Hello loves!
I realize it has been months since I’ve posted. I’m sorry.
Blogging is something I love to do but it is also something that quickly slips away from me.
I will make more of an effort!
I have some amazing recipes to share with you guys, you will see the first one coming up this week!
Sending my love!
Brianne
Hi friends!!
Happy weekend! It is an exciting weekend over here, for me. It is my best friends bachlorette party tonight! Calgary look out!
the beautiful bride and I!
Anywho, the point of my post this morning, is a combination of explaining myself, if you are wondering, and revealing a piece of my past that has really helped create who I am.
If you have been following my blog for a while then you know I am on a fitness journey. I am working with taycfitness, and the workouts have been so hard and so intense, the meal plan has been so so clean and my body is changing in a way in a way I have never seen before.
Last night I posted on my facebook, and instagram (brianneamber) my current progress, where I am in my bra and underwear. I was so impressed with my progress, I wanted to share with the world.
Growing up I was the girl who was overweight, had no self confidence. I completely ate my feelings, I didn’t know how to express them, so instead of talking about things, I would eat, and eat and eat.
I had a nickname of BB (big Brianne), could never catch people when playing tag, because of my weight. Growing up like this was hard. I felt like I wasn’t worthy of anything.
When I was 16 I decided to make a change, I wanted to lose weight and see what might be different. I lost a big chunk of weight, and i grew a lot of confidence.
Since I’ve been training with Taycfitness, I’ve gotten that confidence back. I finally feel comfortable in my body. I am proud of the progress I have made. Every time I look in the mirror and send in my weekly progress shots, I smile.
Every time my coach sends me back saying how proud she is of my progress. It takes away a little of the hurt I have been carrying around for years for all the times I was made fun of for my weight. I don’t come home crying anymore, because of what people have said. Instead I come home and am proud to look in the mirror, proud of my body and proud to be who I am.
So if you think I am putting up pictures for everyone’s attention, I am doing it to remind myself that I am worthy of greatness. I am worthy of feeling confident and I am worthy of being proud of my body.
This journey isn’t for anyone else, it is for me.
2.5 months of training!
So my friends, whatever you decide to do, do it for you. I always attached a lot of meaning to what other people thought of me. I thought I wasn’t worthy of love, worthy of happiness. But I am worthy of those things, regardless of whatever anyone else thinks of me.
This blog is about nourishing whatever you love, but most importantly for me, it is about nourishing self love.
Happy Saturday my loves
Hello beauties!!
Happy almost long weekend!
As you may have noticed my blogging has been lacking. Blogging is something in truly love. I love sharing all my experiences. Everything gluten free related to certain struggles in my life. This blog has been a huge source of healing for me. So why have I been lacking in writing?
Well I work full time, I’m training 6 days a week, I recently started my own Arbonne business, and I’m trying to have some social life. Now this may not seem like a lot ,but for someone who made a promise with myself to slow down and enjoy my year out of school. It doesn’t look like that from the outside. It’s the exact opposite of slowing down.
There are a few reasons I have taken on this much
1. I enjoy everything I am doing
2. I enjoy being busy. I don’t so well with not having a lot to do. Maybe I should work on that.
3. I am struggling to deal with some things in my life so part of me is just filling up my time to delay dealing with things. But I am being continually reminded that
you can’t heal, what you refuse to confront
4. I am feeling like a fish out of water without school. School was my identity for so long that I really am feeling uncomfortable without school
I am happy with my life. I just like everyone need to work on balance and always remember to put me at the top. Not everything is a priority!
I am truly grateful for all the opportunities I am blessed with in my life even if they keep me very busy.
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Hi!
So I just got home from a wonderful vacation at my cabin. I enjoyed the sun, water and sleep. It is really amazing what a week away from the day-to-day can do for you.
