Guide to Optimal Health

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How to get started on a Protective Diet

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Join our free Official Support Group – Protective Diet Living
Complete the steps listed in the Guide to Optimal Health (below)

Guide to Optimal Health

Level #1
Complete the Protective Diet 30-Day Detox and Taste Bud Reprogram with the guidance and support of Protective Diet Education
Eliminate physical food addiction, cravings and awaken your taste buds to natural foods while you set up your Workplace for Wellness and learn the science supporting a Protective Diet.

Guidance Tools:

Class #01 – Starting a Protective Diet Begin navigating your way to optimal health starting with this lesson
Class #07 – Understanding the Endothelium Learn what the best diet is to promote our endothelium and optimal health. You will leave this hour feeling nutritionally confident in a Protective Diet.
Class #08 – Understanding Cholesterol You will gain a better understanding why your doctor said to raise your HDL and the greater importance of your total cholesterol score. We will also address other factors that contribute to an increase in cholesterol besides food.
Class #32 – Stocking Your Kitchen For Efficiency and Savings Part 1 – Pantry Staples Stocking Dry goods monthly to save money, time and effort during the week
Class #33 – Stocking Your Kitchen For Efficiency and Savings Part 2 – Spices, Vinegars, Extracts and More Keeping it PD simple and getting organized bringing Zen to your kitchen
Class #16 – Inflammatory Disease – Acidic & Alkaline Foods What is inflammation? How is it related to disease? How can we eliminate it?
Class #34 – Stocking Your Kitchen For Efficiency and Savings Part 3 – Refrigerator and Freezer Staples Learn what items are essential in your refrigerator and freezer
Class #82 – Mastering Label Reading Learn to identify additives confidently and independently
Class #87 – Pantry Par Stocking System Creating a simple inventory system to re-stock your pantry, keep food bills low and never find yourself out of an essential ingredient at dinner time.
Class #96 – Kitchen Set-Up for Efficiency Organizing your space to make meal preparation and kitchen management a simple pleasure
Class #108 – Whole Food Detox and Taste-bud Reprogram How to manage common detox symptoms of fatigue and reduce bloating and gas during your transition to a whole food plant based diet.
Class #118 – SUS – Set-Up For Success Making meal prep easy, stress-free & delicious
Class #125 – Kitchen Tools – Beginner Essentials Setting up a plant-based kitchen
Class #128 – Vitamins, Sunscreen and How They Work
Class #35 – Search Box Dinners & Meals Without Planning Class #35 - Search Box Dinners & Meals Without Planning
Class #145 – Cutting Food Costs & Improving Food Quality
Class #164 – Eliminate, Heal and Achieve Optimal Health Diets that add do not heal

Level #2
PD 50/50 Balanced Plate Practice
This practice focuses on balancing two out of three daily meals with starch based energy and the antioxidant protection of colorful non-starch vegetables featured in PD-Ed lesson #72, PD Practice Check-Up

Level #3
PD Mindful Eating and Eliminating Food Obsession with the 21 Meals to Mastery Challenge
This is the third and final step to mastering a Protective Diet

Guidance Tools:

Class #12 – How To Identify and Eliminate Emotional Eating What is emotional eating? Why do we do it? How do we put an end to this self abusive reoccurring practice?
Class #21 – Emotional Eating Has emotional eating become the excuse for not achieving your goals? Old eating habits die hard. Now that it’s working, let’s break it.
Class #22 – All On or All Off, Starving or Bingeing, Perfection or Disaster Perfectionism with dieting, are you either bingeing or starving? Successfully finding a comfortable and rewarding middle ground.
Class #24 – Food Obsessions Are you constantly thinking about food? Do you panic if you aren’t prepared for the week with a stocked freezer? Do your friends think you are obsessed? Realize there is always an option, you have this under control and you needn’t stress.
Class #72 – The PD-Practice Check-Up If you are just getting started or have been practicing a Protective Diet for years this class is for you. It is a check-in and check-up from the neck up. Designed to reassure newbies & reboot PD Lifers to take full action producing life changing results.
Class #78 – Checkup Follow up visit PD 30 day checkup from the neck up results
Class #92 – Food Anxiety Are you afraid of a Protective Diet’s delicious looking recipes? Some fear and avoid certain recipes because they resemble problematic foods.
Class #97 – 21 Meals to PD Mastery Resetting your natural calorie tracker to achieve maximum weight loss and meal satisfaction; while saving you time and money.
Class #143 – Mastering Mindful Eating Part 1: 21 Meal Challenge
Class #144 – Mastering Mindful Eating Part 2: Following Through
Class #163 – Handicapping The Binge When Mindful Eating becomes second nature
Class #183 – Batch Cooking Can Stall Weight Loss Idle time and ready made meals can reduce satiation, numbing your body’s natural calorie tracker sabotaging your ability to practice Mindful Eating.
Class #200 – Stop The Snacks Challenge Getting started with Mindful Eating
Class # 207 – The Need To Feed Psychological habits vs. physical addiction – Stop The Snacks Challenge guidance

Master Practice
You have achieved your health goals
You confidently continue your practice of a PD and enjoy the high energy lifestyle it offers.
Guidance Tools:

Class #178 – All Natural Cleaning Make your home a safe zone, eliminate toxins, protect your endothelium and improve air quality
Class #166 – A Winter Day Eating PD Example of what J&J eat in a day
Class #171 – The Burden Of Thin Eliminate dietary restriction with the PD Advantage
Class #181 – Keep It Out & Keep It Off Stress-free optimal health maintenance with a sustainable practice.
Class #182 – A Summer Day Eating PD This is how we do it
Class #187 – The PD Groove Enjoying the process and maintaining the PD Advantage