• Up and down in weight for years
• You’ve tried every diet
• You eat well all day but by evening, you dig into the sugar and junk (sometimes uncontrollably).
• You’ve tried everything, live on salads, exercise, but still can’t lose weight.

Just know you’re not alone!  So many of my clients deal with the same frustrations.  Let’s put an end to this.  This is no way to live.  It’s time for a revolution—and new perspective on how to feel beautiful, full of energy, and live to your capacity.

Here are the answers.  STOP dieting.  Stop eating things you dislike.  Stop torturing yourself with a long list of things you can’t eat.  Stop hating your body.  Stop with the restrictions.

We are creatures who want to feel good.  When we feel “tortured” (like on a diet), our body thinks it needs to switch to survival mood and retains weight for a rainy day.  But in our society, that rainy day never comes.  We have an unlimited food supply.

The way you eat, how you feel while you’re eating, and how you feel about your life all affects your weight.  Let’s find out your strengths and work with it.  Let’s discover what foods work for your body because no one way of eating is right for everyone.  Let’s create a life that makes you smile and laugh so that you don’t EVER eat emotionally again.

List 3 things you love to do on any given day, and then give me a call.  Share this with someone you love so they too can live to their fullest potential.  www.HappyFoodHealth.com

Directions
In a pot, heat 1 cup water, 1 tsp oil, and a pinch of salt.  Bring to boil, then add 1 cup of couscous.  Stir and remove from heat.  Cover and let sit for 5 minutes.

In a skillet, saute garlic and carrots in 1 tbsp of oil for 3 minutes.  Add broccoli and bell pepper, then saute for 3 minutes.  Add marinara or bruschetta sauce.  Stir in couscous.  If looks dry, add a little bit of water.  Add salt/pepper to taste.  Add chili if you like it spicy.   Enjoy!!!

Ingredients
1/2 lb mixed greens
4 – 6 fresh figs (quartered)
2 tbsp lemon juice
olive oil/salt/pepper to taste
a few pieces of Gorgonzola, feta, or goat cheese (optional)

Directions
Mix it all together and enjoy FIG season!  Fresh figs are so delicious.  Feel free to also add apricots, grapes, papaya, tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, shredded beets, sunflower seeds, walnuts, beans, or just about anything that sounds delicious to you.

Do You Want to Ensure Health for the Whole Family?
Learn Nutritional Health & Workout With Others (Everyone Welcome)

Join us for a 1.5 hour workshop to tone up your body and understand what foods your body needs.  Learn family health and how to exercise with young children in the house.  Samantha Hua, Holistic Health Coach, will guide you through an interactive session where you’ll walk away with immediate action steps and be educated on what your body needs for fast metabolism and efficiency.  Learn mistakes we make, unknowingly.  Lee Skiles, Stroller Strides Trainer, will lead you through a cardio and strength training workout while getting fresh air overlooking Mission Bay and socializing with others who have similar health goals.  Come network and potentially find a new workout friend.  Everyone and all levels welcome.

Moms with young children encouraged but this “Boot Camp & Nutrition” event is for everyone.  (Please leave children at home for this event).

Attire:  Dress in comfortable workout attire with tennis shoes.  Bring water.

Directions:  Take I-5 to the Clairemont / East Mission Bay exit. Turn West towards the Bay. Turn Right at the Bay and a left into the first parking lot entrance. We meet at the tot lot just North of the Visitors Center (next to the basketball court). Park closest to the basketball court and tot lot.

Tuesday, May 8
6– 7:30pm
Mission Bay Park Visitor Information Center
2688 East Mission Bay Drive
San Diego, CA 92109
$5 in advance, $10 at the door

Pay Here:  www.HappyFoodHealth.com/events

Everything I teach to my clients, I learned at 5.  Growing up in a Chinese household, food was literally medicine.  It was not uncommon to hear phrases such as “you’re sick, I’ll make you ginger chicken porridge with green onions and garlic”, “you just gave birth, you need to eat stew with black chicken and healing herbs”, “bitter melon will cleanse your body”, or “don’t eat watermelon when you have a cold.”  These are just a few out of thousands of comments infused into daily conversation.  We ate our medicine because food have the molecules to actually change our DNA and heal us.

