

It's so pervasive and I think many people have it and don't even realize it, just because it's become so ingrained in our vernacular and our daily experience and our day-to-day meal choices, thinking I must eat this because it is a diet food, or I must limit how much I eat, and it becomes really very consuming with all those different details instead of just getting to enjoy the food Right.

Anita: 13:50

And that's how God meant for it to be, and I don't think we realize how we have been sideswiped and sidetracked and been taught all these things by our enemy. He is a conniving thief who wants to steal from you, kill you and destroy you. He wants to take your joy away, and that includes the joy of properly fueling your body by getting you stuck in these miserable dieting methods, many of which you may recognize, but you don't know how to break free from them. Other ones you probably don't even recognize that they're there and you've been sucked into them and you believe these lies about things that are necessary and normal to achieve lasting weight loss or to achieve optimal health, which are just not true. And these, again, are things that we deal with and break down inside our accelerator course. You can learn more about it and get on the wait list at poweronplantscom forward slash accelerator. The doors are opening again very soon, so make sure you're on the wait list. You do not want to miss out this. This is life changing.

Anita: 14:46

We're getting some incredible testimonials from our clients who have already gone through this, saying this was the missing key that I needed. Amanda just shared with me. I've tried to do this for so, so long and I was not able to break free. And now I'm out doing things with my kids, feeling amazing and loving the food that I'm eating, and I think that is just the key you break free and you understand these things that you've thought for so long that weren't true and all of a sudden you realize I can eat these foods and I can have them in a way that I actually like them, they excite me and they love my body back. Are you kidding me? I don't have to give up all my favorite things. I still have the foods I love and I can escape the dieting mentality. It's absolutely incredible the freedom that you're going to gain when you can get rid of these things that the enemies placed into your life, these beliefs that just are not true and they're keeping you stuck.

Jarrod: 15:41

All right. Number seven of things we do not miss being plant-based, trying to figure out our symptoms or, even worse, trying to get a diagnosis.

Anita: 15:52

help me I mean, how much time do we spend googling symptoms? Don't do that, don't get online googling symptoms.

Anita: 15:58

How many doctors do we go to trying to get answers for the different things that we were dealing with in our body before we realized how simple it can be to reverse the most common chronic diseases of our time? Yes, that includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, autoimmune diseases like IBS and rheumatoid. It includes things like migraine headaches. It includes allergies. It includes so many things that we're told are chronic, are stage four, that people look at us and tell us a diagnosis and label an amount of time on us and then we take that on us as our reality. No, you do not have to spend your time trying to figure out these symptoms or get a diagnosis. We're not saying don't go to the doctor, but what we are saying to you is you can get so into Googling your symptoms and worrying about this and what if that, and you can plan out your life according to what Google tells you. You do not want to get yourself into that situation. Just break free from that right now. That does not have to be your story.

Jarrod: 16:56

It almost sounds like a terrible party game. Guesty ache or pain.

Anita: 17:01

That is awful.

Jarrod: 17:03

It's in your right shoulder. It's been going on for three months. It's a dull ache, unremitting. What's that pain?

Anita: 17:10

That is so bad, but it's so true and that was our reality for so long. And we, our hearts, are for you. We do not want to see you have to go through this. It just does not have to be so many things that you are told are chronic, that you'll have for life. You are not going to have it. I had fibrocystic breast disease. I had interstitial cystitis, which is a terrible bladder disease. I have had clangylar fasciitis. I've had frozen shoulder twice. I have had nodules that have disappeared. I've had all kinds of stuff go away.

Anita: 17:41

The aches and pains, the low energy, just the inability alone, just to live life. The inability to live life. Think about that. I mean, it steals from you your ability to do what God has placed you here to do and there's just no reason for it. And the fact that it could be the food. And you're going to all these appointments and trying to figure it out and nobody's telling you it could be the food, and nobody's telling you how to do this and how to make it simple and how you can actually enjoy these foods and how you can get out of the kitchen faster and how you'll never feel deprived and how. You're now two, three weeks down the road, enjoying life, and your numbers are coming back to normal and you're coming off your medications under your doctor's supervision. It is absolutely what we see happen time and time again. It's why we're so passionate about this way of living.

Jarrod: 18:27

I almost feel like this would be equivalent to a mechanic car analogy, I know, but a mechanic going to school never being told about there's a filter in the fuel line so he never changes it, never addresses it, never tells you the owner. Hey, you know what? Sometimes the fuel line may get clogged so the gas isn't going to go through like it normally should. So you're not going to have it in the cylinders and your car's going to act sluggishly and it won't respond when you hit the gas pedal and nobody just tells you about that. So you think my car's a few years older. It's just going to happen that way. No, it doesn't just happen that way. It doesn't have to happen that way.

Anita: 19:08

Yeah, and I think number eight goes with number seven. So number seven was trying to figure out our symptoms or, even worse, trying to get a diagnosis, and eight is then trying how to figure out how to escape them or how to get healthy. Like, we just think it's so difficult. We spend all this time trying to figure out how do I escape this, how do I get healthy? It's like what I explained before, and I'm eating all these things that I feel like are good because I somehow know that the food is the answer, but I'm still eating all the wrong things. And then I realized hey, fruits and vegetables are the answer, but I don't know how to eat those in the way.

