Energy is Good

It has been great to get my energy back. I have started Fly Lady again and so far so good. The kitchen hasn't looked so good in a long time. I know Jeff appreciates it. Also, I have been successful in replacing all the soap, bath, face products with good toxic free items. I am working on getting new make-up but that will be a process due to funds. All things in baby steps.

I am feeling really great about this natural path that I am starting and it is really inspiring to make me learn more, always a good thing.

So often I wish that my Grandmother and Grandfather were still around so I could ask them so many questions. They lived so natural and smart and it just got lost on my mother. Many times I feel them guiding me in the right direction though and that brings me great peace. Sometimes when I come across something new, or read something familiar I thankful for the guidance in the right direction.

On another note I have decided that once this baby is born I am going to go to Weight Watchers and get on a program that will help me. I can't do it alone and I need help and I know that WW is a healthy good program. I am forgetting many of the things I learned in my nutrition class because that was 5 years ago and seems like a lifetime ago because of all the things that have happened in that time. I still have a good general knowledge, but I don't feel confident to say things to others anymore. I can't wait to get back to school!!!!!

New Goals

Well, I am pregnant and as of now I am just over 11 weeks along. I have been terribly ill and have not been able to workout, walk, or anything and I am really feeling it now. I am starting to have some good days and I hope to be back in the gym and walking very soon.

SO, since my body is out of my control for the next few months, I'm due at the end of February, I am going to blog about some of my other goals I am working on.

I have always wanted a more natural/holistic environment and I am now working towards that. I have started to do major recycling at our house and I have thrown out all of my toxic beauty products. It is amazing the crap they shove into a product just to make it cheap. The beauty industry is NOT regulated, so they can put toxins, carcinogens, preservatives, and just plain crap in our beauty products and nobody can say anything to them. The ONLY power we have is to not buy the product.

One wonderful website I found is www.mountianroseherbs.com they have items I need to make some of my own products for such a great price. Plus, there is this really cool store in downtown Cincinnati called the African Store. They have pure Shea butter for cheap and also some other great natural products and it is all affordable. I may be the only white girl that shops there (well probably not) but I love it. The owners are from South Africa and they have such beautiful skin.

The most expensive part of all this is finding and buying good makeup. I am a reformed makeup junkie. I would try any product and tell you all about it, but now that I know what they a really made up of my skin crawls at the thought of putting that crap on my body.

Did you know that your body absorbs 70% of what you put on your skin, no wonder most people die of cancer and other abnormalities.

Also, going green with my beauty products help the environment because when I wash my body I am not sending a bunch of toxins down the drain. A while back I switched to green laundry, dish, and hand soap. I buy that stuff at Trader Joe's, but a few weeks back I couldn't get to Trader Joe's because I was sick so I just ran to our grocery store and bought some arm and hammer soap and it is chuck full of chemicals and I could tell after being away from it for so long. All of us would itch in our clothes when we wore something that was washed in the chemical filled detergent.

We are doing ourselves and the world an injustice by using all the toxins we do. I'm just trying to do my part and self educate as much as possible.