Today was a Break Through!

After being diagnosed with Hashimotos, I joined a group on Facebook with others in this same group! One of the first things each one kept saying is to get on gluten free! I kept fighting this decision and so I decided to try Whole 30! I lasted for about 28 days then ended up in the hospital with kidney stones and at that time the only thing that sounded good was a grape sonic slush! After that I veared away from that thought of eating the Whole 30 way and started realizing how much I love my coffee with sweet n low and my French vanilla creamer as well as my long list of foods I love!
The scale kept going up and up even when I was eating back on my plan that helped me lose most of my weight! So a week ago I decided to get back on Whole 30! I know they tell you not to weigh but I did any way! In one day I lost 7 lbs, the next day I lost 1more lb and today a week and a day later I've lost 2 more lbs making a total of 10 lbs! It is strict and yes it is boring! But I'm now seeing results and this is the only thing that has worked!
I have to take one day at a time in my life and sometimes I have to get through it one hour at a time! My addiction is food and that is the truth and all there is to it! We all have to find what works best for each of us!
When we have trials in our lives and things aren't going the way we would like for them to go we find comfort in things outside of Jesus and even though I was reading my Bible, my choices were just that my desires my choices! I know that God is trying to teach me something through this auto immune disease.
When I get down in life the best thing I can do for myself is listen to sermons on you tube! I love to listen to Joseph Prince and when I listen to him my mind and my eyes are always focused back on the one who created me! Today Joseph's lesson was about David singing Psalms (songs) to get through a rough time in his life! If your going through a rough time today and you can't seem to pray start to sing and see what happens to you! God bless you today! We will get through the tough times in our lives!

Do you ever wonder sometimes?

As I begin to get some energy back after having mono, being diagnosed with Hashimottos sometimes when I talk to God I say, " I know I'm going throughout this for a reason! ",but I talk to God like I would if you were my friend! I remind him of the prophetic revelations he sent me during the study of Dream to Destiny regarding my music journey! Then I see the doors that have opened, doors that closed and yet my eyes are open when he sends a little message that is huge and by that I mean the message came from someone that only God would have sent to me. Or someone starts to follow me on twitter that has a zillion followers and your like who is this person, how did they come to follow me? And yet as we wait for God and his timing after the difficult times are passed we see how we grew during those times!
I keep wanting to get on with my life but things keep happening to keep me still! Is it for protection, or is it to wait until the other people that he will use for your benefit are ready? Only he knows! Right now I'm in a special season of my life, a different season!
Right now I'm in a study at church on the End Times. Lately when I planned to produce a new music video with new songs something would happen such as health issues and poof there went that money!  So the thought went thru my mind if it's Satan that is trying to stop me from publishing these songs that are Praise and Worship songs then I will go about it a different way! So I have what I call two secular songs coming out and two spiritual songs! I've decided to release them on ITunes because anything can happen and tomorrow may never happen for some that these songs could bless! I'm so excited because these songs have been ready for a while but I have been waiting for certain things to happen in my life that have been on hold and are still on hold and I don't think these songs or our fans need to wait any longer! I can't wait to hear your responses!
As I wait for another results of a medical test, I ask you to say prayers for me and I say Thank you! Love, Lisa Gail

Mother's Day is on it's way!

