Ok, so are there side effects??

One of my residents came in to my office today and said to me "ok Kris, I have to know what you're doing, you look amazing" So I talked to her a little while about Herbalife and how amazing it is, etc etc. She says "ok, but are there side effects?" I said oh god yes, there are tons, sit down let me tell you about them.

1. Your hair, it will grow out of control. You will either have to embrace your natural hair color or be prepared to be at the salon twice as often.

2. Your nails, again will grow so fast that getting acrylics is silly, you will be going in for fills once a week. Plus your nails will be so strong you wont need them, you will have to learn to give yourself manicures at home!

3. You will find that you have nothing to wear, because things stop fitting. Even your "skinny" day pants will soon be your "not even on my fattest day" pants. You will be begging friends for their good will clothes.

4. Your energy... You will have more energy than you will know what to do with, your house will get cleaned in ways only reserved previously for tweakers. You will constantly want to go for walks, hikes, outside in general.

5. Your kids will freak out. "why do you seem so much happier mommy" is a common question I got at first. They will wonder why all the sudden you want to play on the playground at the park with them, why you dont mind running around the backyard, and not complaining that you are too tired to play.

6. Your dog will hate you. My dog sees me putting on my shoes and looks at me like "god AGAIN woman?" But eventually they will get used to the daily morning and afternoon walks.

7. People will start calling you names. Like "skinny" "crazy fitness lady" "obsessed with being fit" etc.

8. Your face will hurt... From smiling, constantly.

9. Your spouse may get friskier, you may end up sleeping less....... just sayin.

10. People will constantly be bugging you with "oh my god you look amazing, what are you doing!"

This is just the start of the side effects from Herbalife.. but personally I LOVE EVERY ONE OF THEM!

blast from the past

So here's a little background on me for those who may not know. When I was 15 I was in a car accident that would forever change my life. I was a passenger in a car that was hit broad side at about 45-50 mph. I almost lost my life that night, but you wouldn't have known by looking at me, because all of my injuries were internal. I was rushed into emergency surgery to remove 2 1/2 feet of necrotic bowel that had been damaged from the seat belt and was threatening my life. I woke up 2 days later in ICU with a colostomy bag. If you don't know what that is, google it, its not a cute or fun thing for a VERY active 15 year old cheerleader. However, fate be damned because I had worked all summer on my cheers and I would NOT be put down. I told my surgeon on my check up visit that I was cheering with my bag turned sideways, he said to me "girl, you must be superwoman!" Thankfully the colostomy was not a permanent thing, only 8 weeks. So 8 weeks later I went back and had it taken down, leaving me with a big ugly scar that no 15 year old girl who desperately wants to wear a bikini should have to deal with. However, always the trooper I sucked it up and dealt with it, thinking that this ugly mess would forever be behind me. Little did I know that this one car accident would cause several subsequent surgeries! (By the way they took my appendix out on the second surgery because it looked like it was "going bad"

Now living without 2 1/2 feet of colon and an appendix is not really a very big deal, you hardly realize it most days. Fast forward several years (and 2 pregnancies) later I started feeling bloated. It felt like every time I would eat something that my stomach was trying to come out through my throat. Finally after several months I knew something was wrong. I went to the Dr and said I don't think this lump *pointing to just below the left side of my ribs* is supposed to be here. They sent me immediately for an ultra sound. Side note here kids, when your ultra sound tech puts her hand over her mouth and says "oh my" or "what the" under her breath, its not usually a good sign. After I left I got a call from the Dr, pack my bags and go to the hospital. Why, in his sweet words "we aren't totally sure, but it looks weird".... you never want to hear your doctor say WEIRD in a sentence either by the way.

Ok so long story short I had an 8" "Traumatic cyst" attached to my spleen. Now once they figured it was a cyst I knew I could deal with it. Cysts usually have a very low percentage of being cancerous. They tried for 2 days to drain the cyst to avoid removing my spleen but in the end decided it would be best to remove the whole big ugly tangled mess. Another side note for the kids following along, any time they open your stomach for surgery it not only cuts through EVERY abdominal muscle you have, but they literally take out ALL your intestines to move them out of the way, makes for really fun recovery. So living without a spleen wouldn't be much different than before right? Wrong. Bring on the weight gain....

We are fast forwarding again here, several years, another baby, a bad marriage and depression ensued. I started feeling "ick" again. Damnit, I had learned by now when my body started to act weird that I better go to the doc. Well one night after dinner I threw up... bloody and had terrible pain under my sternum. A trip to the ER revealed that once again I would need something removed, this time my gall bladder. Joy of joys. Now the doc had said it would be laproscopic.. meaning I wouldnt have yet another recovery from yet another cutting open of my stomach.. not so lucky, you see when you mess with insides and then try to pack them all back in, its like trying to put play dough back in the canister, it never looks as pretty as when you opened it the first time. My small intestine had wrapped itself around my gall bladder so they had to cut me open, again. This time my recovery took much longer than before because I was at my highest weight to that point, 200lbs. After that my weight started to steadily incline.

I knew that I needed to eat healthier, not only because of all the bull I'd been through, not only because I weighed WAY more than was healthy for my size, but because that was NOT the legacy I wanted to leave for my kids. My mom had weighed 300lbs most of my life, and we were very limited on the things we could or would go do. I was not about to drag my kids through all of that.

Luckily for me the winds of change were a blowin.. my friend Kattie who I've known since we were like 6 years old was an Herbalife Wellness Coach, and she would post on facebook almost daily about her clients and their weight loss results and I would think oh wow good for them, la dee da.. as I was shoveling terrible, fat riddled foods into my compromised digestive system. It wasnt until the day she posted that her client had reported a month without a headache... HOLD THE PHONE... this stuff COULD help with my migraines? My insane life altering, want to kill people migraines?? I called Kattie that day and said ok, I'm in, lets do this. You can read more about that in my other blogs but its been 3 months and its been an incredible ride!

*Workin on my "after" picture!! (CANNOT BELIEVE I AM POSTING THESE PICTURES, but if it helps ONE PERSON feel this amazing I dont care!!!)

 Before (July 24, 2012)

 During (9/26/12) THATS 2 Months!