Top of the morning to ya...

This weather has been so nice this past few weeks. They are calling for rain all weekend but we will see what we get! This is my first weekend in a bit that I do not have anything planned - well a few things, but for the most part it is just taking it easy.

I started my new sleep routine on Monday of this week and so far it's actually been really challenging. Like anything it will take a while until I notice a difference but for now I will keep sticking to it. I have been spending 9-10pm doing relaxing things, like reading, visualization, etc. then being in bed by 10 with lights out. I have been having a hard time staying awake until 10. I am waking up at 6:30, but also having trouble with that too, I have been rolling out of bed at 6:50am and leaving myself very little time to get ready for work. It will be interesting on the weekend to see what happens with waking up at 6:30. Hopefully it will give me a chance to get more stuff done.

Tomorrow is June 1st which means that my May HBL challenge will be "officially" over, although I still plan on continuing to follow it. I have not been able to drink the tea because it has been so hot but I have been drinking a lot more water than normal it try to keep cool.

That brings us to June's challenge. My goal is to lose 8 pounds this month. I have been doing really well with my eating and I have been slowly increasing my exercise to help me get back to where I was and then hopefully better than that. I have been doing activity every day. I am looking forward to next week because it is very open so I plan on getting lots of activity in. Sean is back on days next week so I am going to try to find some activities for us to do together. We both like playing tennis (and we both equally suck) so hopefully we will be able to get some of that in as well as some hiking and who knows what else. I switched gyms so now I can workout with my sister, and some other friends so hopefully that will give me some more company to keep things interesting at the gym. If not, I will always rely on my trusty ipod to keep me company!

Tara and I are going to start really planning our NYC trip this weekend. We know the dates we want to go, and we know we want to do one day shopping, two days site seeing, but that is about it. My reward for losing the 8 pounds will be extra shopping money to spend on me. If I don't lose the 8 pounds then I will just be window shopping, which will not be near as fun. We plan on getting a lot of exercise while we are there by doing lots of walking and possibly even renting bikes! It is bound to be a great time!

Overall my summer is shaping up quite nicely since I have a lot of things to look forward to between, NYC, camping, BC, and more! My calendar is filling up with lots of fun and healthy activities! The thought of summer gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Fresh fruit and veggies, the smell of BBQ's, crispy salad, warm skin and a slight breeze, chasing after the soccer ball, swimming, driving with the windows down and music up, and so much more. Other than the humidity, what is not to love about summer?

Give it time...

This weekend was very busy but overall pretty good. On Friday my physiotherapist recommend that I start back doing more exercise than walking again. On Friday night I had a session with Lee at the track and we did a fairly easy session compared to normal, but I woke up Saturday very sore.

I went to weight watchers on Saturday morning and then to our walk in the park with our women's ministry. After that I was so tired I took a nap. When I got up, Sean and I went on our date night to celebrate our two year anniversary, and we had a really great time!

Sunday I was up early and went to Church - I was on nursery and the kiddies were so well behaved and cute. Afterwards we went out for lunch, then I did some errands with Tara. I ended up switching my gym membership to Goodlife from The Athletic Club, just because they have so many more locations and I know a number of people that go there. After running around I had a short rest before my soccer game. It was a good game, I feel I played pretty well, and I got a goal! I was very close to a second goal but had my ankles taken out by the other teams goalie.

I have started to notice a difference from keeping on the HBL vitamins. Although my energy has not increased I am starting to feel better health over all, especially in my nails, they are so strong and nice looking! I am also noticing a difference in my joints! I have some extreme exhaustion, which I have had for a while. My doctor is sending me to a sleep doctor to see if they can help me figure out why I am SO tired all of the time. I have also been making better food choices, and tracking everything honestly. Every day that I track honestly I give myself a sticker - a princess sticker non-the-less.

I have been doing some research on the internet about sleeping and I am going to try to set a sleep schedule this week. I am going to spend from 9-10 winding down and getting into a bedtime routine, and be in bed by 10. I am going to wake up at 6:30 every day (which allows for a 30 minutes of falling asleep time, and still gives me a full 8 hours.) I am going to make my bedroom into a place that is just for sleeping, and tidy it up (I know that always makes me feel so much better when it is tidy). I have a relaxation CD that I will play to set the tone of relaxing, make sure the room is completely dark and most importantly - NOT USE MY PHONE! I am going to set a nightly timer for 9pm and I will have to turn everything off at that point (even if I am in the middle of a show).

