OMG! OMG! OMG!!!!

So I began a couple months ago to follow a new healthy eating plan called Trim Healthy Mama (kinda weird since I'm not a mama!). When I first began everyone thought I was making a big mistake, how could cheese, bacon, pizza & so many other yummy things be good for you? Can I say it's been so wonderful when I was on plan. Money got tight, people helped eat ingredients while I wasn't looking and next thing I knew I was back on their diet of unhealthiness. Potatoes, every possible way and Soda, breads, I started feeling worse & worse. The worst part was I feel into a serious depression, anxiety attacks, BP started moving back up, I started retaining water and my mood??? Oh boy!!! Foul, that's what it was but I felt so poorly I didn't care. I'm back on, I've had to purchase a little fridge/freezer for my THM goodies to protect them. LOL

All that to say I had gone down over 10lbs in literally days, everyone was commenting on how "skinny" I looked, LOL. I'm not skinny by a far shot but it felt good to know people were noticing that big of a difference in me!!!

So I'm organizing a little corner of my suite to house a mini "kitchen". Wish me luck!!!

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Trip THM FAILED!!! :-)

So I took a quick trip to Louisiana to tour a couple of group homes to see what and how they are doing it. It was an amazing trip as far as education was concerned... Food??? NOT

So headed out I was good, sort of. LOL. I ordered a smoked turkey on sour dough bread with lettuce & mustard only. I have learned to like mustard. I try to use that instead of mayo for obvious fattening reasons but also because I read in several places mustard will help boost your metabolism and mine needs all the help it can get. Then after Sunday evening service, we stopped by Taco Bueno, we were in a strange town and there didn't seem to be healthy places. LOL. And I couldn't cook... so there.

So yesterday morning we were at the hotel and I needed food the only thing I could scrounge up that I liked was a tiny blueberry muffin. That's a NONO, but I was hungry and so there!!!

Then we stopped at a little hole in the wall place to eat authentic cajun food. It was really good but really BAD!!! LOL

So today I woke up, my blueberry tea had been steeping over night and I fixed my GGMS and then I failed!!! about 10am I was in a hurry to get out the door when it hit me I was hungry and in my rush to get up and make my GGMS I had forgotten to eat breakfast. I dug around and we had nothing quick and there were tortilla chips in the cabinet and they are so quick to throw a little cheese on them and 30 seconds in the microwave and I'm out the door.

Got home about 2:30 and I was hungry so I fixed me a couple of eggs with sauteed diced onion and sweet pepper mixed in. Plus 2 stripes of bacon cut in half with a little diced jalepeno on the side. It was actually VERY good. I'm still learning how good or bad that was but I think it was all on plan. I had sprinkled a tad of cheese on the eggs but after tasting them I didn't need it, I could have easily eaten them without it.

So I was at Winco and discovered they sell alot more THM type stuff than Walmart!!! So I grabbed some flax meal & almond flour and some almond milk, more peach tea... Everytime I go to get something I grab something else to add in.

I'm still  struggling with eating enough meals/snacks, etc but I think I'm slowly picking it up. Just gotta keep reading and working towards my goal!!!

First Meal on THM Plan

So tonight I cooked a S meal. It was Cabbage & Beef (family recipe) and Stuffed Cauliflower (from THM book). Everyone raved about how good it was. Dad even said either his taste buds are changing alot or that was some really good food. He is more picky than me sometimes. LOL.

I used the Stuffed Cauli recipe in the THM book and it says just put the cauliflower in the pan and you add the ingredients. Well, I'm VERY black & white, there is no gray in my life so I followed exactly... My Cauliflower didn't get very soft, I finally covered the pan in foil and put it back in the over, then I added more cream cheese it finally got soft enough we could eat it. LOL. So lesson learned cook the veggie first. LOL.

I have my peach tea steeping for tomorrow. I drank all my GGMS today. I noticed that my tummy was kind of grumbly and not so well. Not sure if it's the big breakfast or the GGMS "cleaning" my system out a bit. Whatever the case I feel great and I'm looking for to my GGMS tomorrow. LOL. I've got Raspberry Zinger steeping for my aunt. I'll have my whole family hooked eventually!!! LOL

Good Girl Moon Shine - THM

So other than a taste of my cousins GGMS last weekend I'm new to this tasty treat!!! LOL. It's so healthy & and refreshing!!! So I wanted to blog about this, today is day 2 with GGMS in my life. I've already learned something!!! LOL

Yesterday I made this wonderful concoction by using 1 peach flavored herbal teabag in HOT water until it cooled. Put ice & a little water in my 1 quart cup and with a straw. This one I got at my local Walmart for under $10. It's BPA free, insulated and doesn't sweat and the best part is the handle!!! LOL. So back to it, I only used 1 tea bag with 2 cups of hot water and it was very weak. You could barely taste the peach. Then I used 3 1/2 Tbs of Organic Apple Cider w/ the mother, 2 shakes of powdered ginger and the ACV was a bit stronger than my liking and I couldn't taste the ginger at all. Then I put 2 Tbs of Stevia in and it was still a little blah so I put in a couple more shakes of Stevia (powdered/granulated type). It wasn't bad it just was great to me. Sooooo

 Last night I steeped 2 Wild Berry Zinger herbal tea bags in HOT water overnight (not just until the water cooled. This morning I filled my cup with ice, I put 2 Tbs of Apple Cider Vinegar, 3 shakes of powdered ginger, 2 Tbs of Stevia again and poured the very concentrated tea over it. That filled my cup up to the top. Then I mixed it, decided I still needed more sweetener and kept adding a little & stirring until it was just right!!! My Dad took a sip and said he could drink that all day long. So I did a little research to see what health benefits were in this concoction I'm sipping on. Here is what I found...

