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In the hands of God

I recall a drive through the apple chain mountains where it was spitting, trying to snow. The old 50 Dodge’s moaning echoed around us as we went. It was still daylight when there was a curve with a welcome center perched on it’s outer limits, but we weren’t planning to stop. Right then our car tires lost traction and we went into a spin…but it was all in slow motion (turns out for both of us) and we ended up in the grassy area of the welcome center. The driver steered the car back onto the road, still in a curve and asked, “Were you scared?” I replied, “No, but if it had happened here…” right then, as the railing disappeared and the vertical drop was most evident, the car went back into a spin ( also in slow motion. )
Obviously, things turned out ok. We decided that perhaps God wanted us to take a break and visit the welcome center.

I’ve lost 10 pounds!  Actually, I weighed 2 weeks before I began the Beyond Organic products.  There was a mix up with my order so I didn’t receive it until December 1st I think  (did I write when?)  And I just weighed today….  I’m in a cautioned excitement.  I know those who have dealt with weight issues fully understand.

One of the big things I did is give up wheat products.  Not wheat gluten, but wheat products.  (I still from time to time eat something, but rarely.)  This has added to my health, I’m sure.  It’s prevented some side effects I was having from wheat, some of which was from allergy, most of which is from the product itself.  (Today’s wheat is not nutritious like it used to be.  Somewhere along the line someone realized that the wheat they had genetically modified to feed the starving third world nations was cheaper to product and easier to get to market (it’s much shorter than regular wheat as well) and decided to give it to Americans.  It’s not healthy.  Anyway, I digress .

Anyway…. I’m actually enjoying the Havarti cheese and the raspberry smoothies.  I can’t taste anything else at all (my loss of senses) but I’ve given product away and asked people to tell me what they think and how it tastes.  The dark chocolate bar while being nutritious with omega 3s and probiotics etc., also has a roasted seed flavor…the flax seeds which to me “taste” like nuts in a chocolate bar.

So now I can begin to look and work with recipes…rather than just snippets of cubes of cheese for snacks, and one pot suppers with the organic ground beef (all of which I enjoy as comfort food anyway.)

IT is a GOOD time to begin a NEW way of eating… join me?   GodBless.MyBeyondOrganic.com

Life is. Eh?  yes indeed!

I have been eating healthier, and quite frankly I haven’t had nearly the allergic reactions I had been having (daily, especially after eating, and at night= food allergies.)

I have removed the pseuo guilt over eating foods that aren’t healthy for me.

I am still awaiting a definite weight loss for this effort.  (I have registered some weight loss, but you never know if it’s a fluke…or at least I never know.)

BE WELL!

Hi again.  

That new organic  ahem!  Beyond organic food company did finally kick off…  and I am in receipt of the first order of product.   All right!!!!I

I have not had any allergic reactions to anything !   I’ve tried the ground beef, and hot dogs, suero viv (which is like a smoothie…3 different flavors), pure water, and flavored water (all drinks with omega 3s, probiotics, nutrients) and two of their cheeses, havarti and raw cheddar. 
I’m always leery about losing “just” 5 pounds, which I have this first week of product… because often it’s “just” water weight or dumping the bloating from eating wheat breads etc.  But neither of those are true this week… no wheat whatsoever (and no bloating) and I’ve been pouring various waters into me…so it’s not from dehydration.
I’d like to see it be real, and another 3-5 lbs disappear this next week.

I dragged myself to a health seminar by Beyond Organic.  Dr Caroline leaf was there, so I had her sign my book I’d bought last year (well, her book.)  She is much more knowledgeable than what she shares on tv or seminar…and the truly scientific works can be found at her website.   Anyway, I say I dragged myself to the seminar because I had not had the product but a few hours and wasn’t feeling well anyway.   It was to be a 3 day excursion, but I knew in my weakened disabled state I couldn’t do that.   I skipped the Thursday night sessions and went up in time for lunch and 3 seminars on Friday.  Alas, I didn’t even do all that… but left early.  Counting driving time and being there, it was a doubly long day for me, twice what I get on a good day, and as I said, it already wasn’t a good day.   I had had hopes, and even took a bag for an overnight stay (and dog food and such for Caleb) just in case it was so good I couldn’t miss any more…and would book a hotel.   Nope.  We left early and drove home in the rain, nearly an hour and half (but before rush hour.)

