Some of Geri's Favorites at Trader Joe's.

My 3 Best's from Trader Joe's! 

• Best Bread-  Organic and Sprouted- which is flour less. Who could ask for anything more! 

• Best Raw But Butter- It's Raw and its so yummy! Just remember to eat it with a piece if bread or veggies for optimal nutrient absorption.

• Best Raw Sunflower Seeds- Soaked I water the sunflower seeds for 4 hrs to make them sprouted, drains and grind them into a pâté with anything added for the ultimate spread.

                                                                           

Just another warm Summer Day

Summer is a time when we all want to look natural beautiful and one with nature- the sun!  But it can wreck havoc on our skin.  

1. Protect your skin 

2. Keep your skin hydrated with Transceutical™ Canvas

    Nanomarine-5 a key ingredient in TC is what prevents your skin from getting   dehydrated and keeps your skin flawless even WITHOUT a lot of makeup on. It creates a dewy but not too heavy veil of cushion on skin.

3. Bashful goes on the eyes, across the cheeks, temples and top of nose for a dust of shimmer glow!  In the summer it's perfect as your only face color for the perfect glow.  

4.  If you want a little more summer pop. Glowing on just the eyelids with give her eyes that perfect "pop" which is in right now.  Trust me you will look like you have been following the fashion magazine trends with just those two colors on the face.

*All that's missing is Plush Mascara (no liner in the summer) especially during the day.

Plush your LASHES!

MAXI YOUR LASHES, CLUMP FREE. 

   Geri G.® Plush Mascara instantly changes the way you look.  Eyes are brighter, younger looking and the best part is that you don't have to do anything but apply it to your lashes.  It does all the work for you! 

• Lengthens
• Curls
• Volumes

   If you want even longer lashes apply Geri G.® Transceutical Canvas before using the Plush Mascara.  This is a perfect way to hydrate and condition your beautiful lashes!   Gloss your lashes and accentuate your eyes!

Key Ingredients:
Bladderwrack Extract, Nanomarine-5®, Aloe Vera, Marine Hair Enhancer, Rose Water.

See what Plush Mascara can do for your eyes. 
Here is Maria with one side Geri G.® Plush Mascara and the other without.  

Left side with Plush Mascara,
Right side with Nothing!

You can purchases Geri G. Exclusive formula at Gerigla.com or go to one of our retailers. Please let us know if you want to see Geri G.® at your local beauty hangout.  

Tell them about us and shoot us an email with their contact info and we will be happy to have a sales representative get in touch!   

Facials Fight Aging

Facials should be done on a regular basis and NOT once a year or whenever you feel like getting them.  You will see the best results when you have facials every 4-6 weeks.

Facials vary as we all know but to me the basics always need to be completed during any facial to make it benefit you and your skin.      

• A skin analysis that covers how your skin is doing and what issues you want to over come. 
• Exfoliation
• Extraction
• High frequency 
• And some type of finishing products. 

If these are not being done then you are not getting the benefits of a true professional treatment.

Now, I believe that facials should actually be skin therapy.  I have been doing Esthetics for so long that I just can't do a basic facials anymore.  I know I can do so much more for the skin.  And certain treatments like LED light therapy,Oxygen therapy, Ultra Sound and high peptide treatments all can make a difference in the skin.  But here is the catch.  They have to be done on a regular basis to make a true long term change in the skin.

So one has to ask.  Is it cheaper for me to be consistent on my facials or do I want to pay a whole lot of money on alternative measures like Botox, fillers and laser.  I think having a relaxing, therapeutic anti-aging facial is much more beneficial and relaxing then having injections every few months and fillers pushed into the skin.

Be you, be real and enjoy life naturally!  

Visit my website at www.gerigla.com or email me at Infogerigla@yahoo.com calling is always fun too LA 310-488-2577, Chicago 630-800-0135

Summer Ready? Fat Flush Body & Mind!

What's the Protocol to get SUMMER READY?

Fat Flush the Body & Mind.

