Loving Life in Idaho

Many of you know that I started a healthy living lifestyle change in January. I struggle with my weight in large part due to a non functioning thyroid, I had cancer and radiation in 1999. Ever since then I have battled my weight. Prior to that, I would go through childbirth and always drop back down to a healthy weight within a few months. I was hesitant to share because I wondered if this would work for me. I am using Arbonne's Fit Essential products and led a group here in Boise through a detox and elimination plan where we identified foods we were allergic to etc. I want to share with you some of the thoughts that are running through my mind today because there are many. My weight loss has been very slow. In fact, in the last 4 weeks, I haven't lost much, 2 or 3 pounds. What did happen in the last 4 weeks was that I dropped 5% body fat and 13 inches!!!! It would be so easy to quit when the scale wasn't moving and normally that is what I would do. I would figure that I ma...

Victor and Nicole on an Arbonne 7 day Caribbean cruise that Nicole earned! Nicole with Deborah Hicks and Pierre Bottiglieri at a GTC New Manager's dinner Visiting the pyramids on a vacation to Cancun earned through Arbonne. Victor and Nicole in Atlantis in the Bahamas courtesy of Arbonne. Nicole with Christy Dreiling, National Vice President, In Atlantis. Atlantis was so gorgeous! Completely relaxing and absolute bliss! You get to hang out and have fun with incredibly positive women! My sponsor, Jan Camp and I, at GTC in Las Vegas You are officially invited to join my Arbonne family! In case I haven't made it clear, I love my business with Arbonne, it has been an incredible journey of self discovery, self awareness and the most positive experience I could ever imagine and I want you enjoying this journey WITH me! Arbonne is doing a really great promotion right now for our annual Global Training Conference (GTC) which is in Las Vegas in April. If you become a consulta...

Simply Fit week 6: Last night we had our 6 week meeting for the Simply Fit hub in Boise. It is kind of nice that at the chiropractic office, we have a machine that measures the toxins in our bodies, our healthy cells, fat content, internal health etc. What I love is that the evidence is so tangible. At this 6 week mark, most everybody has a marked improvement in their internal health age, much less toxic, more healthier cells and a higher ratio of muscle mass. One man has lost 6% body fat in just 6 weeks! As a group, the average weight loss is 10 pounds! It was quite exciting. I was worried about one woman who has never missed a meeting, but her numbers had not improved. I expressed my concern to her and she just smiled and said that she had decided to try NOT using Arbonne's products and just eating the foods on the allowed list. This was great information to learn because it so tangibly showed how Arbonne's products enhance the weight loss, the shedding of toxins and the...

About five weeks ago, I started a Simply Fit Hub here in Boise, Idaho. It was with great hesitation that I decided to do this. My biggest concern is my own personal difficulty with losing weight, which I now refer to as releasing pounds. In 1999 I had thyroid cancer and radiation that killed off my thyroid function. Ever since then, I have steadily been gaining weight and been unable to release it. I decided to fully embrace this system as a complete life change for myself. I want to nourish my body and spirit by living in alignment with what I know to be true. I know how I need to eat, what I need to eat and that I need to make taking care of myself more of a priority. I also strongly mentally link up my determination to change my exercise and eating habits with my success in business and life in general. Coming up on week 5, I would love to share with you my favorite things about doing this program. There is simply no price tag you can put on how I FEEL right now. I have had the best...

Clear Advantage I cannot recommend this anti-acne line enough! I have three teenagers and one 11 year old who also uses this line and it WORKS! I have never found another product line that clears up their skin so quickly and completely! Several friends of my kids also use the line and it clears them all up in about a week or two. It comes from Arbonne, so it is pure, safe and beneficial and will have health benefits in addition to clearing up their skin. It is full of vitamins and nourishes the skin. One of the best things is that it doesn't dry their skin out! So many lines make my kid's skin peel, they tend to have sensitive skin. The line retails for $64.50 and includes the wash, toner, lotion and spot treatment, there is an additional vitamin available for $22.00 If you would like to learn how to purchase Arbonne products at a 20-35% discount, please contact me. Also, please check out my website at www.nicolesanchez.myarbonne.com

My Arbonne Business I am frequently asked what I do with my Arbonne business, especially from people who live in other countries and aren't familiar with Arbonne. So, I am going to give a brief overview of what I do :) Basically, Arbonne is a 30 year old company that has Swiss formulated products that are made in the U.S. It is a direct selling and network marketing company which means that I get paid for recommending or referring people to the products. We have health and wellness products, anti-aging skin care, weight loss, baby care, men's products and many more products, over 450 consumable products. What makes Arbonne special is that the products are pure, safe and beneficial. There has been a lot of publicity in recent years about dangerous ingredients in our personal care products. Our products work well, high functioning, but they are also safe since what we put on our bodies gets absorbed into our bodies. We are also just getting ready to launch into more countries. Ou...

