Hello and welcome to pardon my French episode 23. So we've skipped two weeks. I am Ingrid de la marck any and I am your host love from beautiful Monaco. We skipped two weeks because our transformation Retreats magical Retreat if you followed my adventures and my team's Adventures on Instagram, you know, we had the most magical week retreat at the Grand Hotel du cap in National Kapa Haka right here in the south of France overlooking the Mediterranean Sea in one of the most iconic hotels and I have to say I had to make this podcast episode all about that experience. I never expected what this experience was and to see women coming together the way that they have so this week's episode is about women uplifting one another women fixing each other's crowns. And women remembering that they are queens and they are wearing a crown over their head at all times. So it was really incredible to me because some of the women that came to the retreat I had never met before I had Instagram met one of them was actually a complete ghost follower and she was the first one to sign up for my retreat when I had planned it for Corsica. The times of Corsica is the island of beauty and it's about an hour and 15 minutes flight from from here from the south of France from Monaco, and we had planned a good Is retreat at a hotel a five-star hotel Malaysia to and it was meant to be the most beautiful paradise, you know havin for this Retreat little bit down the line as I organized it and started having people signing up. We had a lot of people signing up for it. A lot of wonderful women turns out the hotel was really really laid back about their way of dealing with, you know, customer service and you know all of this. Things that I had put in place for this Retreat to happen long story short as the retreat got closer. I felt like they were not up to part for, you know, my Norms do type of service and like Supreme and extreme Perfection. I wanted to give my guests so I decided to call every single one of my guests that were already paid guests and run. Buy them, so I scheduled Skype calls with every single one of them and said and all of them are mostly in the United States Canada. I had another lady that was coming from Israel at the time. I had a lady that was coming from Saint Barts. I called all of them on Skype and said look, this is not looking good. This is a five star hotel. It looks really good on, you know, the Conde Nast Traveler because they had gone preview down there. They had gone. Ward's but right now the way that they are dealing with us is just not good and I want to cancel this Retreat and I want you to either ask me for your money back. Whatever cancellation feeds your flight will cost you or let me keep the money and organized to most beautiful Retreat ever somewhere else and some of them ask for their money back and rightfully, so and they got it back because they could make it at another time. Of them were super grateful. I did not take the leap of faith into the darkness kind of and realized that I just really wanted to keep my credibility intact and I didn't want to put them through a trial and error case scenario with this first Retreat. I was do I was planning and one of them particularly said now, you know, what what Ever you go. I'll go you let me know. Let me know the dates run them by me if I can make it I will be there and that's exactly what happened. And she ended up coming to this retreat at the counter said you cap which we whipped up in less than two and a half months because the Grand Hotel du cap was closed for the winter as they always are and I couldn't get in touch with management until they came back to work sometime in February and thanks to oh hell yeah. If you are listening, thank you so so much for believing in me. I know it's not easy to open the doors of a Four Seasons five star hotel of such Excellence to an organization that you know, nothing about and especially to a retreat where I very much impose my rules. I've imposed a lot of my ideology. I've imposed my cookbook recipes in a way. So I can't thank oh hey neela enough for making it happen. And another person I have to thank for that is my executive producer husband. She'll Kenny who had shot a TV commercial for at zero campaign for at zero there last year and kind of made a good name for us because it was a huge production. The the adages came out. I actually posted it on my story yesterday. And so the Four Seasons which owns the content LG cap was He thrilled with sharp Pride just company and the way that this production went and so when they said well the wife is kind of, you know want to do this retreat. They were like fine if the production of this Retreat goes the way that the other campaign want and it's going to make us look good. We'll do it. So I have to thank my husband my brilliant husband jail for making it happen for me and giving me a good name right off the bat and Making this happen for me long story short. I have one participant that was meant to come to Corsica year ago when it up showing up to the retreat a lot of people ended up canceling because we didn't know when the next Retreat would be. We didn't know where it would be. I just was promising that it would be as a level of Excellence that was worth the wait. And so some of them showed up. Some of them couldn't and then new people showed up. I haven't authorized retailer in Ontario that resells simply in your land and I think she heard me on the skinny confidential last year and right after she heard me on the skinny confidential. I studied advertising The Retreat again as I knew that I was working on a better venue and she actually signed up whether without ever talking to me long story short Giovanna. Who's the owner of Unique concept Boutique in Ontario. Rio became my authorized retailer for simply in your land a few months ago. But before that she had signed up to come to the region and so she showed up which was awesome because by the time she showed up to the retreat and flew all the way from Canada to be with us. She