Step 1:  Drink this infused water for a fat and water detox.  Drink a minimum of 3 glasses a day but preferably the whole pitcher throughout the day FOREVER!!

Recipe:

Put all ingredients into a 64 oz pitcher. (If adding herbal tea- I like the TAZO passion fruit herbal tea) brew 32 oz of tea and then add 32 oz of cold water (then add the rest of the ingredients)

• 1 Grapefruit- cut into slices
• 3 tangerines, 
• 1-2 cucumbers
• Hand full of mint leaves.  

Step 2: Take Geri G.® Green Meal Caps on an empty stomach in the AM and afternoon. 

Take the Geri G.® Essential Meal (after exercising) preferably in the AM.  Second meal in the afternoon.

Step 3: Trampoline with 1 pound arms weights for minimum of 10 min - 30 mins (maximum) a day. 

Take off the arm weights if they get to be too heavy after 10 min.

Step 4:  Walk 10,000 steps a day or 3-4 miles. Get a pedometer - It REALLY helps.

Step 5:  Eat fiber and potassium rich foods. Such as: organic flax meal, chia seeds, cucumbers, brussels sprouts (the vitamin C in brussels sprouts helps metabolize fat-120% of vitamin C to be exact!!), kale, asparagus, cauliflower, cabbage. Just about anything green but NEVER soy! 

No need to take a supplement when you eat your greens everyday!  .

Step 6:  Have extra plant protein instead of flesh protein which is very acidic (the key to lasting weight loss and a life free of diets is eating alkaline foods and omitting acidic flesh in your diet as much as possible).  One extra serving of plant protein should help shed the fat. The body doesn't store protein it needs it to burn fat and release fat burning hormones.

•  Hemp protein and brown rice protein are optimal choices.
•  Geri G. Green Meal Caps are full of plant protein and rich in vitamins and minerals.)

Step 7: Drink 64-80 ounces of water a day (which you should already be doing)!!

Step 8:  No coffee or black tea. It makes you hold on to water and therefore makes you look bigger than you really are! Ahhh! 

• Yerba Matte Tea instead of coffee or black tea. Yerba Matte Tea has caffeine, plus vitamins, minerals and protein. 

Step 9: Get 7-8 hours of sleep everynight.  

• A great over the counter complete natural sleep aid is Somnapure. It can help regulate sleep patterns.

Eat to Sleep!

Trouble sleeping?  Tired but can't get enough Zzz's in?

      I always tell my clients one of the missing links on the discussion of health today for longevity and anti-aging is the need necessity for absolute  SLEEP.  

The body cannot function properly without recharging which happens during a good nights sleep.

When someone looks in the mirror and they see dark circles puffy eyes don't looking skin tiredness in the eyes yellowing in the ice a sluggish digestive system.  All of those symptoms are a result of lack of sleep.

The body has an natural detoxifying process that happens when we sleep.  It is our job to guarantee the body that opportunity to detox.  When we fail the body we fail ourselves.  our health suffers, our hormones get confused and  our chances of living a anti aging lifestyle are deceased.

Eat to sleep means just that.  When we eat with a purpose it gives food power.  Food is a drug. It was put on this earth to feed us.  It is when we take it out of that content text that it becomes abused miss used and works negatively against us.

When you eat to sleep you want to make sure you are giving your body

-enough water

-potassium

-minerals

-protein plant based sources such as brown rice, hemp and sprouted legumes.

The Key to have a balanced hormonal release throughout the day. 

Green vegetables, cruciferous vegetables. Plant based protein, chia seeds and flax. water 

When you eat these foods and drink enough water throughout the day preferably before 3 PM you will be ready for bed- tired, exhausted and shutting down by 8 PM. 

You will wake up with no dark circles or puffy eyes. 

                                          Full of energy and ready to start a new day!

Millon Dollar Skin: Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Madison Hildebrand.

Bravo's Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles, Madison Hildebrand.  

Love seeing him when he is able to squeeze me into his busy schedule!

What a guy!  I love that he wears sunblock!  Makes my work look good =)!!

Madison & Geri G. (left) after his appointment!

