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I read an interesting article about 9 foods you should NOT to feed your kids or yourself.

1. Chicken Nuggets- Yes our favorite fast food quickie we all give our kids. Know what you are really feeding your kids! They consist of compressed fat, tons of sodium, high fructose corn syrup and chicken parts that are bleached to look like ‘white’ meat. A 5 piece chicken nuggets at our favorite arch fast food restaurant has 630 calories and 33 grams of fat! Not including the sugar soaked fries and soda, plus a sundae…your kids can have about 1000 calories just at that one meal.

2. Sugary Cereal- Remember ‘wheat’ and ‘whole wheat’ are if different worlds. You want whole wheat or whole grains. All sugary cereals have hydrogenated oils, artificial colors or chemical preservatives, including some granolas. READ the labels. Sugary cereals lead to A.D.D. like behaviors then drop your kids to a low like a depression mood… Feed your kids a good breakfast…you will help their life!

3. Lunchmeat and Hotdogs- Whaaaaa I love this stuff and kids love it too but it’s not good for them or you! They’re full of nitrates and carcinogenics! Kids who eat 12 hot dogs a month are at risk nine times more for leukemia! They can have 38 grams of fat causing obesity in our kids.

4. Juice and juice-flavored drinks- huh juice? Well, other then vitamin c juice contains no healthy fiber that kids need! Juice flavored drinks are full of sugar and artificially flavors. Kids should only have about 6 ounces of 100% juice a day unless you make it yourself from a juicer then up to 12 ounces is good. I know my kids drink way more then that.

5. French Fries- High in calories, high in fat, high sodium, low nutrition. To top it off when you heat starchy foods at high temperatures a chemical reaction called acrylamide which is a toxic substance that has cancer causing properties!

6. Chips, cheetos, doritoes…geez can’t have any good stuff! But look what is in it… more sodium then an adult should have in one day, saturated fats, the low fat chips contain olestra (bad for you).           Instead make air popcorn, cut up veggies or fruit. That way you can control what you put on it. Try parmesan cheese on popcorn.

7. Fruit leather (roll-ups)- full of sugar and artificial ingredients. Beware of the word fruit on a box! Fruit should be bought in the produce department not the candy isle

8. Doughnuts- whaaaaaaa I love doughnuts and so do my kids but they are full of sugar and fat and trans fats too. Same with pop tarts, muffins and cinnamon buns, BAD! BAD! BAD! for you and your kids.

9. Commercial pizza- make your own- commercial pizza is full of preservatives, fat, sodium, and tons of cancer causing nitrates! Make pizza on English muffins and let the kids make their own! It’s fun and much better for your kids. You can make your own whole wheat crust too. Use chicken instead of fat and greasy pepperoni

Well Friends the weekend is over. I always like Mondays. Mondays to me are a new start and I am back on track. My daughter joined medical weight loss plan which is good for her but expensive products…we will supplement the Designer Whey Products instead of the medical weight loss powders to help the cost. My daughter is almost 16 and about 30 pounds over weight. The hardest part for me, as mom, is she told the counselor that the reason she wanted to lose weight was because she did not want to suffer like her mom…that is a real deal down in the gut painful thing to hear. My daughter is worried she will be look like me…fat! And at this stage that is not the prettiest thing standing on this earth…that is going to change! I want my daughters, all 3 of them, to say they want to be just like mom…healthy, fit, strong and cute too.

On My Whey!

Camille from Michigan

Hello,

I am quiet proud of myself. I have mentioned about the weight loss challenge I was in. I got a metal and 147.50 bucks for second place! I lost 16 pounds during the challenge and 27 pounds since June 10^th. I still get the stinking thinking and say I could have, should have, would have done better. I need to keep moving forward, keep doing what is working.

Friends I am 3 pounds away from the 30 pound mark. I contribute that to having the Designer Whey products in my eating plan as well as daily exercise. I did not make my 10 pound mark before the 10^th of the month but I am happy for the loss as I really was not on my plan as well as I should have been. I will meet my goal next month!!! I can do it, I know I can.

