The Finally Healed Podcast with Jessica Lundy
Welcome to The Finally Healed Podcast with Jessica Lundy, a podcast designed to help you prioritize your mental health, embrace self-care, and embark on your healing journey. Hosted by international keynote speaker, life coach, and mental health expert Jessica Lundy, each episode dives deep into topics that matter most to women seeking growth, peace, and fulfillment. Whether you’re navigating personal challenges, career transitions, or simply looking for support, Finally Healed offers relatable stories, expert insights, and actionable steps to help you heal and thrive. Join Jessica and a community of listeners as we heal together, one episode at a time.
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The Finally Healed Podcast with Jessica Lundy
Eat To Heal: The Secret To Taking Control Of Your Life | Ep 11
Unlock the secrets to optimal health with the inspiring @RochelleTParks a renowned health motivator whose passion for wellness is nothing short of contagious. Having guided over 10,000 individuals, including notable figures like Dr. Eric Thomas, Rochelle emphasizes the power of discipline and the importance of consuming "God's food" in its purest form. Our conversation delves into her personal journey, balancing her roles as a wife, mother, and military professional, all while prioritizing her health and inspiring others to do the same.
We shed light on the often-overlooked role of nutrition in achieving true wellness, which encompasses mind, body, and spirit. Rochelle shares pivotal moments from her life that led to profound transformations, urging a reevaluation of dietary habits. As we tackle the emotional ties to comfort foods, Rochelle exposes the hidden dangers of sugar and sodium, offering practical strategies to maintain healthy eating habits, even during the holidays. Her insights on overcoming everyday addictions, from coffee to sugar, offer a roadmap to breaking free from dependencies and embracing a healthier lifestyle.
Episode Highlights:
Jessica’s Journey
: Jessica shares her personal story of recognizing her health issues and overcoming sugar addiction, resulting in a 23-pound weight loss and a renewed sense of energy and mental clarity.
Rochelle’s Principles
: Learn Rochelle’s three cardinal principles for optimal health: eating God's food, consuming it in its original state, and avoiding processed alternatives.
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To be well takes discipline. To be well, you gotta deny the flesh. Nobody sets out to say I'm going to kill myself. They don't realize that they feel the way they feel because of what they put in their body. It's just lack of knowledge. And the word says we perish for lack of knowledge.
:Three principles to achieve optimal health. Number one eat God's food Meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, legumes that's God's food Principle. Number two eat it as close to his original state as possible. Eating it raw is going to be the most health benefit. So don't allow your belly to be your God. All of this stuff, all these vices, all these additives, like that is really like not allowing us to truly be the person that God designed us to be.
:Welcome to the Finally Healed podcast, where we prioritize mental health, self-care and embracing our healing journey together. I'm your host, jessica Lundy, and let me tell you you need to prepare yourself for this episode. I have the queen that the health motivator, rochelle T Parks, in the building. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm excited to be here. I am so excited for this episode. We're going to be talking about eating to heal and I really want to break down your journey of when you decided to become a priority for your own health. Okay, so we gotta go way back. Just we gotta go back. So let's tell the people a little bit about because you've been married over 30 years. Yes, you've got three beautiful children. You have created this phenomenon where people might not have been so passionate about health. Health is one of those things where we know it's important, but it's like we'll get to it one day. But you have helped over 10,000 people. That's a massive number. Helped with chronic disease, like get their life back. You're literally influencing some of the most powerful people Dr Eric Thomas, number one motivational speaker in the world yes. When you think of change chart. Dr Darius Daniels, like Tiffany Montgomery, like. These are huge names that you are making sure are healthy, that they can actually perform to the best of their ability yes, Based on your advice, as a professional like you have been able to do so much.
:And for the woman that is inspiring now, hundreds of thousands of people on social media videos going viral when we think about that woman yeah, how she started, how she decided. You know I might have a lot going on. I'm a wife, I'm a mother, I'm in the military. I've got all this going on, but I have to be a priority. Like, what did that day look like? Well, I would tell you that.
:So my journey. First of all, I've always had an interest in science and health. Like I was going to be the physician, I was going to go to medical school. Like everybody knows me too, I was going to be an athletic trainer okay, okay, I was. I was going to be a pediatrician okay, I love. So that was it.
:So I went to high school for the health professions yep, in houston, texas. So I was in the sports medicine program. So I used to cheer and then I would fix the athlete oh, wow. So that that's been me all my life science and health. Everybody knew it, we know I didn't go to medical school. I did take the MCATs Okay, okay, okay, I did. But by that time I knew that's not what I wanted.
:But my interest in health never left and so I just became the go-to person behind the scenes in the military, at my church. You know I was over the health ministry, like, always loved it. But before it was just physical fitness stuff. Yeah, it wasn't really nutrition. Okay, there is a difference. There is a difference, right, so you can be fit and still not well, you see. So when I think of wellness, that's mind, body and spirit, right, so nutrition didn't really happen.
:My eyes I like to say God removed the scales off my eyes. It was in 2009 when I was pregnant with my third child at the time, and it was actually a friend of mine who came by our house and she gave me a book. It was called Eat this and Live by Dr Dawn Colbert. She said read this book. It's going to change your. It changed our lives. It's going to change your life. And I read that book and it was like God removed the scales off my eyes and I realized I was killing my family. Wow, with the food I was giving them, I literally sat my two children down at the time because I was pregnant with my third and I said mommy's killing me, literally. I told them the word. I just don't want to say that, like to admit that.
:To me it was empowering because I knew I could change it. Yeah, like you see, I tell the people if you did it, you can undo it, right, and so I was going down the wrong road. So we just need to switch Right. We need to change, because I didn't know anything, because it all looked good to me Like I was eating trash.
