Plexus and Keto

The Keto Diet is HUGE right now.... It's producing great results for those adhering to the program and changing lives, but did you know that Plexus is helpful even if on this diet!? Some of my friends have started it, and they love it! However, they are still taking their Plexus products, too!

Here's Why-

On a ketogenic diet, you are basically cutting out all carbohydrates and sugar. Once your body is in a state of ketosis, it is then relying on fat for energy. Sounds easy enough, right? Well, not exactly. If your body is used to high carb intake and you take those away, it's possible you might experience what is known as the keto flu 🤢. It subsides, but your body feels achy & you are fatigued and irritable.

So, here's how Plexus can help:

✅ Plexus Slim: has chromium which helps normalize blood glucose levels, reducing cravings and providing energy and less irritably as your body enters ketosis. The prebiotics, XOS, feed the butirate that we NATURALLY have in our system to help produce more fatty-chain amino acids. What does this mean for you? Your body goes into fat-burning mode more easily!! 🔥 💪🏼 AND has only 2 carbs, so it has negative net carb impact on your Keto day! 👊🏻

✅ Plexus Biocleanse: contains magnesium which will help replenish your electrolyte levels, preventing muscle cramps, headaches, and trouble sleeping. (Keto/OS actually suggests taking a magnesium supplement while using their product)

✅ Plexus ProBio5: balances your gut health. Starting a diet like this can stress your gut leading to either constipation or even upset stomach as you are introducing higher levels of fats to your body.

✅Vitalbiome: reduces bloating and gut distress, improves digestion and regularity, makes you feel calmer, and improves mood.

✅ X Factor Plus: it's sugar free which is important on a keto diet!!! It contains Aloe, which increases absorption up to 300%, allowing your body to really absorb the vitamins and minerals. It also has vitamins B and C to help beat tiredness.

Plexus is a TOOL to aid you with overall health, and to build a solid foundation, you need to use multiple tools! ☺️

I can help you get started on this amazing stuff!!
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Apple Crisp

I had a bunch of apples floating around and I was wondering what to make with them. Then I thought its been a while since I had apple crisp. And I knew both the boys and Jon love it. Today was a cold day but a nice one. I thought apple crisp for dessert for supper would be a great finish to our day!

The first time I made this recipe I thought it was a little crazy that there was apple juice in the recipe. I noticed that the apple juice helps makes it more syrupy. You can add it or take it out the choice is yours. 

You will need:

For Filling:

6 medium baking apples, such as Granny Smith (2 1/2 to 3 pounds)

1/2 cup apple juice 

1/4 cup sugar 

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 cup flour

For Topping:

3/4 cup Flour

3/4 cup quick oats

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup  butter, melted (1 stick)

Directions

Preheat oven at 350 degrees

peel and cut up apples. Then put in bowl and mix sugar, cinnamon, and flour together and place in baking dish. Then pour in apple juice. 

then in another bowl combine flour, oats, brown sugar and butter then mix together until its like a crumble. Then spread on top of apples. 

Bake for hour. until apples are tender

Take out and let it cool a bit serve with vanilla ice cream or cool whip

Baked Porkchops, Cauliflower Rice, and Roasted Carrots

I am a crazy busy person. Not saying no one else is.. we all kind of have our busy.. or in my life.. crazy!! So I have a few blogs and a few other social media things that I am combing all together. You will see the changes over the next little while as I move everything to my own little corner of the internet! Please stay around there are some good things coming :) 

I have been trying really hard to make more healthier options for us to eat. Some are a go and some are a total flop but thats ok I tried!  Today we have baked pork chops, cauliflower fried rice and roasted carrots. It was really good! Lucky you, your getting 3 recipes in once blog!