knew Susan my manager of operations really. Well, they talk like almost every day about her inulin shipments that she gets hundreds of and then gets sold out after two days of receiving it. And I knew her really well, I mean we've been like buddies on Instagram. We've been tagging each other. She had an amazing coffee and clothes with a k for both words event where she featured in Ulan and so that was really cool to have her and then I have another wonderful participant. I'm not going to go through every single one of them, but just for the neck dots who is has been a friend of mine on Facebook for many many years. And she's a little bit older than me. She has a young daughter who I absolutely love why connected online with after getting to know the mom and this woman who came to the retreat actually flew here last year stayed at the Grand Hotel du cap, which I didn't even know and you know took the drive to Monaco to train with me. So she came to train with me to the south of France for two days. And of course we got closer lo and behold We had met on Facebook years ago when Facebook was still in style and she came to train last year with me and then when she found out about this Retreat, she couldn't make the previous one. She said Ingrid I'm going to come and I was like, oh my God. Are you coming? Just like yeah, I'm gonna come I'm coming. That was awesome. And I had another woman come from London who High who I had met in New York City many years before her career changed. She moved to London Mike. Career changed I moved to Monaco. She found out about the retreat and decided to take a leap of faith and she's not even on Instagram. So she's Instagram. Shy so a lot of you wouldn't know she is she wasn't tagged or anything, but she showed up without even knowing anything about my true philosophy because really the way to get to know what I believe in and to know about simply Newland and got health and hormones and even the method and the movements is really to kind of follow me on social media. Even the website de mehsud is great, but it doesn't go in depth as much into the experience that you would have if you came to a retreat but she showed up because she knew me she knew she knew how I am. She was attracted to the energy and she showed up and I have to say when she arrived at The Retreat she was the most resistant and she would tell you herself. If she came on this podcast. She was the most resistant to the non-diet perspective. When we started to serve food at the retreat she was like, oh my God, that's too much food. What kind of retreat did I show up at? Am I going to get fat on this Retreat? And so of course we had this meetups and you know casual lecture. And yet after all of this kind of casual lecturing and explaining the philosophy this one woman who actually came knowing nothing about the method knowing nothing about simply gangster Chic products knowing nothing about my e-cookbook or my ideology. She had not heard my podcast nothing like that. She literally came from me because she knew me as a person. She knew I had a protocol that I created and that I launched years ago. and she trusted a process Without Really knowing what she was getting herself into and to me that was so amazing but yet after all of these like Lecturing and explanations and talks to first two days. I could see in her eyes. She was so afraid of food food fucking petrified her and I had a lot of empathy for her. It was not that I was getting upset because she wasn't getting the gist of it. I felt like she was at a disadvantage from the other women who had been following me on Instagram who few of them were already on the virtual platform exercising and getting ready for the Treat, you know it's like when you follow my Instagram stories you listen to the podcast. So I go on that. I'm inviting on invited on or the one or my own podcast. Pardon. My French this one you kind of have all of the information already hammered in your head. You already know what to expect coming to the retreat, you know, we're not going to be having juicing and you know fasting for 24 hours, you know, we're going to sit around and have a you know, south of France Mediterranean. Lunch with an appetizer and a main course and a cute dessert with the Sheikh bite rule, but she didn't know any of that and I could see that when the meals would come she would be like petrified of eating food. The only time that she was very receptive from day one was when the simply kefir coconut vegan yogurt came on the table that she had no fear of eating she ate it right away. She said it tasted delicious. You could tell that it was healthy. She felt it right away yet. She enquired about the fat in it. So it was like I felt like I needed to have her next to me sitting at the table every single day to kind of walk her through it and hold her hand and familiarize her with eating food. Again. This woman was really unhappy with her midsection. 45 years old gorgeous. Gorgeous woman told beautiful lean legs. But her midsection have been inflated from what we believe was a hormonal imbalance after a breakup, you know, having had no children by the age of 40 45 it hits you even having children at the age of 40 45 it hits you. It hit me I speak about it all the time. This is when I became so much more aware of hormones. And so for her, it was really the idea of teaching her that dealing with her quarters. Levels was what we needed to be doing teaching you about insulin resistance never heard of it. All this woman you to do was go on what we call other Retreats like retreat but juicing for like 10 days and not eating solid food. So it was like kind of walking her back into eating real food for the first time again, so she's probably the one I give the credit for by day three. She was convinced. She did Skip one meal saying I can't eat all that food. I'm so scared of eating and that was on day two and when she did skip it midday right after the second master session of the day. She was like, I need a snack and we all looked at her and were