I will keep you updated on how things workout! I have a feeling that just like my HBL vitamins, I will have to give it time and not give up!

A great week to workout...

I went to bed at a decent time last night but I still had a hard time waking up and am really dragging my butt to focus.

I am looking at my calendar for this week and I am really excited about it. I will be able to get a lot of fitness in this week, which I really need to work my way back to. I have not done anything more than walk for about 6 weeks now because of my back (which is still not 100% but it is coming along at a good rate).

Here is my workout plan for this week:

Tonight - after work I am going to do a yoga class, then take Levi for a walk for at least an hour (hopefully 90 minutes).
Wednesday - soccer game
Thursday - walk at lunch, soccer practice at night
Friday - Gym
Saturday - walk at the park with some friends, possibly the gym, depends on how tired I am
Sunday - soccer game

I know it looks like a lot but I can take it easier at the gym sessions to give myself a bit of a break. Tonight's dinner is one of my favourites - warmed greek pitas with lots of veggies, feta cheese, and Tataziki sauce. I am salivating just thinking about it!

I read this really good booked called Winning the Weight game - which is a book by Weight Watchers and the Weight Watchers representative. I plan on doing a chapter by chapter summary of things that I got from it - but if you haven't yet I would strongly recommend that you give it a read.

Okay well today is the day. Sean and I got married two years ago today. I hate the cliche sayings "it goes by so fast" and "Two years ago today I married my best friend". But I hate to admit it that both of those are the way I feel. I can not believe that two years ago today I was standing at the alter this very minute that I am typing this. What an unreal day - and to be honest I don't remember that much of it because I blinked and it was over. I have yet to start editing my wedding video, the time just flew by - but as per my 25-before-25 list, it will get done before March 1, 2013.

Since Sean is working nights tonight he came to meet me for lunch. We are going to celebrate our anniversary on Saturday night when he is not working. We are going to do a dollar store date/dinner with gift cards/movie with gift cards. I'm really looking forward to it!

I could go on and on about the things that I love about Sean but I will save you the mushy gushy of everything and just leave you with this: I love Sean McNamara more than anything in this world and I am so blessed to be able to spend the rest of my life with him.

Chicago

On Friday night after work Sean and I headed to Detroit so that we could stay at a park n’ fly before we caught our flight to Chicago.

The line up to get into the states was a bit long, an hour and 20 minute wait, but we had a good time joking and laughing so it went by quickly. We went to the Golden Corral in Port Huron for dinner where I had two plates of salad (with dressing on the side) and a small amount of roast beef (very, very good there). After that we headed to Detroit. On the way to Detroit we were in bumper to bumper traffic, in what seemed like construction.

Sean was getting really annoyed but it didn’t really bug me so I thought it was funny how upset he was getting. After we were bumper to bumper for almost an hour and got almost no where the traffic started getting a bit light (keep in mind this was about 10pm at night, not rush hour traffic!) Once we were out of the bumper to bumper we were annoyed because two of the three lanes on the interstate were closed for NO REASON! There was no construction going on, no holes in the road, NOTHING. So they wasted our time for nothing. But in the end we arrived safely and went to bed.

Saturday morning we woke up early and ate breakfast before catching our flight to Chicago. Our flight was good, we were in the front row of the plane and had big seats. When we touched down my dad met us and we went to the hotel to change to the OBS conference.

Let me tell you this – I did NOT want to be there. I was miserable. I didn’t want to hear what they had to say, because to be honest I didn’t want anything to do with the business at all. There was a product training with one of the Presidents team member that taught me a lot more about Herbalife products and started to plant a little seed of excitement. It is reassuring to know what high quality materials they are made from. I know I have been taking them regularly for about 3 weeks now and haven’t noticed a big difference, but they do take time to work, especially when I had some of my symptoms to the extreme. It  will still take a bit of time, but I am going to stick it out and I am going to get rocking results!

I was still very uncomfortable sitting so long and so I kept getting up and walking around at the back of the room while they were talking. Slowly, little bit by little bit I started to think more and more about keeping doing my business. Our chairman gave a really good message about stretching yourself and not giving up. The people in our lives who think we are going to fail are what drive us to keep going.

The Sunday morning training started at 9am but I was just SO exhausted and tired and miserable I decided to sleep for a while and then go to the training for the 1pm break out sessions. At this point I was still wishy washy about starting again because of everything I have been through the past year. Then listening to Tanya I started to get really motivated and excited and I knew at that point that this business will be a big part of my life for ever. I was understanding concepts that hadn’t clicked before and things started making sense and I wanted to jump in with two feet and just go for it!

There was a voice in my head though that was telling me just to wait a bit though. I ned to still give myself some time to get better and focus on me before I jump back in and go for it. I have given myself the deadline of the August training which is in Georgia. I am going to keep working on myself and put all of my effort into my product result and personal health. After the August training I am going to jump into this full and give it everything I have. I will use the August training as my pump up and really give er.

After we left the training yesterday we went to dinner and of course we got deep dish pizza. I knew that we were going to be having this and was so looking forward to it. I ordered a salad because I knew that I only wanted one piece of pizza. It took about 40 minutes to cook, which was fine, and when it got there I was salivating.

We just got a regular and this was ONE PIECE! I ate it very slowly and savoured every single bite. I stopped and ate my salad in between bites and of course I was talking a lot too. I can honestly say that when I was done my 1 piece, and ½ of my salad I was stuffed. It was SO good and worth every single calorie. I tracked honestly and tried to over estimate a bit so hopefully I was able to get it right. I had planned for this for a long time and felt very good about my choice to have 1 piece, my salad, and water.

We also knew that we were going to a donut shop too that had a very large selection of fresh donuts. When we got there we decided to order ½ dozen and I got a knife so I could take a small bite of each one. I LOVED all of them but 1 (I tried 5). The one I didn’t care for I only took a small bite then left the rest, and the others I took pieces of and really really enjoyed them. Again, this was something we planned for and I tracked them as accurately as possible.

This morning we went to breakfast at Cracker Barrel and I had a really healthy selection that has left me quite satisfied.

I know that most of this post is about the food I ate this weekend, but I am really really proud of myself for planning and tracking, and sticking to it. Given that we were sitting so much and in the car a lot, I didn’t have a chance to get my exercise but I am going to kick that up this week for sure.

Since our hotel was 30 minutes away from downtown Chicago we didn’t get a chance to see anything there. After pizza we were going to do a drive through downtown howeverpolice had everything blocked off for the NATO summit that was happening.

Now we are on our way home and I have made myself some new goals, that I will share with you over the next few posts.

Tomorrow is Sean and my two year anniversary so be ready for a bit of a sappy post J

Talk to you all soon!

A long weekend

It’s my favourite weekend of the year. Why is it my favourite weekend you ask? Because it is the weekend I was lucky enough to marry Sean. May 22, 2012 marks our two year anniversary! Since we are going to be gone this weekend we are going to celebrate next weekend.

Today right after work we are leaving for Detroit. We are going to stay there overnight and catch an early flight to Chicago. There is an Online Business Systems training that I had already signed up for and bought my tickets before I took a small step back in the business. We are going to fly in tomorrow and my parents (who are already there) are going to pick us up from the airport. Sean is going to hang out at the hotel and I will go to the training with my parents. In the evening Sean and I will get to site see, but not for very long.

Sunday, same thing. We will be in training until about 3pm and then we are leaving to start driving home. I was hoping for more time in Chicago since everyone raves about that city but I’ll take what I can get.

My back has been feeling better as I mentioned, however, I went back to soccer last night and afterwards it was really hurting. Today so far I am feeling okay, but the thought of sitting the 8 hours in the car on the way home is making me cringe. I am going to make sure I keep doing my stretches and hopefully all will be well.

On Wednesday I bought a new Weight Watcher 3 month tracking journal and was planning on using it once I came back from Chicago. However, I got a huge rush of motivation yesterday and decided to start right away. I think it will be good to keep me on track this weekend. I am going to prove that you can go away on vacation, have fun, and still make healthy choices. Tonight we are going to Ruby Tuesdays for dinner and I printed off the menu so I can pick what I want, although I am really craving a salad (with Blue Cheese dressing, on the side). If we get there and nothing looks appealing we will go to our trusty back up choice of the Golden Corral, in which I will also get a salad, with Blue Cheese dressing, on the side.

Tomorrow I plan on having a shake for breakfast, some type of deli sandwich or something like that for lunch and dinner is still unknown.

My only issue is going to be trying to figure out how I can get in some exercise since most of the day Saturday and Sunday will be spent sitting, and most of Monday will be spent in the car.

