Day 17

Meals:

Breakfast: 1 Minneola, 1 Clementine, Water (15 mins. away from food)
Post-Workout/Lunch: Vegan Nachos (Blue Corn Chips, Veggie Ground Round, Salsa, Tomatoes), Cappuccino Soy Milk
Supper: 3 Freezies (It’s getting really hot here)
Late Supper: Went out to eat – 1/4 Cheese Quesadilla (ugh…), Tortilla Chips, Jalapeño Bottle Caps, Seasoned Fries (packed up the veggie burger and took it home), Iced Tea

So not the best take-out choices, but I am slowly improving while eating out. I didn’t have near the dairy I usually succumb to (usually 1/2 the quesadilla, and ranch with the jalapeños), but I still have room for improvement. My husband even ordered a piece of cheesecake with berries and whipped cream, and I’m proud to say I didn’t take a single bite!

Workout:

I was able to go with my husband this morning – I love working out in the morning! Here’s what I did:

Squats
1-Legged Leg Press
Standing 1-Legged Leg Curls
Seated Calf Raises
Chiropractor’s Exercises

Day 7

I had the laziest morning ever. My husband’s new job is somewhat shift work, so he doesn’t work until 2:30 or 3:30 today. I set my alarm way too early (was thinking I’d be more ambitious this morning), and thus laid in bed for forever. Even so, I was still up, ready, and out the door 10-15 minutes earlier than the average day in the past two weeks. It was awesome!

For breakfast, I ate the last 4 pieces of my Korean potatoes. I totally broke the RawTill4 rule, but I was salivating just thinking of them. They are so good.

As an earlier morning snack (4 pieces of Korean potatoes was not a big meal), I had another ripe mini red banana, and about 6-7 medjool dates.

I did horribly at lunch. I just don’t, for some reason, want to eat the mangos I brought at all! I think I’ve been eating too many mangos and not enough other varieties lately. I gotta fix that. The weird thing is, I want to juice them. I could see myself drinking mango juice, but just can’t be bothered to eat them. So for an awful lunch, I had two snack-size bags of chips, and a can of orange juice. This is not good nutrition…

After school, I quickly went home to do a few things, then went to the more local mall to meet a woman. While I was there, I was so hungry and tempted to buy so much junk! I was even thinking of all the dairy items I could enjoy. My head was NOT in a good place. But I am proud to report, I got a veggie burrito with beans and rice, some tater tots, and an iced tea. I could have done without the tater tots and iced tea, but to be quite honest, by the time I was done eating these, I was satisfied. I didn’t go after any dairy treats that I was thinking of, I didn’t buy that creamy frappuccino with whipped cream that I was thinking of, I simply stuck with my meal. Now that says something!

I did a lot of grocery shopping for my students who were writing PATs the next day, and went to the gym, both without buying anything else to eat. I call this success!

Later at home, I had a lot to do, and a very little amount of time before my husband would be home. So I quickly ate some tortilla chips with salsa, and some popcorn. Total junk food, I know.

I did not eat anything else after this, but simply went to bed.

Week 2 Day 3

Talk about sick. I honestly thought it wouldn’t get any worse. But this morning, I knew better than to go to work. I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle the day feeling this awful, so I called in for a sub and stayed home.

I didn’t sleep much, and I definitely didn’t eat much. Sticking to my diet plan, for the challenge I’m working so hard for, just was not foremost on my brain today. I needed to shift into the mindset of healing my body and getting better quickly. I drank fresh fruit smoothies to up my vitamin and antioxidant content in my body. I drank kombucha tea which I have found to be a good tea for any health situation. I ate soup to benefit from vegetables and the comfort of a warm broth. And I ate a small amount of bread to help me feel fuller while still being gentle on my stomach.

Simple foods.

The funny part about the whole day is I couldn’t sleep. Normally when I am sick, I sleep most of the day away. But today was different. I could barely sleep. So I instead worked on my yearly plans and professional growth plan and conquered a fair amount of teacher work.

