God is Good ALL the Time!

I just want to praise God for allowing me to offer Him a love song this morning during our worship service. I have not been able to sing a special at church in quite some time due to anxiety! I finally gave it to God today and sang for Him! All I could do when I finished was say over and over again. I Praise You, I Praise You, I Praise You.

I truly believe that this break through this morning also gave my the strength to ask God to keep me from over eating today as well. I give Him all the praise and honor and glory!

Picnic at the Lake!

God's beauty...

Great friends...

What a combination!

Last night was one of those nights right out of a fairy tale. It was perfect, great friends, a cool breeze, the sound of the water lapping up on the shore and fire flies on the way home! When these kinds of evenings happen it is such a blessing....God is so good!

We started out the evening with a toast to our Lord and Savior thanking Him for a perfect end to a perfect day! We ended the evening with Karah catching a fire fly when we got back to our house! It truly was perfect. Thanks girls!

Haddie and Karah take the bravery award! They gushed in the mud and had lots of fun doing it. I was a bit jealous but I really didn't want to get my feet muddy because I was wearing flip flops and I don't usually wear them and they would have rubbed such blisters on my feet had I joined the girls in the mud!

We each wrote our nicknames in the sand...

Viv, Melis, Candi, TRae, Rarah

and Hadassah!

Good times!

My Experiment was a Success!

Last Friday when I weighed in I decided to do an experiment. I would allow myself to eat absolutely anything I wanted to eat but....here is the catch, I had to wait until my tummy audibly growled! At that point I would eat slowly so I could tell when my tummy was satisfied and that is when I stopped eating! So, instead of saving my best bites for last I ate them first since I didn't know when my tummy would signal satisfaction.

Did I perfectly do this all week? No! But I didn't do too badly with it. This is not as easy as it sounds at all....give it a try sometime and see for yourself!

What were the results, you may ask....I lost 2.8 pounds this week! I'm so over-joyed that I can hardly stand it. I have felt a freedom in this that I have not felt in over a year on this "diet" journey I've been on. I do believe I'm going to continue down this road and see where it takes me!

New Beginnings, AGAIN!

I think that just maybe my Lord has finally gotten through to my heart! I cannot continue this journey of health and weight loss until I understand how He made me. I am fearfully and wonderfully made and He made me in such a way as to know when I need fuel for my body.

This is another new beginning for me but that is ok. I am not going to quit this journey. Quitting is simply not an option. I will learn to feed my body, mind and most importantly my spirit with the good things of God.

Last Friday, May 8th was the start of relearning my bodies hunger and full signals. So far, with the Lord's help, I have not done too badly. Yes, I have had to ask the Lord to forgive me for overeating just a bit but not near like I was! It has been a struggle to eat only when my body tells me it is hungry....it was such a part of who I was to just eat anytime my flesh wanted me too!

I can't tell you how liberated and free I feel....to know that I can eat absolutely anything I want to as long as I'm truly hungry and if and only if I can stop when I'm satisfied! I feel like I have broken free from the chains that have kept me captive to food for so many years!

Now onto my second new beginning....

My sweet Abbs (aka Haddie) has helped me give the blog site a new look so maybe now I will come and blog more often!! I really have a desire to write my thoughts but somehow getting them from my head to the page is more difficult than one would imagine!