June 2016 Giveaway

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You have the opportunity to sign up every day for free! Don’t lose out on the opportunity to win a free Young Living Essential Oil!

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

Juice Plus – 3 Months

Right before I started Juice Plus I had my annual physical. Most people know that along with that comes blood work. I wasn’t really looking forward to it because I was pretty certain some things were going to be high and some things low.

You see since I was pregnant with my baby girl, Bella, my A1C has been elevated (it slowly worked its way from 5.6 to 5.7 in 2015). For those who are wondering what that it: it is a three month assessment of your average blood glucose levels. Normal range is 4.1-5.6. So while 5.6 wasn’t high it was at the edge of being considered pre-diabetic.

Here are what my results were at that appointment:

Looking at those photos it really hit me how miserable I was. I hated photos of myself. I rarely took them and when I did, the only people who saw them were those who asked how my face was doing or how I was doing. I sat here tonight in shock at how sad I look in this photos, but photos don’t really lie. Especially when you have so many where you look as bad as this!

Then I debated on asking my Dr. if she would put off my lab’s for another month but decided since I was excited to see where things were that I would get them done. This is what the lab results were and also the changes I have noticed:

While it may not seem like huge changes to you I would like to point out my A1C has never gone down since it started to rise. It has been monitored between 3 months, 6 months and 12 months depending upon what it was doing. I would also like people to know that even though my doctor gave me high doses of Vitamin D to take for 8 weeks (50,000 mg) I decided to hold off on that because of starting the Juice Plus. I wanted to see if it would make a difference on it’s own with the sunshine.

Last but not least, if it is to hard to go back and forth between the two images here is one with the results to compare them:

I am still on a wild ride and this journey is no where near finished. I still use my essential oils daily and now I am using my Juice Plus daily. I can’t ever imagine me stopping them because they have changed my life in so many ways!

I would love to talk to you! Is there something you would like to change in your life? How can I help you get started today?

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

Resting Heartrate

Really excited to share an update with you! I am just about at the 3 month mark on Juice Plus and my resting BMP is dropping!

So back in 2015 in June/July I was exercising but not eating the greatest.

In November I was eating better (had surgery at end of July) but not exercising.

In March of this year I had made some major changes in lifestyle but it still wasn’t doing much for my resting BMP.

Now on March 13th we added Juice Plus+ to our daily plan and just under 3 months later my resting BMP is at 66!

I have had even more exciting things happen in those three months but they are going to be for another day!

What do you think wholefood nutrition can do for you? What do you think fruits and veggies can do for you?

To be honest I wasn’t really sure what it would do for me and lowering my heart rate wasn’t one of the things I was even hoping for! Most of the things that have been happening in the past 3 years and now 3 months have been huge bonus’ for our family!

I just get so excited!

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

Healthier Snack Options

The last 24 hours have been crazy. My father in law had an accident last month that required emergency neck surgery. 

He spent until this past Friday in hospital and rehab.  

Since being home he has been having some breathing issues. Last night they got bad enough that him, my mother in law and myself went to the ED. They ended up admitting him and thankfully today he was able to come back home. 

I’m glad I was able to go and help. It throws you off of your normal schedule but I would have it no other way! 

So when I got home last night (or I should say this morning) I was hungry. I probably should have just gone to bed but instead I grabbed an apple. 

There are a lot of options for healthier snacks. Fruit is great. Even raw veggies are great for a snack! 

You can also make your own “ice cream”. I use frozen fruit, but if water and Juice Plus Complete powder. 

You can also buy ice cream. Tonight I tried Yasso. It is yogurt and it was mint chocolate chip and it was AMAZING! I’m so glad I bought it tonight. 

There are so many options for healthy treats or snacks. 

How can you take your usual unhealthy treat/snack and make it healthy for you?

Oh Look At Me!!!

It has been a month since I have done a face update so I figured it was time. Hard to explain how happy I am with my face! My skin is truly clearing up more and more.

I know it is not really easy to see in photos but my skin is getting so much smoother! The redness is starting to really go away.

There are not enough words to say to say how thankful I am for everything that is going on with my body! I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for adding Juice Plus+ to our lives!

Not only is it changing my body and skin it is changing our lives financially. I will be forever grateful for God placing such outstanding things in our lives!

So tell me, what are you thankful for today? I know what I am thankful for!

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

Setback or Growth

One of the changes I have been making is to sit each morning and read from my Bible. Not only do I read from it, I underline in it, I write what I am thinking, I doodle, I color and I just make it what I am hearing from Him.

I do not have any set pattern with how I read. I open it up and just kind of browse through and find something that sticks out to me. Or if I am feeling lead to head to a place, I go there. Just like yesterday I was feeling lead to Proverbs 31 but in the end I ended up on Proverbs 30 and was lead to pray about someone else. So yesterday God lead me someplace I had never been. This has been a very personal journey for me and to write in my Bible and to pray for someone else in there; was never something I would have done in the past. I would have pulled paper out and written there but instead I did what I was lead to do.

Today I woke up in a very big funk. The past few days have been hard for me. I have been doing so well with self-control and being lead by Him and by Sarayu, that I have felt that I have been living in the Spirit. Yet these last few days have been self-lead and it has been bad.

In Galatians 5 it talks about living in the Spirit. It talks about love, joy, peace, kindness, forbearance, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It talks about when you live in the flesh you are living for yourself. You are seeking out sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and it is talking about living for you.

