Need a New Scale

I really need a new scale. Today is my weigh in day and I know my scale isn't exactly accurate so I put it in a few different places on my bath room floor and weigh myself. The first number was 226.5, then 227.5, then 228.5, then back and forth between 227.5 and 228.5. Anyway I decided to stick with the higher number so then my number next week will possibly look bigger.

"Raw Foodist"

The title I'll be striving to become I've found is called Raw Foodist. Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh. I don't really know why, but it's kind of a relief that I found that title.

I didn't realize that I hadn't posted for over a week. I'm sure it's partially because this past Wednesday I was again looking online to try to find the title I should use. Knowing I wanted to try to eat all raw I was looking for raw recipes. I know I need to find a replacement for bread and crackers. I'd heard of flax crackers and was looking at recipes on You Tube and found quite a few demonstrations on them. The third one I watched showed the name of the lady's website at the bottom. It said, greensmoothiegirl.com. I opened her home page in another tab, but continued watching her youtube video. Before she started the demonstration she started talking about the benefits of flax. The main one she mentioned was that it helps with Depression. I actually had to pause it because tears started to well up in my eyes. I don't know how else to explain it other than I am "A Sensitive". I use to be embarrassed when I would feel the "Holy Ghost" because I always cry. But now I know it's the way the Holy Ghost confirms to me that what I'm hearing is true. So what I'm saying is that I got that distinct feeling that the Holy Ghost was confirming to me that what this lady, Robyn, was telling me was true and that if I would follow what she said that I would receive the results I desire. I continued to watch the video and then found many, many more youtube videos done by Roby Openshaw and watched almost all of them. I spent almost all afternoon watching these videos.


One of the main reasons I want to eat an all raw diet is because I believe our Heavenly Father put fruits and vegetables on this earth that give us the nutrients we need to live a healthy disease free life. It is man who is causing disease through a non-nutritious diet.


Now obviously her main concept of diet is that she blends most of her veggies every day into a smoothie. This is kind of ironic since my very last post I said I might eventually try green smoothies, but didn't think it would be anytime soon. Oh I didn't tell you the best part yet. Robyn is an ACTIVE BLOGGER. I've looked at a lot of Vegan, Raw Vegan, etc. blogs and none of them were active. And here is the cherry on top of my fruit smoothie (no more sunday's kids sorry...tehehehe). SHE LIVES IN UTAH (which is where I live). She is about an hour and a half away, but totally doable. She holds classes at the local whole food stores, and is also holding a retreat this May.

On top of all of this I found out right before the deadline that she was holding a contest to find someone to do a makeover on (I'm assuming a health makeover). You had to submit a video on why you think you deserve this health makeover and she would give you free of charge her 12 steps to Whold Foods Compete Course and the BlendTec Total Blender. Oh my goodness!!! Do you know how long I have wanted one of these? Well ever since I'd heard of them about 2 1/2 years ago. Then the green smoothie girl would put you on the pilot of their TV/Internet Series, GreenSmoothieGirl Makeover. You would be able to have free private coaching from Robyn. Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

I need the help so very much! So I actually made two videos even though they said only to make one. The first one was just to show the silly side of me. I called it The Un-Super Heroes and the GreenSmoothieGirl. I should have named it In Search of the GreenSmoothie Girl. Currently it's posted to my family blog. Thinking back I should have posted it here. I guess it was my depressive embarrassed self that wouldn't let myself post it here. I tell all here and I'm a little more conservative on my blog. Anyway pop over to my family blog http://www.bishopsbiz.blogspot.com/ to view both videos.

Anywho...I gotta go try to finish making the flax crackers so I can get rid of this darned depression. Toodles!

OPRAH went Vegan for a week!

Today's Oprah was that her and her whole staff went Vegan for one week. Although it wasn't as far as I'm trying to take my diet it was pretty interesting. I do like the direction they were going in. They are going to have their lunchroom do Meatless Mondays. They will also have at least one entree every day be Vegan.

In watching and listening to the show I learned something about myself that I hadn't realised before now. I LIKE TO CHEW! I've always had a large appetite. I want to chew most of my calories or at least two of my meals every day need to have a lot of bite to them. I eat HUGE salads for lunch and dinner every day which gives me that CHEW that I desire. I've read quite a few raw vegan blogs and herd what people say on Peer Trainer that are Vegan and they all talk about putting veggies in their smoothies. I know one of these days I will eventually try it and I might be converted, but for now I am pretty grossed out by the idea. I like veggies (with ranch that is), and like I said before I like to chew my veggies. My husband and I aren't wealthy and the more kids we have and the older they get the poorer I feel. Along with that food is a huge cost that I find hard to think about liquefying a food that I like perfectly well in it's natural form.

Pretty good day despite some interesting news.

FORECLOSURE is a huge word that everyone has heard of but no one knows what it really means. I've finally been informed of some new news that isn't necessarily good, but at least we finally know the truth. We were lead to believe that after the auction at the courthouse that we'd have 90 days to still sell the house and not have the Foreclosure show up on our credit...WRONG! It most likely has already shown up on our credit. We were also never told that there was a deadline to when we'd have to submit the application to do a Deed in Lieu instead of having it go to Foreclosure. We submitted that application too late and Fannie Mae had denied the request for deed in lieu. So now the 90 days they told us about is a Wyoming Law and is for IF we had a 2nd mortgage that would let us refinance, or if we wanted to come current with the mortgage it was to give us the time to do that. For a boat load of reasons those options aren't possible and so now I'm hoping that this 90 days doesn't mean that we'll have 3 more months of late payments on top of the Foreclosure. Man I hate that word. On top of all of this our mortgage company First Interstate Bank never notified us that the Short Sale was approved. Once the short sale is approved that is the start of the short sale. They only allow the short sale to go on for 90 days. Then they never notified us that the short sale was over and since we had stopped paying we were already in the foreclosure process. I'm going to call Fannie Mae tomorrow to see what they have to say and see if they can help me, because I would like to make sure we don't also have to have another 3 months of late fees on top of the Foreclosure.