Feel Great! Lose Weight! Eat Right!

      

My husband and I started our online business to help others try to do what’s best for them and their families. I would like to give you a little of how it all started.

We have a very open home. Families we don’t know, that have come in contact with our church ministry, often come and stay with us. In 2004, one such family came to visit with us who at the time had 9 children. We were just starting our family our second daughter was only 1 month at the time of the visit. The family was really nice but really needy as well. They did not have much money and others from the church helped out by purchasing some groceries to help them and us. They stayed with our family for just over a week and in that time went through almost everything in the house and explained the damage it was doing to our health. At the time we laughed and wrote them off as being strange and picky. Curiosity shortly ignited, and we did slowly begin at that time to examine contents of foods and other details surrounding what we regularly eat.

The first change was our sugar intake. We took refined sugars and changed to artificial sweeteners. Later we learned of the dangers of this alternative, and switched to raw sugar and Stevia. The benefit of Raw sugar is it takes longer for your body to process; therefore your body is burning calories rather than just collecting them. It also has lots of natural mi9nerals like molasses, iron, calcium, etc. It is still good to be moderate in the amount you take in any sugar. On the other hand, stevia has no known negative effects, and benefits your health with Vitamin C, calcium, beta-carotene, chromium, fiber, iron, magnesium, niacin, potassium, protein, and silicon. This is natural and can be beneficial to your health. I haven’t cooked with it much, but I have some recipes I am interested in trying.

After the sugar we changed our grains. We switched from white flour to whole wheat and Rye. We switched from store bought cereals to homemade granola, rolled oats and steel cut oats. We use brown rice instead of white rice. The benefits largely outweigh that of the white. I try to bake all of our bread but when I don’t have time we make sure to pick up bread that does not contain High fructose corn syrup. Note for consumer, even if it says all natural it still could contain high fructose corn syrup. Be sure to read the ingredient label.

Some of the other changes include unrefined, unbleached, naturally iodized salt, local low-processed honey, lard rather than vegetable oil or shortening, and so on. We now use only farm fresh free roaming eggs rather than eggs from caged, grain fed, chickens. We bought our own dairy goats for fresh milk and we also supplement with Fresh cows milk

We all like coffee. We also know 1 to 2 cups is okay and may reduce the risks of Alzheimer’s disease, Colon cancer, Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, diabetes, and cirrhosis of the liver. When adding creamers to your coffee, watch out for those hidden partially hydrogenated oils that have been linked to some cancers.

We are still working out other kinks in our diet. One day we hope to attain a pure diet, if there is such a thing. I said all of this to say, when I first started removing vasts amounts of sugar from my diet, I started losing weight. I didn’t even follow through with everything else, the whole-wheat flour, brown rice, rolled oats, etc. I have had 4 children in 7 years and I do have a few extra pounds, but I don’t feel unhealthy. I am not overweight just not where I once used to be. I don’t know if I will ever get back there but at least I feel as though I am making the right choice for our children and us. I hope this makes sense to someone out there in cyber space, and please take the time to share your thoughts and experiences with us!