Rough time today

I feel like I am holding on by a thread.  I ate pretty much like I am supposed to eat.  and it was enough it truly was enough but sometimes I get so sick of that word but but but but, but we really do need it to make really good excuses for ourselves.   I would have washed my hair but, I needed to go get gas for the car but. etc. 

Anyway enough silliness.  I ate fair and well within the paremeters of what Ishould have but there was a very wicked companion of mine, her name is outofcontrol appetite, and she held my hand most of the day.  Now dh is home today and I am one of those closet eaters.  For the most part I want to eat in privacy.  Like it is a secret, a nasty secret that I don't want anyone to see.  It does not make a bit of sense.  Anyone can look at me and tell that I do not eat like a  bird.  Anyway dh is here so I could not indulge and I am glad that he was here. 

I ate on track, maybe tomorrow I will be able to handle it all better, dh will be here again so Iknow that I will have some control.  Why can't  I have that kind of control with him gone like I have when he is here.  He has never said one word to me about what I eat or how much I eat or when I eat.  It is all in my head.

I will be starting the diet over again from the first day and I hope I do as well next week as I did this past 7 days.  I will be happy with two pounds. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening, stay warm and dry
God bless

day 6

Last Thursday when I got up and weighed I honestly felt like giving up. I just could not understand why Iwas gaining weight. I suppose I was eating a lot of little things and they added up but honestly I was trying not to and most of the time I kept up with my calories and I should have been losing, at least a pound or two a month>BUT I was gaining and that morning the scales was 204.8 . Almost 20 pounds heavier than I was in Oct. I knew something had to be done or I would be back up to my top weight of 252. Now I worked hard to lose that weight and I do not want to gain it back. That is when I started researching diets and weight loss,




Anyway I found a diet I thought I could live with, one that I could very easily tweak, one that I could substitute this for that and I began faithfully following it. Within a day or two I realized I needed more proteirn than they called for and started adding a half can of tuna or a little more chicken than they listed. I changed an asian salad for a regular salad, etc. Anyway, I weighed again this morning, and I dropped from 204.8 down to 200.8 I am pleased. It is not a hard diet, I am satisfied most of the time, I have not been hungry-you know stomach growling >feed me now hungry but one time. This is working for me.



Dh and I bought groceries this morning we went to Aldis --at the store we went to grapes were 99 cents a pound and strawberries were 99 cents a pound. Some of the Fit and Healthy products were as much as 50 cents less than usual. It was a good day to go to Aldis.

It rained unbelievable while we were out. I prayed almost the entire time we were on the road. It was not raining when we left the house or we would have stayede home. I hate being on the road when it is raining. But on the flip side of that I love to hear the rain come down and Ilove to see how it looks falling. And I love the way it smell here when it has rained. And the trees behind our house looks so pretty with the raindrops glistening on the leaves. '



Have a wonderful day everyone,

May God bless and keep each of you.

My day has not gone the way I'd planned

My grandbaby got sick yesterday at school and dd had to go get him.  He was sick during the night running fever and throwing up so of course he could not go to school today.  At 6 this morning I get a call from her asking ifshe can bring him to me;. of course I said yes.  Even sick I value the time I have with him and I am so happy that I am in a situation that I can help my dd out when she needs someone.  I never could understand why mom did not want to help us.  She never cared anything about seeing her grandchildren.  I feel compassion for her because she simply does not know what she is missing. 

Anyway, my house is a mess, and I only got one load of clothes done.  But you know what, it don't really matter what my house looks like and I knopw that i have enough clothes that I will not have to wear dirty clothes or go naked.  AND tomorrow is another day Icando stuff tomorrow,

I read a quote today and I know that I can not remember exactly what it said but something like this--They may not remember exactly what you said but they will never forget how you made them feel.  A long time ago I was working at the beach and this really old american indian came in andstarted talking.  He had to be in his 80's -hewas very interesting.   One of the things he said was when you die all that you are is the memories you leave behind.   I never forgot it, how profound is that. 

Anyway tomorrow I will work, and dh does not have a job this week so we are going to work in our garden getting it ready for the summer.  I hope to plant tomatoes okra cucumbers and summer squash. 

Sleep well everyone
God bless

Article from real age

Josie the diet I was talking about was the one I talked about in an earlier post.  You eat 5 times a day and they are small meals.  I like it because I know that portion control is a big obstcle to me.  I also know that I can retrain my eyes, my stomach and my emotional need to eat.  This seems to be a very good tool for me,  at least for now it is working and I pray for positive changes.

