we are back with our best advice show and we're tur to a woman who listened to her body and sorted through the best advice she could find to create a plan to get herself back on track now you may know Laura Prepon from her hit show Orange is a new black but you don't know about her yearslong struggle with her health Laura preon she's kept us entertained since her role as Hot Donna on That 70s Show despite her successes on screen Laura struggled for years with weight and digestive issues and consistently low energy Laura researched
health and diet Trends trying both conventional and alternative treatments overhauling her diet and lifestyle Laura got her energy back and finally shed her stubborn weight for good today Laura is sharing the tools she uses to feel better from the inside out come on out Laura PR [Applause] it nice to meet you how are you thank you for having me I'm so happy come on over hi everybody thank you for that warm welcome yes I put I put them up to it now you are in Industry entertainment where folks are always focused on your appearance yeah
yes and I'm sure that has an impact on everybody when you look in the mirror what do you see um well for a long time I I definitely didn't see what I see now um I I mean I have the best job on the planet I love my job I wouldn't change it for the world but there is a constant pressure to look a certain way and you always hear the camera adding 10 pounds this is just for this is for men and women not just women but um but particularly for women and things that
I had to deal with it there was a lot of pressure because after I started filming that 70 show I started having all of these problems with my digestion and inflammation and just I could not lose weight no matter what I did and one thing about me is I'm not a lazy person I will do anything I need to do to get a result but it was almost to my detriment because I would do all these things crazy crash diet starving myself injecting myself with crazy hormones like anything I could do to get a result
so you do all these exercises including injections you're working out like a banshee right and the scale is not moving no um if anything the scale was going the wrong direction I'm like something is wrong here and then I finally figured out what it was which is why I wrote this book which is why I wanted to share with you guys it's so important to me so it's called the stash plant yes it is very well done thank you a lot of the things you talk about subconsciously lots of skinny people probably are doing don't
even realize it and something that can benefit a lot of folks who want to lose weight right so tell us about the plan the stash plan yeah well honestly it's called the stash plan because my mother was a chef my father was a doctor um I I learned how to cook at a very young age and because I had all these food sensitivities I and because of my hours I would always cook a stash of food and I would build my meals from it in the morning and I would bring it to set with me
and that's basically the Crux of the stash plan is you twice a week in an hour you cook two proteins two carbs um two vegetables they're in your fridge just like just like that that image there and those glass containers and every day you build your meals from it and it's it makes your life worry free you know exactly what you're eating um and it's incredible and it basically takes the stress out of your life and what you're going to eat so do you think this is actually easier than how we typically eat for the
average person watching right now oh absolutely this has been like a 15year journey for me um and it has helped me so much um that already people are trying and it's already helping them it's it's incredible let's get to this this detox plan thank you is all about planning ahead and getting into that weekly routine yes of prepping your food there are three important pillars to the stash plan number one is a bone broth which we talk about now number two is stashing and number three is stretching so let's start with the bone broth the
first of these pillars perfect and we have talked about bone broth before but I want to hear from you how you use it how you prepare it and how you incorporate it into your stash plan well one of the things a problem that I was having with a lot was inflammation and the bone broth for me was the first thing that really started healing my inflammation and getting rid of bloat um literally think about it like this you guys you take all these bones you cook them for as long as you can you throw them
in a slow cooker throw them with vegetables Rosemary time whatever you want to throw in there and over the hours cooking this it pulls out the cartilage the collagen the bone marrow and there's this Yoda of bone broth her name is Sally Fallon and she's awesome and she explains it as like feeds like and if you think about that you're taking this collagen and this in this bone and literally replenishing your body that's literally what you're doing is you're healing yourself literally and it's like I call it the Fountain of Youth and women you guys
like this is like you know collagen hello you know what I mean like we all want collagen no but it's also like with for men too I mean and women I mean our joints our bones I mean collagen is everywhere cartilage is ever I mean think about it and this doesn't cost much I mean most butchers just give this to you but this is about 10 15 bucks worth of Bones right use a slow cooker usually or boil ITT now one question you see on top of this there's a little bit of fat there and
I'm always wondering what people think you see that there everybody okay so this is one of my favorite things when you put this in the fridge this always Rises to the top and it's easy you pop it off you throw it in the garbage and then what's left is the incredible Fountain of Youth you can do beef chicken fish broth fish broth fish broth is awesome cuz you have all those little tiny bones and all these micronutrients your body just sucks it right up it's incredible I do like the taste yeah great it's it's good
how's my collagen now perfect already already it's better already up next would you like your fridge to look like this isn't that cool oh beautiful yeah well how you can do exactly that when we come back stay here we are back with L P from Orange is the New Black she says you'll gain energy and lose weight naturally without restrictive dieting by following the next two pillars of the stash plan so let's talk about stash building that's the next big pillar what is it how do you get started how can everyone at home do it