:I grew up in Houston, texas. I ate everything soda, right. There were no vegetables right. So I had my friends show me what was good, what was bad. We cleared out my cabinets, my pantry, the refrigerator. We started over. That was the beginning and I knew from that point I was going to like heal my body right With God's food and I just went from there. But that was the beginning.
:So physical fitness I've been doing already. Right, I had already done a bodybuilding competition, I had already trained. I knew that part. The nutrition part is something different, because there are people right now who look fit but still are diabetic, still have high blood pressure. So it's not the fitness we need it, but we need food more than anything. Like food. God's food heals the body. Physical fitness doesn't kill the body. The food heals the body. So why do we struggle so much with that? It's food heals the body. So why do we struggle so much with that? Like it's the hardest thing to get that control up because people don't mind working out. It's like listen, I can do a little brisk walk, I can go to the gym. I remember back in the day, and I don't know if they still do this Remember when Planet Fitness used to have pizza? Oh, yeah, bagels, uh-huh.
:Fitness is not about wellness, see, fitness sometimes, uh, that can be an idol. Yeah, fitness is about the look it's about. You know, it's not about how you feel. Necessarily, fitness is more about the look. Well, he's talking about well being well. Yeah, right to be well takes discipline. Yeah, somebody say, well to be fit, takes this one too. But it's a different type. Like that's just total physical. Like to be well, that's mind, body, spirit, that's a mental thing. You gotta do some mental gymnastics to be well right, because you got to deny the flesh. And that's the part Keeping a woman denied of flesh. You're not denying the flesh to go work out, to be well, you got to deny the flesh. And that's where people get hung up.
:I remember when I had to admit to myself that I wasn't well, it took me looking at footage of myself. I had the opportunity to do a TEDx Major stage, right, so excited to see the footage. Look at the footage. I'm like who is that? She is a major speaker, but who is that? She looks familiar, but that can't be me right.
:I went to the doctor. They were like you're pre-diabetic. I said I'm sorry what I'm like, but I'm not eat that my sugar I'll end up. And then I had to have an honest conversation with myself. Like I have to be consuming that sugar, that's right. I have to not be a priority, that's right.
:And being a caregiver for my daughter for the last two years, it became eating for convenience and not eating to fuel my body. So then I had to do a deep analysis of, like, what am I putting in my body and why am I not a priority? And I'll never forget. You know, as a new mom, you got the little bullet, little baby bullet. I'm cooking all the food little broccoli, all the stuff but I'm still going to Chick-fil-A.
:So I'm thinking, like you know they're saying all the stuff she got going on, you know, shouldn't have preservatives. There was a time where you know she can't have dairy for him. She had nothing, yeah, but I'm still eating the stuff that they're saying could kill her, make it, make it look just like, yeah, why are we killing ourselves? Why are we doing all of the discipline, as as wives you know, sometimes preparing a really good meal for your husband, yeah, but then you didn't prepare for them, for yourself. So, like, where does that come from? From women, where we are not the priority? Like we can prepare a meal for everybody else, yeah, but then we're the ones killing ourselves.
:Well, I don't think they, I don't think women are looking at it like that. I just think they haven't connected the dots that how they feel every day has everything to do with what they put inside their bodies. Like nobody, nobody sets out to say I'm going to kill myself, yeah, they don't realize that they feel the way they feel because of what they put in their bodies. Like nobody's made the connection. So I don't think it's about us putting ourselves last, like we are nurturers and that's kind of, but I think it's more. It's ignorance, right, yeah, they have not connected the dots.
:People tell me all the time they're like who know? I've gone to all these doctors. Like nobody ever told me to eat god's food. Yeah, who knew that something as simple as eating god's food could change all of this I got going on my body? It's just ignorance. It's lack of knowledge, and the word says we perish for lack of knowledge, right. And so they're told oh, get you a people ask me for a meal plan, a meal plan, a workout plan.
:I said meal plan ain't breaking no generational curses, right, yeah, that's not, you know, I know. It says we perish for lack of knowledge, not a lack of a meal plan. I said, well, we need is education. Yeah, right, and so I, you know, I want to educate you, teach you how this body works, because once you learn and you know, then you can make your own meal plan. So don't come to me by no meal plan, but I can give you this knowledge, though, yeah, nobody can ever take that away and you can pass that on generation to generation. That's true, right, and we can break it for real. So I tell the people like you are the hope, yeah, for the generational health of your family, you are the hope.
:So let's talk about this god's food. Now. It feels simple, right, yeah, yeah, because it's got to be real. Uh-huh, it's what he gave us, that's right. So why? Why do we make it so hard? It's like we, we don't mind eating god's food, but we want to eat a little bit of satan's dessert. You know what I mean? Well, can't we mix up a little stuff like so, okay, let's talk about what god's food is. Okay, that is okay. God's food is meat. Okay, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grain legumes right, that's god's food. I feel like that includes a lot of things, yeah, but that's not what people eating, like everything outside, that's a lab experiment. So people are eating lab experiments, right, and so so you talk about god's food.
:So I have these things called three principles, right, three principles to achieve optimal health. Number one eat god's food. I just said what that was right. I'm saying again meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grain legumes that's god's food. That's principle number one eat the food god called food, yeah. Principle number two eat it as close to his original state as possible. So, so, not the saute, not the is, but notice that the minute you change it from its original state, it's going to lose something, right, and so I would say, yes, eating it raw is going to be the most health benefit. So eat it as close to its original state as possible.