I know you can’t always avoid living in the flesh fully but I do know that you can always call out to God. I do know you can always ask for Sarayu to intercede for you. I do know that you can always ask for help from Christ.

Christ Died For ME! For ME! So why is this (living in the Spirit) so hard for me? So why am I living in the flesh these last three days? It is so frustrating!

Do you know how long it takes for something new to stick with you? Six weeks of being consistent and doing it daily. Do you know how long I have been doing good with the small changes? February 14th and March 10th are the two key dates! That means 12 weeks and 8 weeks, so why am I falling back into the old flesh ways? Because it takes people who have lived in the flesh all their lives (so all of us) moments to slip back into what we were.

Call out, cry out, beg for help, scream for interceding for yourself because YOU are worth it! I am worth it!

So has the last few days ruined me? No I just need to focus on Sarayu. I just need to focus on the Spirit, God and Christ. I just need to know that sometimes those setbacks are just what are needed for the best growth; growth that is about to happen!

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

Lisa’s Story

Let me tell you all about Lisa. She is an amazing lady I have had the pleasure of getting to know thanks to our woman’s Bible study! She found us one day when it was a bad day for her. I would have said a long time ago, she found us on accident but the truth is she found us just when she needed us. God lead her to us and for that we are very thankful!

She started to have some health issues a while ago. She went to see her doctors and then her doctors started to send her to specialists. About a year ago she was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

We had hoped as her church family that getting a diagnosis would help. It seemed though that her treatments and the MS were causing her more complication. She ended up having to stop working.

The second half of last year she spent more time in the hospital than out, or so it seemed. She was losing her eye sight. She was having issues walking.

The beginning of this year seemed to start much the same way that the end of last year closed. She started another symptom and the doctors were not sure what was going on. It was swelling and painful to touch. Looked to me like she had shingles on her head and face and eye (I have had shingles before and so I felt super sorry for her). She ended up having to go to the U of M to figure out what was going on because it seemed her Doctors were stumped. Turned out a good portion of the symptoms she was having were from a treatment she was on.

A little over a month ago she started taking Juice Plus capsules. She enrolled her daughter in the Children’s Health Study; which meant she had to purchase the parents portion. This was all for her daughter, not for Lisa. Her daughter deals with headaches and has other things going on so we were hoping it would help give her some relief.

Today she got the best news she could ever get! She is able to go back to work part time! Her treatment was reduced some today. Her levels are within normal range. Her typical treatment lasts for 6 hours and today it was 3 hours!

She actually reached out to me to see if I could go and pick her up because her ride was still at work. It was the best thing ever!

Lisa is working on healing her body from the inside out! She is feeling better. She has more energy. She is able to accomplish more on a daily basis. She even shared with me when I picked her up that she hasn’t had to take a nap in the afternoon!

God is so good for putting health and wellness in our lives! He has given me the ability to share with others and He is using me for His purpose!

I will be forever grateful for the means He has been using to get our family health, happy and how He has been providing for us!

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

Simple Way To Get Steps In

One change I have been making is to get my steps in. It isn’t always great weather. We no longer have a gym membership, so this is what I have been doing.

One of the best things is when I am doing it earlier enough a lot of the times the two youngest kiddos will join me.

Now after I have done any kind of workout my body is always fighting me. I have some autoimmune issues and my body isn’t a fan. So I use these three Young Living Essential Oils to help.

After I get done I apply these to my muscles to help them feel alive, rejuvenated, relaxed and ready to go the next day!

Simple things, small things, do them for a while and they become your life style.

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.

 

Are You Eating Healthy?

For those of us who have decided to take the health road, nutrition is hard! Finding things that are portable and healthy are hard to find.

Let me be honest just for a moment. I have tried just about every diet out there. Both those you see in infomercials, in tv commercials, in the store on the shelf, on the radio, and everything else out there!

Notice one of the biggest things I said? I never did either! I said I tried just about ever diet out there! DIEt.

If you think you are going to just eat healthy, drink some shakes, eat some nutrition bars and then go back to being a gluten for food and everything unhealthy, nothing you are doing is going to get better. You may lose weight for a while but when you stop it will all come back plus some more.

Now what I was saying about having things that are portable and able to eat that are healthy and delicious? It isn’t always easy to find things! We often think if it says, “Low fat”, “Nutritional blah blah”, “Healthy”, and anything else that comes to mind, it must be good for us!

Well that is how I used to think at least…

Here are three nutritional bars:

Which one of these three would you pick to eat? I know which one I would pick for certain!

It has taken a long time to realize the importance of knowing and researching things! Just because it says organic, or nutritional, or healthy, or dietary, or anything that leads you to believe it will do your body good just isn’t the truth.

Far to many companies are just out to make as much as they can.

My view of health and wellness has certain changed over the past few years! I may not be able to protect my family from every bad thing out there, but I can do my best to control what they are putting in them, on them and around them!

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

*We only recommend one brand for ingesting essential oils. Young Living has a Seed to Seal commitment and promise. They are a pure therapeutic grade essential oil. Always be sure to read the label for directions on usage for each individual essential oil.

*We only recommend one brand for whole food nutrition. Juice Plus+ is very selective with their suppliers of the fruits and veggies and vineyard selections. We want to make sure if we are with a company that they have our best interests in mind! Always be sure to read the nutrition label for directions on usages of each whole food nutrition capsule.