One of the most rewarding gifts in my life was and is being a Mother! The first time that precious baby moves inside of you makes me realize how Great our God is!  I have two wonderful kids! Lance is my oldest and he is married to Heather, my beautiful daughter in love! Almost two years ago we were blessed with our precious granddaughter Aubrey Grace! We are crazy over this grand baby! My grandmother name is Gabo which I stole from a dear and precious friend of mine who had one grandson and her name was Gabo! I fell in love with that name and I told my friend Peggy when I become a grandmother I'm going to be a Gabo!
I have a beautiful daughter Alexis and last year she and her sweet husband Hunter married in April! We can't believe how fast time goes by and that they have already been married for a year!
I love my family and we are all so busy with our lives that we don't get to be together as much as I would like for us to, but life goes on!
As a Mother your life takes on lots of changes! When your children are small and you are snapping all those precious moments and then one day you begin to look back at those photos and say, "Where did that time go and how fast did it go! " and what happened! You remember those days but they are quickly becoming a fleeting memory!
I am now in that stage they call Empty Nest! Lol I didn't realize how empty it was til my husband decided he needed to get an extra job so that we could work towards getting out of debt mainly from school loans! I have a lot of quiet time alone and I'm so in love with my new love of songwriting which is my escape from my life! I can get into whatever character I want to kind of like acting and go to town! I'm a romantic, a dreamer, a planner you name it, I have lots of hats I can put on and do the happy dance!
If you have a mom do something special this Mothers Day for her and make her day! It doesn't take much to make us happy! A phone call melts my heart! We never know if today is going to be someone's last day here on earth so live each day to the fullest! Live, love and laugh!

Where have I been? Test results

Since my last blog I was diagnosed with Hoshimottos disease. This came after a series of five biopsies on a growth called nodules on my thyroid that a nurse practitioner found while examining my throat, which had never been done before! About the same time I was diagnosed with Hoshimottos I got what appeared to be strep but the culture came back negative. After completing antibiotics and steroids I felt good for a day or two and relapsed with what appeared again to be strep but once again came back negative. A friend of mine asked me did I think I might have mono? Well I finished another round of antibiotics and my Dr. did the blood work but forgot to do the mono test. I went back and had the mono test and this past weekend I started getting bronchitis!
Well I went to the Dr. today and I have tested positive for mono! Even though I have good moments and bad moments I'm so glad I know now what I have, because I seriously thought what I was experiencing was from the Hoshimottos, so this gives me new hope!
This is a little set back for my music while I recover!
I will get back to blogging because I have so much to share with you regarding my music journey and what I'm actually working on now!
For those of you who haven't heard of Hoshimottos it's an auto immune disease where antibodies in your body attack your thyroid. Since my Limited Edition video I had gained weight and was having a hard time losing it! I'm in a closed group on Facebook and most of the people that have it recommended a gluten free diet! I have fought doing this way of eating once I learned what all has gluten in it!
A dear friend challenged me to try Whole 30! I started April 6 so today I am 17 days on Whole 30! It has been hard to tell how I feel because of my symptoms with the mono! I can tell that I am losing! Most of the people with Hoshimottos that have chosen a gluten free diet have even caused their Hoshimottos to go into remission! I am praying for healing. My blood levels are fine so my Dr. doesn't want to put me on any meds.
I'm anxious to get back to my music videos because they motivate me when it comes to self discipline and self control! Well I'm getting tired but I wanted to update you on where I am and what I've been going through! Y'all know me well enough that I'm not going to let anything stop me from achieving my dreams and destiny that God desires for me! I have overcome a lot of obstacles in my life and I will once again overcome!

