Product Review Time!

So my hair hasn't been quite so hot lately. Mainly due to the fact that I really need a cut and highlight in ze vorst vay. That hurdle will be jumped tomorrow evening when I have my hair appointment with the world's most awesome hairstylist, my step-sister Kristen. They have her listed as an apprentice but that is incorrect. She is a master stylist and color educator and just plain amazing!

Back to the subject. I needed something to get me by in the meantime and boy oh boy have I found it:

Sexyhair's Chocolate Soy Milk Shampoo and

Sexyhair's Soymilk Conditioner.

Love, love, love this stuff! Not only does it smell absolutely Divine but it keeps my hair shiny, bouncy and clean....longer. It is sulfate free and color safe which I love. I have fine hair that seems to get really oily as the day progresses and by the next morning I look like a grunge singer from the mid 90's. Not attractive. However with this stuff I can go almost a full day and a half before the oiliness begins to show. I have never had that from a shampoo before. :)

They carry this line at some salons and most Ultas. Go! Run! Now!

Shock

You know how you can have certain days when you think you look really cute and you think to yourself, "Hey, I am not the beast I thought I was." And you can float on those good feelings for a couple of days, live your life as happy as you can and tra-la-la all over the place. That is until you see something like this:

Yep, that's me in the oh so flattering lime green shirt. Yeah... me.....next to the normal sized people. Then it hits you, I am not okay. I have a problem.....I am NOT healthy. It's funny how certain angles in a mirror or shop window can fool you into thinking that you look smaller than you really are and then WHAM! reality knocks you right on your well padded bottom.

Well this past weekends activities did that for me. Believe me there are many more very unflattering photos of my self and a video or two that left me teary eyed and extremely embarrassed. Then I start thinking to myself, "GOD! No wonder people look at me weird when I say I am a massage therapist who is really into the healing arts and alternative medicine." Then I start to imagine what must be going through my clients heads when I suggest stretches and exercises that will help them manage their pain. Oy.

When blows like this happen it hits my brain into overdrive and I nearly drive myself crazy trying to analyze and reanalyze what I should do. Then I get frustrated and confused because I already have so much useful and useless information stored in there about every diet on the face of the earth. At some point during my over thinking fits I freak, cry and then shut down. Am I alone in this? Do other people feel this way or am I a weirdo?

After much meditation, prayer and silence I decided to see what my intuition (not my ego) would decide was the best course of action. I slept on it, got up the next day did my usual morning routine and checked my email. While I was waiting for my email to load it hit me: I should focus on balancing my body, making sure that all of my systems are in check and healthy. Well, in my inbox was one of the many updates that I get from Louise Hay's Hay House Publications. If you have never heard of Louise Hay, please do yourself a favor and check out her book, YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE. Absolutely wonderful! Anyway in my inbox was an announcement of a new book called THE CORE BALANCE DIET by Marcelle Pick. Has anyone heard of this book or tried it? Please leave a comment if you have. I am very interested in giving it a try. It's all about balancing your body's systems and allowing it to come to a state of harmony, which is what health is really.

I haven't bought it yet because I wanted to see if any of you out there in bloggerland has read the book or tried something similar.

Let's move on to the rest of the day. :)

Yesterday, after the gym, I came home for a very veggie dinner:

Mixed green salad with avocado, almonds, canned tuna, and organic ranch dressing with a little french thrown in for flavor.

A bowl of amazing butternut squash soup by Campbell's.


It was very delicious and very satisfying.

This morning I had my usual for breakie! Lordy how I lurve bananas and peanut butter.

I hope to post lunch and dinner pics tonight but I have a busy afternoon and evening scheduled. Plus Biggest Loser is on tonight.

Check ya later!