Speaker A: Welcome to timeless health with Dr. Kimberly, where science meets biblical truth. I'm your host, Dr. Kimberly Lahe. Let's go.
Hello. Are you looking for a menu plan to follow so you can know for sure that you're eating the right foods and that you are going to achieve success?
Well, I'm about to break that thought, that belief, that desire. Stick around because I want to explain a better way.
Now. I wanted a menu plan as well. When I first started out, I didn't want to guess. I wanted to know for sure what to eat.
And I wanted to almost say, okay, I'm definitely going to achieve my goal.
Well, you could achieve your goal with a menu plan.
But here's what I've discovered through decades of not only myself and following diets and menus, but what my patients, what my clients have experienced, why they're successful and why they are not.
They come to me all the time and say, can you just tell me what to eat?
And I have to tell them that when you start to understand your body and natural laws, you gain wisdom.
No one can give you this wisdom but you.
And I want to help you to do that. I want to empower you so you are successful in all your health goals. And a menu plan, I think, falls very short.
So let's dive in. And by the way, I'm Dr. Kimberly Lahe. I am an expert in cellular rejuvenation about getting anyone at whatever stage they're at to their next best level of health,
achieving their health goals, and not only doing that physically, but emotionally and mentally through biblical principles.
So let's dive in and we'll find out a better alternative to many plans.
Hello.
Thank you so much for joining me here. So we're talking about the menu plans. I know they give you certainty, so I know they are helpful. But I'd like to just open your mind to something brand new,
maybe brand new that you can start to understand why this isn't the best way to do it. And I want to give you an alternative that will be very helpful to you.
Okay,
so let's go into why I believe that they fail or I've witnessed them failing, why they failed for me,
and what a better alternative is if you really want to get healthy. So by the end of this episode, you'll know why menus don't work long term.
There is a better way, and I'm definitely going to share that with you. And how natural laws that never change their foundational body wisdom, your body wisdom that remember, no one can give you, but you we know the anatomy, we know the physiology, we know the textbook of a body.
But your particular body is much different. With your history, with your genetics and the internal making of your emotional and mental health,
this creates a whole new landscape for how to achieve health. And so we're going to dive into that, so we're not making it too complicated, but just so you have an understanding and a much, much better way to have sustainable health.
So let's get into why they are not such a good idea.
Number one, it ignores your body's God given signals.
What I like to teach is as you're learning to eat the right foods, your body will respond. This is how I actually started my whole health journey,
was eating and journaling what my body was doing.
Very, very weird, I know, but at 14 years old, that's what I wanted to do.
I was very determined to be my best as far as achieving excellent health. And I was studying from healers from the early 1900s and it was coming from foundational science, it was following the natural laws that God provides for our bodies to be truly healthy.
And so when we eat a particular way, our bodies will give off signals and that gives us information,
information to make better choices,
information about the health of our body. For instance,
if you're noticing your bowel movements and you're knowing what they,
you know the characteristics of them, that is almost like getting a diagnostic test almost every day because you're receiving information and the more you know your body and what it's doing based on these foods,
you can get a good idea about health, make changes, make different choices and really understand where you're at when it comes to health. Now of course there's other, there's more, deeper investigation and ways to look at this.
But for everyday living, it gives you a lot of information to know your body. So what I'd say is do you want to learn how to fish, how to take care of your body,
or do you just want to give your, or do you just want to receive a fish? Do you just want a menu?
And I hope by the end of this, this video that you want to learn how to fish. Another reason I don't care for menus is because it disconnects you from knowing how your body thrives.
Now this could be okay, I know how to eat, this is how my body responds. But if you're not making that connection of what that would actually mean that okay,
you are having bloating after a meal, we know this is the upper GI tract, that's really a Good piece of information because you're understanding a little bit more about it.
Again, you don't have to be your own doctor, but these, these little points of understanding helps you make better decisions and know your body, know your health.
One thing I'll, I'll tell my patients is that I want you to be your own health advocate.
Don't walk into a doctor's office and just be at their mercy and accept everything that comes your way. Do you know how many times there's misinformation,
incorrect diagnosis and assumptions about health?
It's very frequent. So the more you know, the more empowered you are to make better decisions about your body.
