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If there is anything I can say about what Australia has taught me, I can say that I have learned so much more about natural remedies. When I was growing up, even chiropractics was considered a bunch of hogwash (and I could have used it!). So herbs, vitamins and teas? Yeah, no. But now I’m here and I am embracing natural ways to help my system become healthier.

Which is how I came to find Adoretea.

After spending a lot of time researching and talking to women who a) have PCOS, b) want to conceive or c) both, I decided to try out some raspberry leaf tea. I figure that if it can do half the stuff some women claim it can do, then I’ll be doing well. So I looked around online and found this lovely website that sells raspberry leaf tea in all kinds of different sizes.

I bought the 50g packet of raspberry leaf tea for $5.50 AUD. I don’t know if I even like the stuff, but my thinking is that I will have to drink it for a while to feel the full effects. Given you use one teaspoon to brew a cup, this size is more than enough to test it out.

I was just going to leave it at that, but I decided to nose around the other teas as well. There are so many! And so many that sound so delicious…

I ended up getting about a half a dozen of their ’2 Cup Sampler’ packs. What an excellent idea! At $0.95 AUD a pack, I can try all sorts of different kinds without it being too expensive (especially if I end up hating any of the kinds I chose).

As I make more and more changes geared not just for my overall health but for creating a healthy environment for my future bubs to grow in, I feel more like I am headed on the right path – for mind, body and spirit.

I’ve even added a new category called ‘Natural Health’ for when I talk about the influence of the vitamins, teas, etc I add to my regime. Hopefully I’ll find some great things come of it.

Slowly But Surely

My body decided to throw my for a loop by making me think my appendix was going to blow up. As it turns out, it was my sneaky ovary making all the fuss.

So I’m home now, but I’m sore, exhausted and having a bit of a hard time catching up with things.

Slowly but surely…

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Exhausted

I’m still exercising an hour every morning. Just that paired with everything else has left me a little too tired for blogging. Will blog soon!

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Little White Lies

I’m thinking about how much you should/do tell your partner. Do you tell little white lies, hold to ‘honesty is the best policy’ no matter what, or do something else? That got me thinking of, well, something unpleasant. It’s something I’m willing to confess here, though, because I know at least some of you will understand.

A couple years ago, I had a binge afternoon. It was pretty ugly. Sushi (I’m not supposed to have sushi that involves rice), chocolate cookies (more than one box)… I was not proud of myself at all. I’m also sad to say that I didn’t speak a word of it to my husband.

What I did do was take all the wrappings and stuff them in one of my purses. I figured my purse is the last thing my husband would ever look in, and for months, he didn’t. I then took the purse and put it in my sight so whenever I walked in the room, I would see it and be reminded.

Then one night I was looking for a hat I hadn’t been able to find for weeks. He decides to help me look for it, and guess where the first place he looks is?

As it turns out, he wasn’t disappointed at all. He was sad that I went through it, but for the most part, he was just amused that he found it when I thought it’d be the last place he would look. I had a good cry and he told me it was okay, and I finally felt like a huge burden (that I didn’t realize was there) was lifted off my shoulders.

I’m happy to say that now, I don’t do that anymore. I don’t hide. The time I gave in and had a stress chocolate, it was hard to tell my husband. Ultimately, though? I felt so much better for it. There is nothing like it out there for me that fixes up my behavior better than knowing my husband will know.

Do you have anyone you tell everything to? Do you have a partner to help you through the bad times? Or do you not need one?

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Feline Persuasion

This is Asimov. He’s a guts.

I have had a new addition to the list of motivations to stop going to the kitchen so much and eat less. Every time I (or the husband) gets up to go to the kitchen, Asimov thinks it’s time to eat. Even if he’s just finished eating, he’ll go back and eat some more if we head to the kitchen.

He has this weird thing about eating when we are there, and we haven’t quite figured out why. What we have started doing, though, is picking up his food bowl and putting it away so he will start to learn that eating will be at certain times, not just an available buffet 24/7.

It doesn’t even matter if he’s napping; if I go to the kitchen, he’s like the Flash. Wham! Right there, threading his way around your legs to get some food.

Oy.

The funny thing is that I have only just realised the affect his behaviour has had on mine. For weeks now, I always thought twice before I go to the kitchen because I know he’ll try to get me to feed him. This has been a great thing for me because it’s really helped me cut down on my grazing habits.

Sometimes help comes from mysterious and fuzzy places.

Food now, plz.
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