:So, eat the apple versus drinking the apple juice, right? I mean, if you're making the vegetables't kill your vegetables, right, and I tell people I know, big mama, you know I made it that way, but sometimes you gotta consider the source? That's true. You're saying big mama, probably not. Well, yeah, okay, look at the people that you get these recipes from, okay, how they live it right, how they feel right. How many medications are they on? That's true, okay. And so the the broccoli shouldn't be mushy. The the greens shouldn't be mushy, the you know those things like you're killing it, like there's no nutritional value, so in as close to its original state as possible.
:And then, principle number three do not allow any food to become your guide. So let's break that down, because when you listen, addiction is real. Right, I just call myself in the beginning stage of breaking my addiction, because I'm only about three months in, right, okay. And then you you had exposed to me earlier that the lord's still working on me, okay, yeah, so I'm down about 23 pounds, okay, finally, like feeling like myself again, my energy's coming back, my mental clarity, like the work is working, like eating real food. I ain't gonna lie, like I did the cheat code, like I got a chef helping me, because I realized the process of me trying to prepare these meals was becoming a little bit too overwhelming and I'm in a delegation season, so I'm like, let me get some help by somebody who can count the macros and do all the stuff.
:But breaking sugar, I didn't realize it was idle because we just consume it so casually. What is it about sugar? I mean I'm not going to say like it will be illegal, probably at this point if it was to be released, like, why is it about sugar? I mean, I know they say like it will be illegal, probably at this point. Yeah, if it was to be released, like, why is it so hard to break that? And why does food become an idol? Because it's all about this flesh. See, it's a spiritual thing, it is spiritual. It's spiritual, yeah right. If, like I believe, how you do anything is how you do everything, yeah right. And so if I tell people, once you get well, you break addiction, you'll start to notice like things getting so much better in other areas of your life.
:You know he used to say this quote, many of these quotes, but he used to say you cannot compartmentalize greatness. But guess what? You can't compartmentalize mediocrity either. And so this thing, this whole, I promise you, is showing up in other areas of your life. But it's about denying this flesh, and people do not want to, especially for those of us who are. You know, we've gone to school, we have a degree, we're accomplished, we're doing these great things. You're like no, I deserve, it's a deserve to have this. If I work hard, I did this, I deserve. What we deserve is death. Okay, that's what we deserve.
:That's gluttony, yeah, it is, you know, you understand, like, and so it says don't, don't allow your belly to be your god. And that's what we're doing. We're allowing our belly to be our god, right, and even though we know that when we eat god's food, we feel so much better, oh, my god, the energy, energy, sleep well, you get off medication, you release weight, yeah, but yet we keep going back to this vomit. Hmm, it's a trick of the enemy, yeah, right, and so it's about denying the flesh. So the sugar, though it's, um, they say it's more addictive than cocaine. Yeah, and it literally is, literally.
:I will tell the people don't eat like sugar of any kind, no, sweetener of any kind, like no. And they'll say, well, what about a sweet? No, I'll say no potatoes. Well, what about a sweet potato? We gotta get a potato, we gotta get a sweet potato. But in their mind, it's like the sugar, be like you, be like I need a little thing. It's not ridiculous, but ask her anyway, just ask her. It's the sugar addiction. Yeah, don't look at the person on the street that's, uh, strung out on. No, no, like you're that person. You, you see, like it's a socially accepted addiction. Nobody, we celebrate with sugar, so nobody sees that. But we look down on the person on the street, on the corner, that's strung out and crack. Yeah, we strung out from crack because we'll get it at any cost. At any cost, whatever it, nobody doesn't care.
:They say give it to me, harvey, I'll let you pick it, whether you want to give me white sugar, you want to give me stevia, you want to give me monk fruit, you want to give me honey, you want to give me brown sugar, you want to like dates, like whatever? Oh, no, give me a lot of fruit, I'll take that too. Because we want a smoothie. Oh, because we want a smoothie, because we want a smoothie, yeah, and it's all fruit. Yeah, okay, I think we're doing something fresh from the gym and go get a smoothie, the place. Now you can give it to me. Guess what? You're still an addict. So what? What would you say? Is that first step?
:For someone hearing this for the first time and they're like having to come to the realization of, oh my god, am I at, like I promise y'all read that book? On it was a 40-day sugar fast. And the lady said, when you're happy, yeah, do you desire a treat? I was like, yeah, I'm reading a book. I think this is a good book, right? Yeah, I need like a treat. Yeah. And she said, when you said, do you feel like you need some ice cream? I said, oh, my gosh, you know my business. And she said, okay, that means that sugar is the idol. I said I got the closest book. I'm just trying to mind my business and it is comfort myself.
:And so what is it about these comfort foods that aren't very comforting? Church of the enemy, jesse, I'm telling you, man, this thing is spiritual warfare. They better people better wake up. Yeah, you better wake up. Okay, it better wake up.
:John 10, 10 says he comes to steal, kill and destroy, and for us it's food. This is the revelation. That day they say you know what, especially us, that you know? Believers said, no, these good christian folk, they don't lie, cheat, steal, they pay the taxes. Okay, they don't ain't doing. No, no, blue collar, white collar. They don't. Uh-uh, we don't have to lift a finger, okay, because they will kill themselves with the food. They let them not do it. They will kill themselves. Just let them keep living. And that's what we're doing. That's literally what we're doing. That is literally what we are doing.
