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No one showed her how. She truly wants to halt disease in her body and prevent future problems, but was taught that being disciplined and denying her favorite meals was the right path to lasting health.

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You thinking you have to avoid the meals you love because you were taught that pushing through with willpower is the only way to feel good is exactly what lights us up to keep sharing these life-giving truths with you. Do you know how miserable it feels to sacrifice the meals you love while choking down the meals you can't stand? All in the name of getting healthy. Have you experienced that?

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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 Jarid and Edu's Help 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. Hello and welcome to No One Showed Her How. She truly wants to halt disease in her body and prevent future problems, but was taught that being disciplined and denying her favorite meals was the right path to lasting health.

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You thinking you have to avoid the meals you love because you were taught that pushing through with willpower is the only way to feel good is exactly what lights us up to keep sharing these life-giving truths with you. Do you know how miserable it feels to sacrifice the meals you love while choking down the meals you can't stand? All in the name of getting healthy. Have you experienced that?

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The Power on Plants Podcast. I'm Anita Roussel, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.

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And I'm Jared Roussel, a certified physician assistant and lifestyle medicine professional. And we help purpose-driven Christian leaders and entrepreneurs turn your body into your biggest business advantage using whole plant foods.

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If you're here today, it is not by accident. It's because you have a God-given calling. You can see your assignment clearly. You're already doing meaningful work. You're showing up and leading and pouring out to help others, but your body is not cooperating the way you need it to. You know you could show up more fully, but your body keeps holding you back. Some days you feel tired. Some days the brain fog rolls in. Some days you look at your to-do list and you think, if I only felt my best, I know I could get this done. But deep down you wondered, why can I be so disciplined in my business and all the other areas of my life? But healthy eating still feels so hard. Have you ever wondered why your discipline works everywhere except your help? Let's talk about that today because most of us have been told the same message again and again. You just need more willpower. You need to push harder and just stick to the plan. You need to be more determined to try again, try harder and try longer. But here's the truth: you're already disciplined, you're a leader, you steward the life God gave you, you have a family and you're growing a team. And you show up even when you're tired. Consider this. If you're disciplined everywhere else, the problem is not that you need more discipline. Doesn't it feel freeing to realize that the issue is not lack of willpower?

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Now, let's take that a step further. What if healthy eating isn't a discipline problem, but instead it's a design problem, a strategy problem, a food enjoyment problem? Because here's the truth most leaders never hear. When you have the most healing foods and they genuinely taste incredible and fit your busy life, you do not need willpower at all. You just enjoy your way to feeling good.

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That is gold. You need to hold on to that. Think about what Jared just said. You just enjoy your way to feeling good. I know it sounds almost too dreamy to be true. I promise it's possible. But first you need to realize which foods are the most nutrient-dense, healing foods on the planet. And that's when everything can change for you. Whole plant foods are the foods God gave us from the very beginning to enjoy, according to Genesis 129, the foods designed to bring life, not sickness or constant exhaustion. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt through scripture, reliable research, through our own personal healing journey, and through the countless clients we've walked with that these are the foods that bring life. Fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes. And if you think about it, you'll quickly realize that even grandma knew it. Johnny, eat your vegetables, right? That's what we heard her say. Not grab that piece of steak or make sure that box of cheese nips. Yeah, make sure you eat more cheese nips. Our grandparents knew what they were talking about. But the problem is how do you eat those foods and the way that actually works for you long term? And that's what we're talking about today. Jared and I have lost over 75 pounds together in the way that is actually enjoyable and exciting. Not only that, we reversed multiple diagnoses like fatigue and chronic joint pain, chronic bladder diagnosis, and fibrocystic breast disease for me. We didn't diet, we never felt deprived. We didn't need to force discipline or willpower. Thankfully, that's just not necessary, nor does it bring lasting health.

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And we see the same thing with our clients over and over again. Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, autoimmune issues, headache, fatigue, weight struggles, all these health struggles and more going from needing to be managed to reducing in severity and often completely reversed. Naturally, scripture confirms it, science confirms it, people's lives confirm it over and over again. Isn't it exciting how God's original design is still the most life-giving solution available today?

