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4 Steps to Elegantly Have the Body You Want (FINAL Video #5)

I’ll never forget the moment when my new personal trainer used his caliper to grab the fat around my waist and his tape measure to jot down my inches. Oh – My – God, how totally humiliating.

Then came “The Talk”. Here’s how it went:

Trainer [trying to sound non-chalant]: “Okay, so based on all the results you are considered to be in the Obese Zone.”

Me [trying to look like I’m really interested but really wanting to cry], “Oh wow, okay.”

I used to be the skinny kid. The young adolescent who some described as looking too thin – sickly thin even. They used to tell me I should eat more….until they saw me eat whole bags of cookies after school.

To have gotten to a place in my life where I was tired, worn out, and OBESE was something I couldn’t even wrap my head around.

In order to get me down to my ideal weight, the trainer had me doing short, intense periods of cardio, along with weights, squats and stomach exercises.

I was a sweaty mess after our exercise sessions.

After returning home in order to take care of my daughter and run my business, I would lay down on the sofa and not get up until it was time to collect my son from school. My body was completely spent.

I thought to myself, “Who ARE those people who say exercise gives them energy??? All it does for me is make me want to sleep for 10 years!”

I worked with this trainer for 6 weeks as a lead up to my summer holiday with “the GOAL” being to drop a dress size & look good in a bikini. You know how that goes, right?

And so the saga continued. I would try to do things on my own, do another diet…. and nothing was sustainable, not even exercise. After about 2 weeks I would catch a cold, get the flu or just feel unwell.

How to Attain Your Ideal Weight… Without Exercise

I won’t go into the long story of how I came to practise what I do today, but just know that I got to a point where I was just DONE. Done with the countless diets. Done with the countless exercise promises. Done with feeling crappy and no energy. Just done. And so, I asked the Divine for Guidance and voila! Here it is:

  1. Banish the word EXERCISE from your vocabulary.  There are so many counter-productive beliefs and messages around the word that it is, in my opinion, better to never use it again. Instead, I choose to use the word MOVEMENT.
  2. We are energetic beings and in our energetic system we store beliefs, memories and memes thus causing a congestion in our energetic system. When there is congestion, there is no flow of energy. And without flow of energy our bodies don’t work well.  They put on weight in certain areas related to the belief or memory or they create pain or tension. So, we must move.
  3. Every morning before stepping out of bed, ask your body & soul this question: “How would you like to MOVE today?”
  4. Before beginning your movement make an intention for what you desire the movement to DO for you.  Your intention could sound like this: “My intention is that this movement unblocks any and all energy congestion within me so that energy  flows freely throughout my body and elegantly brings me to my ideal weight.”
  5. Enjoy the movement and Thank your body for supporting you.

Two of my Favourite Elegant Movements

  1. My Morning Movement Ritual. (Watch the video above, specifically at minute 2:00)
  2. Kundalini Legs (Watch the video above, specifically at minute 10:15)

What I Recommend For You Now

Now you have the 4 Steps to Elegantly Attain & Maintain Your Ideal Body! (If this is the first time you’re seeing this series, start back at Video #1 HERE)

If you’re anything like me you won’t want this series to end here. With anything new, I like to be hand held a bit until it becomes a habit or fully integrated into my life.

This is why I created a simple 6 week program that I know you will LOVE!

I plan on sharing all my extra little secrets that I didn’t have time to share with you during this series. Plus, from my teaching days, I know that the best way to learn something is a little at a time, so one doesn’t become overwhelmed and do nothing out of confusion.

No, I want you to say, “Erin, thank you SO MUCH! I cannot believe that getting to my ideal weight could be this easy and elegant!  I am LOVING myself and feeling so incredible!”

So, on Friday, I will be pre-launching a gorgeous program that will hand hold you through this process. Hey, if my mom, who can’t work out hard, can lose 2 dress sizes in 6 weeks then you can too!

Set an alert on your calendar for Friday, April 21st to come back to the blog to see what this is all about.

A quick teaser of just THREE of the gems in the program: 

ONE – My Secret trick to use when eating a non-high vibe food, like chocolate cake or white pasta. Your body will enjoy the food and you won’t gain weight from it! YES!

TWO – My Top 6 Elegant Movements that I have found work best for most women; movements that are simple, short & highly effective (and don’t leave you huffing and puffing!)

