Becoming Healthy in Mind, Body and Soul!

  Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired In the past my main focus has always been to lose weight.  I have spent YEARS being obsessed with my weight! When I decided I was finally ready to lose the weight, I would do every trick under the book to lose it fast.  I would try the current fad diets, I would over exercise, I would not eat enough, I would completely deprive myself of anything I enjoyed...and it worked...temporarily.  After I lost the weight, I had a hard time keeping it off because I was unhealthy.  I was tired and felt like crap!  Obviously I still want to lose weight, but more importantly I want a life.  I want a life where I can go out with my kids and not feel exhausted after playing ball for 30 mins.  Where I can walk my dogs and not be completely pooped afterwards.  Where cooking supper isn't exhausting.  I want a life without bloat and tummy troubles.  Where I don't half way through the day feel so bloated that my p...

  New Beginnings    For a lot of people, January 1st is the time for new beginnings, a time to look at your  life and evaluate where you are at and where you want to be.  You come up with a plan to make changes and start to implement them into your life and routine.  Even though I do look at January as a new beginning,  September is actually more my time.  We've just finished a couple of months of no routine, no school and a lot of fun.  The last few weeks of August we get the kids ready for school, plan our routine and I look at this as a time to get serious and do some life planning and evaluation after a few months of playing.   The last few weeks I've been getting things in order like normal, but I felt like I needed more.  I really have a beautiful life with a supportive, helpful and loving partner, 5 kids who I adore, 2 beautiful but crazy dogs, a job that pays me well and...