Here is an article I read ,  it is interesting but I had this mental image of 20 women and men standing infront of Krispy Kreme with fist clenched, and me standing there with my jaw clenched, shoulders tight, buttocks clenched, knees locked tight. lol





RealAge Tip




Boost Your Willpower with a Quick Squeeze

By RealAge



This Week's TipsBoost Your Willpower with a Quick Squeeze



Next time you find yourself in front of a bakery window full of pastries, here's a little trick to help you say "no, thanks": Just make a fist, and squeeze.



Sounds a little goofy, we know. But there's scientific evidence that it may help boost your willpower. In a recent study, squeezing muscles at the moment of decision seemed to help prompt people to make healthier snack choices.



Flex Your Power

Researchers recently examined willpower under two conditions. In one, people were asked to use either loose or tight pen grips as they filled out surveys while standing in line at a snack bar. The people with firm, tight grasps on the pen made better, healthier snack choices. In another experiment, people were able to drink more of a not-so-great-tasting health tonic when they flexed their calf muscles while imbibing. Of course, healthful foods don't necessarily have to taste bad. But researchers see both the pen-grip experiment and the calf-flex experiment as evidence that our bodies -- and not just our minds -- help influence our self-control. (Did you know? You're more likely to say no to junk in the grocery store if you use this to pay.)



Muscle-to-Mind Connection

But there's a bit of a catch to it. In the study, the squeezing effect seemed to help only people who already had good health intentions. It didn't make as much difference if people didn't care about their health to begin with. So if eating right and staying slim are your goals, try a little muscle the next time you want to steel your resolve against junk food. And if eating healthfully isn't a goal, maybe it's time it was! (Got a health goal? RealAge has customized plans to help you lose weight, shed belly fat, quit smoking, or take years off your skin.)



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3rd day of eating a new way

Supposedly I should lose 20 pounds in 6 weeks.   We shall see.  I will be happy with 15.    I have already lost 1 pound and i am eating a variety of food.  Common foods that you just have in your house like eggs or bagel .  You know sometimes you start following a diet and suddenly you see where there is something you should rush right out and try to find.  Something that only grows during a full moon in India behind the flowering icidia tree which only flowers every ten years.    Now you know that is going to cost a pile of money.  So you spend the next 2 hours trying to find something, anything that you can substitute for it.  ===Well this diet is very different.  Common foods for common people like me/  Still just the 3rd day and I really am enjoying it.  I am getting plenty to eat, seldom get hungry, nice variety, easy to prepare, not highly expensive, nothing too exotic,   I am still having a lot of energy, and I plan to go walking tomorrow if the rain lets up.

If it continues to rain I will just do a exercise video.  Ilove walking in the fresh air hearing the birds and seeing the deer and rabbits. 

Did not go to church this morning but dh and I went this evening.  We went in his work truck.  I put a big towel in the seat so my dress would not get paint or dirt on it.  and off we went. And oh my it was very good.  The Lord just blessed in a wonderful way;.

Sleep well everyone
God bless.

Steering column went out on my car

We were a few miles from home and the steering column just started going up and down .  we slowed down and were able to drive it home and get it in the yard.  But Satan just keeps trying to discourage us and I refuse to let him get me down.  Satan is under my feet, he's under my feet, he's under my feet.  Satan is under my feet.   We may not be able to go to church this morning but my husband is good with cars and he will have it fixed and we will not ever stop praising the Lord. God is good and I love Him.  With my new computer I can  (is it called Ustream)  anyway I can access a local church and see the service over the computer. 

May God bless you

I loved taking this test

http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/fitness/quelregime/test.asp

cool site

there is a question in the middle of the page with 3 choices-click the one that is most what you feel and it goes to a new question. at the last one they tell you which diet they think would suit you best.    I enjoyed seeing what they said.  But  I did some research and found a diet that I am more comfortable with.\

I did a lot of thinking about the way I was trying to lose weight and I realized that what I am doing is not working for me so it was time to rethink my diet . I did some searching and reading and this is pretty much what I settled on.

http://www.dotcomwomen.com/fitness/weightloss/1300-calorie-plan1.shtml

even with this I had to do some tweaking because I can not eat flour and granted there is not many things here that has flour but still I had to change those things. Even some things that you would think would not have flour does have a bit because it is a thickener and even in some of the cheaper chocolate there is some chocolate.  It is a cheap filler.