When evening came, I battled with my brain. I wanted to go to the gym so badly. I miss the gym. It’s a way of life for me. Plus I have my challenge pushing me. I was so tempted to just “suck it up” and go to the gym regardless of how I felt.

It probably took about an hour for me to mentally battle myself into realizing that if I did go to the gym, I’d probably make myself worse. If I at least waited one more day, I could still make up my workouts this week and provide myself with more time to get better. So when my husband went to the gym, I went to bed.

Week 3 Day 1

As all school teachers experience at least once per year, I woke up knowing that I didn’t feel right. I wasn’t ready to call myself sick, but I knew something was heading in that direction. So what do I do? Refuse to let it get in my way.

I continue on my way, getting groceries, planning my meals for the next week, and assessing my workouts for this week. Many a time my husband told me he would understand if I did not go to the gym but I simply refused to miss it.

I did my workout and was proud of it at the end. I was rationalizing with myself at points about using lesser weights because I wasn’t feeling 100%. But every time I’d start out an exercise, my body kept up with me and I just couldn’t lower the weights. With everything. And that was two circuits of 4 exercises each. Man I was proud.

Now the whole plan was to sit in the steam room afterwards, but as I refuse to walk on public floors barefoot, I simply couldn’t go when I realized I had forgotten my flip flops. So what did I do instead? 12 minutes of HIIT cardio on the StairClimber!

Now, eating was not something I really wanted to do yesterday. Just being thrown off from not feeling the greatest was a problem. So how did I fix that? I grabbed a smoothie while I was grocery shopping: Bolthouse Vanilla Chai smoothie. It tastes so good, packs 18 g of protein, and fit right into my macros for the day. I know it’s not the cleanest drink in the world, but I honestly needed something easy on my stomach and it helped fill a chunk of my macros.

And so I finished the day on track, praying that I should only get better and not worse!

Amazing Research!

It has been awhile since I’ve posted about the Organo Gold products that I’m in love with. Trust me, this love has not ended. The benefits and results of this stuff is undeniable. You’re really missing out.

A fellow OG distributor shared this study with me, and I’m going to share it with you as well because I think it is incredibly important. Here is what was shared:

“California has a Linus Pauling Institute of Sci.&Tech.and Medicine. It’s founder is two Nobel Prize winners, he has moderate reputation in vitamin research and disease treatment and prevention. Fukumi Monshige Doctor worked in this well-known college .Over the past few decades, the therapeutic effect of Ganoderma lucidum studied and concluded by he and siad: “According to my point of view, the current methods of cancer prevention is better to use Ganoderma lucidum” (Reishi).

Application Fields

Ganoderma lucidum has been successfully applied in the following areas:

– Cancer adjuvant treatment (stomach, liver, lung, skin, brain, kidney, pancreas)
– Chemical treatments, reducing side effects
– Neurasthenia, fear
– Sleep Disorders
– Heart and circulatory problems (high blood pressure, blood, heart and coronary blood vessels, edema)
– To enhance liver function
– Enhance the immune system, prevention of infection
– Regulation of blood lipids and blood sugar level
– Allergic reactions
– Neurodermatitis
– Asthma
– Food and indigestion
– Joint pain
– Bronchitis, emphysema
– Autoimmune diseases
– Arrhythmia
– A, B, hepatitis C
– Too heavy
– Anxiety
– Gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gastritis
– Pancreatitis
– Climacteric disease
– Exhausted
– Fibrous tumor disease
– The prevention of myocardial infarction
– Tinnitus
– Hemorrhoids
– Dermatology”

Now think about it. You can have all these amazing benefits, and still be drinking coffee or tea! There is even a hot chocolate that so many people give to their kids because a. it tastes good, and b. why not start them with health benefits early!

