Case Study 1 - Fleur

When Total Exhaustion Looks Like Obesity

Fleur, 47, had worked as a PR Executive for twenty years. Work was her life, and she started her own company four years ago. After two years of being totally responsible for her own life, and the future life of her company, the weight started piling on. As a workaholic the focus of her thought was on the cerebral level, and not a thought went into what is happening to her bodily functions and her appearance – let’s face it, a good tailored jacket and high heels can cover a multitude of sins and you don’t have to face the fact that you haven’t used your ribs as a washboard – or to play the spoons on, for many a year!

Food was always a secondary consideration – no breakfast, grabbing a cup of coffee on the way to work – probably with a pastry or a chocolate bar, lunch on the run – pizza, sandwich or worse. Dinners, often with clients, heavy, alcohol fuelled and late into the evening, had all taken their toll. A familiar pattern for many, but for Fleur, things were out of control and her diet was affecting more than her waistline. Her sleep pattern was disturbed, her internal alarm went off a four am; she was not getting a good quality of sleep and consequently she was becoming nervy and stressed. As I always ask people, “how is your digestion”, Fleur was no exception. Her answer, as with many, was “fine” – except that she got diarrhoea when stressed. Considering, as we know, that Fleur spends her life in the workspace, this was an added ‘stress’ that brought with it, it’s own set of problems that she could well do without!

Things were not good. The first change she had to face, was that she needed to change or install a good dietary regime – not of the boot camp variety, but for at least one month. – Fleur, and hopefully her less well padded ribs, will be revisited in this column…

Breakfast

Grated apple and cinnamon with ½ tbs of oatmeal cooked together

As Fleur likes soya milk, she adds this to the mixture

Fleur is now going off to work with a ½ litre bottle of pear juice, into which she has put ¼ (moving up) to ½ tbs of milled Flax seed, which she will drink, mid-morning and mid-afternoon along with 3 tablets of Chlorella. This alkaline forming mixture will give her all of the essential Omega oils needed to help bring down the high levels of acidity in her body. It will also help to keep her energy and metabolic levels even, and stop the cravings for all the naughties that have got in to this predicament in the first place.

Lunch

Fleur has two options – the ‘at your desk’ lunch, or the business lunch, both of which are as easy as the sandwich option with a little forethought.

v Desk variety – a lunch box filled with avacado, green herbs, basil or tarragon, rocket or spinach with lemon juice and olive oil dressing.

v Business lunch – should never be more than two starters and kept light. As the desk option – and with out heavy dressings on salads

Remember at this stage the mid-afternoon drink of pear juice with Flax, and Chlorella tablets, as energy levels tend to drop around 4-5pm. This is also a good time for Fleur to have two tablets of *SON Formula. This is a food supplement of essential amino acid, which helps assist with weight loss

Dinner

Fleur can have grilled fish or chicken, with courgettes, purple sprouting broccoli, lots of dill, basil pesto (made with pecorino not parmesan!). This can be followed with a glass of warm water with a teaspoon of rose water. This, along with some magnesium drops will help to calm Fleur at the end of her hectic day.

Bedtime

Before retiring to her boudoir for a good nights’ sleep Fleur needs to melt a teaspoon of CAL-M in a tiny amount of hot water and mix with two to three floppy stewed prunes or prune puree. The fibre in the prunes will help to keep the metabolic rate at an even through the night, this in turn, will help knock the internal 4am alarm call on the head.

Do’s and Don’ts for Fleur!

Foods to be avoided

Some of the foods that Fleur is not allowed at this stage are:-

v Wheat and all other grain cereals, as they would all cause her stomach to bloat at this point, and give her too much wind – not ideal in the business forum

v Milk, and all cow proteins – as tend to be mucus forming and her lymphatic system is already under stress and causing her to swell and retain water.

Pills and Potions Explained!

If anything in this article strikes a cord with you or anyone you know and you would like more information about Gudrun and her books, Gut Reaction and Gut Reaction Eating plan, visit www.gudrunjonsson.com You will also find details of how to order

Flax, SON Formula and CAL-M. Remember however, that for the homeopathic drops and the special magnesium delivery you would need to see a practitioner.

Case Study One – Revisited

Fleur, One Month Later

This was a very different facial expression! The puffy face had gone, the double chin is losing the battle for supremacy! Normally I don’t like anybody to be obsessive about their weight – more to concentrate on their shape. Fleur now is in sight of her waist - last seem several moons ago, the lack of which was cunningly disguised - and her legs are taking shape from the ankle up. Ultimately health-wise, this is what is so important, it is the shape that dictates how healthy a body is, not necessarily the weight – which will gradually come down anyway. A “puffed up” water retentive body is not a healthy body.

Even on the scales, Fleur is now one stone lighter and the best news is that she has started getting her energy back; her clarity of mind is more focused and instead of running on empty and rushing from one thing to another, trying to beat out fires, she can calmly get through her work load without being so stressed. Work-wise, nothing has changed, but she is able to tend her fires rather than rushing around, creating a drama and calling out the fire brigade! Although of course, she might miss the hunky fireman!

Fleur is carrying on with roughly the same diet, but she will gradually start adding pasta once a week as her digestion is able to cope with it, - oh the bliss of being able to eat a linguini without blowing up or bloating! She has found that she likes the new way of eating, and what was a problem before, (the thought of dreary old salad rather than a lovely slice of pizza), is now not so. She doesn’t miss her bad old ways, and loves the rocket and avocado.

From the medicine point of view she is now ready to start a colon cleanse system using Cleanse Max_TM. This is a dietary supplement and a two-part cleansing system, which means taking one capsule in the morning on an empty stomach half an hour before eating. The morning dose aids with the cleansing of organs, including the skin. The evening involves two capsules, which aids with colon cleanse. Fleur will have to maintain her intake of 8-10 glasses of water a day to notice the considerable benefits. The one point that Fleur will need to heed, is that by the third day in, she should expect to feel a little sluggish and her system is being well and truly stirred up. She might need to rest a little more or have a couple of early nights and keep up the water intake.

She will soon be skipping to work with a clear skin and bright eyes feeling like a new human!