today okay well it's the Crux of the book it's so easy you guys it's literally how I live my life and how I eat my food um let me show you because we have one prepared to show you guys um okay so basically what you're going to do is in two really easy cooking sessions a week right putting you to work you're going to have two proteins two carbs and two vegetables okay so basically what you're going to do is we put these out right so it's 3 weeks long six different stashes two really easy
cooking sessions a week it'll probably take you about an hour so basically what you do is so in this particular one we have tumeric turkey roasted chicken roasted beets cauliflower um sweet potato herb fries and then we have broth infused brown rice whenever I can I always try to cook with bone broth because it's so important and that's up and down the book you guys will love that anytime I can get that into my diet but you would make this much food on let's say a Sunday and again on a Wednesday right exactly so you're
not scrambling you're not trying to find out snacks that you need to eat or just anything you can find in the fridge that'll work you already have your meals pre-made for the that 3 to 4 day period right well the whole point is that this is supposed to make your life WorryFree you know you know exactly where you're feeding yourself and your family so what's the actual equation you can't eat this much in one setting some people might go through this on the first day so it's two two proteins two carbs and two vegetables so
so like in the morning right when I I show I wake up I'm about to go to work I'll pull out my stash and it's kind of like a build drone Adventure so basically what I do is I usually do a protein so I do about a cup of protein I'll throw that in there there a turmeric chicken right so this is the turmeric turkey and turmeric is amazing for inflammation helping the liver to detoxify you so cauliflower is your so then what I'll do is I'll I'll take cauliflower and then I'll put a carbon
there okay so maybe the broth infused brown rice and I'll throw like maybe half a cup to 3/4 of a cup in there and this is one of my meals so that's done so that's like my lunch and then for dinner get home right so then when we go to work you know you guys we're you know we're at work all day and what I'll do like M what do I mean yeah exactly so then I'm like oh chicken maybe I'll do some sweet potato home fries and that'll be my carbohydrate it's super easy and
then great let's do the roasted beats it's awesome and the reason why I like the glass containers is because W uh microwaves are terrible um because you do all this incredible work with this awesome organic food and then you put it in a microwave in a plastic Tupper Weare all the chemicals leech into the food everything you've done you're basically canceling all those effects kind of defeats the pur my biggest concern with microwaves is when you put them in plastic but I also use these little people laugh at me but I like these little glass
things CU it's easier to heat food up in oh yeah absolutely it's how I travel through I said earlier but I think it's true a lot of people do this they don't even realize they doing it getting this stuff in a large quantity like this and doing your pick and search takes away a lot of the headaches in life anyway you can automate things when you think about how your life has changed because of this right is that the major advantage oh it's it's everything I mean it's why this book is so important to me
I mean I've naturally just lost weight um without starving myself and and putting crazy things into my body my energy has drastically improved um I don't have to drink a pot of coffee before the sun is even up um and I just My overall spiritual and mental physical wellbeing is just so vastly improved which is why when I figured out what works I wanted to share it with everybody because I know that we're all struggling with so many of the same things so the whole thing is having food that nourishes you that replenishes your body
where you don't need to be on these different pills all the time and just get your body to naturally survive to its optimal potential people often don't do it cuz they don't have the time or the money this helps address that yes it does show me the snacks that you make okay these are awesome you guys what is it bread give me his bread you about gluten these are called hand Grabbers so basically what you do is this is this awesome gluten-free almond bread which everybody flips out over this bread and it's awesome what I'll
do is I'll take some I'll toast it and also when you're on you know an eating plan I love to have some kind of you know fun thing like this you can toast it you can put almond butter and you know honey on it you could toast it and put you know like a lot of times when I go to set I'll bring some avocado and some butter lettuce with me and I'll put um some butter cuz I'm all about butter and avocado and anything like that as long as it's real and pure your body's
like oh this is butter I know what this is I know what to do with this it's not some weird fake butter because when when you you know when you ingest these things your liver is the first line of defense start digestion and rip that piece of bread up keep your mouth you don't have you're talking you can't have food in your mouth F right the last pillar of the stash plan is all about stretching yes which is I was sort of surprised you felt so strongly about this but You' got fantastic pictures that show
us how to do it why is it critical the reason why the stretching is really important is because again we talk it basically what it does is it targets get specific areas where there's an underbelly of the book which we talk about Eastern medicine and I look guys I'm from Jersey I am not woo woo anything that's woo woo thank you anything that's like woo woo I'm like whatever you're not pulling the wool over my eyes but um and that's unfortunately what a lot of people think when they hear of like Chinese Meridian Theory and
things like that but these specific stretches Target specific areas where the liver Meridian and the gallbladder meridians run through so when I first started these stretches and really opening up these areas and realigning my body and not killing myself with the gym and not spending three hours to the gym trying constantly pounding myself with crazy workouts my body was like whoa I'm not in fight ORF flight I'm not freaking out holding on to this weight and everything my alignment shifted in my body everything started changing and it's just it's amazing and that is my my
Integrative Health coach Elizabeth Troy that's based on her method so I I put a bunch of these on dr.com these stretches and recipes Laura's book the stash plan is in storage now you know what I think they actually might enjoy a copy what do you think about oh yeah you guys love it all right you're all going home with a copy everyone to be honest thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss out on new videos to live the good life