I had priced special cheeses in the grocery store and was amazed to see them at $17 a pound and higher, so paying what I did for green fed/organic havarti or raw cheddar wasn’t so painful.   What else I discovered has even made me tickled with delight:  I don’t need to eat as much.   In years past I could sit with a pound package of cheddar and some crackers and devour it and still want something more.   With this is mind, I knew I had to ration and limit myself, so I cut up the cheese (no, didn’t cut the cheese) into what I thought were 1 oz cubes, to nosh upon like I”m supposed to (eat every two hours or so)…  WOW  it turns out I had cut cubes of about 1/4 oz and one was plenty for a snack!!!   Nutrition! YAY. 

I’m having the same results from the pure beef products.   I divided the pound of hamburger into 4ths, thinking a quarter pounder hamburger etc right?   Well, that’s what I had at the seminar, along with a slice or two of cheese and some of the Reign flavored water, and of course the organic dark chocolate bar, and I was FULL!  (No bun with the burger…I am staying away from all wheat!)   So what I’ve found at home is that by taking 1/4 pound of ground beef and a can of diced tomatoes and a can or equivalent of kidney beans, I have chili for two meals! :thud:  KEWL!   With a hot dog, I slice it up and put it with a can or cooked beans (from dry) and that makes 2 meals.   I’m telling ya… I’m not hungry after eating half !  

Amazing how good nutrition truly feeds the body what it needs and wants.    I’m a happy camper.

(check out the products at GodBless.MyBeyondOrganic.com    no purchase necessary.)

Having that glitch with my first domain name has not done anything good for my health.  I still have no idea how I was able to log in with my password for nearly 2 days when it denied it….and it ended up being someone elses.  Oh well.

I’ve renamed my page (it’s called a replica website, linked and managed technically by the main Beyond Organic site owners)  GodBless.mybeyondorganic.com     I’m almost afraid to tell anyone yet…I mean I had the other one 2 days…   so I’m trying to go slowly.

I went to my homeowner association’s annual pool get together today.  Gasp!  I ate 3 hot dogs on white bread buns.  GAG.  I am wheezing.  I know better. But I was hungry and it was free.  Besides, the organic food is on it’s way and isn’t here yet.   I need to make a shopping list of fruits and veggies I think, so I can have a few weeks of really healthy food…and give my body the kick start it needs.

Actually, I had thought about fasting for 3 days to clear the toxins from my system.  I am just not up to that.   I think if I did that though, I would feel better.  My sinus infection is keep in check by an herb called guarana.  I hope to overcome it soon… but if not I don’t know what to do.   The antibiotic the MD gives me does nothing. NOTHING.  And I’m allergic to the others (and this sounds like it’s going the same path….for generally they quit working before I actually have a bad reaction.)

So here I am… trying so very hard to know God’s will in this.   I an answer to prayer within my time limit, but it wasn’t what I had prayed FOR… I’m proceeding cautiously.  I can’t work this like a business… I can’t work, truly.  I put it into the name of my mom’s trust.. .hoping that IF it took off business wise (on internet intake only) then I would get her name on her gravestone and pay the lawyer (even though someone else owes him) etc.  But the main thing for me is to get these pure foods into my body and get well.   Slim, trim and healthy!   That’s what I want.

I know as anyone who has been where I am, that there are glitches.  I ran into a big one.  The new herbal company launched Monday night and at 10:36 I was on the site and logged in.  So happy!   They offered without charge your own website (a replica, is that the word?) under their big site.  I even got the first name of site I wanted:  “love.”  well don’t click on that because someone else got …or has it right now.   Some glitch in technology?  Oh no!  I signed in on that with that…to there… with it…all my stuff, my site…and then yesterday I couldn’t log in.  Now this morning I’m told someone else has that site name.

I’ve been under attacked for standing up for a man of God on another site where bashing people is allowed (and it’s a Christian site!)  I guess this is more of the same from the same negative entity.  I will try and stay strong and see what God wants for me in this situation–whether I will have my website name or not.  (I had sent it out in emails, posted it on classifieds and given it here.  I can’t recoup any contacts since everyone is anonymous.  Sigh.

I can get through this.  God help me.

