Welcome To Our Blog

And This Is How It All Began.......

"Good health is the best wealth."

-- Anonymous

Hey FINOMS! Welcome to our first blog post! After years of saying we were going to start a blog we're finally putting it into action. We are so excited to be sharing our health journey with you!

The reason we wanted to start this health blog is to help others in similar situations take control of their health through the foods that they eat. This site and blog is all about you, we want to see you smile, cheer you on and encourage you to make this healthy lifestyle change with us and be finomenally you! You're Not Alone!! We are right here with you!

Here's our background story. Both Gabrielle and I began having health issues about 2 and a half years ago. I was having chest pains so bad that I felt like I was having a heart attack and mouth sores where it hurt to eat or drink and Gabrielle was in an out of the ER with unexplained fevers, various infections and her hands would turn white and would become numb in the cold. Both of us needed a break and the final straw was when Gabrielle was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease which had taken control of our family our entire life. So much so that we have had 6 family members diagnosed with the same autoimmune disease within 2 generations, 4 died of complications from it including my own mother, 2 are living well with it, including Gabrielle. It was definitely time to take control! We knew their story would not be our story.

We thought about the possibility of starting medicine but we knew about the side affects of the medicines, some negative and some long term. That's not to say that all medicines are bad for you, because some are necessary, but that just wasn't the route we wanted to take for the long haul. I had already been on several meds that physically made me ill and Gabrielle had decided that she didn't want to take the medicine because of the side effects of hair loss, acne and sudden death, just to name a few. She knew this wasn't the life she wanted to live. So I researched on the internet, prayed and asked lots of questions to friends and family members who we knew, who were or had been in similar situations. We prayed and read lots of books and articles from websites. Oh, and did I said we prayed and prayed and prayed! We prayed for God to give us some alternatives. I must have stayed up every night until the wee hours of the morning, reading and researching trying to find a solution to our health issues. We hope the information we learned to take our health back will inspire you to do the same for yours. We are here for you and we hope this blog helps you get to the root of your health issues.

P.S - Don't forget to be good to yourself by eating something healthy today. Your future self will thank you for it!

LOVE,

FINOMENALLY

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