THREE – 5 Beautiful, High-Vibe Breakfasts, Lunches, Snacks & Dinners for you to choose from each day so you can make conscious choices that taste amazing and are oh, so pleasurable. The weight will melt away as you savour deliciousness!

See you on Friday with all the other juicy details!!

Love,

signatt

 

 

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4 Steps to Elegantly Have the Body You Want (Video #4)

Have you ever eaten a meal and felt bloated or like you want to go to sleep afterwards? How about a bit depressed or “low” and you have no idea why?

I used to have all of those experiences. I couldn’t figure out why I would eat a healthy meal and soon after feel bloated, sleepy, a bit grumpy or even depressed.  What was wrong with me?

It was certainly not my intention to eat and feel this way! So what was going on? Of course, you know the pattern.  Search the internet, find a book, purchase it, follow it and not really feel or see the fantastic results it promised.  Yep, I had a mini library of these!

Until I threw all the books away and proclaimed that I would never diet again. The diets never brought me joy or peace, sooooo….what was my plan?

I had been having success with manifesting wealth, experiences, opportunities, etc. so I wondered, could my Elegant principles be used for this as well? I tried and it worked!

How I Started to Lose Weight & Have Energy

  1. The first thing I always teach is to set an intention for what you desire. So, I desired to have energy and vitality and to be toned and slim. (Of course I went into more detail, but in general that’s what I wanted).
  2. Then, as I teach my clients, I surrendered and waited for Divine Inspiration to guide me on how to have more vitality, energy and a slim, toned body.
  3. Once I felt Divinely guided I listened. I listened about what to eat at each meal (see video#2 in this series), and I listened to what my body did NOT want anymore and stopped eating that.
  4. I began finding information about “high vibration foods” everywhere! So I ate more of them.
  5. I asked myself a question every day, which I will share with you next week.

What Foods Give You Energy & Vitality

Now, I wanted to feel energetic and full of vitality.

How do YOU want to feel?

What words come to you? Happy? Energetic? Fully of Vitality? Clear? Light?

What if I told you that the choices you make in terms of food have a direct effect on how you feel?

From what I have learned from my mother, a holistic nutritionist, my sister, a naturopathic doctor, and my friend/client Dr. Simone Laubscher (creator of the Super Elixir), is that if you desire to feel high vibe you need to feed your body high vibe foods.

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As you know from my previous videos, everything in this universe, us included, is energy. And that energy can be measured.

You unknowingly measure someone’s energy when you immediately feel down or joyful in someone’s presence.

Well, food is no exception. You can measure the vitality a food has. When we eat high vibe foods we take on that energy!

So, if you desire to feel full of energy and vitality all you need to do is eat a lot of foods that measure a high frequency.  Simple right?

Well, unless you’ve been immersed in this, like I have, you wouldn’t know what is high frequency or not.

To put it simply, high frequency foods are foods that come in their natural state.  (See some of my favourite high vibration foods and how I prepare them in the video above at minute 6:00)

High Frequency Foods

Here are just some of my favourite high frequency foods:

  • fresh, organic fruit
  • fresh, organic vegetables (particularly anything that is green)
  • whole grains like oats, quinoa, brown rice
  • beans & lentils
  • nuts & seeds

Now, before you say, “Oh, Erin, this doesn’t sound very “pleasurable” or “French” to me! I thought you said Spiritual Women can eat anything they want and be slim.”

Oui, oui, they can, come see how!

How to Eat Non-High Vibe Foods

On videos 1, 2 & 3 I told you that you need to let the Divine be your guide on what you eat and how much.  You’ve practised that, right????

I also shared with you that when you beautify and frenchify your food you tend to eat slower, eat less, and ENJOY the food so much more.  You’ve brought out those gorgeous plates and silverware or even bought new ones, right?

Okay, so now, I’ve just told you that if you want to feel light, clear and full of energy and vitality you need to choose foods that can be measured at high frequencies. Are you confused?

A croissant or chocolate éclair wasn’t on that list! Here’s how this all works…

Image from Alrifai: The Irresistible magazine
Image from Alrifai: The Irresistible magazine

Spiritual women know how they want to feel and consciously, intentionally choose foods that will gift them the frequency of this feeling.

However, a Spiritual woman also asks her soul what it desires to eat and if her soul says it would LOVE to savour a piece of dark chocolate cake then she does. (after asking how much of that chocolate cake it desires to eat).

If you berate yourself for eating that cake you will be creating negative energy and therefore ingesting negative, low energy.  If you ENJOY that cake slowly and fully with pleasure then you will be raising the energy of that food.

