Saturday, October 27, 2018

My latest book project

The Keto diet has become very popular. 

Many of you know I have been doing the Keto diet with my husband for the past 100 days. We both managed to lose quite a bit of weight, I lost a total of 30 pounds and my husband lost over 35 pounds.  I have been blogging daily during our weight loss journey and I decided to turn my blog posts into a self-published book, which is now available on Amazon. 

I am excited to share this book with the hope that it might be helpful for anyone who is also considering the Keto diet. I don’t offer any medical advice; this isn’t a cookbook. I am simply sharing a day-by-day look at my Keto journey.  


Keto is not new, doctors have been prescribing ketogenic diets to treat epilepsy for nearly a century, and some doctors think Keto may hold some promise for people with Type 2 diabetes. 

Many famous stars including Halle Berry, LeBron James and the Kardashians have endorsed using the Keto diet. 

If you are interested in the Keto diet, or know someone who is please check out 100 Days of Keto by Laurie WJN on Amazon Link: http://a.co/d/57balkj

And add it to your list of books on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42286757-100-days-of-keto


Friday, October 26, 2018

20 Day Mental Wellness Challenge

I saw this online and decided it would be a great thing to do. 

Here is my list for Day 2

10 Things I am grateful for:

1.    My amazing husband- Peter is so loving and supportive of everything I do. He is kind and fun and funny and he makes my life better each and every day.
2.    My two incredible daughters – they are intelligent, compassionate and loving women who make me proud every single day.  
3.    My perfect grandson – William is the light of my life, he is smart and sweet and each day I marvel at how he is growing into a fabulous human.
4.    My Dad – I am so lucky that my Dad is still around and he is the very best role model for the kind of person that I want to be. He is truly an example of the greatest generation; caring for his children, his grandchildren and now his great grandchildren. 
5.    My beautiful home – I am always grateful to live in my house with our stunning view and our pool. My house is my happy place.
6.    My great friends – I am grateful for having good friends that I have known for years as well as more recent friends like my fabulous book club ladies. Friends add so much to my life.
7.    My dog – I can’t write a list without including my fur baby. I am lucky to have had several dogs in my lifetime who have added so much to my life. Lexi is sweet and such a special girl. She makes me feel loved everyday.
8.    My car – There is nothing quite like driving a convertible, especially in the gorgeous Arizona fall and spring. 
9.    The chance to travel – I am so very fortunate I have had the opportunity to travel quite a bit, seeing most of this country and many countries around the world. Travelling is an experience that changes your life. 
10.Words– I am grateful for the ability to write and my love of words; reading and writing have brought so much to my life. 

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Feminism is not just for other women. Know your history

I found this incredible list online and just had to share:
10 THINGS WOMEN COULDN'T DO IN 1971
1. Get credit cards in their own names.
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 gave women that right. The law forced credit card companies to issue cards to women without a husband’s signature.

2. Legally get an abortion.
The seminal Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to choose, didn’t happen until 1973.

3. Access the morning after pill. Or birth control.
The FDA first approved emergency contraception in 1998. The morning after pill didn't become available over the counter until 2013.
1965 The Supreme Court (in Griswold v. Connecticut) gave married couples the right to use birth control. 
It wasn't until 1972 The Supreme Court (in Baird v. Eisenstadt) that single women's access to birth control was legalized in all 50 states. 

4. Be guaranteed they wouldn’t be fired for getting pregnant.
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 added an amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, specificyng that employers could not discriminate “on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.”

5. Marry another woman.
Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage in 2004. That right wasn't extended to all 50 states until 2015. For the pitifully pedantic.......that right did include men. 

6. Fight on the front lines.
Women were first admitted into military academies in 1976. And in 2013, the military ban on women in combat (tied to a Pentagon rule from 1994) was lifted by Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta. Prior to 1973 women were only allowed in the military as nurses or support staff. 

7. Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment.According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.
The 1986 case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, was first time the Supreme Court recognized "sexual harassment" as a violation of Title VII.

8. Decide not to have sex if their husbands wanted to.
Spousal rape wasn’t criminalized in all 50 states until 1993.

9. Obtain health insurance at the same monetary rate as a man. Sex discrimination wasn't outlawed in health insurance until 2010. Until then, insurers regularly charged women more than men for even the most basic insurance.

10. Keep your husband who had been convicted of spousal abuse from owning a gun. Voisine v. United States, 579 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that reckless misdemeanor domestic violence convictions trigger gun control prohibitions on gun ownership. In other words, until this year, the man that was convicted of beating the crap out of you and your children was still allowed to own a gun and keep it in your house if you decided to still live with him. In his house if you managed to get out.

In 1880 the age of "consent" was set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware, where it was 7.

This is why we all need to VOTE! 

*credit for this amazing list goes to Lisa Bialac-Jehle, https://www.facebook.com/LisaBialacJehle/