My Struggle Continues!!

With a smile I have entered 2013:)) My struggle with sugar is still on going but becoming less of a problem as pain now dictates whether I continue to eat it or chose to walk away!! My solution finally came to me one day in early December as I was checking out walls of many like minded individuals who share my belief in the fact that lifestyle and what we eat plays a big part in our health and happiness!! I stumbled on a vegan shake called ROCKIN WELLNESS!! Well oh baby it was everything and more what I would hope in a shake or meal replacement .Rockin Wellness is packed with high quality  organic superfoods and tastes positively delicious!! Well now I can spread my barleymax throught the day and enjoy the flavour in my Rockin Wellness chocolate shake! Yummy,VEGAN, organic and non GMOed:)) How good is that? So now when I want a goody I just have a smoothy made with ROCKIN WELLNESS!!Now how rockin is that? Yes I have stumbled since discovering Rockin Wellness but I am finally seeing a light at the end of this tunnel and I sure am happy.Yes it is all about choices and in the end consequences but finding something thats chocolatey and healthy definitely helps with making the right choices.
My husband and love of my life also had some struggles in December as he had fallen back in the trap of coffee after twice getting off of  it and twice almost burning out his adrenals ,but it was back and his body obviously decided to help him make the right choice and get off it quickly!! One day at work he started to experience chest pains on his left side.They were so severe that he ended up in the emergency ward at the Hinton hospital doing tests all day only to discover nothing .A week later we went out for our usual Satuday morning brunch and Marty had  3 cups of coffee I also joined him but had 1. That evening the pain in his chest started again and back to emerge he went for the night .We could only come to one conclusion the coffee was causing gas that was pooling around his heart causing severe pain so we both opted out of the coffee once and for all and he has been pain free:)) This story takes us a bit further on our journey as with all the tests Marty had done he  also had chest Xrays done, They discovered the spot on his lung that we had discovered in 2003and gotten to stop growing in 2004 had started to grow again. We knew our life style over the past 8 years had slid and obviously it had affected this spot to continue to grow! Our great Hallelujah regime of barleymax in the morning and carrot/veggie juice midmorning and mid afternoon has been implimented in our life once again along with the life style changes of good rest .clean water and we are presently checking out our optrions to get moving!! One obstacle solved and another to resolve!! Our health is very important to us so even in the snowy cold Canadian winters we will find something to get us up and moving! :) Cheers!!

THE STRESSES IN LIFE! :)

WOW! It's been a while since I've been on but life has been keeping me quite busy!! In a nutshell ....Went at the end of March to pick up mom  in Regina Sask.,after she had multiple strokes! It was time for mom to move in ...it had been time for years but she is a very independant women and stayed on her own till she just couldn't! From the time I had called the ambulance for her to the time we went to pick her up had been 6 weeks! SIX WEEKS  of the hospital ,extendacare and homecare pumping in dozens of pills into her poor system ! She remembers very little of the day we picked her up in Regina! Poor mom! So mom came to live with us well thats a stress that we adjust to not to big a deal,our home is 5 bedroom and all of our children are gone except for Melissa so that left us with 3 empty bedrooms ! Well before we left to pick mom up I decided to paint her room ,this simple paint job snowballed into installing hardwood and travertine tile in the upstairs!! My house was upside down when we brought mom home ,but the painting had gotten done before we left and the hardwood was being installed ! This was a juggle as I run a very busy daycare out of our home and mom was just getting settled in and my house was all in the kitchen ! WOW! Normally I would have been a basket case stressed to the max but this regime I had been studying for about 7 years now Marty and I decided to apply 6 weeks earlier,good thing! I was happy my messy house didnt even fizz me and Martin watched in amazement how stress  free I was ....waiting for me to crack! It was then and there I think that he was sold on this great way of eating!
Its really quite a simple way of eating ,the basics are: 85 % raw and 15% cooked food.
This was my regime ,Marty's was a bit different as we had different routines and likes!!
First thing in the morning  I  take 2 tbsp very rounded of Barley Max in 4 oz of distilled water.
Mid morning when the kids are having breakfast I  have 1 Glass of freshly juiced vegetable juice!
Lunch would be 1 rounded tbsp barleymax in distilled water and 20 minutes later a salad or veggie platter!
When it was snack time for the kids 3pm I have another veggie juice or carrot juice
Supper starts out with 1 tbsp barleymax in 4 oz of water and 20 minutes later a salad followed by something cooked whether it be cabbage rolls or baked sweet potato or some vegan lazagna!! That is my day in a nut shell!! Nothing complicated about it once its in place ,along with a few good tools in the kitchen and your set!! A juicer is important but it doesnt have to be an expensive one !! Our first juicer that healed Marty's lung was a Juiceman Juicer !! 100.00 now we use the Green Star elite but for many years we used a knockoff  that just looked and ran like the Green Star!! Next a good blender is very useful for homemade soups and smoothies ect we use the Vitamix for a big blender but is expensive and any blender with do the same job when just starting out! I bought the Vitamix as it is very strong and can blend nuts to make nut milk fresh from raw soaked nuts its very tasty but I opt out most times to just buy my almond milk from the store!! Some day I will put it in my routine, just  as the juicing has been implimented in!!:)
Stress is a big part of our life and our health! We need to slow down but it seems the more we need to slow down the faster life gets! what can we do? Well eating healthy is definitely a step in the right direction but its not enough!! Yes the diet above addresses detox and deficiency helping the body to heal and do its work and balancing hormones ,all this taking stress off the body but there is more much much more we can do to help with stress!! Oxygenating the body is a big one! How can we accomplish this daily? Aquiring enough Vit D  , but how much is enough? Exercise and sunshine can definitely help with the 2 last questions!! Water now what kind of water should we drink?  How much sleep should we get and why is it that important?We will address all these questions in great detail as there is alot we need to know about all these healthy elements to achieve a healthy happy stress free life! :))

