I looked at it more and said, “well it’d be nice for beginners. But what about all those people who are struggling? There’s lots of those as well.” I’m shocked by the number of people who tell me they’re doing 80/10/10 and having problems who, when they come to me and we actually look at what they’re doing and I go, “Ah! I see what the problem is. You only think you’re doing 80/10/10. You’re not actually doing 80/10/10.”

I had a guy come and he said, “Look, I’m doing exactly what you said, but it’s not working for me. I’m having this and that and the next problem.” I won’t delineate his health problems. But I said, “Show me three days of sample food.” He wrote down three days of sample food. I did the caloronutrient ratio right there on the spot for him and it came out to 40/10/50, 50 being fat. He thought he had switched to a low-fat diet and compared to the amount of fat that he had been having in his diet, he had cut back quite a bit. But he was still eating half of his calories from fat. As predicted in the 80/10/10 diet, he was having a lot of health problems.

Once we made those changes – I’ve been shocked actually. Pretty much most of the time people tell me they’re following the 80/10/10, we find out that they’re having 35, 45, 55 percent of their calories from fat. They don’t realize how it snuck in. Or they’re doing some other thing. They’re not even getting close with proper food combining. Or they’re eating all day long, just kind of a grazing style. Or they’re expecting to have fantastic health, but the only thing they’ve changed is their diet, rather than the rest of the supportive aspects of lifestyle that are so integrated into experiencing the healthy results that we want to get out of it.

The 80/10/10 Food & Lifestyle Retreat was designed to become like road signs. Give people a series of road signs that they can walk in and they go, “Okay, here’s what I think I’m supposed to go.” Then Lisa steps in and says, “Here, let me point you a little bit in a better direction. Or Shari comes over and says, “Well, actually it’s a little more like this.” Would point it and they say, “If you look off in the horizon, now do you see the sign? Are you looking at the same thing I’m looking at?”

When people start to see the same things we see, they share with us, meals with us and activities with us and social time with us and educational classes with us and some food prep with us and some more fun time with us. Lots of questions and answers. They get to see from people who are succeeding what we’re looking at in order to succeed. Then they can duplicate that, they can replicate that, we can teach them how to bring it home into their own situation.

Everybody really has to customize their own situation in order to make it work.
We’ve got lots of people here. Everybody has things to say. I’d like to welcome again two of our staff people who will be with us again this year in Sedro, Shari and Lisa. Invite Shari. You’ve been to many Sedro-Woolley retreats now. You’ve attended some, you’ve certainly taught at quite a few of them. I want to start out just by saying, “Welcome.” A quick hello. Then go on and just ask if you have impressions of what goes on at Sedro-Woolley. Why are you coming back this year?

I have attended, I have taught, and I learn as I teach. Everyone else teaches me, as well. It’s a very inspiring way to live. Whether you’re just starting 80/10/10, whether you’re just wanting to improve some aspect of your health, being around committed individuals to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others and the planet, is very empowering. It’s stimulating and it’s a very contagious way to be To treat yourself to this experience, you can’t compare it to anything else.

How’s that?

Let’s have some outside input. We’ve got the best of the best. We’ve got years of experience, we’ve got a group of individuals who are dedicated to helping you succeed. 80/10/10 lifestyle. If you’re new to the lifestyle and you just want to get started, and started right rather than have to relearn and relearn.

It’s a question I used to ask all the time. “How many times do you want to learn how to eat? Do you really want to go the macrobiotic, vegetarian, vegan, raw-food, high-fat, low-fat, learn food … Or do you just want to start from the right way right off the beginning and keep going the right way and just keep getting better at it?” For me, that’s the crux of the matter. I want to see success. I want to see people succeeding not because it does anything other than-

Truly, what it means is there’s going to be more people going into the supermarket, looking for fruits and vegetables. The more demand there is, the better the supply will be for all of us. I’m looking forward to that happening. But I love to see people succeed. It’s a real thrill for me. When I watch people succeed, when they pick up something they didn’t know they could pick up, when they learn how to do something they didn’t know they could do, when they make a recipe and it comes out right, when they figure out how to take the pit out of an avocado …

Sometimes it’s just little things but it all adds up into a much bigger success story To me, if I don’t have my health, I really don’t have anything. I can’t be the best I can be without my health. I want that for everybody else as well.
I know Kevin has a little bit of a closing remark on this, our first retreat TV. We’re talking about our various events that will be happening here in Sedro-Woolley. We’re going to go on to the next event right after Kevin has his final say.

Here’s a little bit of the scenery. You can see some of the inside spots as well, the bed spots.

The fantastic scenery and sunsets, sunrises, moon rises, and moon sets. Everything is just magnificent there. We get to take fantastic walks. Many of the fitness activities take advantage of the wonderful terrain.

I’m just going to quickly go through- there’s running opportunities, opportunities to go for walks with friends. There’s so many opportunities to connect with people throughout the event, to deepen friendships and to deepen your understanding of how to live the 80/10/10 lifestyle.
Many opportunities to ask your questions directly with Dr. Graham. The small settings allow for dynamic classes that can meet a variety of fitness needs. Even in the 80/10/10 Food & Lifestyle Retreat fitness is part of it, so Dr. Graham goes through showing you how to master that element as well. At least get started on it.

There’s also coursework in the kitchen, or opportunities to learn from the chef. Our fantastic chef, Alicia, will be there again this year. She’ll lead you through ways to master the kitchen. Every single meal is, from my experience and from many people I’ve talked to, a complete learning opportunity. You get to see how to set up the ambiance. You get to see how to set up the food, the order of preparing food, the order of serving food, how everything is done. How it’s lived and enjoyed.

Often times the meals are scheduled for an hour or so, but they often spill into hours as conversation continues. It’s just a fantastic event to connect with people and to expand your awareness of how to live this lifestyle. I’m just getting hungry looking at this food. Fantastically presented. There’s always so much fun. Themes are tossed into the event. The food is always served with a flair. Yes, it’s simple but it’s never presented that way, it seems.

That’s a little taste of the 80/10/10 Food & Lifestyle Retreat. I’ll end it by moving on to- Man, these are some fantastic photos.

Over here you see on the left, the cost of this retreat, $1297 for a three day retreat. There’s even payment plans should you find it to be more accommodating. I’ll turn it back over to you, Dr. Graham, to speak a little bit on this.

The 80/10/10 Food & Lifestyle Retreat is a safe way, it’s a comfortable way. We don’t put anybody on the spot. We’re not trying to stress anybody out. All we’re trying to do is make it easy. It’s like an information booth that’s three days long. We’re just going to give you the information. You come to the booth and you’re there and we make you as comfortable as we can and put you at ease and hold your hand and bring you through right to where you’re trying to go. To me that sort of sums it up. I look forward to seeing people at the 80/10/10 Food & Lifestyle Retreat this year. I know we’re going to have a lot of people there and it’s going to be a great time.