I seriously (in my mind) want to start blogging more. I have the ideas, I take the pictures, but somehow I just don't seem to make the time to do it. I love reading really good blogs and I admire the women who put the time and effort into writing really good posts every day!
I thought today I would do a general update on life since I haven't posted much of a personal nature lately. Sounds like I have something really juicy to share doesn't it?? Sorry, nothing that exciting!
Hm. What to start with. OK, probably the number one question I get asked on a weekly basis, "How is school going?". My answer usually ranges somewhere between "OK" and "it's getting better". School in itself is pretty simple most days. The boys want to learn, they want to do worksheets 95% of the time. They like school. The problems with school solely lie in me and my motivation. It's hard to ignore a dirty house, or the dishes, or the laundry. When those things are caught up on, it's easier for me to do school. I also struggle with making time to plan what we are doing. This is where I am sure using a curriculum would come in handy. I will probably look into that next year. I don't really fret too much about school, it's kindergarten, not brain surgery. I do try to make my major focus on reading as that is so fundamental to everything else. Tyler loves to learn to read and read his first "Bob book" last week. Ethan wants to read, but has a harder time focusing on his lessons. He is much more of a hands on type of kid and I really need to find something more focused on that for him to learn. We are currently using the book "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons". I highly recommend it. The lessons are fairly short, it tells you exactly what to say to your child and what to have them do. It also has them work on handwriting at the end of each lesson which I think is an added bonus. Yesterday we went to the planetarium and watched a presentation. Isaiah does school with us and pretty much wants to do the same worksheets as his brothers. In fact, the other day he was explaining to Ethan how to do his work! That same day he told me the worksheets I was giving him were too easy. Guess he's going to be one of those kids!
Second most asked question is "How do you like staying home?". I really like it. It's generally better than work, even today when Tyler got the bright idea of stirring his milk with the TV remote! It seems like I've been home forever, but it's only been 5 months. I thought I would have better control of the house, but that is still something I struggle with. I am getting better all the time though. I love being home with the boys. We had some really great fun days outside in the fall and I'm glad they were able to do that instead of being in a classroom. Could we have done those things on weekends? Probably. But there is a greater freedom in being able to do and teach and learn 7 days a week. I guess what I'm trying to say is that right now in this moment, I feel we've made the right decision for our family. And that feels good. I wish that all moms who wanted to were able to stay home with their kids and not have to work.
New Years resolutions...the same as always. Read the Bible more. I had the intention of joining others at church and reading through the New Testament in a year. Just found my paper the other day. Still haven't started...I may still try to catch up.
Lose weight. This probably needs a post of it's own. I will tell you, that I have been doing the "Daniel Fast" for the past 3 weeks. Yesterday was my last day. I lost a significant amount of weight, but even more important than that, my head is in the right place. Stay tuned for a post just on this topic. If you look up the list of foods, make sure you scroll down and look at the whole list. It's not nearly as limited as the first paragraph makes it sound.
I've also been trying some new recipes and plan to post those. They are regular recipes (as in not diet) that I've been trying out on my family.
There are lots of things on my mind and heart. I hope to share some of those thoughts in future posts, but for now I'll close.
Have a great cloudy day!
Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Not Dieting Three Week Mark
Has it really only been a little more than 3 weeks since I embarked on this new adventure? It feels like a lot longer than that! Some days have been really easy. A few lately have made me want to fall back into my former bad habits.
The thing that I think is different this time is that I am very (very) aware of what I am putting into my body. Everything I eat is a very conscious decision made by me. There has not been any mindless eating. When I have overdone it, I knew I had.
Another thing that is different this time is my mental attitude. I over did it. So what? I'm human. I've only been doing this for 3 weeks. I did not ruin all my progress on one or two episodes of overeating. I have not undone the exercise that I have recently started. Tomorrow is a new day. God's grace is new every day. If God can do that for me, shouldn't I extend that grace to myself?
I have made progress on the scale. I am trying not to let that be my motivating factor, but some days that is the only reason I get out of bed...well, that and the three kids screaming for their breakfast.
I am trying not to weigh myself until Feb. 2. That will be one month on this new "not dieting" thing. It will be my next update on the right hand side of my blog. I have not weighed myself since last Thursday. This is really hard for me. I would eventually like to get to the point that I only weigh myself once a month, but as of now that seems entirely impossible.
