Fruits and Veggies... Day 6....

So... good day, just finished day 6.... a success. Things are going well and it is getting easier. I have done 4-3-2-1 four times so far, and walked on one of the other days.... Coach Di doesn't have me scheduled for 4-3-2-1 tomorrow, but... if it's nice weather out tomorrow, I may go out for a run.  

So, the food on this program has definitely been awesome! Tyler and I had the Chicken Parmesan today.... wow! It was very good, but TOO much food, I couldn't eat it all. Our dinner seemed HUGE! But, it is a 1500 calorie eating schedule.... I guess that is not huge. It's pretty amazing... all the vegetables we have been eating, so different than how we used to eat! But, how awesome, that is going to help us to get to OPTIMAL health!!! Reduce the risk of Type II Diabetes, Heart Disease, Cancer, Altzeimers, Arthritis.... and MANY more diseases... JUST FROM EATING 7-9 servings of FRUITS AND VEGETABLES!!! It is amazing how much it reduces the risk factors!! That was one of the most amazing things we learned in listening to Dr. Duke go through information with us! Study after study showed the results that eating fruits and vegetables can do to ones health. Who would've know that it was so important! But, I am now an AVID believer and VEGGIE eater! :) At Nutrilite, one of the Research Scientist, Yumei, said that if she was traveling the #1 supplement that she would take with her would be her Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables..... as an IBO, I would think - "WHY? Not your Double X?" - Her response was, when she travels it is very likely that she is not getting enough fruits and vegetables... so at least taking her Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables she can get 5-10 servings of them!! I am now an AVID believer in that supplement!! A great way to supplement the diet.... and still get the valuable Phytonutrients!!

.... later, I'll maybe get into detail what my risk factors were after all the tests we had our first day at the Center for Optimal Health. 

Until then... I'm going to head to bed. Get to wake up for church tomorrow! Yeah! Have missed the past several weeks, so I'm excited to be back. 

TIP OF THE DAY: When you are eating.... pile on the fruits and veggies on your plate! Get full off of those, before your other food comes out! You can practically eat as many as you want with minimal calories. If you have the option, get a variety of different colors of fruits and vegetables... not only does it make your plate look pretty, but the different colors contain different valuable phytonutrients. This helps boost your immune system, and they are loaded with antioxidants! Next time you are out to eat, ask for an extra portion of veggies!

Accomplishment...

Today was a great day.... still 80+ emails to get caught up with at work... but good! Eating healthy and actually eating those things called "fruits & vegetables" really makes a difference! Tyler was even telling me that he feels better. He's lost several pounds already and clothes are fitting him better!

The meals really are great! Tonight I had the "Fish-In-Foil" meal. It was SUPER! :) Very yummy. I also "Vacuum-Sealed" 2 servings, so we'll be able to have them next month and I won't have to make them! YEAH! I've done that on any of the recipes that were for 4-6 servings, I vacuum-sealed them in 1 or 2 serving bags for easy meals next month! :)

I did the 4-3-2-1 tonight! WOW! Literally... went so hard, a few times my legs really did go weak and almost buckled over! Great workout!! Gotta head to bed though... have an early morning.

TIP OF THE DAY:
Take your Double X vitamins WITH your meals... (ie: breakfast and dinner). Call it an iron-stomach, but I have never been in the habit of taking Double X with meals, I always took it on an empty stomach when I brushed my teeth in the morning and before bed. Taking it with a meal allows your body to better absorb the Vitamins, Minerals and Phytonutrients better, rather than taking it on an empty stomach.

GOOD NIGHT!

Our Team

Here's a picture of our team... the fabulous 7! 

Release...

Well.... hello. It's me again. I really enjoy journaling... and I anticipate it will be fun to look back and see the journey and process. From what I hear, history usually repeats itself.... so this will be fun a year from now, looking back being at my optimal health and weight... living the lifestyle and to look back and see the journey. It will help when I'm starting a "New Adventure"... with this one accomplished and being lived out. 

So... I want to start out by saying, I'm just going to be transparent through this process. I hope that's ok with everyone, if it's not...... I guess you can read something else. :) Is that ok? :) For real though, I'm just going to be me. I'm not going to try to be somebody else, I'm not going to try to be perfect, or the "promoter" of how wonderful everything is every moment. I really just want to be real.... disclaimer and all. 

On the trip, we were on a bus ride to Buena Park to visit the Nutrilite Farm... the night before, in my hotel room I had been spending some time with the Lord, just talking and doing my best to listen.... read, be guided. Well... He led me to Psalm 93. I read it.... my Bible has the King James and Amplified versions side by side. Well... what I really liked was what it said in the Amplified version, primarily verse 5:

" Your testimonies are very sure; holiness [apparent in separation from sin, with simple trust and hearty obedience] is becoming to Your house, O Lord, forever."

