For all of my child bearing years, I have struggled with my weight. Actually, I have struggled since I was a child, I just managed it better in my late teens through mid-twenties with lots and lots of exercise! I am currently at my highest weight ever. I have tried to focus on my mothering more than my weight and protecting my girls from the idea that “I am not good enough” subconscious message that the media pushes on all females. I worked hard to instill in them that beauty comes from within not from what size clothing they wear. It is hard when the “thin” message is everywhere we look and most people have succumbed to those thoughts as the norm. I mean look at me I am still entrenched in it! The thing is even a couple of years ago I was ok, as long as I didn’t gain anymore but I have and don’t want to gain anymore. I am really not happy with my where my weight is now. Yet I still worry if I try to lose weight what message I will be sending to my daughters. It’s a catch-22.
However, my youngest is 18 months old and we have a new product through our Cornucopia Health Scents business, I thought I would try something I have never done before in hopes of getting phenomenal results while giving my body nutrition it needs. This new product just arrived last week and we do sell it, so anyone interested, please visit the Lose Weight tab at the top of the blog or visit our business site.
Slique Kit
The Product Description (credit for this goes to Jeanmarie Hepworth and is used with permission):
A Revolutionary New Weight Management System featuring Slique™ Tea and the New Essential Oil Blend Slique™ Essence!
The products in this collection work together to support effective weight management by:
Suppressing appetite and food cravings while increasing metabolism
Providing low-calorie supplements that are rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and catechins
Helping with the breakdown and absorption of food
There are two kit choices non-vegetarian and vegetarian.
Lose weight and improve your health with the Slique Experience!
My Personal Goal
I have tried a box of the Slique™ Tea on its own when it came out in the fall, but sold my other box at a trade show, so I was excited to try it again. It is really very good. Since it has stevia (a natural sweetener that comes from the stevia plant), no other sugar is needed.
If I am brave enough, I will share my journey with you in upcoming posts. Being a private person, I am hesitant to make myself that vulnerable to be honest, so I haven’t quite decided what I will do yet. However, I will take the next few weeks to go through each of the products in the Slique™ Tea kit and let you know how I like them. Then at the end of this series I will be offering a giveaway of one Slique™ Tea kit to one of YOU! ($275/$285 Value) One of the biggest giveaways we have ever had on Faith and Family Reviews! So bring it on, eh!? And be sure to spread the word!
An associate of mine researched other brand name weight loss programs and came to the conclusion that the Slique Tea kit is cheaper than other weight loss programs available. If you have any experience with Nutri System, Jenny Craig or others let me know if $275/month is cheaper.
Wishing you all the support and luck with this! My husband loves tea and he’s trying to watch his weight as well. I’ll have to tell him about this system – thank you!
Thanks, Kenda!
You story sounds quite similar to mine! I would love to hear your progress!
Thanks, Magen! You my friend can ask me anything you’d like even if I don’t share everything here on the blog!
I’m still not where I want to be with my weight, but I’m getting there.
I wish you all the luck. Thanks for sharing I’m sure this is going to help more than one person.
I Personally need to Lose over 50 pounds and since I drink Tea all day I need to check into this as I had not heard of it before and I am also looking for a new business. Plus I like to review and giveaway products I have tried and I would like to do a weight loss program on my blog for others to join. So Please let me know how you do with it and when the giveaway starts as I really do want to enter it.
Best of luck with your weight loss journey!
products sound interesting….would like to know if they work, i have tried several and they dont seem to work very well…have tried the multi-level marketing weight loss products….so i hate to waste any more money, let me know if it works… when i was in my teens and beyond, my mother always told me how fat i was b/c my sister was a bean pole. i was not fat, wore abt size 8 or 9 but today that would be abt 4 or 5. i weighed abt 115-120, highest was 125, now abt 115 and would like to be back down to 105…i feel best when i am thin.
I’m also at my heaviest weight ever. After turning 40, my metabolism must stopped… I started gaining weight so easily and just can’t get it off. I know sitting at my computer more and more hasn’t helped either. I’m looking forward to following your progress. Good luck!!!
Can’t wait to see how it goes for you!
Good luck! I hope it goes well for you!
I hope you’ll want to share your weight loss experience with us. This new product sounds pretty awesome! $275 seems like a lot of money!!! I hope it’s worth it, you know? And that’s great that the tea contains stivia, so you don’t need to pour a hefty amount of regular sugar into it.
I’ll be very interested in knowing your results. You don’t have to share your actual weight, maybe just the amount lost. That might not be as uncomfortable for you. Good luck!
Good luck and keep us updated
That’s a good idea, much less invasive!
Oh and now I have to get a scale and find my measuring tape!
I’ve struggled with my weight for the last 13 years or so, and I’d be curious to know how well this product works.