It's been awhile!!

Thought Id better check in quickly and just document what Ive been up to all these months! I discovered an important topic! Knowledge is power but when its not applied you can know all you need to to achieve health but if you cant apply it it doesn't mean much! My short fall appears to be sugar BIG TIME!! I have faced this monster over and over thinking I had succeeded only to stumble and fail. My reason for all the silence over these months has been because I felt if I couldn't walk the walk how could I talk the talk?? Then I realized I'm human just like you and as imperfect as we are we will stumble ! We only fail if we don't get up and try again:)) So I am percivering as I would love to teach what Ive learned over the years but feel I need to beat this monster before doing so but I realized I can blog about my success and failures and maybe help someone else. The realization I have come to is an addiction to sugar is no different than an acoholic. I can not have it in the house! My husband is shocked when he can hide some and when its needed I can find it!! So no it can not be around me or I will eat a bit and be on a roll! So at the present Ive succeeded at walking out of walmart without my 3 chocolate bars and I can go grocery shopping now without giving much thought to the icecream ,pastry,and any other goodies I used to cart home! To me this is success! Trust me I still fumble but I am getting there one baby step at a time! Hugs to all you sugar lovers we will beat this monster and have a very healthy and happy life!! xxoo

Health Minister Training!!

Health Minister Training
This picture will always remind me of one of the greatest weeks in my life!! A week away with Marty ,my guy :)) and a few amazing days spent with some truly amazing people to me that will always be close to my heart!! Love people who think like me and believe that the bady is truly miraculous and if given the correct tools....sleep ,proper nutrition, fresh air, exercise ,pure clean water ect. it can heal itself over time!!! It was some amazing time spent in the beautiful city of Vancouver BC.

Just a bit about me!! :)