I have also noticed that there are a lot of opportunities to eat when I am not really hungry. Just because someone else has a snack does not mean that I need one. Just because the ice cream is staring at me in the freezer does not mean I need to eat it. I have had an amazing thing happen recently. About a week (2 weeks ago?) I opened a pint of Ben and Jerry's. I ate a little less than a 1/4th of it and put it away. It has remained untouched in the freezer since then. That in itself is a miracle. In the past, I would eat an entire pint in one sitting. I'm not sure what the difference is this time. It's definitely a God thing. Normally, even talking about the Ben and Jerry's like this would have me getting up from the computer and grabbing the ice cream and a spoon and coming back to type the rest of the post. I honestly don't even have the desire. Amazing.
I have started reading some more in the "Lose it for Life" book. The part that I am reading now is talking about the quality of the food we put in our body. The last part I read was about all of the physical problems caused by obesity. There are many more than I realized.
I have eaten out about 4-5 times in the past week. That is very unusual for us. However with all the "strange things (are) happening" (anyone know the movie that song is from?) around here, I have eaten out more. The difference now is that I never leave stuffed and feeling miserable. I've had a Big Mac, Steak, loaded mashed potatoes, bread rolls, onion petals, and chai tea among other things. On any other "diet" I've been on, most of those would have been huge NO NO!s. I can't express enough the freedom of "Lose it for Life".
I have started walking on the treadmill 3 days a week. Usually I only walk a mile. I do it while the boys are awake, which has proved to be a challenge at times. However at this point in my life I am not committed enough to get up at 5 am in order to walk before they wake.
The first mile I walked took me 26 min. The other day I walked a mile in 18 min. and 44 seconds. I have no doubt after the weight loss of the first week or so that I would continue to lose weight without exercise. This is just my attempt to speed things up and get a little more toned along the way.
The thing that I think is different this time is that I am very (very) aware of what I am putting into my body. Everything I eat is a very conscious decision made by me. There has not been any mindless eating. When I have overdone it, I knew I had.
Another thing that is different this time is my mental attitude. I over did it. So what? I'm human. I've only been doing this for 3 weeks. I did not ruin all my progress on one or two episodes of overeating. I have not undone the exercise that I have recently started. Tomorrow is a new day. God's grace is new every day. If God can do that for me, shouldn't I extend that grace to myself?
I have made progress on the scale. I am trying not to let that be my motivating factor, but some days that is the only reason I get out of bed...well, that and the three kids screaming for their breakfast.
I am trying not to weigh myself until Feb. 2. That will be one month on this new "not dieting" thing. It will be my next update on the right hand side of my blog. I have not weighed myself since last Thursday. This is really hard for me. I would eventually like to get to the point that I only weigh myself once a month, but as of now that seems entirely impossible.
I have also noticed that there are a lot of opportunities to eat when I am not really hungry. Just because someone else has a snack does not mean that I need one. Just because the ice cream is staring at me in the freezer does not mean I need to eat it. I have had an amazing thing happen recently. About a week (2 weeks ago?) I opened a pint of Ben and Jerry's. I ate a little less than a 1/4th of it and put it away. It has remained untouched in the freezer since then. That in itself is a miracle. In the past, I would eat an entire pint in one sitting. I'm not sure what the difference is this time. It's definitely a God thing. Normally, even talking about the Ben and Jerry's like this would have me getting up from the computer and grabbing the ice cream and a spoon and coming back to type the rest of the post. I honestly don't even have the desire. Amazing.
I have started reading some more in the "Lose it for Life" book. The part that I am reading now is talking about the quality of the food we put in our body. The last part I read was about all of the physical problems caused by obesity. There are many more than I realized.
I have eaten out about 4-5 times in the past week. That is very unusual for us. However with all the "strange things (are) happening" (anyone know the movie that song is from?) around here, I have eaten out more. The difference now is that I never leave stuffed and feeling miserable. I've had a Big Mac, Steak, loaded mashed potatoes, bread rolls, onion petals, and chai tea among other things. On any other "diet" I've been on, most of those would have been huge NO NO!s. I can't express enough the freedom of "Lose it for Life".
I have started walking on the treadmill 3 days a week. Usually I only walk a mile. I do it while the boys are awake, which has proved to be a challenge at times. However at this point in my life I am not committed enough to get up at 5 am in order to walk before they wake.
The first mile I walked took me 26 min. The other day I walked a mile in 18 min. and 44 seconds. I have no doubt after the weight loss of the first week or so that I would continue to lose weight without exercise. This is just my attempt to speed things up and get a little more toned along the way.
Friday, January 09, 2009
Not Dieting Part 2
Warning....long post ahead.
