What a loss of a day! LOL....for real! Today was...how do I say it....TRAGIC? OIY! Started out good but didn't ebb and flow like the last 4! Temptations set in, temptation won! *ugh* That's ok though. I know that there are no real excuses for my lake of obedience. I do think that being in this cold, dreary, snowy, icy environment does NOT aid in applying discipline! Tomorrow will be better....tomorrow we begin our defrost of the last four days! We will actually get above freezing and the snow will most likely be gone, at least the most of it. Snow I don't mind, I LOVE. Ice...not so much. There is no love affair with the ice. NONE.
Anyways....been couped up in this house for four days with a 16 year old, a 13 year old, a soon-to-be 3 year old and my sweet little 9 month old who has been playing war with a fever. She wins some battles but the 'war' hasn't ended yet. BOO! Did I mention that tomorrow WILL be better!! LOL We woke up this morning and had FIVE inches of SNOW on the ground! YEAY!!!! So we bundled up and out we went for a much needed breath of fresh air! My Abigail was so much fun....we made a TON of snow angels, we marched (her new thing...marching behind her as she chants march, march, march like we are in a marching band or something~ no idea where she got this from), she threw a lot of snow at me, I chased her, she chased me...it was good times. Came in and started doing laundry and the next thing I know there is water ALL OVER the floor....and I mean ALL OVER. Thankfully it didn't get to the carpet...just the tile. I'm not going to get into that but I will say that it took a while to clean up! *sigh*
Breakfast! I actually ate a bit earlier today, around 9:30...had the same as yesterday. 1/2 c Oatmeal, 1/2 c milk, 1/2 c water & 1/4 c blueberries. It was really good~ again!
Don't really remember eating 'lunch'. I know I snacked a lot of the day when I wasn't really hungry and KNOWING I wasn't really hungry. It's a bad habit to break but with prayer and learning to control my will power (with God's help) I can get there. I'm only 4 days into this! Old habits die hard....ya know? :/ Plus with everyone being home from school and work my 'day' is really off.
Dinner was around 6ish and we had whole wheat spaghetti with ground beef in the sauce & french bread. It was a good dinner.....the bread was a little too good. ;) However, I did NOT stuff myself. I got up feeling satisfied....I was just satisfied with the one thing that doesn't go well with healthy eating and losing weight....CARBOHYDRATES! I'm praying that God will take the desire for those (and chocolate) away from me! :)
Not to sound like a broken record, but TOMORROW.WILL.BE.BETTER!
My very fitting verse for today:
Romans: 4:23
For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
If I can just learn to trust in Him, rely on Him.......for everything...what GLORY awaits me!
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Day 1 February 4, 2011
Three days ago I set a goal to lose 28 lbs! I chose to do a three day detox to lose water weight and cleans my body of sugars and salts. I have done this before, several times!, but this time I applied what I have learned so far through Thin Within. You don't eat just because it's 'time' to eat....breakfast, lunch, dinner. You eat ONLY when you are hungry, physically hungry. After those three day of detox I have lost 6.5 lbs which brings my goal weight loss down to 21.5 lbs! Woo hoo! I'm pretty excited! I forgot to mention in my first post that before the holidays I had managed to lose 20 lbs...gained about 5 back during the holidays!
Day 1: Woke up around 8 and got both my girls up, around and fed. Decided to venture out of the house today...could feel a bit of cabin fever setting in for all of us. My littlest little was VERY fussy....cried for most of the first 2 hours she was awake. Mind you, she has not been feeling well~ running a fever off an on for the last several days. BOO! We headed out to the grocery store, surprised at just how bad the roads still are! We got down our driveway just fine, but it took about 10 attempts getting back in with the driveway still 3/4 ice! *UGH* The venture out did us good though. While at the grocery store I started to feel a bit off....getting slightly dizzy every now and then. So we packed it in and headed home!