:The amount of sugar that we're consuming every day is just sign bombing the amount of sodium, you understand? Because people don't even really talk about sodium that much, right? Yeah, so it says the average American should consume that. This is the average American who's healthy, should consume no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day. But do you know how much that is? Do you really know how much sodium? That is Hell. That's only one teaspoon of sodium. I'm sorry, you said teaspoon Health. That's only one teaspoon or so. I'm sorry. You said teaspoon Teaspoon. That's only one teaspoon. You know how small a teaspoon is and that's how much we should be consuming a day. Wow, one teaspoon. You mentioned Chick-fil-A. No, don't, come on, come on. Oh my God, chick-fil-a, that number one. Not the number one With that chicken, that bread and the pickle.
:That's the number one. The pickle's a vegetable. No, no, no, I'm talking about that pickle. Let me tell you something. One sandwich is 1,400 milligrams of sodium. You said 1,400? 1,400. We're going to get 2,300. That's before you eat one waffle fry. You can't get no fries, okay, no, you know, you're going to get fries, though you don't have to eliminate because I don't sugar. Okay, stay home. 1,400 milligrams, though, I promise you.
:And people wonder why they can't get off the blood pressure and they'll say, well, I don't get that. I get the market salad with the grill and the chicken. Yeah, you try to be healthy. You see, these are for lack of knowledge, right? And let's talk about that pitbull.
:Let me ask you a question what are pickles made of the cucumber? Okay, what color is a cucumber? The inside, white, okay. But what color is that pickle? Yellow, is it yellow or is it green? Yeah, yeah. So what makes green? What two colors make green? You remember rice, milk. Yellow and blue makes green. So if you look at the ingredients label, right, nutrition label for that pickle, it'll say yellow, fine, or blue, because yellow and blue makes green. That's artificial colors, late to cancer, late to ADHD, I mean so many people.
:And people got the habit, oh yeah, oh yeah. I always thought something was weird, the way people was addicted. I don't remember. It was a couple years ago. Somebody killed somebody for that Popeye's. Somebody would kill somebody. It's a flavor enhancer and it makes the makes you like, design the food right and so you're addicted to it right. But but msg affects the brain, yeah, yeah, you see so a lot of people with chick-fil-a having headaches and things like that. I mean it's just crazy. It is crazy. So we are killing ourselves. So that's what I'm saying.
:I had to sit my kids and I said mommy is killing you. Yeah, we got to change, right. I didn't feel like a proper story moment. I did not that day. Okay, not that day. I'll be like I feel he's doing my home, I'm breaking it down, yeah, right, so I had to change. So I said no, we can't do mcdonald's, we can't do chick-fil-a, we can't do papa's, like we can't do these days anymore. No more fruit punch, no more kool-aid jammers, no more. These are things I put in my son's lunch. No more honey buns and duck and sticks and pecan tores Like this is all the trash Doritos, but this is what we're feeding our babies, takis, and we're just killing them. It's crazy Once you start becoming a label person and that's what I had to do with my daughter.
:I didn't realize like all of this stuff, like not even just because I always say you know those first ones, the first couple of years, but those are like terrible. You're like terrible, yeah, yeah, I mean it's bad, it's really bad, yeah. So for the person that's hearing this for the first time and I feel like their heart is like you know, I mean, and they might actually be crying at this point, realizing what they've done for themselves, what does done to their children, possibly even their grandchildren, yeah, where do they start? Because I think it has to start with the mindset first. Right, like they know the instruction, they gotta eat god's food. But how do they like shit? Because you're really going against society, yeah, going against the grain, going against what big mom said, you know, I mean, we get ready, going to holiday season, like this is everybody's like hardest time, yeah, you know, and some people are excited about the new year. We'll kind of get into that too. But like, where's that first mind shift to say like, maybe even admitting like that you're an addict? Yeah, you know what I mean? This is good.
:So, first of all, I want to encourage the people, yeah, I want to encourage them to know, like this is what I tell my you did it, you can undo it. You understand, like, when you understand that God's food heals the body, yeah, like, so Hippocrates said let food be thy medicine, medicine be thy food. Right Food is the foundation to optimal health. So, whatever it is you got going on. I want to encourage them. Whatever it is whether it's type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, you know, thyroid issues, low libido, because people are dealing with that low energy whenever they're sleep apnea Whatever it is you got going on, we can reverse it with God's freedom.
:Like I've literally helped thousands upon thousands of people you know people have had. I've stopped people from getting hip replacement surgeries, knee replacement surgeries, like with God's food, things that they they told my husband you're going to be on medication for the rest of your life and we got him off in eight days with God's food. Eight days is crazy. Eight days. I've got people off medication in one day, two days, wow, with God's food, right. So I want to encourage them first of all to say you know what, it doesn't matter where you are, just know that you can change, we can reverse it.
:But so to change about this, about you make a work. So yeah, we gotta do some work. Right, say, faith without works is dead. So we gotta change. And so you know, we can just start with some simple things like just I tell, can you eat a salad in that? Yeah, can we just start with a salad? Right, can we, instead of having the fries? You know, if you're gonna do the burger instead of doing the fries, I may add a salad or some broccoli too, like stuff to do. I just start doing it. That you know. I'm not a wiener, though I'm gonna let it. Yeah, I cut it, yeah, okay.
:But I understand we're going into the holidays and people be like, for sure, I'm not paying no attention to you, you don't know, I'm not, I'm not gonna do it. So we can just start making some modifications. Right, here's some things. We're going into the holidays. How about? Here's the order in which you can eat your okay? Okay, tell us, tell us, break it down.