While talking with a friend a couple of months ago, I realized that I have been dieting on and off for the past 20 years! That just amazed me and saddened me. I'm not that old for Pete's sake.
Low carb has been the diet of choice in recent years, but I have also done low calorie, low fat (during college one time I ate baked potatoes with grape jelly, frozen yogurt, and pretzels), the "Cleveland Clinic diet", and the "The last minute 12 pound crash diet" or something to that effect. While all of them helped me lose weight, all of them felt rigid, full of rules, and restrictive.
Because those diets were full of rules, when I "broke a rule", I felt guilty. I felt like a failure. And you know what? I tend to be an emotional eater. So what do I do when I feel bad? Eat. I'm also a binger. Most people would probably be shocked (and disgusted) to see how much food I can put away in a sitting. I'm also partial to doing whatever I want to do. So when someone tells me I "can't" do something (like eat chocolate), it just makes me want to do it. I'm also a stress eater. Diets seem to cause me a lot of stress. Kind of sounds like I'm working against myself doesn't it?
After a few days or weeks on those diets (without cheating), I start to gain a false sense of control. I would wonder who that over eater was. Certainly I have enough control and mindset to know what I can eat. So I would go have something that was not on the list, which would lead to two things not on the list, and then I had all out binge on things that were "not allowed" because I had "already blown it".
So....I start reading this book called "Lose it for Life". I'm somewhat leery only because I fear that it's another diet book that will tell me what to eat... I'll try it... and eventually fail under it's overly high expectations. However, I knew just from skimming it, that this book was different. There were Bible verses posted throughout the book. That had to count for something, right?
Well, it turns out that it does. This book is helping me to heal my mind of all the dieting crap that the world has sold me over the years. In all honesty, I'm only 79 pages into the book. However, I've learned some interesting things which are shaping how I think about food, dieting, and my relationship with God. I will share some of the interesting things and things that are helping me. I'm pretty sure that none of them will appear to be life changing. Some of them may be things you've heard before.
One of the interesting things the book talked about was the first temptation. You know what? It dealt with food. A forbidden food. A food that the devil was trying to get Eve to eat. Can you see the correlation with dieting?
We want to have it all (all the food we can eat, all the chocolate, all the junk). We don't want to practice any restraint. You can eat off of all the trees but one...
We don't appreciate what God has given us. I mean truly appreciate. I have noticed this week that almost all of the eating I have done up until now has been very mindless. Sure I have had some good food, food that tasted good, but I never really appreciated, savored, and thanked God for it. I'm not talking about the pre-dinner thank you, but a heartfelt expression of gratitude.
We listen to the "snake". "You're a failure at dieting", "You'll never be thin", "Just eat it, you deserve it", and on and on and on.
We give in. We "eat the apple" and then pay for the consequences of disobedience.
The other "temptation" in the Bible? Jesus in the wilderness. Again, tempted by the devil....again with food. When it says that Jesus understands our struggles, it's true!
What I'm Doing
- I'm eating serving sizes of foods. I'm not measuring things, but I do have a pretty good idea of what a serving size is (and if I don't, I check the box or bag).
-I eat one helping at meals.
-I drink as much water as I think to during the day. I'm not counting them.
-I usually have only one diet Coke a day.
-I'm not snacking much. If I do, it's usually some cashews and a large drink of water. I know that doesn't sound like much, but honestly 98% of the time I have not been hungry. It's 9:30 am and I'm not hungry yet. Strange, but true.
-I know just by eating one serving of things that I have probably cut my calorie consumption in half or more. I'm sure that is the cause of my weight loss so far.
-I'm not exercising....yet, but I will get there.
-I'm not restricting what I eat. I eat bread (gasp), some sugar (gasp gasp), etc. "There are no forbidden foods". That is from the book. It is an amazingly freeing concept!! In the past week I've enjoyed pizza, spaghetti, cookies, a Buckeye, hard candy, french onion soup, bratwurst....
It is hard to change your thinking about dieting. It is especially hard if you have dieted for any amount of time. Some of those dieting "do's and don'ts" are very ingrained in our thinking.
I will continue to post some things I'm learning as the weeks go on, but I can't really recommend this book enough. I challenge you to check it out of your library or go sit at Barnes and Noble and just read the first 8-9 page introduction.
Oh and you want to know how much I've lost since last Friday? 11 pounds!!! As excited as I am about that, I am more excited to have found a way of living that I can live with. There is not a thing that I am "not allowed" to eat, and nothing I "have to do", so how can I fail? The only way I can fail is to return to my former way of eating. By the grace of God, I hope that will soon be a distant memory.