I needed to eat! I knew that the dizziness was a sign of me being hungry. I think it's going to take a little while to decide 'when' it's time to eat before my body starts giving me those little signs. Having said that I'm not sure if I'm suppose to know that? Am I suppose to wait for those little signs to eat??? hmmmmm.....
Anyways, it was around 12:00 before I actually had my 'breakfast'. 1/2 cup of oatmeal cooked in 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup milk with 1/4 cup fresh blueberries! YUM! Amazing just how good food tastes when you get all the junk out of your system!!
'Lunch' was around 3:45.....1/2 cup of cottage cheese. So far both meals were surprisingly satisfying and I didn't need to eat anything else. I am also drinking a TON of water....and by that I mean roughly 98 oz a day....that is not including my coffee intake of about 4, 8oz cups a day. I know, I know...but I HAVE to have my caffeine! :) Not only that, the last 3 days it's helped to keep me warm! HA!
'Dinner' I actually ate pizza! Red Barron to be exact! I only had 2 1/2 slices....when I was done and the food had settled a bit I told myself I could have done without the extra 1/2 slice...maybe even a full slice! No matter...still figuring it out! lol
I never mentioned the why I picked released for the title of my blog! Well, the author says that she doesn't like to call it 'losing weight' simply because when people lose something the tend to want to find it again....makes sense right? So, she calls it released! AWESOME! ....and I stole it for the title! :) Then I did a google search for a new blog background and just happened to stumble across this! I initially thought....'His eye is on the sparrow'....and while that is true it fits the name of the blog PERFECTLY! Coincidence? NNnaaahhhh!
One last thing! While reading my Bible last night I came across this passage that really hit home to me. Thought I'd share!
Ephesians 4:1-7
(1)As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. (2) Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. (3) Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bold of peace. (4) There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- (5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism; (6) one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (7) But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
Day 1: Woke up around 8 and got both my girls up, around and fed. Decided to venture out of the house today...could feel a bit of cabin fever setting in for all of us. My littlest little was VERY fussy....cried for most of the first 2 hours she was awake. Mind you, she has not been feeling well~ running a fever off an on for the last several days. BOO! We headed out to the grocery store, surprised at just how bad the roads still are! We got down our driveway just fine, but it took about 10 attempts getting back in with the driveway still 3/4 ice! *UGH* The venture out did us good though. While at the grocery store I started to feel a bit off....getting slightly dizzy every now and then. So we packed it in and headed home!
I needed to eat! I knew that the dizziness was a sign of me being hungry. I think it's going to take a little while to decide 'when' it's time to eat before my body starts giving me those little signs. Having said that I'm not sure if I'm suppose to know that? Am I suppose to wait for those little signs to eat??? hmmmmm.....
Anyways, it was around 12:00 before I actually had my 'breakfast'. 1/2 cup of oatmeal cooked in 1/2 cup water and 1/2 cup milk with 1/4 cup fresh blueberries! YUM! Amazing just how good food tastes when you get all the junk out of your system!!
'Lunch' was around 3:45.....1/2 cup of cottage cheese. So far both meals were surprisingly satisfying and I didn't need to eat anything else. I am also drinking a TON of water....and by that I mean roughly 98 oz a day....that is not including my coffee intake of about 4, 8oz cups a day. I know, I know...but I HAVE to have my caffeine! :) Not only that, the last 3 days it's helped to keep me warm! HA!
'Dinner' I actually ate pizza! Red Barron to be exact! I only had 2 1/2 slices....when I was done and the food had settled a bit I told myself I could have done without the extra 1/2 slice...maybe even a full slice! No matter...still figuring it out! lol
I never mentioned the why I picked released for the title of my blog! Well, the author says that she doesn't like to call it 'losing weight' simply because when people lose something the tend to want to find it again....makes sense right? So, she calls it released! AWESOME! ....and I stole it for the title! :) Then I did a google search for a new blog background and just happened to stumble across this! I initially thought....'His eye is on the sparrow'....and while that is true it fits the name of the blog PERFECTLY! Coincidence? NNnaaahhhh!
