Ramsey Zimmerman – whatsworthwhile.net

4Nov

I’m Looking For A Few Good (and Tired) Men

Are you the kind of guy who pushes through at work, get’s it done, shows up at home, and dutifully does the dishes? Ain’t life grand? It is but … let’s be honest, it’s also a lot. We’ve been working hard for years, for decades, chasing success at work, giving our best to our family, trying to stay on the straight and narrow. But have you been taking care of yourself? Really? Or have the years begun to take their toll on your weight, your blood pressure, your stamina, your attitude? We put everyone else and their needs ahead of ours, which we want to do, but sometimes our own health and sanity suffer in the meantime.

Introducing the 12-Week Better Before Burnout Journey

It is so much better to deal with our bodily deferred maintenance before it becomes critical. I’m in pretty good shape today, but I had to walk away from an almost 30-year career to figure out what was going on with me (listen to my entire backstory on my “What’s Worthwhile Podcast”). I’m now launching my first set of services as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP). I’m excited to combine my life experiences and my personal wisdom (see my gray hairs?) with my new training as an NTP to help guys reclaim their health through five foundations: nutrient-dense whole food, effective digestion, blood sugar regulation, productive stress response, and high-quality sleep.

Maybe you’d like to be one of the first to experience this new program.

The 12-Week Better Before Burnout Journey will feature three main components:

Daily Messages – Five days per week, you will receive 8-minute audio messages that will lead you to observe and consider your situation, inspire you to take action, and build upon each other to set a path for you to follow.
One-on-one Nutrition and Lifestyle Coaching – You and I will meet three times over the 12 weeks and dig into the details of your eating, sleeping, and lifestyle habits in order to gauge your current condition, create a plan for improvement, implement some changes, and see how those work.
Weekly Group Gatherings – Those on the journey will have weekly opportunities to gather together towards developing brotherhood. We will share our experiences and struggles, encourage each other, and learn together.

To get a sense of the format of those daily audio messages, and to hear more about what I have in mind for this offer, listen to this What’s Worthwhile Podcast Episode: Looking For A Few Good (and Tired) Men.

I’m offering the Journey to the First 3 Men for only $99.

I haven’t finalized pricing yet, but the full program is easily worth more than $1,000. Right now, I’m looking for three guys who will take this seriously, go first, and give me good input into the process as I get it ready for prime time. The $99 pricetag is merely a sign of good faith … your real investment will be in yourself as you do the work of transformation.

I’m still building all the fancy automations to sign people up and send them things (and it will be pretty fancy, the nerdy systems engineer in me is really psyched), so in the meantime, how about you just send me a message and let me know you’re interested? We’ll talk and get things going. Like I said, this initial offer of $99 is only open to the first three guys. So I hope to hear from you soon!

– Ramsey

17Sep

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New STRESS RESPONSE Book

Coming to Amazon.com on September 30th: “Stress Response: Manage Your Response to Stress, in order to Reduce Anxiety, Avoid Burnout, and Find Calm and Steady Focus.” In order to encourage wide adoption, the eBook version will be FREE for the first 3 days! PLEASE take advantage of that opportunity to download the book and then provide an honest review and rating. Perhaps the greatest driver of independent publishing success on Amazon is the number of early downloads, reviews and ratings, because the system will recommend it to more potential readers if it has more reviews and ratings. Please help get Stress Response in front of as many people as possible!

8Sep

by Ramsey Zimmerman Learn, Live, Worthwhile Advisors

Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) – What’s that?

Do you feel like you are at your best, or do you feel kind of lousy?

I get it … you need to push hard to get your work done, meet your goals, and be present for your family. But that takes its toll eventually. What if I told you that you could feel better while doing it, and it wasn’t that complicated?

As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), I work with clients who feel lousy to help them feel better. Please understand that you don’t need to feel stressed, exhausted, hangry, depleted, and starved all the time while working to accomplish your goals. And you can achieve so much more of what’s worthwhile when you feel well: calm, rested, steady, energetic, and well-fed. I am now a certified NTP, and I’d like to share with you how I can help.

Five foundations of health and wellness are the areas of practice for Nutritional Therapy Practitioners: stress response management, sleep quality and quantity, blood sugar regulation, effective digestion, and nutrient-dense whole food. Let’s consider each one of those in turn.

