We had a great time over the weekend for Annmarie’s birthday… 
I’ll have to post some of the pictures on Flickr.com so stay tuned for that.
Today, we addressed one of the bottlenecks in our business and while I was doing it, I was thinking about how this could be applied to your natural health program, raw food diet or–frankly–any health situation you encounter.
We also had an interesting request last week that I explain at the end of the show… it’s pretty a pretty funny one, so make sure you hang on until the end.
Here’s your take action step of the week…
Your question of the day: What is your “bottleneck”?
Click here, scroll down to the bottom of the page and leave your comment now!
Live Awesome!
Kevin
8:04 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I have been having a lot of questions lately, but do you know if baking soda works well as toothpaste? I am kind of on a buget and am looking for an option other than tooth soap.
8:12 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Exercise. I want to get out and run, stretch, do some weights. My time is so full on with going to the produce stores. Preparing food for my wife and I.
8:28 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Product placement, well done Kevin on the bottleneck process!!
8:28 pm on November 3rd, 2008
My bottleneck is my income level. Though it might not be. Those days when I’m living on banana-spinach smoothies because that’s all I can afford until the next check might be really good detoxifying times.
I’m working on the income thing – I’m in grad school. I’ve thought about other ways to bring more income in but I need to focus on grad school, focus on taking care of my disabled husband, focus on my health and that doesn’t leave a lot of time over for building a business or any other extra income project that I’ve been able to come up with so far.
But it’s all good. A few more years and I’ll have my degree and a good job and can buy my own (small) orchard if I want to.
And, in the meantime, bananas and spinach are probably a heckuva lot better “poor days” than ramen noodles.
8:33 pm on November 3rd, 2008
The old fashioned way of sayting that was that we had a crimp in our style. We couldn’t get things done because there was a crimp as one would have in a wire not allowing electric current through.
The things that slow down my current is lack of organization so that I can get everything done. Sometimes I honestly think I try to do too many things, hence the frustration.
No organic produce closer than 45 miles, so I can feel for ya, Del. There is a supermarket 15 miles away that has some lettuce and bananas and apples sometimes. This area has not caught on to how important it is. Since money has gotten so tight, a lot of vendors are afraid to carry it as they can’t afford for it to go bad if there aren’t enough customers. Having to go way out of town for good produce can be a major bottleneck when that is the majority of your diet. We have a garden, so that helps.
8:48 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I mean this with all due respect, but my husband is one of my bottlenecks. I can’t simply prepare food for myself and leave him on his own, so I have to continue to make some cooked foods and meat. We are in the beginning stage of our raw food adventure, so I’m hopeful that he’ll become more and more open to it as I experiment with foods and recipes and find some that he likes. On a positive note: I have actually been surprised at how open to moving to more raw foods he has been, so the bottleneck is much less than I expected!
9:04 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Hi
Exercise I suck at it. I need to keep doing it.
9:13 pm on November 3rd, 2008
being consitent & making the time to “eat right, exercise, & obtain adequate rest…This is my third attempt at living a complete “raw” lifestyle…the bottleneck is being committed to taking care of self
9:13 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Proper time management. My bottleneck is breaking away from work at a decent time and maintaining the focus to uphold my evening routine; exercise, reading, etc….
9:21 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Writing in my BLOG.. Off to do that tonight. Thank you Kevin
9:44 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I have to travel 25 miles round trip to whole food store.
There is nothing in my area.
9:59 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Hi Kevin and Annmarie – and happy birthday Annmarie!
You guys are the best! I’m very proud of you for staying out of the clutches of Tylenol; that’s good Karma points for you, staying true to your own cause.
My bottleneck is consistent motivation,follow through and focus. I spend hours reading about supplements, nutrition and exercise, but don’t get around to putting into practice what I learn.
I think breaking down the various tasks, like exercise, into small do-able components so that the job doesn’t seem to be too overwhleming, hard, and time-consuming. For example, I did the hidious job of cleaning out the refrigerator today by taking it one part at a time and actually writing each step down, giving myself a 10 minute time limit for each shelf and drawer. For some reason, writing it down with a time limit motivates me. And now I have a nice clean sparkling refrigerator. So now to apply that strategy to nutrition, vitamins, and exercise.
