Heres to a happy healthy body and cheers to my protein shake I can drink now!

I have held the belief for a while now that our bodies are bogged down by crap (for lack of a better word), crap that we eat, breathe, and as women our hormones are just plain messed up from having babies,, and getting older!  We feed our body so much sugar and our food is so processed that our body doesnt know how to process it and it gets bogged down and dont work to their optimal best. That's why, in my opinion, more and more people are struggling with losing weight after diets and exercise, and being diagnosed with all kinds of autoimmune disieases.  Now I am no doctor, but as a certified personal trainer and a woman, its really just what my gut or instinct tells me!  That is why I think a good cleanse every once in a while is a good thing for our bodies!  Being a mom I dont have a lot of time to be juicing all day long, so looking at dfiferent cleanses I really liked the ones that were already put together and ussually delivered to your door, the problem was, they were all pretty pricey!  Not so much loving the price tag on those plans I decided to atleast juice once a day and try to eat as healthy as I could!  So one day while shopping at Costco, I came across the  pre-packaged Sambazon Purifying 3 day Cleanse!  I snatched it up right away, because it was already done for me and the price was perfect!  You cant beat $9.99!  I love Costco!  Since it was going to be my first cleanse I was so happy to see that it was only for 3 days AND you had a meal plan that complimented all the juices you drank during the cleanse, total clean eating and drinking for 3 days is never gonna hurt anyone right?!  No problem, and SO excited!
        I was so excited I posted it on FB and a lot of people wanted to know how it went, but I had 4 awesome friends that decided to do it with me and I am SO glad they did, it made the process so much easier!  Easier because of the fact that I was eating differently than the rest of my family for those days and just the fact that I knew someone else was getting through 3 days of craziness really helped A LOT!  We all decided to take a meal and deliver it to each other to cut down on the extra work it took to eat this way!  I gotta say, I try to eat and feed my family pretty healthy but these were uber-healthy and I think I decided along the way I could never be a vegetarian, or a vegan for that matter!  LOVED doing this whole thing with my friends though!  I thought every meal and snack, and drink were all awesome though!
         On day One I felt bloated all day and it was pretty easy, as well as day two, NO PROBLEMO!  It was day 3 that hit me hard and I couldnt wait to get back to my regular healthy diet that I wasnt restricted to certain foods.  After all I have never really been on a diet before because of the fact that I have just always known how to eat right, thanks to it being second nature from all my mom taught me, a few classes in college, and my personal training class!  Day 3 was a struggle but I got through it and after my last meal of the day I might have had a small scoop of icecream for my sons birthday....  I had been SO letter of the law for 3 days I was feeling a little rebellious!  haha  Another interesting thing was that I sweat WAY more when I worked out, and got hot way easier than normal!  I guess my body was working overtime to get purified!
       After the 3 days I have to say I feel GREAT and I have no regrets!  In fact I plan on hopefully doing a cleanse maybe for every season change, just to clean my body out!  My goal for doing the cleanse was not to lose weight, although I probably lost about 3 pounds, not bad, not bad....  But it was to clean out my body so it was fresh!  Hopefully I helped my hormones balance by eating awesome and hopefully my liver, and kidneys feel happy and renewed!  I want my body to be able to work optimally so I can get results in the FUTURE!  I wasnt expecting a miracle in 3 days, I was hoping to make it so my body would be happy and work the way I want it to as I try to live a happy, healthy life by continuing to eat well and exercise!  Loved this experience and highly recomend it to everyone so they can live their best optimal, healthy life!  In the mean time I am so happy sitting here writing and drinking my awesomely yummy protein shake after a good workout and getting my kiddos off to school! 
Happy Cleansing and good luck on yours!

For the love of running......

I wasn't hit with the running bug until I moved to my current town.  Since I moved 20 minutes away from my gym, it seemed I had no choice but to start running on nights I couldn't get to the gym.  Fast forward about 5 years before moving into my current house and I was running in my first 5k which my avid running sis in law convinced me to do, everyone was dressed in tutus and it was nuts but it was way fun!  I don't think I realized then what a culture club running can be!  Fast forward to high school and I pretty much hated running!  Haha!  I have always been into fitness and dancing, making up routines in my bedroom in jr. High, to dancing on dance company, to always having a gym membership.....  You can say I am a little bit of a fitness fanatic, which apparently to some people means I am a vegetarian too....  I am not, but being healthy in general is very important to me, kind of second nature actually.......
Nature....back to running.....  Rewind to my life now and the past 7 years....  I love to run.  It's a passion, it's a getaway, it's a gift.  I love running outside and feeling the wind, staring at the beauty all around me, so in awe..... Listening to awesome music, and feeling free.  34 years old and feeling passionate about what I love and who I want to be, clearing my mind while running makes me feel pretty great....  You should try it sometime...  But watch out, you might get bit by the running bug too!   Happy running!