The Last Year Losing Weight Will Be My New Years Resolution!!

Let me begin by saying this will be the last year losing weight will be my New Years resolution!  I'm excited to say this because last November I found a product that changed my life called Skinny Fiber.  I'll be the first to admit this product works AMAZINGLY!! Granted I did not take it consistently I still kept the weight I lost off.  This year I commit myself to taking the product regularly every day along with my water for a full year.  No excuses this year!!  If your interested in joining me on a 90-day challenge stop on over to my support group on Facebook www.facebook.com/groups/myliferenovations or if your looking to order Skinny Fiber for yourself you can do so here: www.myliferenovations.sbcspecial.com

Feel free to comment below and ask any questions!

ADHD Diets?

Everywhere I look I read about ADHD diets and their benefits.  So, let's take a closer look at this by researching.  My first stop was here: http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/adhd-diets

This caught my eye from WebMd "Ideally, an ADHD diet would help the brain work better and lessen symptoms of the disorder, such as restlessness or lack of focus".

These are the suggestions made: 

• Eat a high-protein diet, including beans, cheese, eggs, meat, and nuts. Add protein foods in the morning and for after-school snacks, to improve concentration and possibly increase the time ADHD medications work.
• Eat fewer simple carbohydrates, such as candy, corn syrup, honey, sugar, products made from white flour, white rice, and potatoes without the skins.
• Eat more complex carbohydrates, such as vegetables and some fruits (including oranges, tangerines, pears, grapefruit, apples, and kiwi). Eating complex carbs at night may aid sleep.
• Eat more omega-3 fatty acids, such as those found in tuna, salmon, other cold-water white fish, walnuts, Brazil nuts, and olive and canola oil. Omega-3 fatty acids are also available in supplement form.

Remove the following:

• Artificial colors, especially red and yellow
• Food additives such as aspartame, MSG (monosodium glutamate), and nitrites; some studies have linked hyperactivity to the intake of the preservative sodium benzoate.
• Sugar
• Caffeine

Starting Monday I'm going to test this theory with Collin.  He's been very well behaved lately but I still would love for home time to be improved especially the bedtime routine.

Melatonin helps greatly as he has difficulty shutting down at night so we start very early at 7pm he gets ready for bed.  Every other night is a bath night, afterwards he takes the melatonin by 8pm he is asleep.  However, if everything isn't perfect for him from his pillow to blankets he will complain and delay bedtime.  So we are really working on this area.

Stay tuned for the diet changes and updates on how it helps ADHD.

Make Your New Year's Resolution Happen!

Are you that person who makes the same New Year's Resolution year after year only to not stick with it?  Sticking with our New Year's Resolution aka goal is based on our willpower and how much you want to achieve your goal.  Did you know we can help ourselves accomplish any goal.  Below are 5 easy steps to help you achieve your New Year's Resolution!

1.  The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.  All to often we set goals that are unrealistic setting ourselves up for immediate failure.  Let's face it, if you set your goal at losing 50 lbs in one month your setting yourself up to failure.  However, if you set yourself up to lose a REASONABLE amount of weight in a month, you have more of a chance at reaching your long term goal!  Each step along your thousand miles will be more enjoyable as you celebrate each milestone.
2.  Choose a New Years Resolution that you really want.  Choosing something you want sets you up for success.  If it's something your not interested in you will eventually cave and fail.  Say for example you give up soda because you drink to many; chance are you will look for alternative methods of caffeine.  Before you realize your in front of the soda machine because you enjoy soda and "one won't hurt" attitude takes over.  Commit yourself to what you really want!
3. Mistakes happen.  We all make mistakes when achieving our goals.  Don't make one bad day erase all your good days. If you give up entirely because of one bad day than your making a bigger mistake by not reaching your goals.  Don't beat yourself up over one bad day of eating that chocolate, rather look back on all your good days and get back on the wagon of success!
4. Find Your Why - If your struggling with your New Year's Resolution find your why.  Why did you pick this resolution/goal?  Focus on the why.  Do you want to be healthier? Have more confidence? Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Again, focus on your why
5. Mission Accomplished. Think of how it will feel to say mission accomplished!  How great it will feel when you complete your New Year's Resolution/goal that you have sacrificed and worked hard for!  The excitement of fitting into that new outfit!  The adrenaline of "I did it" only to want more of it!  Go get it! 

As you embark on this journey to a better you, stop and reward yourself along the way for each hurdle to the new YOU!

What is your New Year's Resolution?  Willing to share?  Leave a comment below!

Crazy Beautiful Life

It's been a crazy beautiful life lately so busy I can't keep up. However attitudes at home have improved greatly! Collin is doing better at school from all U's to only 1 so we are making great strides. Building his confidence has been difficult but the more positive I am with myself oddly makes a difference.