Progress: Day Two!

I did cheat yesterday but still feel a difference. I will beat this insanity of disease!!! RALLY CRY!

My goal for today: NO PROCCESSED FOODS

On another note, Happy Birthday to my Baby Brother, Hank. I love you! Happy 27th Birthday!

Progress: Day One

If you know me personally, you know that I am not a person to go overboard on special diets or stick to one very well. Hence me being overweight with health problems and fatigue! Not a good health plan. I recently had a test done to assess heart health. Not surprisingly, I came up with a C, and basically a D, with the best being A and the worst being G. I could say it is just the lack of blood in my body from a nasty flare of ulcerative colitis, but I won't. There is no excuse at 30 years old for me to have the heart of a 46-year-old!!!!

Your encouragement is needed! Leave a comment.

Soooooo, the diet! I have committed myself to 2 weeks of intensive cleanse and rebuild. Here's the nitty gritty:

Upon waking: 1 serving cardio4life. This heals blood vessels and gives elasticity to blood vessels and organs. No food 1 hour either side of cardio drink.

Twice during day: 1 serving "green drink" with berries. This is a "whole food" product made especially for truck drivers to get there veggie and fruit servings while on the road. No food 1 hour either side.

Twice during day: Zoe Life powdered drink mix. This is a fruit and veggie drink mix that tastes really good. Awesome mixed into plain yogurt! Since it is made of fruits, not to be eaten with veggies or meat.

As little as possible of animal products and grain products.

As much raw fruits and veggies as I can eat. As little as possible of cooked food.

As much good water as I can stand. We recently filled up 8 one-gallon jugs with mineral spring water.

Not eating after 6 p.m. No drinks after 9.p.m. except cardio4life at bedtime. This excludes water which I can have any time of the day in any amount.

Day One: 5/19/2011

Breakfast: cardio4life then a piece of toast with thin layer butter, grape jelly and natural cinnamon peanut butter.

11:15: feeling hungry. Since we have our big meal at 1 p.m. I am going to take the green drink now.

Not healthy! I will be taking a picture every day to see if this works.

Another attempt at the failed dieting world.

I admit, the heading does sound weight-loss related. I am not in it for the weight loss. I am in it for the health benefits, like not bleeding to death. That's just one reason...



I have resigned myself to the "No, I can't eat that either" diet. A friend of mine introduced it to me, and it is quite accurate on the list of allowed foods.



Allowed: Anything I am NOT allergic or sensitive to.

Not allowed: Everything else.

I ate GF brownies with garbanzo bean flour, potato starch, corn starch, whole grain sorghum flour, tapioca flour, evap cane juice, fava bean flour, xantham gum, potato flour, sea salt, guar gum, soy lecithin, sugar, salt, baking soda, cocoa, coconut oil, wine, water. Hmmm... too many ingredients. Forget trying to figure out what went wrong!

So I guess this is the start of the elimination game. I will start out with very simple foods and move up from there. Here starts my food blog.

A new update

I have been quite remiss in my efforts to keep up here. Boy is it sooo easy to just leave this alone and forget about it as an unimportant thing. Alas, I have heard from others how they want to see it... so... here I am again.

January 27, 2011!!!!!! Already.
One year ago today little Tavia made an entrance into our family via a cold and stormy night. I remember that well as I was shivering cold in the water during labor.

What does one year look like? Well, we have moved several times. We were in a big apartment in Traflagar, Dominica when Tavia was born. Then we moved to a smaller apartment for the last 6 weeks of our time in Dominica. Friends from Alaska visited us. We then moved to my mom's house in Alaska and stayed for 4 months??? Visited all over there. We then journeyed to Washington for about a week for Grandma and Grandpa's renewal of vows. We had a lot of visiting while we were there. On to Colorado to see Grandpa Carlile and John, Jack too. I broke my foot there stepping on pavement -- yeah, I know, graceful! Went on to Iowa. Poor Henrys had to put up with us. Then here to Indiana. We have been here full time since October.

I will attempt to introduce pics tomorrow. For now, look at http://picasaweb.google.com/tscarlile for the newest pics.

Happy Birthday Taby Baby!!!!!!

What happened to us?

The past few months have been CRAZY!!!! We arrived here in April and promptly caught 34 sicknesses. I may be slightly exaggerating. It could have been only 32.

We have been here for 8 years it seems, living in my mother's extra bedroom. Well, it isn't even that. It is my stepdad's office which he cleaned out so all 8 bodies could sleep on bunkbeds and annoy him and make he want to stay away when we were in occupation.
So, all the blogs I was following have all erased themselves from my following blogs list!

The end of this week, we are travelling through Canada on the Alcan to Washington to see relatives and friends.
Oh dear blog I have ignored you in favor of Facebook and being lectured. It's about time I came back!

Anyone who I can't remember following, please send me a note so I can re-follow your blog.

Cheers,
Me

Moving on up! Moving on out!

Today marks less than a week until we leave. Bittersweet, but only barely. Mostly sweet. I have dealt with some telling us we are crazy, irresponsible, stupid, and just plain idiots for attending medical school 5,500 miles from home with 5 children. How can we be stupid when we are bettering ourselves, no stagnating here!! And for the record, we only had 1 vacation and that was before we came here. We lived for 2 years with no help except that which we already paid back! You'da thought we moved to someone's doorstep while continually begging...

So to celebrate Travis' passing MD4, we ate mint chocolate chip ice cream tonight. Here is a link to The Jeffersons Movin' on up.
- Movin’ on Up [Theme from The Jeffersons] lyrics
Love it! But we are going West...

Well we're movin on up,

To the east side.

To a deluxe apartment in the sky.

Movin on up,

To the east side.

We finally got a piece of the pie.

Fish don't fry in the kitchen;

Beans don't burn on the grill.

Took a whole lotta tryin',

Just to get up that hill.

Now we're up in the big leagues,

Gettin' our turn at bat.

As long as we live,

it's you and me baby,

There ain't nothin wrong with that.

Well we're movin on up,

To the east side.

To a deluxe apartment in the sky.

Movin on up,

To the east side.

We finally got a piece of the pie.

~Sasha :)

Late March

It has been so long since I updated here. 2 months really. Little Tavia is doing very well and growing strong. She smiles, laughs, rolls, and holds her head up. The children all love her and we have fights over who is holding her next.

In 2 weeks we are heading back to the great state of Alaska. I am busy sorting, packing, and using up all we can foodwise. It is exciting to be done with this part of Travis' schooling. He may be coming back down here for MD5, but the children and I are all planning on staying in Alaska. It feels good to type that!

That is all for now, but check back since I plan to start blogging again.

And go here to see the recent pics of all of us- including the baby.