AdvoCare : the business

As a stay at home mom, I have been in the position where I was constantly on the look out for ways to make extra income.  I still am, but I have found the one thing that works and will continue to provide for our family for years to come.  

AdvoCare is now one of the leading health & nutrion companies in America.  Our President & CEO Richard Wright was just named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and AdvoCare has received numerous awards and has grown to well over 300,000 distributors in just a short time.

I was skeptical at first.  True story.  I wasn't so sure this was a legitimate company that would actually be able to help me earn a real income while staying home.  Most companies that advertise that are a joke.  AdvoCare is real.  It's legitimate work.  I work every single day now to try and build my team and sell these amazing products. 

The income is the real deal.  Everyday I come across news of another distributor receiving the next level pin.  One friend just pinned 6 Star Ruby, which is HUGE.  She was able to quit her teaching job to stay home with her new baby all because of her success in AdvoCare.  Another story I just read was of a distributor in Houston who just started on AdvoCare in February of this year and now makes $5,000 PER MONTH. 

Here are the income levels.  You can see that a 6 Star Ruby earns $98K per year.  That's amazing!  There are tons of stories from distributors who have become stay at home moms and who have brought their teacher/coach husbands home as well.  That would be my ultimate goal.  I'd love to make AdvoCare so successful for me and my family that my husband could come home.  It happens so often with AdvoCare that I know it's achievable.  At this moment, David and I are working towards our Silver pin.  An extra $1,000 a month is HUGE for us and it's what is keeping me home to love on my babies all day.

I became a distributor literally after my first drink of Spark.  I wanted the discount so I could continue to use Spark and have the energy I needed to keep up with 3 kids all day long.  So many people start out just like that.  "It all starts with a Spark" is what I like to say.  There are tons of people who sign up JUST for the discount.  When you first sign up with AdvoCare, you automatically get 20% off of all the products.  You can't beat a discount!  You NEVER have to sell a dime.  I sold enough and built my team enough to be raised to Advisor status and I now earn 40% off of all products I buy.  40%!  That's HUGE.  And I'm there for life. 

That's what sets AdvoCare apart from other direct sells companies.  There is no monthly quota to meet.  You seriously never have to sell a dime.  To make money, obviously you'd need to work at it and actually sell products, but signing up to just use the products at a discount is reason enough to be a distributor. 

AdvoCare is growing tremendously by the day.  You can be a part of it too!  Check this out ... 

After MAJOR National Attention on T.V. AdvoCare is poised to be a billion dollar company by the end of 2014.  That's a $600,000,000 growth they are experiencing RIGHT NOW and it's not even New Year's Resolution time!
It's legit, friends.  And you can be a part of this amazing company too. 

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My Journey

I wanted to jump right out there and share with you where I've been, as well as where I am now.  It's been a journey for sure.  Most of you probably already know where I've been, but here's a picture to show you from September 2012 to about March 2013.

I went from baby in belly, to dropping 50 lbs in a matter of months.  I was going strong.  I was motivated.  AdvoCare had helped me and I was so proud of my accomplishments.  My lowest weight at that point was 188 lbs.  Yep.  I was 238 lbs when I delivered Jaxton.  I knew I weighed a lot, but had no clue I was to the point where I needed to lose 50 lbs.  And more.  Yep, I need to lose 50 more pounds to be where I need to be.  How in the world had I let myself get to where I NEEDED to down 100 pounds? 

Summer came.  My mother-in-law was sick and in a hospital 3 hours away, which took my husband away most days.  I was also taking 2 online classes for my nursing degree, plus doing all of my duties at home and raising 3 kids.  To say I was stressed would be the understatement of the year.  I gained 15 pounds back by the end of August and was back up to 203.  I hovered back and forth at that weight for another month. 

Here's the trend I had set for myself.  I do good all week long.  I'd lose 3-4 pounds, then overeat on weekends, putting me back up to where I was.  It was a vicious cycle that I still struggle with.  Now, my father-in-law is in hospice care and I refuse to let stress eating get me again. 

Here are my stats as of today ....

SW (starting weight) - 238 lbs
LW (lowest weight) - 188 lbs
GW (goal weight) - 145-150 lbs
CW (current weight) - 194.5 lbs

 There it is, for all the world to see.  Mentally, I'm there.  I'm on track.  I'm eating healthy, taking my AdvoCare supplements, drinking my water, and I'm focused.

How do you combat stress eating?  Share some of your tips!!!

Changing Lives

You know the story.  Life gets busy.  The blog is left to suffer.  Our life was turned upside down in August when we learned that my sweet mother-in-law would not make it through her 2 months of sickness.  Her body wasn't well and a mere 2 1/2 days later, she went to be with Jesus.  It was one of those completely unexpected, sudden deaths that we certainly weren't prepared for.  David lost his mom.  I lost my mother-in-law, but also my friend.  My kids lost their MiMi, who they truly adored.  She was part of our daily life.  And now she's gone.  Our hearts ache.  But the thought of her rejoicing and her body being completely healed is comforting.

We're trying to pick back up and get our lives moving again.  I answer the weekly "I miss MiMi" pleas that my daughters cry out.  We try to comfort them and explain it to them as best as we can, but that hole we have will be there for quite a while, possibly always.

Now we're at it again though.  David's dad is nearing the end of his journey with us as well.  He's been in the hospital setting for 2 years now and, as the doctor said, he is "failing to thrive".  Our hearts are aching even more now, since not having even started to recover from losing his mom. 

Thankfully, we know where our hope lies.  God does promise us life, but he also promises death.  And to that we cling to. 

This blog is about to get a whole new mission.  I am going to try to focus it on changing lives.  If I've learned anything through losing 2 parents in a matter of months, it's that people make a difference.  People loved my mother-in-law.  We had support and continue to have support from so many people who cared for her.  My father-in-law is the same way.  I want it to be the same when it's my time to go.  I want people to remember me for the impact I had on them.  So, the blog will be about my family; about our daily life; about our journey; about the things we do; trips we take; milestones we reach; school activities, holidays; etc.  But it will also be about our journey to becoming the healthiest family we can be.  We haven't done the best job so far, but AdvoCare has changed our life.  I want to share that journey with you, so that hopefully I can impact your life as well.  My in-laws were not healthy people.  I want more than anything for my husband to live through his 60's.  Not in a hospital.  Not on tons of medication.  I don't want our children to have to go through what we have the past few years.  My mother-in-law was 62.  My father-in-law is currently 69.  I want to live way beyond those years, but do so with the impact that they had on everyone they knew.  My mother-in-law was the sweetest, most caring person.  She never met a stranger and she kept us laughing.  My father-in-law was a giver.  He wanted to help people and he was just a good man. 

So, jump on.  This blog is hopefully going to take you places you never imagined.  If I can help or inspire one person, I've done what I came to do.