A New Day, A New Way...

It's been over a year since my last post.

Those were good days, but hard days. 

HCG is a diet that definitely gives you results,

but it's quite difficult to stick with.

I gained all of my 30 lbs back, plus another 10.

Yeah. Not a great thing to experience.

This time around things are different. I'm not trying to 

deprive myself of anything....I'm just trying to 

put God in the place that I've allowed food to be

for far too long. 

So far I've lost 23 lbs!

I'm pretty ecstatic about the progress I've made,

and even more proud of the fact that I think I'm finally 

getting it right! 

It's a marathon, not a sprint!

It's harder than all of the other times combined.

It's frustrating and easy to fall off of the wagon...

because it's a heart issue.

It's giving ALL of me to God, not just the 

convenient or easy parts.

"But Daniel resolved not to defile himself..."

                                                                                  Daniel 1:8

It's that simple. 

It's a choice.

Just because it's simple, doesn't mean it's easy,

but MAN are there great rewards!

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

                                                               Hebrews 11:6

 I want it said of me that I earnestly 

sought him! 

 Not just in the areas that I felt comfortable.

Not just when it was easy or when I felt like it, 

but with my whole heart!

With my whole life!

With every area and in every way! 

For me, FOOD has met a need that God

has always wanted to meet.

What is is that YOU use to fill that void?  

  He wants it all. 

Every part.  

  

OOOOhhhhh, Yeah!

Pounds GONE,
BABY!!!!

I'm in a size 14 for the first time in three years!
I feel great (no IBS issues!!!)
and don't mind bragging on myself a little and saying
I'm not lookin' too shabby either! =)
{I can say that...I think I've earned the right!}

Wooohoooo!

Pounds GONE!

Thank you, HCG!

Day 21

pounds down!!!!

yahooooo!

Grrrr

Went to a party last night.

Cheated.

Today's a stall day.

Boooo.

Back to eating clean.

Day 11

Down

{TWELVE}

pounds!

My clothes fit

sooooooo

much better!

{yay}

My day in food looks like this right now:

Breakfast

1/2 grapefruit

(with sweetener)

Lunch

4 oz. grilled chicken breast (salt and pepper)
(spritzed with lemon juice)

asparagus sautee'd in lemon juice

Snack

strawberries

dinner

4 oz. chicken breast grilled

(with lemon juice spritzed on it)

yummmmm!

tonight instead of having a veggie

I opted to have the other half of my

grapefruit from this morning.

I might pay for that tomorrow...



Day 8

I'm down

11 pounds!

That's almost how much weight I lost in

three months

with Weight Watchers!

Weight Watcher's is a great program and it

strives to promote

healthy eating...

but I would save my points so that I could

eat whatever I wanted.

Blizzards, crackers, ice cream...

all of the yummy but

deadly

foods that I crave.

Some people are not proponants of HCG.

In some way I can understand their concern.

But, I'm looking at this as more of a fast

and a cleanse than a diet.

My focus for the last

few years has been on two things:

1. food (obviously)

2. myself

I want to cleanse my body of all of the

terrible junk I have craved for so long.

I want to go to the LORD for my problems,

rather than running to the kitchen.

I want to be who he created me to be--

with a healthy body that is able to

serve and to grow.

I want to leave a leagacy for my kids

that doesn't involve diabetes or heart disease.

Getting there,

one step at a time.