Been wishing you could feel great every day and do everything you need to do for your family? Been longing to help relieve financial pressure from your husband as he tries to earn enough money for you to be able to stay home and homeschool your children? Been trying and trying to lose weight without success?

Then stay tuned!! Six homeschoooling mamas with thirty-eight children among them have done all of those things through Plexus Worldwide!!!

The exciting video below shows you that it can be done!

If you are just interested in Plexus products in order to feel better, balance blood sugars, improve your gut health, have endless energy, lose weight, change your mood, and more—message me, and I can get you set up as a Preferred Customer to get the best deal on the products that non-Ambassadors can get.

If, however, you are interested in learning more about becoming a Plexus Ambassador and making a great income while you get healthy and help others get healthy—message me! I would love to have you on my team.

And guess what? Making money as a Plexus Ambassador is soooo much like homeschooling that you will be great at it!

I am in my last year of homeschooling, and I have just seamlessly moved from homeschooling (while still being a writer, blogger, and parenting seminar/workshop presenter) to sharing Plexus.

All of the time management, organization, “daily modes of operation” skills that I have acquired have come together in my Plexus business. And I can show you how to do it too!

If you join my team, you will get training and help to meet whatever goals you have for your Plexus business—whether it is getting the products wholesale for you and your family, bringing in an extra five hundred or thousand dollars a month—or making a career for you and your husband to eventually do together. It can be done! (The gals in the video below show that it can!)

Check out the links to my Plexus to Feel Great Blog below the video to learn more. And message, call, or email me. Let’s chat Plexus, health, family, and more!  🙂

Some Links for You About Plexus:

More Busy Homeschooling Mamas in Plexus

Been Wondering About Plexus

Video—What Is TriPlex

To the Tired Mamas

My Dream Team

Why You Should Become a Preferred Customer

What Is TriPlex

Three Ways to Buy Plexus Slim

First Quarterly Report

What Is Plexus and Why I Became an Ambassador

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Blended for 20-30 seconds. DONE. DELICIOUS!  the whole thing took about 2 minutes. Amazing.

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So here they are so far….and hopefully, this will force me to add to this list each week!

January

HH 1: Ten mins of exercise every day regardless….I can/often do participate in more exercises—ballroom dancing for two to four hours a week, T-Tapp moves more than the ten minutes, but the ten mins a day is do-able and makes things more consistent for me.

HH 2: Take my vitamins and alfalfa every morning before I do any work or emails, etc. I am always going to “come back” later to take them, after this next little thing or after I finish this real quick, etc. No vitamins/no work should help me ‘coz I love to work!

HH 3: Veggie Straws. Now, unlike the lady in line behind me when I bought these (who said, “I buy those too–gotta get veggies into the kids any way I can!”), I know these are not health foods–nor are they vegetables! However, they are lower in carbohydrates, give you more for the calories (38 of them!), have a little fiber, and are better than chips for my guys.

HH 4: Huge bag of almonds. I have been steering away from nuts more in the past eight months of my weight loss because I was on a low calorie/low carb/low fat diet. Formerly, I had been on a low to moderate carbohydrate diet and gained weight–from eating the insides of fattening sandwiches and nuts, probably! Anyway, I am trying to build up a snack repetoire for my guys that is less “bad” than other snacks–not a very noble goal, I know. But it’s a starting point. So…..along with our veggie straws, our snack cupboard now has nuts again!

HH 5: Salad spinner. I have always secretly thought that we could have salads like restaurants if I just invested in a salad spinner. It’s probably not true. But maybe it will help the boys clean and rinse veggies a little better.

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This is a terrible picture! And it does actually make me look a lot worse than I did (or thought I did)…but here I was six years or so ago (before dancing!) at my highest-ever weight. I won’t tell you what that was…but it was high! Here I wore a size 22 (or 24).

After six years of dancing, I had taken off thirty pounds! This was Spring 2011. Losses: 30 lbs; 25 inches; and 3 sizes (from 22 to 16). This was a month before I began an 800 calorie diet and intensive exercise.

And Fall of 2011. Three months after I began the very low calorie diet with Curves and T-Tapp exercises. Losses since Spring 2011: 35 lbs; 35 inches; 2 sizes (16 to 12). Losses over six years: 65 lbs; 57 inches; 5 sizes (22 to 12).

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                                                  20 TO 25 LB LOSS!!! 🙂

I am working on maintaining my summer loss. It was a quick loss–and could quickly be put back on too. My Curves has pretty much gone by the wayside due to work, school, and family. (With homeschooling and working in the school year, it’s hard to do too many extras.) I have a maintenance plan of lower calorie/carb/fat eating; Daily Dozen exercises; walking with my boys and dancing with my Prince—and after a month of so of maintaining with that plan, I hope to dig back in and lose some more…..regardless, my carbohydrate intolerance/pre-diabetes is under control and I feel young and energetic! 🙂

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But dance we did. We danced as much as we could the first few years–group classes, private lessons, practice sessions (the studio was just a few miles from our home), and open dances. Soon I found that I was losing weight little by little just from dancing–until after three or four years later I had lost thirty pounds. However, to lose more weight and get healthier, I had to change my eating habits–something I did not want to do.

Three years ago, still dancing (though not nearly as often–weddings, graduations, kids’ moves/job starts, etc. interrupted our dancing a lot), I found myself sick. To make a long story short, I discovered that I had carbohydrate intolerance/pre-diabetes. I could only feel well if I limited my carbohydrate intake. It didn’t have to be drastic, but it did have to be down to 150 carbohydrates or fewer (average person eats 300 a day!) to keep my pre-diabetes in check. Well, true to many moderate carbohydrate diets, I did not lose weight on that number of carbs–mostly due to the high fat and high caloric intake that cutting carbohydrates can created.

So, while I felt better, I kept gaining and losing many of those thirty pounds that I had danced off in the previous years. Then I heard about a very low calorie diet that caused you to lose weight very quickly–and being an all-or-nothing kind of person, I jumped on the bandwagon and started losing pounds quickly for the first time in twenty years (when I had lost 80 pounds between baby four and five!).

Also at this time I joined CURVES and began an amazing exercise program called T-Tapp–while stepping up our dancing for more aerobic activity. Within three months, I had lost 35 lbs and 35 inches, making my total weight loss for five years 65 pounds.

I also discovered that an overall decrease in calories, fat, and carbohydrates, with good amounts of protein, lots of strength exercising (Curves and T-Tapp), and moderate aerobics (dancing and/or walking for 30 mins four to eight times a week) kept my pre-diabetes in check and helped maintain my loss.

So…here I am, six years after we began dancing, with a 65 lb and 55 inch loss, from a size 22 to a 16 now to a 12, and controlling my carb intolerance. I still want to lose another 20 to 25 lbs and 20 to 30 inches…..but I’m working on maintenance for a while—making all of these changes a way of life for me.

See next post for pics! 🙂

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