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Monday, March 30, 2009

Live, Love, Rest

Good Afternoon Everyone!

I am back at the top of my game!
120 pounds today! Last week's Kudo chart was almost completely covered over. just a couple small spaces where a snack could have filled in.
I feel Great! I've been busy around the house doing the wife/mommy chores and actually feeling proud and happy about doing it and seeing what i have accomplished.

Planting time is coming soon, i will need to be at my peak performance to keep up w/the garden this year!
Last year it completely overwhelmed me w/weeds and bugs that arrived and just wouldn't stay away. Also, i was not near as healthy as i am now - physically or mentally. Now my mind is more clear and my body is not run down from starvation.

I still can't believe how much i can get accomplished w/just piddling around the house and grounds. Oh sure, a lot of it is mundane upkeep, but as recent as 2 years ago these tasks seemed imposible. i guess when the very start of your day starts in turmoil over deciding not eat, once that simple task is is unattained, all the rest seem to follow suit until our environment and self are left in a chaos.

Happy. is the word i guess.
I'm Loved. Loving. Our needs are met. Our Family is Healthy.
Finally, do i dare say.... i'm Happy?

What a strange place to be in. After all these trials and years.

What a Great Place to Be in Recovery!

Now, just keep up the good work and i should maintain where i'm at.

Live Life.
Love Yourself.
Rest will Follow.

Blessings of Peace & Health to You!
Lady Limu

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Will You Wear Blue?

Good Morning Friends & Neighbors!




You don't have to support the war to support the troops!

International Picture of the Year Here are two very touching photos honored this year.

First Place : First Place Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News When 2nd Lt. James Cathey's body arrived at the Reno Airport , Marines climbed into the cargo hold of the plane and draped the flag over his casket as passengers watched the family gather on the tarmac. During the arrival of another Marine's casket last year at Denver International Airport , Major Steve Beck described the scene as so powerful: 'See the people in the windows? They sat right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home,' he said 'They will remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. They're going to remember bringing that Marine home. And they should.'

Second Place Second Place Todd Heisler The Rocky Mountain News The night before the burial of her husband's body, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of 'Cat,' and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. 'I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it,' she said. 'I think that's what he would have wanted.'

Blue Fridays. Very soon, you will see a great many people wearing blue every Friday.

The reason? Americans who support our troops used to be called the 'silent majority' We are no longer silent, and are voicing our love for God, country and home in record breaking numbers. We are not organized, boisterous or overbearing.

Many Americans, like you, me and all our friends, simply want to recognize that the vast majority of America supports our troops. Our idea of showing solidarity and support for our troops with dignity and respect starts this Friday -- and continues each and every Friday until the troops all come home, sending a deafening message that every red-blooded American who supports our men and women afar, will wear something blue.

By word of mouth, press, TV -- let's make the United States on every Friday a sea of blue much like a homecoming football game in the bleachers. If every one of us who loves this country will share this with acquaintances, coworkers, friends, and family, it will not be long before the USA is covered in BLUE and it will let our troops know the once 'silent' majority is on their side more than ever, certainly more than the media lets on.

The first thing a soldier says when asked 'What can we do to make things better for you?' is .'We need your support and your prayers.' Let's get the word out and lead with class and dignity, by example, and wear something blue every Friday.

Blessings of Peace & Health, Prosperity & Enlightenment to You in 2009!

Have A Great Day!
Lady Limu


-- Pat TheryoungPattheryoung@gmail.com(p) 561-799-7044(f) 561-624-8720

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Generational Anorexia?

Good Evening Friends & Neighbors!

I weighed 117 as of yesterday morning. My Kudos are improved to 5 eating times a day. Of course I am counting my 1-2 servings a day of Original Limu, as this puts nutrition and 83% Fucoidan into my body at 2 easy ounces at a time.

I am very pleased with my body right now. When I look into the mirror, I am real comfortable in my skin. I do not avoid the mirrors as I did when I was 96-100 pounds and then again when I hit 125.

Let me share with You my journal entry dated Saturday, 3-14-2009:

“This week’s food Kudos are pitiful. A bunch of them came from yesterday and last night’s splurge after my case of Limu arrived.
I weigh 114-116. I feel real comfortable in my clothes.
I am still almost 15 pounds Healthier than ever before in my life."

“…I think that I am beginning to realize that it is not about a number. Some # picked out of thin air to signify my ideal body weight.
Yes, the #’s are important as a gauge to keep track of one’s overall health. Too much or too little – under or over – is Not Healthy. However, the #’s I picked for my body – based on other women my age and height turned out to be inflated for Me."

