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My name is Healthy Emmie. I’ve been featured in Forbes, HuffPost, PopSugar, and more as the go-to nutritionist for plant-based weight loss. I’ve personally coached thousands of people. Combining the teachings of Dr. John McDougall’s Starch Solution, Dr. Joel Furhman’s Nutritarian Eat To Live Diet, Dr. Alan Goldhamer, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Michael Greger and more… I’ve trademarked my Slim on Starch® system for weight loss and weight maintenance. I’ve received my certificate through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition which qualifies me to coach individuals. Each client in my Slim on Starch program works with me, as well as my carefully selected team of nutrition coaches who are registered dietitians in their personal practices. Each client also works with a carefully selected team of mindset coaches, whose personal practices stretch from therapists, trauma specialists, addiction specialists, psychologists, health coaches, doctors, personal trainers, and more. If you’re interested in working with me and my team, please visit https://healthyemmie.org/coaching. I look forward to helping you change your life. You deserve health and happiness.
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And today we have healthy Emmy doing exactly what she does every single day with the healthy Emmy starter kit back to you Emmy thanks Emmy it’s me Emmy right where you left me doing exactly what I always do I’m nothing if not consistent another day another dollar another year older another year potatoes
By the way hey I’m healthy Emmy I’m a nutritionist a weight loss specialist and the creator of the slimon starch program if you want to work with me as well as M as coaching nutrition coach in the slimon starch program click the link in the down bar I am here with my
Beautiful Hawaiian my Hawaiian sweet potatoes and I know we all want the shot we all want the shot give it to me Emmy give it to me okay nobody asked for this and here it is what more can you ask for right H put these in the instant pot yesterday for
About 14 to 15 minutes they were thicker so they needed a little bit longer sometimes I have them with cinnamon sometimes I have them with greens this is my first meal of the day so I do like to have Greens in the morning greens contain thids which help which help shut
Off the hunger signal and curb cravings for the rest of the day so I’m going to do them with greens I have four sizable ones here I probably will eat all of them and as always my vitamin B12 supplement this is my morning ritual I
Always have my tea I have my vitamin B12 supplement if you are on a plant-based diet you must supplement and even if you’re not on a plant-based diet about half of Americans are low in B12 and b12 is essential for metabolism regulation energy regulation and neurological function so keep your brain healthy you
Are dealing with fatigue memory loss brain fog slow metabolism honey get yourself a clean B12 link is in the down bar every day so I’m turning 29 by the time you’re watching this I’m 29 and fine February 19th is my bday how am I almost 30 that’s insane if you are 29
Plus or just any age and you’re having this experience with every passing birthday Smashmouth really meant it when they said the years stopped coming and they do not stop coming and so much has happened I I just I can’t believe I’m 29 let me catch you up to speed here with a
Little timeline so when I was 23 I was a math teacher in Boston teaching algebra and geometry I was standing outside in the snow one day on morning car duty and I said yeah we’re this isn’t going to fly this ain’t the Life For Me decided
To move to Australia I was single I was 23 I really what I wanted to do was pursue this my YouTube career and I was like let me go to the other side of the planet and do it so I moved to Australia really went after it and
Within 2 to 3 months about two months of launching the slimon starch program I left teaching I moved back home to Boston at and I pursued this health yummy fulltime at 24 I was 24 by the time I got back from Australia and a couple months after I
Got back I met my S significant other we started dating and I went from being a team of one to a team of 30 in a few short months so Within in the course of one year I went from being a teacher to
Being a CEO with a team of 30 that was a huge change very quickly 24 all right 25 I so now we’re at 25 built a house at 25 and moved into it loved it thrived my minimalist white aesthetic era continued with the slimon starch program 26 20
Then Co hit so 26 27 you lose all those years 28 I moved in sold my house moved in with my boyfriend in the city of Boston and now I’m at 29 so it has been nose to the grindstone building this business being a businesswoman serving my clients
Really from 23 to here I am at 29 and that’s why I’m like how am I 29 my co-host has joined so from 20 3 to 29 it has been nose to the grindstone I am I’m doing this the healthy Emy is becoming