Real health requires you to have some wisdom about your body. Not just taking somebody who's never seen you or sees you once or twice a year,
looking at some numbers that is going to tell you exactly what's going on with your body or why something's happening or how to cure something.
A lot of times those are symptom relief. So the more that you know your body and you know what real health would look like, like, well, how should my body responding when I eat this?
And little pieces of information and understanding of natural laws helps give you wisdom. And that wisdom will really help you to not only choose the right foods but to stay healthy long term.
Other is the other reason I don't like menus? Is it because is it creates a dependence on somebody else to supply you with a very important decision that you make several times a day.
It takes away your responsibility.
And when I look at responsibility, it's not to condemn you or point the finger go, you need to be responsible.
That's not what, how I look at that, it is a beautiful gift and it's an honor Response ability. We have a way to response. That is our ability.
The more body wisdom we have, the more ability we have to make better decisions.
This is the way to real health. Another reason is menus do not give you lifelong body and health mastery. What about if you were to to take a menu and you even received one every Sunday night for the whole week.
What if you didn't receive a menu? What if you go on vacation? What if other things happen?
You are not learning to do this for yourself. And like I said, when you are starting to make long term decisions, when you're,
when you're going into the doctor's office, if something should arise in your health, you're getting a new symptom that seems off. When you have body mastery and you can put pieces together,
you have your dates in front of you, you have a much better idea of how to continue forward, how serious it is, where to look for answers, what systems could be affected?
What do you need to do first?
Those are all extremely important questions you can ask yourself that you can get answers to just by learning to master food, what your body's doing, and a little bit about health in general.
Again, these natural laws are not difficult,
but the more you're aware of them, the better off you'll be. Another reason I don't like it is because it turns food into rigid laws. I don't like rules when it comes to eating, which is another reason I wanted to figure it out, but for myself, yes, natural laws may seem like rules,
but they're really principles. What's the difference between following these natural laws and rigid rules? Rules,
I believe in the psychology of somebody on a diet.
They're thinking, good food, bad food. I was on the diet, I fell off the diet. Okay, this, I failed or I messed it up. Okay, I'm just going to go ahead and eat whatever I want the rest of the day.
I'll start on Monday.
It creates a lot of friction and the ability to enjoy eating and to have success long term.
So when we take the rules, the good and the bad categorization out of it and we begin to just live with body mastery and wisdom and making good decisions with freedom,
that takes those laws and rules,
or I should say it minimizes the laws to what they are and takes rules and throws them away.
I don't want to live by rules. I don't want to wake up and say I have to eat this for breakfast and then I'm going to eat this at lunch or I'm going to eat at this time.
That's why I don't do intermittent fasting now. Not that intermittent fasting is not beneficial in many ways, and there's lots of positive benefits to intermittent fasting, but for myself,
I didn't want a clock telling me when I could and could not eat.
I would much rather have the wisdom of knowing my body, what the signs signals are, and make my own decisions according to what I wanted and what I wanted and what timeframe I wanted it in.
So I don't like turning food into rules. And I believe when you get a menu you have something to follow. And if you don't follow it, then you're not living by the rule of what this menu said.
Another reason that menus are someone else's ideas, it's.
It's what they believe is a healthy Menu, it's what was maybe good for their body, or it's a very general sense.
And I have seen when I was looking at menus and I was kind of diving into the research because it's been a while since I've looked at menus,
but I do have requests for my clients. Matter of fact, it was one of the first.
A lot of the, in the beginning of my practice was people coming in saying, can you just give me a menu? They don't want to figure it out. And I end through these explanations and from them going through just in a short period of time of learning about foods and these.
Some of these natural laws, it was easy for them to convert over to that freedom of deciding for themselves.
But still, I still have a couple of people that say, well, can you just give me a menu? And I get that. And sometimes it's okay, you know the natural laws and give them general sense of this is how your day could look, me knowing you and you knowing natural laws.
And then I'll kind of guide them that way.
It takes off some bit of uncertainty within you and it can be helpful.
So there's where the fine line is, is okay, I'll give some general sense of what you can start to pick out for yourself. And hopefully by a month or two, they've tossed that aside and they figured out for themselves what works best for them.