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We love it so much. Well, Jared knows how much I love it because we are talking about the key to finding food freedom here, and we're all about it. So, what's the real obstacle to finding optimal health? What I've seen is that most people think healthy eating, particularly eating whole plant foods regularly, has to taste less than incredible or be hard to do if they want to get results. They think healthy eating means sacrificing flavor. How am I going to do this if all I can eat is rabbit food, right? This is what we hear time and again. You think you're going to lose your comfort foods or feel restricted or have to eat tiny portions that don't fill you up. So you force yourself again and again into restriction and hanger, avoiding the meals you love, pushing through your cravings every day, and you call it discipline. Friend, this breaks our hearts because the truth is, this is not discipline. This is living in deprivation. And what if none of that was necessary? I want to share a story with you. This happened just the other day. I was talking with a woman, we'll call her Sherry. And Sherry, she loves lasagna. Loves it. But she told me that because she wants to be healthy, she hasn't allowed herself to have lasagna for six years. Those are the actual words she used when she was talking to me. I haven't allowed myself to have lasagna. Six years of being disciplined enough to avoid something she loves that much. Six years of saying no. Six years of well-intentioned willpower. Six years of missing out. And the saddest part is this she could have been living in optimal health this whole entire time. She could have been enjoying her favorite foods while thriving in her calling as a result, but no one ever told her that this was possible. No one showed her how. She truly wants to halt disease in her body and prevent future problems, but was taught that being disciplined and denying her favorite meals was the right path to lasting health. This is what Jared and I see so many of you doing to yourself. And it's what breaks our hearts the most.

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You thinking you have to avoid the meals you love because you were taught that pushing through with willpower is the only way to feel good is exactly what lights us up to keep sharing these life-giving truths with you. Do you know how miserable it feels to sacrifice the meals you love while choking down the meals you can't stand? All in the name of getting healthy. Have you experienced that? Do you think this might be one of the big reasons you find getting healthy so hard? Now listen, this isn't the first time we've heard this story and probably won't be the last. Naomi shared something very similar. She wanted to lose weight, she wanted to reverse her health problems, she just wanted to feel good again. So she asked her doctor, What can I do? How can I get healthy? And her doctor turned to her and said, What's your favorite food? And Naomi told her, Pasta. And right before walking out of the room, her doctor said, Just stop eating pasta. You can't have that anymore. And she left.

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So Naomi told us that she left that appointment and walked straight to her car where she cried because she felt so defeated. Now tell me this, is Naomi going to find getting healthy easy or even possible with that kind of advice? Jared and I have heard various versions of this exact same story over and over again. My husband loves sweets. His problem is he won't stop eating brownies. Another person told us, I know my problem's cheese. I've just got to stop eating it. And they firmly believe that what they are saying is true because no one has told them the truth that can set them free.

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What if deprivation is not necessary? What if Naomi could still enjoy pasta, lose the extra weight, and reverse her pain, high blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes? What if the brownie lovers could enjoy brownies guilt free?

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Dum. And the great thing is we know that's possible because we do it on the regular. We don't eat brownies every single day, right? That doesn't even make sense. But we enjoy them when we want them. And that's the golden key.

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What if all the dairy lovers out there, like Anita used to be, could enjoy cheesy dishes regularly that they love just as much or even more than their old favorites without harming their body? All in upgraded versions that love you back and literally power your body well so you can fully live the mission God has placed in your heart. Here's the point. Healthy eating becomes simple and sustainable when it works seamlessly with real life, and the food tastes incredible. It just does. Would your journey feel so much easier if your meals were easy to make and crave worthy?