Well... let me tell you what I think and what I like about that verse.... while in CA, I was starting to "think" too much and put pressure on myself...before I went out there, I was trying to figure out how I could fit the "my life" into "the program" and just make a few adjustments.... How I could still go to Carrabba's every week, sit at our normal place, get our normal and fabulous server, Ian..... "How could I fit my life into this program." Well... for ME, what this verse said was that, YES, MY TESTIMONY IS GOING TO BE TOLD AND WILL SHOW (literally and physically)... but, what I had to do was stop trying to "FIGURE it out". In my mind and self, I wanted to make tweeks, today for example.... I starting pressuring myself... had negative self-talk "What if it doesn't work? What if I don't accomplish what I want? What if... what if... what if..." ... then tonight, Tyler and I went out walking and I told him I needed some encouragement, that I was putting all this pressure on myself. As we talked, I remembered the verse... and the MAIN part that the Holy Spirit wanted me to realize.... "Just put SIMPLE TRUST in the program, and follow it with HEARTY OBEDIENCE. TRUST THE SYSTEM. TRUST my COACH. TRUST that they really do know what they are talking about." If I trust and obey, I will succeed. I can do that. I can follow a plan, I can trust, and I can work hard. Today, life happened. As Lorrie Taylor has said before, "Today just wasn't a good day". Had some challenges at work, had lots of pressure and some issues to deal with. But, do you know what. I FOLLOWED THE PROGRAM TODAY. Coach Diane didn't have me scheduled to do 4-3-2-1, but I ate what was on the meal plan, I took the stairs TWICE at work (which I have never done!) up FOUR flights of stairs to my office, I walked for about 30 minutes talking to Tyler..... and I even sent an "encouragment" note to someone at work who ticked me off.... they just took a new position and I let them know I was praying for them. And I have too! It made me not as mad at them, when I wrote the note and prayed for them! 

Tomorrow is going to be a great day! I'm going to get more caught up, my computer is going to work, I'm going to follow the program, look for ways to encourage others and be a blessing. 

God is good.  He chose me, so HE will help me succeed. I'll close with this... this is what I'm going to do: 

Proverbs 16:3 (AMP) "Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His wil, and] so your plans be established and succeed."

Love ya'll!

Real life...kicking in... & reflecting

Well.... here I am, late at night.... yes, after a Night Owl, so it's almost 2:00 am. You know the feeling you get from doing something really awesome, from wanting to share and "shout" from the top of a mountain, but not knowing if people will really understand.... if they will just humor you to do the "pleasantries" of asking "how was your trip", but they really just want a quick answer, not a real answer. 

How do you begin? How do you begin to share what up until this point of life, has been the most Overwhelming Blessing that has ever occurred. Life-changing. Granted..... the 2 obvious impactful events were of course getting saved and marrying such an awesome godly man as Tyler. But.... the feeling I got from the whole trip was so overwhelming.... "Overwhelming".... for the first 2 days that is all I could do to describe it. I felt like crying some because I thought, "God, how come you chose me? How did I get to be so blessed that you would choose me to go through this experience and opportunity? Thank you! I love you! I feel SOOO greatful!"

The first few days that is truly what I felt, just overwhelmed. I'm feeling that a little bit now too.... now it's different, b/c now it is "How can I share this with others? How can I relay the magnitude of what we're a part of? What we have access too, Nutrilite. How can I relay and not overwhelm people with too much information?" Next week at our Open Meeting I'm sharing at our Training Session. Yes... will be sharing the slide-show for people to see..... but how do you spend only 20 minutes talking about something that has SO changed my life forever? Changed my husbands life, changed my future children's life. I'm honestly feeling a bit overwhelmed. I know God is going to give me the words to say.... exactly. I'm just so thankful. I'm excited to be a "Trim-Bassador", to help people live a victorious life, to help people not have to live in the cycle of weight loss, only to re-gain the same weight later. I'm excited to help people be happy with themselves and who they are.  

Praise GOD for choosing me! I'm excited to share what I've learned with the World! :) (does that sound cliche?) Every person you know and love needs to be taking a Nutrilite Multi-vitamin! If they can't do Double-X, they NEED to be taking Daily at least!!! (obviously all the blah blah stuff, check w/ your doctor, bla bla bla) But... if you love them, you need to begin the process of getting them all taking a multi that we can trust and that is BETTER than you could EVER imagine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK.... I'll leave you with a TRIM TIP....

