March 6th

So last night I was sad. I was thinking of all the people out there who have only the idea of what is going on around them as reality. That they are stuck in that bad situation of having a J O B they hate, bad relationship, debt to the max and no idea that they can do better in those situations. I am 52 years old and I am not settling for average any more. Not the average J O B that pays me just over broke. Not thinking I will be out of debt when I die. Not thinking I will ever be fit and fab. 

I have had positive thoughts for about a year now and it has changed my life. I think everyone should have positive influence in their lives. If they did, things would be so different for them. They might remember a dream they had when they were younger, a goal they gave up a long time ago. So many people are negative and complacent with their situations. They have resigned themselves to mediocre and that is so sad. 

So with this being a Thursday lets see if I can show some transformation for you. Below are some pictures I found. Anyone who knows me knows I love to wear my overalls. These were tight but I could get them on. We had a great time but in about 3 months Advocare would be introduced to me then my life as I knew it started to change. I was not getting it at first but then went to an event. Advobowl at Kirkwood with Joe Hadachek. Game changer folks I signed up for success school and have not missed one since then. The last pictures I have are from people I have met from the Can you 24 DVD. All very nice people. Willing to take time to hear how having them do a video changed my life. I went from no exercise to exercise 3 times a week or more regularly. Then I had some friends join me. Then the CU 24 II came out and Whitney is on that one. It has bands and balls folks. It is serious workouts. This is not some exercise for grannies it is the real deal and I am doing it. Granted not as well as I want to but I am in the game folks. I am off the bench doing what I need to do to be where I want to be. This morning it was Jodi and Mike and Ty who inspired me. I know that if you fill your life with people who have what you want you will eventually get that too. So when you are hanging out with the wrong crowd of people who want to keep you in a level of mediocrity with them please know this...things can change, you do not have to stay there. We can choose to get off the couch and change our situations. I chose to change. I am a work in progress! I am not where I am going but I am not where I used to be. Do not settle for where you seem to be right now. Take a chance and look over the fence to see what is out there for you. Its a great big world ready for you to take charge. Now go get started. I am rooting for you! 

Mule fest September of 2011

march of 2013 Johnny Loper at KC Spring Breakthrough

I think this was July of 2013 Sara Juve at Kirkwood in Cedar Rapids

Leadership school March 1st 2014 Jenny and Bob Donnelly 

March 1st Leadership school Mike Friedrich 

March 1st Leadership school with Whitney Gladden

March 5th

Well a month has flown by. Has it changed since the last time I wrote?? No not really. It is still sunny but the snow on the ground says it still seems like winter here. It can't last forever. Spring has to get here this month. My calender says so. 

I come to you guys tonight with a heavy heart. Not sad for myself but sad for others that I thought were my friends. 

Seems I have been unfriended. It was hardest when it was my own brother then his son my nephew, his wife and now school friends that I have known my whole life have decided to shut me out. You may be wondering why Kim, why would they do that? The only answer is that I post positive things on my Facebook page. Not smut, not gossip, not vulgar shares from someone elses page that has remarks on it I never want to repeat. 

Instead I post at least 2 or 3 positive things a day. Quotes and such to lift people up not drag them down. I post pictures of people successfully losing weight with an Advocare program. Be it the 24 day challenge or some other plan. I want people to be inspired to make changes in their life. I want to be the person that goes the extra mile to help someone out of a funk. Who has tried everything but failed and sees no hope out there. Believe me the stuff I see posted that I don't care to see makes me glad I post some positives for people to at least glance at. So even though I am sad those people chose to push me out of their line of sight. Guess what? I am still out here doing what I set out to do. Lose weight and get fit by July. I have no way of knowing about all the others who said they would, but I do wish them well. We need to take care of our bodies. We only get one in this lifetime so make it count. 

I am saddened that my being positive was such a turn off to others. People who would rather eat drink and be merry because they live in the "now". People who are drowning in debt working at a J O B that pays them just enough to stay. So the misery loves company line is true. Except I am not miserable. I am happy with my life and where I and my family are going. God has his hand on us and we are blessed because of it. I do not take any credit for my successes. I thank God for great favor. So this is a short but to the point blog entry. Those people who decided I was not worthy of their pages have lost maybe the one person who believed in them. The one person who would have said to them "things are going to be better, keep going and move up the line to find your dreams" I was their biggest supporter. Guess what? I still am. 