That's truly how you can sustain health and body mastery. It's not by continuing to receive a diet in the mail, but really making your choices for yourself. And that way you are able to sustain it, you know, for the rest of your life, because it's up to you and your choices.
So menus take away the ability to adapt or change?
Yes. Menus take away the ability for you to go to a restaurant on a whim.
Maybe,
maybe you are getting ready to eat breakfast and your friends called and said, hey, let's just grab brunch together.
And then you're like, oh, no, I have a. I have my breakfast and I have to have this for lunch. What do you do? You don't go or you don't eat?
Well, why can't you just know your body?
You're asking better questions to yourself,
well, how was my digestion? Am I hungry? What am I eating the rest of the day? What energy level am I looking for? You start to make good educated choices for yourself to sustain your health, and you can adapt to these.
These things that may come up in a day, and it doesn't derail you off your Diet, there is a pathway to success that, that is finding the natural laws and asking the right questions of yourself.
K reen, a client of mine, she used to go have cinnamon roll with her mother on Sundays. It was a tradition and she loves doing this. So Kayrene, when she came in to,
we were working on weight and hormone balancing. After she was done with the purification program, after she was done with detoxification, she wanted to go back to having her cinnamon roll with her mother on Sunday.
That's fine, because you can start to make a decision of the rest of the day in balance with the cinnamon roll.
You do not have to live to a strict diet for the rest of your life after you get your foundational level of health. And that can take two months, it can take four months.
But the point is,
you get to the level where you are satisfied with meeting your health goals. You're at your ideal weight, things are starting to fall away, meaning the symptoms, the signs of aging and degeneration,
and you are starting to feel good.
Yes, there are, there is leeway to personal preferences. There is no way I could maintain my weight for the last three decades by following strict rules that I did in the very beginning of my dieting.
I was very strict and very rigid. And if it wasn't perfect, then it was not a good day for me.
And so that I didn't allow for this. Freedom of eating. When you ask the right questions, you. You make the right choices for the whole day. In perspective,
you can have your cinnamon roll. She didn't even eat the whole thing. She didn't even want the whole thing. But the fact that she ate three fourths of it without any guilt gave her the freedom to.
To enjoy something she loved and didn't have to be on a diet.
She could just truly have her cake and eat it too, basically.
So can she eat the cinnamon roll? Is it the best food? No, it's not. I don't eat everything perfect.
But I've learned through the body wisdom and natural laws how to eat so that I can enjoy the things that I love that necessarily aren't healthy. I mean, I don't sit and eat a bucket of fried chicken, but the healthier you get,
the better choices you desire.
And once you get healthy and you get to a foundational level of health for some time, truly your taste buds and your body does not crave the things that you think you may crave or crave right now.
Your chemistry changes, your taste buds change, and it's really hard to just throw away the Education about foods.
So when you start learning about some foods, you're thinking,
I don't want to do that to myself. This is the temple, the body temple that God gave me to house the Holy Spirit. You want to do good because God gave you this beautiful body to take care of.
And when you start to put all of these more foundational pieces to health in place, eating becomes easier and health becomes a more natural flow and way of living. It truly does.
And I'm not sure exactly where you're at right now, but most of the clients I work with, they've been on a health path, but they haven't found exactly the level of excellent health that they're, that they're really hoping to find.
They've tried many things,
the desires, the motivations there, but they're not quite sure how to get there. And so what I want to say is, yes, you can eat the cinnamon roll, but in,
in positioning it throughout the day, asking better questions, and then what you do for the rest of the day would, would change a little bit and possibly the next day based on what your bowels are doing, based on how you felt, based on your energy and all the things that you begin to learn about when you're mastering your health.
I help you to understand natural laws and ask the right questions so that you can maintain the health that you've gotten to that foundational great basis of health where you really feel good.
My program, healthy and victorious, yes, it's how you eat and you're learning about your body, so you're not questioning, you don't need a menu, you know what, what food you need.
And you start making very good decisions based on taking responsibility for yourself. This creates awareness not only to the natural laws, but this new piece that I started to add in when I began to think, wow, they really want those menus.