I am praying that the menu will give me enough vegetables, I feel that I will get enough fruits. I will definitly have to remember to take my one a day vitamen every day.

So tell me what you think/

I am going to a Christian meeting tonight.  Mostly singing,.  I love good Gospel singings, One of my favorite songs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1jRcpFEIzs

I hope I did it right- I am not a computer wiz. 

Have a blessed evening everyone

mowed, walked, smoking tips,

I walked 6 miles today and according to caloriesperhour.com  I burned off about 600 calories
I mowed with my non manual push mower and I burned off 320 calories

I ate 1595 calories for today.  That is pretty good.

We had to get a new mower.  The old one would not crank and dh worked on it and worked and worked.  He finally said he was not going to spend more time working on a mower than he spent mowing.  I told him I am the one that pushed the mower because usually he is at work and I don't work so it works out better for me to do that while he earns the money.  Nevermind he said,  any way I have a new mower.

He wants to get a riding mower and I said no----pushing a mower is really good exercise -good for weight loss good for your lungs, lowers blood pressure, lowers, diabetes. etc. I takes me 3 days to mow cause I can't push all day long I would have a heart attack. or a heat stroke.

I am listing all of my stop smoking tips   things that worked for me and other things that worked for others

sleep well everyone
God bless

Some of these tips I found out about by trying them out and some of them I researched and asked people about.





First thing is I started smoking outside and not associate smoking with anything ,I did not smoke and drink coffe or anything else.



You are going to want to smoke, admit it, and just go on from there. I had a pack of those little straws with the coolade stuff in them and those helped with the hand mouth movement. Drink lots of water and lots of orange juice, the water flusher toxins from your body and so does the orange juice and the orange juice starts replacing vitamin c that smoking leeches from the body.



When you want a cigarette then you have to do something else to get your mind off of it. The craving does not last but about 3 minutes then it leave. It will come back but again it does not last but about 3 minutes. And the cravings get farther and farther apart



.Find something to do with your hands, like crochet, needlepoint, gameboy, anything that is different from what you have been doing. Try to pinpoint your trigger points and then try to change them.



My worst time was after eating . So after meals I would get a bottle of water and go for a short walk around my house . Then I started coming to the computer and playing at pogo. Just anything to break the habits.




When I want a cigarette, I tell myself sharply NO-I DON'T SMOKE ANY MORE. I know that sounds stupid but the sound of my voice out loud kinda reinforces me.Also I had read that the hand to mouth hand movement is a hard habit to break and the person said to make your smoking hand into a fist. And at the place where your thumb curls around place your mouth and inhale , hold the breath and then exhale. And that would relieve some of the urge. I thought the only thing this would do would be to make me look stupid, but I was willing to give it a chance so, I did it and it does help a little.



When I quit smoking I had already cut back a little and had already started to drink water and Orange juice, and had started smoking outside,then I got up on May 24 and never smoked at all.




I know this is long but one more thing, I have read that people that exercise have a higer chance of quitting smoking than those that do not exercise.I think 3 to 6 days is all it takes for the nicotine to get out of your body, and after that it is just habit that makes you want a cigarette. So you need to figure out what you can do to break the habits.

eating, oatmeal, walking, pushing mower, eating healthy

I have been eating healthy-tumeric, pepper, and garlic powder all mixed togeather is a cocktail of healthy spices to sprinkle on your food.  --just a little, but  according to what I read it has lots of antioxidants and you can not tell it is in your food. Another thing I started doing is adding a little oatmeal (the kind you have to cook) to everything.  Yesterday I fixed an omelet with two egg whites and one whole egg,  I added a little fresh broccoli, a little oatmeal, a little turmeric, pepper, salt, sprinkle of garlic (can't tell it is there) and and after it was done, I lightly sprinkle with shredded cheese. It was delicious and held me up for hours plus seemed to satisfy my appetite. I am willing to try just about anything that makes sense. 

My grandma had hundreds of tips that made no sense at all.  Like she said once when I was a little girl and had warts on my hands-  She said that I needed to go gather some fresh dirt from a new grave on a moonless night and rub my wart with it and then walk backwards out of the graveyard and the wart would be gone by the time I got home. Now none of that makes any kind of sense.  I did love my grandma she was the only family member that ever hugged me.  But sometimes I think of the things that she would say and I know she was uneducated and fresh from ireland, but really she was smart  oh well she was kind to me.  She also said that when an owl hooted outside of the house it meant someone would die and you could tie a knot in your sheet and the owl would drop down dead and the person would not die.  She had hundreds of these old wives tails.  I wish I had the chance to let her know that she was special to me.