One last thing! While reading my Bible last night I came across this passage that really hit home to me. Thought I'd share!
Ephesians 4:1-7
(1)As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. (2) Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. (3) Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bold of peace. (4) There is one body and one Spirit- just as you were called to one hope when you were called- (5) one Lord, one faith, one baptism; (6) one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (7) But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it.
RELEASED (.....not lost!!!)
Like most woman, I have always struggled with my body and how I wish I was like a size 8! lol....when I hear people complaining about being a size 6 I tell them I think I skipped that size growing up!! AHAHAHA. Seriously. In high school I was around 150lbs. At the time I thought I was absolutely HUGE! So much so I actually joined weight watchers! *UGH* It helped for a bit but then I got sick with Mono, missed several classes and couldn't pay the $$ for the weeks I didn't attend. When I look back at pictures of me in high school I think, MAN! I what I wouldn't GIVE to look like that now! I am not sure where my insecurity came from at such a young age. I use to think I was pretty confident for a 15 yr old. I do know that I was SURROUNDED at my high school with girls that were pencil thin....everywhere. I just knew that I wasn't.
Fast forward 18 1/2 years and two kids later....OH.MY.GOSH! What have I done to myself??? Now, mind you, I am not obese, but I am 'overweight'. With a BMI of 26~ just 2 points away from a 'healthy' BMI of 24. I am uncomfortable with who I am, both inside and out.
I understand that I am an emotional eater....if I'm happy I eat, if I'm sad I eat...and not healthy options. I decided that I was going to join a Bible study at my church. The book we are studying is Thin Within. I'm excited! It's Godly approach to losing weight. And it's not necessarily about LOSING weight. It's more about strengthening your relationship with the Lord and through doing so asking Him to help you get through your everyday life and challenges. When I eat...am I REALLY hungry...or do I just WANT something. Does my body NEED this? It's just the first week of the study so I'm not all that sure about all the tiny details! I just know I am where I am suppose to be. Surrounded by woman of the same mind that will help me and encourage me....and I them. Support is vital! We were actually suppose to meet for the 2nd today but here in Dallas, TX we are ICED in and school is out for a third day! So it was cancelled. BOO!
Anyways....I decided to blog about my experience through this. Maybe somewhere along the way I can help or encourage someone else. My prayer is that the Lord changes me through this inside and out...and that my lifestyle changes. Not a temporary life change, but permanent. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me (Philippeans 4:13)....I'm claiming it and I'm believing it!
Fast forward 18 1/2 years and two kids later....OH.MY.GOSH! What have I done to myself??? Now, mind you, I am not obese, but I am 'overweight'. With a BMI of 26~ just 2 points away from a 'healthy' BMI of 24. I am uncomfortable with who I am, both inside and out.
I understand that I am an emotional eater....if I'm happy I eat, if I'm sad I eat...and not healthy options. I decided that I was going to join a Bible study at my church. The book we are studying is Thin Within. I'm excited! It's Godly approach to losing weight. And it's not necessarily about LOSING weight. It's more about strengthening your relationship with the Lord and through doing so asking Him to help you get through your everyday life and challenges. When I eat...am I REALLY hungry...or do I just WANT something. Does my body NEED this? It's just the first week of the study so I'm not all that sure about all the tiny details! I just know I am where I am suppose to be. Surrounded by woman of the same mind that will help me and encourage me....and I them. Support is vital! We were actually suppose to meet for the 2nd today but here in Dallas, TX we are ICED in and school is out for a third day! So it was cancelled. BOO!
Anyways....I decided to blog about my experience through this. Maybe somewhere along the way I can help or encourage someone else. My prayer is that the Lord changes me through this inside and out...and that my lifestyle changes. Not a temporary life change, but permanent. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me (Philippeans 4:13)....I'm claiming it and I'm believing it!
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