Anita: 19:40

That's quick, simple and delicious and that's just so key. When you can grasp that and understand that, you can easily escape the symptoms without having to try to figure out how to do it, because you could learn from somebody who's already figured out how and can show you in a very short amount of time how to escape those things and be optimally healthy from the inside out Not just on the outside, but from the inside out. This is super, super important.

Jarrod: 20:08

Which that brings us beautifully to point number nine. We do not miss complicated meal prep. Help me and I share this with my patients too, because I want them to know what they don't know. They have this misconception that it's going to be difficult or take a long time. This is the fastest way we have ever eaten.

Anita: 20:30

Jared's going into number 10. Number 10 is time lost in the kitchen. Nine is complicated meal prep, right?

Anita: 20:36

So yeah, I think they go together because if things are complicated, they're going to take a whole lot longer, but really, I mean, I think it's something you have to taste and see, which is why I'm so passionate about our cookbooks. If you don't have at least one of them yet, go to powerandplantscom, forward, slash cookbook and grab one of the cookbooks, because I lay out for you some of the simplest, quickest ways to get whole food, plant-based meals on your table that you're actually going to love. I'm talking about throw things into one pot or one instant pot or one blender and have them done in 5 to 15 minutes. It really is that simple. We have never, ever, cooked in a way or prepared meals in a way that is this easy.

Jarrod: 21:20

Well, you intentionally went through the recipes and thought how can I remove unnecessary steps? Absolutely so that then makes it not complicated, or the flip side makes it simple.

Anita: 21:33

Right, and I love things like how one of our members, ashley, had posted inside of our community that she was now free to go and play and swim and enjoy life with her kids while her dinner cooked itself. This is what I'm all about Dinner cooking itself. You throw some stuff together, it's in an Instapot, it's in your oven instead of on your stovetop, with you standing there stirring it, and you are living life. That is what I'm all about. One pot dishes, one pot meals, things that are simple and quick to prepare this is real life and we're put here to live it. We are not meant to be slaves to our kitchen, so we have to get rid of complicated meal prep, which we do not miss. We've completely gotten rid of that and our lost time in the kitchen. We have reclaimed that lost time and we're living real life with it.

Anita: 22:23

And then, number 11, we do not miss that feeling of being deprived. You know, many times when you're trying to get healthy, you think, oh, I have to feel deprived, I'm going to have to stop eating things I like and I won't be able to have the things I like. And that's just how it is. No, that's not just how it is. That is a falsehood that you have believed, thank goodness, right. So we don't miss out on the great food that we love in the name of health. You do not have to miss out on good tasting food that you enjoy in the name of health. We don't miss the thought of that because there was a time when we thought, just like you probably do, that to be healthy, something had to taste gnarly nasty, the baked goods had to be dry, the stuff had to be flavorless. I can't enjoy sweets. I don't like sweets. Or I can't enjoy lasagna or tacos or pizza or brownie batter, hummus or desserts, or this is my problem, that's my problem. No, you can still have great food. You just want to do it in a different, new and improved. I call it an upgrade version. You need to make recipe upgrades. The upgrades are going to get you out of the kitchen faster. They're going to give you the meals that you still love, but you're just going to have them in an upgraded way. That is, get that again is going to love your body back.

Anita: 23:43

And the 12th thing that we don't miss out on, now that we are whole food, plant based, is the life experiences that we wanted to have for so long because we are now living them. Think about it. I want you to picture all the things that you would just love to feel like doing that you're now missing out on because, by the end of the day, you just don't feel like doing them. Maybe it's after work and your friends get together and you want to go out with them, but you just don't feel like it. Or there's another couple that wants to go on a double date with you and your husband and you just don't feel like it because you don't have energy. Or it's the weekend and there's something really fun going on that you'd love to take your family to, but you got to try to somehow get your energy back over the weekend, and so you just don't feel like it and you're missing out on all these incredible life moments traveling to all the places you want to go, feeling incredible when you have grandchildren, so that you can run and chase them around and play with them all out and make memories, actually doing things with them instead of just watching them grow right before your eyes and missing out on it all or, even worse than that, not being here to experience those things with them.

Anita: 24:51

We don't want that for you. We want you to know what it feels like to no longer miss out on the life experiences that you were created to enjoy, and that is what whole food, plant-based eating the power on plants way can do for you. Friend, if you are loving these episodes and you want more of them coming your way, be sure to get on Apple Podcasts and leave us a written review. It will mean the world to us and will help others to find the podcast too. And then, if you're looking for the supportive Christian environment where you can heal, naturally enjoying a whole food, plant-based meals, join us inside our free group at poweronplantscom forward slash P-I-E. That's poweronplantscom forward slash pie. We look forward to getting to know you more there, and we'll be back again with you next week for another episode dedicated to helping you thrive on a whole food, plant-based diet the enjoyable, exciting way. In the meantime, know that you are loved, you are prayed for and we will see you soon. Thank you.