Apple Cider Vinegar w/ the Mother...

• It appears to help diabetes & blood sugar control
• It helps prevent starch from being processed (not 100%)
• It helps boost your immune system and
• It helps with constipation (I can't vouch on that one, LOL)

Ginger

• It reduces pain and inflammation, making it valuable in managing arthritis, headaches and mentral cramps.
• It has a warming effect and stimulates circulation
• It inhibits rhiovirus, which can cause the common cold.
• It inhibits such bacteria as Salmonella, which cause diarrhea, and protozoa, such as Trichomonas.
• In the intestinal tract, it reduces gas and painful spasms.
• It may prevent stomach ulcers caused by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as aspirin and ibuprofen.
• Combats nausea and vomiting.

Herbal Tea

• Cuts down on your caffiene intake
• Depending on what you purchase, it can help with sleep, energy, stress, and so much more.

All of that and then Stevia isn't real sugar but sweetens things very well!!! I had so many tell me it might take me a little bit to get used to using Stevia because it's different from sugar, well the only problem I've had was how much to use and I had the same problem with real sugar.

As a woman with PCOS I am insulin-resistant so I've very excited to see what this plan will do as far as help me with symptoms of PCOS!!! I plan on keeping this updated, hopefully I can keep finding the time. 

Keep an eye out... Tonight we are having our 1st S-meal. We are having Cabbage & Beef and our side is going to be Stuffed (or Loaded) Cauliflower. I'll let you know how that goes. This morning I made eggs with tomatoes, green chilis & cheese. The whole family loved it!!! Now I must go get busy labeling my book, it just arrived via FedEx and I no longer have to depend on my ebook. I can hold the pages in hands. LOL. There are plus sides to a actual book! js

Here I am AGAIN!!! Tired of seeing my "restarts" yet?

So, Plexus... Got old and I didn't lose like everyone swears they are. Plus, I started craving "bad" food, my comfort foods and goodbye weightloss. Thankfully I didn't really gain anything back but I've been trying to make better & healthier options.

Soooo, I'm going to try the THM Plan (Trim Healthy Mama). My cousin & her husband are doing great on the plan and losing weight. I'm excited because it's not cutting back out eating, etc it's more along the lines of learning a different way of cooking. It can be a long term life style changing in cooking. It does require alot of cooking but I love cooking!!! Time is usually my issue so we will see what happens.

I bought the book today and should have the paperback book tomorrow. So I'm excited!!!

Fat Layers Cover So Much...

So I don't guess I ever realized that my "fat layers" did more than my medical doctor explained. He told me how alot of these health issues I have had would begin to diminish as I continue on my weightloss journey of eating better & drinking water, no sodas. He said as I gained weight my body would begin to store hormones I needed for my body to function properly in the fat cells and as I lose weight and those hormones are released my health would change and I would be amazed. He was SOOooooooo correct!!!

Weird thing though, it's not just hormones that my layers had stored. Emotions and memories were also stored, so to speak. As I've lost each pound I've found myself going down a road of emotional ups and downs trying to now deal and process things I never did all those years ago. It makes a little bit of sense because instead of dealing with the pain or hurt, I would put a bandaid over it called food. Now as I cut back and those pounds go away that pain and hurt is resurfacing, weird huh?

Hopefully, the roller coaster ride is over quicker that it got me here but I know that every step every tear I "re-cry" I'm finally finding healing inside. Understanding? Not so much but grief is a process of steps and every step in the grief process is important. We sometimes try to bypass a step but we will always be "stalled out" for lack of a better term at this moment. We can't grow, move on, etc until we finally allow ourselves to take that step and then the next until we have gone through the process and then we can say, I'm OK, I'll make it, I can move on and live my life without that pain.

I'm sure I'll have more to say later, today that is all!!!

Plexus Train!

So, I was given Plexus to take home & try and ended up liking it. I've had some amazing things happening in my body lately and I'm telling you all about it.

So a couple weeks ago we started a "Family Weightloss Contest" it's fun and it's nice to have family members on board with you.

I of course have been counting my calories, drinking 99.99999999999999999% water and then I started taking Plexus everyday. The first week I lost 13lbs. This week has been a big fat FAIL!!! I'm not sure why either. I'm hoping it's one of those I lost so much last week that my body just stopped doing anything because it's in shock, I hope. It's frustrating to go from 2lbs a day lost to 0 or to gain when you are still in your calories, nothing really changed.

However, I was diagnosed with PCOS a few years back and (guys close your eyes) I had a period 24/7 for over 3 years. So yeah, hormonally I was a trainwreck. The last 2 weeks, it all straightened out and my moods escalated to happy, I've had so much energy and I can't believe the difference I feel, I can only assume it's the Plexus because the food & water was already in affect and not doing much.

I feel great!!! I went out with friends last night and we acted crazy & took pics and posed and I can look at those pics and think WOW, I look as happy as I feel. I'm telling you after years of feeling like I was dragging myself through life I feel so happy. So, I know I don't write often but I try to write as things change so I can see what I changed and when.

So I'm officially for now on the Plexus Train

Later.