I always start my projects on Mondays...so naturally I wanted to get the new diet, the new promise of 20 lbs lost, the new healthier more energetic me to emerge from the fat and take a few leaps for joy. Who wouldn't want to get this project going.
A feeble start began. But really in earnest I began Wednesday, it proved much harder than anticipated. The outcome was a week later I was down 7 lbs. Feeling bones I've not felt in many years. I really thought I was in a roll. I started calculating projected weight loss over the next few months, bragging how easy it was to do and, well, got on the scale a week later and I have gained 3 lbs back.
Did I miss something? Yes. I started this stupid project right in the middle of helping Christian thru kidney stones. Losing gobs of sleep, the ups and downs of: yeah, it's over to another bad night. I missed more meals than ever, couldn't get the beans cooked so basically I ate raw and cooked greens and some fruit, but every day. When I got the beans and grains going in order to do this "right" the weight is coming back....whhhaaaa! Stop! Guess what I ate tonight: fried potatoes and make patties, and fried okra. Enough fat to last me a week , and needless to say ate too many potatoes.
Now what. Don't know, just needed to get all that off my chest. Christian is still having a hard time, I'm getting a lot of hands on herbal experience...I just don't think now is the time to start a diet. Poooooo
Friday, March 10, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Nutritional Herbalist Course
A lot has happened in the last year. I feel like I've taken a very bumpy ride in the health wagon- flopping from one side of the wagon to the other trying to settle somewhere in the middle. It's tough, yet there's got to be a way to do this right.
So in my journey, I went from a swollen, couch potato back to a not so swollen, in fact 14 lbs less swollen busy, industrious, mother. Things are definitely better, and yet not completely repaired either. Honestly I'm nervous about the hair sample test result. I am afraid of Mrs. Tomuchschool telling me that my program is not working. No I'm not interested in getting her advise, I want to do this myself. I wouldn't even had bothered except I already paid for the analysis. But I could use it as a guideline.
I cannot believe how much I learned from this course. I've said that so much. I actually thought that this was going to be the boring one and I'd just have to endure in order to get to the meat of it all! No, this has been eye opening and so encouraging to me.
How To Raise a Healthy Child In Spite Of Your Doctor by Robert S. Mendhelsohn
Great book, of course but I had already read it when my children were small so it drug on forever! But I highly recommend it to all families. We practiced these principles and have never looked back.
Vaccines:Are They Really Safe And Effective? By Niel Z. Miller
Another must read although it was extremely informative and I was able to explain to a young mom why vaccines are so disgusting and downright criminal! Yes, I interjected my opinion and the fact that I had 6 children and NEVER needed to vaccinate.
Dr. Mom by Sandra Ellis
Wow, I LOVED this book. It was extremely inspiring to read her success stories and wonderful advise. I went thru this really fast...I was so hungry for this information.
Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman
I'm about half way thru the book and I'm hopping ready to try the diet! There is so much information and science on the whys and hows of a plant based diet, which I believed in already but its is great way to back up your belief system! I had to tear myself away from reading of the 1000s of positive reviews on this book. Once again my stubborn door broke down and my plan is to give it a try, for posterity's sake...who knows!
Transfiguration Diet by Little Green INC.
I have this downloaded but haven't read it yet.
And then there are several lectures that I absolutely love watching, another feeling of: "I can't get enough of this". If we weren't on such a tight budget right now I would purchase the videos, it would be much handier, but I can download them and watch them anytime I want to.
I'll update this post once I take my test. Hopefully I can announce: Nutritional Herbalist!
So in my journey, I went from a swollen, couch potato back to a not so swollen, in fact 14 lbs less swollen busy, industrious, mother. Things are definitely better, and yet not completely repaired either. Honestly I'm nervous about the hair sample test result. I am afraid of Mrs. Tomuchschool telling me that my program is not working. No I'm not interested in getting her advise, I want to do this myself. I wouldn't even had bothered except I already paid for the analysis. But I could use it as a guideline.
I cannot believe how much I learned from this course. I've said that so much. I actually thought that this was going to be the boring one and I'd just have to endure in order to get to the meat of it all! No, this has been eye opening and so encouraging to me.
Cleanse and Nourish is my theme!
Books I used:
Each of these have a study guide to really enhance and facilitate your learningHow To Raise a Healthy Child In Spite Of Your Doctor by Robert S. Mendhelsohn
Great book, of course but I had already read it when my children were small so it drug on forever! But I highly recommend it to all families. We practiced these principles and have never looked back.
Vaccines:Are They Really Safe And Effective? By Niel Z. Miller
Another must read although it was extremely informative and I was able to explain to a young mom why vaccines are so disgusting and downright criminal! Yes, I interjected my opinion and the fact that I had 6 children and NEVER needed to vaccinate.
Dr. Mom by Sandra Ellis
Wow, I LOVED this book. It was extremely inspiring to read her success stories and wonderful advise. I went thru this really fast...I was so hungry for this information.
Eat To Live by Joel Fuhrman
I'm about half way thru the book and I'm hopping ready to try the diet! There is so much information and science on the whys and hows of a plant based diet, which I believed in already but its is great way to back up your belief system! I had to tear myself away from reading of the 1000s of positive reviews on this book. Once again my stubborn door broke down and my plan is to give it a try, for posterity's sake...who knows!
Transfiguration Diet by Little Green INC.
I have this downloaded but haven't read it yet.
And then there are several lectures that I absolutely love watching, another feeling of: "I can't get enough of this". If we weren't on such a tight budget right now I would purchase the videos, it would be much handier, but I can download them and watch them anytime I want to.
I'll update this post once I take my test. Hopefully I can announce: Nutritional Herbalist!
