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Happy Easter......a celebration of Christ rising from the dead and proving his diety. It's a feat that can't be topped by any human but we all can rise from dead things like relationships, jobs, unnecessary stresses, weight and so on. Although it's already April, if you've fallen off the wagon of your new year resolution, this is a great time to start again. The only thing stopping you is you.

 My biggest challenge was releasing weight of an extra 25 pounds that I gained in the course of being married for 8 almost 9 years. I use the term releasing weight instead of losing weight because when you release something you let it go for good as oppose to losing something that can be found.  Now that may not seem like a lot of weight to some people but for a 5'5 woman, 160 pounds on me is not cute. I started out at a size 6 and then went to an 8 and started pushing the envelope on a size 10. What was my biggest weakness? POTATO CHIPS!!! Salt & Vinegar chips to be exact. I would eat them with breakfast, lunch, dinner and as a late night snack. I ate lots of fried foods, lots of chips, lots of junk and get this.......I'M A PESCATARIAN. I think I had enough when my son took this horrible picture of me at the mall stuffing my face.

Now this one isn't as bad as the other one that I refuse to publish but this one is pretty bad. Anyway, I decided to start by eating salads and adding more fruits to my diet.

This helped a litte with my energy level but I still needed to do more to get the results I wanted. Now, because I had decided make this change in my life and understanding the Law of Attraction, I started to think on what I wanted to do as far as getting healthy overall. So one day at lunch I was surfing the net and came upon this website called "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. I browsed the site and saw that there was a video on YouTube. I went home that night with the video on my mind and once things settled down I was able to watch the 2 hr video uninterrupted. I have to say it absolutely changed my life!!! I followed the juicing regime that was offered on the video for 10 days which turned into 25 days which turned into 45 days. This new lifestyle brought me so much more than weight loss. It brought clarity, energy, vitality, along with prayer and meditation. I had enough energy at the end of the day to do my quiet time, read, pray for longer than 5 minutes and meditate. I usually start my day with a breakfast like this:

Leafy green lettuce, golden apple, carrots, cucumbers, tomato & radish. Each of these vegetables have exactly what a body would need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I make sure to juice enough for breakfast and lunch. I have a glass of this juice for breakfast along with a piece of fresh fruit and for lunch I have the remainder of the juice with some nuts.

 For my mid-morning and afternoon snack I have a protein shake:

Gluten free protein mix, papaya, flax seed, kiwi, local honey, bananas and hemp milk. When I get hungry again around 10 am or so, I drink my protein drink. This shake gives me the energy that I need and keeps me full for the most part of the day. I drink this again around the end of my work day when I'm feelling a little hungry.  This shake is absolutely delicious and very filling.

I do make several varities of both of these drinks to not grow bored of the same thing but they are all extremly nutritional and include nothing but fresh fruits and veggies. This has been so much more than a diet for me, more like a lifestyle change. I used to juice several years ago and I was following "The Hallelujah Diet" so I decided to look it up again since I am doing a lifestyle change. This diet consists of 85% raw and 15% cooked. You can order the book and get all of the receipes and encouragement you'll need to make the change. Once you do it you'll see and definitely feel instant results.

Ok, so I said all this to say change begins with you. If you want to make a change in your life, believe in yourself that you can do it. I know the hardest part of getting started is that first step. Martin Luther King said "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase" so don't allow excuses to keep you from getting to your dreams. No matter what the challenge, you can be an overcomer because of who you are. You are a cocreater with God and you have been equipped with everything you could ever need to get to where you want to go. So get in tune with the god within and get going to where you want to go. The only thing standing in your way is YOU.

Kisses,

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