"I did not feel comfortable in my own skin at 125. Sure I looked ‘Real Healthy’ – translated borderline fat – but I could not stand to see myself in the mirror; much the same reaction I had when I was 96-100 pounds.
I don’t mind being as much as 119 – maybe 120. At 120 I start to feel “not normal”; not Fat like at 125, just “not normal” inside this body.
I see, at around 114-117, a Healthy (I still have a hard time saying and Believing the word) Woman. On outward appearance – she looks good.”

I cannot reiterate enough just how much easier my struggle at first and my journey now has been due to Original Limu juice and it’s 83% Fucoidan content.

Gone are the Dread, Drudgery and Anxiety that comes and is associated with Eating Disorders.
The whole scope of the ED spectrum has 1 common denominatorFood.

The way an Eating Disordered person views food and what that food in turn does to our bodies, is the whole reason for this disease to set in so deeply if left undetected. It truelly IS a Mental Disease that will manefest itself eventually to the outward body as well.

Food becomes the evil that surrounds us. We cannot escape it especially in our day and age with all the fast food, grocery stores and restaurants on every block. Food is closely associated with social events with family, co-workers and friends. It is an essential part of celebrations and holidays.

In the 60’s, school girls were subjected for the 1st time to the supposed epitome of female sexiness in the likeness of Twiggy and others that were obviously underweight and unhealthy. With all the makeup worn, it seemed a glamorous fad to get into.

So the parents of generation X (my generation of 30-40 somethings) started the pathway to hardwire the brain to reject feelings of hunger and need for nutrition. So they too could be a twig.

Female tobacco and alcohol use sharply rose for this generation as they turned out to be great ways to curb the appetite. 13 – 15 year old girls in the early 60’s started to indulge in the dangerous and addictive habits of starvation or purging if they didn’t have the willpower to abstain from food for long periods.

These girls would graduate by the end of the 60’s to early 70’s being inundated by the new phenomena of television advertising, print media, billboards all promoting this unrealistic image of clearly physical and mental unhealthiness.

They would marry right away and start to have babies that now are infected with a mutated chromosome in their DNA; a genetic precursor and link to Eating Disorders.

These children - Generation X, grew up in homes where this lifestyle was played out before them. Watching mothers skip meals or eat super small portions with the rest of the family – sometimes followed by her trip to the bathroom to purge her meal. We watched our mothers deprive themselves of the very need for survival-food. What is good for mom is good for the family right?

When we hit puberty and our bodies started to change, we looked at our mothers for an example of what a woman should look like. However most of the moms had been practicing “Twiggy Mania” for around 20 years by now. They did not have the plump breasts, swollen hips, round face; their lines were hard and angular with no muscle tone under the skin to lift it off the bones.

Now, the subconscious conditioning goes into hyper drive. The gene is already mutated and leans toward a state of malnutrition anyway. The early childhood perceptions gained through family reinforces us young women to be like mom and we too start to mess with the hardwiring of our genes.
(By the way, I am certain this works the other way as well for overweight or binge eating, however I can only expound on the malnutrition as this is what I have survived and continue to live through.)

We began reinforcing the mutated gene as well as the thought process; further deepening the roots of this deadly disease. By the time the ‘90’s hit and we – the X’s – began having children of our own, we passed this mutation onto the 3rd generation since Twiggy.
The Fathers of Generation Y inherited the mutation from their mothers. The Mothers of Y not only inherited the mutation, but actively sought to reinforce this mutation in their bodies thereby effectively giving their offspring a double dose of this disease hardwired into their DNA and subconscious minds.

So, here we are with Generation Y at the ages of 12-17 and they inherited 3 times the risk for the deadly ED's. Not only are they physically and mentally predisposed to be the same way, but Generation X is perpetuating the subconscious hardwiring through our denial of the truth, or SILENCE of a deadly disease and mimicking the behaviors in front of our children so they learn from us just like we learned from our mothers 30 years ago.

Now Generation Y’s babies are coming out with a myriad of problems associated with malnutrition and toxicity in the blood of the mothers. Physical deformities like cleft lip, heart, lung, organ problems as well as mental dysfunctions like Autism, Down’s syndrome, ADD/ADHD; the list goes on.
Do we even have to wonder what the outcome of Generation Y’s Grandchildren looks like?

From this timeline it is plain to see that American women have to Do Something Different. The old way is Not working and is actually effecting the Health of our Great – Grandchildren.

This is why I am on my journey. Not only for me, so I can have a full life with my husband and children, but so that My Grandchildren won’t have the same obstacles I had to deal with.

