1st Weigh In

Well it's been a week since I've been trying to lose weight and eat healthy. I lost 1 or 2 lbs. I have a cheap scale with a dial and it's hard to tell exactly what I've lost but I lost at least 1 lb. for sure. I think I'm going to change my goal to 7 lbs. because I think 10 lbs might be too much. Anyhow my main goal is to look more fit.
Now I have to say that I haven't eaten the healthiest I possibly could but I'm going to be realistic this time. I do not want to eat just fruit, veggies, and grains the rest of my life. I allowed my self a cheat day where I had pancakes for breakfast and hot dog and chips for lunch I don't remember what I had for dinner though. The other days I have been eating more veggies and just eating less overall. I'm trying to eat only if I'm hungry and not go back for that much desired second or third helping. I'm trying to think if I would rather be skinnier or eat another helping just because it tastes good. Most of the time we are not even hungry when we go back for more. Right now it's a constant effort to think before I eat too much, but I hope it becomes habit to stop when I'm full. I'll update again next Tuesday :)

Weighing In and Accountability

Okay I stink at keeping the weight off. I have been able to lose weight for a short time but it always seems to return. I'm a sucker for a ice cold coke and almost any kind of sweets. My ability to fight off fatty, carb loaded, greasy goodness is almost shameful. I may not be huge and some people may look at me funny when I say I want to lose 10 lbs. but clothing can hide a lot. About 6 months ago I did a Daniel fast (basically no meat or sweets) and started exercising regularly. I never felt better and lost over ten lbs. After comments that I was getting too thin I decided to try and gain a little back. Despite the fact that I felt great and thought I looked great (so did my husband) I started to eat meat again and then sweets and eventually got back into my old eating habits. Ultimately gaining almost all the weight back.
Once you start eating unhealthy again it is really hard to stop. So I got the idea from my seester to blog about my weight loss and healthy eating. Hopefully this will help me have a sense of accountability and eventually get back into eating healthy and as a result feel good and lose weight.
Well I'm giving myself one more day to eat whatever but starting tomorrow I'm getting serious about eating healthy again. I think I will post what I've eaten and maybe keep track of weekly (hopefully) weight loss. Once I get to my goal of ten lbs. I will treat myself to a new sports car! Okay maybe not but I will treat myself to something new.
Okay now I'm going to go eat a donut :-)

HEART

The word heart has been the theme I guess you might say for the past two months of my life. I have been listening to a certain preacher who has a great teaching on hearing God. She uses the word heart to illustrate in how we hear from God. She was in a church service singing during worship and the word HEART jumped out at her (off the screen) and she saw the word in the middle of heart, EAR and heard God tell her that is how we hear Him, in our hearts. Well I don't 100% remember how the story went but that is the gist of it. So I've heard that teaching on tape this past month and then I went to church this past Sunday and that's what the message was about. Same thing, used the word heart and everything. The pastor also used the story of Balaam and the talking donkey to help illustrate the message. The story is in Numbers where I'm at in my bible reading. I must admit I've had a time with this book in the bible because it is like it's name it has a lot of numbers in the beginning. After hearing that this story was in the same book I've had more desire to keep going in my reading.


Anyway I've said all this to tell you a little story about my daughter that happened this morning. She is 2 and not yet potty-trained but decided this morning she wanted to sit on her princess potty. After she got on the potty I said to her "listen" so we could hear if she did anything. But right after I said listen (instead of listening-ha) she spoke the word "heart". At first I didn't think I had heard her right. So I asked "what?" and she said it clearer and louder "HEART!" and then patted her chest. Wow, I thought, that is either a big coincidence or God is pushing his message home to me through a talking toddler. And why not?! After all he did use a talking donkey! Needless to say she didn't go potty. And I don't quite understand God's timing with this one but maybe the potty ties in there somehow...just kidding


So now I'm on my journey of making my heart's ear capable of hearing from God. If I'm going to live this Christian life I want to hear from God otherwise what am I doing. God wants to talk to us but we have to be willing and available. Something I'm working on. I hope anyone reading this will feel led to do the same.

Hello

Well I have to start out by saying I've wanted to do this for awhile but couldn't think of a name for my blog. So I finally came up with something. One chance to live life...It's something I guess I am feeling at the moment. I tend to put things off (like this blog). I put them off out of pure laziness, fear, or just being busy with living day to day. So I thought that name is suiting because it's a declaration for myself that I can't let fear and laziness stop me anymore. That being said, I have so many little things that I want to accomplish right now in life. And so I thought blogging about them might help me actually do them. So my blog may be a little random at times but that's me.

A little bit about myself: I have been married since November 2005 to my wonderful husband. We have one daughter together she is 2 and I had a daughter coming into the marriage she is now almost 8. I am fortunate enough to be a stay-at-home mom. We live in a small town with no stop lights which I have grown to love. We also have a farm that we hope to someday soon build a house on. Country living is so peaceful. We are also blessed to have lots of family close by even though we don't see them as often as we would like.

Finally, I will be turning 30 this year and as I think it is for a lot of people it has been a wake up call to me. Not getting any younger. Now is the time to live life!