like, we're not hungry. We don't want a snack. This is the problem you are messing with your hormones. You're so scared of eating real food. Dan your body goes into insulin resistance your cortisol levels go up your grilling a hormone is Raging and you want a snack and what happens with a snack. Usually you don't want steamed carrots as a snack you want a snack that's exactly what happened. She went into a room and she had like chickpea potato chips. Like they weren't potato chips. They were chickpea chips, which is called so-called ships here in the south of France. And that would be an okay thing to have with aperitif when we had the glass of wine or a piece in the champagne before dinner, but that's definitely not okay right after a workout and it's not normal to want it. So if you have these insane Cravings midday or you've been kind of like modified in your that in your head to believe that you're supposed to have snacks. Let me break it to you what this Retreat really? Introduced to women who were not so sure yet about how the body functions the less you put your digestive system through the process of digesting the better. So if you can cut your meals into three a day and no more than that and the rest of the time between those meals you let your digestive system recover the more likely you are to keep your cortisol levels low the More likely you are to prevent insulin resistance and the more likely you are to no longer. Hold on to fat in your midsection. And it's kind of like a complete reverse belief and process from what we've been taught and what this woman that I speak about and I respect so much for her courage finally coming to the wild side and listening to me Midway through the retreat. It's very difficult to reverse the way that we've been programmed to believe that were supposed to have two snacks a day three meals, but cut down on carbs have processed alternative kind of foods and protein powders, but be scared of chick peas and sweet potato and turn it all around and show her. So the bottom line was I would sit with her. I would always make it a point to sit with everybody we kept on doing musical Church. Chairs like every single meal so I could be sitting next to everyone and then Susan got her chance to interact with everyone so we all and so everyone would get to know each other as well. So we kept on changing chairs. We didn't have like a special, you know, see throughout the whole retreat, but I would make it a point to sit next to this particular woman whenever I could or not too far so I could make eye contact with her and tell her with really soft. Thighs and a lot of love. It's okay to eat. You are safe with me. You are safe with this food. This food is good for you. But the bottom line was I told her when she arrived I said you came here not happy with your midsection every single diet that you've tried every single Trend you followed has not worked. You're still unhappy with your midsection. What do you lose listening to me this week? I know what Doing and she said okay. I trust you, but please walk me through it. Please deal with my fear of food. And that's exactly what I did and by day three in Ulan had bloated her the first two days because it was her first time within your lane. But because she was on this intensive program with me and she was eating the right food breakfast lunch and dinner or doing intermittent fasting the right way with a new land in her coffee or energy. Artie and having the simply kefir as a probiotic with calm which comes as kind of like a bandage kind of like a Band-Aid for your gut when you're intermittent fasting and that taking away our hunger like the bad kind of hunger do craving hunger that comes deeply from a lepton such occasion hormone that is completely imbalanced and sending the wrong neural signals to your brain. So going through all of that this week instead of having the 10-day of bloat with the inulin that some people have at the beginning which is completely normal because we're altering your gut. She had only two days of bloat on the third day her stomach felt flat which give her confidence in the food finally and on so on the third third day when she started feeling the effects of inulin now, you need to know if you are going to start in your lane. To necessarily expect to have a great turnaround in three days. What happened at the retreat is not likely to happen in your home, especially if you're in the United States because you're still fighting with the produce that you have at your disposal in the states, which is not the same. We had at The Retreat we have south of France Tomatoes. We had the best bovine meat possible. We had the best olive oil. We had food that was not processed whatsoever. Everything was made in The Chef's kitchen. So you have to know that your gut may take longer to adjust if you're starting in your lane and you're in the states or in your in England where you're more exposed to processed food and shelter rated food. So in this case though at The Retreat because she was following this. Regime, you know so fully I mean that was the point of the retreat. We only had Six Days Seven Nights. So we had to make the best of it. And so that's what we did when she started feeling that she did bloated and her bowel movement, which was always a problem having chronic constipation is something that is very indicative of having hormonal issues. So woman that going to be 45 years old starting to feel like her midsection is Dated and retaining fat like it wasn't before that is hormonal weight gain and very often the same person will be constipated that is a complete sign of hormonal imbalance. So for her, that's what it was and with the simply Kefir in the simply a new land and the exercise and eating the right food and I made her eat olive oil. She was so scared of Oliver. She loved it, but she was so scared of it. So when she finally a dared to the philosophy on the third day, she Finally found a little bit of solace in food rather than being so afraid of it. She started seeing results. She