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Well here it is Christmas day. How many of you are sitting back with your bellies full from over eating? I made it a point to watch what I ate but made sure I had room for a piece of pumpkin pie. We went to Aaron and Melissa Flemings house for a gathering. Melissa said she had never made pumpkin pie before and I was so glad she made it. I did not have to eat a whole one and got the taste I was craving. My contribution was mashed potatoes and corn. I also made some fake fudge and took most of that to share. So here at my house we are back to our normal healthy eating. Larry is home so he also gets to eat what we eat.

While peeling the potatoes I was noticing my wrist  was hurting. I had been serving up ham and lamb at Costco that last 2 weeks and it was hard on my wrist and shoulder. At night I was taking nighttime recovery for the pain but today as I was peeling the achy-ness was too much. I dug out the bio tune and bio charge and took a dose of each one. This afternoon my pain is gone. I keep flexing my wrist to see if I am just kidding myself but nope.

So here is what I took. I will continue on with it and see how it goes. 

I have had many things happen this last week and I have been very down. I know I have mentioned it but today it feels like a fog has lifted and I am ready to take 2014 by the horns and go out and change the world. Life is to short folks to sit on the side and not be in the game.  So please know we are going to do all we can to help others get fit. We will be starting this on January 1 2014.  There is nothing on to watch unless you LOVE football. SO we will be meeting that afternoon at the newest business in Wellman. The Relaxation Station. Operated and owned by Michelle Runciman she has graciously offered up her new place for people to meet and gather and find out about Advocare products. You will find out about the 24 Day Challenge. The new Can You 24 DVD that will premier that day. Also our other healthy eating food plans. Commit to fit and 39 days to skinny. These were both designed by a registered dietitian and I put my trust in her. We will share all of these options but if you want to start the new year better than the old one you just left behind please think about attending. We will have more information to follow. The meeting will be short and to the point. It has become my passion and purpose to help others find the fitness road I am on. I may not be where I want to be yet but I know with a purpose and a plan this will become a reality. I did not get fat in 3 weeks and I am on a journey and each step brings me closer to the end but I am willing to stop along the way and help whoever wants it. So stop over and more information will be coming. This is not something you have to be local to participate in. We travel and have others in the state who can help you get a handle on losing the excess weight you want to lose. Have a blessed rest of Christmas Day. 

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Lets discuss this picture today. I made changes and maybe those who know me best can't see them. I believe the people that see you everyday don't notice subtle changes. The changes that happen over time. If i cut my hair or change the color it gets noticed by most. Some say "did you do something different" , or how about this one? "did you lose weight?" Now when I have had a complete change of hair color and they ask me if I have lost weight do they not look at me? You know something is different but you just can't put your finger on it. I am guilty of doing this so I know of what I speak. 

Change happens slowly over time as well as quickly. The change that happens quickly is just as important. Its the change that says I am not going to be in debt any longer. You have figured out a plan of action and you start to work on it. This is when change can slow down. You are working harder to pay off debt, make changes in your spending and nothing is happening for your actions. But all the time you are chipping away at a stone. Until that one special blow that breaks open the stone. How many times do we give up on changing because we get tired of hitting that stone? Change is not easy some of us have many years of bad habits to break. Negative thinking to overcome and it can be a down right fight to the death scenario. 

Changing your eating habits is also hard to do. Its not impossible some people just want to act like it is. Saying  "I can never lose weight, I could never give up pop, I could never stop eating Mc Donald's"....on and on and on it goes. Its easier to make excuses than to go out and accomplish what it is you want to do.

So I want people to know that change is not easy but very much worth doing. Weight to lose, get out of debt, be a better parent, have freedom to do the things you want to do. When I sit here and think about how my life has changed this year I am looking forward to 2014 not because I am like so many who want a clean slate to have their "do over". I know 2014 will be my best year yet. I will make my goals and then set new ones. I am worth more and so is my family. I will not stop moving forward and I ask you to not stop either. So as you run around frantically looking for that last perfect gift that Timmy can't do without pause, and think of your motives. Are you trying to make Timmy happy or are you trying to buy love and attention for yourself? The bigger the gift the bigger attention you will get. Don't forget though gifts are just a passing fancy. Give of your time, give of your love and affection and make a change in your heart. Think of the Grinch  and his heart that grew 3 sizes that day.  I can't make your heart change only God and you can do that. I can help with the other things though. Lets all make 2014 the best year ever, not settle for less because YOU are a child of the one true King.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuJWQzjfU3o

Neat that the commercial was Drew Brees our national spokesperson. DB9

We build champions! 