Trim Tip of the Day: During your 4-3-2-1, imagine a you are getting ready to begin your 4 minutes of cardio, you're doing 30 second sprints, or 30 second "fast feet", 30 second jog recovery - 4 times, imagine a coach standing there yelling at you, "CAN YOU DO MORE? IS THAT ALL YOU'VE GOT? CAN YOU GO HARDER?!!!!!" - At that point, give it more, push until your legs burn. THAT is the beginning of the intensity of the 4-3-2-1. 

Love ya'll! Good night!

First day a Success!

First day went great.... though, I didn't have to work today, so let's see how tomorrow goes!!!!!!!!
Really enjoyed the meals.... froze my extra 2 servings of the Spicy Pork for next months meal.... that will be nice not to have to fix. I vacuum-sealed it!
The 4-3-2-1... now WOW... that was tough!!! I did the Eliptical at the gym... for the 4 min HEAT, I did 30 seconds as hard as I could go, then 30 second recovery... by the 4th one I was breathing VERY heavy and felt like my legs were going to collapse on me! I was going hard! It was very good though. Even my fingers are tired right now!!! Then I did the 3 of strength, 2 CORE, 1 recovery. It was a good day One!
Ok... I'm going to bed! Have to wake up and get some of this done in the morning and head to work to catch up since I've been out off the office for a week! Should be fun!!! At least tomorrow is a soup day, so it will be easy to pack my lunch!
Love ya all! :) Amy

Temptation #1....

Not a huge thing.... but we had a leadership meeting last night around 10:00. Everyone was trying to decide what to do about "food".... "Do we want to order Pizza? Wendy's? What does everyone want to eat?" People ended up just having PB&J b/c no one was real motivated to go pick up the pizza. They offered bags of Smart Menu chips, and they had chips and salsa out...I looked at the label... as I was looking at it, I realized I really wasn't hungry anyways, so I didn't eat any. Yeah! Good Choice #1!! :)

Now... this morning... hum... today is REALLY the "OFFICIAL START DAY". I just took my 2 Slimmetry, 1 Glucose, 1 Carb Blocker, 1 Invisaviber.... your suppose to wait 20-30 minutes before your meal so those can get in your system, so I have 10 minutes to go until I have my breakfast. IF you are following along with the new Trim Body System book, you know what I'm having for breakfast.... the Shake! :) - 1 1/2 cup berries (i'm doing blueberries), 1 cup skim milk (i have soy from the biz), 1/2 tsp vanilla, 1 tsp flaxseed. I don't have the flaxseed yet b/c I'm ordering that through the business. Then after that, Snack is suppose to follow 2-3 hours later.

Today is kinda unique because I don't have to work today and am off.... so I definitely have a bit more freedom. Today I have to unpack from my trip and get all my laundry ready for Sherrie to do tomorrow (every Tuesday Sherrie comes to do our laundry, fold and put it away! What a great blessing!!!).

Well... my day begins.... will keep ya'll updated and fill you in on stuff I learned as we go.....
(P.S.... it's currently 39 degrees here - 10:49 am)....

Beginning a lifestyle change....

Wow...where to even begin???
I just got back this morning at 8:30 from California. I was one of 7 people chosen by Amway Global to participate in the "New Way, New You" Program utilizing the Trim Body System. I flew out to Lakeview, CA last Sunday and the program finished up on Thursday night with a final dinner. I wanted to keep this blog up and running so that anyone who is utilizing the Trim Body System, can track with me on my journey! 3 MONTHS and I'll be going back to California to get re-tested.

I'll re-cap a little bit more later on the trip b/c I have to head out somewhere, but I do want to touch on a few things....

... I just got done doing my grocery shopping for the First Week of the Trim Body System. What a difference this will be for Tyler and I!! In the past, the ONLY thing we really went to the grocery store was for Sugar-Free French Vanilla Creamer for our coffee. Really! That's all we bought at the grocery store on a consistent basis. Everything else, we either bought from our business, or went out to eat a lot. The new #'s for the American Dietetic Association for fruits and vegetables is 5-9 servings PER DAY! Tyler and I didn't get 5-9 servings of fruits and vegetables A WEEK!!! Before we were always like, "Fruits and Vegetables? What are those??" We didn't eat ANY fresh fruits and veggies!!! So... that will be a big life change for the GOOD! But, it will be a good thing, with AMAZING health benefits which I'll get into later!

So... honestly, at first... going grocery shopping was a little overwhelming.... I think after a couple weeks of doing the trim body and doing the "grocery shopping", it will get much easier.... as well as, I'll have a lot of the "basic" items in my fridge and pantry.

OK... LOTS of stuff to tell... I'll get on later to fill you in....