Make sure you watch BRAVO's Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles!! 

Geri G. on E! News!

Check out what E! News has to say about Lauren & Geri G.  

The BEAUTY Lauren Parsekian soon-to Mrs. Aaron Paul aka "Jesse Pinkman" of Breaking Bad!   Getting her beauty maintenance on before the BIG DAY! 

Wishing you nothing but the best a lifetime of happiness! 

Why Geri G. Nutrition should be a part of your lifestyle!

Imagine how hard it would be to put all the raw, organic natural ingredients into all your cosmetics and your meals?  Check below to see just what goes into Geri G!

Geri G.® Make-up

- Pure raw aloe Vera                

- Olive Squalene oil

- Sea buckthorn                       

- Algae
- Kelp
- Brown algae
- Sunflower oil
- Safflower oil
- Green tea
- White tea
- Vitamins A,B5,C and E
- Hylauronic acid
- Rose Water
- Rice starch

Imagine having all of these items in your cupboard or refrigerator....

These organic, raw natural ingredients are the basis of Geri G.® Essential Meal and Green Caps.

Geri G.® Meal Caps
- Wheatgrass
- spirulina
- cracked cell chlorella
- Alphalfa
- Raw brown rice protein
- Activated barley
- Rice Bran Soluble
- Carrot
- Flaxseed Meal

Geri G.® Essential Meal
-12 Organic Sprouts:
- Mung Bean
- Quinoa
- Lentil
- Garbanzo bean
- Aramanth
- Millet
- Buckwheat
- Kidney bean
- Adzuki
- Flax seed
- Sunflower
- Alfalfa                                                              Good for you face, skin and body....Geri G.®

Skin at its Best: Series 2

Walking is an excellent and healthy way to get fit and/or lose weight.  Walking is the easiest way to lose weight as you change your eating lifestyle along with eating habits. It can be done anywhere!

Combine your walking habit with strength training workout that I gave you and you will be able to build muscle content, which burns calories at a higher rate than fat, even more ways to use energy without killing yourself or making yourself feel crazy about staying fit.  


How many steps do I need to take to lose weight?
Each mile that a person walks burns roughly 100 calories. If a person was to commit to walking and uses up 300 calories each day equals 2,100 calories a week. 

After just 1 month, that’s roughly 9,000 cal burned, which equates to approximately 2.6 pounds lost without killing yourself or your knees or any other part of your body.  Accumulating those three extra miles a day could be as simple as making small changes in the way you look at being active.  

How many miles a day do YOU need to walk to lose weight?
Remember, it’s all a simple math equation. 

Lets talk numbers:
 1 Mile = 1500 steps for average person.(  I am 5'0 so its 2,500 steps for me to reach a mile.)
 1 Mile walked = 100 calories burned
 3 Miles walked = 300 calories burned
 300 calories x 7= 2,100 a week burned

If you take in 1,200 a day x 7=8,400 calories 
If you normally take in 1,500 calories it leaves you with 2,100 deficit plus you are burning an extra 2,100 a week.
That equals 4,200 calories a week of burning up,extra energy(fat). 
1 Pound = 3500 calories 

  There is the math.  Just by walking you will lose over 1 pound of fat stored energy!!!!!  If you want to lose it faster you just walk more steps. Not kill yourself going fast. It's not about speed it's about distance.  That is what our bodies were made for. Walking distance at normal pace without injury and stress.  Just go out and walk one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking out the door. Just like the song says!!

Skin at its Best: Series 1

Series 1                                                            
Skin at its best 

AM:  
 Step 1: Wake up and have your Geri G. Green MealCaps Step 2. 
 Step 2: Once you are fully awake do the 

Daily quick 5 min wake up toning/ strengthening fat burning routine. 
      20 repetitions of each exercise - with or without 5 lb. weights.

