Day 1- No change. Started with the Slim. It gave me the same full/puffy head I get when I eat a bunch of sugar or something. Didn't feel great in the hour after. The feeling faded with time.
Day 2- Decided to half the dose of the Slim. I nevereverever take any pharmaceuticals, so my body is sensitive (not to mention that my BMI is around 19, so there's not much body to cover). Still felt that strange feeling, but less than the day before. No side-effects either. No headache or dry mouth. Woke up hungry for the first time in I-don't-know-when.
Day 3- Half dose again, but WITH breakfast instead of before. Felt much better that way. Started out this day thinking everything was the same again. Had eggs for breakfast yesterday and today. I realized when I was starting supper that I hadn't felt my gallbladder ache this afternoon... I don't know if I can say "I feel a difference!" But maybe the START of a difference.
Day 4- Took the full dose of Slim with breakfast again, and took one Biocleanse. Had an AWFUL night last night with the baby, but even though I'm still TIRED, my mind doesn't feel fuzzy. That probably sounds ridiculous, but if you've never had the I'm-so-tired-my-brain-feels-like-split-pea-soup kind of brain fog that comes from getting a good nights rest all of one night a week, trust me. It's crazy. I played a game of Settlers of Catan and actually had a thought process about winning. And it was a pretty close game! It's been FOREVER since that happened.
Day 5- Took the full dose of Slim (think I'll be taking the full dose from now on), and one Biocleanse.Yep. It's official. I can feel the difference. I had another horrible night with the baby last night, and my mind was still clear again today. Like I was yawning all morning from being sleepy, but still had the presence of mind to bring something up at a church business meeting, and remember off the top of my head the things I needed to remember to get at the store! Anyone that knows me knows my memory is a joke. If I could put the love heart-eyes emoji right here, I'd do it. Plexus, you're winning me over!
Day 6- Aaaaand I'm crashing. Ghhh. Bad night with the baby and then didn't have a moment to sit down and get something to eat (even though I was hungry again! Hurray!) until 1 in the afternoon. I'm a ball of mush. Sheez. I have REALLY got to get a grip on that one. Welp, tomorrow's another day. Onward! Upward! And so on.
Day 7- Back up. Already down to one cup of coffee today. Like I said before, it's not that I'm not still SLEEPY, but my mind just feels so much clearer! Really that's the only noticeable effect, but it's still an amazing one for me. I haven't been able to string five words together since my baby was born (she's turning 7 months at the end of the week). Excited for more!
Please also note: I haven't changed my diet in ANY way. I haven't purposefully cut out sugar in a way that is abnormal for my every day life, I haven't purposefully tried to eat more veggies than I normally do, haven't really drank more water than I did before (though, I'm a breastfeeding mom, so I drink a lot of water just because of that)... and I really do feel different. It's so cool.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Thursday, January 21, 2016
My starting point.
Let me start out by saying I AM A GIRL OF SARCASTIC NATURE. I am not easily moved, especially when it comes to health and what makes a product "natural." I'm easily irritated by gimmicky "this will solve all your problems" supplements.
I first heard about Plexus et al from a friend that mentioned it balances out sugar levels, which lead me to ask "would that help with hypoglycemia?" All the girls in my family struggle (or have struggled) with hypoglycemia and as a mom, remembering to feed myself is something I also struggle with on a daily basis. She didn't know the answer at the time, so Plexus faded from my consciousness.
My gallbladder has been an unhappy little back-stabber since I was pregnant with my third kid (three years ago) and I wake up most days feeling a little bit nauseated. Every day I have to make the decision about which symptoms I feel up to dealing with: achy gallbladder/liver or dizzy spells and weakness from low blood sugar?
Most people don't even know this is my daily struggle because it's just something I handle. I handle it because I have to. I have four little childruns that need me to be happy, willing, enthusiastic, and physically able to pick them up and put them down forty million times a day. It is what it is.
I took beet enzymes for my gallbladder for around a year, which is much too long, and felt like I couldn't live without them. Then we moved to my in-laws property and my control over our diets was just *poof* gone. I stopped taking beet enzymes. I shouldn't have taken them for longer then two or three months anyway, so I took the opportunity presented and stopped taking them. I tried to limit how many eggs and oranges I ate (two of my achy gallbladder trigger foods). I started drinking lemon water in the morning every morning. It wasn't enough. Then every time my gallbladder felt achy I drank lemon water.
