Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
I did not let my Sunday be taken from me. I did exactly what I wanted too. I slept in & didn't get up & out of bed until 11am. I figured I was due that since I go to church on Saturday evenings. Let's not forget the house full of girls from Friday night and they were up pretty late. Last night, I made Lexi & Amber go to bed around 12:30. After a long day and then shopping, I figured we all needed it. I got up, and started cleaning up from the night before, because with teenagers, you never know what you will wake up to in the kitchen. Not too bad. So, I sat down, and had my coffee and was peruising through facebook and saw that a friend was really sad. So I tried to cheer her up. She has lost some people really close to her and didn't know what she was feeling. She was grieving I explained, and that she was entitled to grieve. Too often we don't take the time we need to grieve. I went through that when I lost my husband. I felt like I didn't have a right to grieve because I was still here and I had a child to take care of, so instead of grieving, I ate my way through life. Wow, I said it. I didn't not eat to live, I as the saying goes having been "living to eat". That sounds so sick, doesn't it?
Let's face it, how many of us live to eat? We spend so much time trying to figure out what we are going to eat or look forward to that meal, whatever it may be, just because we know we are going to love it. Now, I have to stop, think about what I want to plan for a meal, and sometimes I feel like it takes too much trouble so I grab a piece of fruit or a veggie. That has been the biggest change for me. Not wanting to grab a sweet snack or salty snack. I have cashews & pistachios but I am very careful with eating them because of my diverticulitis, so I am not eating a lot of them. I'm discovering a whole range of food that I love. It just amazes me.
I am no longer living to eat, no longer eating til I am over stuffed. I am eating slower, and drinking a lot of water, and not taking such big portions. Adam, my pharmacist friend was right, the weight is coming off, hand over fist. I want to wait until next week to tell you the total weight loss, because I feel that when you first start losing weight, it comes off slowly and I have discovered that (at least when I did weight watchers) that you lose more the 2nd week. I don't know why that is. I also, had stopped drinking all alcohol almost2 weeks before I started this lifestyle change. So my total weight loss will be from that time, when I was last weighed at the doctors. I may actually stop there at the end of the week one morning to check my weight since I got my starting weight from their scale.
Today, I wanted to craft with my cricut machine. I love it, it is good therapy for me. I had a lot going on in my head and I needed to sort it out, so I was going to cricut all day. Unfortunately, I didn't get to do it all day because I spent 2 hours looking for the Disney stuff I had already done, and I was so frustrated. It was exactly where I had put it, and in my rush, I had thumbed past it about 20 times! Can you say frustrated?? Boy was I ever! I did get some stuff done though. I have a friend who went away to Florida and wanted me to look at her pic's and make her some characters & stuff for her to scrap book with. Since I am going to miss the scrap booking retreat this year, I am going to make them ahead of time, and sell them. I sell them so people can make their pages look awesome. There are many who just don't have the time, nor the patiences to make them. I Love them! I was telling Amber today that it's good therapy for me. She said she would not have the patience to do it. I said, well, the machine cuts them out, I just have to load the paper, tell the machine what I want to cut, and change all the paper to make the puzzle pieces. It's relaxing for me! And I have some great stuff come out of it. Everyone is always very happy with what I make.
When I do that stuff, I get so involved that I forget to eat. So, by dinner, I was starting to get a little hungry, so I stopped, made homemade mashed potatoes and chicken stirfry with peppers again. Lexi's choice! IT was great yet again! We love chicken, and now peppers and onions. Other than that, I had a little bit to eat,some fruit. I'm so used to eating because of the time and that I'm "Supposed" to eat, breakfast or lunch.. If I am not hungry, I'm not going to eat a meal, I'll grab a piece of fruit or some veggies. I'm doing that a lot more lately too.
Tonight after dinner, Lexi & I did some exercises together. It was fun though that we helped eachother do them. My legs are sore now. But I am moving and that is all that counts.
I am hoping to have some really good recipes this week.
If anyone has any suggestions on No grain meals, please feel free to share.
I'm going to go search for some now.
I do what to say thank you to all of you that send me private messages. Your support and kind words have meant more to me than you could ever know. I am really doing this for me to just stay accountable to myself by writing on this blog every day.
Hope everyone had a great weekend, and has a good Monday.
I'll be back tomorrow night.
Godspeed.
Jenn
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