I was going grocery shopping and I bought a loaf of Udi’s Millet Chia bread, I’ve never bought it before but I was intrigued when it said 9 grams of protein but when I opened it up I found this
The whole loaf had a hole in it! I was not impressed. So I quickly took to instagram to share my sadness with my other fellow gluten free folks. (If you wanna follow me search: brianneamber). I tagged udisgluten free in my post and I was actually contacted by them, they said this is not their standards, and are reimbursing me in some form. So good on you Udi’s, I will give you another chance.
Then I had a team meeting at work. There were treats for everyone and one of the guys felt bad because I had nothing, so he went to some french bakery and got me a gluten free treat. I can’t remember what it is actually called, but translated into English it is called a Japanese coconut.
If all team meetings go this way. I am in trouble. It was so delicious! Light and not too sweet. Perfect for 9 am hahah whoooppss!
Now I thought it would be fun to share some random facts about me I am more then just a girl with Celiac.
1. I think old men are the cutest people possible
2. I take waaayyy to many selfies. I don’t know why I do it, I just do. Here are two from today
Selfie as I leave my house
Break from work obviously means another picture time
3. When I was little I thought Garth Brooks would be my husband when I was older.. I love his song The thunder rolls, but when I was little I didn’t understand what the song meant.
Have you had any gluten fails or wins lately??
What are some random facts about you??
Hi Friends!!
I am sorry I have not posted in months. There is really no explanation but let me try to explain it. After I posted in the beginning of May, my whole life got very crazy and went in a downward spiral. If you are close to me you know what happened if you don’t know, basically I learned some very tough lessons about trust and people.
Anyway.. this blog is not my journal that is what a pen and paper is for. I wanted to get back into posting regularly because I truly enjoy it and I am getting back into doing what I love. Doing what I love and being more authentic leaves less room for the negativity and chaos.
I learned something very important this past couple months that has to do with nourishing your love. Make sure that if you are nourishing your love it is the right kind of love. When I started this blog and called it Nourish your love, to me that meant nourishing whatever you love, whether that be yourself, your family, friends, your body, relationships, school. Whatever you love you have to nourish it, otherwise it won’t grow and blossom. Now that sounds sappy but it is SO TRUE. I spent the last couple months nourishing a relationship that caused me a lot of hurt. I spent so much time focusing on that relationship that I stopped nourishing everything else. Especially myself. Eating became the last thing I wanted to do. Getting regular sleep and exercise were a chore even though all I wanted to do was sleep. Everything I worked so hard for with my health over the past couple years came crumbling down. Did this serve me well? No, not at all. I worked so hard to get my health in order and before I could grasp what had happened I was starting back at the beginning again.
So I am starting over again, I have a desire to eat healthy food, get regular amounts of sleep and really kill it in the gym. I am not going to beat myself up for what happened, or feel bad for the choices I made. I don’t really regret them because I was listening to my heart, and to me that is important. I learned a lot over the last little while. The most important lesson is that I will try my hardest to not let myself become undernourished. I love who I am, and what my body is capable of. It has seen some tough times but no matter what it is always there for me.
So I am happy to say I am back posting and working on getting back to my authentic self!!
Stayed tuned I have been doing lots of reviews for the gluten-free bakery near my house!!
What do you do to nourish yourself?
XOX
Brianne
Hi loves!!
I am typing this while sitting at the airport! I am on my way to Vancouver for my sisters birthday!! I haven’t seen her in a few months and boy am I excited!!!!
Apparently Vancouver has some good gluten free places!! I am so excited! I connected with the Vancouver association to get the down low on places to eat, and lets just say I might be rolling out of the plane when I come home!
But before I start eating in Vancouver I thought I would show what’s in my carry on
These pills I’ve never tried before but I was a little nervous with all this eating out I will be doing. But what they do is break down the gluten (basically it is obviously more complex than that) but they make the reaction a little less harsh. And since I am so sensitive I wanted to prevent what I could!