1. Bend over butterfly 
 2. Bicep curls
 3. Triceps dips 
 4. Push-ups
 5. Curtsy lunges  (20 reps each side)
 6. Chair leg squeeze for inner thighs
 7. Towel curl ups for Abs -  (20 reps center, 20 right side, 20 left side
 8. Sit with the soles of your feet together and try to bend over your feet.  Stretching the inner thigh and hip.
9. Close your eyes and take 10 deep breathes in through the nose and out through the mouth.
  
Remember to stretch!

Try, Try, TRY, TRY: Try to walk 10,000 steps a day or 3 miles.  Doesn't matter how you get it in - just get to that number everyday. (Pedometers are a great investment to help make sure you reach your mark! 

Please Remember:  Please consult with your doctor if you have any health concerns.  If you are experience pain/symptoms that occur during exercise can be warning signs.  You should stop exercising right away if you:

- Pain or pressure in the left or middle part of your chest, or in the left side of your neck, left shoulder or left arm

                                                                        - Feel dizzy or sick

                                                                        - Break out in a cold sweat

                                                                        - Muscle cramps

                                                                        - Feel sharp pain in your joints, feet, ankles, or bones

                                                                        - Notice that your heart starts racing or beating irregularly

Find out how to achieve Skin at it's best.

Skin at its best...  

Understanding skin all begins with understanding cause and effect.  If you want young, fresh-looking and fresh-feeling skin then you need to understand what it takes to make physical changes in the skin.  How do you accomplish that?

After years of research and plenty of trial and error to know the answer to this simple yet very extremely complex question.

I have interviewed Doctors, Nutritionists, and Aestheticians experts who specialize in skin, plastic surgery and nutrition.  I have listened to opinions and read their books. I always take away a new perspective and sometimes I have been enlightened with new information or many times, I find my own conceptions and convictions about skin and health have been validated.

I am asked constantly to write another book that updates all I have learned about "pulling it together" to achieve your vision and desires for your best self both inside and out, up and down and everywhere In between.

So, follow me for five days and let me guide you through a step-by-step process to changing your skin, health, mind and spirit. It all comes together beautifully once you educate yourself on how to pull all of the components together.  You will start to live and witness how beautiful you and your life can become. 

It's not easy but it's not as hard as some want you to believe.  What it takes is a desire and will.  That's it.

All the work isn't done in just 5 days. Taking it in small increments will allow me to give you just enough information and homework to keep you on track.  After the first 5 days, then the next 5 days and so on and so on...

Here we go.   Are you ready??  I will also be answering your questions as they arise.  This is your opportunity to get your skin and nutrition-trainer session with me at "no charge".  Just promise yourself that you are going to love your body and love the process of rediscovering it.

Stay tuned.  My next blog will give you information and step 1,2 and 3 to "Skin at It's Best".

Nature's Secret to Health: Hemp Seeds

Hemp Seeds are one of nature's secrets to health that is still in the shadows of main stream health.

    To make it short and sweet hemp seeds are a protein based plant food that offers the body complete amino acids that are easily digestible and usable.  Proteins are the building blocks of cells.  You must have the right proteins available to the body in order for the body to metabolize and create new healthy cells.  Skin, hair, nails, organs.  You'd name it and its made with protein.

Here is an excerpt from an article from Hemp Line Journal.

     "The best way to insure the body has enough amino acid material to make the globulins is to eat foods high in globulin proteins. Since hemp seed protein is 65% globulin edistin, and also includes quantities of albumin, its protein is readily available in a form quite similar to that found in blood plasma. Eating hemp seeds gives the body all the essential amino acids required to maintain health, and provides the necessary kinds and amounts of amino acids the body needs to make human serum albumin and serum globulins like the immune enhancing gamma globulins. Eating hemp seeds could aid, if not heal, people suffering from immune deficiency diseases. This conclusion is supported by the fact that hemp seed was used to treat nutritional deficiencies brought on by tuberculosis, a severe nutrition blocking disease that causes the body to waste away. [Czechoslovakia Tubercular Nutritional Study, 1955]"

I personally love hemp by the spoonful.  But they are super in raw cookies.  They give a buttery cream taste to anything.  I throw them in my husbands salads everyday.  Effortless Healthy Eating.