did not leave the retreat completely transform last you want to we have more than six days to go. I mean six days was great. She totally deflated. We saw it on our neck. We saw it around their thyroid area with so we don't know shoulders in her arms her midsection deflated her legs started leaning up, but she needs to definitely be sustaining this Lifestyle and not diet ever again because it's definitely rubbing her hormones the wrong way, but that being said I had a lot of empathy for what she was going through the first few days being so fearful of food by the end of the retreat she was eating a normal meals with all of us without being afraid of food. She even had some bread and I really pushed on the sourdough bread at The Retreat and they were sourdough and simply in your land in it, but it was also regular sourdough bread with no annually. It was the hotel bread which I totally told my guests they should have and try and none of them gain weight. As a matter of fact, all of them lost weight all of them leaned up and looked amazing, but I learned more from this Retreat than just a transformation of the body and low cortisol levels and there was definitely a transformation in me. And even in my daughter Savannah who was an assistant on the a tree that was amazing to have her on this Retreat. She was not, you know treated with any privilege. She was really a full-fledged employee. She was at everybody's back and call she was amazing. She actually was working for Susan my director of operations. So she answered to Susan and I even saw the change in Savannah who you know is now graduating this year going to law school next year. And of course she suffered the Wrath Of you know Mean Girls as they all do in school and high school. This retreat has changed her perspective on women and I already had my perspective on women completely changed from having shared my life story with all of you on podcast like the skinny confidential or the pretty electric or other podcasts. I've been on recently. I went on dr. K spot cast as well and we Spoke about my past my experience and having seen women hundreds of women hordes of women come behind me and lift me up and say your past doesn't Define you it makes you your amazing. I admire you and none of them judge me had already changed my perspective of women on women. I through the process of becoming who have become and doing what I do and becoming more public on Instagram and more. Authentic by the minute. I've realized I'm a real girls girl, which I was not before. I was afraid of women. They used to hurt me a lot in Friendship today. I thrive thanks to women and I love them and I was thrilled to see that I was able to transmit this love for women and how powerful the camaraderie between women can be with my daughter Savannah was turning 18. She's truly felt that we had all democracies in this Retreat from Susan and I'd Savannah's age to our guests. We went from age 18 Savannah to 2731. We had 46 year old. We had a 60 year old. I mean we had every age in between and to see this group of women all demography. Different social circumstances circumstances different love lives different family situations all come together as one one lifting the other up constantly, encouraging one another reassuring one another shopping together, you know having this deep talks talking about our past talking about our future talking about our present giving each other advice. It's change. Even Savannah's perspective on women which for her I think completely changed the way she felt about relationship with girls her age. When the retreat ended she said gosh, I don't want to go back to my friends didn't mean I want to be with real women like the women at the retreat and this had me thinking this is the new era 2019 is the new era where you don't look at yourself in the mirror and Samira. Mirror tell me I'm the most beautiful today you look at and another woman's eyes and she tells you you're beautiful and she's your mirror and you tell her she's beautiful you feel you fix the other girls Crown. That's what it was all about during the master sessions. If you've watched our videos not even of the retreat but my videos of the method protocol, you know, we have a bar and that bar is supposed to be held on top of your head not behind not in front, but on top of your head and I I'm reminding my participants butcher bar on top of your crown and visual and visualize visualize this this crown that you have on your head on your head your old queens put the bar on top of your crown and automatically I would see postures Rising confidence enhanced smiles and definitely the bar on top of the crown and then Giovanna the owner of Unique Concept in Ontario. Is there she loves any time. Type of custom she was like, you know, what the next Retreat you need to get us crowns. So I do believe that for the next Retreat. I'm going to check up Jovanna on it because she's coming back next year and I'm going to get crowns for all of my participants to wear it during their sessions. So they remember to put their bar on top of their crowns and rise with their torso to the tallest and the proudest that they've ever been. It's good to be a woman nowadays. It's good to uplift each other. I got a very very Be upsetting message the other day from a woman who is apparently not very happy with her life and I'm going to share it because I found it upsetting for her. I found it really upsetting for her. I am going to share it not to bash her. I'm not even going to mention her name even though I tagged her when I posted on my story, but this is something that has to be said nowadays about getting horrible messages like that. So I want to To speak about it and look at things a different way. You feel women who have a little bit of jealousy in them and that kind of feel the urge of hiding behind their keyboard. I call them keyboard Warriors and if you're one of them listening you want to take this episode into consideration and think of how good you could feel like we did. The Retreat uplifting