This stuff is amazing, and doesn’t break the bank. From people being able to walk away from oxygen tanks, getting off of pain pills (even morphine!), to people losing weight, the benefits of simply switching your coffee is incredible.

Leave me a comment if you’d at least like a free sample, or are interested in jumping in and changing your health today! It’s never too early to start!

**This product is able to be sold internationally. Anyone can get a sample, anyone can buy a box! Don’t let distance hinder you from your best health!

 

You Have To Ask Yourself This!

Hello everyone,

I saw this question last night, and it hit me, bang on! If this question had been posed to me, I would have only had one answer, and still do. Here is the question:

Honestly, if you care about your body at all, and the only change is not getting rid of something but simply replacing it with something better, how could you say no? Normal coffee is dehydrating, acidic, causes a caffeine crash, etc… And yet OG has infused coffee with ganoderma and it completely erases all of these negative things! And not only does it erase them, but it actually ADDS health benefits such as increased energy, better immunity, HYDRATES, lowers blood pressure, etc… The list of health benefits goes on and on. And with OG, you can get paid to drink coffee. No joke. It’s the easiest thing I’ve ever done and got paid to do.

So I want you to ask yourself this morning, why would I continue down a path that is not making me any better when there is an opportunity set before me where I don’t have to get rid of anything, I don’t have to change any habits, but I simply change the product in which I drink? Why damage my body when I can benefit it? Why do I sit and drink what the majority of the world drinks when I could be drinking something that only 1% of coffee drinkers worldwide have been drinking and feeling the most amazing of their lives?

The thing is, OG is a newer company, but the results have been astounding. I could tell you stories of people I’ve personally talked to that have been able to remove medications (blood pressure pills, morphine for pain) just because of drinking OG daily. I could tell you stories of the man who was able to get rid of his oxygen tank because of drinking OG products. I could tell you of the energetic people they have become because of OG. I could tell you so many things and give you a million reasons why OG coffee, tea, and other gourmet products are the way to go. And the best part is, coffee has no limits! OG is in 33 countries!!

So ask yourself, what is really stopping me from being in the healthiest state of my life? What is stopping me from trying to get rid of daily medications or pains like the people stated before? Why am I suffering when I could be happier? And why am I not trying this product today?

Message me and I will have your free samples sent out by the end of the week. This is not something you’re going to want to miss. Take the chance, make the change, and see the way your life becomes better!

The Easiest Business in the WORLD

Tonight was SUCH a good night. And something you NEED to know about.

Financial burden has been a slight problem for the past couple years. My husband has been unable to work (since he’s American). So the responsibility has been on me. He feels horrible about it, but I keep reminding him to be patient and wait. The good news is, he should be cleared soon and they’ve FINALLY allowed him to even apply for an open work permit. We’re getting close!!

To assist myself during these times, I started my Mary Kay business which has been good. Not to mention I love getting the products for wholesale price. I absolutely love Mary Kay products and will promote them to everyone. They actually WORK and are an excellent quality.

But recently, I’ve also started my Organo Gold business which is what I would like to focus on tonight. This is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.

I had scheduled a Google Hangout with someone who’s doing very well in the company (been around a little longer than me). He gave me some great tips and filled me in on some questions I had. We made plans, I felt good, got off the computer.

I knew I had an Organo delivery coming, so I thought ahead of time to prepare my information and my samples to ask the delivery man if he drank coffee.

The buzzer to our building goes to my phone, and so when it rang, I quickly answered, grab my prepared items, and met him at the door. We had a very quick conversation about the fire trucks that were here yesterday (he had attempted delivery but was blocked by the fire trucks so had to come back today), and then I asked if he drank coffee. He replied yes, and when I asked if he wanted to sample some, he said he couldn’t say no. I handed him my information and a coffee sample, and we both went away happy.

