Back To School Time!

It isn't even the first of August and most of us with school age children are in back to school mode! Most of my friends have downloaded school supply lists and made the yearly voyage to stock up on paper, pencils, notebooks and all the other wonderful items that mean SCHOOL IS STARTING SOON!

My mom, a retired teacher, says that the most important thing you can do for your children each and every school day (next to praying for them!) is to feed them a good breakfast. I agree. But, as a mom who is working hard to keep her family healthy this school year, let me encourage you to seriously think about adding AdvoCare to your children's morning routine.

As I was making out the back to school list, there were two AdvoCare products at the top.

First, CorePlex Chewables. (I shared here about our vitamin war) It's so important to develop the habit of a daily vitamin. If your mornings are as crazy as ours, it can be an easy thing to forget. However, once my girls got in the habit, they quickly remind me that they need their CorePlex. (Well, the youngest is!)

Second, is a new product that we LOVE. Purple Champs.



This is some of the information from the Purple Champs product page.

DHA is required in high levels in the brain and retina as a physiologically-essential nutrient to provide for optimal neural functioning (learning ability, mental development) and visual acuity, in young and old alike. Some studies have demonstrated that DHA is important in the brain for regulating attention and controlling behavior, and that concentration levels can be increased by providing a supplement of DHA.

Purple champs are a delicious, acai-flavored chew. Each chew contains 40 mg of DHA and can help meet omega-3 dietary needs. DHA has been shown to demonstrate a myriad of benefits, including:

Helping support normal development of the brain, eyes and nervous system
Important for the maintenance of healthy skin, eyes and hair
Important factor in the maintenance of good health
Contributing to good health and normal growth and development

To learn more about CorePlex Chewables, Purple Champs and a host of other AdvoCare products designed to improve your health, please click HERE.

If you have any questions, please leave a comment, or e-mail me at advocarega@gmail.com

Blessings!
stephanie

Susie's 24 Day Challenge

These are our daughters with their grandmother ZuZu. Zuzu, (Susie!) is taking the AdvoCare 24 Day Challenge.

For those who don't know, the 24 Day Challenge is divided into two parts. First, the 10 Day Herbal Cleanse, followed by 14 days of MNS Max 3.

Today, Susie is on Day 5 of the Cleanse portion. She is doing great and I thought I would share with you some of her comments about her Challenge.


"I’m feeling great today. Before the cleanse I never ate breakfast. I always drank my Starbucks all morning. Now that I’m drinking my Spark and my shake, I do get hungry at 10am every morning. That’s a good thing though. I have my fruit. Normally, I rarely ate fruit – not good! This cleanse is definitely getting my focus on healthier foods. Weight loss or no weight loss, I feel healthier and look healthier! But I KNOW I’ve lost some weight already and I’m just starting day 5. I almost wish I could do this all the time instead of once a quarter. We’ll see what changes come about in Phase II of the 24 Day Challenge. I’m looking forward to it."

Did you notice in Susie's comments that she said her focus was on healthier foods? One thing that I admire about AdvoCare is that you will never hear, "take this pill and drop some pounds." Yes,the 24 Day Challenge is about weight loss, but more importantly it's about making choices that will improve your health. It's changing your focus and making healthy choices in the way you eat, the way you exercise and over time that changes the way you look and feel.

I am so proud of my mother in law for taking this challenge. I can't wait to see what next week holds for her!

Somebody Needed to Recover

It was Sunday morning July 11, 2010. Chad's birthday. He has been training and dreaming about this particular birthday for almost one year. This day was not about cake or gifts. This day was about my husband doing something that just 10 years ago he physically, emotionally and mentally could not have done.

Chad was up at 4:00 Sunday morning preparing to race in the Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon.



This wasn't his first triathlon, but at Olympic Distance, it was his longest. He will tell you his goal was to finish. And he did. He crossed the finish line with a little help from our daughters and our nephew.


I tend to get emotional anytime Chad crosses a finish line. You see it was just a few years ago that I was just thankful that he made it out of bed and to the office. Chad was diagnosed with Crohn's disease just 7 months into our marriage. He has fought this disease and we are so thankful that today, he is healthy enough to compete and COMPLETE any race. ESPECIALLY one of this distance.

One of the AdvoCare products that Chad has been using after his workouts is Nighttime Recovery.

Let me tell you. Between the heat, Crohn's and a leg cramp during the run portion of the race...he wasn't feeling well when it was over. He got up this morning jumping around with the kids, being his typical chipper self. (I'm NOT the morning person in this marriage!)

He looked at me and said, "Nighttime Recovery is a VERY good thing!" He went on to assure me he wasn't running today, BUT...that he felt like if he really wanted to, he could. He uses Nighttime Recovery but until this morning, I did realize the difference it made.



Is this product something you could benefit from? AdvoCare has listed some questions on the Nighttime Recovery page. I'll ask them here.

Is this you?
Someone who regularly exercises or participates in weight training
An athlete who wants to improve your training regimen
An aging senior who wants to build and retain muscle mass

If you are interested in learning more about this product, please click here.

Blessings!
stephanie

Fish Oil and Breast Cancer?

We know that fish oil and omega-3 fatty acids have already been proven to lower the risk of death and heart attack in people with have heart disease. I have shared in the past about Chad's reasons for using OmegaPlex and we continue to see good results. But this morning, I heard about a new study. A study that linked the use of fish oil to a reduced risk of breast cancer. You can read more about that study here.

Here is the thing that caught my attention. (This is a direct quote from the ABC site I linked to above) "They found that women who regularly used fish oil supplements had a 32 percent reduced risk of developing the most common form of breast cancer."

If you are a woman, and especially a woman who is at a high risk for breast cancer, please find out all you can about the study. Talk to your doctor about it and see what he or she thinks. And if you decide that adding fish oil to your diet is a good thing for you,

Check out OmegaPlex.




Go HERE for more details on the AdvoCare product OmegaPlex

Are You Interested in the 24 Day Challenge? If so, I need you!

Good Morning! It's hard to believe it's the 4th of July!!! What happened to June? Where did it go? I feel like we are halfway through the summer and honestly...I'm looking forward to fall and some SEC Football!

It's been a while since I posted anything about the 24 Day Challenge and since this is in the top 3 questions I receive about AdvoCare, I thought I would post the link to the challenge information page. It will answer so many questions and break down what you are doing and when you are doing it.

You can learn more by clicking here

For details, information and an overview of the products listed in the Challenge, go here.

I would LOVE to have two people who would take the challenge and let me pick their brain during the 24 days. Those two people would ideally be willing to share a before/after photo, and some (not ALL) of their "stats". :)

As a thank you for letting me document your journey, I will give you your choice of Spark Energy Drink, or Catalyst.

Are you interested? You can e-mail me at advocarega@gmail.com for more information.

Happy 4th of July!!!

Blessings,
Stephanie