What I ate today:

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Looking over previous posts I saw I use to post what I ate. I like to see what it is over a day to get an idea how it affects my weight and so forth.

Breakfast (10:30am)- cashews, almonds, walnut medley.

Lunch (1pm)- Salad, grape tomatoes, cucumber, onions, feta, sunflower seeds.

Snack (3pm)-  Nut medley again.

Dinner (7pm)- 2 -Large- bowls of popcorn (no butter), nuts, 5tbsp honey (just coz it tasted sweet),  feta cheese. - kinda just nibbled on the feta like a mouse. HAHA!

This could be considered alot and not a regular dinner LOL.

I didnt count calories or points for that matter. I been getting lazy in this field. But, I ate somewhere between 2,500 to 3,000 calories im sure. Tomorrow I will aim towards more balanced meals. But, the popcorn was declicious.

The World, The devil, Temptation…

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 It dawned upon me I dont struggle with the types of foods I eat (which are nutritious). In fact, I love them. I could definitely spend the rest of my life enjoying them everyday. I dont desire the bad stuff. Only thing I kind of craving is chocolate, but ill handle that shortly in a healthy way. I realized I only desire junk food (thats exactly what it is, junk) when im around people who indulge in them. Namely, at work. A biblical verse came to my head where we are told to avoid all types of evil. Just the appearence of evil we are to avoid. I began to think on another verse where it says it begins with a thought (imagination), then conceives into sin, and sin unto death.

   Now how do we start thinking about these junk foods…. BY OUR EYES (and sometimes ears)!!!!! If we dont see or hear about something we cant think about it let alone desire it. It doesnt exist in our world!!!! Thats where the devil comes in…. he finds away for us to KNOW about the culprit. “I made this delicious sauce you have to use the heaviest cream you can find”… or we watch someone down a bottle of coke. It looks so good doesnt it? we need it dont we? Thats what the devil wants us to believe! He uses the World to tempt us. Such a clever little guy he is. He knows how weak we are, and he uses what he knows God designs for us to survive against us. He does the same thing with sex. God designed that for beauty he turned it ugly. But thats a whole different subject. Point being, he distorts.

   If you really think about it, he is pretty smart, clever, and extremely intelligent. He knows EXACTLY where to hit us that hurts. He does it SO quietly too. sneaks it right in there. Such a small thing as food and it becomes his playground. Look what he causes, obesity, obsessive compulsive eating (binging and otherwise), anorexia, belemia. Where does these food disorders come from: The fear he plants into us!!!!!!!!!!! We fear if we eat to much we’ll be disgusting, we eat to little we’ll be sick, we dont like ourselves and we loathe our bodies. He teaches us to hate what God said was his most beautiful creation!!!! WE ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!

   Dont let him trick you any longer. The bible tells us how we are suppose to eat. The bible says right in genesis 1st chapter he gave us the garden and everything in the garden we are suppose to eat FREELY!!!! This means he wants us to enjoy his creation. Whatever grows out of the ground, hangs off a tree, is green and many other beautiful shades of colors is ours!!!! There no shame in eating these foods. Its the stuff were tempted with daily our bodies dont want. White flour, White sugar, Sweet n low, low-fat products, no-sugar cookies. ITS POISON TO OUR BODIES! Its all fake. Our body doesnt process it-so it stores as fat. Which means we dont like how we look or feel. But, thats the devils plan. IF WE SUCCUMB TO THE JUNK WE WILL LOATHE WHAT GOD MADE!!!! It distracts us from looking to God because were too busy looking to ourselves. Thats the devils plan. But, its not Gods. 

    If we feed of his word we will know what he intends for us to eat, how he wants us to feel, and most importantly how much were loved. Even when were fat and derailed he lets us know our apparence isnt how he judges. He doesnt judge like humans do. His ways are far above us. We are rubies in his sight. And he wants to shine them up and let them shine!!!!

Chocolate, without sugar, homemade…

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Anyone try it?????? Here I go on one of my health kicks. I love chocolate! I havent had it in forever neither. I really miss some goodies. Yet even though I dont want to have the sugar involved Im sure I can find away around that. So maybe some homemade chocolate take out sugar in recipe insert some stevia maybe some nuts? It sounds good. Now only if it tastes that way. We’ll find out. I wont be able to experiment til after trip but im looking forward to it.

How to Make Chocolate: The Basic Ingredients

 

5 tablespoons of virgin coconut oil
5 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa powder
5 tablespoons of finely grated coconut
1 to 2 tablespoons of sugar (stevia) (see notes below)
1 pinch of salt

Optional Ingredients

 

If you have natural vanilla extract, a few drops are a wonderful addition.
a pinch of powdered cayenne pepper
whole, chopped, or ground walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, etc.
fresh mint
raisins or other chopped dried fruit

Use your imagination to add to this list!

How to Make Chocolate: The Preparation

Mix (by hand) the cocoa powder with virgin coconut oil until thoroughly blended. (My wife was amazed at how well and quickly the cocoa blends with the coconut oil, since cocoa is not instant and doesn’t blend with most liquids unless the liquid is hot.) Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well.

Place the mixture in either a mold or a tray approximately 3 inches by 6 inches, though this can vary depending on how thick you want it—and what size tray you have available! Pat it down as evenly as possible. You can also use an ice cube tray or individual molds to make separate bonbons.

