All Fruit?!

"God always gives you enough strength for the next step"



 

When I started eating yesterday morning, I thought to myself, "This is so easy!!" Oh how wrong I was. I was downright hungry all day long. I lost count how many bowls of soup I had just trying to offset my hunger. I had apples, oranges, strawberries, cantaloupe and it just was not keeping me full. Also, a lot of these fruits are not in season so they were not as fresh tasting and sweet.

I was miserable all day but I was able to avoid all the temptations of sweet stuff... until the end of the night (I knew I should have gone to bed early!!) My mom had a bowl of fresh popped Kettle Popcorn and I probably had a quarter of the bag with her. As soon as I finished eating, I felt so guilty. Why do we do so well during the day only to mess up at night? Is there some sick voice in our head telling us to eat badly? But seriously, why do we lose that self control at night and give into temptations?

I did manage to drink all 64soz of water and only felt like I was floating away a couple times ha-ha today I will start on eating all vegetables and I get to eat a baked potato for dinner (YAY!!) But that’s a whole different post

One day at a time



Bring it on 2013!

Well, it is the start of a new year and new goals. This morning, I sat down and wrote down 3 goals for my year. 1) I am going to be more faithful in my Bible reading and study 2) I am going to be successful in my Premier Designs jewelry business and reach some goals that I set and finally, 3) I am going to reach my weight loss goal of 150lbs and become more active.

Those are just basic goals. I put more details in my list but you get the idea with this list. With this being my weight loss blog, I am going to focus more on that topic here.

Tomorrow morning I will start a 7 day cleanse to help me start the year off right. It is called the 'Sacred Heart Cleanse' that is used to stabilize your levels. You are supposed to lose 10-17 pounds in this week but before you start thinking how unhealthy this is, I am aware that this is mostly water weight and will most likely gain it all back. The last 3 weeks have been horrible on my weight and I have not been watching what I eat. My mom had major surgery 2 weeks ago and was in the hospital for 5 days so obviously I didn't eat properly there. Then we had Christmas and new years and you know how that goes. I have gotten back into my bad habits of eating fast food and soda and eating late at night (usually all at the same time too) so I feel like I need to 'reset' and start fresh.

I also would like to get more active. It’s easy to make excuses I know but right now, adding exercise to my "to do list" might set me over the edge. as I said, my mom had major surgery 2 weeks ago so starting tomorrow, I will be her main caregiver and I will gladly take on that role as well as the housekeeper (cleaning, laundry, cooking) but I will also have both my niece and my nephew to watch and in march, my sister will be having another little boy by scheduled c-section and I will be the main caretaker for Logan because of her surgery. Also, I still run a successful jewelry business and every Saturday from now until March is booked with shows. Then there is church where I am a teacher on Sunday mornings. I don’t say all this to brag or to get sympathy; I say all this because I just do not see how I could add a workout in everyday. I would like to walk a little bit everyday but I am not going to beat myself up if I miss a day.I took a picture last night and then took the picture from last Christmas and I compared them side by side and was surprised when I saw a difference. All I can say is that it encouraged me to keep on keeping on and to keep pushing forward with my journey to a new me!!

 

This year, I want to be more faithful in updating my blog. I was using this as an outlet and then I let myself get to busy to update. So this year, a goal of mine is to update at least once a week if not more.

I read a quote today from a friend of mine and it seemed like a perfect way to end my post today-

"No one can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

As always,

One day at a time