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Now let's cast the vision together. When you fuel your body in this way, here's what you escape. Fatigue and brain fog, afternoon crashes, and the cycle of managing the growing list of symptoms, dieting and guilt, cheat day mentality, and feeling held back from the opportunities you really would like to take. And here's what you gain. Energy that lasts and increased productivity, mental clarity and confidence, and enjoyable eating, a body that completely supports your calling, the ability to fully show up for your people, to travel and create the lasting memories that you want to create together, extreme joy in your healthy lifestyle, and being active with your children and your grandchildren into old age, maintaining your independence as you age and going from strength to strength and glory to glory. As Jared always says, aging is not a disease. What's the possibility of stepping out of your body when your mission is complete without being sick? Do you think that's possible? We do. Can you imagine the relief of living in the body that finally full on supports your vision? It's so exciting.

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Now, let's shift into solutions because you deserve the answers that work. They need to be simple and taste amazing, so they're enjoyable. This is exactly why Anita created our cookbook bundles. These are not just recipes, they're your first step to taste and see how exciting and simple whole food plant-based eating should be. You get to enjoy real lasagna, real brownies and burgers and cheesy chowders, five-minute sauces and dips, and so many comfort foods, all in the upgraded versions that love your body back. No deprivation or discipline struggle, no pushing yourself through, just the way of eating that has you saying every day, oh, I can do this because it's simple, it tastes amazing, I feel better, and I'm eating the things that I love.

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Can you see how having the meals you actually enjoy that really love your body back could change everything for you? Here's what happens next. After trying the cookbook bundle, so many say to us, okay, now show me exactly how to do this with most any recipe. How do I transform comfort foods? How do I make this lifestyle where I don't always need a recipe? And how do I get my mindset and environment working for me instead of against me? And that's exactly why we created our five-step system, the accelerator blueprint. Inside, step one is mindset. This is where you'll replace the old lies that keep you stuck with a truth that will set you free to genuinely enjoy living in optimal health. Step two is all about your environment. You learn how to create surroundings that make healthy living automatic instead of hard.

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And step three is one of my favorites, delicious. This is where we'll show you how to make most any old favorite meal taste incredible and upgraded ways that love you back. Then step four is rapid. This step is all about building the systems that give you hours back in your week. And step five is all about making achieving optimal health simple. You'll learn how to navigate travel and holidays, dining out, and all the other aspects of real life with ease.

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Wouldn't it feel amazing to finally have the system that fits real life where you didn't have to discipline yourself every day to keep willpowering through? If everything we talked about is stirring something inside your heart, if you're tired of your body slowing down your calling and you're ready to finally feel good again, so you can fully live the dreams God's placed in you, the next step is simple. First, grab your cookbook bundles at poweronplants.com forward slash cookbook, where you can begin to taste and see how amazing living the power and plants lifestyle really is. Grab those bundles and all the bonuses right now at poweronplants.com forward slash cookbook. And then go right now and join the accelerator wait list at poweronplants.com forward slash accelerator. You'll get early access and special bonuses that are going to change your life, like our full weight loss revolution course and our entire cholesterol code course, too. But most importantly, inside accelerator, Jared and I are going to walk you through our simple five-step framework that helps you lay the solid foundation for finally feeling great so you can build the body that becomes your number one asset in business and all the other areas of your life.

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You'll take the first enjoyable, life-changing steps toward living the lifestyle that supports your God-given mission. And we want to leave you with this today. You don't need more willpower. You need the way that works because it's simple. You love it, and it loves you back. God designed your body to heal naturally. And when you fuel it according to his original design, in the way that doesn't require willpowering through or forcing discipline, everything changes.

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I want to encourage you today. You are not behind and you are not broken. If you've listened this far, what I know is this you're on the brink of your breakthrough. And I want you to hear this with your whole heart. There are more people out there who need the message God's placed inside of you. He did not expect you to run your race exhausted or foggy or limited by a body that can't keep up with your vision. He created you to feel strong with the ability to completely carry out the mission he placed within you. Your calling is far too important to let your health keep holding you back. This is your time. Your body can become the asset that amplifies your impact, and your breakthrough is closer than you think. And until next time, remember, friend, you are loved, you're prayed for, and we will see you very soon.