Update!

Hi everyone! SO if you are following my blog, I'm sure you've noticed that I have not posted my food intake recently. After I hit about 10 pounds lost, I decided to take some time and try to eat without recording every single thing. What I did was use the www.myfitnesspal.com to look up questionable foods and I would just eat until I was full. I was scared to death that doing this would be a horrible idea. I thought I would over eat completely. But, as it turns out, the last 2 weeks have been amazing!

I have kept up doing some exercise as often as my pain level will allow me to and I have eaten until I am full. And in the last 2 weeks I've lost over 3 pounds!!! This is the FIRST time in my life I have felt as if I am doing things "right". I'm losing weight at what is considered to be a healthy pace, 1 to 2 pounds each week. I'm eating healthy, and exercising. I'm shopping for my food at our new grocery store Earth Fare, which gives me a WHOLE store worth of healthy food choices. If I'm in a rush it is nice to talk into a store and not have to question every thing I pick up!

I have also been praying a whole lot, just asking God for strength and the ability to be able to have control over this body that He lent me during my time here on earth. And, I'm trying to keep busy... I have been keeping involved with the kids' activities and even more will be coming this fall!

So, my purpose now when I log in, will be to log my weight, which I'm now weighing myself every Wednesday morning; blog about how I am feeling; blog about any products, food, weight loss tips I'm using to help me and pass them on to you! My zumba class is now over with and will not be returning until the fall, but I will be posting some different exercise options I am using as well, even some videos I have found online! I am also going to be talking a little bit more about my future goals and life plans. I think these goals as well are helping me to stick to my new healthy lifestyle. I feel as if I am being called to ministry and if I am going to do that, I want to not only be a good influence to people on the inside, but on the outside as well.

My prayer for you today:

Dear Lord, I ask you today to continue to give me strength and a feeling of purpose in my life. I ask you also to keep my family and friends who have supported me on my journey, close to your heart. May you bless their lives the way they have continued to bless mine. Also, Lord Jesus, I keep in my prayers my blog followers. Although I may not know them all personally, I ask you to bless their lives and continue to speak to me through them. I pray for the health, safety and overall well being of my friends, family, church family and blog followers. And today, I'd also like to pray for any people in those groups who have not yet come to know you, Lord. I pray that they feel a MOVEMENT in their hearts Lord, a COMPLETE desire, as I recently felt, to serve you and live their lives in a way that is pleasing to you. THANK YOU LORD for coming into my life and THANK YOU for my church family, who helped me to find you, Lord, at a time when I needed you most. I PRAY that I may be of help to someone close to me as they were a help to me! I ask this through your SAVING son, Jesus Christ. -AMEN-