Thursday, February 10, 2011

Revolutionary Weight Loss Products


Ab Cuts includes Supplement Facts: 
Serving Size 3 Soft Gels
Servings Per Container 30
Amount Per Serving % Daily Value
Abdominal Cuts Proprietary Blend 3000mg
CLA (Conjugated Linoleic Acid)
GLA (gamma Linolenic Acid)(omega-6) -   Fish Oil
ALA (alpha-Linoleic Acid)(omega-3)  -      Fish OIl
EPA (Eicosapentaenoic Acid) (omega-3) - Fish Oil
DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid)(omega-3) -  Fish Oil
Sesamin (Sesame Oil)
Vitamin E

 
To date I have lost 10 lbs without exercising hardly at all.  I have been taking Julian Michaels' Fat Burner and Ab Cuts/CLA for about three weeks.  I hardly have an appetite at all.  My belly fat is melting away.  When I get on the scale in the morning it is continuously going down about a pound a day.  I believe I have found the secret.  I first read about CLA in a magazine.  It was researched by a university and proven to melt away belly fat.  I had to try it!  If I consistently take two pills three times a day combined with six Fat Burner pills, it works.  If have found that sometimes I am not hungry and almost have to force myself to eat, this is especially during the day.


GNC Wellbeing Be Enhanced ingredients include:
 tonalin CLA
 EPA
 DHA
 MCT
 LA
 oleic acid
 GLA
 ALA

I have tried on my pants that were a size smaller and some of them actually fit!  :)  I am amazed!  I plan to add regular exercise to this routine and I think I will only lose even more weight!  I am trying to spread the word to everyone about my discovery.  I have sold a lot of it at GNC.  I talk about it on FB and I have friends running into the store to get it!  I am very excited about it!



Conjugated Linoleic Acid






Monday, February 7, 2011

February 7, 2011

Tonight my husband and I took our 14-year-old son to registration for his freshman year of high school next year.  Afterwards it hit me like a ton of bricks!  My baby is going to be a freshman in high school!  Our older daughter will be a senior next year.  This makes me very sad.  My babies have grown so fast.  I wonder where all the time went?  It just flew by!  Realizing that half your life is over and you only have half left to live, is a very hard thing.  My husband is going to be 45 in July and I will be 43 in July, our birthdays are two weeks apart.

I don't feel deep down in my soul like I am a middle-aged woman!  I feel very young on the inside!  Sometimes I need to be reminded of my age!  I related to younger people very well.  On the outside I need a lot of improvement.  I gained a lot of weight after getting married and having babies.  I lost it all once, in about 2002, for a class reunion.  As soon as it was over, however, I went back to my old ways.  I really want to workout more to get back in shape.  My problem with that is that I work 3 part-time jobs, and work nights, weekends, days, whenever.  In some ways, I know I use this as an excuse.  Hopefully starting tomorrow I can get back into it.  Get with it!

I also need to really figure out where I am going with my career/job.  I don't want to continue to work 3 jobs.  I am seriously considering going back to school very soon.  I'm not really sure for what though.  I am afraid that I will go back and get a degree in something else and still not be able to find a good job.  I currently have two BAs, journalism and English. I'm thinking of going back for teaching English.  I think I would enjoy this. I'm thinking this would take at least two years.  I feel like I'm running out of time.  My daughter will be starting college in a year, and I may be in college at the same time!

When we are young we romanticize about what our life will be when we are older.  Nowhere in there did I work 3 jobs!  TV and magazines really give a false interpretation of what life really is like.  I am a small town Iowa girl who grew up on a farm.  Sometimes I think location, location, location!  What would my life be like if I grew up in a major city like New York?  Then maybe I would work for a magazine or a publishing company.  In Iowa, I could have worked for a small town newspaper where I wouldn't get paid very much.  We lived in Denver for about 3 years.  The closest I got to a writing career was working as a secretary in an advertising department for a business newspaper, The Denver Business Journal.  After our daughter was born we decided the city was not for us and we moved back to Iowa.  I suppose really that I never tried to find a writing job in Iowa.  I sort of just fell into being a secretary, having an English degree.  I was a secretary for about 18 years.  The last two years I have worked part-time in customer service at a grocery store, part-time at GNC as a sales associate, and part-time as a merchandiser for Nabisco cookies and crackers.

Something does need to be said for living in Iowa.  I believe our ethics and beliefs are also stronger.  We were raised well.  We are glad to be raising our children in small town Iowa. I'm sure they will spread their wings and explore the city at some point in their lives.  But I am also sure they will return to Iowa.