As an adult, I studied and followed the latest research just to find that the scientific evidence of today, I learned as a child in my grandma’s kitchen and thought it was common information in every household.  It is unfortunate that in the U.S., most of us resort to a pill to get better and have no idea what to eat.  So many of my clients suffer from this approach due to the medicine’s side effects and not addressing the original cause of the problem.  I feel so lucky that I have an instinctual knowledge for nutrition because our family truly used food to cure and prevent before we ever visited the doctor.  And that doctor was an herbalist prescribing what looked like dried berries, twigs, and barks.

The Chinese are one of the healthiest societies using phyto-nutrients  such as medicinal mushrooms, greens, daikons, loctus roots, jujube berries and so many more examples not just for medicinal value, but in every day cooking and pleasurable eating.  Even our desserts were full of beans, seeds, and nutrients and very little sugar.  I have come to realize that I infused so much of these ingrained knowledge into my practice, and my clients are only benefiting from ancient Chinese methods for wellness which is:  EAT YOUR WAY TO HEALTH.

Cheers to delicious food that heal us in the process.  Thanks, Grandma!!

Please contact me if you’d like more information:   www.HappyFoodHealth.com 

Directions
Mix all ingredients together.  I love adding it to wild salmon, halibut, shrimp, salads, or even eating by the spoonfuls if you make it without chili pepper.  Enjoy!!  Ginger is just great for digestion, and it’s mango season!

I have so many clients who tell me they fit into their skinny clothes again, but they didn’t lose that much weight or they are 8-15 lbs heavier than when they did fit into those clothes.  Muscle is more dense and the weight was better distributed away from the unhealthy fat (the mid-section or visceral fat).  The moral of the story:  stop focusing on the scale.  Focus on how you feel and how your clothes fit.

My most successful clients follow these rules:

• Focus on what they can eat and not what they can’t eat
• Focus on energy level and better mood instead of the scale
• Focus on their new positive energy (this turns off their stress response and turns on their digestive response making weight loss easier)
• Focus on adding activities they love so it doesn’t feel like exercise and becomes a way of life
• Enjoy a new level of zest for life and pleasure.  The pounds just drop rapidly without even trying anymore.
• Torture, calorie counting, self hatred, and poor body image only leads to more stress and an automatic physiological response for slow metabolism.  Some bodies simply take a little longer to “jump start.”

There are so many success stories that we need a shopping session for all the new wardrobes needed.

For more information and support:  www.HappyFoodHealth.com

Ingredients
1 bunch asparagus
1 tbsp coconut oil (or grapeseed, olive, or sesame seed oil)
2-3 cloves minced garlic
salt/pepper

Directions
Heat up oil and saute garlic.  Add asparagus (whole spears or cut).  If pan gets dry, just sprinkle with a tbsp of water.  Add salt/pepper to taste.

This is such a simple side dish.  You can also add pieces of chicken to it and some cashews.  Or serve it with baked wild salmon or tilapia.  It’s also great with chunks of tofu cooked in the same pan with some Bragg Amino Liquid or soy sauce as your seasoning.

I love to make my dish into a rainbow by adding colorful bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, and leafy greens.  Enjoy the simplicity of good food!!

For more recipes:  www.HappyFoodHealth.com

My clients who hit the “ah-ha” moment never fall off the track because the track is too much fun and feels too good to want to leave it.  At the moment, our “tracks” are full of torture – exercises we hate, healthy food that’s bland and restrictive, and the “I should” voices that bombard our head.

We need to thoroughly enjoy, do things we love, eat food we love, and set up a very different system.  It all starts with understanding our body, making baby changes, and removing the barriers that prevent us from success.  Pleasure and enjoyment is the only way to succeed in being healthy and getting the body you want.

Are you ready for the challenge?  This is one reason why I’ve hosted different fitness workshops to help you find your “joy.”  Please let me know which other workshops you would like to attend and let’s feel great moving our bodies and feeding it amazing food.

For more information:  www.HappyFoodHealth.com

Directions
Slice polenta into 1/2″ circles and heat on each side over oil.  Set aside and put oil in a skillet, saute garlic, add mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes.  Add sun-dried tomatoes and kale.  If it gets dry, just splash some water.  Add salt/pepper and pesto to taste.  Poor over the polenta.  Enjoy with any of your other favorite vegetables such as zucchini, carrots, yellow squash, green beans, asparagus, chard, spinach, etc.