Let God weigh me in honest scales and he will know that I am blameless. Job 31: 6
Friday, April 8, 2011
10 POUNDS OFF!
I know I mentioned this the other day, but it's exciting. Because that equates to a sack of potatoes! Or two large bags of flour! Or ten boxes of butter!
Try putting 10 pounds of something -- anything -- in your purse, your backpack, your briefcase, even your pockets if they're big enough. Then try carrying that around with you all day long. Try sitting with that on your lap, or next to your side in the chair, or tucked between yourself and the cushion. You can't put it down, you can't forget it's there.
But now I can!
That's how much less of a strain there is now on my system. That's how much less is stuffed into my clothes. That's how much less I have to try to cover up, camouflage, ignore and wish it would just go away.
Because now it's gone!
I know that the focus of this 100-Day Journey is NOT about weight loss. It's about getting healthy. But by getting healthy, I am losing weight. Easily. Naturally. Not with special meal replacement shakes, not with chemicals and pills that try to trick my system and suppress my appetite. But with food -- real food -- right food.
Men ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat. Psalm 78: 25
Today was another Fishy Friday, with a stir-fried breakfast of salmon, celery, green beans and snow peas. Lunch was tilapia with lime juice, served with broccoli. And a salad of tuna, peaches, celery, red onion, cucumber, and red wine vinegar with olive oil, served over lettuce greens, was the dinner menu.
I'm still experiencing some fatigue during the day, but it's not as frequent. I hold steady and it passes, without the need for a nap. Perhaps I'm still recovering from the strain of the play last week.
But I am feeling so much better overall! And I have noticed that my body shape is changing. The pounds are coming off slowly, but I felt and looked smaller, especially in the face and through the middle. I felt up to celebrating by going out for a ladies' night with a friend, first dancing, then trying our hand at the casino. We broke even -- no losses -- except for those 10 pounds!
It was a great night.
It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. How great are your works, O LORD, how profound your thoughts! Psalm 92: 1-5
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