Rainbows

When I started this blog, I asked myself in what order should I write my blog regarding my life experiences? So I decided to treat this blog writing the same way I do my song writing. I pray and I wait for God to lead me and guide me on what, when and how he wants me to share my life with you! When I was getting ready to start my Senior year in High School I found out that I was 3 months pregnant. Back then, they did not let girls that were pregnant attend school. They had an in home program called Home Bound, where the teacher comes to your home.
After learning that I was going to be a mommy we began quickly planning a wedding in two weeks! Robby ended up coming a month early! After he was born, the next week I turned 18 yrs old. He was a beautiful child. People would stop us all the time to tell us how beautiful he was. A year in a half later I would be faced with going through a divorce!
On Memorial Day of 1983 I was suppose to work at market that day but I was sick with a virus. The night before we had made plans to go with a friend to see the movie Flash Dance. She had unexpected company and had to cancel. That night Robby and I headed to our home and I laid down with him in his bed. I read him a book and we said our prayers. I fell asleep in his bed. I had a dream. The dream was that I had gone on to the movie and left him at the house. Upon returning home when I turned the corner on my street my house was ingulfed in flames. It was at that moment that I woke up and started throwing up.
I called my mom to come and get him and she did. I remember he was in the den eating his cereal and he was hollering for me to turn the ceiling fan off! My mom came and got him. Several hours later she called and asked me if Robby could go to my ex inlaws home until his Dad would come and pick him up. Every Monday his Dad would come and get him and keep him over night. I called and his Grandmother said that would be fine. He had been there about an hour when I got the call from her neighbor that there had been an accident and they needed to come and get me. I decided I wanted to get to the hospital faster so I called my friend down the street. When we got to the hospital they were still working on him. After a while they decided to transfer him to a children's hospital downtown. They transferred him by ambulance. By Wed. things started to spiral downhill. Around Thurs they transferred us to another hospital and they wanted to run test to see if there were any brain waves. On Fri. morning they would tell us there were no brain waves and we were faced we having to disconnect life support. When the Dr.'s disconnected the machine he passed away and while that was taking place we watched the life slowly leave his body. At that moment there was a loud burst of thunder and all the lights in the hospital went out! We left in darkness! It was chaos at the hospital because the ICU nurses were running in the halls making sure the back up systems were working! At one point I thought The Lord was returning!
Once we were in the car and heading home, one side of the sky was light, the other dark and there were two complete rainbows in the sky with two white doves in the center of the Rainbows. At the funeral we shared our story and when we were at the graveside one of my friends brought me a piece of paper that she had written a poem on. This poem came to her around the same time that Robby died. She later cross stitched the poem and it is in my den today!
This wasn't the only time in my life that God would send me Rainbows. But because he speaks to me by sending me Rainbows, I have a very close and intimate relationship with him! Have you ever asked him to send you a sign?
God's plan we do not always see
With the human eye
It's hard to find the reason
When a little boy must die.
He is familiar with your grief
The hurt, the loss, the stun.
You see "For God so loved the world
He sent his only son.
He's promised us a better life
For those that will believe
Eternal life and happiness
Await us when we leave
He gave a promise long ago
And to show that he'd be true
He sent a sign, a rainbow
For the world, for me, for you
And when I heard that he had died
I looked up to the sky
And I thought, " God how can that be?
Then something caught my eye
A Rainbow for Robby
Today Febuary 24 the would be Robby's 35th birthday!

Guys-Now that Valentines Day is Over, Did you Fail?

I was talking to one of my clients this week who is a male! He and his wife are clients and have been dear friends for a long time! He is the ultimate example of a romantic husband and I have begged them to do seminars! I love what he said and he gave me permission to share it! Men have 5 Chances for failure each year! These are the 5- 1. Valentines Day 2. Birthday 3. Mothers Day 4. Anniversary 5. Christmas
Don't believe your wife when she says, "Honey, you don't need to buy me anything for Valentines Day!" Or " Don't worry Honey we really don't have the money! How many of us have said this to our husbands? But deep down in your heart when there is no gift there you have a little bit of disappointment! I know that for myself, it doesn't take much to make me happy! I think about when we were younger and we would go to the mall and I would say, " Oh I love that! " then my birthday would be coming and my husband would say, " What do you want for your birthday? " and I would have just shown him 3 items at the mall that I would love to have!
One time Ronnie came in with a single rose and I loved that! It was so special! Trust me you don't have to spend a fortune! But what I am saying is do something! When Ronnie does things that I'm not happy with for instance burping, I say to him, " If I was your girlfriend would you be doing that?" Lol Just because your wife is not your mother doesn't mean you don't get have to get her a gift! Remember we grew up watching fairy tales, and women love it when our man comes up with a special surprise on his own, whether it's diamonds, candy whatever it is! Try not to fail the rest of this year and see what happens to spice up your romance in your relationship! If you do not have the money to even buy a single rose then fix her a bubble bath and give her a massage! It's still special attention on a special day! You just do it and see what happens!

Who am I?