While talking with a friend a couple of months ago, I realized that I have been dieting on and off for the past 20 years! That just amazed me and saddened me. I'm not that old for Pete's sake.
Low carb has been the diet of choice in recent years, but I have also done low calorie, low fat (during college one time I ate baked potatoes with grape jelly, frozen yogurt, and pretzels), the "Cleveland Clinic diet", and the "The last minute 12 pound crash diet" or something to that effect. While all of them helped me lose weight, all of them felt rigid, full of rules, and restrictive.
Because those diets were full of rules, when I "broke a rule", I felt guilty. I felt like a failure. And you know what? I tend to be an emotional eater. So what do I do when I feel bad? Eat. I'm also a binger. Most people would probably be shocked (and disgusted) to see how much food I can put away in a sitting. I'm also partial to doing whatever I want to do. So when someone tells me I "can't" do something (like eat chocolate), it just makes me want to do it. I'm also a stress eater. Diets seem to cause me a lot of stress. Kind of sounds like I'm working against myself doesn't it?
After a few days or weeks on those diets (without cheating), I start to gain a false sense of control. I would wonder who that over eater was. Certainly I have enough control and mindset to know what I can eat. So I would go have something that was not on the list, which would lead to two things not on the list, and then I had all out binge on things that were "not allowed" because I had "already blown it".
So....I start reading this book called "Lose it for Life". I'm somewhat leery only because I fear that it's another diet book that will tell me what to eat... I'll try it... and eventually fail under it's overly high expectations. However, I knew just from skimming it, that this book was different. There were Bible verses posted throughout the book. That had to count for something, right?
Well, it turns out that it does. This book is helping me to heal my mind of all the dieting crap that the world has sold me over the years. In all honesty, I'm only 79 pages into the book. However, I've learned some interesting things which are shaping how I think about food, dieting, and my relationship with God. I will share some of the interesting things and things that are helping me. I'm pretty sure that none of them will appear to be life changing. Some of them may be things you've heard before.
One of the interesting things the book talked about was the first temptation. You know what? It dealt with food. A forbidden food. A food that the devil was trying to get Eve to eat. Can you see the correlation with dieting?
We want to have it all (all the food we can eat, all the chocolate, all the junk). We don't want to practice any restraint. You can eat off of all the trees but one...
We don't appreciate what God has given us. I mean truly appreciate. I have noticed this week that almost all of the eating I have done up until now has been very mindless. Sure I have had some good food, food that tasted good, but I never really appreciated, savored, and thanked God for it. I'm not talking about the pre-dinner thank you, but a heartfelt expression of gratitude.
We listen to the "snake". "You're a failure at dieting", "You'll never be thin", "Just eat it, you deserve it", and on and on and on.
We give in. We "eat the apple" and then pay for the consequences of disobedience.
The other "temptation" in the Bible? Jesus in the wilderness. Again, tempted by the devil....again with food. When it says that Jesus understands our struggles, it's true!
What I'm Doing
- I'm eating serving sizes of foods. I'm not measuring things, but I do have a pretty good idea of what a serving size is (and if I don't, I check the box or bag).
-I eat one helping at meals.
-I drink as much water as I think to during the day. I'm not counting them.
-I usually have only one diet Coke a day.
-I'm not snacking much. If I do, it's usually some cashews and a large drink of water. I know that doesn't sound like much, but honestly 98% of the time I have not been hungry. It's 9:30 am and I'm not hungry yet. Strange, but true.
-I know just by eating one serving of things that I have probably cut my calorie consumption in half or more. I'm sure that is the cause of my weight loss so far.
-I'm not exercising....yet, but I will get there.
-I'm not restricting what I eat. I eat bread (gasp), some sugar (gasp gasp), etc. "There are no forbidden foods". That is from the book. It is an amazingly freeing concept!! In the past week I've enjoyed pizza, spaghetti, cookies, a Buckeye, hard candy, french onion soup, bratwurst....
It is hard to change your thinking about dieting. It is especially hard if you have dieted for any amount of time. Some of those dieting "do's and don'ts" are very ingrained in our thinking.
I will continue to post some things I'm learning as the weeks go on, but I can't really recommend this book enough. I challenge you to check it out of your library or go sit at Barnes and Noble and just read the first 8-9 page introduction.
