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Chug, Chug, Chug

6/26/2013

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 No, we are not going to relive your college years (if you remember them or not) what we are talking about today is your relationship with wonderful H2O. In our office, we tell people to drink half their body weight in ounces in water per day (more pending on their activity level). 
The responses we get are quite humorous:


> "There is water in my ice in my whiskey"  (add grumpy cowboy-ish accent)
>"Water is an ingredient of beer, I will make sure to increase my intake" (add surfer like accent)
>"I don't like water, it makes me have to pee" (add older conservative women accent-whatever that sounds like :)
Your body is 2/3 water, not 2/3 pop (aka soda for you southerners), not 2/3 syrupy water additive, not 2/3 coffee, not 2/3 Crystal light. The earth is also 2/3 water- how ironic. Your brain is actually 80% water- what do you want to replenish it with? Hint Hint- the answer is WATER


How much water are you drinking per day? Honestly
PictureWell, this is called Tips To Thrive
#1. First thing in the morning, before you even get in the shower, drink a full glass of water. Does that sound like the most fun thing with your morning breath? Nooo but you will be amazed at how your skin plumps after the shower instead of getting all wrinkly when you dry it.

#2. Print out a picture of something you love. It could be your spouse, snorkling, puppies, your kids, a favorite vacation, unicorns, whatever and use clear packing tape and smack it onto your new best friend (your water bottle). You will magically drink more water! This works because you will look at your bottle
 more because subconsciously you are drawn to that picture and that reminds you to drink more water. Voila, Magic!

#3. Add mint, lemon, lime or even cucumber to your water. It changes it up a bit, looks pretty and for the lemon and lime, it helps with your PH (we will talk about that in a future post-PH is PHun).

#4. Use a straw, you drink more that way. I don't know why, but it has been studied and proven by someone-I swear. Some say, they don't use a straw because it will give you wrinkles around your mouth, but duh... you will know you don't need to worry about that if you read the next blog post "Make Love Not Wrinkles".


#5. Don't worry about the whole "ICE" or "NO ICE" controversy. If putting ice in your water makes is more appetizing for you, then do it! Cold Water is WAAAAY better than No Water!

#6. Put all of the non-water beverages in the back of your fridge behind larger items so essentially, you don't see them. Then don't buy more and celebrate the savings - Yeah!!

#7. Eat lots of fresh juicy fruits and veggies, they are packed with water!

#8. Every time you go to the bathroom, throw your hands in the air and give yourself a little "Woot Woot", because you are showing that your H20 has increased. It's a Party in the Potty!

#9. Have a water drinking contest with your family or co-workers. Track how much your drink during the day and at the end of the week, the winner gets a pack of toilet paper and VERY happy kidneys.


 If you are thirsty, then you are already dehydrated.
If you have a "sticky" sensation in your mouth, you are already dehydrated.
If you are hungry, chances are you are just thirsty
If you have a headache, chances are you are dehydrated
 
PictureOur bodies are soooo cool!
 Your body needs water, it is not opinion. It is fact. What else does your body need? Nerve Impulse! Your body needs to be able to talk to itself and it does that through messages sent from the brain through the spinal cord and out through the nerves and out to the cells from there and then back to the brain. This system- your nervous system, which is the system that communicates to every muscle, tissue, organ and cell, can be interfered with by any pressure on the nerves. Even the weight of a dime can cut the nerves ability to communicate by 60% and you still might not feel it. Guess who makes sure that your nervous system is not interfered with? Chiropractors!- you are so smart!  Stress (chemical, emotional and physical) tug and wrench on the body in different ways. We all have stress, but we can't let it wreak havoc on us. By getting adjusted by a vitalistic chiropractor, your body can handle and process those stresses better by functioning at its highest potential, without interference. Yes. Drink Water. and YES, Get Adjusted. 
Find your local vitalistic chiropractor and get checked to see if you have any interference that is keeping you back from being more awesome! 


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Squirrel Guts

6/3/2013

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PictureThe squirrel needed to be sporting this gear!
           Squirrel's beware, We have killer kitties! 
When our fuzzy bundles of joy were only 10 months old, we knew they were little killing machines. They 1st brought home grasshoppers, butterflies... then small birds... then larger birds THEN... it happened. I walked in the front door and at my feet on the rug there was my cute kitty Skima, eating the insides out of a freshly killed adult furry woodland creature. She was licking her chops since she had just polished off all of the organs. 
          Now, I have given birth twice, butchered meat and watched my fair share of nasty surgery videos- but embarrassingly enough I screamed like a little sissy girl and started doing the "icky dance", like I was trying to shake off the memory in a weird 1979 kinda way.   

PictureAren't they cute?
Aside from the "great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts", it got me thinking (after I finished the icky dance) Skima knew innately to eat the organs, that they had the most nutritious value of her prey. She did not go straight for the bones, the nose or the tail (totally grossed out right now). She did not need to: 
> go to a Nutrition for Kitties 101 class, 
>have a professional cat teach her what to eat first 
>nor were the squirrels innards labeled "biggest bang for your nutritional buck right here!" 
We all have an innate wisdom (including kitties) that knows what to do. When we cut our finger, it heals. When we twist an ankle, it swells to immobilize the joint. When we smell food, we start to salivate. All of these things and thousands more are apart of our innate wisdom that we don't need to "make" happen- they happen naturally. Suh-weeeet, stuff I don't need to do personally. Talk about a checklist I don't want to be in charge of!

PictureLove this pic! Try it, it does not mold
So why is it that we as humans are so confused about what to eat? My 10 month old kitty knew exactly what to do, why do we- the most advanced species on our planet- put stuff in our bodies that has no nutritional value or stuff that does more harm than good? 
Some may say that fast food is more affordable than fresh food. Well, there is nothing farther from the truth. Let's look at some stats:



> 68.8% of adults in America are overweight or obese (CDC stat)
>Obesity related healthcare cost per year $240,000,000,000 (Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser)
> Plus the Over $60,000,000,000 (http://www.worldometers.info/weight-loss/) minimally each year is spent in weight loss products /divide those by the 
>Population of America is 313 million (United States Census)
>Doing the math: Additional spending of $958 per every man, woman and child per year to their cheap fast food. For a family of 4 that eat fast food 1x/wk: add $74 bucks to your "Value Menu"- That would change the line at the drive thru!
>Now, add that my family of 4 does not go to the golden arches, most of my friends do not and I am guessing tons of other people who are health conscious don't so all of our $958 gets added to those that are partaking in the drive thru epidemic.

> I love knowing that I just raised my income by $3,832! MORE MATH, Yeah! 
> 65 (retiring age) - 18 (considered an adult)= 47 years of employment. Multiply that by my new income= Holy Crap!! That is $180,104- that is more than the Power Ball ever threw my way- WAY MORE. (Yes, I know I didn't have children at the age of 18 and that they will move out at some point in time- but you get the drift :)

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Your body requires clean fuel to keep you moving.  Listen to your body and feed it tons of veggies and lean protein (and I don't mean covered in "fat free "sauce).  It does make a difference! 
If you have digestive issues, go and see your local vitalistic chiropractor that can make sure the nerves that tell the stomach and intestines what to do are working properly. Yes, eat as clean as you can and go get adjusted! 

It will change your life!


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    Bethany Niccum is passionate about educating and inspiring others to live a more authentic experience. She saves lives through Thrive with her husband Trapper, who is the primary chiropractic doctor at the practice. Bethany has 2 boys, 2 cats and lives in paradise-Durango, CO. She also runs the Women's Idea Exchange, which is a brainstorming group  to give functional feedback to small female owned businesses.

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