My life so here I am at 29 and you might say this is great you’ve built this business you should be proud and I am I am very proud of what I’ve achieved but I’m nowhere near where I want to be the expansion of healthy Emmy from being
This Leon star program just solely focused on weight loss into what I’m super super passionate about which is wellness and lifestyle content and expanding my brand into that there’s a huge gap between where I am and where I want to be and I look at that with such excitement and determination and I’ve
Decided that I will be successful with this brand expansion and there is no other option here except for success I will be successful and that is that this is something I know my clients struggle with is they when they first meet me they say I don’t I don’t think that I
Can do this and whether you believe you can or you believe you can’t you are right and I’ve decided that my expansion from this Lon starch program just being weight loss into healthy Emy being a wellness Lifestyle brand I will be successful and that’s that I am going to
Make this happen Gass myself up and so far I’ve really been enjoying the journey and there’s it’s has not all been sunshine and Roses by by any means there with business owning and Entrepreneurship it’s unbelievably difficult but I am choosing the difficult and I’m choosing the discomfort because I’m so passionate
About this and you get to choose your discomfort I could be I could still be standing outside with the snow falling on me on recess Duty saying I absolutely hate this or I could choose the discomfort that comes with Entre R preneurship and being a business owner and I’m choosing this discomfort because
I know that I was made to be a content creator I refuse to get to the end of my life and feel regret that I didn’t go for this and I have built something that I’m so proud of over these past six years and this is just the beginning of
Where I want my life to go and I am in the driver’s seat I’m going to make this happen there’s no other option here here hi sir I hope this doesn’t sound like I’m so in love with myself I’m so whatever that’s that’s not at all why I
Put this out here I put this out because I want this to inspire you and have you apply it to whatever area of your world you are looking to grow in that we absolutely can do this it is happening we are deciding that it’s happening and that’s that something about Steve jobs
Was he could not comprehend when somebody said that something couldn’t be done he couldn’t understand what they meant by that what do you mean that that can’t be done and that’s the mentality that I’m taking to this I could speak so much about this because I don’t often
Talk about being a business owner and Entrepreneurship okay I’ve spoken way too much let’s eat these potatoes let’s oh the also with my starter pack and now it’s cold because I’ve been talking so much is my K tea let’s continue with the day so it’s been a bit of time since I had
My potatoes and I have gotten a hunger queue which means it is time for me to eat again so I don’t eat based on what the clock says I eat when the hunger comes you know our body has this incredible ability to tell us when it needs more fuel and it’s our
Responsibility to honor that so let’s do it I’m using the careway non-stick pans absolutely love these and I’m going to add on some red onion this is over the highest heat and I’m going to add in some water just to prevent this from sticking you want to make sure that
You’re not steaming anything if you add too much water you end up steaming it which I want to avoid so it’s not sticking so there’s no need to add any water I’m only going to add water once I see that it you know this will burn without it and add in
Some some mushrooms as well I’m going to put the lid over this just to get this to heat up a little bit more quickly all right so for this meal I am taking the French bread from nooba Brook Bakery this is local to Boston and I do
Get it from Whole Foods but you can use any great bread you can make one of the breads from my cookbook books like my healthy snacks cookbook there’s a bread in there or you can find a bread locally that doesn’t have any oil added I’m putting smashed avocado on top some sliced
Tomato the water sauteed mushrooms and onions and I have plenty left over for the side and then some beautiful fresh strawberries so here I have my meal how satisfying this will be the sun is shining on it and of course I’m going to take some photos with my vitamin B12 cuz
It just looks so beautiful here my blue light on cuz I’ve been nose to the grindstone on the computer I’m about to launch healthy snacks I love this cookbook there’s a lot of Odes to my childhood in it and the snacks that I used to eat when I was
A kid this is part of my expansion of healthy ymy into a more holistic larger lifestyle Wellness brand not just focused on weight loss is putting out I’m going to put out a new recipe book probably every month this year of 2023 that’s my plan and I I’ll definitely be
