We are the givers!

Mar 22, 2020

1st glance at this pic of my two girls and the baby dolls… did you see my younger daughter ...far right?! (❤️ this pic!) She kind of blends in with the baby dolls doesn't she?

When I was breastfeeding her at this age, she started having digestive issues that originated from what I was eating.

I LOVED this time w/ each of my kids & just wasn’t ready to end it yet, so I cut out dairy & soy that was suspected to be causing her issues, & low & behold she got better.

The problem came in when I wasn’t getting enough food & nutrition in MY body, so I dropped down to 112 pounds, which you’d never know by looking at her. <Chunky monkey!!>

My body made perfect milk for her, but the inadequate nutrition was also slowly taking its toll on MY body.

This is like a microcosm of what happens in our lives when deprived of nutrition, as moms/parents giving to everyone but ourselves & having sustained high stress!

We can only sustain this for so long!

Easy tweaks!

👊Be mindful of this w/food c

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What is your favorite way to enjoy Peanut Butter?

Mar 01, 2020

In celebration of National Peanut Butter Day, what is YOUR favorite way to eat peanut butter? 😋⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I will share a few of mine below, but have a funny quick story. A few years ago, I started reading labels and realized that the peanut butter I grew up eating wasn't exactly peanut butter at all.⁣⁣
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I went in search of a brand that was real peanuts and didn't have unnecessary extra stuff in it, like sugar. ⁣⁣
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<This is one easy peesy tweak you can make... read labels and eliminate the products that add unnecessary ingredients>⁣⁣
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So I settled on the Whole Foods brand and then one from my local @heb grocery store. My mother in law was also making tweaks to their eating and did the same. ⁣⁣
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Well if you grew up eating the typical ones that most of us did and then ate the natural one, you know the consistency is a little different in terms of the natural one being a little more liquidy, right? ⁣⁣
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So, apparently my father-in-law takes his PB VERY seriously, and did not prefer this transit
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