Getting Started - 7 Day Challenge to Vibrant Health and Incredible Energy

 

 

LivingFuelTV: The 7 Day Challenge

 

Where will you be in seven days?

If you accept the LivingFuel 7-Day Challenge, you’ll find yourself on the threshold of vibrant health and incredible energy. In one week, LivingFuel will put you on a course of optimal nutrition that could change the rest of your life.

Our challenge begins with taking positive action to control your health and achieve a quality of life many only dreamed about. The 7-Day Challenge is designed to benefit anyone who wants to create a nutritional foundation based on superfoods. You will experience noticeable benefits of increased energy, strength, endurance and weight optimization. You will discover the ability to achieve your health goals and overcome cravings and addictions to sugar, caffeine and other unhealthy foods and beverages.

Regardless of where you live, how old you are or how busy the season, this is a perfect time to begin your personal journey towards Super Health and a renewed sense of vitality. Start today!

The 7-Day Challenge

  1. Eat 3-4 meals per day at set times.  If you choose three times per day, then allow 5-6 hours between each meal. If you choose four times per day, then allow four hours between each meal.
  2. Please avoid snacking or eating anything between meals.
  3. Purified water, herbal teas and LivingFuel Super Coffee, and high pH sparkling waters such as San Pellegrino are the only allowed beverages.
  4. Target 8 or more glasses of spring water every day. Please do not drink tap water. You may drink water between your meals.
  5. Please allow a minimum of three hours between dinner and bedtime.
  6. Daily exercise and activity is critically important; choose exercise based on your fitness level some will walk and others will perform intense workouts.
  7. We recommend that you keep a daily journal.

 

7-Day Challenge Meal Plans

Days 1-3:

Breakfast:  LivingFuel Super Smoothie with SuperBerry Ultimate, Living Protein and CocoChia snack mix or bar (please see directions and recipes for how to make your delicious Super Smoothie.) 

Lunch:   Four Corners complete nutrition meal.  (Please refer to the suggested meals below.)

Dinner:  Four Corners complete nutrition meal.


Day 4-6:

Breakfast:  LivingFuel SuperSmoothie

Lunch:  LivingFuel SuperSmoothie

Dinner:  Four Corners complete nutrition meal.


Day 7:

Breakfast:  LivingFuel SuperSmoothie

Lunch:  LivingFuel SuperSmoothie

Dinner:  LivingFuel SuperSmoothie

Note: If you choose the four meals per day plan, then simply add a meal of the LivingFuel SuperSmoothie on each day of your seven-day program.

Complete Nutrition Meals

During the 7-Day Challenge, each of your meals should include whole natural foods found in each of the Four Corners of Superfood Nutrition. (Note: Pages 109-111 in the book, Super Health, contain a complete shopping list of foods which meet these requirements.) The following are examples of complete Four Corner meals used both in the 7-Day Challenge and as part of your new healthy lifestyle for years to come. You may combine any variety of these to suit your taste preference and schedule.

Sample Meals:

  1. Eggs, free range and cage free (soft boiled or poached is best), lightly steamed asparagus, goat cheese, mixed green salad, cold pressed olive oil
  2. Steak, grass fed and hormone free, steamed broccoli, mixed green salad, cold pressed flax seed or olive oil, and a bowl of fresh organic strawberries
  3. Salmon baked and wild caught, small baked sweet potato, mixed green salad, olive oil and fresh organic tangerine
  4. Chicken breast, grilled and hormone free, small serving of brown rice and black beans, fresh salsa with organic tomatoes, avocado, and cilantro, and one half fresh papaya
  5. Turkey breast, roasted and hormone free,  steamed green beans, a handful of fresh walnuts, mixed green salad with cold pressed olive oil and bowl of fresh raspberries.

Below is a Superfood Nutrition shopping list of Four Corners superfoods.  Buy organic whenever possible to avoid hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, herbicides and other impurities. 

Vegetables (organic raw, steamed and sprouted veggies are extremely healthy)

 

·         Asparagus

·         Avocados

·         Beets

·         Bell peppers

·         Broccoli

·         Brussels sprouts

·         Cabbage

·         Carrots

·         Cauliflower

·         Celery

·         Collard greens

·         Cucumbers

·         Eggplant

·         Fennel

·         Garlic

·         Green beans

·         Green peas

·         Kale

·         Leeks

·         Mustard greens

·         Olives

·         Onions

·         Parsley

·         Sweet Potatoes

·         Quinoa

·         Romaine lettuce

·         Sea vegetables – Chlorella, Spirulina, etc.