Sunny February 6th

Good morning friends!

Wow I think time is flying. We started our next 24 dc here and we are prepared like no tomorrow. If you let the small things get you down you will never start a big thing like this. Its life changing and to get the most out of it you need to think and plan ahead. A challenge can be done by the seat of your pant but I would not recommend it for the best results. There are so many resources out there that there is no excuse to fail. NONE. Even if you lose 1 pound and 1 inch you are closer to the goal you have set. I am setting a goal for 40 pounds to be gone. (not lost I don't want to find them) I have a plan of action. I have others urging me on and doing this with me. Life is to short and I am taking it by storm. SO join me or not I have lives to change and willing to help anyone who wants to get fit. 

Don't use the excuse its to expensive. That is so lame. Anything we do to get healthy is expensive. If you take care of yourself now and get into the best shape of your life then your health care cost will be lower in the long run. Who knows how Obama care will shake out. So invest in your health. Starting living your life as part of the team not sitting on the sidelines watching others get healthy. Its for anyone who wants to join in. Our team does not overlook you. A good friend of mine says "find a way or make a way!" It goes with everything we do. Stop trying and start doing. There is event across the state? Find a way or make a way to get there. Take 2 or 3 with you and make it an event before the event. 

So lets take a few minutes and talk about the products I take and how great they are. My vitamin Bs have been in the tank for years. I have had to have monthly shots. Regular vitamins from box stores and the liquid stuff were not cutting it so shots monthly became the routine. I have been really taking the MNS strips faithfully the last year. I did not get any blood work done before I started them though. I went last week and had blood drawn with a fast 12 hours before and guess what? No longer low. Now above and holding and who knows how long its been that way. I guess going for yearly blood work is a good thing to do. I also had a toenail grow back that was a flaky and that fungus where your doctor tells you that you need to take the bad medicine that harms your liver. I said no I will live with it. Well with the regular taking of MNS strips and Omega plex I had my toenail grow out and it is thriving and no liver damage to be tested for while I take it. So to say its to expensive lets change our mindset and think of what you can give up for good health. Coffee? Never you say. I need my caffeine or I am lost throughout the day. We have Spark. Spark is my best friend. Pink Lemonade with Key lime cherry rehydrate is the best drink in the world. Why would you not want to put the best nutrition in your body?  I shoveled our driveway and it was light fluffy snow but after an hour I knew I was going to have sore muscles. Post work out recovery and then nighttime recovery and not a singe pain. I keep moving a shoulder and checking to make sure. I love to find out what is going to help me feel better next. 

I am going to be in Texas for a leadership event  at the end of the month. When I was sitting in cowboy stadium last August I said when Emmett came out that I was going to leadership school. I love Emmett and many of you know its because he was on dancing with the stars. Not because he was a football player. So now we are counting down the days of February and I will be done with my challenge and ready to get in a car and drive 12 hours to get poured into by people who believe in me. 

Do you work for a place that does such a thing? That gives you such stand up guys to listen to? And women? We have twin sisters on the womens hockey team at the olympics.

Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux

Unpaid endorsers who love the product and meet the guidelines and trust the product to not show positive in a drug test are going to be on your tv for the next few weeks.

So that is it folks. I am at the beginning of a 24 dc and have only good things planned as my outcome. The battlefield of life is really in the mind. You decide how your day is going to go before you get out of bed. So make it a good one and call do over at anytime things start to go south. You are a champion! Settle for nothing less. 

January 30

Good morning one and all. I am not sure how many people read my musings but for the 2 I know of...Thanks!

I have to say I admire the ones who get up at 5 am and are doing a challenge and are doing well. I am getting ready to start another one and I work the odd shift where I do not start until 10:30 AM. Plenty of time to roll out of bed and get drinks made and pills taken. So you guys who are up at the dark before dawn stage...WAY TO GO. You folks who drink meal replacers in the car on the way to your J O B.... You are champions. To the ones who plan out a weeks worth of meals to make life simpler because you have a family to take care of also.....You are COMMITTED. 

