Newbie!

[Guest guest]

Greetings, and well met!

My name is Candace, and I am a *total* newbie to 'total' or 'traditional'

foods... Okay, so maybe not a TOTAL newbie.. after all, the woman who referred

me to this group is my Aunt - June Varner <grins> . I've been " lurking " for a

few days...and have already learned *SO* much...but not enough! I'm dying

(almost literally) to learn more.

As a bit of a background, I am thirty three years young, have two phenomenal

daughters ( Summer - 13 and - 10 ) who are just beginning to get into

their looks, and even some modified sports at school. My husband, Lou, is a

Detective Lt. for one of our local PDs and is really supportive of my desire to

completely revamp our lifestyles and eating habits. <G> Honestly, he doesn't

care, as long as dinner is on the table when he gets home, and he has enough

money left over to continue the final stages of his restoration of his 1971

Duster 340!

My mom, while having suffered with problem after problem with her health, always

fed myself, my sister and my step-brother good, wholesome, healthy foods. We

never had a tremendous amount of money, but she did really well. I've fallen

out of the habit of mom's style of cooking and eating since I've gotten older,

barely having the appetite for ONE meal, much less three with snacks in between!

My sister is far worse then I am - she doesn't know how to cook anything but

scrambled eggs and boxed mac and cheese... (thankfully her gentleman friend is

great in the kitchen).

I guess I'm really joining this group because... I'm scared. I'm 33, as I

said... I'm very overweight (runs throughout mom's side - but no excuse), I am

coming up with adult onset allergies, severe enough to put me in the hospital

with anaphylaxis...my hair is thinning... my digestive system is completely out

of whack (though the Kefir from the Lifeway company reallllllly is making a

tremendous difference now!). My family is notorious, either on one side or

another, for Heart Disease...High Blood Pressure.. High Cholesterol...and

auto-immune disorders. My daughters , aged 10, suffered from a severely

under-active thyroid... Summer has the antibodies that will one day attack her

thyroid, as well. My mom had severe ulcerative colitis as a child and lives

with an iliostomy - my sister has collogenous colitis (similar, but not as

bad)... My dad, before he passed on last year, had astronomical blood pressure

and cholesterol....

With all these ailments and maladies.... who wouldn't have their eyes opened?!

So ... here I come... to learn and be all cutesy friendly with everyone...

heheheheh

Thanks for having this group!

Candace

Newburgh, NY!!!

(where it's 27* F and sunny! YAY!)

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