My sister is watching Levi for us, and yes I admit this is lame, but I already miss him terribly. I always miss him though, even from the time I leave for work until the time I get home, I miss him lots.

Hopefully I will be able to post over the weekend but if not I will give a full update when I get back. I am hoping to use my time in the car to sort some pictures and hopefully then I will get my Elton John post up (it’s only a month late haha!)

HBL challenge update...

I am half way done my HBL challenge today. I have been taking my vitamins every day 3 times a day, having my shakes and my tea as promised - but I have not been doing so well in the evening regarding my food intake.

That being said I am still not noticing any difference in my energy or body. My back is feeling much better but that is because of my physio exercises. I am still feeling extremely lethargic and tired all of the time. I still feel really sluggish too. My joints aren't feeling any better and my over all health is not feeling much better too. The only thing that gives me an energy boost is the LiftOff - which is still my favourite product.

When I started taking HBL the first time I did notice a difference but not one that was massively impressive. I did try the La Bamba diet but did not succeed at that (see post about my attempts).

My doctor has made a referral for me to go see a sleep doctor but I am going to see what I can try to figure out what I can do for myself first (the first apppointment isn't until the end of Aug and that is a LONG time away when I am practically falling asleep at my desk).

I'm not going to lie I was really hoping for better results in my energy with my HBL product challenge, but I will continue as planned and stick it out to see the end results.

I am trying to summon up the energy to go back to the gym too - right now it takes all my energy to finish the stuff around the house and then haul myself to bed. Right now I am so tired that my eyes are watering heavily and it looks as if I am crying.

Tonight Sean and I are going to go to the movies, which we haven't done in a really long time, so hopefully that will be relaxing (even though I am kind wishing we could just stay home and sleep, I know that won't help me). Wednesday night I am babysitting, so weather permitting I will go for a walk with Sammy, Thursday night is soccer practice, and I am planning on the gym for Friday. Working back into it slowly of course.

I think when I get home I will take a shower, shave my legs, and get into comfy clothes for the movie.

A little bit of everything...

Life has been busy the past week and I forget what I have already blogged about, so if I repeat myself I apologize!

I have been trying to work on taking care of myself but it is much harder than one would think. It's not something you can just pick up all of the sudden and do by breaking all of your bad habits at once. I've been trying to tackle little pieces of it one at a time.

So far I have managed to fix my back! I went to physio last Thursday and got some really good news!
The pain I am having is caused by poor posture, which I already knew I had. Over time slouching causes your back to build up pressure then one day out of no where your back starts to really hurt. Correcting your posture is what helps to release the pressure.

I was given two exercises to do and I was feeling 90% better by Friday. I have still been doing the stretches and only feel the pain during the stretch and if I forget to do them every hour. Needless to say I am feeling MUCH better and ready to start back to my regular workout session soon! I will need to get back into it slowly - but I'm okay with that :D I guess the moral of the story is to always listen to your Nanny because you don't want to end up like her!!!

This weekend was a busy one that did not leave me much time for me - so I am taking some personal time right now.

Saturday morning I was up bring and early to go shopping in the states with some friends. We had a great time and I was able to get some good new runners. When I got home we had some friends over and we had make your own pizzas and played board games. We learned a new game that was quite fun once I got the hang of it.

Mother's day we had over my parents and we made a full brunch (blueberry pancakes, an array of cut up fruit, orange juice mixed with sprite, and my mom brought bacon). It was a feast fit for kings. Not going to lie I drew my inspiration from GG because their breakfasts always look so good!

We gave Levi a hair cut and did some other things around the apartment like laundry before heading to my first soccer game of the season. I did not play since my back was just starting to feel better and I have not touched a soccer ball since last Aug.

Tonight after work I came home and started putting back together the apartment - somewhere between brunch yesterday and bed time last night it became a war zone. Most of the stuff is put away now, I'm taking a quick minute to write before I sync my ipod with some new music, and head in to read a book.

Right now I am perched on my balcony over looking the sun setting over downtown. Quite picturesque if I do say so myself, not to mention the extreme comfort of my muskoka chair!

All that is missing is a cold glass of iced tea...or a bottle of beer!

This would be the life...