·         Spinach

·         Squash, summer

·         Squash, winter

·         Sweet potatoes

·         Swiss chard

·         Tomatoes

·         Turnip greens

·         Yams

 

Fruits (organic fruits are very healthy but generally treat as desert and eat more vegetables)

 

·         Apples

·         Apricots

·         Bananas

·         Blueberries

·         Cantaloupe

·         Cranberries

·         Figs

·         Grapefruit

·         Grapes

·         Kiwifruit

·         Lemon/Limes

·         Oranges

·         Papaya

·         Pears

·         Pineapple

·         Plums

·         Prunes

·         Raisins

·         Raspberries

·         Strawberries

·         Watermelon

 

Fish & Seafood (wild, avoid farm raised)

 

·         Anchovies

·         Cod

·         Haring

·         Halibut

·         Salmon

·         Sardines

·         Mackerel

 

Dairy alternatives (organic)

 

·         Butter

·         Cheese, goat

·         Coconut milk

·         Goat milk

·         Goat Yogurt / kiefer

·         Almond, Rice or Oat Beberage

 

Beans & Legumes (organic)

 

·         Black beans

·         Dried peas

·         Garbanzo beans (chickpeas)

·         Kidney beans

·         Lentils

·         Lima beans

·         Miso

·         Navy beans

·         Pinto beans 

·         Tempeh

 

Poultry & Lean Meats (organic)

 

·         Eggs

·         Beef

·         Bison

·         Chicken

·         Lamb

·         Turkey

·         Venison

 

Nuts & Seeds (organic) 

 

·         Almonds

·         Cashews

·         Chia seeds

·         Coconut

·         Flax seeds

·         Olive oil, extra virgin

·         Peanuts (Valencia variety)

·         Pumpkin seeds

·         Sesame seeds

·         Walnuts

 

Cooking and Salad Oils / Dressings (organic)

 

·         Coconut Oil, cold pressed

·         Olive Oil, extra-virgin

·         Palm Oil

·         Salad Dressings (organic, low sugar)

·         Balsamic Vinegar

 

Grains

 

·         Brown rice

·         Buckwheat

·         Oats

·         Quinoa

 

Herbs & Spices

 

·         Basil

·         Black pepper

·         Cayenne pepper

·         Chili pepper, dried

·         Cilantro/Coriander seeds

·         Cinnamon, ground

·         Cloves

·         Cumin seeds

·         Dill

·         Ginger

·         Mustard seeds

·         Oregano

·         Peppermint

·         Rosemary

·         Sage

·         Soy sauce (tamari)

·         Thyme

·         Turmeric

 

Natural Sweeteners

 

·         Blackstrap molasses

·         Erythitol

·         Honey

·         Lohan

·         Maple syrup

·         Stevia

·         Tagatose

·         Xylitol

 

Herbal Teas and Drinks

 

·         Black tea

·         Green tea

·         Red tea

·         White tea

·         Water, Spring

·         Water, naturally sparkling

 

SuperSmoothie Whole Meal Powders

 

·         LivingFuel SuperBerry,

·         LivingFuel SuperBerry Ultimate,

·         LivingFuel Super Greens

·         LivingFuel LivingProtein

 

Healthy Protein Powders and Essential Amino Acids

 

·         Rice Protein

·         Yellow Pea Protein

·         Hemp Protein

·         Goat Protein

·         Non-Denatured Whey Protein (ONLY cold processed MICRO FILTERED whey protein without potentially harmful ingredients like added sugar, fructose, casein, milk protein concentrate, conola oil, sunflower oil, sucrolose, aspartame, acesulfame, artificial flavors, artificial colors (such as FD&C Red #40, FD&C Yellow #6).  If a protein powder, supplemet, meal replacement or food contains any of these ingredients AVOID THE PRODUCT.

·         Free form “essential” amino acids (vegetarian) are powerful tools for improving health and performance.

 

 

If you don’t have Living Fuel SuperSmoothie powders then make your traditional smoothie using ONLY ¼ of the fruits and juices called for in your favorite smoothie recipe and add the following to make a SuperSmoothie - Grain Grasses and Berry Powders, Brown Rice and Oat Soluable Fibers and other nutrients.

 

·         Barley Grass

·         Wheat Grass

·         Rye Grass

·         Alfalfa Grass

·         Chlorella

·         Spirulina

·         Dulse

·         Kelp

·         Multi-Berries (freeze-dried)

·         Brown Rice Fiber

·         Oat Soluble Beta Glucan Fiber

·         Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Antioxidants, Enzymes, Prebiotics, Probiotics,

·         Berry, Fruit and Herbal Extracts

·         Probiotics

·         Amino Acids (free form)

 

Fermented Foods (organic)

 

·         Yogurt (cow or goats milk)

·         Keifir (cow, goat or coconut milk, coconut water)

·         Sauerkrout

·         Pickled Ginger

·         Misso and Tempeh: 

·         Fermented soy Vegetable and Seed Sprouts 

 

 The primary Four Corners meals guideline you will want to remember is to fill up by eating mostly green and bright colored vegetables, then eat a clean, complete protein source such as organic chicken, beef, bison, fish or a scoop or two of LivingFuel or LivingProtein.