Expectations

By Mary Blowers

Pauline thinks about life, food, and spirituality, not necessarily in that order. A main character women can relate to and perhaps find some answers! Watch her come to life in Expectations. In her search for meaning and her journey through dreams and nightmares, Pauline finds an alternate world and does not at first recognize its danger. Will she escape? Read and discover answers to this and other questions from your own life.  
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mary Blowers
• Release date: Jan 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781519975874

Mary Blowers

Mary Blowers was told in school that she had a gift for writing essays and was even compared to Emerson. Now she writes on topics from faith, to health, to fiction, and loves all of it. In addition to books listed, her essay is included in "Best Life Stories" from Readers' Digest http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-Life-Stories-Resilience/dp/1606525646, and she is a contributor to Halo Magazine. Sometimes she gives away free books! Get on the mailing list to take advantage of this at http://eepurl.com/bmKaL5 and get a free book within 24 hours! View her writing/book review blog at http://maryblowers.com. She lives in Southwest Michigan in a mid-century 1900s home with her husband and two cats. When she's not writing she enjoys knitting, gardening, and walking for fitness. Long-time student of natural health methods and certified Master Herbalist, Nutrition Consultant, Holistic Health Practitioner and Weight Management Coach.  

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Expectations

By Mary Blowers

Copyright © 2014 by Mary Blowers

All rights reserved.

ISBN-13: 978-1505811513

ISBN-10: 1505811511

Other Books by Mary Blowers

Christianity and Mysticism

The Sunlight Diet

Blood Moon

Where Dreams and Visions Live

Filled With the Holy Spirit

Fatigue: When Waking Up is Hard to Do

The Prophecy of Enchantria

Expectations

Divine Health-Daily Detox Diet

Anti-Aging Secrets You Can Use Today

How to Avoid Legal Problems as a Weight Loss Consultant

Vegetarianism-Is it for You?

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Table of Contents

Chapter One - Random Thoughts

Chapter Two - Digging Deeper With Harry

Chapter Three - A Suspicious Death and Who Controls Your Life?

Chapter Four - Hidden Demons

Chapter Five - The Way Out

Chapter One - Random Thoughts

Sipping her hazelnut almond milk chai latte, Pauline considered her options. She had wanted to lose weight for several months now, and tried several diets, unsuccessfully. It didn’t help that there was too much leftover Halloween candy around the office today. Why could people not stop eating crap? She had sent her husband to buy the Halloween candy for at home, as an attempt to delegate, since he had the week off work. She even told him what she liked, some of which was sold out and some of which he replaced with what HE liked. Which was fine. Unfortunately she had just had dental work and could not eat the chewy caramely types she loved, or the neopolitan coconut squares, for fear of pulling out her crown and fillings. In the last year she had been a test subject for two diets that were subsequently featured in a nationwide women’s magazine. The diets were fairly structured, but easy enough to understand, and she was paid for the trials, but did not lose any weight to speak of. She had tried Slo-Carb, Belly Fat Cure, Eat to Live, Beauty Detox, and just a basic low carb diet. She remembered when she was pregnant with her (now 28 year old) son, she had gained 36 pounds, but she lost it again in 8 weeks, fit into her pre-baby clothes, and went back to work. She had done it by avoiding bread, potatoes, rice, and desserts. She knew now, of course, that that was a lower carb diet. Most diets worked for a while now, but the weight either crept back on or the weight loss stalled. What to do? She even thought she was eating too much on these diets at times. The diets that specified serving size and specific foods seemed to be too filling. Was she underestimating portion size, since it was just a pain to measure the food? How had she put on 30 pounds in the last 5 years? She had struggled to lose 14 pounds in the last 10 months, but the holidays were right around the corner.

It was amazing how many different food experts were out there. The magazine she worked with on the two diets had a different diet every WEEK, with its corresponding expert. And the recommendations conflicted. Then there were the opinions of the online school she had attended, until it went out of business. How to recoup those funds?? It sure would have been more practical to put them toward, say, a new furnace. And every week it seemed there was at least one public television special, in conjunction with a fundraising effort, with yet another different plan or way of eating. They went into far more detail than anyone wanted to know about the colon and what horrors might be lurking there. Was that even possible? Of course not everyone is built the same. Not everyone needs the same type of plan. It would depend on one’s metabolic makeup, for one thing. Some people can’t metabolize sugar properly. And it isn’t good for anyone. But even the experts through the years had not agreed on health topics. Aside from true advances in medicine, there had been some very unusual practices through the years. John Harvey Kellogg had founded a health institute and believed that Putrid, foul-smelling stools are an indication of intestinal autointoxication, and are due to an excess of protein . . . or to decay (stasis or stagnation) in some part of the colon. (Kellogg, n.d.) Hence, he advocated enemas and a vegetarian diet. This stemmed from his Seventh Day Adventist beliefs, who also believe that meat is too stimulating and incites lust. Believing that the colon should be cleared two to three times a day, he recommended roughage, and even lubrication in the form of a spoonful of mineral oil with meals. Incredibly, he even stated that if the colon was unencumbered, vomiting would never occur. Regular mealtimes and no snacks were advocated. Then there was Mesmer, whose theory Mesmerism was a type of vitalism, a class of theories involving energy transference throughout the body and between life forms. Another practice which may still be used today in some cultures was bloodletting, or bleeding, either with leeches or simply by cutting the skin. This was said to remove toxins that resided in the blood. Unfortunately the practitioners were at times too zealous, causing the loss of too much blood and subsequently loss of life. Nowadays, diets were often a version of a low carb diet, but eggs had gone in and out of fashion, as had fructose, coffee, red meat, all meat, fancy South American fruits, Hawaiian fruits, yogurt, just about anything that could be sold to gullible or desperate Americans for a profit. It’s said that Baby Boomers would try anything so as not to age.

Getting married had changed her diet as well. Her husband ate a lot more salads than she ever had, which is good, since it caused her to do the same. But he also ate more snack foods. She had never had chips or ice cream in the house, and now in the spirit of fairness she did. Despite her being allergic to dairy, she could not resist ice cream at times but paid for it later with painful symptoms. According to what she had been reading lately, this could cause inflammation which can actually cause weight gain.

Her training in Holistic Health came in handy, in that she knew what was nutritious and what was not. She knew the number of calories in fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. But how many times did she make conscious choices? Eating what was truly best for her and her health? So often she was too tired or busy to go to the store, so she would eat what was in the house (or go out). Sometimes if there was a free lunch available at work, she would eat it, even though it was not the best thing. If she had to live on pizza, she thought, she would go to an early grave, as it made her feel ill, though that was most often what the free lunch was. Ideally—she should eat salads and fish.

She often amused herself by looking in other people’s grocery carts to see what they bought. So often it was frozen meals, soda, white bread, desserts. Sometimes the person’s health appeared to correlate with their choices, sometimes not. Once she saw an obese woman with 6 boxes of Special K in her cart. On the front of each box was printed the teaser, Lose 10 pounds this week! It was just interesting. She and her husband had