I returned to my apartment, and I have a message in my Inbox on Facebook. A lady that I had given a green tea sample to had messaged and simply said that after drinking the green tea I gave her, she can’t even be bothered to drink the tea she has in her house. Of course this led to a conversation about meeting up because she needed some green tea.

Ladies and gentlemen, how easy is that? This company literally is nothing more than giving people samples of your product, and the product literally speaks for itself. All I did was ask a question and hand over a sample. Nothing more to it. The business itself is easy, the profits are good, the commissions are good, and at the very bottom of it all, you are actually helping others by getting rid of the acidity coffee, and replacing it with something that is so healthy for you. And the taste is amazing!

If you’re looking for something easy, something that is international (I think we’re in 14 countries at the moment, but they’re working on gaining more as we speak), and something that will either give you a little extra financial uplift, or even a retirement fund or a substantial living profit, this is the opportunity.

The slogan of Organo Gold is this: It’s Easy, It’s Simple, It’s Coffee

The company truly lives up to it’s slogan. Message me if you’d like to know more about the company or even the products. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss.

Detox Without Changing Your Diet!

All the time we are seeing “Detox” ads. Ads for juicing detoxes, ads for whole food detoxes, and ads for bottles of pills or liquids that you take with strict diets that allow your body to detox.

Let me first tell you that a detox is a great idea! A lot of the food we eat is full of chemicals and preservatives and who knows what else! A lot of things that should never enter our bodies is entering quietly and unnoticed. A detox will help your body get rid of these things.

Another reason a detox is an excellent idea is the very fact of body efficiency. I will pre-warn you that this next comment grossed me out but changed my life forever. I once read in an article that some of our bodies are so inefficient at getting rid of the “extras” in our bodies that we can daily carry around 10 lbs of “sludge” in our intestines! I won’t go into any more details, but how awful is that! Not to mention most people want to lose 10 lbs, but also to know that poisonous “sludge” in staying in there! YUCK!

The difficult part about the common “detox” program is the fact of the limitations of food. Now by all means, I will encourage you until the day I die to eat healthy. There is nothing like eating healthy for your body. But I will never encourage a small amount of food entering your body. I cringe when I see people starving themselves to lose weight (or whatever the reason may be). The best part is, you don’t have to.

There is a new “coffee/tea/hot chocolate/supplement” that will help your body detox without EVER changing a single food in your diet. Again, it is best, no matter what, to eat healthier. But even if you don’t, these new drinks/supplements will still help your body daily detox itself! How much easier can it really get? You still get to drink your coffee or your tea, your kids can still drink their hot chocolate, and yet instead of drinking ones that have negative effects on your body, all of those negative effects are GONE and you have added health benefits including a daily detox for your body! It’s amazing and completely blows my mind!

I’ve always enjoyed a mocha. A mocha is a half coffee, half hot chocolate. My problem with most coffee shops that offer mochas is the extreme richness and overflowing sugars that are in them. I now drink a good hot mocha twice a day from the comfort of wherever I may be at the time, and I can tell you the amazing difference and change I have seen in the detox of my body alone. I’m amazed.

If you’d like to try the product, message me. I’d love to tell you more about it and even send you some free samples. I have always disliked sales people who are pushy and don’t seem to care, and I sincerely hope you don’t feel as if I’m being that way. I never support products I don’t believe in and when it comes to our health, that’s the most important. You only get one life to live, so why not make it the best life you can. Treat your body the best you can and you’ll see the difference your body will do for you!

Healthy Coffee? Are you Serious? Why Yes, Yes I am!

How many people in the world are drinking coffee? A LARGE number. And yet we are constantly told about the many, many side effects such as the caffeine crashes, the tiredness that coffee only “masks” for the time being, as well as a host of many other negative things. Yet the world still ceases to be amazed at the line-ups for coffee shops. Coffee is so universal and so easy. So why are we willing to risk our health for it? Because we love it! So here is where I introduce you to the phrase: You can have your coffee and drink it too! (Throw that cake away… 🙂 )

I have been introduced to a company called “Organo Gold”. What Organo Gold has done is to take something as commonplace as coffee, and enhance it! Enhance it to block those negative side effects of coffee, and present us with a supplemented coffee that does allow us to drink our coffee and teas everyday for a much cheaper price than a cup of coffee bought from a coffee shop (no machines required either!) and brought us a product that has an amazing taste while at the same time hosting incredible health benefits! 