What can I help them understand to help them be healthy, believe in themselves that with the Holy Spirit, with Christ at the center of their life and Christ identity can help move them into success with diet, with, with.
With achieving their best possible quality of life from a health standpoint, your identity in Christ versus your willpower.
Willpower, I know, it runs out, right?
People who just rely on willpower is the reason diets do not work. But we're going to get into just a few other points that I think are important because you might be thinking,
well, that's all good, I heard what you said, but I'm still wanting a diet menu. That's what I thought in my younger years too. And I held off for many years,
but it came with such a big price.
It really did. And it was,
it was always good and bad eating. The scale was determining how I felt. I felt more confident and like I was more successful at health when I was following something so rigid and I could get to the end of the day and, and followed this to a T.
And then if I didn't, I felt bad about myself.
And you're on this roller coaster, this emotional, mental roller coaster.
And that's why I figured out that even the people who successfully went through my program, if their inner soul,
if their minds, their heart,
didn't make some changes and transformation in their identity,
that they still would fall back to old patterns. And it's not that temptation, I would even call it, you know, with eating different foods, eating the way you want, when you want,
that takes people off of diets and makes them, you know, make choices that eventually within weeks they've gained weight back and they're not eating as healthy as they wanted to and they feel like they failed.
And I would say it's the identity inside. Willpower versus your identity in Christ.
And remember, in Galatians 5, 22, 23, he talks about the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit as a believer we have living inside of us. Remember, Jesus said, I am sending you a counselor.
I am sending you the Holy Spirit to reside in you. And so what are the fruits of the Holy Spirit? Love,
joy, peace, kindness, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness,
self control.
We have self control, a gift of the identity in Christ.
So when we're living more in our identity in Christ,
this gives us an internal strength like no other.
It truly does. But how do we keep that up? Well, it's that daily renewing of the mind.
But when we have our identity in Christ,
we're praying about it. That is when identity grows stronger and more fuller within us and gives us great strength.
So that is the very first difference is that willpower relies on your mental effort and your own little self control. And remember, Jesus said, without him you can do nothing.
Your identity in Christ comes from this Holy Spirit strength. You have the power of the Holy Spirit in you, and he helps you. He. He is a person.
He is something. He is someone that can help you in times of struggle and temptation.
So your identity in Christ plays a big role for helping you through the early stages of trying to override your desires to overeat or choose foods that you don't want to.
And again,
going back to the cinnamon roll, you don't have to be perfect you can eat some of the things you want to eat. It's just there's a way to go about it so it doesn't derail your health and keeps you healthy, but you also have freedom.
So willpower is like a muscle, it fatigues. Where strict menus collapse under stress,
you start having stress in your life.
Maybe you're going through something very serious or very emotionally tugging on you on a, on a minute by minute basis like a divorce or moving or even your child and going to college can, can really start to change you emotionally where you're just sad and you're missing him and there's a type of grieving or so many things in this world,
even the uncertainty today in this world,
the things that we're going through can create stress where when you know your identity in Christ,
you are stronger. You have that self control, you have a peace and a calmness about you. You're gentle within yourself and you want to do the right thing.
So you have that strength that flows from the truth of what God says.
And we can rely on him when we are in the beginning stages of figuring out our health, figuring out diet, especially if you've struggled with food and overeating those things.
Willpower works for short time, short term. This is why diets don't work and it'll eventually break down. Where your identity in Christ again comes from truth.
Truth from God's inspired word and the Bible.
And eating becomes guided by God given body wisdom.
This is the wisdom that you start to acquire as you are living right and taking notes and asking questions and learning about your body.
To me, it's one of the most fun,
enlightening, empowering things you can do. And it's ongoing, but you get the basics down and you start to reap the rewards within the first week because you're changing and you're developing identity in Christ that is not only the fruits of the spirit, but the certainty about your health and your future.
It's scary to think, okay, with all the things going on in the world today,
how am I going to make sure I don't get sick?
Well, we kind of talk about that. When you know natural laws and you know your body and you know how to eat to embrace your immune system and bring that to a very high level of, of immunity,
then you have more comfort and security. And that's just one instance. Miss one rule.
