Christine Avanti's Story
Christine Avanti was raised on a ranch by her beloved grandparents in Gilroy, Northern California's garlic capital. Her grandparents were amazing to her - and they taught her about life, love and of course - food! At 20, she moved to the big city (of San Jose) and broke into the fitness industry as an aerobics instructor. She taught classes, worked hard, studied hard, and continued to pursue her dream of becoming a successful fitness model. During the fitness-crazy early nineties, she appeared in many magazines and on three international covers. She also won several swimsuit titles including Miss Hawaiian Tropic. She seemed to be on her way to a happy life of success.
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Towards the end of the 90's, Grandpa's health started declining and it was very taxing emotionally. He was her rock and the man that raised and comforted her. During those years she began to overeat for the first time - to medicate herself from the pain. In 1999, Grandpa Luigi passed away. It was a devastating loss.
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Everybody grieves differently and for Christine - a so-called "fitness queen" - grief meant eating ice cream, cakes, cookies, pies, and everything under the sun. During this time Christine baked cakes - frosting them and eating them in their entirety in a single sitting. She ate entire bags of Doritos and cooked and ate entire loaves of French toast. She literally could think about nothing else besides food and could not ever feel full. In 6 short weeks, she gained 30 pounds.
A swimsuit model no longer, she was a shadow of my former self just a few months before.
After 3 months, she decided to lose the weight again. She assumed it would be easy but it wasn't. The fat that packed on so easily was very stubborn to lose. The first thing she did was the most instinctive impulse for legions of fitness professionals: the low-carb diet. This was the cutting edge of dieting in 1999. Only later did she learn that this approach to dieting - popularized by the late Dr. Robert Atkins - was based on an idea over 3 decades old.
Cutting out carbs led to an absolute circus of emotional and dietary ups and downs. 6 or 7 pounds might be lost immediately followed by 8 pounds back on during a binge 3 days later. A day might consist of no breakfast but gallons of coffee, a big salad for lunch, and nothing for dinner - but a bunch of ice cream and cookies for dessert. The guilt, the stress, the frustration and the emotional roller coaster were enough to drive her literally to insanity.
The next several years could have been the research for a textbook of dieting for American women. Chrsitine tried literally every diet available. The Atkins Diet, the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Grapefruit Diet, the Master Cleanse, the Cookie Diet, the Low Fat Diet, the Low Carb Diet, the Sugar Busters Diet, the Raw Food Diet, and many more. Always, the result was the same - limited success followed by a binge a few days later.
Finally Christine met a nutritionist. This nutritionist explained how food effects the body and the endocrine system. It was a lot of information but she made the effort to understand. She tried out the principles and found that (to make a long story short) not only did they work but she was satisfied, energetic, and easily keeping off the weight.
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Right then, Christine vowed to become a nutritionist and share this information with all the people who are going through the struggle to lose weight. She made it her life mission to help people who are suffering like she did. She wanted to take a complicated subject and make it simple so that everyone would have access to the same transformational breakthrough that she felt. She decided that to communicate with the world, she would open her nutrition office in Los Angeles - the epicenter for TV media.
Since then, Christine has been hired by numerous celebrities. She's appeared in front of a 20 million-person prime-time audience on Dancing With The Stars. She's been on Tyra, Rachael Ray and on E! dozens of times. She's gone to New York and stood at the epicenter of respectable TV journalism to share her message on LIVE TV on The Today Show. She's been on national TV over 30 times and published her first hardcover book. In her office she's worked directly with over 1000 clients and helped them lose over 10,000 pounds. She's a spokesperson for several whole/natural food companies.
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Rachael Ray Show with Ricki Lake.
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The Tyra Show. Me: "Include some Mono Unsaturated Fatty Acids - MUFA's" Tyra: "YO MOOFA!!" |
The Today Show live.
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A few years back, Christine had some problems with her hair. It was very damaged with lots of broken pieces and split ends. It was impossible to keep it from looking frizzy and frazzled. She realized that she had to start supplementing real food with vitamins and mineral supplements.
But what she found was that there was no vitamin product on the market designed for today's "elite" women - busy, smart and beautiful professionals who want gorgeous hair, smooth young skin and a slender body. Most vitamins are designed for much older people - none of them emphasized beauty. She knew that if she created this line, her female celebrity friends and media contacts would go nuts for it.
So she decided to create Avanti Nutritionals to meet this need. The results have been spectacular as women (and men) all over America have embraced this product line. It turns out there are lots of people who believe beauty comes from within.
How is her hair now? Healthier than ever along with glowing, radiant skin and a swimsuit body at age 40 (see pictures on this site). There's no secret - women and men can look gorgeous throughout their lives with the right combination of food, plenty of water, sleep, exercise, and nutraceuticals from Avanti Nutritionals.
