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| just about 25lbs gone... |
I'm not wanting to stop. I have started my new goal of another 30lbs by August 16th. My desire is to lose 75lbs in the year of 2011... I've conquer 30lbs now I have 45 more to go! Yahoo!!
I ask you to keep me in your prayers for I know there are still many area's in my life that need work, I see so many things that came back into habit within only a week! Not good! But I see it.... I see it so clearly, I see how when I get tired I grab for something easy and fulfilling. I see that if I buy it I partake of it, even noticing how I have picked up on bigger portions and coming away feeling overly full and I do not like that feeling. So I'm starting to make these notes in my brain, I need to write them down so I can visibly see where my weaknesses lie.
One thing I know I need not to do is beat myself up... these last few weeks have been wonderful but also discouraging. I get to where I start thinking bad thoughts and I forget the great victory I have had and then begin focusing on the wrong choices I have made these past few weeks which lead to more wrong choices. Food has no hold on me, but I am seeing if I allow these negative thoughts to control my actions, I may fall prey to those temptations once more. So I'm learning that it is okay to have certain things as long as I can control the consumption of those certain things.
I'm excited to be wearing clothes that I haven't wore since before I was married. I put on my Wedding dress a month or so back! Shocked... That I was able to fit into it. What a rewarding feeling to see results!! HalleluYAH!! Yahweh Be PRAISED!!
2Co 2:14 But thanks be to Elohim who always leads us on, to overcome in Messiah, and manifests through us the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
A bad habit I have picked up is stepping on the scale daily, almost several times daily... bad bad bad. I see how I allow what the scale says to alter my emotions. On Good days I'm jubilant but on bad days I'm down & thinking on all my mistakes. I'm now going to STOP daily scale reading leaving it to only once a week. Like making a special time for myself to write down my stats for the week, and maybe start making mini goals of changes or workouts... nothing to big just to help spice things up to keep me focused and not bored.
My children and husband are my biggest influences in this time. Their joy and adventurous nature challenges me to desire that as well. I want to seek out adventures with them so we can work at this together. Here lately I have been walking/jogging around my backyard so the my boys can play and I can walk! haha it is quite funny and probably strange to my neighbors but I feel great knowing my children can have some fun playing while mommy can watch and walk at the same time. The boys think it is funny and they will try to get in my way and then I attack them with growls and tickles, then we both are caught up in giggles and then back to walking again. Sometimes they will even hold my hand and walk with me, (more me dragging them along to keep up, I think they do that on purpose to get a free ride!) haha... Shiloh has even hitched a ride piggy-back style. So I'm learning to be creative in the "I have three children, three and younger, who can't be left behind!" So i make them part of my routine or whatever type of routine I have for the day. always seems to change periodically! daily! hourly! minutely! haha....
Psa 127:3 Look, children are an inheritance from יהוה, The fruit of the womb is the reward.
And what a reward they are...
So I am excited for what lies ahead.... Please once again keep me in your prayers. I truly desire this set-apart healthy life style for myself and my family. I need guidance and strength through Messiah Yahushua that I can withstand against the enemy and his desire to see me fail.
Eph 6:10 For the rest, my brothers, be strong in the Master and in the mightiness of His strength.
Eph 6:11 Put on the complete armour of Elohim, for you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil.
Eph 6:12 Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the heavenlies.
Eph 6:13 Because of this, take up the complete armour of Elohim, so that you have power to withstand in the wicked day, and having done all, to stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand, then, having girded your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
Eph 6:15 and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;
Eph 6:16 above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one.
Eph 6:17 Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,1 Footnote: 1Isa. 59:21.
Eph 6:18 praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
Eph 6:19 also for me, that a word might be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to be bold in making known the secret of the Good News,
HalleluYAH!
Let's RUN!
Sady
Heb 12:1 We too, then, having so great a cloud of witnesses all around us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race set before us,
Heb 12:2 looking to the Princely Leader and Perfecter of our belief, יהושע, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the stake, having despised the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of Elohim.