Guilt follows. How many times have we been there that you may have had a menu but it didn't last or else I don't believe you would be here. It wasn't enough for you to be successful.
And so when you have your identity in Christ, you're not striving so much,
but you're just taking the information that you've learned about yourself and applying the natural laws that you've learned. And you are strong within yourself.
You trust yourself because you're trusting the process and how God designed our body and natural laws. They've never changed. That's why I don't have to keep searching for answers, because they have never changed since day one.
I started at 14 and I'm now 57.
New information comes out, but it hasn't changed these laws. Freedom versus bondage Willpower menus keep you dependent on external rules and create guilt when you fail. Where your identity in Christ, it will set you free.
It helps you feel good in your body. It creates a level of confidence.
And you can go out and eat how you want to eat. And then you make some adaptations throughout the rest of the day. If you eat something that maybe you weren't planning on eating, there is freedom.
That is one of the most beautiful gifts of learning about food and your body and diet is that you have freedom and you're not tied to menus. So willpower controls your behavior, which can only last for so long.
Where your identity transforms your heart. It is your mind and your heart that is housing your beliefs. Your beliefs are creating your thoughts and your thoughts are dictating your actions.
So if you are strong in Christ and you are confident in Christ and you have a thought that you are a masterpiece, God's masterpiece. Are you going to run out and eat a dozen donuts?
Are you more likely to go out and have maybe a piece of rye toast, side of avocado and tomatoes and enjoy your food with a different perspective, with a different heart.
It is completely a different feeling to operate from your sense of identity in Christ than it is that this menu is the end all, be all for you to get to your ideal weight, sustain it and live from it.
It's a completely different way of thinking and living.
As an overview, something quickly to walk away with,
how you can start to put this all together. Because I've been saying things like natural laws and,
and wisdom, body wisdom.
Three steps and a really quick overview. There's more to it, but just so you have an idea of what it looks like to master your health and your diet and throw those menus away and start to truly make good decisions for yourself.
Based on everything that I've said here and what, what you really can have at your fingertips when you start to desire and take the time to do it.
And the first is you start checking in with your body.
When I was talking about Karine eating this cinnamon roll, she kind of planned her morning that she wasn't having anything. If she was hungry, she may eat like a, like a, you know, a peach or banana.
And then she would have her cinnamon roll. And then she's asking the right questions about her body.
Is she hungry? She only she eats at 4:00 dinner. Well, she's not very hungry because she ate the cinnamon rolls. So she's like, I want to go for a run.
I have so much energy from that sugar. I didn't slump into to a, you know,
losing energy like it did last week. This week I have energy. Do you see how she's kind of adapting? She's checking in with her body. I have more energy. I'm going to go for a quick run.
And she's outside and she enjoys that. And she comes back, she showers. An hour later, she's starting to feel hungry. So she makes a salad. She makes something with live enzymes, a more living food to counterbalance what she ate earlier that day.
You just start thinking this way, how can I support my body to stay healthy? You're making evaluations.
I want you to learn how to fish. I don't want to give you a fish.
Number two is the natural laws. These are tried and true, so you never have to worry about them changing. And then number three, anchor in that identity in Christ.
You do that every day.
When you are renewing your mind and your heart is growing in Christ. It feels amazing. It's the way that God wants us to live. Matter of fact, Romans says,
there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:1.
So it is a wonderful honor to walk in the spirit of Christ, to allow him to help us make decisions,
pull on his strength, his peace,
and live in a way that is not just reckless and careless and overeating and eating things that you know are degenerating your body. And you start to just really operate from wisdom.
So menus, they can't give you freedom.
God designed your body to heal,
to thrive, and to be led by wisdom. It's an awareness and a desire to want to know your body and take a little bit of time to understand it. And that way you can make great decisions.
I know people are so up for hacks and quick diet plans. And lose,
you know, 10 pounds in one month and these quick fixes,
but they will not sustain health. Diets were so successful,
why are people still searching? Make sure whatever plan you decide that you're learning about your body, you're learning about natural laws, that you can put it into play, have freedom, gain body wisdom, and that you can be successful long term.
So thank you so much for joining me. I hope this was helpful and I will see you on the next video or podcast. Bye for now.