There’s also a little secret that I use to boost the vibration even more which I share in my program “The Elegant Guide to Your Best Body”  (I taught it to my hubby this weekend and his reply?

“Man, that shit works!”

Okay, not so Elegant, but I’ll forgive him:)

Keep applying all three Elegant Principles you’ve learned so far throughout this week and then meet me back here next week  for the final post which will explain EXACTLY how I slimmed down without “exercising”.

Here are links to the past videos just in case you’ve missed them.

Intro Video #1 (My story with photos – eek!)

Video #2 

Video #3

See you next week!

P.S. If you are feeling in alignment with this way of attaining and maintaining your best body then I suggest heading straight HERE. You can get get started today and within a week you will feel more peaceful, confident and full of vitality than you have in a very long time.

signatt

 

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4 Steps to Elegantly Have the Body You Want (Video #3)

Welcome back to the next step in this series: How to Lose Weight Elegantly & Have The Body You Want.

This week I want you to continue asking your soul what it desires to eat, but now I want you eat that food in a way that is very “Français”.

Let me explain.

When I lived with a family in France for a year, I experienced the relationship they had with food first hand.

French people truly focus on the pleasure of food.

And, every meal time is an experience.  They don’t rush. They don’t eat at different times from each other, and they certainly don’t eat unconsciously.

Non, they sit down and focus on dining.

  • There is thought and care taken in the presentation of the food.
  • Beloved platters are used to serve the food.
  • Every meal has some sort of ritual.

And because of all this, they eat gorgeous food and rarely worry about how to lose weight.

So, let me share how you can use the French tenets of PLEASURE & BEAUTY to attain & maintain your ideal body.

Le Petit Déjeuner

Morning tea is served in a bowl which they sip slowly while enjoying one tartine (baguette with fresh butter and homemade jam).

french morning tea bowl
Source: food52.com

You would not normally see a French woman quickly make herself a coffee and then drink it half cold because “the kids” demanded her attention. Non, non!

The children would be a part of this morning ritual, but their drink would be whole (often farm fresh) milk with chocolate powder.

Le Déjeuner

Lunch time is famous in France because everything shuts down so that people can enjoy their meal experience. People often go home for a hot meal and nap or dine with friends, a lover, or close colleagues at a local café.

They would never sit in front of the TV or computer unconsciously eating their lunch.

They also would never eat food out of plastic containers. Mais, non!

They always make sure their food looks beautiful. Garnishing the food, presenting it nicely and eating it with the best dinnerware & silverware is a common French practice.

french dinner plate

Le Dîner

Once again, the French create a ritual and an experience around dinner time.

Normally they eat a light dinner then follow it with a plate of different fromages and a basket of sliced baguette.

To finish the meal there is usually something sweet, but not always. They listen to their bodies, just like you are practising to do right now.

Later in this series I’ll be sharing with you some gorgeous options for each meal, but for now, I want you to practice asking your soul what it would like.

Remember, your soul will guide you on what to eat as well as how much. Listen.

There is no need to judge what your soul asks for based on old beliefs, just be sure that it is presented beautifully so that you fully enjoy it.

Tips for Creating an Experience at Each Meal

1. Think of Breakfast as Le Petit Dejeuner. 

Ask your soul, “What do you desire to eat this morning?”

Listen.

Give it what it desires and ENJOY it! How?

Create a morning ritual for yourself!

  • Could you use a French Tea/Café Bowl to sip your tea or coffee?
  • Could you light a special candle that you love?
  • How about turn on some high vibration music that makes you feel happy?
  • How about having a few “go-to” options that you absolutely adore?

2. Focus on enjoying Lunch  & Dinner like Le Déjeuner & Le Dîner.

Ask your soul, “What would you like to eat for lunch/dinner?”

Then think how you could create a ritual around your Déjeuner & Diner.

Also, how could you beautify your Déjeuner & Dîner?

  • Could you keep a beautiful plate at work to eat your home prepared lunch off of?
  • Could you use a cloth napkin?
  • Could you light candles or dim the lights?
  • Could you use your best silverware?
  • Could you drink your water with a slice of lemon from a wine glass?
  • Could you savour a dark chocolate truffle after dinner with a cup of tea?

Ask your soul what it would like to eat for lunch and dinner and then ENJOY it fully.