:Okay, here's the order in which you can eat your food, and this is just to mitigate spiking of the blood sugar. Okay, gonna have turkey. We'll have cornbread dressing. We will have mac and cheese. We will have collard greens. We're gonna have candy yams, we're gonna have dessert, okay, these things for people about to eat, right? Yeah, I said the first thing you want to do let's pad that stomach with some vegetables, okay. So you start with the collard greens. Okay, and some protein? Yeah, right, let's pad it with some vegetables, okay. Then you can start bringing on, okay, the mac and cheese, but let's mitigate the spiking of that blood sugar, so let's pat it with some vegetables, right. Then you do on the mac and cheese.
:There really no healthy fats during thanksgiving, and then the last thing you want to do is that dessert. But this is what I tell my people after you eat go for a walk, yeah, yeah, get that move. Yeah, don't don't eat and get on the couch. I don't do that. No, don't do that. It just be so tempting the way it hits you. I know, I know, I know that trip to fame. Okay, it's real.
:Go for a walk, yeah, go for a walk. And then you know you have to drink your calories. I know we want the sweet tea and all that, but I'm just giving you some hacks Drink water. That's been a game changer for me, though. To go for the dessert, like I, rather you have to deserve than the sweet tea. But you can't have both. You know you gotta choose one.
:And I'm talking to the one, to the person or the people who know they have issues. I have a person who's like you know what, bro, I'm good all year, this is my one time. Okay, go for it. But for the person that know he or she has issues, these are some things you can do. Do your vegetables first, your vegetables, your protein. Then you start adding on the car to your mac and cheese, your candy, yams or whatever your cornbread dressing. Last thing you can eat is that sweet potato pie, apple pie, whatever. And then go for a walk and then have water instead of the sweet tea or the juice or whatever it is that you choose to have.
:And what a beautiful thing to do with your family, like we like to do the evening walks. You know what I mean? That's kind of nice, so y'all can walk and talk. Y'all can go back home later and play cards and do all that Absolutely. But just get out here, get that fresh air. I think that's a good thing. You're going to feel better too. Absolutely, you're going to feel better. You're really going to feel better. So that's just some things you can do because you're not going to cut it. You really knocking on our door. I'm super excited.
:This year I'm actually going to be doing a planning event I want to call boys and women plan for the new year. So so give us some tips, because I know some of the goals that women are going to be sent and are going to be health related, some fitness related, hopefully mental health related. I've been trying to encourage people to do some mental health goals. Yeah, because if you don't prepare for your mental health like, it can take you out. So tell us some of the goals that you feel like are realistic, because I think sometimes people can set themselves up to fail and that's why it'd be two weeks in and then people then forgot all about the plans they made. So if you can give them any type of strategy so that they can actually stick with them, yeah, you know I'm saying this year it's good.
:So I have this thing called uh, bmw. Okay, bare minimum. Workout, okay, bare minimum. Yeah, we gotta start there. You start with it like create your bmw. So first of all, let's talk about whatever level of frequency you want it to be two days a week, three days a week. I'm thinking minimum two days a week, but preferably three days a week for whatever so and whatever it is you feel like you can do. However many days a week that is so that can be. You know what, three days a week, I'm gonna at least walk 30 minutes. I'm gonna do 10 jumping jacks and I'm 30 second plank. Whatever it is like you create it, but whatever it is, it's something that you feel like you can do. So I don't want to create it, because what I create may be too much for you. So it's something. So you have to ask yourself what is it that I can do For some people?
:You know what, coach? I think I can walk 30 minutes a day. Okay, that's your BMW. Yeah, because here's the game changer that people really don't know. People. People really don't know people. Look at these guns. Right, I'm like we gotta get to the arm. People are afraid because they think you're going at me doing all this crazy stuff.
:Every single person I've coached, the only thing I've ever asked them to do is walk. Wow, like all of these amazing testimonies, that's it. I just need you to walk because it's not about the exercise, it's about this food. Yeah, yeah, and people have lost hundreds of pounds just by walking because you want me to tell you, yeah. So here's the thing. People think they lose weight by, uh, caloric deficit. No, I teach people, you're gonna lose weight by sugar deficit. Okay, okay, sugar deficit, okay, because what we do is we have these sugar pockets.
:Let me take some. You didn't, you didn't talk me something. Oh, I thought it was my caloric deficit. The reason I'm looking right now no calories it's because I've cut the sugar. Yeah, that's right. Wow, that's right. Yeah, I don't count. No calories, no macros, macros, I'm not even none of that. Okay, because we need god's food. You don't have to. Yeah, okay, when you eat anything you eat, right, it's going to break down the glucose, right, sugar, right, it's in your bloodstream and so the pancreas, you know, secretes the insulin.
:The insulin goes and grafts the, the glucose right and kicks it into the cells and it metabolizes this energy right, because the body uses that as energy. So if you're not putting sugar in your body, so like you're eating vegetables and that's minimal sugar, right, so body is going to look and say, okay, there's no sugar in this bloodstream, but we need sugar to move, so, so where does it go? We go in these sugar pockets. Oh, here's some here, here's some here, here's some here. Right, it starts to burn these sugar pockets, it starts to release this weight.
:So that's how my people are losing. They're like how am I losing 20 pounds in less than 30 days Because we're in these sugar pockets? Okay, we've got to give his pocket. Yeah, it's not calories. Wow, I promise you sugar ain't sweet. Um, it's my name. Yeah, damn shit ain't sweet. Yeah, it's not, it's, it's the sugar. We lose weight by sugar deficit.
:I'm telling you people just can cut this sugar. We're gonna release it and never find it again. That's not no. So I say release it now. Yeah, you lose it, we find it. We gonna find it in the corner and there's a release the way and be done with it. Just be done.