Then Christmas came. *dun dun duuuuuun!* Ahhhh, Christmas. Time of happiness and cheer. Time of TREATS. Treats in every direction. Treats all day long. Cinnamon rolls, cookies, brownies, cakes and pies. Chocolate, chocolate and MORE chocolate! It tasted good and I craved it all day like clockwork. Don't imagine you know where this is going. I DIDN'T gain five hundred pounds. I stayed the exact same size. If you saw me on the street you would think I was a normal, healthy twenty-something-year-old. BUT my equilibrium was off. My inner emotions were all over the place. I couldn't think straight. I was getting dizzy spells all throughout the day. My hands and feet were feeling constantly inflamed. My joints and back were sore. I'm only 31 years old. I don't think I'm just "getting older." Something in this body is not right.
I prayed for God to send me help. I'd take any kind of help. I just couldn't, can't, live like that anymore.
Right after Christmas a new friend mentioned Plexus in passing. I saw it in a blog post. I read again that it balanced blood sugar levels. Then she posted the ingredient list for the three products that work best together to bring balance to the body and I saw many of the ingredients I had tried already individually. I read through every ingredient and thought, "there isn't really anything in here that I'm hard-core against..." And I am a serious label-reader. There are worse ingredients in a store-bought bagel than in the Plexus Triplex. I was desperate. I thought maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
Three years of suffering with my gallbladder and I had tried many herbs and natural remedies trying to find homeostasis. My husband joked about me being a hypochondriac. Which I get. Those invisible illnesses. I tell ya. I was desperate, so I decided to try it.
noun
I first heard about Plexus et al from a friend that mentioned it balances out sugar levels, which lead me to ask "would that help with hypoglycemia?" All the girls in my family struggle (or have struggled) with hypoglycemia and as a mom, remembering to feed myself is something I also struggle with on a daily basis. She didn't know the answer at the time, so Plexus faded from my consciousness.
My gallbladder has been an unhappy little back-stabber since I was pregnant with my third kid (three years ago) and I wake up most days feeling a little bit nauseated. Every day I have to make the decision about which symptoms I feel up to dealing with: achy gallbladder/liver or dizzy spells and weakness from low blood sugar?
Most people don't even know this is my daily struggle because it's just something I handle. I handle it because I have to. I have four little childruns that need me to be happy, willing, enthusiastic, and physically able to pick them up and put them down forty million times a day. It is what it is.
I took beet enzymes for my gallbladder for around a year, which is much too long, and felt like I couldn't live without them. Then we moved to my in-laws property and my control over our diets was just *poof* gone. I stopped taking beet enzymes. I shouldn't have taken them for longer then two or three months anyway, so I took the opportunity presented and stopped taking them. I tried to limit how many eggs and oranges I ate (two of my achy gallbladder trigger foods). I started drinking lemon water in the morning every morning. It wasn't enough. Then every time my gallbladder felt achy I drank lemon water.
Then Christmas came. *dun dun duuuuuun!* Ahhhh, Christmas. Time of happiness and cheer. Time of TREATS. Treats in every direction. Treats all day long. Cinnamon rolls, cookies, brownies, cakes and pies. Chocolate, chocolate and MORE chocolate! It tasted good and I craved it all day like clockwork. Don't imagine you know where this is going. I DIDN'T gain five hundred pounds. I stayed the exact same size. If you saw me on the street you would think I was a normal, healthy twenty-something-year-old. BUT my equilibrium was off. My inner emotions were all over the place. I couldn't think straight. I was getting dizzy spells all throughout the day. My hands and feet were feeling constantly inflamed. My joints and back were sore. I'm only 31 years old. I don't think I'm just "getting older." Something in this body is not right.
I prayed for God to send me help. I'd take any kind of help. I just couldn't, can't, live like that anymore.
Right after Christmas a new friend mentioned Plexus in passing. I saw it in a blog post. I read again that it balanced blood sugar levels. Then she posted the ingredient list for the three products that work best together to bring balance to the body and I saw many of the ingredients I had tried already individually. I read through every ingredient and thought, "there isn't really anything in here that I'm hard-core against..." And I am a serious label-reader. There are worse ingredients in a store-bought bagel than in the Plexus Triplex. I was desperate. I thought maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
Three years of suffering with my gallbladder and I had tried many herbs and natural remedies trying to find homeostasis. My husband joked about me being a hypochondriac. Which I get. Those invisible illnesses. I tell ya. I was desperate, so I decided to try it.
noun: homeostasis
- the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
1.
the tendency of a system, especially the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability, owing to the coordinated response of its parts to any situation or stimulus that would tend to disturb its normal condition or function.
I.e. BALANCE.
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