Arbonne's Primer Arbonne's Primer is one of my personal best selling products that we carry. According to Arbonne, it is the company's 5th best selling product. When people try this on their skin, it is a given that they will purchase it, it feels like silk without being heavy or clogging pores. The purpose of the primer is to give you a canvas to apply your makeup to. It keeps the colors true and makes your makeup stay on better. When you use the primer, you use less foundation and it just goes on flawlessly. The primer gives you a matte finish, cushions wrinkles and reduces pore size. During the summertime, when many women don't want to wear foundation, they will use the primer to give a nice finished look to their skin. Recently, Total Beauty voted Arbonne's Primer as the #1 Primer. Here is a bit of what Total Beauty had to say, " TotalBeauty.com average member rating: 9.9* Why: A reader confides, "I am 55-years-old and have been wearing makeup since m...

Atlantis Resort, Bahamas (Courtesy of Arbonne) There are so many things that I enjoy about building my business with Arbonne. I feel incredibly grateful and blessed to have had this business shared with me. First and foremost, I have met the most incredible friends through my business, I hardly knew anybody when I moved to Idaho and having Arbonne to share gave me more of a reason to connect and follow up with people who have become my best and dearest friends. When I had my 40th Birthday party, every person who attended was someone that I had met through my Arbonne business and in that moment, I felt so incredibly blessed! Who I have become on this journey is just incredible also. I am learning strength, perseverance, faith, patience and so much more. I used to be the type of person who would walk into a room and just go to a corner, hide away, not want to interact. Now, I love to meet new people, I love to learn their stories, get to know them and make new friends :) I also used to l...

My Story I have recently been thinking about my life journey, where I am right now and where I am going. I am going to be 40 in just over a week! Wow! I don't think you ever feel older on the inside :-) I am married to Victor for almost 11 years and I have 5 children, 2 of them with Victor and 3 from my first marriage. We moved to Idaho almost 5 years ago to raise our children in a safer environment. I have loved every moment of living here. The people are warm and friendly, it is extremely safe, nice weather, good schools. There is a saying about coming home to where I always belonged and that is how I feel about Idaho. Victor is a chiropractor of 30 years!!! Wow! He is absolutely amazing and the best you will ever find! If you really want to know what is going on with you, what the root cause is of any health problems you may have, make sure to come in as a patient. His website is www.eaglefamilychiropractic.com . Over the years, we have always been looking for pr...

October, 2009 Home in Fall I actually can't believe how quickly this year is flying past me! It is hard to believe that we are in November already! I haven't begun to Christmas shop and I used to be one of those people that was done in October!!! Wow, how times change! The older the kids get, the busier I get. We have recently been inundated with homework and Cassidy is now being homeschooled. That is going very well so far. I am trying to scrapbook again, but it is hard to get undivided time for it. I was sad to see that when I did a layout the other day, I could not find any other layouts from 2007, 2008 or 2009... ...I guess I will just catch up on the biggest events now :-) On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, we will be going up into the mountains to cut down our Christmas tree. We take lots of food and drinks, music, snow gear and stuff to play with. We have done this past couple of years with the Camp family and it just gets better and better every year. The kids end up hav...

Cancun Trip, October, 2009 With Arbonne International Earned this awesome trip! Pyramids at Chichen Itza Gorgeous day with awesome friends! I have never felt humidity like this, though!!! It was crazy! To walk outside and be as wet as if I just got out of the shower! Why blow dry my hair? I did give up by the last day! The last day of the trip, I totally enjoyed the hammock and being utterly indulgent. Why does it take 4 days before you really start to relax??? That is just NOT right! :-) I am so grateful to work with such an awesome company as Arbonne! I love the concept of having healthy products, an environmentally friendly company and the most amazing women you can imagine. One thing that has hit me really hard this past 2 months of personal growth and coaching etc is that the greatest blessings my Arbonne business has brought me are 1. the friendships with incredible women and 2. Learning my own value and self worth. Why have I always doubted me? I am learning that I have a lot of...