:Because when you have this education and you know, like you know what this is, when I'm feeling this low energy or I'm taking this medication, if I can get rid of this thing just by changing what I eat and never have to deal with it again, it's worth it. It's worth it. I can have my white butt, white blood, my energy. I mean, people are doing things they thought they would never do. Yeah, bro, I thought I would never run again. I thought I would, and now they're running. Yeah, I thought I was going to be in this medication for the rest of my life.
:So I have this Q&A call with my program. We have a call every day, monday through Friday, and I get on. Sometimes I have coaches that run it, but I get on a few days a week just to hear the people. This one lady said she said this was her testimony. She said this is for the first time ever I could travel and not have to take medication. Wow, like I didn't have to pack it. I didn't have to go to the pharmacy to fill my prescription before I travel, making the travel plans around their pharmacy visits Wow, so it's like a new life for people. It is a new life, yeah, to not have to worry about medication again and it's all just from changing what you put in your body right and not being perfect because I'm not perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
:I know people think I'm not vegan. Yeah, I'm not vegetarian, right, plant-based. I'm not, right, I don't do pork, okay, right, you know I try to stay away from artificial colors and things like that, but I like a burger and fries, too, or a milkshake, I like pizza, I like cookies, I like ice cream. It's about getting this health bank account in the black first, though. That's what I tell my people. If you're in the red, you don't need those things. What you need is to eat more of God's food Once you get in the black, and then you pad the account.
:You got to pad the account first. You gotta make. You know, because that's the thing I think of it. Think of it as like your financial bank account, like you may be in the black, but if you only got two dollars to make, you can't write a hundred dollar check. That's true, right? So as soon as the person get well, they want to go celebrate with something that makes it. Yeah, I'm like no, let's pad the account, right, because you're trying to write checks that your body cannot cash. Let's pad the account first, right. Then, if you want to make this withdrawal every now and then, you can do that, and it's okay. That's living, that's life.
:That's why I don't do diets. I don't. I don't do any of it. I don't call it anything. He was like what do you do and you look amazing? Oh, praise god, thank you. Yeah, they're so inspiring. Thank you at 54, 54, 54 and fine, come on inspiring the world. Yeah, this has been so beautiful.
:So one of our favorite segments is called the healing moment. Yeah, and this is an action item for that woman that's watching this. It could give them just one thing that they could maybe do this week okay, that they can put into place. Put that coffee down. Oh, jesus, that's my one thing. Okay, because everybody got that one vice the coffee you just be like, and then you know I'm that person I'd be like it's really just a half a cup, because what you gonna put in the tea, I don't like to put anything into.
:Okay, I'm one of them people where hibiscus tea is that fine? Okay, is it sweet to you slightly. Okay, it don't have it, it's my habit. If it's sweet to you, it's floral, okay, is it sweet to you? I guess the definition would be yes, okay, then that's what you look, do you understand? You see, the mind yeah, the mind was your mind is like it's a little. You see, I'm saying you're right, that's an addiction. You're right, that's an addiction. So when you say, well, coach Roy, I only did one cup a day, I said then you're a one cup a day addict. That's it why we got the. You're right, that's what it is and it's hard for people to accept. It's true.
:Cut it, coach Roy, coach Raya, it's nothing that I have every day. Yeah, water, I have no hold. It's no hold on me. None, you can't get me with no cookies, no cake, no coffee. That thing got a hold on people. It does. Okay, like a refreshing little morning. You know what I do every morning Warm lemon water. It's so refreshing. You right, you have to do it. I'm cleansing my my organs. Have it. Keep everything flowing and going. That's all we need and I feel great doing that. And I go out there and run my five, six, seven, eight miles without anything. I feel great, I have nothing. It feels good. Freedom, yes, freedom. That is freedom. That's why it feels good to know that nothing has a hold on me. You can't dangle as come on, you can't dangle a carrot in front of my face. You go carrot in front of my kitchen. You can't get me with that and that's.
:People are getting got Food, beverage, whatever Sugar, however they want to hide it, they want to do it in pasta and bread and whatever Donuts, pastries, coffee, tea. What Potato, sweet potato, I'm going to go. Sweet potato, is it tickling and fancy? And I'm not saying sweet potato is bad because they'll be like. Well, Coach wrote fruit and you said fruit is God's food. But you didn't have fruit two weeks ago and I'm telling you, you can't have fruit, it becomes your candy. You're right, you see. So I'm not trying to like, I'm not.
:Come on, y'all Wake up. I thought I was woke. I only got one eye open. Listen, this, this has been amazing. This has been amazing. I guess I might. That's, that's been the one last thing I've been holding on to is the coffee.
:So you know, but if you just stop it, if you would stop it, no, you see, if you would stop it right and break the addiction, go through, because some people may go through a little withdrawal. It is a withdrawal process. You see, yes, this is how a person can know if they're an addict. If they stop whatever it is they do daily and their body reacts to it, then you know it was an addiction. Wow, it was a drug.
:Yeah, if you get a headache, you get irritable. I get like because I've been trying to get off coffee a couple times. Okay, you have headaches are the worst. Okay, then come on. Now you'll be like well, let me just go back back. Yeah, so I want them. Lord, have mercy. Lord, jesus, help us.
:Okay, listen to this. You're telling me by stopping something. Yeah, your body has an adverse reaction to it because you're not putting a substance in your body. That's what's happening. Can that be good for you? Yeah, that can't be good. That is a true sign of an addiction. Your body is saying where's my stuff, the stuff you usually give me? Every day I'm looking for it and if I don't give it to you, i'm'm going. I'm about to have a fit up in here.
:Yeah, that's an addiction. Now that right there is singing. Now, I got to hold you accountable to that. We're going to have to stop it. We're going to have to stop it. Yeah, you're going to be free. Yeah, it's freedom.