Baked Porkchops

4 pork chops

Salt and paper

2 tablespoons olive oil

Directions:

Preheat oven at 400

take porkchops and sprinkle salt and pepper

cover baking sheet with tin foil then put olive oil on tin foil

then place the pork chops with salt and paper faceing down and the sprinkle more salt and pepper

then place in oven for a bout 20-30mins until nice and crispy

Cauliflower Fried Rice

You will need:

3 cups of cauliflower grated

1 tsp garlic 

2 tbsp olive oil

1/2 cup frozen peas

2 eggs scrambled

3 tbsp soy sauce

** you can add onions and mushrooms if you want I did**

Directions 

cook in a skillet on medium heat. Put in oil then add cauliflower and cook for about 5-7 mins. Then add garlic and peas and mix together. then create a well in the middle of the cauliflower place scramble eggs and let cook for a min or 2. Then mix all together. then add soya sauce. Let cook for another 5-10 mins until cauliflower is tender. 

Roasted Carrots

2 large carrots

2 tbsp olive oil

salt and pepper

Directions

Preheat oven at 400

I took the carrots and thinly sliced them and then mixed with olive oil and salt and pepper. Place on a cookie sheet with tin foil and bake for 15-20 mins

Do you take a Probiotic?

I have always loved learning about Plexus products. But lately I have been really into researching about our products especially the Plexus Probio 5. Many people do not know what a probiotic is  and why we need to take it. I never knew either! I just knew that it was good for me and that I should take one. 

When I talk to people about a probiotic they say oh yeah I take one its in my yogurt. I don't want to bash those companies but please make sure its a healthy yogurt. Not full of sugar or splenda! If it is its not good for you. 

I should warn you I am not a doctor. I am just someone who is very interested in my gut health and I could be wrong on some of these issues but I did do a lot of research.. also I am going to talk about Plexus Probio5... Plexus does not claim to cure or treat any of these symptoms and neither do I  :) 

You are born with natural probiotics in your body. But the big problem is when you do a round of antibiotics because it completely wipes out the good and the bad probiotics in your stomach. It leaves your gut defenseless. You gut is responsible for 85% of your immune system. if you have nothing left to defend your gut. you are going to have lots of issues. 

You are also born with yeast in your gut called candida. The only purpose of candida is to help decompose your body when you die. Candida feeds off alcohol, sugar, process foods, take out, deep fried foods, pasta, breads.. the list goes on. It also leads to a overgrowth of yeast and that can turn into a leaky gut. It grows on layers of your stomach and eat little holes in  the lining of your stomach. You gut should not have little holes. It should be locked down like a vault! So while you have these little holes foods get out into your body. NOTHING should leak out of your gut.. it should leave the way mother nature intended for it leave.. you know what I am sayin?

So if you gut is leaking food particles and such in your body and it will get into your blood stream thats probably not a good thing! when foreign particles are in your body your brain kind of freaks out and sends signals that something shouldn't be there and so then it attacks it. This is why a lot of people have food allergies and food sensitivities. For example Gluten sensitivity.. their body is leaking gluten so your body attacks it and it shouldn't be leaking.

Many people have issues that begin in their gut and may just need a good probiotic to help those issues. Like digestive issues, IBS, help preventing allergies, upset stomach, yeast infections, white tongue, UTI, joint pain, not regular (if you know what I mean) 

So you want to start a probiotic? and you probably have no idea where to even start. You go to a health food store or a drug store or even your local department store. By the way you should not be buying a probiotic at the same place you are buying your toilet paper.. just sounds wrong! 

So you are at a health food store... you go ask them for Probiotic and they take you to the refrigerator section and show you a probiotic with 30CFU or 50billion CFU. You are probably wondering what in the world is a CFU? its stands for Collonial Fungal Units.  Its the amount of good bacteria in the bottle. But one question.. WHY do you need so many???

What this CFU does is that they put all these good bacteria in your stomach and it helps crowd out the bad bacteria. Which is not a bad thing cause well you want it out. BUT it does not address the issue of the yeast overgrowth in your stomach. Its just flushing out the problem. 

Well first... they are refrigerated... Our bodies are NOT a fridge.  So if its has to in the fridge whats it doing to it when it its our mouths?  the temp of our body is WAY warmer than a fridge. Most bacteria begin to activate when they hit the heat and moisture in our mouths. By the time it hits your gut you only get about 20% to 30% bacteria has survived because it takes about 30mins to 90mins to get your gut. Some people pay up to $150 for a good probiotic. you don't need to pay that kind of money for a good probitoic. 