I can do all these things too but the age I am and the job I do does not add challenge to the "challenge." So if any of my friends need help planning or doing things while on the challenge I am willing to help you anyway I can. Anyone who is on a weight loss journey can get down when the scale doesn't move or when they are a half inch away from a smaller size. Do some of you secretly say "glad its happening to them" How many are jealous that they want to do a challenge but for some reason be it money or lack of commitment you secretly want your friends to fail. You suggest going out to eat or have candy sitting around and pressure them to take some. Maybe you have put down the products they take and now for the sake of your "pride" you have to keep it up. Even when you see them doing well. Nope you aren't going to admit you might have been wrong. That is out of the question. So subterfuge is a better way to go. You hinder, not help and I just have to say what kind of friend does that? You may not do it on purpose but I tell you misery loves company. So lets encourage the "losers" here. Lets tell them way to go when you see them. Life is to short to waste it on bringing others down when they want to better their lives and become fit and healthy. 

Take action folks, life is passing you by. Believe, Begin, Become. I am out here rooting for you challengers. Never doubt that and ask for help if you get down. I will be right there to lift you up. 

January 26

This morning I am thinking I haven't written in awhile and yep its true. I have not. I guess winter is my slow time. I am still doing what I need to do, but as I was reading my cousins blog I realized I had not made any real weight loss goals. I just told her when we do not write down our goals they are just wishes. Like when you wish as you blow the candle out on your birthday cake. You are not suppose to tell or it wont come true. Seems silly. If you don't tell then you can get your wish. If you tell it won't come true? Who invented that crap? 

I like to pray and ask God to show me things. I ask for guidance and protection. I know wishes are for fairy tales. I was always told to wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which fills up first. If you think about it that is kinda gross. But very true. Wishes are like waiting for the lottery to hit. Magically appear and save us. Like the romanticized prince charming or Disney princess. We are warped by stories we have heard. 

So what do we do to help our dreams come about? Quit dreaming? No!! We starting writing them down. Dreams can be goals. Places to visit, things to do. We have to be specific and they have to be attainable. We have been working on SMART goals for awhile now and its hard to really nail down what it is you want. Time wise and goal wise. Some of us may have given up and just decided that  its to hard. We are comfortable in our certain station of life. Some think that working for the weekend is what its all about. Then take the 2 days off and back at it again. I want to change that. I want my husband home with me. I want us to be able to travel and go at a moments notice to where ever we choose to drive or fly.  It is not my "WISH" it is a written down attainable goal. I have a vehicle that can get me there. I have met many people no different than me except they had the desire to give up stuff now so they can have more later. Sounds easy enough right? Why wouldn't everyone be doing this? It is not easy. Like a wrote above they do not have a written goal. Maybe no one ever told them about it. Maybe they have tried and others made fun of their dreams or goals. They hit a bit of resistance and it stopped them or at least may have slowed them down. 


So here we are almost to February and how many of you are still working on those "resolutions" did you give up because it seemed like to much work to get them? Quitting smoking or losing weight? Finding a new job or doing better at your old one? What ever it was did you write it down? Do you have it on a place where you can see it everyday? Its not easy. There is no magic pill for weight loss. Its hard work and exercise and making good food choices. I know I have been living it for a year. I know what I want and I am not giving up. I may stop along the way and have a pity party for 3 days but that's it. We have things to do. I have people to help reach their goals. Right now I would rather help others reach goals because to me it seems easier than getting mine. BUT when I help others get theirs I will more than likely get mine along the way. Life is short folks. I am making a choice to live the back half better than the first. TImes a wastin folks. Get busy writing down some dreams then figure out how to get them. Ask me I am more than willing to help you. 

Ready for a change?

Good morning friends!

Its 6 am and I have been up for an hour and have showered, fed the cat, let 2 dogs out and back in now just sitting here thinking....when was the last time I put up a post? January 9th. I guess I have not had things on my mind. This morning I do. 

How long does it take to change a habit? 21 days people say. I have changed a bunch of habits over the last year. My eating habits, exercise habits, business building habits but the thing that has made the biggest difference is my bed making habit. 