Able to do it I did Healthy Families in January healthy snacks in February and um I’m thinking actually I’m not going to spoil what I’m thinking I’m going to do for March but I do I’m very much open to suggestions for future cookbooks ones that are on my list that I’ll just give
You some teasers of ones that I’m thinking of healthy gut healthy kids healthy lunches healthy breakfasts there was a big ask for healthy traveler healthy hormones is an another one that I have on the list so leave a comment with oh healthy crowd Pleasers healthy parties healthy apps healthy Mexican
Healthy Italian healthy Indian it’s Limitless what the repertoire is going to be so I’ve just put out my 10th recipe book which is healthy snacks there’s so many good ones on here guys kettle corn peanut butter cups apple nachos potato chips kale chips all oil free pretzels crackers hummus puddings
Yogurts cheese and crackers I went into the healthy honey Facebook group and I asked what are your go-to snacks that you wish there was a whole food plant-based replacement for and there was a lot of cheese and crackers chips a lot of those hand to mouth Foods
Pretzels so get your copy so in a couple days my boyfriend and I and another couple are going out to dinner we’re going to get Indian food and I am going to use from the slimon starch program the restaurant call script so that I can call them and make sure
That they can do oilfree vegan it is the middle of the week right now and they just open so I’m going to call now because it is a good time to call I don’t want to don’t don’t want to call you know what you don’t want to do if
You want to make sure that you can get oil free vegan what you never want to do is just plop down on a Friday night and say can you do oil free vegan they’ll say what so I do my research to find places that are known to be able to
Accommodate to dietary restrictions searching on Yelp and Google and Happy Cow find those restaurants and then I’m going to make the call using the restaurant call script and see what they can do for me hi I’m good how are you good are you guys busy right now I
Have a few questions and I’m wondering if now is an okay time for me to ask or I can call back if you guys are busy right now awesome thank you so much okay bye okay so she is going to talk to the chef she took some notes down and
Then she’s going to call me back and let me know what the consensus is fingers crossed I think it’ll be fine we are going to go get Indian food my absolute favorite at the very least they can usually do a doll without oil but I
Asked I was like can you do this this this just to give a bunch of options and we’ll see what they can do oil free and I specified no ghee no butter I know that restaurants can be very stimulating places for many people that have a difficult relationship with food
And I bring this up by the way I’m like I’m dressed under this I work with people that have difficult relationships with food and I know that a lot of people that watch this video have relationships with food that they want to learn to improve and even if you
Don’t even if you have a great relationship with food the tips that I’m about to share are beneficial so restaurants can be very stimulating places there’s music playing there’s a lot going on and in those scenarios you can become very overstimulated and lose sight of what your values and your
Philosophy is around food you know in the slim on starch program we have you establish what we call your food philosophy which is what is the relationship with food that I want to have and when you’re at a restaurant and there’s smells and there’s music and there’s people and there’s just a lot
Going on you can be s ulated and those morals and values that you have around food can kind of just float off into the distance because you are just so overwhelmed by everything that’s happening and you don’t want to you know you don’t you kind of want to fly under
The radar I know that’s the case with a lot of my clients is they say I don’t want to make a big deal the fact that I’m eating differently from everybody and so I can understand how at restaurants people fall back into patterns that they’ve worked very hard
To eradicate when they are eating at home by themselves so let me give you some tips that I use at restaurants so that when I go out I can make sure that I’m still acting in alignment with my food philosophy and what food represents
To me in my world and how I use food to fuel me as you know or you might not know I meditate before each meal and when you’re at a restaurant that can be difficult to do so before going to the restaurant I am going to meditate here
To get myself into rest and digest and feel ground and centered and calm but something that you can do when you’re actually at the restaurant is when you get there and you sit down and everything I always will go to the bathroom because I like to wash my hands