After filling the tray, place your natural, healthy, homemade chocolate in the refrigerator. If you are making a bar, after about ten minutes in the fridge, you may want to score it to make it easier to break into nice little symmetrical bite-sized pieces once it’s hardened.

Leave the chocolate in the fridge until almost ready to serve if room temperature is over 24-25°C (76°F), since this is virgin coconut oil’s melting point. If it is cold where you are and the room temperature is cooler than this, refrigeration is not necessary (unless you want to keep it out of sight to make it last longer!)

You may need to investigate a little to find a good grated coconut to use in your natural healthy homemade chocolate. Most commercial grated
 coconut contains preservatives, humidifiers, and white sugar. One option is to buy a mature coconut, crack it open, and grate it yourself.
The downside of this is the time and work it takes to break the coconut, separate the meat from the shell, and grate it. If you do have time,
though, and are so inclined, fresh grated coconut is the best!

 

Weigh in Mondays

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  Ok weigh in wasnt great. I went out to eat Saturday night and well over did it. Weigh in number: 180lbs. Ok definitely not one of my greater moments. BUT im still fighting, im still going, I wont quit or give up. Would defeat every inch ive gone thus far.I do need to up the excerise becoz on July 24th I am going to disney world for a week- ugh and we got a buffet booked 2 nights and other fabulous restaurants every other night! I am terrorified. But I will deal with the fear. I know i can overcome!

To finally be comfortable in my skin…

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is awesome!!!! I currently weigh 178lbs. I dont feel ive reached my point of my “perfection” yet ive reached a point where I dont feel disgusted with myself. Today I realized im almost normal, im fat, but im not so fat. A couple of people seen me who hasent seen me in a month or more. I heard things like: “wow, your face looks amazing!”, “Your getting so small”, “How are you doing it???” I was so embarressed because yes I get very shy especially when im in the spotlight. But more interesting comments was “you dont need to loose anymore weight, thats enough”. Because of course I feel I do. I dont feel im at that weight yet. 

     Today something happened to me, I realized I havent enjoyed this journey as mch as I should have. Ive been too preoccupied with loosing as much weight as possible. Someone told me that 30(some) lbs is to much for me to loose, so do it in 10lb incrediments til you feel comfortable. This was some sensible advice. I want to take this journey slow and to be able to enjoy it without getting upset with myself. I’ve come a long way… and im super proud of myself. Because this journey hasent been easy. I wanted to be disciplined and still feel sometimes im not being as disciplined as I should be with food quantity. But I also realized ive been extremely disciplined!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ive cut out ALL the things I use to love!!!! cheez its, chocolate, mozzerella sticks, all things white (flour and sugar). Ive made it, alot of people cant do this because it is a huge struggle/discipline to give up these things. And for anyone attempting the struggle: YOU GO YOU CAN DO IT- FIGHT THAT BATTLE, YOU CAN WIN!!! AND IT IS A BATTLE. GOD BLESS YOU!!!! I dont want to sound arrogant but ive come to a place of mercy with myself. Because God knows I havent had any. It takes alot to give up everything we love. To face our desires face to face. So on one coin ive given up, but I also feel its ok to enjoy these pleasures once in a while. So tonight me, hubby and my little girl is going out to eat because my birthday is on monday and im going to ENJOY MYSELF. I have no restrictions tonight- once every 1-2 monthes I deserve! But im not going to make it more than that because these things are unhealthy for my body. I’ll let everyone know how it goes!!! KEEP FIGHTING LADIES !!!!!!!!!!

quitting coffee.

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 Just like the title says. I’ve overcome so many addictions. Which I am so blessed tobe able to. And I believe through his strength I can kick this coffee addiction. This sin. People say “oh heather its just coffee, theres nothing sinful about coffee.” …. You know what I have to say to those people. Crap, Crap, Crap. When I cant go a few hours without a glass and desperately need it. I think its safe to say im up the creek without a paddle or a lifeboat for that matter. If I want to be successful in my journey, weight loss, I have to face my addictions. So here goes, im throwing all my coffee supplies away. Yep, the hazelnut creme is getting tossed!!!!! Its painful, but I have to do it. I wonderful if they got a CDA (Coffee Drinkers Annonymous)? Well this is funny right now but it wont be tomorrow :(.

What God thinks of diets…

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diets, foolishness, I agree with God.

Everything he made was perfect.

Somehow we messed it all up.

But, hes going to make it perfect again!

Thank you, Jesus!

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1 Corinthians 3:18-19

Goodbye 180s!

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 Ive said goodbye to 30 some lbs. I thought I was happy to say goodbye to the 190s but I am even more ecstatic to exit the 180s. Today I went on scale to see 178.8! That was a beautiful, beautiful number. I know but im suppose to weigh in mondays but i couldnt wait urgh. I wont weigh again til monday. I promise. YAY!

Tuesday, 7/14 WW points

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1 cup of skim milk- 2 points
4 cups of honeydew - 4 points
22 almonds ( 1 ounce)- 4
Apple- 1 point
White beans- 2 points
Cauliflower and broccoli- 1 point
feta cheese- 2 points
Sunflower seeds 2 tbsp- 2 points
Olive oil 2 tsp- 3 points
feta cheese 1/4 cup- 3 points

24 points.
(with 5 points to spare!!!)

I might save these bad boys for another day and total them at end of week heheh

I dont need bread, I need him!

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Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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