Oh and you want to know how much I've lost since last Friday? 11 pounds!!! As excited as I am about that, I am more excited to have found a way of living that I can live with. There is not a thing that I am "not allowed" to eat, and nothing I "have to do", so how can I fail? The only way I can fail is to return to my former way of eating. By the grace of God, I hope that will soon be a distant memory.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
How I'm Not Dieting
Sometime near the final quarter of 2008, I happened upon a book that looked interesting to me. I decided to Bookmooch it and check it out. I also mooched the workbook that can accompany the book. Both books have sat in my bedroom for several months with the thought that I would get serious about "weight loss, dieting, and all that other stuff" at the beginning of the year.
My friends at work and I have been talking for a couple of months about a new start in the new year and what diets we thought we might try. We talked about biggest loser challenges. We talked about exercise. Names like Atkins and Sonoma were thrown around.
My friend, Patty, has struggled with weight for a good portion of her life. She is one of the most beautiful godly women I know. I love her. She and I always talk a lot about our poor eating habits and how we want to do better. After I had skimmed the book I bought and showed it to her, I went and bought her a copy as a Christmas present. (About now you're probably wondering what kind of friend buys another friend a diet book for Christmas...).
Patty ended up reading part of the book before I started reading. She told me that it had some really good stuff and that she had underlined things to go back to later. (Phew. She liked the Christmas present!). We both planned to start this weight loss thing on January 2nd.
Knowing that I was going to start my annual-miserable-food-restricting- diet, I spent the week before that day binging on everything imaginable. I'm pretty sure that I gained around 6 pounds the week between Christmas and New Years. I was packing away a lot of food and calories. My grand total on January 2nd? 250 pounds. Yikes! I have never weighed that much in my life, not even pregnant with twins. I am more than 100 pounds overweight.
I started reading the book. It's not a miracle cure. It's not a guide to fast weight loss. It's not the next great newest thing. It's a book about eating to honor God. It's a book about not listening to the lies of the world in regards to weight loss and dieting. The book doesn't tell you what to eat and what not to eat (although there are some suggestions in the back if you want some). It focuses on "the total solution -spiritual, emotional, and physical- for permanent weight loss". It's full of scripture that pertains to overeating. It has a lot of common sense stuff about eating right that I already knew. The first time that I sat down with the book, I read about a third of it. I underlined things to go back to later. For some reason, this time around, things were starting to click and make sense in my mind.
The name of the book is "Lose it for Life" by Stephen Arterburn, M. ED. and Dr. Linda Mintle. You may recognize Steve's name from Christian radio (I hear him on K-Love). He does a "New Life Minute" segment on there.
The book has caused me to rethink my weight loss plan for this year. I'll share how my thoughts have changed and what I am doing (and how it's working) in my next post.
My friends at work and I have been talking for a couple of months about a new start in the new year and what diets we thought we might try. We talked about biggest loser challenges. We talked about exercise. Names like Atkins and Sonoma were thrown around.
My friend, Patty, has struggled with weight for a good portion of her life. She is one of the most beautiful godly women I know. I love her. She and I always talk a lot about our poor eating habits and how we want to do better. After I had skimmed the book I bought and showed it to her, I went and bought her a copy as a Christmas present. (About now you're probably wondering what kind of friend buys another friend a diet book for Christmas...).
Patty ended up reading part of the book before I started reading. She told me that it had some really good stuff and that she had underlined things to go back to later. (Phew. She liked the Christmas present!). We both planned to start this weight loss thing on January 2nd.
Knowing that I was going to start my annual-miserable-food-restricting- diet, I spent the week before that day binging on everything imaginable. I'm pretty sure that I gained around 6 pounds the week between Christmas and New Years. I was packing away a lot of food and calories. My grand total on January 2nd? 250 pounds. Yikes! I have never weighed that much in my life, not even pregnant with twins. I am more than 100 pounds overweight.
I started reading the book. It's not a miracle cure. It's not a guide to fast weight loss. It's not the next great newest thing. It's a book about eating to honor God. It's a book about not listening to the lies of the world in regards to weight loss and dieting. The book doesn't tell you what to eat and what not to eat (although there are some suggestions in the back if you want some). It focuses on "the total solution -spiritual, emotional, and physical- for permanent weight loss". It's full of scripture that pertains to overeating. It has a lot of common sense stuff about eating right that I already knew. The first time that I sat down with the book, I read about a third of it. I underlined things to go back to later. For some reason, this time around, things were starting to click and make sense in my mind.
The name of the book is "Lose it for Life" by Stephen Arterburn, M. ED. and Dr. Linda Mintle. You may recognize Steve's name from Christian radio (I hear him on K-Love). He does a "New Life Minute" segment on there.