This morning I had one serving of oatmeal and some whole wheat bread and small fresh sausage, and some pepperoni.  Isn't it amazing how you start doing something and then it just does not seem right not to keep doing it?  I bought a small pack of pepperone because I like it and it is only 10 calories for each one.  and I would just grab on or two of them and now I need them all the time.  Is it possible to get an addiction to something like that.  Not an actual addiction but I suppose it is a habit.  When I quit smoking (April 24-9 years ago) I found that I missed the hand to mouth habit as much as I missed the actual smoking. 

Went walking this morning with dh.  He has a job tonight at a local factory,  He will be painting the offices.  He will leave at 5 and probably paint until about 3 in the morning.  That will give the offices time to air out a bit before people get back in them in the morning.  So I suppose he will not go walking with me thisafternoon. 

In a little while I think I will go out and push my mower in my back yard.  The grass is not growing but the weeds are taking over and it is looking shaggy back there.  I burn a lot of calories pushing a mower around.  Dh told me I push even when the grass does not need cutting.  LOL I think I do too, like Isaid it is a great exercise. 

Have a blessed day everyone.

Why must I rate my day

Why must I determine my days as good or bad based on how I ate???????????????

I ate probably around 1700 calories today.Too many calories but   I think this was a good day because I walked a lot today.

I walked for an hour and 10 minutes this morning and then this afternoon dh wanted to walk and so I kept him company and that was another 45 minutes.  That was 17538 steps on my pedometer.  Now those steps also includes steps around the house while I did housework and daughter brought grandson over and I played chase with him.  I know it was probably a funny site to see a short overweight old lady running away from a 5 yr. old child laughing my head off.   But I had a blast letting him catch me and hearing him scream "I got you"  Then he wanted to go walking to pick yellow jasmines for his mama.

Yellow jasmines are all over the place around here.  They are really pretty and smell so sweet. 

Alright back to healthy eating.  I had one small corn meal flap jack ssprinkled with a tablespoon of shredded cheese for breakfast. It is similar to a fat tortilla. I am allergic to flour so I can't have pancake., I get hives all over me when I eat flour and it is absolute torment.  I have to go to the dr and get a shot.

For lunch I had one ounce of peanuts and a small naval orange;

For dinner I had a salad with, lettuce broccoli, apple, and a small amount of grilled pork chop.  I also had 1/2 of a grapefruit.  And for a snack later I had another ounce of nuts.  I will b glad when those are gone.  I should not have bought them because it is so hard for me to resist.;

I have noticed that snacking really is one of my weaknesses.  I need to get those finger type foods out of the house.  

Time to go spend a little time with dh. 

Have a blessed night everyone.

Enabling

I realized today that we dh and I were allowing ourselves to be swayed by the other.  I could say I would love to have a candy bar and he would go get several for me and then that would allow him to have some too. The only thing he could not sway me too often was to go out to get Chinese food and that was only because it makes  me feel sick for a day after I eat it.

So here are our goals

exercise every day
use a smaller plate, (if we are going to fill it up, it needs  to be  smaller)
eat at least 3 different vegetables a day
eat fish at least twice a week
eat greens (collards, yuck, or turnips or broccoli or cauliflower)  I don't have a problem eating vegetables

Try to be strong when the other is weak.

These are not earth shaking goals,  but they are what we agreed on. 

We had a very good service tonight.  One of our members fell into a fire yesterday and had to be airlifted to a burn center. Our preacher was with him so we had someone else preach tonight and he preached on Jesus coming back.  I loved the message.

Grandbaby spent the weekend with me and even though I did not get much sleep, he sleeps right up against me, I loved every minute of it.  He wakes up early and pats me on the face every morning until I wake up.  Then he tells me about his dreams, or his teacher or his cat.  It is just a special time with him.  I would not trade for anything on this earth. 

Have a blessed night everyone

New computer

I love my new computer and I detest my new keyboard. I can't seem to get used to it.  IN TIME I know, I just need patience.

I have really allowed myself to get lazy about my commitment to eat healthy and try to lose weight.  For me eating healthy is much more important that getting in that string bikini that has never quite fit me.