Let me introduce myself to you! My name is Lisa Allred! I was born in a West Texas town called Snyder about one hour from Lubbock! When I was still a baby my parents moved to Grapevine, Texas! Because I am a true blooded Texan I have a very strong Southern Draw and have even been asked if I was from Georgia!
In 2010 I was helping to plan my 30 year high school reunion! I had been trying to lose weight and now we were down to 6 weeks before the reunion was to take place and I had yet to lose the 25 to 30 lbs that I had set in my mind to lose, because I had been stuck on a plateau! I had some friends that were successful with the Slim 4 Life program and so I decided to give that a try! I feel like the only difference in this and what I had been doing was that my protein was increased my carbs were decreased! This change began to make a difference and in exactly 6 weeks, the day of the reunion celebration I was down 30 lbs!
My highest weight was 239! After my reunion I continued to keep losing and at the time got to 156. While planning my reunion I ran into a friend and she had been singing! I had spent years in what I call a season of depression due to a number of reasons. I woke up one day and said " I'm not going to stay here any more! " and I did not! I remember going to the gym and seeing my huge body in the mirrors I was surrounded by saying, " I will never be skinny" eventually that turned into positive what I call cheerleading to myself saying, " if you were on the Biggest Loser Show, you would have to get on that treadmill and do it blood, sweat and tears so get your Advil and get with it girlfriend!  While my kids were growing up I had spent years and years of working! I worked to pay for select baseball teams, trips to tournaments, many private lessons, dance competitions you name it!
After losing this weight I decided I would like to do some things I would like to do! I had done some musical things in my adolescent to jr.  high years but let's face at 15 years old my interest for boys to men quickly became my top priority! So!! We will touch on that part of my life later lol!
My friend kept talking about her vocal coach and I kept asking for his number! One day I got a call from Corley (Desi)! He said, " I understand you are interested in taking some voice lessons!" I said, " Yes I am!" He said, " Let's set up a time for you to come to the studio and let me hear you sing and will go from there!" Now you have to understand and Desi can witness to you that my life consisted of  singing in the car, lol which I still do to this day! I was use to singing along even in an a acapella church which was what I was raised in! So I had never had professional lessons! I could not project my voice! Sing along yes but these were two different exercises! I started lessons with Desi around the end of January in 2011!  I truly to this day feel like God placed Desi into my life at this specific time and what I was about to learn about me, myself and I was more than just learning how to sing! My life was about to have some interesting challenges that I would face! Test in life! And as I went thru this journey I would learn lots of valuable lessons! God had already been working for years and years in my life giving me layer by layer as I was ready planning and preparing me for something! What was it? I had been a hairdresser since 1981 I thought that was it! But no he had even bigger plans for this Texas raised girl named Lisa Gail! Keep following to find out the rest of the story! And feel free to ask questions when you want to!
I hope I can figure out how to upload some photos since this blogging is my new adventure! Lol I've taught myself quite a bit about social media and other new experiences! I'm still learning things all the time and the one thing that always stays in my mind! No matter what age you are in order to succeed in life and gain new wisdom in various things we need to have a teachable spirit. This is important! Let me tell you coming from a person who has had years of rebelling especially against authority lol this will humble you quickly!

Wow! I finally did it! Yay!

Well I was sitting here thinking where do I start? And then it dawned on me well you just did! So there you have it! Yay!
This is just the beginning of yet a new journey of life with Lisa Gail! I have lots of stories to share with you! I hope you will follow my blog because it is here that I will get up close and personal with you in the most intimate way because I have a lot of things that go on in my life!
 I use to say each day is like a new episode of the Lucille Ball show! Lol! One of the things you will learn about me is how much I love people! I promise you cannot shock me with anything! I have lots of experience! So get on board with me and let's take a ride on a magic carpet!
I want to share my life changes that started in 2010 and where I was before those changes took place and where I am today! Still Overcoming all the obstacles that try to sabotage but guess what? I'm still choosing to believe that there are huge things headed my way and you too can believe and  have the opportunity to turn your life into a dream come true!
Happy Valentines Day! How fun to start a blog the very weekend of Valentines Day when you are so full of love to give! Bless someone this weekend if you don't know how or what to do to make that happen just ask?  Love, Lisa Gail