MEET MARIE CATELLI

My name is Marie Catelli and I am a Holis­tic Health Coach, Cer­ti­fied Per­sonal Trainer with the Amer­i­can Col­lege of Sports Med­i­cine, a Group Fit­ness Instruc­tor, and a small busi­ness owner. While I love to work out, my true pas­sion today is holis­tic nutrition.I wasn’t always fit. I cer­tainly wasn’t always healthy. Get­ting into bet­ter shape came first for me at the young age of 12, and I exer­cised reg­u­larly through­out my teenage and adult years. How­ever, while I thought I was healthy then, it wasn’t until recently that I felt truly com­fort­able in my own skin.

In addi­tion to being inse­cure about my weight as a kid, I also bat­tled with acne as a result of my Ital­ian family’s eat­ing habits. I didn’t know it then, but eat­ing every meal as if it were our last– cheese, meat, pasta, cook­ies, cake, etc.– was a way of life for us, but also was tak­ing its toll on my body even as a young girl. Acne ripped apart my self-esteem and I had tried lit­er­ally every­thing under the sun to cure it, but noth­ing gave me per­ma­nent results. I had turned to the dan­ger­ous drug Accu­tane when I was 14, and was about to begin another round of it in my twen­ties before I started hav­ing strong mis­giv­ings about how it could endan­ger my health. I started research­ing holis­tic ways to cure my acne as an alter­na­tive to more pills. With­out dig­ging very deep I began to uncover research sug­gest­ing that acne is a direct result of a con­gested liver, colon, or both. I read that many peo­ple elim­i­nate tox­ins and waste pro­duced by processed foods and dairy through their skin, result­ing in the kind of cys­tic acne I was suf­fer­ing from. If I could see pal­pa­ble results of how my diet was neg­a­tively impact­ing me, what was it doing to my body that I couldn’t see?

Most alarm­ingly, why did I never know this before? Why was I con­vinced that only antibi­otics or creams would cure me? The answer is that big indus­tries (i.e. meat and dairy) are pow­er­ful and they do not want you learn­ing the truth about their processes or their prod­ucts and how they affect your health. I feel so deeply that we should all have the abil­ity to make edu­cated deci­sions about what we choose to fuel our bod­ies with. This requires the truth about what and when to eat. I was so frus­trated to have been mis­led for decades regard­ing what “healthy food choices” are. I don’t want you to live in the dark any longer!

The more I learned about eat­ing whole organic foods and how impor­tant pro­bi­otics are to ulti­mate health, the more my health and appear­ance improved. I now live a life where I do my best to avoid dairy, meat, white sugar, wheat, processed foods and bev­er­ages. Not only did my skin begin to clear within days of ditch­ing the dairy almost a year ago, I began to feel an over­whelm­ing sense of sat­is­fac­tion in eat­ing whole organic fruits, veg­eta­bles, and grains that I’d never felt before. It is not nec­es­sary to be vegan or veg­e­tar­ian, or do a mas­ter cleanse, as this way of life is for every­one to cus­tomize how­ever may suit you best. Pos­i­tive change, though small at first, has kept me com­ing back to this way of life day after day. I am proud to report that eat­ing as close to the earth as pos­si­ble has reg­u­lated my body weight to an ideal size where I no longer count calo­ries or obsess over meals! Talk about a life change. My skin has dra­mat­i­cally improved and I feel clear-headed, pos­i­tive, and beau­ti­ful from the inside out.

MEET PATTIE SUEOKA

I can’t wait to help you make the changes I’ve made in my own life to become a hap­pier & health­ier ver­sion of you.

My name is Pat­tie Sueoka, and my first (and most impor­tant!) job is as a mom. Like you’ve heard a mil­lion moth­ers say, when my child was born, my world changed for­ever. I will never for­get the first time I saw Amaya. I still remem­ber almost every detail. It was 12:46am and after 8 hours of labor, she was here! Her lit­tle, quiv­er­ing lip was was curled down, her skin was bright pink and after she took her first breath, she let out the sweet­est cry. It was per­fec­tion. I can hon­estly say there is no other time in my life that com­pares to the very moment I first laid my eyes on her. It was then that I knew and under­stood uncon­di­tional love. Noth­ing else in the world mat­tered, or even existed. I was for­ever changed and I vowed to devote every­thing I could to her well-being. Lit­tle did I know how much of me she was going to need in the years to come.

