08/30/2022
In honor of 💜 warriors…here’s MY friend, Dawn’s incredible story...🙌🏼🥹🫶🏼
“My Fibromyalgia diagnosis came in August 2011 after years of many vague symptoms that I was repeatedly told were:
Normal for a new mom,
Normal for a mom with two kids,
Normal because you’re a mom with a full-time job.
Normal for the stressful life situation you are in (my first husband passed away from cancer when our boys were 5 & 7)
None of it is normal.
I was repeatedly told to just eat better 🍎🥕🥦, exercise more 🏃♀️ and (that dreaded statement) lose some weight!
If only... 🤷🏼♀️
Common fibromyalgia symptoms are:
Pain 💥
Fatigue 🛌
Headaches 🤕
Brain fog 🌫
Difficulty concentrating
Difficulty sleeping 😴
Feeling worried all the time 😟
Feeling sad more often than not 😥
When these symptoms are you’re every day companions, it is extremely difficult to “just eat right, exercise more and lose weight”! Grocery shopping was exhausting. I had no chance to have the energy to meal prep when I got home. There was never enough energy to do everything I needed to do, let alone what I wanted to!
Slowly over the years I started doing less and less. Cancelling more and more plans. I just didn’t feel well or have the energy to do anything.
My priorities were to get through work as I was a single mom supporting my family and to do things for my 2 boys. School and sporting events galore! I used to play a lot of softball but even that was getting to be too much and I played less and less.
The vicious cycle took over. I didn’t have the energy to do the things I wanted, but the less I did, the less energy I had. Things were spiraling down the drain. This was so not the person that I wanted to be! 😥
The carb/sugar cravings were out of control. Even when I would get started in a new diet or a healthier lifestyle, I just could not gain enough momentum to keep going. I could get started but rarely made it past a week or two of healthier living. I felt like I had no will power. Why couldn’t I just adult?!?!? 🤔
I’ve tried so many diets, eating plans, joined gyms and even went as far as medication to help me lose weight! 🤦♀️ Nothing worked. I failed over and over and over again. 🥺
A close friend of mine, invited me to try something new. All natural plant based supplements to improve my gut health and my immune system. I learned about Candida overgrowth and learned that I had almost all of the symptoms (see chart in the comments below).
Since starting these supplements I’ve learned that even when I was eating healthy, I likely wasn’t absorbing the nutrients that I desperately needed.
My pink drink helped start to balance my body so that it could begin to function the way that it should. I had a new all natural anti-inflammatory that took away ALL of my fibromyalgia pain.
Finally, I had HOPE to not be in pain every day, to not hurt so bad from head to toe that even my hair hurt. No more telling everyone that I was fine when I was so not fine!
I used to get sick all the time. Now, I haven’t missed a single day of work at my “new” job that I started working in October of 2018. What a difference!
My immune system is so much stronger than it’s ever been in my whole life! 🤩
I’m sleeping better. 🤩
I have more energy. 🤩
I’m exercising more regularly even walking several miles at a time and going to the gym.
I’m not taking any prescription meds for any health issues. I’m all natural! 🤩
Oh yeah…I’ve also lost weight but that isn’t even my focus anymore. It’s not about the numbers anymore. It’s about feeling better and living my best life instead of sitting on the sidelines while life passes me by.
When you’re body is healthier and getting the vitamins/nutrients that it needs, it just functions the way it was meant to. 💗 Gut health is so important in the treatment and management of so many health issues.
If you are struggling to get through the day for any reason, I would love to chat with you. I share these supplements because I want you to have the opportunity to feel better too. I’m living life on my terms and you deserve that too. You don’t have to struggle to get through life. I’m living proof! 💜”
