The Frizzies!

Over the summer my running really took a turn for the "worse". I blamed it on the humidity and heat. Each run keep getting harder and harder to complete. Finally I decided it was time to go to the doctor to see what the heck was going on. My family doctor is a runner and also specializes in Sports Medicine, so he gets it when I talk running to him! Well we went thru the routine question, and he finally decided to check my blood count and iron (ferritin) levels and low and behold, my iron levels were literally almost ZERO! I had had problems with low iron in the past, but this was a different feeling. I got home and started googling everything I could about low iron levels.

I found out that is why I couldn't breathe, had to nap for over an hour every afternoon, was drinking 4 cups of coffee a day to stay upright, irritable and finally the straw that broke the camels back-HAIR LOSS! WTF?
I had notice my hair falling out, but over the last several months it was hands full each time I washed my hair. I hated washing it because I would stand in the shower and cry every night.

Well, it was time to go get my hair colored and I told my hairdresser what was going on and I was willing to do whatever it took to make me look like I was not going bald (by this time I had lost almost half my hair volume). She told me keep it the same color and she would put more layers it in. So she did. And as always she straighten it for me (you see I have the wonderful naturally curly hair that everyone with straight hair wants). I looked in the mirror and was blow away by how much hair I looked like I had. So, it became a mission for me to wear my hair straight as much as possible.

On my next trip to the store, I went to the hair product isle and started looking and looking trying to figure out which would be the best product to get and I picked up several different products to give them a whirl. Then, my next mission was to get the best flat iron I could. The poll amongst my friends was the Chi, but I really didn't want to spend that kind of money (I have a $20 one from the store that I have had for several years). So I test the products in different combinations, on wet hair, on dry hair, more hair cream, less cream, more gel, less gel...you get my point. Well nothing worked, each time my hair was be frizzy after each time I would dry and flat iron it.

So....on my next trip to Kroger off again I went to the hair product isle and found the MIRACLE FRIZZY HAIR PRODUCT!!!! I brought it home and it worked like a dream, even using my cheap flat iron! I know can keep using my cheap flat iron and my $4 MIRACLE FRIZZY HAIR PRODUCT and have my nice straight hair and it only take my 20 minutes from start to finish :)

So I guess you are wondering what the MIRACLE FRIZZY HAIR PRODUCT is:









Garnier Fructis Sleek N Shine Anti-Frizz Serum!!!! I am in love!

Teenage Boys!

So, I have a teenage boy that is a bottomless pit! The child eats EVERYTHING!!!! I can't keep food in the house. Each week I spend approximately $200 at the grocery and by Friday, he is crying that there is nothing in the house to eat?!?! Where did all the food go? In his leg? Where? 

I have come home to find him making his lunch with the food I bought to make the family dinner. All I can do is sigh and move on to look for something else or just say, "Tonight is fend for yourself." I have gotten him Hungry Man dinners and other types of microwaveable food and he says he doesn't like any of them. I am clueless on how to keep him fed.

Tonight I come home from running and smell pasta thinking he has heated up lasagna from the night before, no it's my Smart Ones meal I had gotten to take for my lunch next week to work. Thought he didn't like microwaveable foods? Apparently he likes the ones he isn't supposed to touch. Do I have to write my name on food that I have set aside for my lunches?

I have hidden snacks so that they can have them for their lunches. Bottled water is completely a waste of money, he drinks a 12 pack in about 2 days. Boxed juices might make it 3. Chips might make it through the weekend, if he is gone to a meet or something to occupy most of the weekend ;)

I love my son, but am not sure I can afford to keep feeding him!

I found this study and it proves my point:

(Reuters Health) - Parents of teenage boys often believe they are being eaten out of house and home. A new study suggests they're right.
In a lunch-buffet experiment involving 200 kids ages 8 to 17, researchers found that boys routinely ate more compared with girls their own age. But boys in their mid-teens were the most ravenous of all -- downing an average of nearly 2,000 lunchtime calories.
The pattern makes sense, given that boys usually hit their growth spurt -- putting on height and muscle mass -- in late puberty, according to senior researcher Dr. Jack A. Yanovski, of the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Yet, while teenage boys have a storied reputation for packing it away, there had actually been little objective evidence that this is the norm.
"There's a lot of folk wisdom that says boys can eat prodigious amounts, but we haven't had much data," Yanovski told Reuters Health.
To fill the gap, he and his colleagues had 204 8- to 17-year-old boys and girls come to a lunch buffet on two separate days. On one day, the kids were instructed to eat as much as they normally would during lunch; on the other day, they were told to eat as much as they wanted.
Overall, the researchers found, boys ate more than girls did at each stage of puberty. Prepubescent boys -- generally between the ages of 8 and 10 -- averaged nearly 1,300 lunchtime calories, versus 900 among prepubescent girls.