I also think its good to simply get rid of the stuff that sabotages you. Thus, no ice cream in the freezer – then you aren’t mysteriously tempted for some odd reason to eat ice cream right out of the container at midnight. It’s just not there when you go into the zombie state of mindless eating. So you eat an apple instead.
Happy election!
Diane
By the way, using the bottle as a prop was a nice touch.
10:20 pm on November 3rd, 2008
Kevin,
Interesting how you applied the “bottleneck” concept to our health. For me the bottleneck is staying consistent with exercise and healthy eating. In our busy lives it is sometimes hard to slow down and do what we should. I live in the northwest and with winter coming, getting enough exercise will be more challenging. Also, the holidays will make eating healthy a little more challenging.
Thanks for the post and I’ll seriously see what I can do to not have a bottleneck!
10:22 pm on November 3rd, 2008
I think one of my main bottlenecks remains not eating consistantly – I mean skipping meals – or not starting to eat until well into the afternoon – - – I KNOW!! – the perfect formula for hosing my metabolism – right?! My brain tells me that – but – somewhere in the back of my mind – I must still think – not eating at all is one of the ways to a healthy weight. I thought I had it conquered – and I do during the week – but weekends? – not so much.
10:25 pm on November 3rd, 2008
btw – nope – I can’t imagine “welcome to the Renegade Health Show – brought to you by the makers of Tylanol” either
1:37 am on November 4th, 2008
My bottleneck is that my world is so centered on food. I could have written Cindy’s comment and had to check the name to make sure I didn’t! So, I have a husband that eats a SAD diet but is trying to eat more salads, a daughter who is vegetarian (still eats dairy) and a son that doesn’t eat dairy but does eat chicken. So my bottleneck is trying to come up a menu plan, what to buy at the store, what to make at dinner and what not to eat when we are all sitting down watching tv in the evening and they are stuffing their faces. Watched my husband devour a bag of chips tonight (one of my trigger foods) while trying to stay awake. A friend and I decided to do a 6 am water class today to try and work on my number 2 bottleneck – actually doing exercise instead of just talking about it. I am actually considering going to sleep now so that I don’t have to think about food anymore today.
3:35 am on November 4th, 2008
my bottle neck would be eating late at night!!!
I got rid of my tv, it worked for awhile, than i got into doing youtube viewing and before you know it i stared eating in bed late at nite. sometimes i wakeup earlies so when i come home from work at 12 a.m. i will fall asleep fast. Lately i just been eating in bed and shortly fall asleep with food in my stomach, waking up with a full feeling……………help
4:53 am on November 4th, 2008
Baking soda mixed with salt and stevia is quite a good toothpaste. My bottleneck is definitely emotionally soothing myself with dense fatty raw foods like cashews and thick coconut oil and nut milk based smoothies.
6:23 am on November 4th, 2008
I think my bottleneck is likely emotional. Fear of change and procrastination on taking the actions I know I could be taking. The thing is I’m also afraid of the consequences of NOT changing. It’s highly illogical Captain
10:23 am on November 4th, 2008
My bottleneck is I don’t have enough tried and true raw recipes that I like and then I get tired of salads and don’t have anything to eat, so I fall back to cooked foods.
1:28 pm on November 4th, 2008
I’m having troubles getting over the amount of fat in the raw food diet. I’m trying to cut out sugar. I exercise quite a bit – run 6 miles and ashtanga yoga most days. It’s causing me stress!! I need the calories. Take a salad for example (from Dr. Gabriel Cousens): 1 avocado, 2-3 tablespoons hemp oil – that is a lot of fat calories !!!!!!!
The salad is for ONE Person !!!!!!!! We’re talking 500 calories of fat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELP!!!
2:15 pm on November 4th, 2008
Hi Kevin,
Since 3 years I change my lifestyle to vegan cyclist athlete. To optimize my physical and intellectual capacity I invest a lot in my diet and way to eat. Now I am 50-70% raw vegan, but I still need some cooked rice, noodle or quinoa to get my 3500-5000 kcal per day with all my bike races… and one a week I crave for sweet home-made pankace with fruit and jam and 2 cups of coffee. Bad habits, I know.
my main bottleneck in my lifestyle is still take action to create my goals, like write a ebook in French for tourism visiting Portland OR, start a raw vegan website for French market and start a living business to reunion sport, diet, Health and biology (I am biologist).
