Some more health ideas for E

I've recently been working on strengthening my adrenals and it's doing wonders for my energy. I really think adding into this the GAPS diet to heal my leaky gut and adding meditation into my normal routine will be really good for me. The better I feel the more certain I am that I need to add some of this adrenal health into E's diet. My plan is to get her through the GAPS introductory diet and when she's able to finally eat some smoothies I plan on adding some of my powdered grass-fed bovine adrenal cells to her smoothies to help strengthen those tiny adrenals up! That plus the nutrition she'll be gaining from having a healed gut will do wonders for her. I need to measure her and weigh her to see where we're starting from before we begin this journey!

Currently we're eating the soups for meals but still eating some fruit and left over snack foods that we were previously consuming. Though once we finish those up it's all GAPS all the time over at my house. I'm excited to get this show on the road and get ourselves healed and feeling good! Good things ahead for us in 2013!!

January 2013 Goals

GOALS!!

Goals are my goal for the year! I'm going to focus on a yearly goal, heal my leaky gut, an over-all monthly goal, and weekly goals. I need to stay on track, and I think goals will be the way to go!

January monthly goal: Get into bed at 9:45 every night, and follow the GAPS diet for the entire month with no cheating.

January 1st - 8th: Go to sleep at 9:45 and start the GAPS introduction diet (next week I will continue to work on these goals, but I will add some smaller detail things in that I need to work on to accomplish my monthly goal).

This has been my goal every month for the past 3 or 4 months now! Well minus the GAPS diet part. I was trying to follow the AIP (auto-immune paleo) diet but it is very difficult, especially when it looks like this is how you will be eating from here on out. I found out about the GAPS diet and how it truly heals your gut. So my goal is to start out on the GAPS diet, then move into an AIP/GAPS diet and hopefully get to a point where I can follow a comfortable Paleo food plan!

What's YOUR goal for January? Do goals help you stay on track?

Happy New Year!

Well it's not really New Years yet, but it's close enough! The year 2013 is going to be a year of healing and growth for me and mine. How about yours?

In order to keep my fleeting thoughts from floating away I have decided to start a blog and glue these thoughts to the ground. The proverbial internet ground, that is. I bet that is as glued down as a thought can get; Written down. So that is what this blog is all about! My attempt at gluing my thoughts and plans to the proverbial ground. If I happen to help some other people out in the process, then I'll be a happy woman.

I've been focusing on health for quite a few years and I'm seeing that this will be a constant trend in my life. I'll admit when I first started I expected to finally reach that point of 'healthy'. Now, 4 years down the road of working on changing things for the better, I have realized and learned that it's not a destination at all, it is most definitely a journey. A journey that takes a lot of effort, research, confusion, problem solving, frustration and most definitely a lot of trial and error. Although it is hard the results and the benefits are much greater than choosing to not focus on health. I've lived that life. I don't ever plan on turning around and going back there. It's only up and out for me.

My goal for 2013 is to have more goals. Goals are another thing I need to make more concrete. So here I am...gluing to the floor the again. My goal for 2013 is to heal my leaky gut. What is yours?

If you're joining me this year and taking the plunge into truly focusing on health, then here's to health! *clanks mug of bone broth* Happy New Years! May 2013 bring you health!

-Staci