Before we actually eat but when you’re there in the bathroom using that time while you’re washing your hands to feel the warmth on your hands smell the soap look in the mirror and reconnect with yourself don’t look in the mirror and look to try to find what’s wrong with
You look in the mirror and be on your own team here and reconnect with yourself and say we got this we’re going to enjoy the time here with our friends in the social Gathering and we’re going to use food to fuel us affirmations are also very powerful here so if you’re a
Client of mine I may have written affirmations for you and that’s something that I often do for my clients is write affirmations for them based on whatever they’re currently struggling with or areas where they need more support So to write down affirmations and to take them with you to the
Restaurant write them on your phone if you have to although writing you know putting pen to paper uh is a lot more it’s it’s you’re activating a different part of the brain but to remind yourself of your body’s innate ability to eat just as much food as it needs to no more
No less you are designed by Design you have the ability to regulate your food intake when you’re eating the foods that support uh your health and what your body truly needs as fuel not as easy when you are eating foods that aren’t as um that are a little bit over
Stimulating but writing down if you’re a client of mine writing down those affirmations and bringing them with you to the restaurant going to the bathroom and might you might not be able to repeat them out loud to yourself because you’re in a public place but at least at
The very least to read them and remind yourself of your body’s ability to regulate your food intake while you’re at the restaurant you can also use grounding mechanisms if you find that you’re becoming over stimulated like looking at the objects and naming the objects in what color they are naming
Different things that you can see that’s the 54321 so naming five things you can see four things you can hear three things you can smell two things you can taste one thing you can touch but you can switch up the senses I have a million more grounding mechanisms that
You can use but I think that that that shall suffice so I hope that you found that helpful black tank top skirt and then I have this cute little shrug and we’re getting Indian too so this is perfect because heat up getting Indian slick my hair behind my ears all
Right we are leaving like right now so I’m going to meditate and we’ll see you there yeah I appreciate it thank you hello going to the South End thank you you yeah thank you bu so we went to Mela in the south end and they were so sweet and accommodating
My boyfriend and the people that we were with started out with some Veggie samosas which of course those are not slimon starch friendly they’re de fried but still wanted to show them here on the Vlog what others were enjoying my boyfriend also went for the tomato soup
And some naan and then I got goby which is cauliflower they made me rice without oil chanam Masala which is chickpeas my favorite and then eggplant ban baa and it was so funny they actually brought me salt cuz I asked them to make it without salt too and they’re like I don’t know
About that so they brought me salt cuz they’re like I don’t know if she’ll like it without salt but I didn’t end up using it it was just so cute we really enjoyed our time together hello hi good morning Indian food last night and I feel great this
Morning I kind of smell like Indian food today but what is so fabulous is after going out to a restaurant waking up the next morning and feeling Fab and not feeling bloated and tired and gross digestion and all that and this is something I talk about with my
Clients is start with the end in mind think about how do I want to feel the next day how do I want to feel digestion wise and emotionally and spiritually do I want to feel good the next morning and that’s always what I think of when I’m
Going to a restaurant or just when I’m eating in general how do I want to feel how do I want this meal to make me feel and I’m so happy that I as always stick true to my SOS principles because they make me feel my best so that’s the sitch
Now I have a very special unboxing let’s do it okay this was so not necessary but so kind my client and one of my coaches in the slimon star program sent me birthday gifts which was so not needed but so thoughtful the Box on top here I have no
Idea what this could be this is from my client Lucy and she said I know you’re a minimalist but I’m going to give you something that I know you will use every day yes this will be used every day oh this was so thoughtful organic sylon cinnamon so there are two types of
Cinnamon there’s cassia cinnamon and then there’s sylon cinnamon and you may have heard that too much cassia cinnamon can actually be toxic and this like this is the good stuff ooh sister that’s legit thank you Lucy this absolutely will be used today bear you know you can’t be up
