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...

Coeur D'Alene, Idaho Last weekend Victor and I went to the Idaho Association of Chiropractic Physicians convention. Victor attended classes on nutritional neurology. On the drive up, we listened to CD's on male hormone balancing. So 3 days of classes and many hours of CD's later, I will share with you a few things that really stand out as very important. I will share more in the future as things pop in my mind :-) Health Tips: High fructose corn syrup is made using mercury, mercury causes brain damage. Autism is on the rise and so is our use of pre-packaged foods with high fructose corn syrup. Children without autism show mercury in their hair follicle testing, so their bodies can get rid of it, while kids with autism seem to store it. Read your package labels. Over the counter (OTC) pain remedies, such as Tylenol, ibuprofen etc. We are only supposed to have 1,000 tablets over the course of our LIFETIME starting when we are babies and given it for teething and vaccine pain....