Arbonne International Donates More Than $4.7 Million Dollars in Product to Operation Gratitude Irvine, California, October 2009 - Arbonne International announced today that it has made a charitable donation of approximately 1.5 million personal care products...with a retail value of nearly $4.75 million dollars...to Operation Gratitude, a non-profit organization that sends care packages to the U.S. military. This donation is the largest Operation Gratitude has received from a corporate sponsor to date and follows a $642,000 donation Arbonne made to the organization in May. Arbonne, headquartered in Irvine, California, formulates botanically based, scientifically advanced beauty, health and wellness products, distributed through an international network of Independent Consultants. "We're honored to donate Arbonne skin care products to Operation Gratitude to improve the lives of the brave men and women who are serving in the military overseas," said Rita Davenport, Arbonne ...

Nicole on July 15th, 2009 My Arbonne plug ;-) We are all going to wear make up (if we are women, of course! :-)) Wouldn't you like to wear healthy products that won't harm you? Your skin absorbs all that you put on it in about 2 minutes. Make up in the U.S. is very toxic for the most part, that is why my hubby recommends that women DON'T wear it...until we found Arbonne, of course! Our colors stay on, are true, are full of anti-oxidants, anti-aging ingredients, NO ANIMAL PRODUCTS! you don't want to know what is in the nasty stuff you buy from the grocery store. In July, if you have $150 Retail order, Arbonne is paying your $29 membership for the whole year! You get a 20% discount for a year, a free product of your choice and you can join in on specials that I offer, too :-) I can customize your colors for you and teach you about proper application. Nicole's colors in this photo: Line Defiance Liquid Foundation in 6N, Bronzer (one of my faves!), Glow blush, eyeshadow...

Arbonne, NTC, 2009 Jan and I just got home from NTC, National Training Conference, in Las Vegas, NV. We had such a great time! This was my third NTC and I definitely consider it the best one yet! Arbonne has always been pure, safe and beneficial, but it is getting even more so everyday. We have some phenomenal new members of the team! The focus is on improving our holistic and botanical elements and helping the consultants with marketing. I am thrilled to be a part of this group of awesome people! There were so many women who have just changed the lives of their families in this past year by jumping into Arbonne. People that didn't have money for food a year ago and now they are thriving, thanks to Arbonne. I love that average women can create such a nice life for their families and with their family's help :-) I heard over and over how Arbonne was a family business for people. I also saw more MEN walking across the stage and winning wonderful awards and accomplishments, it was...

One week until NTC :-) Wow, it comes up so quickly every year and catches me off guard. NTC is an annual seminar that I go to with Arbonne. We receive lots of great training, have guest motivational speakers, learn tips from people who are very successful with what they do. There are also several awards ceremonies and parties and such. It is very uplifting, encouraging, filled with amazing women who are lit up, inside and out! I LOVE it. Most years I complain that I didn't prepare in advance, no new outfits or anything. So, this year, I am working on being a bit more prepared. I still need to get my hair trimmed, but I have two new outfits, and some other odds and ins. Planning a summer visit to California, just trying to get the dates solid. We will drive and the oldest kids will stay with their dad for 3 or 4 weeks. I can't wait to see my Grandma and Aunt Jeanie, Shele and Belinda and so many more! Too many to list ;-) Today I will go shopping with Lindsey after Little Vic go...

Just wanted to share a personal story. My two year old broke out in a horrible rash on Saturday. As the night went on the rash got worse and spread from his torso to his arms, butt and face. We rushed him to the urgent care when his eyes and lips started swelling. He looked horrible and needless to say I was a little freaked out! The doctor said it was a classic case of hives and was brought on by an allergic reation to "something". His solution was to keep him drugged on Benadryl and wait for this to go away on its own. I was told this could take up to two weeks!!! I could not imagine seeing my baby in this condition for a day let alone two weeks! After talking with my upline she suggested I try the Detox mud mask and soak. I did and I'm thrilled to say after 20 minutes in the soak the hives are gone and my baby is toxin free! I am continually amazed by ARBONNE!! How many other products on the market are safe enough to be used on a baby and c...