NOTE!!!!!::: this DOES NOT mean I can eat gluten by any means! Damage and reaction will still happen but these pills are supposed to help with the stomach reaction. I don’t feel like spending my whole trip in the bathroom. I will still be as careful as I always am , just trying something new! I will let you know what I think when I return!
Haha I love these bars. Even though they are for kids I always have a few in my bag!
These came in my gfreely box this month! And I thought I would bring them along to snack on. Will let you know what I think! Www.gfreely.com
Amanda ( my sister) and I are heading to the states for the day so I can experience trader joes!! Be prepared Instagram! I’m gonna snap pics like crazy!!
That is all! Follow me on Instagram or twitter to see how I gluten free my way through Vancouver!!
Xoxox
Brianne
Hello my lovelies!!!
Happy Valentines day!!! I hope you feel the love I’m sending you!!
As you know last Friday night I went to a gluten free cooking class, put on by the culinary school here. It was amazing. We made so much. Flour less chocolate cake, pizza dough, hand made pasta, waffles, lasagna!! Omg so amazing! I have no pictures but when I recreate the recipes I will take picture!
If you have been reading my blog you know I have openly struggled with hating celiac, hating my body for having this disease. But over my Christmas break and New Years I decided to really change my attitude about it. I was trying to before but it wasn’t really sticking, so I spent some hard hours thinking about it and meditating on changing my thoughts. While it isn’t perfect yet I can say I’m much happier than I have been in months about dealing with it. Which is why I decided to take that cooking class , if I could make good food that was gluten free I felt like it would help me. And it did, but also what it did was take my mind off feeling like a freak because everyone else there was gluten free and understood what I was feeling! I even made some friends!
So it is going to take baby steps but I will learn how to feel happy and accept this disease!!
Love you all!! Eat some gluten free chocolate today!!!
Xoxox
B
Hi lovely people!!
How are we doing today!? I just wanted to show you some of my favorite things these days!
Hopefully to give you some new ideas! These are random but I’m loving them lately!
Smoothies! This smoothie had orange juice, half a banana , frozen berries , 2 carrots, 2 cups of spinach and perfect fit protein powder!! So good and so filling!!
New celiac book! So far it is interesting a little heavy on medical side but very important! A good read if you want to learn more
I don’t know how long mrs. Crumbles has been around but pretty tasty! And not super heavy! Good with soup on a cold day
Hello beauties!!
Happy Sunday!! I have a special post for you today!
When I first got diagnosed I was so overwhelmed with food. I hated eating because frankly what I was eating was not tasty. Who knew gluten helped make things tasty! Really it doesn’t, it was my taste buds adjusting to new flavors and new combinations of food I would probably never eat unless I had Celiac. So for a the new Celiac, feeling overwhelmed, and not sure what food to buy because you don’t want to waste a lot of money on crap! I have A LOT of pictures of some favorites that are in my house. Be warned it is not all healthy, and I know that, I am not saying I eat all of this stuff everyday but with Celiac disease the luxury of just runnning to the grocery store to pick up whatever might not always be there. I keep my fridge loaded and my cupboards full!
SO here we go!
Pretty good in a pinch
A good crunchie cracker
Peanut butter anything! Healthy snack!
Finding out licorice had wheat in it made me mad. And I wasn’t even a fan, but these are pretty good!
Delicious! Every morning I eat oats!
Good for making chicken fingers out of
Good for baking! And not stupid expensive!
Delicious hummus and dips!
Found in the grocery store!
Good for dipping your homemade chicken fingers in!
I love stir fry so this one is a mainstay in my house!
Good to keep in the freezer just in case!
Keep frozen but good for making breakfast or lunch wraps!
I lick my lips a lot so gluten free lip balm/makeup is a must for me!
Holy moly!! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!!!
Also some of my favorite bloggers/ youtubers that have loads of information and help me feel better when I’ve been glutened or I am having a rough day dealing with the disease are:
http://www.glamwithoutgluten.com
celiacandthebeast.com
glutendude.com
jennifersway.org
What are some of your favorites?
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