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Maybe you wondered why I dropped my other number? I don't know why but it just was there to remind me of all the people that dropped out of my exercise group. Maybe I should keep it there to REMEMBER people dropped out of my group. It was a success and I should be very happy that I exposed some others to the world of Adovcare and exercise. We have to lead by example in ALL things. I can not tell you to go do something if I, myself, am not willing. How many leaders or bosses do you know that use verbal intimidation to get you to do things. Because you get paid by a corporation they are the ones controlling you. You have to come to work on their time frame(most of us) stay a certain number of hours and then go home when you are done. Yay! How great is that? My goal and desire is to not have to work for someone else. To be able to live life as I SEE FIT. To share my desire for a healthier lifestyle with anyone who wants to change. So if I ask you if your ready to change please do not be offended. It is because I genuinely care for you. I have a desire for you to have more in your life. Better health, weight loss, extra cash. Working for the weekend is not the way to get ahead. 2 days where you "veg" out and watch games and go to parties. Lets throw out that idea of what we were taught and break the mold. I know I can do this and so can you. Its 11 days until New Years eve. That is 264 hours,15,840 minutes 950,400 seconds. Sounds like a bunch of time when you break it down like that. I have decided to limit myself to 15 minutes of Facebook  2 times a day. I told myself that I would be able to post 3 positive things. I found myself scrolling and commenting on a friends page got one comment made and the timer went off. SO it goes fast. Think of how many times when someone asks us to do something and we say "Just a minute" Then its 10 and 15 and that person has already went on and done it themselves because you just needed a minute. 1 minute to finish that show, finish that game, send that last text. Your precious minutes intertwine with others minutes. Please think about the minutes you are wasting. If you are habitually late then make an effort to be early or at least on time. If you are asked to do something. Stop when that minute is done and go help that person. With my birthday coming up I know I want to be making 2000 a month doing Advocare by March. It is now a written down goal and people can see it and hold me accountable. Goals need to be written down and shared with others. Otherwise they are just wishes. So think about it folks. Life on your terms having a 7 day weekend. Does that sound good to you? Sure does to me. 

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I am finishing out the last days of the year stronger than I started them. More healthy than I was. Eating better, putting the best nutrition into my body because I believe in them. I believe that where I am at now is better than when I turned 50 almost 2 years ago. My life has changed 100% since that day. We are working on the prayer and fast brochure for our church. My friend Iva and I met with Aaron and we discussed foundations. It made me start to think about mine. How good was my "foundation?" Would it crumble because I did things haphazardly like I had done in the past? Or now would it be a stronger more reliable one, because of the road I am on now? I am saying yes! YES to the stronger foundations! I am stronger in my walk with God. He makes me strong. I can do anything when He guides me through this life. I am strong in my belief because of Him. He has done miracles and talked to me in visions and dreams and because I learned to shut up and listen I have done things I never would have done before. Going places I never dreamed of. BUT my God is even bigger than that. He wants abundance for me. For everyone really, but until you believe it for yourself it sits there, waiting to be showered on you. 

Now this did not happen in a day, a week, or even a year. It happened over a period of time because I was building a foundation. A solid one that would get me through the tough times. When I wanted to quit exercising and when I wanted to eat the whole cake. Those times are few and far between now. I feel I will always be tempted but God wants us to stay strong. Its like Jen says in Shred 2 . "Its not an easy out, its a work out." When we choose the narrow path its not the easy one but its the right one.  If you don't have a solid foundation there is still time to go back and fix it. If you want to be healthier there is still time. If you want to know God there is still time. If you want a better life that you have abundance there is still time. Don't wait until Jan 1st 2014 to start over. Start today and get a jump on the others who will procrastinate their lives away. With nothing to show for it in the end. I believe you have more in you. I believe enough for all of us. Please comment and let me know you are even reading this. Have I touched your life this year? Have I said things that encouraged you? I am not going to change and I am not going to go away. God has plans for us. I have started on mine whats keeping you from starting your plan. Lets start on that foundation. Get it right and get busy building. 

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I was wondering if you might be thinking whats with the numbers as a title thing. I have been exercising for 336 days. Doing the Can you 24 DVD an average of 3 times a week for that many days. The second number is when I started another 24 day challenge with some friends. So 260 days ago I had some friends that joined me in doing these things. Some are still out there doing exercises. Some have quit doing them or off doing something else. Am I sad? Not for the reasons you would think though. I loved having people there to exercise with me, to walk on this journey. Sometimes we have to walk alone on it though to truly get to where we need to be. Its fun to have others but then we rely on them and not God to get us through. I have been shown that more lately than ever before. I think "doesn't ANYONE want to be healthier?" Then I realize I planted a seed here and there and eventually I will see that they have changed a bad habit or continued exercising. Its Gods timing not mine. I could have had a pity party but I am blessed beyond anything I have ever known before. I have a place to gather and exercise with friends. (Thanks New Life Community Church!) I have continued encouragement from the people who know the journey I am on. I have no desire to quit but sometimes, like today I thought do I really want to crawl out of bed at 545 am to go to a cold car, then to drive into town? I talked myself out of it last night really. What a whiner I am. LOL I can exercise here at home but then no one sees  my commitment to what I want to do. I want others to see my love for being healthy and making better choices. If I can do it anyone can do it. That sounds so funny when you say it. If you truly knew me you would understand. I used to love nothing better than setting down with a big bag of chips and dip and my mt dew and watching an afternoon of soaps. God has changed all that. I have so many things I want to do because God has inspired me I will need to live to 150. I think of a Ferris Bueller quote.“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

People focus on the road ahead but really if you take a look to the left or right you can see the beauty God has put along this path. So even though I was focused on the road I am slowing down to stop and look around and see where those seeds I planted might need some tending. I am not what this is all about. God put this on my heart. I am not here on my own to save the world. I am doing things God has given me the power to do. So here's another quote for you....."after all tomorrow is another day." There are people who need to be inspired. We have work to do. 