I cannot tell you the amount of people I have encountered or heard from that are listing health benefits left and right, things that this “miracle coffee” has done for them. There are people who have been Tim Hortons addicts, or Starbucks addicts, and completely abandon them for this coffee. 

I personally was sent some samples before Christmas. I drank them, thought about it, but pursued nothing for well over a month and a half. Then as I sat, thinking how much I’d love a mocha or a latte or something (yes I like the “fancy” coffees), I realized that I really wanted some more of those samples I had drank! That stuff is AMAZING. 

My husband is an avid green tea drinker. He’s had green tea in many different varieties from many different companies, and what did he say with his first sip of OG green tea? “Wow! This stuff is SO GOOD!”

So what makes OG products better? They use a natural supplement (derived from an ancient species of mushroom) to supplement their coffees and teas. The health benefits are incredible, nobody can deny. 

I suggest you simply google “Ganoderma”. Look at the amazing things it does and can do for you!

If you think you’re interested, I’d love to send you free samples. This goes for ANYONE. There are no borders on coffee! I’d love to hear what this product has done for you! Get in on the product everybody seems to be getting “hooked” on. Why not treat your body to something better!

Kombucha: Weird, but Amazing!

I have never been one to love tea. I’m incredibly guilty of being a tea-hater most of my life. Of course, tea is really good for you. But up until recently, I had no reason good enough to drink it.

I love shopping at organic food stores. Unfortunately, it costs a fortune to buy your groceries from there. So often, I buy most of my groceries elsewhere, and buy select groceries from the organic stores. Naturally, I like to get what I call a “treat” from the organic store since they have so many “healthy” options to our “bad foods”. 

One day, not wanting to try another “healthy soda pop”, I saw some bottles labelled “Kombucha Drink”. I read the labels quickly, saying that it was by a company called GTS, super healthy for you, helps detoxify your body, and very good for you overall. So I decided, why not! Slightly expensive, at approximately $3.49 a bottle, I only got one. There were quite a few flavours to try. My very first flavour was: Synergy Trilogy. Seriously, who knew why I picked that one other than the bottle was pretty. I had no idea what I was in for!

There were 2 parts of the label I failed to see. One was NOT to shake the bottle before opening. It is carbonated, and it ended up on my shirt sleeve. The second one, was that there will be cultures appearing in the drink, but that it is natural. I assumed it was like a fruit juice where some things had settled on the bottom and you had to shake it before drinking. So very wrong. The cultures were slimy. I did figure out eventually that the cultures stay near the bottom, so that if you drink half of the bottle, it is safe to shake it after that as the cultures will disappear into the drink and there won’t be enough “fizz” to spill out of the bottle. I got smart!

Now, I have a habit of smelling things that are “new”. I got a surprise when smelling Kombucha… it has a distinct smell of vinegar! Oh well, I had learned as a child that not everything tastes the same way that it smells. And for this, it was true. 

I wasn’t sure if I had liked the Kombucha at first or not. But the more I drank, the more I liked. Since then, I have tried almost all of the flavours (except the alcoholic ones as I do not drink alcohol). I have not found one that I did not like! I do feel like they help my body, and look forward to a “Kombucha” treat anytime I can. I highly recommend you try these wonderful drinks and see the wonders for yourself. 

I know there are other companies that have gotten into the Kombucha trend. I have to say that I have only tried the GTS company’s Kombucha. Feel free to experiment, but I will safely say, you won’t be disappointed. GTS, you are a genius!