Welcome to this week’s edition of Massey’s Magazine!
In the News: Sugar alcohol, Erythritol, has made some news in the last couple of days as being a risk for heart attack and stroke! Cleveland Clinic just recently completed a study with 4000 people who already have high cardiovascular disease risk, and found that adding erythritol to cells made platelets easier to activate and form a clot. If you’d like to read about the study yourself, check this out: https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2023/02/popular-sweetener-erythritol-associated-with-heart-attack-and-stroke-cleveland-clinic-finds.html
I have been backing away more and more from monkfruit and stevia blends, and even from sugar alcohols altogether personally recently, and have been contemplating removing them from my client programs altogether, and this may have just been the final straw for me. I’ve included them for quite some time because some people just believe they need that low to no calorie option for something sweet, but I have evolved into the belief that if you aren’t eating more *sweet* items than you should, the occasional coconut sugar, organic maple syrup or raw local honey are not going to be what causes you not to lose weight, or even to gain weight. The problem lies in overdoing the honey.
So, for now, as I dive in a little deeper in this research, please avoid sugar alcohol blends that include erythritol and xylitol, and use only pure forms of monkfruit or natural stevia extract, if you must. I find them entirely too bitter and I will stick to my occasional raw honey instead. 😉 It may be in the very near future that I eliminate this as a test from my program, but I don’t want to fully eliminate monkfruit and stevia until I have done some more research. I’ll keep y’all posted!
Client spotlight: I just love when I have a client who was extremely successful in my 16 week program, to keep in touch with me and have continued success! I just had an amazing woman today who reached out to me after having completed my program last May, whose weight loss continued, and she just got a blood work update showing a Triglyceride decrease in 12 months (since the month after she started with me) from 162 to 76! Not to mention the 50 pounds she’s lost! Healing continues when you commit to making this a lifestyle change, and not just a diet! Diets don’t work! Lifestyles cure, reverse disease, heal!
Book launch: The Ultimate Meal Prep Guide to Simplify Clean Eating: How to Cook Once to Save Money & Feel Better …in Just 4 Hours a Month is scheduled for launch next week, but last minute hiccups are always possible! All of my praying friends and followers—please keep me in your prayers throughout this process in the month of March! I fully expect the enemy to fight against me with all he’s got! He does NOT want me to help God’s Church to heal! I can promise you that!
COMING SOON!!! Have you heard the buzz about my new subscription service soon to be launching? This will be called the Massey Wellness Monthly Meal Prep Club and once I’m all set on my website and my web team gives me the green light, I’ll be launching this to my Book Launch Team first, and then to everyone with the release of my book! I will give more details about what this subscription includes once it’s ready to roll out! If you’d like a sneak peak of the monthly “Cook with me” part of the club I will be doing, I broadcasted live via YouTube Livestream this past Saturday where my son and I completed 14 recipes and enough food for 2 people to last a month in under 5 hours! Here’s the link, if you’d like to watch part of it! https://www.youtube.com/live/pw8ZfwepOdA?feature=share
I am working on breaking this down into small bite sized sections so you can just choose the sections that interest you, but for now, it’s the one long 4+ hour broadcast. We got amazing feedback about it, and had a lot of fun sharing how this is a worthy way of spending 4-6 hours once a month to ensure you can feed yourself and/or your family healthy all month long!
Tentative dates for upcoming events:
April 1 – Book Launch Celebration Westminster, MD
April 2 – Pathways Natural Healing Expo McClean, VA
April 15 – IF Women’s Conference Reisterstown, MD
June 8-12 WOW Factor Retreat Timonium, MD (details coming soon)
June 17 – Evermore Farm Health Conference Westminster, MD
Program Updates: I shared last week on Facebook that I had exciting news to share about a new option I’m able to offer! EXTENDED MONTHLY PAYMENTS through 18 months! This EVEN INCLUDES the exclusive ULTIMATE program which I limit to two enrollments monthly
Want to check out the info on all 3 programs? Here’s the link to my website: www.freedomholisticwellness.com/transform
I AM STILL LOOKING FOR SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES AFTER MY BOOK IS LAUNCHED! ESPECIALLY to Christian Women’s groups! Please let me know if you have a group who would appreciate the message I’m bringing! I’m willing to travel!
Social media updates: I added Pinterest to my cache this week… though I haven’t done much with it. I’ll get there!
Hope you enjoyed this volume of “Massey’s Magazine”! I’ll see you all on Monday for “Massey’s Monday Meal” as always!
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Weekly Scripture:
“If you find honey, eat just enough—too much of it, and you will vomit.”
Proverbs 25:16 NIV
In love and health,
Wendy