Just a quick update to say that today is better. I only had tears once today. That is major improvement.
I am also wanting to quickly share that I have got on the bandwagon by starting with Reliv. I am so excited. My friend and her mom are both distrutors and J and I signed up last night too. J and I had our first shake last night, yum. I had one this morning, J did not. His loss. I find that I am not drowsy today. I ate less for lunch and had more vegetables than usual and I am satisfied. Good thinngs are gonna happen! My mom bought me a plaque with that saying and I keep reminding myself of that.
Blessings to you all and thank you so much for your prayers and support. I am in such awe that I have this support system of the most amazing women I know. I am thankful to God every day for you all and that God led me to find friendship and encouragement here! Who'd thunk it???
Keep up the positive attitude...it's a blessing and it's contagious. Woohoo!!! Good luck with the shakes.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you are feeling a bit better. I hope that the shakes work for you.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad to hear that you're feeling better. I'm interested to know how the shakes go. Still praying for you and J!
ReplyDeleteGlad you joined the bandwagon! I can't believe you put re.liv and yum in the same sentence. You must be crazy! ;)
ReplyDeleteMy mother is on the S.implicity part of reliv and she LOVES it! Listen to this, she took the one celebrate(I think that is what it is called) It's an appetite suppressant in shake form. She had a resonable dinner at 4pm. Worked night shift from 7pm-7am. And at 745 didn't eat ONE THING! Isn't that amazing!!! :)
I meant 745am! :)
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're doing better. I probably shouldn't set foot in this territory, but Reliv sounds like it's sold through a multi-level marketing system (nutrisystem? quixtar? maybe another one?). The products may be great and, if you really like them (if they actually work for you - regardless of what the distributors say about them, since they're very heavily trained), by all means buy them - check the grocery and nutrition stores first, though, to make sure the same active ingredients aren't available for half or a quarter of the price (this is frequently true and you should ignore claims of "yes those are the same ingredients but it's our SPECIAL BLENDING that makes them magically effective"). But please, please, do not get involved in the actual multi-level marketing part. The people at the top of the pyramid make money when everyone at the bottom signs up someone below them, and so on. They do this by massively marking up the products and charging a staggered commission on them all the way down (you can even get a little of that yourself, but it will never outweigh the degree to which they're marked up). It's not actually illegal. But, I think it's really opposite gospel principles (using those with less money to increase your wealth, rather than giving what you have to the poor). If anyone in this organization starts telling you things like "Joey got a bigger house by developing his downline and so can you, doing just what he did" or "you can both quit your jobs and work from home," or other claims of wealth or using this business to replace an ordinary job, I exhort you to run the other way. For everyone who got rich off of these business models there are quite literally a thousand people who went into debt, lost friends, sometimes lost their homes and entire savings and were financially ruined. BTW, I'm not an embittered former distributor of anything; I'm an attorney and I learned about these businesses through my legal work. If you want to know more about MLMs in general, feel free to drop me an email. Also, I am NOT impugning the integrity of your friends. They got the same pitch you did - a sincere explanation about a great(-seeming?) product from good people who haven't been told how the real business works (yet?).
ReplyDeleteIf I'm way off base on what you guys are interested in, please forgive the rant. I can't restrain myself, because from what I have seen, these businesses can really harm people's lives (although Protestants are much easier targets than Catholics, in general).