I was looking at my kid’s school hot lunch menu. We need to wake our schools up! Mac and cheese, nachos, hot dogs, pizza, high fat, high calorie, high salt foods. I allow my kids one school meal a week and pack them healthy lunches the rest of the week. We all should start complaining about the food choices the schools are making for our kids. Our kids are getting fatter and fatter. I would rather have a price increase then to continue to feed our precious kids junk!

After school snacks; I make my kids a “shake” using the designer whey chocolate flavor. I doctor it up a tad by adding, low fat milk, real vanilla and a little raw sugar or real honey and they love it and I noticed one great thing…NO WHINING! Whey to Go!

I sound like some commercial LOL but hey if it works shout it out!

Have a great day!

Camille

I fit in the seat…I did not squeeze in. Yah my sides still hit each arm but I fit!

 Have a great holiday,

Camille

Last week I lost 2 pounds but I was certain I lost more. When I weighed in and she said, yeah! 2 pounds gone. I was bummed. I ate a bunch of sugar coated nuts and kind of did not follow my plan all weekend. I even bought no bake cookies and did not tell anyone so I could sneak one or two or more. I have the container high up so no one can see it The thing bugged me all weekend…eat me…sneak just one more…eat me. I only got one opportunity to eat one so that is good now I need to take them out of hiding and let the family share so I do not eat them all!

I mean, I am only hurting myself, sabotaging my own efforts like some bratty kid not getting her way…FINE, then; I will eat everything in site and show you! So now I will have to work off what I punished myself with for only losing 2 pounds… is that insane?

Ok back inline! Follow my plan to lose 10 pounds a month. Get off my pity pot, change my attitude, renew my energy and keep moving forward.

Hope you have a healthy day,

Camille in
Michigan

Me July 10th 2008 red shirt 10 pounds off, then August 10th 2008 blue shirt

Yepper 20 pounds gone!

Something really cool using Designer Whey products. My family went to Michigan Adventures, a theme park here in
Michigan. Normally when we go, my family runs ahead to get in line for the rides and I catch up. We also normally pig out, eating all the fun yummy amusement park foods that are high fat, high salt and high calories.

Since I am on a healthy track and have been using Designer Whey products in my new eating plan to get the 100 pounds off that I need to lose, I did not want to consume any of the amusement park foods, though I did have kettle corn, hard to pass that up.  I brought the 2GO packets and my can of strawberry flavored 100 calorie power. I consumed the designer whey products all day (14 hours) for my meals. To my amazement I was satisfied, was not hungry, did not focus on eating and was able to keep up with my family! My husband even commented that he noticed a big difference between last year and this year. Losing 18 pounds so far helped that too but I contribute having the energy to keep up to consuming the designer whey. Even when we got home I was not exhausted. I could have gone another few hours, but my family was tooooo tired, this time. Besides the park closed, I don’t think they would have kept open just because I could keep going!

We even had a down pour and had to run to our car…I jogged and kept pretty close behind my family…sooo happy!!! Maybe jogging is in my future!

Camille

I have a goal of 10 pounds a month. So far I am hitting it each month (2 times now). Now if I weigh in the morning I have reached my mini goal but when I weigh in at a group I am in (every Thursday evening), I am 2 pounds away. Either way I am happy.

If you are using protein supplements look up ‘designer whey’ they are the best natural ones and they taste good! Natural too. The group I am in pushes herbalife…I read the labels, fructose, sucrose, all artificial flavorings, modified starches, even shellac in their cleansing products.

Eat the things God has made, walk 10,000 steps a day, drink 100 0z of water, alternate proteins/carb and protein/fruit for meals, supplement if you are in a hurry with designer whey products (Get at GNC, Meijer, Rite Aid, Spartan stores) and you will lose. No sugar, low salt, high protein, no processed foods, make healthy choices.

Have a healthy day!

Camille

Just wondering…I am back at it…to give myself a jump start.

Camille