We’re often asked, ‘Where do I start?’ The answer is simple, you must start with your mind.
You have to want it, I mean really want it.
We started by educating ourselves. For a real change we needed to know why change was important.
We did it for God.
We did it for each other.
We did it for our children.
We did it for ourselves.
For God. Changing for God was the most important reason. We ask ourselves if how we lived and what we ate mattered to God?
After much prayer and study of scripture, we believe that it does.
We wanted and needed to be in the best health possible to live the most productive life possible for God.
If we were always sick from poor health decisions, could we live a full, abundant, and joyful life?
For each other. I have a responsibility to my husband. When we were married we became one. So, when I suffer, he suffers.
If I make unhealthy decisions, the consequences no longer just affect me but my husband as well.
I can’t perform my wifely duties as I should. The results of my carelessness would put strain on our marriage.
Next, for our children. Once we knew the poisons that were in our food and their side effects, we couldn’t possibly feed them to our children. MSG, Artificial colors, flavors, and the list goes on and on.
Knowing that the food I was feeding my children was most likely going to give them cancer, tumors, and who knows what else, just gave me an awful feeling in my stomach.
We simply couldn’t do it.
And last, ourselves. Knowing how our unhealthy decisions affected so many people we love. Making a change, a real change, was simple.
So, we did it. We set standards for our new lifestyle and threw out everything in our life that didn’t meet them.
It felt clean.
Refreshing.
I’m not going to lie, it wasn’t always easy. We were tempted a lot. But we would just ask ourselves why we changed in the first place and would feel encouraged by the answer.
After a while it became a part of us, I learned how to cook using only the freshest and healthiest ingredients.
Instead of eating out when we were away from home we would go to the grocery store and buy organic fruits and veggies instead. It was much more filling and tons healthier.
Its 2018 and we started this new healthy living lifestyle in 2012. We grow daily by educating ourselves and encouraging others.
Take time and ask yourself, why? Why do you want or need a change?
You can do it!
Our purpose for this website is to follow and obey the two greatest commands; love God and our neighbor.
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
-Matthew 6:36-40
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