Wildfit Warrior

This the story of me becoming a healthy, happy woman and the failures and successes of staying one. Not that I was unhappy or not healthy before. But when Vishen Lakhiani of Mindvalley promoted a health program in September 2016 it caught my attention. He talked about a new way of living based on eating right – meaning forget all the fad diets. Vishen himself had had excellent results with lots more energy, clear, crispy brain, less sleep, weight loss and much more. I was intrigued. Having been into healing and nutrition for that matter since my early twenties and having thought about going back to university and studying medicine until my early 40s, I had become somewhat of a lay expert in health based on nutrition. TCM, Traditional Chinese Medicine, which works according to body types and regards what we eat and drink as one of the basis of health/disease was my first love and has been forming the principles of my nutrition ever since. I look at food/drink in terms of heating/warming, causing dampness or drying. I quit eating processed and frozen foods. My own personal diet preferences focused on vegetables and grains, fruits, cakes and baked sweets, some bread stuff (croissants!), a little cheese, fat like butter (lots) and good oil. I’d never liked sweet drinks so had no soft drinks and juices. Alcohol I did drink – sometimes a lot. Same with coffee- always a lot, but I also loved herbal tea. Very occasionally I had meat, which I have never been big on. To this day I can’t stand stuff like melted cheese (on meat for instance) or sauces.

When I came cross Wildfit I was a vegan and in very good shape. I was big on “don’t eat this, this will do this and that to you” or “I don’t eat this because…”. My kids will spend years in therapy for this.

What really got me to sign up for the 90 day programme Wildfit was offering for Mindvalley was Eric Edmeades, the very charismatic founder of the “food revolution” as he calls his baby (and rightly so). The way he talked about habitual eating, physical conditions, and health in general got my attention. This guy knew his stuff. It was love at first sight. Arrogant as I was my challenge was not only on the food level: I thought, what can he possibly teach me? They offered a 30 days money back guarantee for the 1,000$ the programme cost, and I was in.

My blogs are my personal accounts of the programme, followed by not being able to fully stick with it and my many attempts to get back on. Wildfit is, after all, health and happiness on a new level.