What's for Dinner? Turkey

Turkey is an amazing protein with tons of benefits! Low fat compared with some proteins! Eating lower fat has many known benefits!

Turkey contains a mineral called Selenium! Why is this good or important? Well there is some research out there that Selenium can help protect your body from free radicals and cancer!

Turkey also contains B vitamins that are vital for everything from metabolism to how you feel emotionally!

Then of course if you are having trouble sleeping you can always count on the Tryptophan in Turkey to help you out there! :)

Asher and I are cooking turkey today for when Chris gets home from work! I love helping Asher learn about healthy eating and cooking :)

Finally after 2.5 years after my little one was born I am on the right track to getting back into healthy shape!

I tried everything I had done before... including staying away from allergy foods, using various methods to detox, having green juice, eating healthy and working out.   Nothing would budge!

In fact I found myself staying the same or gaining each month.  So what was the problem?  I really feel that the toxic build up in my body was causing this.  It is amazing how much environmental factors can effect your life.

When our new home was built we didn't have as much influence in what was being put in to it as we would have liked to have had but we were in a rush to get in the home before Asher was born.  I think that there were a lot of materials that had some serious toxic effects on my system.

My body wasn't happy and was showing me that.

I went on a cruise in March and did some detoxifying treatments.  I felt better and wanted to continue when I got home so I bought some of the vitamins and some of the liquid that was put on my body.  This didn't seem to do as much at home... which bummed me out a bit.

Much prayer and much seeking of God came next.  I still couldn't figure out what was going on.  I know that it was just timing now that needed to happen.

In one of the business pages I was on they have a trade day where we can trade our products for others.  One person contacted me for a trade and had a wrap to trade.  I was intrigued.  I figured I could use a wrap that would help my body get past to toxins in my body.  When I got it I was a bit bummed because it didn't work.

Then another week another person wanted to trade me a wrap.  I told her that one didn't work and asked if she was willing to trade 2.  Long story short the next wraps worked well and I began to feel better, look better and began to thank God for showing me an answer to what was going on!

Not only that I became a distributor for this company because my results were so good.  Such a blessing from God!

If you want to check out what I am doing check my facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/iwraphappy

Day 4 on to Juicing!

Day three of Spicy Detox Lemonade went well! I was feeling better... less tired and it almost seemed as if mommy brain was gone too! If it can clear up mommy brain then it must be doing something good with the hormones in my body!

Today was the first day of juicing! I am using my VitaMixer so I am using whole fruits and veggies which is great for cleaning out the body and replenishing the nutrients that the toxic build up has stolen from the body!

I made 4 cups of juice today and 3 spicy detox lemonades that were hot.

The first juice was:

2 large handfulls of organic baby spinach

1/8 cup organic grapefruit juice

1/8 cup organic acai juice

1 large organic carrot

1/4 cup organic parsley

1/4 cup filtered water

This juice actually tasted really good. I was a very nice mix of greens and fruit! It was green in color which can put some people off but it was a much better color then then lunch juice! I will definitely use this recipe again.

The second juice was

2 large handfulls of organic baby spinach

1/4 cup Frozen berries

1/8 cup Organic Tart Cherry Juice

1/4 cup water

This juice looked much worse then the first but actually tasted pretty good too. It is one that I would make again some time... maybe not as much as the first one. The parsley really helped the baby spinach to blend in better in the first recipe.

The third juice I actually made for my husband and myself so I am not writing the amounts....In fact not sure I should even write what I put in it. It was healthy but tasted awful...I will not be making it again. Ok so it had tomato, broccoli, cabbage, carrot which would not have tasted so bad expect for the spices added cayenne pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and oregano. The oregano really over powered the juice and made it very yucky! Although my husband liked it a little because he drank 1.5 cups of it. I did make this warm by heating it in my VitaMixer.

After that I figured I needed a palate cleanser to help me feel happier tonight about my juicing.

Juice Number 4! Fruit Fresh!

1/8 cup organic grapefruit juice

1/8 cup organic acai juice

2 tblsp Organic Lemon juice

1/2 cup Frozen Berries

Liquid Stevia to taste

1/4 cup filtered water

This made almost the consistency of sorbet and was really very nice! The bitter flavors mixed with the sweet ones were great! It would make a great dessert for anyone!

I am following it up with a cup of hot lemon water because it is cold out!

I don't know how long I am going to be doing the no-protien cleanse though. It is very difficult for this carnivore. My body actually works best on protein. I am going to finish out this week juicing and see how my body feels!

I did weigh and measure at the beginning to the first phase of my detox... and here are the results:

Weight loss: 8.6 lbs

Inches lost: 7 inches!

Ok this was only 3 days! Whoooohoooo! But what is better then that is the energy level that is way up! Hopefully the juice days will keep this going!