In this episode, I have a guest with me. Andrea Dell is a Code Red-certified coach. She heads up the copywriting department for Code Red. It was not an easy feat getting to the level that she is at right now.  If you would know her now compared to just a couple of years ago, she isn't even the same person.

As she confides, before Code Red came into her life, her health had started going on a downward spiral, where she just got super sick. She could not even walk, much less go hit the gym, and she couldn't breathe because her stomach was swelling. 

It was pushing on her heart and lungs and it was all very scary. At one point, she thought she was dying. She thought her heart was just going to go one day and she was going to fall over dead at age 32. It was changing her diet, changing what she ate, that brought her back from all that.

In 2017, she found Code Red - the 10-pound takedown, which she joined. She got a custom program and lost 28 pounds in seven-and-a-half weeks. She’s been maintaining her weight for over two years at the time of this podcast recording and she absolutely loves it.

Andrea was once told by someone that Code Red is too restrictive. Her reply was: “I really don't feel restricted at all. And not only do I not feel restricted, I actually feel freer than I ever have.”

She shares with us: “I think when people see a program that's not a quick-fix gimmick, like Code Red, and they see they're going to have to maybe follow a rule or two, maybe make a change in what they eat and give up on these foods that they're so dependent on emotionally or their body's addicted to, they look at that and they go - ‘Oh, I'll have to restrict myself. I'll have to deprive myself’ and I get that. I've been there before. But for me, when you make the choice, that getting the weight off and feeling great about yourself and physically, is more important than that stuff. It's set me free with my health and also in all those areas of my life that I've been able to level up just because of that domino effect.”

Stay tuned as Andrea and I walk you through the ways in which Code Red has empowered us.

Key Points of Discussion:

• Andrea is pretty unrecognizable vis-a-vis a few years ago, courtesy Code Red (4:07)
• Losing the weight caused every area of her life to level up and to rise up (8:03)
• For her, the feeling great is more important than eating s’mores at 8 pm (11:33)
• She feels freer being in control than she does caving into impulses (12:53)
• She’s making the decision not to put it in her mouth. And that is freeing (13:52)
• She loves the way she looks and feels now (14:40)
• Far from Code Red being restrictive, we’re eating the proper human diet (16:50)
• They engineer stuff so that it lights up the pleasure center of our brain (18:05)
• I love the control to push past hunger and that uncomfortable feeling (20:39)
• Andrea’s family members too have gotten healthy through Code Red (23:51)
• She says post-Code Red, her income has gone up! (27:48)

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 Additional Resources:

• Get your FREE copy of the On-The-Go Guide for Code Red approved food here: http://bit.ly/on-the-go-guide 
• You can find out more about Cristy and the topic covered in this episode by checking out her website here.

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