Vegalicious Giveaway #7–HUGE Discount for August Boot Camp!

I have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, low thyroid, need to lose 200 pounds, and I’ve tried everything possible to regain my health. I dont want to be another statistic. Please help me!!! I am 39 and have not been able to bear a child. The medical field says its over for me, but I declare myself victorious according to my faith. Please help me. My husband is a teacher, I am a homemaker and as you can imagine – our funds are low. Blessings upon you and your household.

I have been interested in a vegan lifestyle change for sometime and this bootcamp would allow me to jumpstart my new lifestyle change. This giveaway is  a great opportunity for that to happen.

Hi Elena
I have been wanting to sign up for your bootcamp for months now. I even messaged you months ago on FB trying to figure out a payment plan, but it still was too expensive for me to be able to pay. I have just graduated from college and I have a lot of student debt so I am trying to stay on a strict budget so I am not in debt for the rest of my life. I was a vegetarian all throughout high school, but I had a terrible diet which led to health issues and always being fatigued. My parents convinced me it was because I didn’t have any meat in my diet so unfortunately I started eating meat again. I only ate meat for about 1-2 years after that and then my junior year of college I decided to become a vegetarian again. (I have now been one for the past 3-4 years.) I became a vegetarian more so for the ethical reasons and not the health reasons. I agree with one of your blogs that vegetarians are kind of hypocrites because all of the animal cruelty that goes with egg farms/dairy farms. I now have been trying to become vegan for the past few months (for both ethical and health reasons now), but I have been having a difficult time with it. I have been inspired by your story and have been motivated to change my lifestyle (not only for the 30 days of the boot camp), but I need help with it. I have noticed that my metabolism has been starting to slow down and I have been gaining some weight. There are medical issues that run in my family that I am trying to prevent getting (diabetes, psoriasis, heart disease, hypothyroidism). I also have skin allergies and my doctor told me just to take Zyrtec for the rest of my life. If I take a pill a day, I will never be itchy or have any rashes. There is obviously just something odd to me when a doctor just tells you to take a pill a day. From all your blogs, you have made me believe that a healthy diet and lifestyle will cure and prevent health issues in the future. I don’t want to wait for those to happen to me, I want to prevent them before it happens. If I had more money, I would sign up for your boot camp right away, but right now in my life I just don’t have the finances to be able to. (I also have an addiction to sweets and coffee and would love to be able to take those out of my diet!) I really think that I should get the discounted boot camp because I will be committed to make it a lifestyle and not just the 30 days. I just need somebody’s help to get started and your program seems to be exactly that!

In 2003 I found that I had elevated prolactin levels.  I was 23 years old.  It was determined that I had a prolactinoma.  In 2006 I got MRI’s which confirmed I had two prolactin secreting tumors in my pituitary gland.  Left to the advice of my doctor I went on Cabergoline to suppress the release/production of prolactin.  I was on this medication for 2 years.  My hair became brittle and thin and if I remained on this medication I faced becoming sterile.  Lovely how they don’t tell you the side effects they just push the medication.  I didn’t want to be on the medication any further after I learned this but once I came off the prolactin levels increased and I decided to have the tumors removed along with the fear that if I lost my job I couldnt afford the medication to continue suppressing my condition as it would be $800 a month for 8 pills.  Looking back I lived in fear of miseducation on my condition as well as what I learned from my doctors and the internet.  Never did I think to a healthy alternative, I always saw that as weird and unconventional.  So in January 2008 I had minor “brain” surgery to remove the tumor, we found that the medication had successfully reduced one of the tumors.  Man was that an experience that I never want to go through in my life again however it was successful.  A interesting side note is that pituitary glands are normally compromised with this type of removal and you run the risk of having to be on synthetic hormones for the rest of your life.  My surgeon said that my tumor was mushy and not attached to any of the structural surfaces of my pituitary and the gland was not compromised, God is amazing in that he protected me from further damage.  I was placed on thyroid medication for 6 months after because I was borderline hypo-thyroid and once that treatment was done I have been getting my prolactin and thyroid levels checked every six months for the first year and once a year after that.  I also got a few MRIs afterwards to make sure the tumors didn’t come back because I was told that it was “possible” the tumors would come back.
In December my sister told me about your blog, I slowly started reading it and found that you have successfully tackled similiar conditions to what I had gone through and it opened my eyes.  Still a little weary of all the new knowledge and the weirdness that I felt towards it I continued to follow your blog.  Slowly from conversations with my sister I started to implement green smoothies(which I LOVE), more vegetables and have been slowly removing meat and dairy from my diet.  I went to a health fair and had a finger stick test to see what my cholesterol was and it came back at 212.  I became a little more dedicated to adding green smoothies and veggies to my diet after learning this.    I totally see the health benefits of changing the way I eat.  Last month I had some blood work done to see where I stand with my cholesterol and D3 and B12 because I was turned onto the book Preventing and Reversing Heart disease and wanted to see what my #s looked like and what they would look like in 3 months if I really stuck to the findings of Dr. Esselstyn.  To my surprise my cholesterol was 179 and I attribute that to changing the way I eat.  It was neat to see that it was no longer 212 as well.  Another surprise I had was that in the 4 years my prolactin levels were excellent normal they are now elevated, not as high as they were before but higher than the high normal.  It made me feel terrible and brought back some of the emotions I experienced from my struggles with it and the surgery.  I also have elevated potassium levels and I dont want to go through the motions of just doing what doctors tell me to take or surgical options or anything.  I want to do what I can to take care of the body that God has given me.  I am concerned seeing an endocrinologist again because I am not confident that they will offer me alternative ways to prevent the elevated prolactin.  I am serious about changing the way I live my life, yes it is hard and I am learning where my weaknesses are and where I need to improve and educate myself.  I have been interested in doing the boot camp but find that spending the amount of $$ is a little tough when I was still learning if I was going to take this seriously, after getting my blood results I am very motivated and I thought this giveaway was a great chance to have that fee reduced to really have this be a jump start to eating healthy for life and share the background to why this is important to me.  I never want to go through what I did before or continue to treat my body poorly when I have the power, with God, to change things.  Thank you for considering my story and post.