Listen, the day I gave birth to my 1st & weighed 112 pounds. The day before I was at the Dr and weighed 110. I gained 2 pounds over night. He was born a Healthy 21 & ½ inches long, weighing in at 7lbs, 15oz. By the 4week checkup I was back to 98.
With my daughter, 3 years later, I was amazed to see 124 on delivery day. She was the same exact measurements. Still, by week 4 I was back down to MY "normal" 102.

Although, there was something inside my all during their childhood that forced me to make sure they ate 3 healthy food pyramid meals, with at least 2 healthy snacks, plenty of water and dessert.
I always talked about the importance of nutrition and different foods in our diet. I myself would go in and out of eating phases; making sure that my children did not know about the times I was restricting. I would eat every meal they did and would conveniently be busy with "mommy chores" during snacks.
When they got older it became easier to disguise my dysfunction with food, and always had robust meals for them and pick at mine then hurry to busy myself with the cleanup.

Then when I was 35 I realized my “secret” ‘Lifestyle’ was beginning to get obvious and no longer invisible through my clothes that hung like rags off my limbs. My children were now asking me what I had eaten that day while they were at school. They questioned the portions on my plate at dinner time. They felt the bones protruding every day and night when I hugged them tight. My son was 11 and my daughter was 8.

When I finally stepped on the scale I had been avoiding for months and saw 96, I knew then and there that I had to Do Something to save my children. Save them from losing their mother to a slow and agonizing death as well as stop the negative programming and go back to reinforce the positive earlier programming of their infancy and toddler hood.

I had no idea where or how I was going to find the strength or means to undo the damage I had caused to my body and mind.
As I spiraled down the Anorexia highway all those months, I strengthened my faith, and occupied myself with my home and family creating strong bonds during those tough times.
It wasn’t a month that passed between my moment of Clarity and Enlightenment on that scale, to when I received the good news and information about TLC and Original Limu juice. I studied http://pubmed.gov for 2 weeks before I finally stepped out on faith, with the testimony of my Uncle and his cancer free diagnosis and called in my 1st auto ship case order that changed my whole Family’s life.

I have a long life ahead of me to battle this disease; many more Kudo charts to fill and lives to change. Instead of feeling dread and insecurity about my future, I have gained the joy of living inside and out of healthy vessel – body.

No longer do I fear and get anxious around food. I am reinforcing good food and nutrition habits once again for myself, my children, and their Grandchildren.
Proactively fighting against a silent enemy that has imbedded itself into my genealogy; thereby breaking a generational recurrence that has far reaching implications into the future.

I know that I am not alone in this strange state of being. I am just one of the few that has broken the SILENCE of their Anorexia; there are millions of us women and men too around the globe that suffer this mental condition, millions more suffering the devastating effects of malnutrition that poverty brings with it.

Original Limu juice Is The Most Efficient, Convenient, Economic way to feed the living body. This juice has the highest concentration of Pure Whole Fucoidan – 83% of each serving is Tongan Limu (seaweed).
In just 1oz of a Tasty, Quick, Easy, Swallow of juice – Liquid Nutrition – my body receives 70+ Vital Nutrients that are immediately absorbed into the bloodstream and go straight to work doing what Nutrients do – Repair cells and expel toxins (free radicals to be technical), regenerating the body from the inside out from the very cellular level so that our organs, joints and mind function properly without the need for replacement parts grown on donor animals such as pigs and rats.

Original Limu - Nutrition so easy an Anorexic can do it!

Blessings of Life more Abundant to You!

Barbara A Thornton
Lady Limu
TLC Consultant
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http://thelimucompany.com/ladylimu
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Feeling Great, Looking Healthy

Top O' the Day to You this St. Patrick's Day!

I've been feeling great! My weight is up to 117 and i look and feel healthy. The sun finally shining does help also. LOL

I am going to try to not obsess on the numbers. I feel great, & look great, so what do the numbers have to do with anything? They are just random anyway. What is a healthy weight for one is not the same as the other, as i found out at 125. Just too much on my frame.

My Kudo chart is filling faster this week so far than it has in the past couple. I am also Kudo-ing myself for my 2oz Original Limu every time i take a shot. Seeings how the Limu gives me the Nutritive value of a full meal, just easier to take and digest i figured i Deserved a Kudo for feeding my body healthy.

Spring break this week has thrown me all off track. I am enjoying the fact that i get to sleep in until i wake up, but goodness! i play catch up for the rest of the day. LOL

Oh, well.
Another shot of Original Limu here i come!
I need the extra energy this afternoon!

Have a Great Day Y'all!

Blessings of Life more Abundant to You and Yours!
Lady Limu