each other fixing each other's crowns even my 18 year old daughter who was on this Retreat working her butt off came out a better woman seeing this beautiful empowering relationship between women all ages all walks of lives. All kinds of bodies all kinds of hair all kinds of skins. This woman wrote to me. Totally I didn't ask her for her opinion. I've never actually spoken to her before she's actually asked me what kind of sugar I used before without saying hello or please it was like what kind of sugar and I never answered because I found a rude she wrote. I thought you were cool. But I listen to the podcasts today you seem to think right and wrong is gray area based on your personal circumstances. This is America and we have a Judicial System. Some rules are not Edible, I'm curious. Also you must have known your husband's values when you married she's talking about my ex-husband who became religious after we married you description of your life is confusing. You felt trapped in a Hasidic Community. I was not in a Hasidic Community, but I don't feel like I should explain I was actually in a religious Orthodox Jewish Community, but not Hasidic, but your husband's dinner there to the practices. I have two children with disabilities. She says and an autistic nephews could it have been you didn't accept the diagnosis of your son from an observers point of view you seem shady and like someone is always out to get you I feel so bad for this woman. I feel so bad for any woman that can take time out of her day to write to a complete stranger and judge that complete stranger for their life. Or worst again judge an ex-husband who didn't ask for anything my ex-husband knows I talk about our experience in her life, but I always do with the utmost respect. I don't think that my religion or my beliefs or my observe. My observing of my religion is anyone's business the fact that I would put in your aspect of my life out there has helped people. When Dylan my son and I decided to come forward to talk about the fact that it was on the spectrum of autism, and we did not accept a diagnosis. I did not accept it. Of course not when I decide to choose when I choose to share the fact that I have gone to prison never do I say what I was accused of was right or wrong not never do I give excuses on the contrary, but I feel like One woman that finds it in our heart to send such a rude ass fuck message talk about a man. She has never met my ex-husband. How dare she leave him the fuck alone, bitch. Mind your business. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one and no one wants to see your fucking asshole. So I'm going to say it right here. If you're listening to my podcast and you have the urge to send me a rude message. I couldn't give a fuck about your opinion. Your opinion did not be my fucking bills and or save my child nor sent my son to law school where he is today. Your opinion is your business just the same way that it is a reflection of your own issues. Now if you are one of those people Please find it in your heart to try and uplift another woman. It feels so good the retreat for me and I hope that it was coming across as vividly as it was probably not the magic that it can come across in videos. But I hope through the Instagram stories you all were able to feel this incredible magic of synergy between women no hate. It was unbelievable. It is so empowering. I came out of this retreat. Transformed bodies, but it has transformed me as well. I've never been more of a girl's girl then since this Retreat I've never loved women as much as I do today, and I love seeing the same has happened for Susan my director of operations. She was already such an uplifter. She was already, you know, my backbone and always being like boss. You're the best as a Joke, she doesn't call me boss. But you're the best your Genius and I always felt the same about her seeing my 18 year old perspective on women at such a young age changing for the best is extremely empowering. I'm so proud that this was possible and I thank all the women that we're at the retreat for making that possible for giving us this love for women and to anybody that's a keyboard Warrior that makes it their business to stay up one hour later at night to write. A long rude message to someone to another woman. I will tell you what I tell my kids. I tell my kids it doesn't matter if you do Shabbat because we're Jewish and we used to be religious. We're no longer. It doesn't matter. If you do piss off which is Passover, which is today actually on the Jewish calendar. It doesn't matter if you say your prayer in the morning it matters if you are nice, so this is my question for my children every day. Did you make someone P today if you have if you made one person happy one kind word one effort one phone call resolving someone's problem one person a day. Then you were a good Jew then you were a good human being then you are worthy and then I'm proud of you so I will say this to all of the women That have a hard time finding it in their heart to uplift another woman make it your business instead of sending your rude ass fucking messages to make someone feel bad. You're not always going to get someone like me on the other line. Someone who's going to fight back. Someone's going to expose you because I do expose it. If you feel comfortable enough to be a keyboard Warrior and hide behind your screen. I will expose you. I will post it for people to see It for what it is and usually when I posted the bat of this person is at waited by the goodness of the hundreds of women that answer back and go. Oh my God Ingrid. I'm so sorry you had to get a message like that. You are amazing. I love you. And I answer you are amazing. And I love you and Is This Love Fest that comes out of it? So win-win situation. The only one who loses is the asshole who's out to get herself by sending such a hateful message. Hate is painful hate hurts, but it hurts the person who gives it that hate you give is what hurts you. And guess what? It's not Chic so think about