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I LOVE FOOD. There I said it! And if you ever drive around anywhere or even turn on your TV you will see that our society is surrounded by food adds. There is a REASON that the US has the most obese people.

Today all I can think about is a cheeseburger. I SWEAR I was drooling as I passed a cow pasture today! I want to know why a cheeseburger and french fries tastes SO GOOD!!??? Why is it so yummy to dip fries into a chocolate shake??

Last night my adorable(I may be biased) 2 year old son was having a hard time going to sleep. I laid down next to him to comfort him until he drifted off. I am telling you, the boy smelled like Crab Rangoon!!! All I could think about was Bolings Chinese restaurant. What is wrong with me???

EVERYDAY I fight with my mind and my body. EVERY MEAL I make decisions about my food. The Facing the Giants Death Crawl clip has been a tremendous motivator. Have I given God my best?? My very best?? Or have I fallen short of that? I love when he says, “Then you have to negotiate with your body to find the strength.” and “I don’t want you giving up when you could have gone further.” Check out this clip….

1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

It is SO important that I not always make light of this weight loss journey I am on. Obesity is a potentially life threatening, possibly life altering condition. It is hard on all of your joints and is a great big contender in diabetes if you don’t take action. On top of a multitude of other problems.

I promised that I would not be a slave to my scale but unfortunately I find myself standing on it often. WHICH, by the way, is SO frustrating. I think I may throw it away!!

Everyday, sometimes multiple times I have to refocus my mind on what is important. Honoring God and keeping this body healthy. Try remembering this as you are out on errands and you smell Applebees or some other restaurant gearing up for lunch.

Check out this clip about the Lord Being My Shepard:

It is NOT a good thing to procrastinate going to the grocery store. Because then the pantry and fridge are low on healthy foods. The cabinets have the basic staples of the canned soup you don’t like but bought because they were on sale. The tomato sauce that has been sitting there for years(Did we move this from the last house???). Oh, and the ever so gross Quaker Oatmeal To Go squares(SO NASTY, like eating a recycled paper wad-eeeewwwww!) Of course, there is the healthy cereal box that I could probably get one more bowl out of but we ran out of skim milk. This is not a good predicament I found out last night.

So I opened the fridge and found a couple of expired yogurts, a quarter tub of butter with bread crumbs in it, and some eggs that may or may not still be edible. THEN there sitting right there in front of me was pre-made cookie dough-mmmmmmmm-yummy!! Darn those Pillsbury people and the little white Pillsbury Dough Boy and your cute little Pooooohhhh-Hoooooo!!! Poooohhh- hooooo to all of you delicious cookie makers!!!!

I stuck the cookies in the oven and then proceeded to eat 2 of them! Of course, then I was mad at myself and I thought of a pair of pajamas that i saw once. They said, “Come to the dark side, we have cookies!” So back to the salads I go. After all I have to get up and get back on the wagon. I did go to the grocery store today!!!!

Don’t go to the dark side people. May the FORCE be with you!!!!

Proverbs 25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit, is like a city that is broken down and without walls.

It’s funny what my view of a food portion is.  I would venture to guess we would all see it as a plate full of food.   Boston market has a great Turkey Carver sandwich.  It is so yummy BUT they sandwiches are SUPER small.  We had one of these for diner last night.  Turkey, lettuce, tomato, on whole wheat.  It is SO good!!

It went WAY too fast.  I found myself mourning the loss of the sandwich when it was gone.  No matter how many times I searched the wrapper it was still gone.  Before I would have gone and ordered a gazillion sides to go with it and eaten until STUFFED.

THEN I remembered what my friend Rebekah told me. (Hi Rebekah!)  She said she trys to make her food portions around the size of her fist because your stomach at natural size is roughly the size of your fist.  Anything else is just stretching out your stomach.  And then when your stomach starts growling again then eat again.  So the sandwich was just the right amount!

This is a great rule of thumb, er, uh, rule of fist!  Leave it to God to give us an actual measuring tool on our own body!  You would think He loves us or something like that!!

My kids don’t know how to swim. None of them do. It isn’t because I have some crazy irrational fear of water. That is except for being stuck on a bridge that is over water, that is a whole other irrational fear that can be dealt with some other time.

I am quite a good swimmer. I have a large box of ribbons and medals to prove it. When I was a kid I pretty much lived at the pool. Training before and after school and during the summer. I love to swim!

But we NEVER go swimming. WHY? My excuses span from, “we just don’t have access to a pool” to ” I don’t have a swim suit”. BUUUULLLLLLL!!!! What I tell my husband is, “They don’t allow whales in swimming pools.”

It is just shear embarassment to go out and let everyone see all of my flab just flapping around in the breeze. (If you are easily offended then here is my warning about the movie clip

HOW selfish is that??? To make my kids go without doing something SUPER fun because I haven’t been able to keep from eating the WHOLE Mc Donald’s menu at one time.(ok this may well be an exageration, not the whole menu!)

My kids will be able to swim by next summer and I have a date with my friend Melissa (hi Melissa!!) to go swim suit shopping in the spring. I will be swimming next summer with my kids!

Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

So I have been eating well for about a week now.  Lots of fruit, veggies, lean meats, and plenty of water……….. My body is starting to be MUCH happier!!

UNTIL YESTERDAY!!!  It was hubby’s birthday.  I wanted it to be GREAT!  We ordered pizza-that is-veggie pizza.  I had one piece.  YEAH!! This is up against my normal 2-3 pieces plus bread sticks-YUP-everyone do your best pig call!! SEEEEEEWWWWWYYYYYYYY!!!!

AND for CAKE……..I bought a SMALL cookie birthday cake.  We all had a SMALL piece.  After all we are changing our lifestyle not ceasing to live!  But I definately didn’t want any leftover Edgar Allen Poe cake to beckon me from the fridge in the middle of the night.

OH MY GOODNESS did I REGRET eating ANY of it!!!  I woke up this morning and my body launched into a horrible migraine and topped it with Montezuma’s REVENGE.   A birthday revenge sundae………EEEEWWWWW!

Needless to say after Kaopectate and pain meds I welcomed back my yummy veggies.

Proverbs 23:1-3 When you sit down to eat with a ruler, consider carefully what is before you; and put a knife to your throat if you are a man given to appetite.  Do not desire his delicacies, for they are deceptive food.

Just wanted to say to my wonderful, supportive husband………HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!   I love you so much and hope you have an AWESOME day!!

100 is such a nice number.  There are 100 pennies in a dollar.  If someone handed me 100 dollars I certainly would not be upset about it.   We learn to count to 100 in Kindergarten!  This is a big accomplishment!

You get a TURQUOISE star on Ebay when you have successfully completed 100 transactions and receive positive feedback for them!

My daughter just informed me that she weighs 95lbs which is almost 100 and she is ADORABLE! (proud glowing mom!)

Don’t we celebrate when something or someone turns 100!!??? YEA PARTAE!!!

SO 100 is WONDERFUL!! RIGHT?????

NO. Not when you are looking at 100 POUNDS you have to lose.  Talk about staring up at a dude named GOLIATH!! My last Baby was just under 6 lbs at birth.  So that is like 16.6 extra newborn babies I lug around ON me everyday.

Remember my daughter is 95 lbs.  So basically I am going lose the weight of an 11 year old!!

SO……….. MONDAY……in honor of my 100 goal I will start with 100 EVERYTHING.  100 sit ups, 100 pushups, 100 of each of my Taekwondo kicks, 100 punches of each kind.  100 times jumping rope.  HELLLOOOO!  Can we say Super DUPER sports BRA!!! I don’t want my girls getting out of control!

Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men

Lots of people have asked me exactly “what” I am doing to lose weight. Am I going in to Weight Watchers? a gym? Atkins? South Beach? Well, the answer is…….. I have tried most of these! Who has time to count points?? And I don’t want to eat meat all of the time. And WOW South Beachers……….some of those recipes are really involved!!! And well…… I hate cooking!!! Although I do LOVE the South Beach prepackaged meals!!

**Side note: If one of these plans works for you then AWESOME!!! They just haven’t worked for me. **

So here it is. I am planning what I will eat for the week, each week, each meal of everyday(even snacks). But OK I do live in reality……..if you have a gaggle of kids in a zillion different things you are more than likely going to have to eat out during the week. SO here is my Five Second Fix……….

If you running around like a crazy person and realize that you haven’t had time to eat. MAKE sure you have something premade in the fridge. I just stocked mine with the South Beach premade lunch wraps. FIVE SECONDS…1. Open Fridge, Grab Box, Close Fridge, ……..food problem solved and it’s HEALTHY!!!

OR the Five Second drive thru fast food order. KNOW what you can order that is healthy at every Fast Food place. Make it an automated response for you. Like when you hear Wendy’s think….Ahhh Madarin Chicken Salad!! Most places have bottled water now. It is worth the extra few pennies it will cost to buy the water.

I think everyone has a different way that works for them. I keep trying to remember that God has specifically asked me to take care of this body-which according to the bible is actually HIS body. So I am taking care of something that belongs to GOD!!! Hmmmm, I haven’t been doing a very good job!

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your Spirit, which are God’s.

Exercise begins next week……………BEWARE!!!!

So OK this post isn’t so funny, so I will stick in my favorite commercial here:

Did you know it is national Talk Like Pirates Day??? YUP! September 19 is National Talk Like Pirates Day!! Just in case you don’t believe me check out www.talklikeapirate.com . This seems to have intrigued my husband and I am sure will be VERY exciting for anyone else’s husbands. Well, who doesn’t want to be a pirate???

Of course, this isn’t as glorious a talent as being a VERY skilled Synchronized Swimmer like some husbands ………………………

I know our husbands are very stressed so why not give them a day to Talk Like Pirates!!! Can you imagine a conference meeting all in pirate lingo?? Or how about a teacher that speaks like Jack Sparrow all day???

So tell your guys and mark your calendars, September 19 is National Talk Like Pirates Day!!!