Plexus Probio5 doesn't have to be in fridge its freeze dried.  And its full of good ingredients!

Because our ingredients are freeze dried it they stay dormant until it hits your gut! It doesn't work until it gets a taste of the PH in your gut. 

Bacillus Coagulans is one of the 5 strains of bacteria. This is a bacteria strain that helps with digestive issues. It also helps with your immune system, abdominal pain, respiratory infections, allergies, and it attacks cancer fighting agents (isn't that cool?)

Saccharomyces boulardi is yeast... why would we put yeast in your stomach if we are trying to fight it? well good yeast fights bad yeast... This stuff helps with SKIN ISSUES!!  I have heard from people that it has helps with acne, flaky skin, enzyme, hives. So many issues. I have noticed that my acne is not as bad since starting this product. 

lactobacillus acidophilus is found in yogurt. However you need eat 21 small tubs of yogurt to match whats in one capsule of probio5. This helps with vaginal health and if you are lactose intolerant. 

bifidobacterium longum most good probiotics have this. it helps prevent infections and diseases, helps reduce cholesterol. Helps prevent cancer, reduces inflammation in your bowls and I love this one... bloating!! 

lactobacillus plantarum this stuff is found in sour kraut. Well kind of like the yogurt.. you need to eat 20-30 servings a day to get whats in one capsule of our probio.  This helps with the intestinal lining which in turns helps with your leaky gut!! This is also recommended for pregnant women. and if you are on an antibiotic this helps fight the antibiotic. 

Plexus probio 5 also has vitamin C which helps build you immune system and lowers your hypertension. It has b6 which is know to help with emotional disorders and hormone control and metabolism. 

Something else we have is Chitonese that no other probitoic has. You see there is a fungal in your gut that has an outer skin that like a beetle. in order to kill a beetle you need to smash it until the shell is crushed.  Chitin breaks the shell and kills the bacteria inside. its really good and really powerful. 

I encourage you to research the ingredients in your probiotic and learn about them. Every company is different and offer different ingredients that might help you. If you have any of the issues that have listed above I really encourage you to try a probiotic even if its just for a  month or 2.  If you are interested in our probiotic please send me a message on facebook I would love to help you out :)  Plexus has an amazing probiotic and we have a 60 day money back guarantee. Give it a try you have nothing to lose. 

What if this could change everything?

In March 2015 my husband, who was a truck driver out west, was layed off and sent home. We didn't know when or if he would be going back to Alberta. We struggled. We struggled really bad. My income just could not cover our expenses. Thankfully from help from our parents and LOTS of prayers we go through. My husband was able to find an amazing job here in NB and we said good bye to Alberta life.

We struggled for a while living paycheck to paycheck. Counting our pennies and being careful where we spent our money. I then became sick. I had mono and my tonsils were swelling and not going back to normal. Over months of not being able to do anything because I couldn't breathe or I would fall asleep doing stuff I just gave up. I became accustom to napping, not doing anything, sitting on the couch, eating whatever I wanted. I got in a rut. I was at my biggest I had ever been. But I was getting comfortable.

In October 2015 my friend Cheryl talked to me about Plexus. She was telling me how awesome this product was and how it helped her. I was happy for her that she found something that helped her with her fibromyalgia. But Plexus wasn't for me.

In November of 2015 I went to see a doctor he told me something that I didn't want to hear but it was the truth... He told me "You are fat and need to lose weight". That stuck with me. As much as I hated him for telling me that I knew it was the truth and I knew that something had to be done. So I started reading Cheryl's post about "this plexus stuff" just a little bit more.

The new year was creeping up and I was thinking of a new years resolution. I knew that I had to make some MAJOR changes in my life. I mean MAJOR! Once I was fully recovered from my surgery things were going to change. I was going to the gym and nothing was happening. I was watching what I was eating and going to the gym. I needed help.

In March of 2016, my husband and I were talking about our income tax and what were were going to do with our return that year. I told him that I wanted to give plexus a try. He said he did too! So I called up Cheryl and we talked about Plexus. She told us that the triplex was the way to go  and that if we were serious about Plexus that we should sign up as ambassadors that way we get our products at wholesale pricing and if we wanted we could try and sell it and make some money to help pay for our plexus.