it something much thicker to do is to make someone happy even just once a day make someone happy and mean it one other thing when you are in a bad mood and you send disgusting messages to people maybe you need to eat a fucking sandwich get off that diet that will turn you into a real bitch. all of it this radical depravation in food or substitution of food or relying on a smoothie instead of your breakfast or pushing on snacks and processed foods as snacks. Will affect your leptin hormone, which is your saturation hormone will affect the your brain as well. It does cause depression it does cause being irritable. The gut brain access is a real thing. If you are kind if you spread kindness, your cortisol levels will go low and your midsection will shrink big nice can make you skinny the same way that you know, being polite sitting straight at the table can make you skinny as well. I speak about that all the time. So that's my message for today next week on the podcast. I have the incredible. Canadian Superstar blogger kg MTL Catherine, I know a lot of you know her and that's a big omage to my Canadian Community. I have a huge Canadian community at your door them Canadians are the most incredible and supportive women I've ever met. So that's that's great. I'm so happy to have Catherine on K GM TL is coming on the pod. I asked and we're going to talk about our journey with fertility. We are both trying to have a baby. Actually, I stopped trying for a little while because I had a miscarriage last June and since then it's been a string of miscarriages. So since then I had decided to give my body a break this year and focus on my children my husband being grateful for having them focusing on. My body focusing on my business and kind of wanting to try again soon almost giving myself a year break and my emotions are your break and I know that Catherine also spoken so much about her fertility Journey. So she's coming on to talk about that and talk everything health. She's super Savvy if you don't follow her yet get acquainted with her. She is badass. She says it like it is the way that I actually discovered her and I'll talk about it when I introduce her on the podcast next week. It's One of my friends was following her and said this girl is you in Canada. She says it like it is and sure enough. I started to follow Catherine and fell madly in love with her no-nonsense approach to everything as you can hear. I'm kind of losing my voice which I think comes from Retreat hungover. I'm totally hung over on the retreat High the beauty the magic of it, but also kind of feeling Jet Li Like from it because it was a 24-hour round-the-clock thing. The adrenaline was pumping and when I would go sleep at night, the energy was so high I would have a hard time sleeping. I'd be excited for the next day. I have tons of ideas. So Catherine is coming on the podcast next week. I get sidetracked. So sorry, so excited to tell you about all of this also at The Retreat we put some special touches every day. Our Retreat attendees would get articles. That I've written either for fellow bloggers. So I wrote like articles for the skinny confidential and the skinny confidential Lauren. We printed those out like little newspaper and submitted them. There was an article written about me by my good friend Virginia for the Adonis magazine. We also submitted that and then every night we would put the quote the Food For Thought of the night on and everyone's plate and it was amazing because it had to do with having a good relationship with food. So for example, one of them the first one on day one the Food For Thought said no disease that can be treated with diet should be treated by any other means and that's from maimonides, which is also like the term mood to wish ancient wisdom deals a lot about science and physics and health. Um every night, I we would put something like that and kind of reaffirm and we introduce everyone to having a great relationship with food and remember that it's what food can do for you rather than do what food can do to you. So I'm wondering if you want to do start those those food for thought if you haven't received them. Or I actually screenshot them on my story when I posted them and you want them you can email us you can email us at retreat at the method M c.com. We're going to put that link in the show notes and just say I would like to get the food for thought and we'll send you the six of them that we served up every night on everyone's plates. They would find it on a really pretty print of Rock Palm Tree. Thank you cards that you guys get In your packages. So if you want those if you want to get some of the articles that we ended out, I also had I forgot to mention that I think I don't think I mentioned it crazy. If you guys remember we had a collab with a company called Your T. Now if you know anything about me, you know, I am against any kind of skinny t or t that promises you that you will lose weight. I think it is absolute bullshit. R. T is not that at all. I met the CEO of your tea in Capri last year. We fell madly in love. We had a girl crush at a restaurant where you kind of sit a very promiscuous like in a very promiscuous way near people you absolutely don't know. So that was the Aurora restaurant in Capri, which is my favorite restaurant in Capri and she's sitting next to me and with her big smile, and I'm usually when I'm going to chill out on a date, I really don't socialize with people around me because I'm so Focused on our romantic time, but this girl just Charmed me with her smile. We started talking. She didn't tell me what she did for a living but I knew she was from Australia. She seemed very inclined. She knew a lot about wellness and health and I told her what I did in Monaco. She said she had a friend in Monaco came off and we would see each other again lo and behold a few months later. She found me on Instagram and I was going to Positano where she was at the time because she lives there for months out of the year. And we became super close and then I