3 Day Cleansing and Children
When I started out in the family herbalist program, Dr. Christopher mentioned several times about putting children on the 3day Cleanse. I dismissed this as impossible...a trend I kept for that whole program! Shame on me!
So what happens to these monkeys is they want to do what they see their parents doing. The kind of mom I am makes it really hard to allow these things to transpire, I'm always deciding what everybody is going to do! But this time I let it go, as an impossible task, even tho I was/am certain that all of my babies would do well to do this cleanse. They listen to the lectures with me as well as conversation with Christian. Its just a fact: my kids want to be involved, and that's exactly how you can get them to do things and they think it's their own idea and you can't convince them other wise. I think this is funny, they'll even tell you how cayenne pepper really helps, and bravely suck it down!
Honestly, here's the bait. They are eyeballing that whole gallon of organic unfiltered apple juice with my name on it and thinking of the possibilities. So, I tell them it takes dedication especially when everyone around them is eating something tasty, it can get boring, you run to the bathroom very often and that makes you a bit sore, etc. Then I tell them that yes, it would be good for them, headaches might go away, pimples might get cleared up, and they might loose that dandruff collection, and maybe your itchy skin might clear up. The conversation goes on to include: and it if it doesn't clear up all those symptoms you are on the right track for the herbs to begin working on those problems and over a bit of time we can be ahead of the problem until it is no longer part of us.
So, this week two of my children are doing the cleanse. The 16 year old and the 12 year old. I thought it would be easier to do them at the same time. And if I'm patient others will soon follow, they are already mulling it over in their heads. Truthfully, there are two that say they absolutely will not do it at all...not yet, anyhow!
Day One: Both kids all psyched up and, "my, apple juice is yummy; oops gotta run to the bathroom!" all day. Both cooperative and faithful.
Day Two: Repeat day one and add major emotional breakdown. I sent them to my sanctuary (my bedroom) with instructions to use the Chi machine and crawl under my covers (they love my bed). It worked its magic! They needed to rest. Both had headaches
Day Three: resting, juice, some complaining, running to the bathroom,water, and repeat over the next 12 hours. The last day hoorahs from all the family and a great nights sleep. At total of 6 lbs apiece lost. My daughter complained of pain in her lower back.
For breakfast my boy, who horded portions of the food we ate on the last day in tubs, pulled it all out and ate and ate. The main food item: cauliflower and dip. He greedily ate everything in sight, but mostly wanted vegetables. My daughter on the other hand wanted the cupcake with sprinkles, but after one bite she whined that it didn't taste good and proceeded to be disappointed with all her horded food and actually made better choices. Of course her taste buds readjusted to her old ways and the cupcake princess returned.
Bottom line: My boy lost his belly pooch (even now 2 weeks later) and his BMs are regular, as well as no reported headaches.
My daughter on the other hand did not see any difference in her eyelid dryness, and acne (although very mild) didn't change much.
I asked them if they thought they'd do this again. Both children said: Absolutely not!
So what happens to these monkeys is they want to do what they see their parents doing. The kind of mom I am makes it really hard to allow these things to transpire, I'm always deciding what everybody is going to do! But this time I let it go, as an impossible task, even tho I was/am certain that all of my babies would do well to do this cleanse. They listen to the lectures with me as well as conversation with Christian. Its just a fact: my kids want to be involved, and that's exactly how you can get them to do things and they think it's their own idea and you can't convince them other wise. I think this is funny, they'll even tell you how cayenne pepper really helps, and bravely suck it down!
Honestly, here's the bait. They are eyeballing that whole gallon of organic unfiltered apple juice with my name on it and thinking of the possibilities. So, I tell them it takes dedication especially when everyone around them is eating something tasty, it can get boring, you run to the bathroom very often and that makes you a bit sore, etc. Then I tell them that yes, it would be good for them, headaches might go away, pimples might get cleared up, and they might loose that dandruff collection, and maybe your itchy skin might clear up. The conversation goes on to include: and it if it doesn't clear up all those symptoms you are on the right track for the herbs to begin working on those problems and over a bit of time we can be ahead of the problem until it is no longer part of us.
So, this week two of my children are doing the cleanse. The 16 year old and the 12 year old. I thought it would be easier to do them at the same time. And if I'm patient others will soon follow, they are already mulling it over in their heads. Truthfully, there are two that say they absolutely will not do it at all...not yet, anyhow!
Day One: Both kids all psyched up and, "my, apple juice is yummy; oops gotta run to the bathroom!" all day. Both cooperative and faithful.
Day Two: Repeat day one and add major emotional breakdown. I sent them to my sanctuary (my bedroom) with instructions to use the Chi machine and crawl under my covers (they love my bed). It worked its magic! They needed to rest. Both had headaches
Day Three: resting, juice, some complaining, running to the bathroom,water, and repeat over the next 12 hours. The last day hoorahs from all the family and a great nights sleep. At total of 6 lbs apiece lost. My daughter complained of pain in her lower back.
For breakfast my boy, who horded portions of the food we ate on the last day in tubs, pulled it all out and ate and ate. The main food item: cauliflower and dip. He greedily ate everything in sight, but mostly wanted vegetables. My daughter on the other hand wanted the cupcake with sprinkles, but after one bite she whined that it didn't taste good and proceeded to be disappointed with all her horded food and actually made better choices. Of course her taste buds readjusted to her old ways and the cupcake princess returned.
Bottom line: My boy lost his belly pooch (even now 2 weeks later) and his BMs are regular, as well as no reported headaches.
My daughter on the other hand did not see any difference in her eyelid dryness, and acne (although very mild) didn't change much.
I asked them if they thought they'd do this again. Both children said: Absolutely not!
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