The book has caused me to rethink my weight loss plan for this year. I'll share how my thoughts have changed and what I am doing (and how it's working) in my next post.
Monday, October 20, 2008
I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength!
Some of us (myself included) are guilty of adding these things onto the end of that verse. "I can do all things except...
-diet
-stay on a budget
-keep my house clean
-give up cable TV
-stop eating chocolate
-stop itching mosquito bites
-sponsor a needy child
-be a missionary to a foreign country
-be a missionary in my own neighborhood
-discipline my kids consistently
-cook meals for my family instead of eating out
-fill in the blank with whatever YOU "can't" do
If you try to do it without God, yeah, you'll fail. If you ask for His help and continually seek Him , He will give you supernatural power. From the smallest thing to the largest, He can help you. Don't say "I can't", say "With Him I can".
It's only by the grace of God that we do anything.
-diet
-stay on a budget
-keep my house clean
-give up cable TV
-stop eating chocolate
-stop itching mosquito bites
-sponsor a needy child
-be a missionary to a foreign country
-be a missionary in my own neighborhood
-discipline my kids consistently
-cook meals for my family instead of eating out
-fill in the blank with whatever YOU "can't" do
If you try to do it without God, yeah, you'll fail. If you ask for His help and continually seek Him , He will give you supernatural power. From the smallest thing to the largest, He can help you. Don't say "I can't", say "With Him I can".
It's only by the grace of God that we do anything.
Monday, April 07, 2008
The BIG FAT diet
This is it. The first day of the rest of my life. I've decided to start on the weight loss/ healthier eating journey yet again. My motivation this time is that my cousin Katherine is getting married in exactly two months! Yikes! I could go on and on about how how she's way too young (only in my mind), but I digress. (And honestly, she's marrying a great guy. One who will even play London Bridges with my boys. That's gotta count for something.)
I haven't picked a particular "diet". I usually do some form of lowering my carb and sugar intake along with some moderation (I hate that word).
As of this morning I weigh 244 lbs. I'm pretty sure that is the most I've ever weighed, including both pregnancies. I would love to be 199 (or less) by the wedding, and I realize that is a lofty goal.
We are starting another "Biggest Loser" challenge at work. I love the motivation of a contest, especially one where cash is the prize. Patty and I are also going to start meeting at work to have devotions or a prayer. I've really left God out of most of my dieting attempts which probably tells you why they've never been long term fixes. My mom started a week before me, so she is also another support and encouragement for me.
I haven't picked a particular "diet". I usually do some form of lowering my carb and sugar intake along with some moderation (I hate that word).
As of this morning I weigh 244 lbs. I'm pretty sure that is the most I've ever weighed, including both pregnancies. I would love to be 199 (or less) by the wedding, and I realize that is a lofty goal.
We are starting another "Biggest Loser" challenge at work. I love the motivation of a contest, especially one where cash is the prize. Patty and I are also going to start meeting at work to have devotions or a prayer. I've really left God out of most of my dieting attempts which probably tells you why they've never been long term fixes. My mom started a week before me, so she is also another support and encouragement for me.
So expect to see updates on here and feel free to leave me any words of encouragement you might have.
For those who live close, I am still hosting the Hershey's Bliss chocolate/Gold Canyon candle party on May 2nd. If you don't live close, but still want to come, send me an email. It's at 6:00 pm.
Monday, June 11, 2007
What I ate in High School...
In my foods class in high school, we had to write down what we ate for 24 hours. This is what I ate from 10am to 10 am:
-2 Little Debbie Swiss cakes, 1 p.b. bar
-bologna sandwich with ketchup and mustard
-bag of Frito's
-brownie
-4 Oreos
-2 cheeseburgers with ketchup and mustard, no bun
-piece of pizza
-3 chocolate chip cookies
-water to drink
My teacher wrote on the bottom of the page "Is this nutritional". She also asked about milk, pop, and coffee. Back then, all I drank was water. It's no wonder I have the body that I have today.
-2 Little Debbie Swiss cakes, 1 p.b. bar
-bologna sandwich with ketchup and mustard
-bag of Frito's
-brownie
-4 Oreos
-2 cheeseburgers with ketchup and mustard, no bun
-piece of pizza
-3 chocolate chip cookies
-water to drink
My teacher wrote on the bottom of the page "Is this nutritional". She also asked about milk, pop, and coffee. Back then, all I drank was water. It's no wonder I have the body that I have today.
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