Allow for Time
Allow 1-6 Months To Experience Results
If you are like most of my clients, you have been struggling with your health challenges for years, if not decades. Considering how engrained these issues have become, is it realistic to expect a major improvement in your health overnight? Of course not!
Think of your health like a fast moving train, except this train is moving in the wrong direction. You can’t just stop and reverse the direction. You have to slow that train down decreasing the speed until it comes to a halt. Then you can reverse gears, change direction and start moving again. While it requires a great deal of energy to bring that train to a stop, it also requires as much to get it moving again and to build momentum. All of this requires time. And time is one variable that most people don’t think about.
That said, you are ensured results if you allow the following:
Supply your body with everything it needs (D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success®)
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Eliminate or greatly reduce blocking factors
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Allow time for change (healing, repair and growth) to occur
The above formula will create an environment for positive changes in health. To the degree you continue, execute and further fine-tune the process, you will be able to at minimum sustain if not build up those results for the remainder of your life.
What can you expect to experience and in what time frame? We are assuming you are following the formula, otherwise there is no point to go through the first five steps. For most, improvements in digestion, sleep habits and energy are not uncommon within the first 2-4 weeks. Shifts in hormones can take 2-5 months. Solid gut repair can easily take 3-6 months. If toxins are part of equation, it can take 12 - 24+ months to have the body in position where it has the energy and functional capacity to get into those stored toxins, mobilize them detoxify and eliminate them in significant amounts without being a trigger for some other unexpected effect.
When it comes to losing unwanted weight, you first have to address why the weight is being hoarded, is it a mental emotional protective barrier, or maybe a storage medium for toxins. It could be related to an impaired metabolism associated with dysfunction within the Hypothalamus-Pituitary Adrenal/Thyroid Axis’. The possibilities are significant. While you can guess as to the cause, is it not better to assess and offer the best support where it is most needed? Until the causal factor(s) are resolved, and proper metabolic function restored, long-term sustainable loss is unlikely.
Do remember, just because you are feeling better, does not mean you are better. It is better to restrain enthusiasm and not deplete the energy you are building up by believing everything is good in the first few months. It feels great to make progress, but I guarantee it is not worth the frustration and stress of beating yourself up when you overdue and end up sliding multiple steps backwards. Maintain a healthy perspective.
For all those quick-fix programs that promise results in 7, 10, 21 or 30 days. If it sounds too good to be true, it likely is. You can always read the fine print which typically and clearly states something along the lines of, ‘These results are not typical. Your results will differ.’ In other words, the odds of it happening for you, is slim to none.
In conclusion; asses - don’t guess, and be sure to give your body everything it needs, while reducing or eliminating blocking factors and then allow time for positive change to occur.