It is day 3 of working on taking care of myself and it’s going pretty well so far – although tough when I am at work. My job is busy and has a very large learning curve; in fact I have been here for 10 months and am still not fully comfortable. I often think I am not doing a good job because there are so many little steps for everything and missing a little step is easy but creates problems. I know that I will get it, and my co-workers are very patient, but it does create some extra stress in my life. So the ideal situation to be able to FULLY take care of myself would be if I did not have to work…of course, this would only happen if I won the lottery!

But hypothetically if I was able to be home from work to take care of myself this is what my day would look like:

8:00 am - Get out of bed and walk the dog for 1 hour

9:00 am - Have a healthy, homemade breakfast, cup of tea, read a book or the paper

10:00 am - go to the gym, do one hour cardio, one hour personal trainer

12:00 pm - Have a healthy, homemade lunch

12:30 pm - Spend time grooming ie shave legs, pluck eye brows, moisturize, paint nails ect

1:00 pm - Hot bath or shower

1:30 pm - Walk the dog for 30 minutes

2:00 pm - have a nap

3:00 pm - play with Levi

3:30 pm - go to the market and get fresh food for dinner

4:00 pm - sit on the balcony and relax with a glass of wine and a book

5:00 pm - prepare a fresh homemade dinner

6:00 pm - enjoy that dinner with husband

7:00 pm - catch a 1 hour evening yoga class

8:30 pm - snuggle with husband and dog

9:00 pm - lights off

Sounds pretty great eh? It gives me lots of exercise but also lots of rest too! I would clean the house on the weekends and switch some things up a bit – but if my life were like this, I feel like I could fully take care of myself.

Now that being said, things have been going well so far by taking baby steps. We are well on our way to paying off our debt (all things going well our goal of March 1, 2013 will be moved sooner), I have been getting up a bit earlier to put on some make up and do my hair, I’ve been putting effort into my clothing choices, and have been focusing on healthy eating.

I hurt my back 4 weeks ago today and it has made it very tough to do much physical activity. I am able to walk but that’s about it. I have been trying to rest the injury and use the ice/heat method but it’s not helping very much. Tonight I am going to sit in the sauna at the gym and hopefully once my muscles relax and loosen I can try to stretch them out a bit.

As for the HBL challenge, I have still been taking my vitamins and having my shake(s)/tea everyday but I am still not noticing a huge difference in energy, and no difference in my pain yet, but these things take time sometimes – I’m not ready to write it off yet!

If you don't take care of yourself...

...no one else will.

I have a lot to share with you tonight so hopefully you're up for a long read.

Over the past two years I have been all over the place with my weight loss. I have tried many different things only to get discouraged over and over again. I would eat really well and write everything down for a few days and then fall off the wagon and binge. My blogging has been all over the place too - making it hard to follow me and know when I have posted new posts, and for that I am sorry.

So here goes, I will try to get out what I have been thinking in my head.

Weight loss is a journey, and I get so frustrated at myself for putting back on weight after I worked so hard to lose it. I want to try to lose it overnight and get back to the closet full of great clothes that I have, but that is not going to happen. I am not going to wake up tomorrow and be the size 8 that I was two years ago this very day. And you know what? That is okay.

Weight loss is a journey, a life long battle that I am going to fight. The past few weeks I have been having a lot of joint pain and feel like I am 70 years old. I'm actually very thankful that I have the pain because it has taught me a VERY important lesson. This is NOT what I want to feel like at 70 years old. I want to be one of those seniors that you see out riding bikes and speed walking to keep healthy and keep their joints from stiffening up. 

Again, I am not going to achieve this over night. I am going to have to work hard to break down the real reasons behind my weight problem. It is not going to be easy, in fact it will be the hardest thing I have ever done - but I know at the end of it, it will be worth it. I hope you will join me on my journey and I hope that I will inspire you to find your own health. Leave all excuses at the door because there is no habit that you can not break, nothing you can't accomplish if you are willing to put in the time.

I have been doing my HBL challenge for the month of May and I will give you a bit of an update. My body still really hurts, but I have been taking small steps to feeling better (stretching more, walking, hot baths ect.) I am still not noticing a huge different though with one exception. My knees are not hurting any more because I am not crossing my legs at all or pulling my legs up under me - which is VERY hard on your knees. My back is still bad but I did go to my doctors this week and I am going to do physio to strengthen the muscles. He also gave me a prescription for a med that helps with inflammation. This should also help my joints too.

This weekend I decided was the best weekend to do the La Bamba diet. It's a 3 day cleanse that helps to kick start your weight loss. A lot of people get great results by doing this but I am going to give you my honest feedback about it.