Tomorrow is the day that my dh and I  are going to try to support each other, and encourage each other.  Togeather we will make ourselves the best we can be.  

I need to look up some stuff about foods that are good for males-like tomatoes are really good for males, and flour is not good for prostates.  etc. Things that will make us healthier, and give us energy.  Now that I have a speedier computer I will not dread looking this stuff up quite so much.

I will be back later today,dh and I will talk about what our new goals will be and I will post them here.

gloom, despair and agony on me

deep dark depression excessive misery if it weren't for bad lunck I'd have no luck at all.

Who remembers that song from the old  "Hee Haw" series?

Well I have finally decided that  my 8  year old computer has reached the end.  And I do mean the end of my patience.  It freezea completely and I have to cold boot it, sometime 3 or 4 times in one hour.  My PC dr. told me that the computer can't be speeded up, can't have any memory given to it.  etc.  So I am going to to get a new one.  Then this one will be wiped clean and then donated to the school/  I think anyway.  My dh is very particular about any information falling in the wrong hands. 

I will come back as soon as I can do it with little or no frustration. 

God bless.

Total frustration

My sister sent a picture of a naked man to someone on facebook-you did not see full frontal but you did see buttocks and it was on face book for all of my sisters friends to see. I  am a friend and I saw and I told my sister that it was inapropriate for her to post that.  so she appoligised and then somone said that it was funny and not offensive.  I told her as Christians we have to be careful not to let the world into our lives and the world is watching us and we can't let them see us doing things that is wrong.  Besides would you send it to Jesus if not then you should not send it to anyone.   She said someone that goes to our church saw it and thought it was funny and that even the preachers wife sends stuff like that around.  Now what .  Every time I see these people I will be thinking about this.What now???? To me it is stepping over the line. 

I am so stuffed

I hope I did not do too bad,  I had breakfast-calories count around 475, not bad at all.  THen a snack of mini wheats calories around 200.  (I do measure and then round the calorie count up to the closest five or ten.)  Then I ate 2 rice cakes=100.  and we are up to 775 

Tonight dh and I are going to hear our favorite singers and it is an hour trip one way,(gas is so high right now but we really love to hear these singers)  We have to leave fairly early so I cooked hamburgers.  He is working a job that has to be finished today, and he is workng through lunch the will come home and shower and we will jump in car and he will eat on the go.  Now back to me.   I love hamburger but because red meat is bad for us -you know hard to digest and bad for cholesterol problems and I heard on tv yesterday that along with other things you can do to help with fighting cancer one of the things we should do is strictly limit red meat-we don't have it but about 1 to 2 times a month.

Usually I only eat a small amount, but it smelled so good and  so I got a small one and fixed a sandwich with whole wheat bread I removed the crust, then sprinkled with shredded cheese, and a small amount of mustard.  That was super super good.  Then I fixed another sandwich.  Now I am slightly stuffed.  I did not keep up with calories.  Regular hamburger is a bit high in calories.  I think just off the top of my head I went over 2000 calories.  I feel quilty in a very satisfied way. Does anyone know how that feels.  I really think I should feel bad about eating that way, and I feel quilty that i feel so satisfied.  Does that sound like double talk to you?????Do you think that there is something slightly wrong with my thinking?

Oh well,

Tomorrow is Sunday, I love Sunday,  I love gathering myself with my brothers and sisters in church, all of us there in one accord, loving and worshipping the Lord. Praising Him, Praying to Him.

I will enter His gates with thanksgiving in my heart
I will enter His courts  with praise
I will say this is the day that the Lord has made
I will rejoice for He has made me glad.

Have a blessed night everyone

Thoughts,nutrition Diva, fighting the snack monster

I noticed some time ago that if I exercised early in the day,  I did not feel the need to munch so much.  So I looked it up on google and sure enough there has been some studies done that seem to indicate the same thing.  Yesterday I exercise early and I had energy all day long and felt good, and did not have to fight myself to stop from snacking.  Same thing today.  Maybe it is all just psychological but hey if it works it works. 

I get some things from a person who calls herself Nutrition Diva.  It is very informing.  Yesterday she talked about eating breakfast and how it is supposed to be helpful to losing weight because it keeps you from getting hungry.  But she said that not everyone is the same.  Most overweight people eat (my words not hers) at the drop of a hat.  Now I do know that is true for me.  I will eat when I am sad happy, depressed joyful. I can eat when I am sick with fevers/.OR bored, or with family or by myself.  I do not have to be hungry.   

