Isms and weight loss

Calvy's crazy skills.

Look Mom! I'm eating a yellow watermelon!

Yes, he is the cutest...in case you were wondering.

Calvy giving his very first talk, he did awesome! He hiccuped through the WHOLE thing, it was so cute. I almost video taped it, but felt weird enough taking pictures with my phone. wink
Good 'ol family. They were beat after a hot day and then watching our crazy three, we were all ready for a nap in Nauvoo.

Calvy practicing his photography skills.

My cutie girl with her new outfit she got at our girls day out.

This little chick helped herself to the watermelon on the counter....I hadn't cut it yet. She ate every last drop, that was our dinner.

While cleaning up some make-up off of my trash can lid in my bedroom, that Ellie had split...I'm not even going to tell you how many days previous, Calvy came over and asked what I was doing...

"Why did she do that?

Maybe she was trying to make, Trash Can Make-up Pie. That's gross. Why would she do that?"

I couldn't help it, in the moment this was so funny, and it didn't help that I was already trying really hard just to scrub it off, him saying this while I was working hard threw me over the edge, I fell to the floor laughing. This kid, I tell ya he's gonna be famous someday.

Ellie brought me a big wad of flowers, bows and magnets and said "here". I asked her why she was playing with them and told her she knew she wasn't supposed to be playing with them. She said, "I made them pretty for you, so you could have them." What the heck do you say to that kind of explanation from a cute 2.5 year old? I said, "Thank you baby, that was so nice." Hmmmm, think I failed?

Honestly life is fun right now, Caleb is starting to think about walking, he stands all by himself and laughs when we see him, and then falls. It's hard at times too, Ellie and Caleb both have thrush, which is NO fun. I have a slight case myself, but not in my mouth....I'm still nursing, and that is as far as the hints will go. I thought again about weening him, but I can't get myself to do it, I have never had such a hard time with breastfeeding, and yet I can't seem to want to get rid of it. Anywho back to thrush, we went to the Dr. to confirm it is infect thrush and she gave us an RX for an anti-fungal. We are doing doTERRA Essential Oils right now to try and get rid f it and they seem to be working, so I don't think we'll need that RX. I will be doing a Candida Cleanse and I'm pretty excited about it. I am thankful for great friend who jump at the chance to help you. We are so blessed with SO many good friends, I will miss this time of our lives.

Before

After(I realize this is a bad after picture, but I honestly couldn't find anything else)

Before

After (in a size 2 jean that were even a little big) Sad story, by upper half of my WOMANLY body was the first thing to go, had to buy a new bra. ;0(

I am going to post about my weightless, only because my cute sister told me I should. I told her that I hadn't said anything because I didn't want people to think that I was bragging or anything. I am really grateful for how healthy look and feel and I attribute it to GREAT NUCCA Chiropractic care and my healthy lifestyle. Since my NO sugar diet we are very conscious about what we put into our bodies. We eat very little processed food, mostly fresh veggies and fruit. We have also cut down on our meat, and when we do we eat fresh from the butcher organic meat(when we can find all organic) usually chicken or turkey, very little red meat if any. We try to eat meat only twice a week, some weeks are better than others. It's actually fun, like a game to see how many meals or days I can go without eating meat. Once we started thinking about it we realized that we used to eat meat with almost every meal. If we were to go back to that I think I would puke. We drink water and very little juice or soda, if we do have soda it's usually carbonated fruit juice, like Izze's. So we have very little sugar in our diet, we substitute with Agave and Stevia. We eat plain Greek yogurt flavored with stevia and pineapple juice, and the kids LOVE it, I do too. All in all it is not a diet to lose weight, we just wanted to be healthier and weight loss was a side-effect. We feel great and free, honestly. We still eat the fun stuff sometimes, but not very often, we are not perfect and we aren't Nazzi's about it, but it is important to us so we try hard. Just to prove that we are not perfect...I had a few bites of chocolate ice-cream last night and few swigs of chocolate milk, and I hate to admit it but I did have a handful of Ranch style dorritos and ham on my sandwich today, so we aren't perfect. I realize this may say dumb, like it's not really cheating, but I'm telling you once you are off that sugar for even a week your body changes, you don't want it so much any more, which is good because sugar is one of the most toxic food additives it really is not good for your body. When I cut sugar out, after a week I was dying to have chic fil-a and went out and got some nuggets. They were SO gross I can't even tell you, I couldn't taste anything but the sugar, it actually burned my throat. I'm telling you sugar is in everything, because it's addicting, so it makes everything taste better, just look at your labels, I'll bet you find it in the ingredients, and if it's one of the first ingredients I wouldn't eat it.

WOW, I so just got into a lesson, sorry. Long story short, we are healthier than ever and look better than ever too. Alan has lost close to 20lbs and I am down to a size 2, haven't been a size 2 since my freshman year of HS. It feels really good, I hope you try it out. I'll try get a picture up, I am always behind the camera so I'll have Alan take over and get a few.

Try it for a week, you will NOT regret it. I won't lie, it is hard, but so worth it.

Don't eat:

-white anything, rice, flour, potatoes

-sugar, in any form

-too much fruit, like one a day

-too many carbs, like 2-3x's a week

Eat:

-Lots of fresh veggies cooked or raw

-water

-plain greek yogurt

-protien

-Brown rice

-Wheat bread/flour unbleached flour

READ LABELS!

Just for a week, try it. And download this to help encourage you and your kiddies. wink

"healthy natural food all day" You'll be singing it too.

-Keara