I was never a bed maker. Roll out, get dressed, then at night make sure I could roll back in.  I know I am not the only one. Then I read in a Ron Reynolds post that its hard to master big things if you don't have the discipline to do the little things. He suggested making the bed for instance. So I started doing that. Not a big thing really. Every morning you get up and make an effort to make the bed. Some mornings it was a nicer look than others but over time I got a handle on it and now do this 99% of the time. Its hard to make a bed when Larry is still in it. The thing is Larry has now started pulling up his side of the bed. When he gets up before me to go to work he pulls his side closed and smooths it out. So by me starting a new habit it eventually worked its way to him. Little things turn into big things. 

We are eating healthier. Our food choices and exercise habits have changed the look of our family. Larry is very receptive of the things we cook now. Except fish. I get that, I struggle with that too. The point being is when we make an effort to change no matter how small over time people begin to notice. 

People watch us and what we do. Our actions have to match our words. Say what you mean and mean what you say. At Advocare we say Protect this house. Our business was founded with 10 guiding principles. I can not say I would not do any of them they are all so insipiring I wish every business had them. 

Honor God through our faith family and friends

Respect and strengthen the family

Believe in the dignity and importance of the individual

Crate a standard of excellence recognized by the direct sales industry

Believe that honor,integrity and principles are the foundation of a great life and company

Commit to mutual loyalty and trust between advocare and its distributors

Establish and continually  improve the vehicle of opportunity and the pursuit of financial freedom for all advocare distributors

commit to ongoing personal growth and development through professional training and educational programs

build self esteem by promoting a sense of worth among all people

continually expand our market by providing the most effective and highest quality products and services available

These are the things my company believes in. I think that's awesome. I know CDS does not tell me those things. They just want me to show up at my J O B and put in my time for as little as they think they can get by with. Some Jobs are worse than mine for pay. With Advocare though I can help lots of others see the bigger picture and know this company will never embarrass us. They say what they mean and mean what they say. Do you work for a company like that? Do you want to? 

New year New me

Its 10:30 and I should be asleep but it escapes me at this time. I have some things on my mind so I figured I would write a bit. My days of counting are now done. I have exercised for a year. I have started to take better care of myself so with the new year it brings a clean slate. 

Last year on the evening I was sitting in Missouri at Lynnette's house. David died a year ago today. I was wondering why I was out of sorts today. As I sit here in a clean kitchen and have time to reflect on the last year this night came flashing back to me. I think I wrote a FB post about it. David and I had a special relationship. He tolerated me in the beginning then learned he was not going to get rid of me. That I would keep coming down and so he learned to appreciate me and maybe even love me in his own way. He knew that I would come down and do things with L so he wouldn't have to. 

I knew David would do anything that I asked of him. You knew his heart was as big as he was. I have the best memory of him picking L up and tossing her over his should like a sack of feed. Her kicking like she was shocked and appalled at his caveman behavior but I know down deep inside she loved it. 

I started to change my life shortly after that happened. Seeing a young strong man die at the age of 49 makes you uneasy. So I knew it was time to change. I got a 24 day challenge and tried the losing weight thing again. I knew I loved the Spark but until that time in my life I was not ready to do anything. So I got some friends to exercise with me after seeing the new can you 24 DVD at Advobowl in Des Moines. I knew I could do that. I knew I needed to change and seeing the 50 year mark pass you buy all of a sudden life is moving faster and you still have things you want to do. A year in the life of a teen seems forever but to me I think its the 9th of January and its still daylight at 5 pm. I don't know if that makes sense to anyone but when you can visibly see time changing from day to night its huge. I look at pictures and see my transformation so I know its real.

Pardon my rambling tonight. I am a bit melancholy and I know I have to shake it off so I will keep writing until inspiration hits me. It usually comes as I write. I think of something I want to do or need to accomplish and after hearing Ron Reynolds speak and reading his vitamins for the mind I have made changes. I have lots more to do but I started making goals and lists and working towards building my business. I now have people using products I never thought would. Things change in a year but like the days getting longer you don't see it until all of a sudden its 5 pm and still light out as you drive home. Change happens whether you see it or not. I hope this next year does not leave you in the dark days of December. 

Please make the most of the days you have on this earth. We don't know when God wants us to come home so we keep doing what He asks of us. So until then I am making 2014 the year of transformations. Mine, my family and friends and anyone else I can share the miracle of Adovcare with. It has giving me hope and I know God doesn't want us to just "get by" he wants abundance for us. Lets get busy doing His work and changing more lives.