:It is for you, nothing and I do like a little bit of water in the morning. Go back to it. Leave that sugar on. You're going to get a little headache. It's only temporary, it is temporary. It's temporary. Once you break through, you're through, and once you're done, every so often you want to have a cup whatever. Every so often, some people be like you know what? Just one day a week, I have my thing. You can't get addicted one day a week. That everyday thing though, oh, that's an addict. That's an addict. I don't care how you slice it, that's an addict. Tea, you put in something. That's an addict. Bread every day that's an addict. Potatoes every day that's an addict.
:The body doesn't know the difference, I told you, between the honey and the honey bun. It doesn't know the difference. It processes differently, but it doesn't know the difference. It still lighten up the brain, still get that dopamine hit, just like cocaine. So the only way to stop it is to stop it. Oh jesus, I know this was gonna be therapeutic. I mean I know it's gonna feel like a workout, like I know it's gonna be like I got punched in the face, but I know I'm gonna be bleeding out on the white couch floor. But this is the wake-up call that I need. It's the wake-up call.
:You watching this need like we all need the wake-up so that we can be the person that we were destined to be, because all this stuff, all these vices, all these additives, like that is really like not allowing us to truly be the person that god designed us to be. And if you really want to be our best selves we really want to be our best selves. We really want to be our most authentic selves we got to actually figure out what we actually enjoy. That's on the list of God's fruits, not what we've settled to have out of convenience or out of laziness or out of addiction. Yeah, that is true, true story.
:When I, when I started my business in 2012, right, so, the name of my company is Rock your Park, that's my I said I need a scripture. You know that goes with my business. I need a scripture. I went to the Bible and I flipped it open. I just like opened it up and my eyes went straight to 3 John, 1 and 2. And the translation that I like it says Dear friends, I pray that all is well with you and that you are as healthy in body as you are strong in spirit. And I said that part. I said because we sold out for Christ. Now, okay, but this healthy and body we're lacking, yeah, right, and we cannot serve the way god would have us to serve if we're not healthy and body. We cannot.
:I don't care how fire a person think they are, how much they think they're quote unquote killing it. Or I promise you you're the spirit of speech money on the table because you're not well. Right, there's more to do, but we can't do it because we're sick or we're not as well as we could be and I want people to be whatever God would have them to be. Yeah, right, and he's told us what to eat. This is so good. Tell them about the masterclass that you have, because I know they're probably thinking like man, what's next? Because I know you didn't got people fired up. I know my husband over there in the corner, like man, what's she going to do tomorrow? What's she going to do when that coffee? I ain't going to do it. I'm going to really stick to it. You know what I'm saying. My daughter deserves for me to be around. That's deserve to get everything that God designed me to have. So that's like I'm done.
:Yeah, so I have a in a program called a shooting sweet Academy. Right, it's a six week program and that's it showing people how to reverse chronic illness with, with God's food. And so how you get into the program is you first attend my masterclass. I do a free masterclass seven days a week, every day, 8 PM, eastern standard time. Get on there about two and a half hours and listen to me. Teach, okay, because, again, I believe we have to be educated. So that's why I call it. It's an academy Sherbet Sweet Academy is what it's called, because you're actually in school. You're learning. Yeah, that program has just helped thousands and thousands of people.
:It's simple. See, this is what I know about God. God is simple, he is. I mean the things he tells there's nothing hard about. People say, well, what are the people doing? These are three things people are doing Eating God's food, moving their bodies and drinking water. Isn't that simple, that's it. There are no pills, powders, potions. I don't count. There ain't no counting nothing. You don't get no scale, calories, macros, none of that. That's all we're doing, that's all I teach them to do. But in that, uh, in the academy, though, you're learning how to shop, you learn how to relabels, you learn the dangers of these artificial colors and sweeteners and you know msg. You're learning, like, the toxins that are in the food. You're learning the benefits of drinking water. Moving your body, you learn, you learn how the body works.
:I have this thing called the cell theory, right, have you heard me talk about the cell. Yeah, okay, ok. So real quick I'll make this quick biology. Yes, ok. So I say, if you break us down to our most basic unit, right, like if you break a person now all the way down to the bottom, we're made of cells. Right now, this is the process it goes Cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs, organs make up organ systems and organ systems make up the organism which is the person In our bodies right now. We have trillions of cells, trillions, okay, those cells.
:So here's something I read in the book. It says it takes 19 vitamins and minerals with non-amino acids, with the perfect protein, and make a perfect cell. And if you're missing one nutrient, you make an imperfect cells for seven days. Right, those imperfect cells manifest into disease. So it's one root cause of disease and that's malfunctioning of cells.
:But here's a question I have Well, where do those nutrients? Where do we get the nutrients? From Food, right? So food is the foundation. If you're eating God's food, it's going to make healthy cells, which will make healthy tissues, which will make healthy organs, which will make healthy organ systems. So so you say what do you mean? Organ systems, reproductive system, cardiovascular system, central nervous system, right Integumentary system, lymphatic system, like there's 14 systems right. If you have healthy organ systems, you can be a healthy person.
:But the converse is also true. If you eat unhealthy food ie Chick-fil-era bread, you know wendy's, mcdonald's right you're gonna have unhealthy cells, unhealthy tissues, right organs, organ systems, gonna be an unhealthy person. But here's the beauty when I say if you did it, you can undo it. It doesn't matter where you are, because we have those trillions of cells right in our bodies. Your body is replacing 3.8 million new cells every second of your life. Wow, every second of your life. 3. That's how my husband got on medication. In eight days we started giving him healthy food, right, and we started replacing those 3.8 million new cells every second with God's food. Wow, and it just refers. So if you did it, you can undo it. That's why education is so important, that's why education is the floor, education, you see.