Stress Response Management

Stress – Life comes at us fast, and we’re not going to change that. What we can change is how we respond to stress. Our built-in stress response was designed for physical dangers in our immediate space, so that we could fight, run away, or hide. Challenges and threats today come in the form of emails, deadlines, and social media perceptions. Thankfully, we can use a host of today’s options as solutions to respond to stress effectively. We can mindfully track our body’s immediate reactions, get away from our desks for refreshing movement, establish boundaries in our social and professional lives, and we can lean into sleep and food in productive ways. There are no more saber-tooth tigers to fight, but the paper tigers continue to grow in number.

Sleep Quality and Quantity

Sleep – If sleep is the last thing on your mind, then don’t expect it to happen the minute you drop your head on the pillow. We need sleep more than we often realize. Sleep literally clears the clutter from our brains. Fortunately, there are many strategies to create the ideal conditions to fall asleep smoothly, get high-quality sleep, and sleep through the night. Our bodies have natural daily rhythms and gradually cycle between sleep and wakefulness. We wind down towards sleep with the right cues from light, sounds, activity, and eating, just as we wind up towards full wakefulness. When we work with our natural patterns instead of working against them, we can finally get some well-deserved and refreshing rest.

Blood Sugar Regulation

Blood Sugar – Some cute commercials point out how we get “hangry,” but it’s no joke that when our blood sugar is low, we make mistakes, snap at people that we love, disrespect our colleagues, and generally fall off a productivity cliff. If you’re battling to keep yourself together during the day, you may not even realize the havoc that your eating and drinking habits are wreaking on your body through blood sugar spikes and crashes. Managing blood sugar is critical, and the good news is that there are straightforward ways to do so, based not only on what we eat, but also when we eat, and even the order in which we eat different kinds of food. It’s hard to overstate how crucial steady blood sugar regulation is to not only our overall health, but also our daily functioning. Happily, we have many tools to keep our blood sugar steady.

Effective Digestion

Digestion – We can only hope to benefit if our bodies can absorb the good things we put into them, and clear out the rest. Digestion is the process by which our bodies absorb all the critical nutrients, vitamins and minerals it needs to function, and eliminate the waste products and toxins that it doesn’t need. When digestion goes wrong, we experience bloating, aches, reflux and pain. Every person and every body is different, and we respond differently to foods and eating patterns, so it is helpful to be thoughtful and deliberate about the foods we eat, the ingredients we avoid, the supplements we use, and the gradual fine-tuning of it all. If you feel gross, take heart … there are many strategies to try out, to make you feel better.

Nutrient-Dense Whole Food

Food – It all comes down to food. Perhaps we are all obsessed with food in some version of a love-hate relationship. Many foods today are highly engineered: torn apart, stripped of their essence, recombined with chemicals and additives and flavorings, packaged to be eaten for momentary pleasure but not for joy or lasting satisfaction. Instead, food can and should be beautiful, whole, nutrient-dense, and enjoyed with love and reverence and family. Our bodies, minds, and spirits benefit most from food that is thoughtfully and carefully prepared, eaten, and shared. It is not too late. We can still grow, find, buy, prepare and enjoy fresh, nutritious whole foods together with our families. And it can still be quick and easy.

Taken together, these five foundations of health and wellness – stress response management, sleep quality and quantity, blood sugar regulation, effective digestion, and nutrient-dense whole food – are the means by which NTPs like myself consider, evaluate and recommend improvements for our clients.

If you’re tired of being tired and done with being done, please, reach out to me, and let’s talk about how we might work together to get you back on track and feeling better.

29Jul

by Ramsey Zimmerman Books - Recommended, Learn

Metabolic Freedom

Metabolic Freedom: A 30-Day Guide to Restore Your Metabolism, Heal Hormones & Burn Fat

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Metabolic Freedom: A Response to the Book by Ben Azadi

Have you ever stopped to wonder if your body is running on the right kind of fuel? Author Ben Azadi, in his book Metabolic Freedom, tells his incredible story of losing 80 pounds and reclaiming his health—and along the way, he explains why so many of us feel stuck in low gear without even realizing why. This book is not just about Keto or Intermittent Fasting. It is about freedom—freedom to have more energy, think more clearly, and enjoy food without feeling like you are trapped in some rigid diet prison. Reading it made me rethink my own approach to food, fasting, and energy. So … are you a “Sugar Burner” or a “Fat Burner,” and what would it mean to be both?