3. Enjoy “Le Goûter”.

In France, le goûter is a late afternoon snack. It’s direct translation is: to taste, to try, to enjoy.

Children in France have longer school hours so when they arrive home they are ready for a sweet snack.

Workers in France also head to cafés to enjoy something sweet, usually with a hot beverage.

This is a beautiful nationwide ritual that makes the time between meals…well, sorry to repeat myself,  a pleasurable experience!

I don’t know about you, but every time a diet book suggested eating carrot sticks and hummus for an afternoon snack I grimaced.  It just didn’t feel pleasurable!

Keep following this series as I will definitely share a goûter that is a sweet favourite in my home!

4. Bring out your “good” dishes, cups and silverware.

This may seem trivial, but trust me, it makes a massive difference and has a ripple effect into every experience and relationship you have with food and eating.

When eating off a beautiful plate you might be moved to slow down while eating. You may even be inspired to talk about different topics.

You may choose to eat different foods or serve different portion sizes. Who knows! Flow with this and see where it takes you. (Watch the video above to see some of the plates, silverware, serving dishes and cups that I use every single day!)

If you don’t have any dinnerware that feels beautiful to you, then may I highly suggest that you make a special trip to your favourite department store or kitchen specialty shop this week and purchase even just 1 special plate, bowl, cup and silverware set that you will use from now on.

Really, please do this for yourself.

french cutlery

 

5. Play la Musique to enhance your dining experience.

Music creates a pleasurable ambience for preparing and enjoying one’s food.

With the French, Jazz is very popular as is new and old french singers. Charles Aznavour anyone?

At my home, Parisian Jazz from my favourite Jazz app is always playing while I cook, tidy up the dishes and enjoy eating with my family.

It makes us SO happy!

My cleaner giggles when she sees me dance around singing to my French songs. One day she said, “Oh Madame, you are so happy in the kitchen!”

Eating is a Spiritual Experience

Stay with me here.

When I had my spiritual experience 6 years ago, I shifted to knowing that my body is just Divine, loving energy condensed into form.

All I wanted to do from that moment on was to help expand this loving energy into the world.

Everything that brings me pleasure expands this energy.

Everything that truly gives my soul JOY expands this energy.

Every time I am in the presence of beauty I expand this energy.

So, use this week to tune into your soul (your Divinity) and continue asking it what it would like to eat for le petit dejéuner, le dejéuner, le goûter et le dîner and then ENJOY it as pleasurably and beautifully as you can.

I’ll see you next week where we will dive more deeply into certain foods and how they can serve your body & soul.

With Love,

signatt

 

 

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4 Steps to Elegantly Have the Body You Want (Video #2)

Welcome to your BONUS video! This video describes in depth the first step in completely shifting your relationship with what to eat so that you elegantly lose weight.

I do my best teaching when I talk, so I will let you watch the video to find out all you need to know about how to choose the right foods to eat…for YOU personally.

You can throw out the diet books, the point guides, the calories counting apps and just follow my advice on how to lose weight elegantly.

You may have heard of intuitive eating, but this goes far deeper than that.

We go spiritual here.  As with everything on The Elegant Life, we come back HOME to find our answers.

Elegant Women make a choice about how they desire their bodies to look and feel and always return HOME to receive the guidance on exactly what to  eat and when.

Weight loss has never been so beautiful.  So, ENJOY and practise what I teach for 1 whole week, okay?

Just doing this 1 thing will have a massive impact on your relationship with food and your body and soul. It’s what Elegant Women do.

Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. Or, if you have any A Ha! moments during the week let me know as well! I LOVE hearing from you and I will be your biggest cheerleader.

“See” you next week!

Love,

signatt

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4 Steps to Elegantly Have the Body You Want SERIES: Video #1

My Body. It’s been an interesting journey getting to where I am now. As a child and young teenager I loved my body.  I felt agile, flexible, full of energy and pretty.

 

The Moment I Disliked a Part of My Body

But then, something happened. A boy I liked teased me about my calves.  He said, “Hey, Erin, this is you.” And then he proceeded to walk down the hallway like a cowboy with bow legs.

At that moment I became aware of something that I never really took notice of before; my calves were slightly bow legged.

I became so conscious of them that I asked my mom to take me to the doctor to see if I could get braces to correct them.  He listened and measured and then smiled saying, “Your legs are absolutely fine, Erin.”