I need to make a punching bag and label in SNACK MONSTER and then when I want somthing to eat I can go beat up the snack monster.  If nothing ele it would be good exercise.   I heard a woman say one time " we should eat to live and not live to eat."  That is all well and good but how do you put this wise statement into practice. 

Today was a nice day to be out and I walked 6 miles so very pleasant out there.  Dh came home early and he walked two miles with me.  I love it when we walk togeather.  We hold hands and talk about different things. 

I ate fairly good today in no particular order here is what I ate today.  Lima beans, green beans, the last of the edamame,  potatoes, Talapia, apple,  a little bit of smoked ham. left over stewed tomatoes.  and rice cakes.  I like caramel ricecakes.  They have a bit of taste, and they are only 50 calories and you can grab one and just nibble it and make it last and it seems like you are eatng more than you really are.  I know that is another cheap phychology trick. 

I know that people read my blog I can see it in my stats.  I prayed for each person that reads here.  May the Lord bless each of us and help us to achieve a healthy way of eating.  I know He wants our bodies to be strong, and not weakened by poor food choices. 

Sleep well\
God bless

Tonights service, prayer,

Went to church tonight and had a wonderful service/  I love going to church, I love when it seems that everyone gets a blessing.  The sermon was from 1st kings. About the man who owned a piece of property and Jezebel used deceit and lies to get the property for her husband.

I prayed a good deal today about my health /  I know that overweight people are more prone to cancers, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,  joint pain, heart attacks, strokes,  and many other obesity related problems.  I really want to be as healthy as it is possible for me to be.  I'm 59 and I know that I can not act like I am 19 but I can be a healthy 59.  AND THAT IS WHAT I AM WORKING ON. That means more than my weight. That means exercise, vitamins and nutrients, it means anti oxidants, and omega 3 oils and so much more. Being healthy is so much more that just one side of a multi fauceted (spelling is wrong) multi demensional  diamond. IT is emotional and physical and spiritual. 

Did you know that holding hands with someone you love helps to lower your blood pressure.
Dh and I hold hands often.  When I go shopping with daughter, sometimes we hold hands and of course I hold babys hands all the time.

I try to exercise every day even when I eat like I am storing up fat for hibernation.  I actually love the way I feel after I exercise.  It is almost like a natural high.  The pleasure centers in my brain gets really happy,

I love reading the bible, I love spending time in worship, at church and at home. I love talking about God and how good He is to us. 

I usually eat up to 7-8 servings of vegetables and fruits every day.  Today I had cabbage, edamame, carrots, apple, stewed tomatoes, corn, homemade cucumber/onion relish.I had tuna, and ham, and 2 slices of whole wheat bread.   All togeather less than 1500 calories,  and I walked a total of 5 miles.

I will go for a walk in the morning around 8, I will be praying for my health and for yours.  Please join with me as we lift each other up. 

God bless you all

It's been a few days (weeks??)

I woke up this morning and with dread  and a strong sense of denial I got on the scales and found to my horror and a huge desire to deny what my eyes saw----I had gained -I think 5 pounds and that makes a total of 18 pounds i have gained since October.  How does someone that gets up every day with the best of intentions gain that much weight.  Am I so much the "queen of denial" that I would not realize that eating out of control is going to lead to gain?  Am I so much blind to what I put on my plate that I would not see that calories in and  not calories out is going to show up on my body?  Deep breath in and then the scream of a tormented person. 

NOW  NOW hear me.

Years ago there was a song can't remember the singer\

I am woman hear me roar in numbers too big to ignore

Well that is me only the numbers I am screaming is the numbers on my scales.   I  can't ignore them. 

As of this morning I have been thinkng and praying and I have asked the Lord for help.  Please pray with and for me and I will pray for each of you that ask.  In this I will say -these are the nmbers that the singer was talking about.  I have always felt that you get a bunch of women togeather and there ain't nothing that can't be accomplished.   And you get Christian women togeather -praying and worshipping women, well we can move mountains and that includes mountains of excess weight.

Every day I am going to have a special time to pray for us. Just leave your blog name here and I will indeed pray for you.

May God bless each of you, may His mark be upon you, we are the temple of the Lord and we are His vessel. We, with His help, will make the vessel healthy for His indwelling.

God bless you
and keep you safe. 
Joy

PS I will be back tonight to post about my day.