Metabolic Freedom has a different vibe than most diet books. It mixes Ben’s personal story with solid advice and a bigger-picture way of thinking about health. He takes concepts like blood sugar, metabolic dysfunction, sleep, and stress—and ties them together in a way that makes sense. It never feels like you are being lectured to or buried in science jargon.

I enjoyed how Ben would drop in quick lists of nutrient-dense foods, proteins, and healthy fats. No long recipes, no 37-step meal plans—just clear and simple reminders. Seeing certain foods pop up over and over again really drove home the point: these are the good ones.

The part that really stuck with me was his fundamental question: Are you a Sugar Burner or a Fat Burner? And more importantly, wanna teach your body to do both? He calls it metabolic flexibility, and it feels both practical and empowering. If you realize while reading that you are almost always burning sugar, he gives you ways to change that without feeling like you have to overhaul your whole life overnight.

I will admit, the idea of fasting has always made me nervous. Growing up, my blood sugar regulation was a mess, and even as an adult it took me a long time to get it under control. Skipping meals has always sounded like a terrible idea. But maybe I’ll try it. Someday. Also … I had this perception that Going Keto was like Going Solar or Going Carnivore or Going Vegan. Like it was all or nothing and there was no going back unless it was surrender. But part of his whole point is that you can eat Keto for a few days or weeks, and then add in some carbs for a day or two to mix things up. That seems freeing. It is nice to know Keto does not have to be every day, all day, forever.

I recommend Metabolic Freedom to anyone who has heard of Keto or Intermittent Fasting but does not really understand how they work. Ben explains the “how” in a way that is approachable, interesting, and doable. For me, reading it felt like a natural extension of what I learned in Good Energy by Casey and Callie Means. Both books push us to get to the root causes of why we feel lousy instead of just putting Band-Aids on the symptoms.

At the end of the day, health should not feel like a punishment. Metabolic Freedom is about building a body that can adapt, switch fuels when called upon, and give you the energy to do the things that matter most. That feels like real freedom to me.

So listen to or read Metabolic Freedom by Ben Azadi. This book might inspire you to rethink how you eat and when you eat—without being afraid. And for today, that is enough.

16Jul

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RootedIn Magnesium-Rich Therapeutic Moisturizer

I’ve resisted the urge to promote products, but I can’t pass this one by … RootedIn Therapeutic Moisturizer is a wonderful cream packed with Magnesium Chloride. Magnesium is one of the most essential and widely used micronutrients by our bodies, and an estimated 70% of people don’t have enough of it. That leads to trouble sleeping, stress, headaches, muscle soreness and more. Sound familiar?

Get some cream and get relief! At www.berootedin.com use Promo Code “worthwhile” at Checkout for a 15% discount, thanks to Founder Natalie Jurado, whom I recently spoke with on the What’s Worthwhile Podcast.

Natalie struggled with insomnia, anxiety and panic attacks. After getting all kinds of tests at an allopathic doctor and only getting diagnosed as being “a woman of a certain age”, Natalie looked for solutions on her own. She found magnesium and how it can be absorbed through the skin. Her issues melted away, and she founded a company to develop wonderful magnesium creams and bring them to everyone.

RootedIn has three types of Therapeutic Moisturizer cream with Magnesium: RELIEF, which eases muscle soreness, TRANQUILITY that helps balance cortisol, decreasing effects of stress, and REST that includes herbs and essential oils to help you sleep.

In addition to the creams, RootedIn has organic Castor Oil Pack Bundles, which a previous guest of mine (Elizabeth Bruckner) kept going on about, even after I made a joke about making salad dressing with it. Don’t do that. You infuse the Castor Oil onto the bamboo wrap and then press it onto your abdomen for a wealth of benefits.

Sitewide, enjoy 15% off when you use Promo Code “worthwhile” at Checkout. Boost your magnesium and feel better! If you enjoy RootedIn, please let me know.

2Jul

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