Yay 1st week!

What an encouragement to step on the scale and see a 3 pound weight loss!

 I also measured and I'm down 1" in hips, 2" in waist and 2" in bust!

Here's what I've been doing:

• Wake up - drink 20-30oz lemon water and green coffee bean extract 
• Do some exercises - wii Just Dance or Biggest Loser cardio 
• Take Shaklee multivitamin with breakfast 
• Watch what I eat at lunch and dinner 
•  I also have taken walks twice this week at night. 

 For food, there are times that I've had more than what I should for portion control. I know that portions have always been a real struggle with me. I admit, I've opened a bag of chips and finished them in a day. It might turn out to be a snack, and another snack and hour later, and so on!!!! I want to focus this week on my portions. Hopefully when I write my next post I can successfully say I've gone a week with meeting this expectation! Here's a great food portion graphic:

Water, water, water!

I've been drinking a BUNCH of water the past few days and I've noticed a huge difference in my skin!  It has more of a glow than normal and looks healthier!  I've also had a lot of fresh juice but I can tell an improvement in my health from just the water that I've been drinking! :)

I did cave today and drink a cup of coffee - since I haven't had any the past few days I had a headache all day.  I'll have to gradually step back from that habit.  It's amazing that I usually only have 1 cup of coffee a day but even cutting one glass out I still have caffeine withdraws!

I'm looking forward to watching Biggest Loser next week and starting our 90 day challenge!  I'll try to post a favorite recipe or two each week!  Right now the main workouts that I've been doing are the Just Dance 4 dances!  They are lots of fun but I know I'm going to have to add in some more intense cardio and weight training to get the weight to come off.  I guess I'm considering these first few days of January a prelude to the hard core dieting and working out that I want to do!

Here's to a new me in 2013! *raising my glass of water*

Miracle Home Remedy

Miracle Home Remedy 


We were visiting with a friend last month and he told us about this remedy he's been doing for a while.  His mother-in-law is a nurse and into a lot of alternative health products and she gave him the recipe!  I'm excited to try it out - he's had great sucess with his own health.....not just from this little elixir but also from making great lifestyle changes.

Here are the ingredients - just blend them all in a blender!
1 cup apple cider vinegar
1 cup raw honey
8 cloves garlic

Store the liquid in a glass jar and cover.  Put in the refrigerator for 5 days to allow the foam to settle.

Funny story - our friend had mentioned this recipe to another couple and when it was made, the lady mistook the "clove" of garlic to mean "bulb" of garlic and put 8 BULBS in the blender with the ACV and honey!!!!  They were up ALL NIGHT when they took it with hot sweats and bathroom trips and knew something must not be right!!!  Our friend got a huge laugh out of that one!!!

Background

My 90 day challenge doesn't officially begin until January 7th but I am starting NOW with all my habits to hopefully establish some healthy trends in my daily life. In 2006 I lost about 40 pounds on a raw food diet and I was so successful and well read on the benefits of vegan eating. I always gravitate back to that time when I try to "diet" to lose weight but I've never been as successful. Now I have 2 kids!!!!! I don't expect myself to be as rigid as I once was simply because I don't feel like I have the time to prepare all the gourmet raw food that I used to. I do hope to try some new recipes though as well as revisit some of the favorites. On of the raw food authors I follow really preaches how important it is to give up the bad foods. We will heal ourselves if we STOP eating the processed foods that are so prevalent in our society. Cutting these foods out is better than adding all the extra health foods and elixirs!! So, I am starting NOW!!!! I have already had my morning water, some ACV and a green smoothie! Now, I'm going to go get my dance on for 30 minutes!!! Time to burn some of the Christmas weight off! :)