Located in the heart of Irving, the leading health professionals at Blueprint To Healthcare are dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness objectives — combining skill and expertise that spans the entire healthcare spectrum. Blueprint To Healthcare is committed to bringing you better health and a better way of life by teaching and practicing the true principles of proactive approaches to health and wellness. Patients seeking treatment at Blueprint To Healthcare are assured of receiving only the finest quality care through the use of modern healthcare equipment and technology. Blueprint To Healthcare and the staff have a genuine concern for your well-being! If you are interested in starting your journey towards health and wellness please subscribe to our award-winning newsletter. Our current healthcare system is set up for the acute care approach. Acute care meaning, viruses, broken bones, near death injuries, but what it fails at is treating chronic conditions.

At Blueprint to Healthcare, we thrive off treating the underlying causes of chronic conditions allowing our clients to regain their health back. Latest from the Blog Your Computer, Your Sleep, and Your Heart Turn the TV/computer off and go to bed! Getting 5 hours of sleep doubles your chances of heart attack, according to... The Big Five Stress Agents You need to know that most of the fault for any failures you might be having comes at the hands of the BIG FIVE STR... Stay Connected on FacebookA few weeks ago, I wrote about doing a juice cleanse for a day. I got a comment today asking about it, and realized I’d never written this follow-up post. I’d had some initial thoughts the day of the cleanse, but I’d wanted to think a bit more about the experience before posting. If you’re too lazy to click over, basically, I felt kinda gross–gained some weight and just not generally healthy–and decided to do a juice cleanse for a day. I wanted to fit a little better into my fave skinny jeans.

Kelly, who is an RD, recently wrote a great post on five reasons not to juice cleanse. Going into the juice cleanse, I didn’t expect miracles. I had been eating kinda crappily for awhile and was mostly looking for a mental reset, hoping that by forcing myself into a strict regimen of nothing but fruits and veggies in juice for a day, I’d have an easier time getting back to healthy ways. I didn’t expect it to magically “cleanse” my body. I one million percent agree with her point that the juices will not magically detox your body.Bathroom Vanity Lighting Rules Also, juice cleanses are really expensive. Rv Transport Services Need DriversBlueprint, which I did because it was on sale at Whole Foods, starts at $65/day. Budget Blinds Photo Gallery

I spent around $40 on my juices on sale. Still not cheap, but a significant discount. I chose to do this for one day instead of their typical 3-day cleanse because I could not imagine not eating real food for three days. One day, I could handle. Also, I’m currently at a point where I’d rather work out hard than consume less calories, so the idea of a lower-calorie regimen (Blueprint is about 1100 calories) for more than one day was not terribly appealing to me. As I tried the first juice, I thought, okay, this could go two ways. I could just…have this juice…with my breakfast and just have a juice with breakfast. Or I could just try this for a day. The cleanse was six juices: two green juices, one lemonade-y juice, one beet juice (ew), one cashew milk (YUM) and one pineapple/apple/mint juice. All of the juices except the beet juice were tasty, and since you’re supposed to have plenty of water in between each juice, I never felt really hungry because I always felt so full of liquid.

I was about 4 juices down by dinnertime, and that was the only time I started missing food–so I went to a gentle yoga class. I came home and wanted to just do the cashew milk but finished the beet juice, too.Did I lose weight? Yeah, a pound or two the next day, but that was certainly all water weight since I probably peed at least 10 times the day before. Did it “reset my cravings?” Yes, for the next two days until I went to a party and a few glasses of wine reset my cravings in a different way. I think a cleanse like this is probably best if you have a big event coming up that you want to lose some quick water weight for, or if you have been eating crappy for a while and want something to force you to think a bit more closely about what you’re eating. (Or if you are having digestive issues–I know quite a few friends who’ve tried juicing to help with digestive issues.) I think a three-day cleanse would probably be more effective, especially from the mental/cravings standpoint, since it’s two extra days to reinforce the fruits and veggies.

That said, I like my food and can’t imagine spending nearly $200 to not eat for three days. Have you ever done a juice cleanse? Interested in eating better and losing weight ? Learn how your diet affects everything else in your lifeThere are lots of diets to choose from. But, when it comes to losing weight, you don’t need a diet that doesn’t guide you to a lifetime of healthy eating.You need a healthy eating plan that helps you lose weight, eliminates unwanted fat,  reduces your risk of disease, raises your energy levels, supports your workouts, and helps you reach all your goals. Blueprint’s Nutrition Coach will develop a program that compliments you hormone replacement therapy plan.WEIGHT LOSS JUMP START CHALLENGE! Get a JUMP START by making a FRESH START on a new, healthier YOU! The Jump Start Challenge is a two phase system, beginning with a 10 day reboot for your immune system! There are over 30 trillion cells in our body! Guess where 70% of our immune cells live?? If you guessed the gut, gold star coming your way!

