Fad Diets or Life Style Change?

So this past Saturday morning I went to Walgreen's to pick up some ice for our camping trip. The cashier guy at the counter was helping me try to find some protein bars or Larabars or something like them with no sugar in it. He said, "Good luck there is sugar in everything."
I said, "We've been doing pretty well eating low sugar etc."
He said that he just lost like 60 pounds over the last year.
I said, "I lost 47 since January."
He said "How did you do it?"
I said "Diet and Exercise."
He said, "Have you ever heard of  "H"erbal Life?" (as he pronounces the H...cracked me up)
He said, " I took it and didn't even need to exercise."
I said, "I like to exercise, I enjoy it!"

He said did you see tha guy in line? He is doing the EGG DIET! I was like what is that...He said, "He eats eggs and chicken 7 times a day!"
He said You look good I don't think you need to lose anymore. (I didn't say I did.)

On my drive back home I was thinking what in the world.....taking pills to lose weight (herbal or not)  no exercising.......eating eggs 7 times a day. Come on people there is no magic to losing weight it is called a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE!!! Plain and simple if you want an easy way around it it won't last that long it has to be something you can do for the rest of your life. A way of life so you can be healthy. I am not saying I have all the answers or that I am perfect everyday.....I am striving to have a "lifestyle" that we can all LIVE with and be healthy.

There......I said my peace :)

CELEBRATING our INDEPENDENCE

Our First Family Fun Run!

All of us including my mother in law have been walking/running the past couple of weeks together. I have also taken the kids out in the morning to "train" for running. They have complained a lot at times other times they do really well. So I decided that we should all do the 5K Fun Run with Church friends on July 3rd! 

Well everyone didn't want to do the 3 miles. So Gramma Bernadette took Maggie and they did 2 miles with Faith and Lily riding in the stroller. Great JOB girls :) Proud of you MAGGIE!

Dana and I Ran the 5K in 28:48! Dana was FIRST out of  all the Girls that ran! GO DANA :)

Brandon and Logan Ran the 5K in 34:16! Way to go Logan :)

We all received Sparklers for an "Award" The 5K Runners received a Certificate. 

I made Homemade Whole Wheat Tortilla the night before. I was thinking that the breakfast burritos everyone makes has cheese and sausage in them and we normally don't eat that. So as I was making dinner Friday night I decided to make tortillas and make up some Breakfast burritos. I figured Brandon would eat the other Burritos because he doesn't have a "problem" with cheese etc. He ate the "evil" white tortilla LOL :) I told Brandon in the past that anything could end up in my blog. He knows it is all in fun/ guilting him into eating better :) (Love you Honey)

Lily even got some exercise in by crawling and playing with some foil! GO LILY!

Yummy Foil 

Then off to our friends for some FUN in the SUN!

And FUN in the DARK too!

HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE