This is my family... My husband Mark and myself (Suzie) and our little guy. This picture was taken during our last vacation in August 2009 at a little restaurant in St. Andrews... Canada.
Beautiful scenery and tides!! Had a great time visiting some friends... Love you guys! :)
I had to write and tell you some new results Mark & I have noticed in the short time we've been eating Xocai. We've officially been eating the chocolate 3 times a day for 1 week as we started Friday morning...October 30th.
Mark still has yet to need his prescription heartburn medication... Being the skeptic, he stopped taking it the day he started eating the chocolate just to see what would happen. He has the occasional burning sensation, but nothing yet that triggers him to want even so much as a Tums. Considering he was hurting usually by lunchtime if he even missed one dose is saying something. He's relieved to be away from the medication and expects the occasional mild burning that he does have to become even less over time.
I have noticed several things about myself... I have carpal tunnel syndrome and withit I have numbness in my right hand and fingers at times, and even pains that shoot up through my arm and shoulder when my carpal tunnel flairs. When I started eating the chocolate last week, I had been having some shoulder pain. I tend to forget about the numbness, but when the pains come I notice. I've tried wrist braces and have trouble sleeping with them on. My brother-in-laws girlfriend is a massage therapist and she's done some massage for me which relieves the tension and pain for quite awhile, but it does return. I've known for some time that I would probably be facing surgery for the carpal tunnel, but have been avoiding it. I noticed Wednesday night at a meeting that my shoulder wasn't hurting anymore and my numbness was gone... Yeah! Hadn't even thought about it until someone else mentioned their pain was gone... funny how quickly you forget about pains when they're gone.
Another change for me... a bit embarrassing, but here goes. I suffer from what is probably irritable bowel syndrome and my time in the restroom is seldom. I think this is becoming more and more common in America with our stress levels, diet, and exercise or lack there of. I'm usually very careful about what we eat and try to keep things healthy, lowfat and high in fiber... confessing that when we eat out it's sometimes a different story. I've noticed that since I've been eating the chocolate, things have been more regular and easier in the bathroom.... something even added fiber supplements didn't often help me with.
We haven't noticed any changes in our 4 yr old so far. He gets a quarter of my serving 3 times a day after his meals. He doesn't ask for more and knows it's his serving of "special chocolate". He's even come to the place where he says, "Thanks Mommy" each time I give him a piece.. So Cute! :)
Oh... & one more thing we've noticed this week... Hubby and I love the occasional buffet. We are the frugal type as you may note from my other blog, so a buffet is a "get your moneys worth" meal out. We went to a buffet with my sister and her husband this week and were both had a salad and had just started on our dinner plate and were full... no going back, no wanting dessert, couldn't finish the first hot plate we got... either of us. We were both a bit lost with the feeling we had... as we usually enjoy a buffet. Neither of us felt like we could handle any more food and we didn't "get our moneys worth" on that trip. It was a bitter sweet kind of feeling and both of us decided that now that we're eating chocolate, we probably won't be wanting buffet style meals anymore.
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