The first year of her life was tough; at times, even unbear­able. I had severe post­par­tum depres­sion and had a very col­icky, unhappy baby. Amaya had acid reflux, con­stant gas­troin­testi­nal (GI) prob­lems and would cry for what seemed like days on end. Sleep was nonex­is­tent as she would wake up any­where from 3 to 5 times each night until she was 13 months old. I didn’t under­stand how to make her feel com­fort­able or even how to make her happy. Hope­less­ness was my mantra. When she was 14 months old, we came to real­ize that our lit­tle angel was not devel­op­ing like her peers, and a short 6 months later our world was shat­tered with the dual diag­no­sis of autism and global apraxia. The first few days, I just sobbed uncon­trol­lably. Even though she was phys­i­cally here, the child that I thought I had was gone. I couldn’t help but mourn the loss. After a week­end of lay­ing in bed and cry­ing hys­ter­i­cally, I real­ized I needed to peel myself out of bed and take action. I quickly shifted into fighter mode and began to scour the inter­net so I could help my daugh­ter reach her full poten­tial. Autism was on the rise and the access to infor­ma­tion was end­less. I stayed up for hours and hours. Func­tion­ing on the lit­tle adren­a­line I had left, I read arti­cles, joined online com­mu­ni­ties and ordered every book on the sub­ject avail­able. There had to be a solu­tion and I was deter­mined to find it.

After devot­ing myself tire­lessly to fig­ur­ing out how to help Amaya, I learned that the fastest and eas­i­est way to start the process of mak­ing her life bet­ter was by putting her on a gluten and casein free diet. We quickly saw results. We saw her dis­tended belly flat­ten out. Her dry, brit­tle hair became shiny and lus­trous. Her once eczema rid­dled skin was now clear. She gained weight and grew inches. The most amaz­ing changes were the increase in her aware­ness and her over­all state of being. She was present, and she was happy! We tracked the intro­duc­tion of the diet and were able to see that dietary mod­i­fi­ca­tions, in con­junc­tion with ther­apy, yielded tan­gi­ble results. Since start­ing the diet, she has been able to be fully potty trained, her under­stand­ing of lan­guage has increased tremen­dously and she has learned to use a device to help her com­mu­ni­cate. More impor­tantly, she was trans­form­ing into a smil­ing, bub­bly lit­tle girl who sought me out for affec­tion. If these dietary changes could be so pos­i­tive and trans­for­ma­tional for my lit­tle girl, then how could they impact me and others?

Like many women, I thought eat­ing “skinny” meant eat­ing healthy. As an ath­lete, work­ing out has always been a part of my daily life. I was very con­scious about not con­sum­ing much fat, but bought into the pro­pa­ganda that processed foods were “safe”. I fol­lowed my doctor’s rec­om­men­da­tions, which included con­sum­ing copi­ous amounts of soy, dairy, wheat, fruits and veg­gies, none of which were organic. I never was con­scious about con­sum­ing pro­bi­otic rich foods or sup­ple­ments and I was never really wor­ried about the water I drank. I trusted the sys­tem– but unfor­tu­nately, the sys­tem failed me and my daugh­ter. The say­ing “you are what you eat” has an entirely new mean­ing to me. Since see­ing the progress my daugh­ter has made, I have really come to under­stand the impor­tance of what we are putting into our bod­ies, in addi­tion to mak­ing sure we sup­port our bod­ies to ensure what doesn’t belong is also fil­tered out. The ProBal­ance 7 Day Cleanse and the Pro­bi­otic Cleans­ing Diet came into exis­tence as a tes­ta­ment to all I have learned.

The ProBal­ance 7 Day Cleanse and the Pro­bi­otic Cleans­ing Diet were cre­ated to help you and your fam­ily tran­si­tion to a health­ier way of life. We are here to guide you, pro­vide you with the tools nec­es­sary and sup­port you as you learn how to fuel your body and the bod­ies of your loved ones in the cor­rect way. Every­day, sci­en­tists uncover more chill­ing infor­ma­tion about the con­stant expo­sure of pol­lu­tants in our food, water and every­day house­hold items are poten­tial cul­prits for the increase in obe­sity, dia­betes, Alzheimers, autism, aller­gies and can­cer, you can’t afford to not make this change.  In the words of Hip­pocrates, “Let food be your Med­i­cine.” There is no limit to the ben­e­fits of chang­ing the way you eat.