It’s finally here: the launch of the new company Beyond Organic.  Thank you Jordan Rubin!  I’ve especially had a tough last month with regards to diet and health.  More and more foods have been reacting to me (my body) and I’ve had to eliminate them.  And then eating less and less because of the difficulty of shopping and changing foods, I gained even more weight!   These problems I expect to fix once the new products arrive.  No word yet, but I pre-ordered so they’ll be here before the average new customer’s.   The company did give the trust it’s own website (remnant) and you can view it at xxxxxxxxxxx if you are so inclined.  I hope to further personalize it in the near future.  The company had twice as many people sign up than they expected last month and while they planned for that with the launch, the site loads slowly, but works pretty good once loaded.  Whew.  As with anything new, I’m sure they are working out any glitches.

Last week I signed up to attend Beyond Organic’s first health conference being held “just up the road” on the East Coast of Florida.  It’s the first weekend in December so I have one month to see how well I do with the products.  I’m ashamed to admit it– though no shame is correct since I’ve been doing the best I can–my weight has shot up to 210 lbs.    I’m wondering where I’ll be in one month!

actual domain name is now  GodBless.Mybeyondorganic.com

edited out domain name… it was given to someone else after I had obtained it already.  Glitch they said.

Here I am  the last day of October and waiting eagerly for the launch of the new line of organic foods.  I’m really having a tough time these few weeks of anticipation.  More and more foods have reacted to me, and I’ve had to eliminate them from my diet.  That means I’m not eating well at all.  The foods I’m eating are healthy, but they aren’t satiating my needs when it comes to enjoying meals,
Maybe with the lack of bad foods for me, and the intake of good foods I will regain my sense of taste?  Now that would be exciting too.  I won’t wait with bated breath on that one.

Anyway,  I gained another 5 lbs due to the allergic reactions, and the subsequent eating of less food.  How ironic.  But tomorrow begins a new chapter in my life.  I know the organic food I’ve ordered probably won’t arrive tomorrow, but it will be shipped to me by then.  I’m doing everything I can to make this one last huge push to get healthy, slim and trim.    I hope you find ways for yourself in those respects as well.

I’m diving right in. I was taught, some what erroneously, that anything worth doing is worth doing right.   I also learned along the way (or maybe it was in psych at University) that to reap the full results of an activity, participate fully.  And, from  God’s own Word I am instructed to go forth with full faith and expectation.  More recently I learned from one of Dr Seliger’s Positive Psychology experiments (in which I participated–battling depression) that you can reap better benefits of a good action by going one step further.  Hmmm  that’s Biblical too, come to think of it.

So I have.  Or, rather, I am.  I am doing that, in the process at least.  I know to “Get Some Place” one needs to set that “place” as a goal.  Then, if you can break the steps down (or at the very least define them) you create a process by which you can reach that goal, through those objectives.  Laymen’s terms means:  write down some things to do that will help you reach your overall goal. LOL  So I have, or rather, as I said I am in that process.

Here are some of the things so far:  I wrote down what I want from this endeavor.  Not only the main goal which is an active healthy body and lifestyle within a year, but some lesser objectives such as I want to be able to taste the food I eat, and smell the scents around me.  (You see, in that accident I lost those senses.)  I also hope to remove the symptoms of the Menierre’s which affects my hearing, sense of balance etc…but that’s a lower subobjective.) I plan to lose the extra weight.  (I’m not sure that picturing the extra weight as 5 lb sacks of flour is healthy, but I’m a visual person and it sure makes an impression on me that way!)  I want to be successful enough to not only afford this healthy eating and lifestyle, but through it be able to provide for my mother’s trust (I think I mentioned this before?  I’ll check. If not, next time.).  And somehow use what I learn to help others also find a healthy way of life–eating and activities etc.    I don’t think those are too noble, do you?  

I continue to read and learn at the site (beyondorganic.com) and am surprised to see that if I can stick to this adventure I will have the opportunity to take a Health Coach course for certification!  I like being rewarded for learning (but I enjoy learning for it’s own reward. )   To think that I could try and do this 40 hour course… now that interests me.  To think of all the knowledge I still don’t have in this area….one of those times I just don’t know what it is I don’t know–yet.  Not that I am a newbie to herbs and organic and healthy eating, no, not at all.  But to think that I can learn about the latest advances all in one place, yeah that sounds good.