Well I still take action in the future: in June 2009 I leave the lovely Portland OR for France to go back to University for BS in nutrition and in January I will get a 8 full-days culinary Art class with Chef Al Chase here in Portland to learn professional cooking. My goal is to create my Institute where I will teach athlete (cyclists) and sick people how to change their lifestyle and get back to healthy life.
but take action is quite difficult for me with my very busy life between Science/cycling/cooking
PS: my linux-based PC don’t like your new video provider… it need to much MB for my wireless internet network shared between 3 neighboors… could you go back to YouTube ? It was very good.
4:18 pm on November 4th, 2008
Hello
Kevin you mentioned that your teeth had become a bit transparet. Have they recovered since stopping the fruit smoothies?
Also have you read much about Dr young’s ph Miracle cure? If so what do you think about it???
Thank you
Rachel
5:11 pm on November 4th, 2008
Hi ,
My bottleneck is soft drinks. Dr. Peppers in fact. I would like to get off them. But when I try to drink other things they all taste flat. They have no zing. I tried gingerale and added juice or other things to it but it still didn’t cut it.Tea sure doesn’t offer any help. I hate water. I know that is a bad one and I’m trying to get over that, I do drink more water now. I used to joke and say if the doctor drew blood it would be dr Pepper. I’ve looked for drink recipes but haven’t found any that really appeal to me. Do you have any suggestions. Real ones?
Marji
6:12 pm on November 4th, 2008
my bottleneck is emotional eating!! While I was working was 70% raw, as it is easy to make a salad, and take it along for lunch. I love home made cakes!! I baked an applecake yesterday, and felt peckish at 1am so went and had 2 pieces!!! The night before I had an apple, far more healthy!! What do you think of xylotol as a sugar replacement? I feel at times I might as well have the sugar rather than substitutes. Used to replace it with apple concentrate…Need to work on why the craving and how to block it…I do not buy any cookies, except when my son comes home. So if I want anything sweet I have to make it.
That puts a bit of a delay on things.. At least all is wholemeal and high quality ingredients. Also I want cooked meals now that it is so cold…
On the plus side I bought a juicer, so will have fresh juices for breakfast and snacks..
Any recommendations for starting this…
7:37 pm on November 4th, 2008
Yes, baking soda is great to replace toothpaste! My dentist suggested it. Tablespoon of baking soda with about a half cap of hydrogen peroxide, combine to form a paste. Do NOT swallow. Just brush and spit out. Great for improving gum health.
9:43 pm on November 4th, 2008
Strength training. It’s something I know I should do, but I haven’t yet made a priority. But between preparing raw meals and commuting almost 2 hrs/day and walking the dogs, I haven’t yet decided when to commit to it. It’ll come.
10:33 pm on November 4th, 2008
Lack of finances and lack of support. It’s hard to find work here in SoCal. Just to pay for basic necessities, including food. And, when I share my excitement about the things that I am learning, and seriously need to apply. I am the only one who’s interested. Everyone is happy to keep their diseases and their medicines. They basically think that I am looney.
10:32 am on November 5th, 2008
annmarie happy birthday
11:59 pm on November 13th, 2008
Marji, you might try kombucha mixed with fresh pressed apple juice. Or now is the time of year for stores to have fresh unpasturized apple cider. It is sweet and the kombucha is tart and a little bubbly, so it makes a satisfying and flavorful raw drink.
Exercise is my lately bottleneck. We’re having high winds in our high altitude neighborhood, and I need more motivation to get indoor exercise. Except yoga, I’ve been doing some almost daily.
Kevin and Annmarie and everyone, you are so good for me, thank you for all the suport you give just by sharing your stories!
11:46 pm on December 4th, 2009
When I was trying to watch this on ITunes, right after you said “these shows are usually very short” it stopped and I had to come onto the blog and search out this episode lol! My bottlenecks is exercise.
11:47 pm on December 4th, 2009
bottleneck not bottlenecks, sorry.