At first I wasn't going to. I really didn't want to. I didn't have the time. I was working full time. Plus my photography business kept me busy. Plus my step sons were keeping me busy too. I didn't have the time!! But then I started reading about our compensation plan and about the rewards you could get. As I was learning about all this I thought wow! This is crazy!!

On April 1st 2016 I wrote my first post about Plexus. I hadn't even had my products yet. I just became passionate about these products. I kept ready testimonials from people on how this little pink drink is changing peoples lives. I received my products on April 14th and started them right away on the 15th. Within a few days I noticed I was sleeping better, I had more energy (Like I was cleaning my house at midnight), I had even lost a few pounds, and this was a big one I didn't want sugar!!

My mom had made this delicious cake and it looked so good. I took a big piece and ate 2 bites and was like I don't want this. My mom was in shock. I also noticed that when I was driving home I would stop and get a chocolate bar to give me energy to go home, I wasnt stopping anywhere. I was just driving. I noticed that I use to have tons of pains in my stomach when I had to go to the bathroom they were slowly disappearing.  This was just in the first week!!

By my 3rd week of Plexus I had ranked Silver in the company. I had made enough money to pay for not only my plexus for the month by my husbands. I had also received a $100 bonus for ranking. By the end of the month I had made enough money to by plexus for my husband and I for 3 months.

Its been 21 months since I began my plexus journey. Every month my products are paid for. The only money I have had to pay out to plexus is extra products I want or things like that. Each month my products are paid for. Because of my plexus income we have been able to do so much more with our family. In 2016 we took 2 vacations to PEI (you all know thats not cheap) plexus paid for that. I remember watching the kids play on the beach and I became so overwhelmed with emotion because I wasnt there stressing about money or how we were going to pay for things. Plexus paid for both vacations. Plexus paid for our annual Canada Day party we have at our house. The first year it paid for all and this last year not paid for all but quite a bit of it.  Plexus has helped us with bills and when things break. I talked to a friend one day about Plexus she asked me if I was making money selling plexus? I said yes I told her about our trip to PEI. She was like wow! Thats financial freedom!

Over the almost 2 years of my plexus journey I have lost 20lbs and kept the weight off, I have lost 5 inches and kept that off. I don't crave sugar (sometimes but its more of a treat), I crave water, I have more energy, I sleep better, I haven't been as sick as often, my skin tags are disappearing, I don't have dandruff as bad, dry skin patches I use to have no longer have them, IBS issues are nil, I use to be lacrose intollerant, I go regularly, my skin is clearer. Then lost goes on and on and on.

I have learned that plexus isn't all about weight loss. its about gut health. I now watch what I eat and I work out. I think about what I eat. We still eat take out food from time to time. We are still human. But I will never go back to the way I was.

If you have taken the time to read this whole story and you feel like you should be on this journey with me. I have a special promo code just for you. I want you to be apart of this journey with me. I have a promo code so you don't have to pay to become a ambassador, plus you get 10% off your welcome pack plus many more perks.

The first photo was October 2015. The Second photo was December 2016 and the last photo was December 2017. I have stayed consistent on my products. I take them every day. Look was 2 years has done. 

A New Year

2017... I don't even know where to begin. I have been so Blessed. I always say the past year has been such a great year I have no idea how this new year is going to top it Well 2016 was a great year.. but 2017 was even beter I am not quite sure how 2018  could get any better!

This last year Plexus has been amazing. They introduced a new plexus slim and 3 new products. I have been loving the new slim. I find it tastes more like a lemonade but my hubby thinks its like a watermelon jolly rancher. The business side has been amazing and my team is growing! Plexus also announced its launch in Canada for 2018. Which has to be the best news of all. I am excited to see what this does for my plexus team this year. Its cool to think that the teams that I am on will be part of bringing this to Canada. Watch out Canada. 

As a photographer this year has just been out of this world amazing. I haven't stopped taking photos since last christmas. Just when I think I might have a break I just keep going. I have been just so blessed. I am thankful for each and every client I have had this year. You each have a special place in my heart! 

