An apple a day.....er.....fermented?

Day two in the juice fast and I am still going strong...on the couch.....

ha...if only.....I have walked five miles this morning, taken the kids swimming and done several flights of the stairs to do laundry....


but whatta you care......do you care?  A little.....

you are reading...right?

Well lets proceed then....since part of the juice fast is taking olive oil three times a day in the place of your meals...swallowing oil straight can be somewhat of a challenge and remind me of taking castor oil when I was way too preggo......so.........

I added a few drops of cider vinegar since I love that on green salad....it worked like a charm.

But I also found while surfing the web...that cider vinegar is just one awesome product.  So I will share a few things that I saw and learned here and here.

Now I had heard this things here and there, apple cider vinegar kept my heartburn at a low simmer when I was pregnant with the mctwins....and hello.....even better....they say that it is a tool for good digestion and weight loss.

And afterall, it must be true...Macks' grandpa had a saying....

"soak it in cider".......except my husband draws it out...so I pretend that this is really what he meant....

AND....the ole hubby will be happy to hear, that if you soak beans with a 1/4 cup cider vinegar, it will take the, um...how do we say this politely.....the....sssshhhhhh....flatulence......that was a hard word to say!!! And not because he gets a gassy tummy.....either.


Salute!

Muffin Tops and other Weighty Matters.......No More

Hello....

Is this on?

Anyone out there?

1 2 3...testing

aahheeccchhhmmmm.............{stepping on soap box}

After working at this weight issue for the last year (um..totally kidding...it has been more like 16 years).....I am almost tempted to go jump on the HCG bandwagon...

jk......Did I get your attention?

Now all you peeps out there that look absolutely fantastic on HCG and love it....I say hats off to you!  You look great, and I am totally jealous....

but, I can't do it, I worry about the damage that it may be doing to your heart...and the extremely low calories...

and lets not forget to mention....if HCG really works...and HCG alone...then I and every other pregnant woman would have lost all out baby weight and more...cuz HCG is after all the pregnant hormone.....and it has cursed through my veins for many a year now.

And still......the muffin top remains at large...literally!

The fact is that I believe that you are putting your body into starvation mode and tricking it into burning your reserves...which may be wonderfully good and all...unless it is damaging your heart.....

and lets not go into the people that take it and are still eating garbage food because they think that HCG is the magic pill.....seriously..I really wish there was one....

The good things about HCG is that I have seen it help people take off the weight and in places that most of us only dream of getting rid of!  And these peeps really work hard to retrain their body and cravings to eat the proper foods and all.....and that's why I wish I could jump on.....for a minute......when I look in the mirror.

But what happens in twenty, thirty years form now.....who knows...and I hate that I worry that far down the line...and it will probably be no worse then if I keep the extra weight on me.....bad, bad, bad.

So with limiting myself on what I will and won't do....I have only myself to crack into shape.....and round isn't the shape I want!

I have been reading The Makers' Diet and it makes a whole lotta sense to me...natural foods and cutting out the junky processed foods along with some of the foods that we think are healthy but have been denuded of any nutritional value.

So having cut down portion sizes, quit soda and most processed foods and added much more fish to our diet...I have to step it up a notch....because lets face it...the weight just isn't coming off...

So to start it off...I am going to do a juice cleanse recommended by a friend who practices holistic medicine.  Three days...not to bad and then I will cut out all starches, beans, dairy, grains...pasta included and some of the more sugary fruits....for 40 days and then start slowly adding in them back in again.

however....I will not be cutting out butter or red meat....after all we need this good fat....and yes..I said good fat...to break down the proteins.

I could eat goat dairy products...but I can't get past the smell.....

and....drumroll......working on the emotional mess that I get to call my past....because after all....I am an emotional eater....mad, sad, happy....bored....content...I eat....

So you may or may not see some of what I write...I haven't decided yet.....but lets hope it helps.....nothing else has, and only I can decide to really get it going.....and it's time...

So here is g'bye to the muffin top foreva....and pulling on jeans that just button up....and shirts that don't make me look pregnant....

thanks for listening and silently cheering me on....

and not killing me...cuz I just smack talked HCG

love yer guts.....

oh wait..you ask what this all has to do with goin back to the farm?

Well let me tell you...

I could have fresh veggies that taste of warm sunshine...aka tomatoes, and squash and crisp cucumbers, beans that truly snap and pea pods that don't even get into the house...because we eat them right away...

and farm fresh eggs from chickens that I know what they ate last night...and when I eat them.. (the chickens) I know they arent all full of growth hormones and fake soy meal.  I need the cow, so that I know her milk is coming from tall green grass that isnt puss filled and she isn't hopped up on antibiotics and growth hormones...that make our girls develop too soon.....oh wait...and I just made myself sick....

I am already on my soap box....I might fall off if I don't stop....

g'night...just say a prayer for me and my farm.

love yer guts forevah,,,again


signed me, tired of the mommy muffin

Lot's Wife

Do ya all remember Lot's wife? Of the Bible?


She turned to salt...

Mr. McD...calls me this on occasion....especially when we are

here......this is HOME....not home away from home...

I live at the home away from home...and have to come here...to be home.


Do you see where I am going with this?


Yeppers...I miss this place like...well like a long lost love....

this is where 3 of my 7 babies were born...and it was the first place the other 4 visited, when they were weeks old...

This is home...afterall.....we own burial plots here...and it is God's country.


Don't get me wrong.....I do love it here.....

But this is where my heart still is.....because we do this...

...and the kids can loose themselves in this....searching for bugs, or lizards.....we may have brought home one or two...

..and this handsome fella can feel at home in his boots....

We enjoy this......unless we land on it.....

and the beauty that comes from something so painful...always amazes me.

...and these two...well...they were corralled for a minute or two.

And there is this place.....when you visit you must eat here..I insist...and you must have their coca-cola...it is the best.....I promise.

And cousins were there...and well I was too busy cookin and stuffin my face with dutch oven potatoes and pulled pork, and talkin with family that I didn't have time to take pictures....but they are there, through thick and thin and inbetween...they are always there.  Sometimes like dried mud between your toes....but still they are always there...

and....two shared such wonderful news......I LOVE that kind of news!

Soooo....do you now understand why my beloved calls me Lot's wife?

Yes, I thought you would.....

One day, one day.....

and for those still shaking their head......wondering why....

let me explain....s l o w l y......

I am still looking back.....looking back at where we arent living...where is seems we aren't meant to live....but where I still want to live...and let my mckiddos grow up where their dad grew up...and where his dad grew up...and his dad's dad...and great granddad grew up....where their cousins are...and wide open spaces...and horny toads....

oh, you get the picture, yes, I thought you would...

So....if you hear mackdaddy ask for a lickin or two....he's not askin for a beatin'....he's just makin sure....his wife isn't turning to salt.....