:So when you know all of this, that's why you're like, well, how could I go back now? But if you don't know, if you don't know, then you think I'm doomed. You think it's, oh, it runs in my family. Yep, y'all, it's nothing running in your family. Yeah, please, nothing. I don't care how many people had it. Look at how they ate, right, they probably all ate the same too. Diabetes doesn't run in your family. High blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol Nothing runs in your family.
:And even for those that say, okay, cancer, okay, there's about a 10% genetic predisposition to cancer 10%. Who's in control of the other 90%? And it starts with what you put in your mouth. So I'm just trying to kill all the myths. Yeah, absolutely Okay, take, we got to take ownership. Yeah, however you feel, you did it.
:But the encouragement is that if you did it, you can undo it. So this is not me like punching your gut. Well, I do, I'm sorry you may. You may have a little punch or two, but it's empowering. It is empowering. It doesn't matter.
:If you did it, you can undo it once you have this information. So now you must consider everything you put in your mouth. Is it building me up or breaking me down? Because it ain't no in-between Everything. Is this building me up or breaking me down? That's what you have to ask yourself. Everything you put in your mouth, when you think of them 3.8 million sales every second of your life Is that not a game changer? Listen, I will never eat the same again. We was going to order lunch after this. I know my team is like y'all, are we still getting chips? What are we doing here?
:This has been life changing, and when I think about this information, changing generations with the right information, like the structure that you've created, like this is phenomenal. You've changed my life, like in this brief conversation, like my life has been completely changed and I'm grateful for the way in which God is using you to change our whole generation. Praise God, you to change our whole generation, right, scott? Like when I think about the amount of people coming off of medication, and like changing the trajectory of their family, like and this even goes so deep as like people not even being able to get in the finances you know what I'm saying like you know what I mean. Like people in that that cycle of poverty, they're like wondering why this all happened, I realized, and that if they were feeding their minds with the right food, like, they will be able to even think faster and create inventions and do all this stuff.
:Let me tell you something, though. That's real. I don't know if you've heard of the gut brain connection, right? So it's no coincidence. That would like you could eat something, right, and have you feeling a certain way mentally, yeah, okay, yeah, well, the converse is also true. You can have something going on with you mentally and it can affect your digestive system, right, something like you could be nervous. All of a sudden, you don't have an amity, you feel nauseous, whatever. It's a connection.
:So this, what you put in your body, affects your mental state, right, and so people you think about people, uh, with any type of you know mental health issue, or even children, dealing with things like adhd and things like that. Food is it makes a difference. You know, even kids that are dyslexic and things like that. It makes a difference, not even the food, but, uh, household products you use. Okay, all those things, okay, don't look at, don't give me talking about clorox and all this and febreze and all that.
:Oh, that's bad. What you put on your skin, oh that's bad. 60 percent what you put on your skin goes directly to your bloodstream. So I know the ladies, they're all bad, their body works and all that is. I'm killing clothes on. All that's killing you, killing yourselves, right? So it's so much deeper than what people know. You know, know, I just talk about food, but I can go into a whole lot of stuff, you know, because it's just a lot, but that's why we're sick, you know, that's why we're sick. You know, like cancer rates through the roof. You know, just, obesity is through the roof. I mean everything.
:Like we have to learn this thing because we can't depend on the government. I mean they're not, they're not for us. Have to learn this thing because we can't depend on the government. I mean they're not, they're not for us. You know, we have to know for ourselves. Can't depend on them. Fda is not. You're not looking out for you. They, they authorize this stuff. They they authorize, uh, split that to be on the shelf, even though that's an artificial sweeper that's killing people. We have to know. Yeah, well, I appreciate you helping us get our power back and helping women to finally heal. Yeah, and to be a priority. Like this has been amazing. Any parting words.
:I just want you to know that whatever you're feeling today, whether you have low energy, whether you deal with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, like inflammation, back pain, it doesn't matter. I need you to know that better can be had by you too. So I invite you to join my free masterclass. It's at Iamthehopemasterclasscom. That is it. It's very simple. Go there. If nothing else, just get the information. Okay, get the information. If you feel led to join the Sugar and Sweet Academy, I'd love to have you. I'd love to help you reverse your chronic conditions. I'm Rochelle T Parks everywhere on social media on Facebook, on Instagram, tiktok, youtube. Rochelle T Parks, that's where you'll find me.
:This has been another episode of the Finally Healed podcast with Jessica Lundy. I hope you are feeling encouraged, blessed, excited in the overflow, right, ready to change, and if you have enjoyed this, please share this. This is good information. Good information deserves to be shared with the people that you say you love. Remember you got this.
:So women always ask me how do I do it all? Being a wife for 10 years, a mother, a international keynote speaker, a keynote writing coach, I am so blessed to occupy so many spaces and I am ready to give you all of the goods. I've never done a workshop quite like this before, but I am ready. Quite like this before, but I am ready. It is time for us to get in our PJs and have a new year, new me, bump that. New opportunities, new mindset, new habits, new money okay, going into the new year, we are gonna have a packed two-hour workshop where we're gonna to be releasing some stuff from the past we're going to be planning from the new year.
:This is an event that you cannot afford to miss. I know that you are tired of playing small. You know that greatness is inside of you and I want to pull it out of you so that you can truly launch into the best version of yourself. So to learn more, click the link below. You got this and I can't wait to party with you virtually. Thanks for watching.