Achieving and maintaining a healthy gut is imperative to our immune function and to our overall health and wellbeing! How do we achieve this?? By choosing the right foods because everything ends up in our gut! To qualify for this challenge, you MUST be willing to commit 100%, or results cannot be guaranteed. Here’s what’s going to happen. We are going to: remove those foods and lifestyle practices that have contributed to diminishing your body’s ability to function at its highest level.obtain baseline lab work (paid for separately) and repeat after challenge! Your results may astonish you after only 10 days of putting the right things in your body! replace nutrient poor foods with nutrient dense ones.restore your sense of well-being.start to rebuild your body’s health long term by developing the skills you need to make healthy living a lifestyle, not some temporary “fad diet”. What Benefits Can I Expect from the Ten Day Challenge? a boost in energya healthier immune systemjump start your weight loss loss of inches where needed a decrease in your CRP (C-Reactive Protein) - a marker for inflammation in your body.

Because the foundation of all disease is inflammation. a decrease in your cholesterol, which decreases your risk for heart disease an overall feeling of well-beingif you have high blood pressure, a decrease in blood pressure * I will be asking you to give up a lot of the foods you love for 10 days. If you are serious about your health, and willing to commit (it is a big commitment), then this is the challenge for you!! *This challenge works best when it’s done in small groups of 5-10 people. So invite a friend, your spouse, a co-worker, or anyone you think will benefit from this! Every Sunday evening during the 5 week program, we will meet virtually to celebrate successes, overcome challenges, hear some best practices from your peers, and encourage each other! I will be touching base with you every day for the first 10 days at whatever time you specify is best for you. You will receive recipes via email every day, quick and easy meal ideas, along with a little inspiration. What happens for the remainder of the 3 weeks and 4 days of the 5 week program?further support if you decide you would like to extend this way of eating beyond 10 days because you are feeling AMAZING and loosing weight!it will be important to gradually add back some (not all) of the food you didn’t eat for 10 days.

You may discover that some foods make you feel bad, but the only way to know which ones is to add them back one at a time. you will have access to me Monday - Friday between the hours of 8 am and 8 pm for any questions, concerns, to celebrate a success, and/or if you just need a little motivation. virtual gatherings with the group every Sunday for 30 min via phone or computer (if it runs over 30 minutes, that’s totally cool) this program also comes with 4 one hour education classes that are optional. We will discuss topics like the connection between diet and disease, how certain foods affect your body, how you can prevent and reverse disease via diet, and some things that will make your jaw drop. This just might be the conversation that could save your life or the life of a loved one.* All of this for the low costThere is a Maintenance Phase if you decide you still need or want a little more support. For $100/month you will have access to me Monday - Friday between the hours of 8 am - 8 pm for questions, concerns, to celebrate a success, and/or if you just need a little motivation;

and weekly 15 minute check in calls to see how you are doing. You can discontinue this whenever you like. With every bite of food you take, you are either causing disease and weight gain or preventing disease and promoting weight loss! Don’t waste another meal! 1-on-1 Consulting1-on-1 consulting, vs group coaching, allows us to take a deeper dive if you have specific goals and/or challenges. As opposed to group coaching, where the curriculum is decided beforehand, individual coaching allows for a more personalized experience. We will address all areas of your life, not just nutrition, but physical activity (what's right for you), stressors at work and at home, support structures, spirituality, and emotions. As a recovering anorexic and bulimic, I can fully understand and appreciate how stress, emotions, and lack of a support structure can affect eating habits. While I am not a licensed therapist or M.D., through my training and experience, I can help you understand the benefits this lifestyle can have on your disorder from my own experiences.

I wish I would have known then what I know now! But at least I get to share it with you, thus my suffering will never be in vein. Kinds of Clients Who Would Benefit from 1-on-1 Consulting: Those who have more at stake and need immediate life changing results. (For example, significant health issues like coronary artery disease, cancer, diabetes, etc…)Individuals who need more intense accountability to meet their goals. Those who already have a lot of education, but aren’t making any headway in accomplishing their goals. Benefits of 1-on-1 Consulting for the Client: Personalized attention; consultant will get to know client’s strengths, weaknesses, personality, quirks, etc.The client gets more time with the consultant.The client gets more attention and accountability. The client does not have to worry about the dilemmas of others.The curriculum is customized to the client’s needs as time progresses, not beforehand. What else do you get?free initial consultation—it’s important that we establish a connection.

My number one priority is your happiness, health and success. To achieve these things, there must be a connection. I don’t want to waste your time or money if you don’t feel we have a connection, so the first consultation is on me!food journal analysislab work analysis (labs paid for separately), labs will be repeated to ensure program is working.personalized meal plan4 virtual, one hour education classes (optional) discussing topics like the connection between diet and disease, how to prevent and reverse many of the Westernized diseases we see today, it just might be a conversation that can save your life or the life of a loved one!one 15 minute weekly check in call for 12 weeksaccess to me Monday - Friday between the hours of 8 am - 8 pm for questions, concerns, to celebrate a success, and/or if you just need a little motivation. There is a Maintenance Phase if you decide you still need or want a little more support. For $100/month you will have access to me Monday - Friday between the hours of 8 am - 8 pm and weekly 15 minute check in calls to see how you are doing.