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I have something heavy on my heart today folks. Today is annual cookie making and candy day and I am not looking forward to it. Not because I don't want to hang out with Sara and the kids. Not because I am worried about over eating on candy. I just realized I do not want to be part of that culture anymore that says "HEY lets overeat from Thanksgiving to Christmas on into New Years" Then people make "resolutions" that they don't plan on keeping or give up when it seems to hard. Only to have the cycle start again the next Thanksgiving and on and on. 

I was part of that culture. I was the person who loved to make things and bake things and share my food with others. I was caught up in thinking that people would like me if they liked my food and to me that was love. It has been an eye opening journey this past year to find out who the real Kim is. 

So I used to make noodles for all the potlucks and stuff at church. I was asked to make some this next week for Sara and her students. It has been so long since I made noodles I had to stop and think do I remember how? There have been many changes in this year long transformation. Not making noodles was part of that. Everyone loves my noodles so with that thought they must love me right? Guess what? They still love me without the noodles. Without the candy,cakes,cookies I have been known to make and take places. I have not gotten to the point of bringing a bag of chips to the potlucks but it has been thrown around as a threat at my house. 
Lifestyle choices bring about change. The way you spend money, the way you cook, the way you view food.

July 29 2000

I have been fat my whole life. When I met Larry I was 400 pounds. I was not always that but bad choices and the love of food got me there in 20 years. I had gastric bypass surgery in 2003. I QUICKLY lost 260 pounds. At my lowest I weighed 140. I looked like death. It was a bad time in my life and the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with me. I had surgery to take off extra skin in 2006. This surgery resulted in a blood clot that has taken me this long to bounce back from it. 
Advocare found my in January of 2012. In the middle of prayer and fast week I was giving up my beloved Mt Dew. I drank at least 3  24 oz per day. Granted I only drank the top half for those of you who know me but still I drank a lot of it and was OK with that. I knew it was important to give up something I loved for fast week and Mt Dew it was. Barb and Scott were on their way home from success school and called me. I was ready to try this drink they had called Spark. LOVED IT. I signed up for the 20% discount and quit buying Mt Dew. Now can I say I never had it since? Nahh that would be a lie. I would go to my cousins and still drink it with her. Once in awhile I would get a coke at Mc Donalds. Then I realized I was not being the person I was saying I was. This year with the release of the can you 24 DVD has been my lifesaving adventure. I started exercising with it 334 days ago. I have written about my struggles and triumphs but it has been the last 3 months I have had the the most revelation on where I am going and what I need to do to get there. 

We did a 24 day challenge before Thanksgiving (doesn't everyone start a lifestyle change before a major holiday?) That led into the discovery of the 39 days to skinny. I am now on day 26 of that. What a wonderful plan for eating well and losing weight. I get to control how much I eat. No plan tells me. I get to decide how I want my fish or chicken cooked. I have to use my brain and listen to my stomach when it tells me to stop. What a concept that I have the power to lose weight. Not a magic pill. Not some weight loss surgery. I am making good choices everyday to become healthier in this part of my life.

Yesterday as part of the 39 days to Skinny plan you get 3 choice days. Eat what you want just don't binge eat or eat the whole pan. I thought great its Christmas candy and cookie weekend and I was looking forward to eating junk. Until yesterday. I did not eat horrible but I ate things I had not had in awhile and I was sick. I was physically sick on my food choices. I did not take my vitamins or meal replacer in the morning and by 8pm I was ready for bed. Today is a new day and I am back on vitamins and meal replacer for breakfast. I am looking forward to making cookies but really not eating them. I never would have thought I would say such a thing. Yet here I am knowing that I could eat some of everything today and not binge and be OK. I am making a choice not to.


I am going to share some pictures here today of my journey. 

This was me on Jan 15th 2013. Larry took my picture I hated it.

This is me in March with Johnny Loper from the Can You 24 DVD.I was excited to meet him.

This is me in July I think with Sara Juve. Wellman native and also on the CU24 DVD.

This is November 8th 2013 Ladies Alive with Brenna and me with Crystal Thurber.
Brenna down 40 pounds and me down 25 for the year.

 Nov 26 2013 in Des Moines with Brenna, Brandon, Me and mark Leitgeb. I look really
small here short and thin.