Here you either Lucy has been a client of mine either since 2019 or 2020 but but I feel like it may have been 2019 either way it’s been like five or six years that she’s been a client of mine which is just you guys are my peeps and then
Mindset and nutrition coach Whitney from the slimon starch program was so kind and sent me something she said she wanted to support my hair Journey because one of my goals for this year is to learn how to slay my hair the card are you kidding I love this card all of
The products that Whitney got me are vegan and crueltyfree my gosh a guide with tips so we have a styling treatment oil which Whitney gave me the tips on how to use this ooh how do we say that guys I’m not even going to try ooh that smells nice
It reminds me of California for some reason finishing spray this is so kind a volume mousse I need this and then a styling brush a round brush this is what I needed oh my gosh Whitney I’m going to send her a text thank you so much
This I feel so loved I also am just feeling so loved because my assistant put together all the coaches in the slimon starch program they made a birthday video for me so my assister assistant starts off and they all said happy birthday and that was so
Unexpected and I could cry I just have the most beautiful team here of strong driven supportive committed coaches in the SOS program I feel so blessed they are and my clients know because my clients work with them you’re probably seeing some of your coaches here if
You’re a client of mine just the best the best humans and my assistant I would die without Macy I love you Macy my coaches know Macy is she’s a keystone here she’s a Lynch pin we need her in order for everything to operate properly EnV apples are the best apples and
Nobody can tell me otherwise okay envy and pink lady pink lady are like they got a soft spot in my heart but I love Envy in a recent vlog I had friends over for brunch and we did bagels and I got this cream cheese which is oilfree and
Vegan and it’s just made really from almonds and some thickeners and it was so good the non-vegans loved it actually everyone preferred this over the regular cream cheese so it was terrific I would definitely recommend this if you are hosting and you want to do a brunch with
Bagels and fruit definitely get the kite Hill cream cheese they also have a strawberry and a chive but it is oilfree and we loved it if you are in the slon starch program and the master’s program this is definitely something that you could use as a weight maintenance food
With crackers or on a bagel or on toast you could even get crazy and put it on potatoes I mean let the world be your oyster but this is just a fantastic product that I want to support and even if you are not you know in the slimon
Star program in the master’s program if you are currently eating cheese and crackers and that’s your go-to use this instead this is a great replacement and of course what we would ideally have you doing is eating Whole Foods and not foods that are processed but this is a
Fantastic next step and I do want to talk about this product just because I want to support them and I want uh this I don’t want this product to be discontinued because I think it’s a fantastic alternative for cream cheese so if you are currently using cream cheese please get this instead you’ll
Love it the non-vegans loved it that I served it to or if you are in the weight maintenance program of the slon starch program certainly try this out I also referenced this product in a former video when I was doing the recipe testing for the healthy snacks cookbook
This is a really great product if you have a Whole Foods near you this is no oil no salt popcorn and I know that not everyone has a Whole Foods near them and you can certainly make your own popcorn you can buy a popcorn maker on Amazon
Very cheap and make it in the microwave with just popcorn kernels but if you have a Whole Foods near you and you want to make the kettle corn from my healthy snacks cookbook this could not be easier what I will say is that it burns very easily so definitely make sure that you
Are watching it it can the the inside uh the the inner popcorns can get really hot and burned so I would not cook it for I think it’s 3 minutes but I wouldn’t put it in for the full 3 minutes because it does burn quite easily but this is just another
Fantastic product that I want to support this is one of my primary Foods with my favorite guy snuggling watching YouTube working it’s all I need this is what fulfills me you can turn to food to fill you up or you can turn to this guy in YouTube and creative Outlets if you
Watch through the entire video I adore you and I am so thrilled that you are here along for the ride with me so if you made it to this point of the video comment along for the ride that we can go and continue to travel along this journey together I’m so happy that
You’re here it warms my heart and thank you for being here so I look forward to Harding your comment and seeing you in the next video