I have done a lot personally that has really changed me. I have learned to say No... though I still say yes from time to time. I am really to say NO without feeling guilty. I also have been getting rid of toxic people in my and focusing on the people who really want to be in my life. I have learned to take some me time for myself and not feel guilty about that either! 

2017 has brought just as many downs as ups. But I have learned to have a little more faith. I have been always prayed but this last year I have prayed a lot more to God than I usually do. My faith and my trust in God has been a lot stronger this last year.

I am getting excited for 2018. I already have a lot on my plate already. I am excited to see where my plexus business is going to go this year especially with the new launch. I am excited to see where my photography business is going to go. Its already sky rocketing. I also have a few other projects on teh go that I am excited about. 

My new years resolutions are few because I really don't believe in making resolutions. I want to be kinder to people. I want to do more random acts of kindness. I want to be more fierce and take more risks. I am excited to see what 2018 has in store for not only me but my family. 

I hope that each and every one of you have an amazing new year. I hope that 2018 just blows 2017 out of the water. Happy New Year!!

2016....

This morning I sit quietly at my computer I think about what a year 2016 has been. God has Blessed me beyond anything I could have ever imagined. Both in my photography business and my plexus business.  Can you believe that its 2017! Where did 2016 go? The year literally flew by 

I started off 2016 in not such a good note. I wasn't feeling good and still recovering from my surgery. But after being off work for a few weeks I knew what I wanted in 2016. I knew that I had to start taking time for myself. But I felt guilty. I felt guilty like most women do. Taking time for Paige wasn't always my top priority... everyone else was. That needed to change and it needed to change quickly. 

Once I realized that taking time for myself wasn't selfish it was necessary things in my life started changing. I started feeling better about myself. I started being more positive about things. I taught
myself to say no from time to time and not feel guilty. 

In April I made the decision to give Plexus a try and my hubby wanted to join with me. I knew that we could not afford plexus. So we (I) signed up as ambassador. We wanted to get our products at wholesale pricing and we wanted to try and get our products paid for. With in 2 weeks of starting Plexus not only did I have our products paid for I was able to rank in the company. 

When I started Plexus with in a few days I started noticing a difference. I noticed that I had more energy, that I wasn't as tired, and that I had been sleeping better since my surgery. Within a week I had lost almost 10lbs, I didn't crave sugar anymore, and I started feeling better about myself. Before Plexus on my way to work I would stop 2 or 3 times just to wake up and on the way home I would stop at the Blackville Irving or Grocery store to get a Pepsi or get some chocolate just to get me home. Now I don't stop I drive home. I was also too tired to come home and cook so I would stop and get some take out. I now come home and cook supper we barely eat take out anymore. I also was addicted to Pepsi. I even had an emergency bottle in the cupboard and warned my  husband that if he ever touched it he may have his hands cut off. Not anymore!! There is very rarely pop in our house.

As almost every family, my family was living from pay check to pay check and extra's like vacations etc were not priority on our list. Since becoming a Plexus Ambassador and being consistent my family started having a little extra money to help pay for vacations and extra fun stuff that we just couldn't afford. My husband and I every year have an annual Canada Day party for our friends and family. This year Plexus paid for almost all of it! and guess what?? My husband and I haven't had to pay for our Plexus products since we started. Its all been paid for :) 

As I welcome 2017 I am excited that weight loss isn't at the top of my list resolutions. Its kinda nice. But it is to continue on this journey to become a healthier me. One thing that I would like to do is add more daily exercise to my routine as I have struggled with that this year. I also want to help more people feel as amazing as I do and help them reach their goals. 

Plexus has been such a blessing to my family and I want to share that with everyone. If you have reach rock bottom or you are tired of being sick and tired. Contact me! I was there. I couldn't do it anymore. This was the answer I was looking for. You get a 60 day money back guarantee on EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT even if the bottles are empty! You got nothing to lose! 

I hope my amazing customers, my awesome Plexus teams, and my family and friends have a Happy New Year. I hope that 2017 is your best year yet :)