Successful Week 1!

All right, so I lost 1.8 pounds this week.  Fabulous!  That's a good start considering all the cake I ate this week.  But I did stay on plan and countered the cake with exercise.  Now I just need to get my boredom/loneliness fixed by reading and other stuff.  Praying that goes well today.  Must treat this body like a temple and honor God.  Good luck today to you too!

Day 6

So it's been almost a week of Weight Watchers. This week has been tough. I struggle so much with wanting to eat because it tastes good and because I am tired. But God constantly reminds me that I need to obey him. Just this morning I came across this verse on Proverbs 31 Ministry's daily devotional; Psalm 32:3-4 "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer." Go figure- He always picks the best words for me. This verse is encouraging because it reminds me that God FORGIVES US!! How do I keep forgetting that... yep... Easter was Sunday and yet here I am still hanging myself on that cross because I can't be perfect.

So food this week... the good- ate lots more vegetables than normal. The bad... ate quite a bit of cake. The good... worked out a lot!! The great... resisted temptation to eat some of the icing for the cake I am making for Youth next Wednesday. Yeah!

We will see what weigh in says tomorrow.

Welcome!

OK- so this blog is going to be all about my weight loss struggles. Let me tell you a little about me... I am a 30 year old mother of a fourteen month old little girl, Hannah, and wife to Michael. We've lived in SC for almost 4 months now. I stay at home with Hannah.

I have struggled with my weight all my life. I mean ALL. Up and down and up and down. You know what I mean. Right now, I am at 196 pounds. This isn't my highest, but almost. My goal is to lose 46 pounds, be healthier, a better role model for Hannah, and the sexy wife that Michael deserves. I have been there before, but then I had my thyroid irradiated, finished grad school, moved, got a new job after not being able to find one, had a baby, quit my job, moved again, husband got a new job, and now I stay at home. So all of that stress makes it hard for me. Hard for me to obey God that is. The spirit often tells me "no" but most of the time I give in to the flesh and eat. I eat when I am tired, stressed, anxious, and bored. But what should I do in those times? Yep- read my bible and pray or sing or do something else. A replacement behavior. And most of all, I need to obey God. I believe this is why my relationship with him has become so stagnant.

Well, enough for now. I really am just going to use this as a place to vent. A place to type when I want to eat and maybe it will bless someone else out there.