Stevia takes some getting used to. I had to give up sugar and all of its various other foods that may include some kind of sweetener in it. You would be amazed at how many things have sugar in them. well I found that just by doing that one thing I lost a lot of weight without even trying. I did go through withdrawal in the beginning. Like crazy! But once I was over the hump it was a lot easier. Sometimes I would make myself a lemon or lime drink using some stevia and water with a squeezed wedge of lemon or lime over ice. I liked it in the summer time. I hope this works for you. I was very conscious of body image just by growing up with a sister who had an eating disorder. I have twin teenage girls, and with them I have just focused on health. When I have felt the need to shape up a bit sometimes I just tell them that this is for me and that I feel the need to keep strong and healthy. I have also pointed out that my sisters (I have 3) and I all have different body types. we are not all of the same height or even our busts and legs and arms are different. Then I point out to my girls that even though they are twins they have differences too. I have asked them how strong do they want to be? A sport that people do regularly will produce a different shape. Do they want to be runners, swimmers, or even rock climbers. It is possible to be healthy, and be shaped by what we do and enjoy. There really is no one size fits all. Hope this adds some positive feed back. Thank you for sharing.
Sounds interesting. Have you talked to a doctor first. What if it raises your blood pressure or something?
Raises my blood pressure? Talk to my doctor? Every time I spoke with doctors about my weight they were never concerned. They said to eat more fruits and veggies and get more exercise. I highly doubt that using this kit will raise my blood pressure there’s nothing bad in it! The only thing I worry about is I am still nursing so I have to adapt the Slique™ challenge so I am still getting enough calories to produce my milk supply.
I actually like stevia. I have been exposed to it before and we use to use it until we started using organic cane sugar and agave.
Thanks for sharing, I appreciate your thoughtful feedback.
It can be tough, can’t it? Thanks for commenting!
It’s hard getting over that 40 bump, isn’t it? I know what you mean, I am either sitting on the computer or sitting nursing my son or sitting teaching my daughter how to read! I can’t wait for warmer weather to be gardening and working outside…but I still have to work, at least I will want to go outside when it’s warmer!
Hi Sandy! I am so sorry for the hurtful words said to you by your mother. I had family members like that too and it really sticks with you when you are a child. You don’t sound very big at all, but understand that you want to feel your best. Thanks for dropping by.
I LOVE tea and I also need to get fit and healthier (I am very overweight). I would love to hear how you’re doing as you go on this journey and thanks for telling us about this product!
Hi Glenda, thank you for commenting! It will be in about 4-6 weeks that the giveaway will start. I’ll try to get through the products as fast as I can, so stay tuned and if you have any questions regarding the business opportunity feel free to drop me a line.
Hi Beth, thanks for your comment! I am glad that I shared the Slique on the blog, I almost talked myself out of it! Stay tuned and I hope you learn lots and lose the weight you desire! We struggling gals have to stick together, right?
I am about 50 lbs more than I would like to be and almost 90 to what the charts say I should be. I was anorexic when I was younger, but morphed into a compulsive eater (still an eating disorder). I have a 18 year old that was gaining a lot of weight, 140 at 4’9″ an I am always working on getting my weight down, for my health. There has to be a happy medium between making our kids feel like they have to be super skinny and not saying or doing anything to help weight issues. I wish I had been more vigilant when she was younger, so it would not have gotten out of control. The biggest culprit was the enormous amount of media advertising junk food or fast food.I have been trying to cut High Fruitcose corn syrup from our diets, but it is almost impossible. I could never afford any money for diet aids, so I just try and cut down. Good Luck but don’t feel bad for losing weight you may just save your life and hers later.
There is a way to cut out High Fructose Corn Syrup, just read the labels and buy organic, non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organisims), fresh fruit and veggies. Our whole food system has been industrialized and it’s literally killing us. It never pays to scrimp on nutrition. We have lived and learned that in our family.
My daughters do not struggle with their weight, but I appreciate your thoughts and thank you for sharing and commenting.
Good luck with your weight loss. I’ve been reading Jorge Cruise’s “8 Minutes in the Morning for Real Shapes Real Sizes.” I’m still reading the book, and haven’t gotten far enough to try his program, but last night I read some wisdom. He says first you have to love yourself and body as it is now. Love it so much that you are motivated to take care of your health and well being, before anything else. When you take care of you, you are better able to serve those you love. That’s an example you can set for your daughters.
That’s a nice thought, but I don’t have any health issues and usually my family comes before me. That’s just the way it is. When you have a toddler who needs to nurse but you need to shower, he usually comes first. If he needs to nap, then he comes first before I get a walk or whatever. Work comes before me too. We’ve gotta do what we’ve gotta do. I don’t know if I will ever get to what Cruise’s idea is…..does anyone ever love themselves that much? I have my doubts, not in this world.
Let me know if he helps you.
Are you kidding? Getting healthy and feeling better is sending a bad message to your daughter? Just tell her you want to be as healthy as possible to be around for her and show her how it is done! Go for it! I have lost 50 and have another 60 to go. I don’t worry in the least what “message” I am sending to my kids, ’cause it’s a good one!
By the way, if you are as overweight as you describe, you DO have health issues. The weight is just the one you can see. There are definitely other issues going on that just haven’t presented themselves yet. No symptoms does mean no health issues.
Oops! Meant “does not”mean. Blessings on your journey to health!
This was posted 3 years ago. How did it go? Did you lose the weight?
Sadly, I was not faithful. I really should try again.