realized she was the CEO of your tea and at that point we started a collab about God health because your Chi is all about Chinese medicine. So what staff does Steve stuff Wakefield she actually works with Chinese medicine medical doctors and creates this Chinese herbs blend for the gut for the hormones fertility. Even a sex T. So we did this collab back a few months ago called follow your gut with tiny T, which is all about God health and the Chinese herbs in there are pretty potent. I worked with her doctor at the time a Chinese medicine doctor and advisor at the time to write an e-book called follow your gut and this collab was in Ulan and China Tea together that you were to have within a 28-day period and we had extremely extreme Success With It people with IBS people with crohn's disease people with skin issues already in your lane is really well known for you know, tending to these issues but follow your gut call up sold out in the matter of a month and the e-book as well. So we gave out the e-book to our Retreat guests when when staff came steam came Steph came for 24 hours. She stayed with us. She lectured us she explained all the science and all her knowledge on God Health her own Journey with end of messages. And she also came out as the CEO of your tea. She was kind of in hiding all this time. She's like an anonymous he oh, but she came to the retreat and she was our guest speaker for 24 hours. She educated us. She indulge us with her beautiful presence and energy she Taught us so so much and that was just wonderful to have her do camera to be was just incredible. She connected with everyone and actually Giovanna right after went to Florence to run away never guess went to Florence and they had lunch together which made me so happy that was the power in the magic of this beautiful Retreat together. That's another thing that you know has been amazing. I've been all over the place on this podcast to so excited to tell you all about what's been happening behind the scenes at the retreat. And getting my message across of being a girl's girl and how powerful it is nowadays. I hope you enjoyed this episode. I can't wait for next week to have Catherine on I'm sure you will enjoy it. It will be full of information. Even for those of you that are not looking to get pregnant again or to get pregnant at all. We will talk Health Catherine is very very knowledgeable as well. She'd like me she does her research. She checked things out. She uses them. Um a while before she even recommends them she's not sponsored kind of whore at all. She is not she is No Nonsense, you will love the information and the value she will bring in if you are not on the virtual platform yet and you're not working out with me virtually yet. Maybe you want to you have as us today the retreat eggs. Perience 50 minute workout that has been posted on the virtual platform. You get to work out with me and with Ella Ella is one of my clients turned certified Master trainee at the time. She's getting her certification very soon. She also came to the retreat and was part of it with us for her own pleasure allies becoming a master for pleasure not for work. She will not be working. NG with me or anything like that, she's just decided to do this for herself. She wanted to reach a level of Mastery of the method body mind and soul for sure. And so Allah is my guest on this video and we are giving you the retreat experience with this workout 15 minutes of a very supercharged MasterChef Master session exactly the same moves and the same execution. As my guest did during the retreat which transformed them. If you have not seen it yet. You want to go on the virtual platform page which is in the show notes virtual that the method M c.com. You definitely want to sign up and start working out with us. So signing up on the virtual platform you pay a monthly fee and you have access to seven videos at this time. The basic video is the one you want to start with and ultimately you have the retreat experience 15 minutes of a supercharged workout that made for incredible Transformations for the during the retreat you can go on the method Instagram, which is in the show notes. Also it's linked in the show notes and see for example, we've posted Amalia. She was one of our guests and the way that she's Formed is just incredible in the course of those Six Days Seven Nights all of it. Thanks to a med amazing Mediterranean meals that I've curated with my cookbook and prepared by start Chef Urich Tesh all of it. Thanks to to master sessions per day of 16 minutes each all of it due to low cortisol levels and just overall happiness. We also did the fat crushing massage massages with our Specialists. Barbara was part of our team. What else? Can I tell you about this transformation? We had simply inulin in mostly all of our meals. I did fiber but most importantly added Prebiotic you feed your good gut bacteria and when you figure good gut bacteria you stop retaining fat and you stop having insulin resistance which helps Lose weight switch wait, sorry which helps you fight Cravings the beauty of it. All is that none of us needed? No wanted to have snacks between meals. We haven't felt the need or want or craving for it and that is indication of very balanced hormones and a very balanced and happy guy. So that was with the simply Newland in our cookies in the morning when we didn't do the intermittent fasting in our coffee simply in your Ian was also in our desserts. We had our praline a truffle balls with in your linen it that's on my e-cookbook the Eco book if you want it if you want to eat the way we ate at The Retreat every single meal was created according to the cookbook that's going to be on the shop page and it's linked in the show notes. There's also a hardcover and softcover coming up. If you prefer to have it in your hands. It will be in the shop very soon. And you also have simply kefir which we had every morning. We also had it. So we had it in the morning in the form of a coconut vegan yogurt Chef Yorick th prepared it for