After this humiliating teenage experience I began to exercise. Why? I was trying to use exercise to change my body shape.  I researched exercises for the calf muscles.  I even wrote to my aunt who was into fitness for advice on exercises I could do to balance out the appearance of my calves. I was on a mission!

I still liked the rest of me though.  I had come into my own style of clothing and I really liked my hairstyle.  I was happy with myself and my body…except for my calves.

The Moment I Decided to Be Overweight

Then came the summer that changed everything for me.

We went to my grandparents house like we did every summer. I had brought along a new bathing suit that I was excited to wear.  I felt so comfortable in my skin.  I felt beautiful and confident in this suit and couldn’t wait to wear it and get a nice tan.

To make a long story short, this summer was the summer my closest grandfather chose to sexually abuse me.  I wrote about this story HERE if you are interested in reading how I overcame this traumatic experience and finally learned to move on from it.

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I can see and feel the pain inside myself. (Hey, I did manage to get the tan I was after though! Ha! Ha!)

Needless to say, this experience had a massive impact on me.  Immediately after “it” happened I went to the bathroom in shock, stared at myself in the mirror, blamed and shamed myself and made vows to never EVER feel good about myself like I had previously.

The Beginning of my “Body Healing” Journey

An experience like this can ripple into your life in many ways. One of the ways for me was to  always keep myself just above the weight where I would feel great about myself.

So, I was always looking to lose those last 5-10 pounds. That may not sound like much to some of you, but as a woman of 5’3”, an extra 10 pounds on a body can really make a difference.  Plus, it was what those 10 pounds represented to me that kept me feeling trapped and never like my true, authentic self.

Fast forward to my child bearing years and I went up more than 10 pounds! In order to lose the weight after my first child I did the Body for Life Diet & Exercise program.  Although it worked, I couldn’t maintain it because I was so energetically depleted from a traumatic birth and then moving countries after only 4 months that I would constantly get sick after working out for a period of 2 weeks.

I would work out, then because my body was tired I would get sick and have to stop for 2 weeks.  Then I’d start again, then get sick.

This was a pattern that went on and on.

The String of Diets Begin!

For the next few years I became pregnant 3 more times, and with each pregnancy gaining a few more pounds.

I lost two of those babies but thankfully the 3rd time was a charm and my daughter was born healthy. The only problem?  I was left with 50 extra pounds (approx 26kg) to lose.

None of my pre-pregnancy clothes fit me, so I decided to try and make myself feel better by purchasing some new outfits. I’ll never forget the time I had to keep asking the lady for the next size up until I hit the XXL jeans. This sent me into desperation mode!

Who WAS this? “This is not Erin.  I do not feel like me.  I am committing to get the real Erin back, once and for all I told myself.”

weight loss

And here’s where the string of diets began.

I tried having food delivered to my home.  This worked but I got so sick of the food choices and not being able to cook my own meals that I finally stopped.

I tried Weight Watchers and although I saw some results, I became anxious thinking about food and points all day long. No inner peace here!

I went on the intense, super restrictive Dukan Diet and felt so totally deprived, joyless and grumpy that after 3 weeks I stopped that too. Only eating meat for days on end? No thank you!

Then I tried the more sensible 17 Day Diet that my friend had used so successfully to lose her baby weight and I lost….nothing.  Not even 1 pound in 17 days and I followed it to a “T”.

What in God’s Name Was I Going to Do?

I found and tried HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training). I really liked this because it was only 20 minutes (my limit when it comes to formal types of exercise) and I saw results within days. The only thing was that the same pattern of loving it, feeling great and then getting sick began.

Why did everyone else feel so energised after working out? I always felt like I needed to take an hour’s nap after working out!

My search continued and I tried everything out there.

My Awakening Moment

Life got pretty intense for me (for many reasons) so I went to a 6 Day Spiritual Retreat and had an exquisite, awakening experience.

I finally understood how things work in the Universe.

Later, I also learned how to clear things that block us from having the life we desire. After consistently applying my new Spiritual understandings and clearing technique I began to shift.

My body didn’t want certain things anymore.  

I began asking my body what it wanted and it told me, so I listened.

I innately began doing and saying certain things and voila, the weight melted off without me “exercising” or depriving myself. In fact, I felt utterly satiated and at peace inside.

And this, beautiful ladies, is what I would like to share with you during this blog series.

So, look out for a BONUS blog post TOMORROW where I will share the very first thing you need to do and practise if you too want to have & enjoy an elegant, ideal body. 

See you tomorrow!

Love,

signatt

ekurt