After a short year and a half hiatus, I'm back on my blog and embarking on a new adventure!!
We made the decision almost a year ago to move to Texas from California for the job opportunities for my dad and husband. What a move!!!! It is never an easy thing leaving family, friends and everything familiar, but we have been so blessed. I found my "fairy Godmother" in the small Texas town where I live now. I would have never imagined she actually existed and I would ever find her, but she has blessed our lives so much. Justin has been blessed with a great job and I'm so glad he is happy given the very long hours he usually works. My dad is the only plumber in our town and several neighboring towns and he usually has more work than he has time for!
Despite our blessings, it has been quite challenging for me to handle the heat and humidity. I have joked especially in the last couple months that I'm a step away from hermit status. I have always had migraines my whole life, but they have been almost daily. For the last month, I have been so sick! Most of you that know me personally know I have had my share of medical issues with endometriosis which worsened after Journee's birth, migraines and an out of whack thyroid.
After the last month, I knew my life had to change somehow. I'm on medication for my thyroid, but it doesn't seem to be working. Sometimes life calls for drastic measures! After all, there's a quote that says, "Health is wealth." I'm there. I have had way too many sick days and I don't have time to be sick on the couch when my adorable 2-year-old is growing up.
Today, I'm starting my journey to get healthy! Along with my husband, I am starting a 28 day bootcamp through Arbonne. I know people personally who have undergone bootcamp or something similar and had fantastic results with their health and weight. Over a year ago, one of my friends decided to change her life and as a result, lost 65 pounds and has energy to burn! The change in her is unbelievable!! I decided if she could do it, so could I! So, I found out more information and I signed up for Arbonne which offers the 28 day bootcamp along with supplement support and group support on Facebook. The first time I logged onto my Facebook group, I felt like saying, "Hello, my name is Janille and I'm addicted to sugar!"
This isn't for the faint of heart, but my mind is made up! For the next 28 days, I will be eliminating gluten, dairy and sugar along with all processed foods. My refrigerator is full of organic veggies and fruits. My freezer is now stocked in free-range chicken, grass-fed beef and organic eggs. The goal is to detox my body of all toxins while eating a clean, pure diet. My diet will be packed with protein. Thankfully, this isn't a "diet" where you limit your calories to some crazy number in order to lose those pesky pounds. For example, the HCG diet you only eat 500 calories for 20 or 40 days - yeah, been there, done that, survived. My focus is start a lifestyle that will be healthy for myself and my family for years to come. Most of our food has become so processed with chemicals and preservatives!! I would imagine our food tastes nothing like the food of the ancestors!! It really is horrifying that sugar addiction is compared to having a cocaine addiction. Most of us would never even ever try cocaine, yet every day we guzzle our energy drinks and Dr. Pepper to jolt our minds awake! When we experience the inevitable crash, we drink or eat more sugar. So I'm borrowing an old slogan from my generation: Just say NO!
I would also like to tell ya'll my OB/GYN is 100% supportive of me undergoing detox and bootcamp. I saw him on Friday and told him about it and his only concern was if it included an unhealthy limit of calories. He said 1200-1400 calories a day was perfect and healthy. From symptoms, I think it is safe to say my hormones are completely unbalanced and if you research how to help an imbalance, every article talkes about diet and eliminating sugar and processed foods especially! My doctor said he will be very interested to see the results and how my body will respond to cleansing out all the bad toxins!
Several of you have told me you have missed my blogs, so I thought I would document the next 28 days while I detox, go through sugar withdrawal and hopefully at the end, I will emerge on my way to a healthier woman and mama! Ya'll will be my captive audience and since I love my morning Dr Pepper and Tradewinds Green Tea with Honey, I'm sure this journey is going to be an eye-opener! I will try to spare you as much as possible as I'm sure this first week without sugar, I will be a crazy woman with her red hair standing on end. One lady who has already went through bootcamp said by the third night, she was so craving sugar and crazy irritated, she grabbed her fizzie, detox tea and chews (more on those later) and locked herself in her basement! By the next morning, she was fine. Now I must warn ya'll as I have warned my family, I don't have a basement or cellar or attic. I have a shed, but since it is without cool air, that would only make the heat-intolerant redhead worse. So those of you who pray, pray fervently, Saints, for the crazy, sugar-deprived redhead mama in Texas!! Oh wait, maybe the prayers should be for Journee and my husband!! LOL! If you're in my area and happen to visit and I look like something the cat drug in and nothing I say makes sense, a hug will be much appreciated!
I will be posting more details about how well the fizzies work, if the chews really help curb my 24/7 hunger and if I have managed to drink my smoothies without gagging since I have a texture problem!
As for Journee, my miracle baby girl, she has blossomed into a happy, social 2-year-old who loves her bongos and feels my days with so much joy. She is everywhere all the time, rarely walking, and the house is never quiet unless she is taking a rare nap. She loves music and goes around singing, "Oh Happy Day" at the top of her voice and my piano endures her banging happily. She checks her baby dolls for fever and gives them the diagnosis of "constipated." Her daddy taught her that word!! She is her daddy's girl, her mama's sidekick, her Nene's musical partner and her Papa's "all-the-time girl!" She talks all the time stringing together 8-9 word sentences that make perfect sense and at church, I regret to say she loses the victory quickly when she realizes she cannot "pway dums!" She lives up to the meaning of her name very well!!!
Thank you for joining me on my journey to get healthy and prayer and great positive thoughts are appreciated!
If ya'll have any questions, you can find me on Facebook or email me at janilleandarbonne@yahoo.com!
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