us. He used simply kefir of course or vegan water kefir grains and it followed my recipe which comes with the simply give your where you when you purchase it and it was so creamy. So delicious everyday tasted a little bit different but every day was so amazing and made the Gut fell feel completely balanced the best way to know that Kefir is working is when you start having a regular bowel movement. I know sorry too much information, but don't feel like it's a laxative which is so so important. I hate anything that is like a laxative. So this is like a natural occurrence where you got is completely balanced. You become regular in your bowel movement. You feel like your tummy is totally depleted and Importantly you no longer crave for carb rich food you crave for healthy food. And that's amazing. It's it is a big difference between deciding to push yourself to eat healthy food and to eat a balanced meal with vegetable protein and not go crazy with starches like potatoes or or pasta constantly or you know food that don't really have any nutritional value. And there's a big difference between craving that kind of healthy food big difference restriction or simply following your body intuitively. And so that's what I loved. I loved seeing that process happening for everyone and I do credit a lot of it to the simply kefir and the simply in your lane, but I also credited to have it to having Mediterranean food without being afraid of fatty acids, like avocado olive oil eggs Olive We ate all of that. We had a little bit of sour dough bread every day. Everyone had a piece the size of their hand and it was absolutely fine was actually super healthy and help them not feel restricted. Everyone had an incredible transformation. Everyone was happy. No one felt like they were on any type of restriction or Retreat. I've had some people even call it a vacation by the end. So, you know that it's working when it's called a vacation rather than a retreat vacation that you come back losing weight and transform rather. Than gaining weight and feeling like you need to get back on track. I hate that word. That being said you can find typically Newland and cyclic if you're on the website, of course and I have a big big big announcement when it comes to Beauty you guys all followed me on Instagram. If you've been on Instagram and you've seen my trip to Morocco, I always bring back from Morocco rose oil pure rose oil which gives me that incredible glow on my face and purifies my skin you see me. Using it with my Clarisonic face massager for lymphatic drainage on my face this oil. I am bringing to you. It's coming out in the store next week. It's coming straight from Marrakesh. I am going back next week to Marrakesh to actually make sure that everything is happening according to plan and that we're getting the best best of the best as always the same as simply and you'll instantly kefir. So the rose oil real the hose, it's called fucking beautiful and it will be in shop next week. I am so excited to bring that to you. So many of you had asked if I would bring it and I am I will also be bringing amber amber rocks, which you've probably seen on my stories as well, but that will be a few weeks later and also coming from our cash so so much as far as new products launching and a hole Section Beauty section and Ambiance section, which I will call low cortisol section. I hope you enjoyed this podcast. If you have any questions, you know, you can go on my latest post on Instagram and ask them. I always answer everybody every single information. I've shared on this podcast today is in the show notes. So feel free to check it out on this note. I wish you a beautiful weekend busy bisous from Monaco.
As Ingrid is literally stepping off her RETREAT CLOUD (her magical THE METHOD®️ transformation one week retreat at Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat ) she can’t help but reflect on those people that hide behind their screen and hate on women and tells them how they are missing out in life ! !! Big time ! She is dropping the truth about how good it feels to be a GIRL’s GIRL !She says the day I started catering to WOMEN, is the day I became a REAL WOMAN ! I work with women incredible ones, I trust women in my everyday life, I employ women, and I love them. She also explains how technically being kind to other women can make you skinny ! For real Show Notes: Follow Ingrid on Instagram at instagram.com/Ingriddelamarekenny    Follow THE METHOD® Instagram.com/themethod.mc  Follow our product line SIMPLY GANGSTER CHIC Instagram.com/simplygangsterchic     Find our Simply INULIN by THE METHOD®|THE BODY - INGRID’s SIMPLY THE BEST E-COOKBOOK & SPICE, and THE NEW PURE PROBIOTIC Simply Kefir Champagne Lacté at shop.themethodmc.com   For our amazing FREE GUT HEALTHY FLAT TUMMY Simply Inulin chocolate chip cookies á la fleur de sel and GANGSTER CHIC BRIÔCHES simplyrecipes.themethodmc.com   For more info about our transformation retreat go to retreat.themethodmc.com   Do THE METHOD Free FLASH WORK-OUTS — no equipment needed  Flash-Workout # 1 https://vimeo.com/250033415/a161c4a0f9    Flash-Workout #2 https://vimeo.com254216501/8983e725b8    You can workout with THE METHOD ORIGINAL MASTER SESSIONS from the comfort of your home ANYWHERE ANYTIME by subscribing to the monthly membership at virtual.themethodmc.com The RETREAT EXPERIENCE 50 min workout master session is currently available and newly released. Request some reading material from the retreat by emailing retreat@themethodmc.com   BOOK your Transformation RETREAT week for our 2020 session at the ICONIC GRAND HOTEL DU CAP FERRAT here retreat.themethodmc.com      You can leave us a voice message with questions or comments we may future on the next episode here:https://anchor.fm/pardonmyfrench    You can find information about Ingrid’s one on one Mind-Body power mentor sessions here bodymindmentor.themethodmc.com   For all recipes mentionned in this podcast FREE at simplyrecipes.themethodmc.com  Follow next week’s episode guest KATHERINE Instagram.com/KGMTL 