The future is the future and what will be will be. :)

Peace & Love

Friday, January 28, 2011

Hitting the Jackpot

One day I dream of having a stress-free life!
Oh, man, would that be nice!

Hell yes, I'd love to live like a queen!
That is my ultimate dream!

I know that it is the little things in life that are most important.
Having a little extra money would make enjoying them more potent!

To travel the world as a family,
Would be living the dream like Disney!

Being able to give your kids all their desires,
Nothing could make me higher.

Oh, and I would give some to charity.
I am more than willing to spread the winning spree!

I would love having resources to help others,
Such as all the unwed mothers.

A little to the church I'd give too,
Giving to God is what I'd do!

Let me win the lottery!
That would mean everything to me!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Show Me the Way

Lost in the dark,
myself I find falling a part.

Where is the light to point my direction?
Has it been extinguished without my recollection?

How does your inner spirit, your sense of self, disappear?
What does it take to see it all clear?

A free mind, a free heart,
That would be the way to start.

How do you release the demons in your soul?
Please tell me where I need to go?

It's like being lost in a foreign land.
I need someone to take my hand.

Walk with me,
Help me find the light,
Then everything will be alright.

It will be then that it all makes sense.
I'll know how my life must be spent.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Weight Loss Update

I got on the scale this morning and got a huge surprise!  I have lost 5 lbs.  I'm hoping when I get on tomorrow that it doesn't go up again, but it probably will.  My goal is to exercise more next week.  Starting tomorrow I plan to hit the gym!  I can do this! 

I did eat kind of bad today.  I had a poached egg sandwich for breakfast, but didn't eat it all.  For lunch I chowed down on a sub with two packs of mayo.  For supper Jeff and I went to a Mexican restaurant.  I only ate half my food and had one Corona.  Tonight I've had a diet dessert that I made from sugar-free ingredients and three half glasses of wine.  The good thing is that I'm hardly hungry ever.

Friday, January 14, 2011

How the Diet/Healthy Lifestyle is Going

Well, I have been keeping up with the eating part, but I haven't been back in the gym yet.  I'm still down 3 lbs.  I have been eating very little during the day, and then eating a bigger meal at suppertime.  I have cut down to no pop at all. However, I have been drinking energy drinks lately - AMP and Rockstar.  These are both good and bad.  Good because of all of the vitamins and herbs in them, bad because they have lots of calories.  Actually, the Rockstar I have been drinking is sugar free, just remembered!  Yeah!


I've still been doing the Hydroxy-Cut and CLA.  I've been taking Abdominal Cuts, which is CLA and GLA and some other things, like sesame seed oil.  A lot of celebrities use this, such as Kendra Wilkinson and Trista from the Bachelorette.  A friend let me borrow some from her.  They are somewhat expensive, on sale right now for $44.99, and usually I think $48.99.


The only exercising I've been doing faithfully are resistance band exercises for my tendonitis in my shoulders and tricep.  I have to do them every other day or I have pain.  I also have to do stretches for my shoulders twice a day.  I wish I could walk on the treadmill at least every other day too!  I guess I need to make time to do this, no matter how tired I am.  It has been freezing outside and I haven't felt like going out once I get home.


I have been drinking lots of water also.  My husband bought some water and I was drinking it until I started having some digestive issues with it.  Now I get water out of our fridge at home and put it in the water bottles.


With cutting down what I'm eating, I found that I have to be careful because on day I didn't eat enough and by night time at work I thought I was going to faint.  Not good.  It's hard to eat when you're not hungry though.




Thursday, January 6, 2011

New Year's Resolution



On Tuesday, January 4th, I started my New Year's resolution.  I have started eating lots of fruit and drinking loads of water.  I actually lost 3 lbs in the first day.  It really works if you eat small amounts every two hours it increases your metabolism.  I actually did this once before and lost 35 lbs.  I also am taking some supplements - Hydroxy Cut and CLA from GNC.  I went back to the gym for the first time one Wednesday night after work.  I walked 2 miles on the treadmill.  I will keep it up.  I have about 45 to 50 lbs to lose.

I thought I would really miss drinking Mountain Dew, but I really don't.  I have drank some diet pop, but I really have cut down to about 2 cans a day.

I will try to update my blog to let you know how it's going and to let you know I'm still doing it!  I'm hoping to be bikini-ready this year. :)  The last time I was in shape was two years ago.