We want to get our weight off for our health. My husbands spinal doc has told him to lose it or he risks another surgery in a few years. He had back surgery two years in a row July of ,2019 and November of 2020, and in October of 2021 he had a minor knee surgery, and a hernia surgery in 2022, and although the surgeries all went great and healed beautifully, he has to lose 40 pounds to avoid further back surgeries and more hernias as well, and I have to get the weight off to get rid of all the health issues I am dealing with, so we are on working hard to help him lose the weight and stop the inflammation . I am working with him to lose weight to deal with my issues, which is metabolic syndrome and all the pre issues that come along with it. We are taking on the challenge of changing the way we eat to keep him healthy and prevent further back damage . I also need to lose the weight pretty urgently as well. With metabolic syndrome and some health issues I have so far kept at bay, I cannot hold them off much longer if I do not get the weight off. We are changing our food choices for life. Eating real food and doing our best to make good food choices.It is actually fun and easy and we are very determined to be healthy and feel this is the best way for us to get there. This is our health at stake, we have to lose it and keep it off. So, that is what we are doing, one day at a time !!! We love our new plan because no food is off limits, we just have to choose wisely to have the foods we want. Trying to stay lower fat and whole food, keep away from processed stuff.
I also am on a search for who I am now. Raising kids changed me as it does everyone, and who I was before them, might not be who I want to be. I have always been a writer and artist , photographer , and a maker. I just need to find out what to write and what kind of art I want to do. What do I want to make ? I last updated this about page a couple of years ago, and a lot of stuff has changed but my search for me has not. I am more confused than ever about what path I want to take. But what I want to do with that channel, and my overall creative life is what I want to figure out. I started baby sitting our youngest grandaughter right after I started the channel which made it harder to really give my all to the channel and the plans I had for the channel kind of fell to the side. It was hard to do it all.
Now in 2024 we are baby sitting the same grandaughter as well as her 4 year old brother. She is now going on seven and I am homeschooling her as her mom had to go back to work and we decided we wanted to kids to come here. I have been homeschooler for about two years but she asked to go to school and so both kids are starting school next month and that will give my husband and I our days back when they are in school but we can still enjoy them on school holidays and we see them on weekends too !Mom is working to get a job with the school district which would be idea for her, the kids and of course us as well !! My biggest goal right now is I want to get rid of the weight and the weight related health issues once and for all and start spreading my wings and doing some things that interest me , excite me, and challenge me and maybe even terrify me, although if starting a YouTube channel did not even faze me , nothing really should .
If you are interested in my channel it is
Stephie’s Beads Baubles and Treasures.
Here is a link to my link tree , it gives you links to pretty much everything I am doing online, channels, blogs, Instagram and my shops.
https//:linktr.ee/stephiesbeadsbaubles
I do beading and jewelry tutorials and also share treasures I have found. Many I sell on Etsy and Ebay.
So, that is another part of what I am doing, . I have a blog for that channel too. It is all on the link tree link above.
We are also on a mission to declutter and purge our home and out buildings. We want to eliminate about half our stuff and have some epic yard sales along the way !!!
So, to sum it up, this is my journey, and welcome to it !!!
Stephie
here are some pictures of my studio , the place I spend a lot of my day and post these blog posts, not often this clean, but how I like it to look, lol !!! These were taken in September of 2021 so not quite accurate but not much has really changed in my studio over the last couple of years since I last did a small update.
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