I guess to start I decided to write this blog because my daughter Farrah suggested it!! At the time I thought, Yep and I know how to start a blog?? lol!! But in reality I must have as usual thought Farrah had a good idea because my brain told me daily ,Google:How to start a blog!! Well needless to say day after day went by and it never got googled and today was supposed to be THE DAY  but again I was spending my time on Facebook ,doing not much as usual ,when I was checking out a post Farrah had pinned on pinterest and there it was POPPED right out in front of me ,CREATE YOUR BLOG!! Wow I was shocked to see this considering I had gotten distracted from doing just that, So here I am!! Thank-you Farrah and Pinterest for guiding me today!!:)
I'm a girl who grew up in a little village by the name of  Theodore in Saskatchewan Canada!!I was blessed with a beautiful baby girl 8 lbs 81/2 oz that brightened my world beyond belief  at the age of 17. After graduating from highschool Farrah and I moved to Regina Sask where we lived ,I fell in love with my husband Martin ,got married and where our second child Dustin Thomas was born in August 15,1989, another bright light in my life!!
During our ten years in Regina I tried my hand at a registered nursing course!! It was a rough year , math and I never seemed to see eye to eye and I threw my drug therapy books across the room more times than I care to admit!! I finally surrendered and went part time dropping drug therapy and finished my year ,only to say ....well not for me but Im not wasting a year of my life so I started applying what I learned in nursing by doing homecare .
In  Nov.1,1989 we all moved to Hinton Alberta Canada were Marty started a new job at the pulp mill and I worked at being a good wife and mother to our 2 children. By Dec. of the same year low and behold I discovered I was going to have our 3rd child !!!.Melissa Amber was born on Sept.20th,1990 and for a couple weeks after her birth all seemed well till the health nurse came to do her home visit. She continually measured Melissa's head till I finally said ,Is something wrong? She told me Melissa's head measurements were a bit small and to let our Doc know on our first visit to see him ,this started our journey!! Melissa was diagnosed with Microcephally where the head and brain grow slower than normal.Melissa will be 22 years old this year and is in a wheel chair has delayed learning and speech .Her communication is minimal but she is a very happy out going girl when her hormones aren't acting up !! lol She as my other 2 children is the 3rd light in my life and motivates me to research health and keep Melissa as healthy as possible .This has been a struggle in the past year as Melissa also at 6 months was diagnosed with a seizure disorder and put on phenobarb though her seizures were similar to mine usually around the time of our period when hormones would fluctuate we would be guaranteed a seizure.My father steered me in the right direction one day by suggesting something he had read about reguarding selenium,a trace mineral, controlling seizures !! Melissa and I tried it for a year and yes we were seizure free!! Reguarless to say I somehow let that slip and we went back to our 1 seizure a month for a few years till I suffered 4 seizures in one day in March of 2004!!Much stress was going on in my life at this time! My brother Greg 39 at this time was fighting cancer !Martin my husband had discovered the previous fall that he had a spot growing on his lung and specialists wanted to just removed 1/3rd of his lung immediately and then check it for cancer,we opted out of that as Marty was also asthmatic and recoop time was 1 year!! Juicing and getting Marty's body alkaline was our decision over what the doc chose to do! As safe as our decision seemed it was very stressful as we had no prior experience with juicing and not many testomonies on good results for fighting cancer but it seemed a more common sense route to take rather than cutting and possible chemo and radiation!! I was suffering from sharp headaches for a couple days before my 4 seizures and had just recently stopped consuming diet Pepsi which may have triggered the headaches and even the seizures!! An MRI was done but only guess work by the doctors was accomplished as to why I had the headaches and the 4 seizures and why after that day my headaches were gone!!That was when I decided to get us both back on the selenium and today I am free of my seizure medication as well as my seizures!! It took 21/2 years to get off my med and at that time I was taking Tegretol .Melissa though has not been as lucky over the past year due to her taking phenobarb she is struggling with toxic liver .Last March she ended up in bed with what I thought was the flu but when she stopped eating and insisted in staying in bed and the weight started to drop off of her I realized something else was wrong .Her liver had had enough ,so we decreased her med a bit  and waited to see her neurologist.I felt once we saw him his helping me switch her over to something less toxic to the liver would be Melissa's answer to recovering.....Boy was I wrong!! I butted heads with that doc for what seemed like forever but he insisted if I took Melissa off the Phenobarb she would go into a seizure and die!! WOW what a shock to me to see this doc would not help me.I gently tried to assure him I did not want to take her off of all seizure meds only to switch her over to another milder one .He still said NO! I asked how long they had known about the fact that this could happen and his response was ...Well quite a while probably in the 1980's that it was discovered to do this to patients.I said why if they knew this then would they put Melissa on it as she was born in 1990? There was no response to this. Then I told him I was on phenobarb from the age of 12 when my seizures started till I decided to have Dustin at 27 and my doc put me on Delantin  as a safer drug for pregnancy,so why did I not seizure and die when I was taken off the phenobarb? His response was well we are all different it just didnt happen to you!! HUH? So my ray of sunshine had to count on me to help get her out of bed and help heal her liver!! This will be another story on healing TOXIC LIVER! Melissa is out of bed full time and living a normal life after the regime I put her on for her liver!!
 I believe with my whole heart and soul that God created our bodies to heal themselves. We just need to give our poor bodies what they need to do this. In the system we live in at the present moment 2 things need to be addressed that I believe is the main cause of most diseases! These two things we need to address are defiency and toxicity.Do you want to feel like you did when you were 16 and unstoppable? I can show you how by simply addressing these 2 issues! Marty and I have practiced it and feel it is the most amazing regime we could ever be on !! I love being on this regime because it centres me ,makes me so happy the kids in the daycare can see it and gives me the ability to love my husband so much I feel like I'm 16 and in love once again !!That is saying alot for the crazy system we live in!! Night for now! :)