The first day you are to drink two 1 gallon jugs of the mixture of protein juice, tea, and herbal aloe powder. I had one jug of peach juice and one jug of wild berry. You have to consume 1 16oz glass every 30 minutes for 8 hours.

The mixture was not TERRIBLE - however it wasn't exactly "good". It tasted like very watered down camp juice. I drank every half hour and I was told to and was quite satisfied. I did not feel hungry once while I was drinking the juice mixture. Near the end I did start to feel like I was going to float away. I felt like my stomach was a balloon of liquid and I did not feel good - but I was still not hungry. I finished my last glass around 5:45pm. On the first day you are allowed NO food - just liquid.

I went to bed around 9:30 and was VERY hungry. I thought maybe if I go to bed I won't think about it and then tomorrow will be good because I can have a shake. Well a few things happen when I am hungry. First of all I get MISERABLE. I whine and cry and pout - I pretty much act like a child. Second I start to get really bad headaches that often end in vomiting. So I tried everything I could think of to get to sleep but I was just SO hungry. I tried drinking a few glasses of water, but since I already felt really sick that didn't do much of anything. I was laying in bed dreaming of salad so at 11:30 I finally got up and went to the kitchen to have some salad. That worked well until about 12:15 am. As I was still laying in bed miserable - my headache was getting much worse to the point where my whole head was just throbbing. I said enough already and went and had a peanut butter sandwich.

So I did not even last one day of the La Bamba diet, which is only a 3 day weight loss jump start and I will never do one again. However, it did make me realize a few things. That is not the way that I want to live - doing fad diets. I want to eat right, exercise and just be healthy - and still have treats sometimes. I want to be able to have a treat and be in control and not have that lead to a binge, which is what happens when you deprive yourself. I also go myself a nice new hair cut to be a symbol of my starting fresh. It's not too short, but to my shoulders. I can still get it up in a pony tail but it gives me lots of new things I can do with it!

Today I woke up and still did not feel good, my back was sore and I still had a bad headache. I had a good breakfast and took today one step at a time. Sean and I wrote a list of things we wanted to get done and tackled it one thing at a time. We ended up going on a hike today which was more than my back could handle so now I am paying the price for that. However, I was happy to get the exercise in and time with my hubby and my pup pup.

Sean and I rented a movie tonight and I plan on snuggling up with him on the couch and just relaxing. The weather today was so beautiful and I feel so blessed to have been able to live this day.

I will be posting my Elton John blog soon - I was just waiting to get all of the pictures. I can't believe that happened two weeks ago. I wish it had lasted forever :)

HBL challenge

Here is what I have noticed so far…

1. I don’t see a boost in my energy yet, unless of course I have a lift off.

2. My back is still really hurting and it changes from staying in the same spot or radiating up my neck. I went to get some xrays this week to make sure everything was okay with my spine and it is – I am just having muscle trouble, so with rest and meds I should be feeling better soon.

3. I have been drinking tea at my snack time and I realized that at snack time I was more thirsty then actually hungry. The past few days I have cut out my morning snack and have been having my tea.

That is about all for now – I’ll keep you posted.

Month of May challenge:

I have decided to do a Herbalife (HBL) Month of May challenge (can you believe it is ALREADY May?!?!). I am making up this challenge completely on my own; this is not something set up by HBL.

So here is what I propose: for the month of May I am going to stick VERY CLOSELY to my daily Herbalife regimen.

Here is what I promise:

1. To take all of my daily vitamins and supplements

2. To drink at least two HBL teas a day

3. To have a least 1 shake a day Monday-Friday, most days I will try to have 2

4. I will complete the HBL 3 day La Bamba diet once

5. To add my Herbal aloe powder to one drink a day

I am going to report on a few different categories and my overall opinion of the products.  Right now my energy is very low and my body is having far too many aches. I have a lot of hurting joints (knees, inner hips, outer hips, and shoulders) not to mention my back/spine. I already know that the product is great, but I haven’t stuck on it long enough to actually see results. So here goes!

I have also been having some headaches and would like to see if I can improve my digestive system. Of course I am going to pair this challenge with regular exercise. I have also been trying to sit up straighter (which hurts from years of slumping) but it’s better late than never. I even made a note for my computer screen to remind me to sit up straight! My Nanny would be proud.

Day 1: My back is really hurting today and I am very tired

I am excited to see how my experiment works!