Are you defincient in Vitamin D3?

I have been researching a bit about the benefits of Vitamin D3. Check out this link and let me know what you think.  
http://www.pamelaegan.com/articles/vitamin-d3.htm

Congratulations are in Order!

The winners of the Healthy Lifestyle Challenge are . . .

Genevieve Beck

Emily Eyre

Laura McCleve

All three winners tied with a perfect score of 560! They will split the cash prize of $240 equally.

Actually ~ Everyone of us are winners because we finished the challenge! I will be sending the rewards out shortly to all of you amazing contestants!

Now, what I'd really like everyone to do is comment on this post what you learned from doing this challenge. Please do this on the blog so everyone can see this instead of replying to the email. Thank you everyone for participating! Keep smiling and much love to you all!

We Are Just About There!

We are going to go ahead and extend this contest 1 more day. Sorry for confusing everyone with finishing up finishing it up on Saturday. Just a reminder that Fast Sunday is just hard. Prepare ahead of time so you get your water, veggies & fruit, grains & legumes in without stuffing yourselves sick! So, Sunday is the last day. Next contest, we will have different rules for Fast Sundays. :)

Also ~ I need EVERYONE'S points Monday. Please send them to me with your mailing address. Remember, all those who finish this to the very end will be getting a reward! :) I would like to keep the blog open to keep the ideas coming. I am going to work on privitizing it so I'll keep you posted on that by emails.

Have a great Saturday & Sunday! Can't wait to hear from you all on Monday! Love you All!

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

Sharon shared these cookies with me at the reunion and they are SO good! You are definitely going to want to try these out! Thanx Sharon for sharing the recipe!

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal Cookies

1 cup dates

1 cup raisins

2 apples

1 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. cinnamon

Dash sea salt

2-3 cups old-fashioned oats

Blend all ingredients except oats in the food processor until you have a thick batter.  Stir in oats by hand.  Form cookies with two wet tsp. and drop onto dehydrator sheets.  Dry to desired consistency.

We are almost done!

We only have a few days left. Saturday will be our last day of the Healthy Lifestyle Challenge! (Yeah, we are not doing Fast Sunday!) This really has been fun and very good for me. It was fun seeing some of you at the reunion too. I was going to try not to use my 3 free days, but . . . well, I ended up using them. I was feeling kind of guilty about it. Crazy, I know. But it was so nice to have those days. I did try to do my best, it was just hard for me to get all my vegies, grains and SLEEP! It sure was a fun reunion and seeing some of the family.  Can't wait to see what Lyle and Nora have in store for us next year. :)

I've learned a lot too about this blogging and hope to do better with it. I am thinking this would be fun to do again starting September 19th through November 12th. What do you think? I would like to improve this blog. Sharon told me kinda how to make it private. I thought I was, (oops) so that is something I'm looking into improving. If any of you have any tips, let me know. I LOVE suggestions. :)

I need you all to send me your points from last week. I have only heard from 3 of you. It is hard, I know after getting home from the reunion. I'll post them as soon as I get them.

I hope that this was good for each of you, that it was fun and motivating. I would not have done this without each of you! So . . . everyone, give it your all these next 5 days! I love you all! Keep smilin'!

Contestant Update

I thought I would give you an update on Emily Andersen & Lisa Gray. Both have decided to stop the challenge. Lisa said:

I did really good on our challenge the first week and was excited about it. Then I got sick and then we headed to Hawaii. And soon after that we came to az. So those are all my excuses that I am sure you didn't want to hear :). I am so impressed with everyone that has stuck with the challenge despite "life". I just felt too overwhelmed with everything to try to keep track of points. The week I did it I felt great and even lost some weight. I am planning to follow your plan again in the fall and do my best to get healthy. So you can just put me down for last place :(. Sorry and thanks for all you have done in putting this together.
Emily had surgery on both of her feet to remove the sta-pegs that were put in her feet a few years ago. They really started bothering her (PAIN). So, because she can't really exercise for a bit, she opted to stop.

I still haven't heard from Rachel yet *hint* but hopefully she is still in it with us. :)

I hope everyone else is havin' fun with this and has felt that it has been worthwhile. Love you ALL!

Three Quarters Done!

Wow Everyone . . . we only have 2 weeks left on this challenge. Can you believe that we have already done this for 6 weeks?!? It's going by faster than I thought. I hafta tell you what Sarah & I did when my Uncle was here. We went out to eat at Eva's. Yummmm. The last time I went there, I just sat there staring at the chips and salsa. I don't know about you guys, but I LOVE eating their chips and salsa. But, it still wasn't worth losing one of my free points on them. Well, this time I was prepared. Sarah and I filled up 2 sandwich zippy bags with BAKED tortilla chips. We took them with us to Eva's and instead of being deprived of chips and salsa, we ate up. Eva's didn't even mind us doing that.  So . . . those of you coming to the reunion this week and you want the chips and salsa at Eva's, BYOC! I am! Love you all!