Drink Up!

I know this is kind of an odd topic. Since I was a child I have love mixing things together. I mixed different flavors of kool-aid, or different sodas, I even mixed different foods together. Now I mix different health drinks or smoothies. In the morning I make a breakfast drink using mixed berries,orange, grapefruit, oatmeal, cinnamon, and water. Since I need several servings of fruits, I just have them at one time! Since I also need plenty of veggies, I sometime make a vegetable drinks using at lease four different kinds! I always say that fruits and vegetables is the God kind of food! One never go wrong when eating that. No I am not a veggie, but I I don't think I would be missing a lot and my body would be much happier. But I have went two months without meat and I lost ten pounds!!!! yay. I always say that it is by any GREENS necessary. Now I just know some of friends will probably say now that is too extreme. But when a person is confronted with health issues like I were then we will do whatever it takes. I have not arrived yet but I am closer than where I was yesterday! This is the Lord doings and it is marvelous in my eyes. One might say that I do a lot of talking about the Lord, but I believe that weight loss and God goes together like a horse and carriage! In other words I don't think I would have one without the other! Remember health is a choice; therefore choose health! much love and health!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to Me!!!!

Wow another year has been added to my life(actually fifty-two of them!). I thank God for how He has blessed me. I thank for a mind to be about His Father business. I thank Him for the grace and mercy that he has shown me down through the years. I have to pray that I have made a difference in someone life while being here for these years. Like the saying goes: when you are laid to rest you will be known for one of two things, for the problem you solved or for the problem you created. I am yet on this weight loss journey but I don't expect to be on it forever. I know I will be on living the healthy life journey for a minute but it will be worth it. I am still getting in my steps and working out. Though sometimes I get lazy but I know I have to do it anyway. Faith without works is DEAD. Lord knows I want to live and not die and continue to share the Lord goodness in the earth. I am not on this earth to just soak up air but to be a living epistle read of man and woman! For some people we as believers is going to be the only bible they will read. So we must have a relationship with the Lord and not a religion. I heard a person say that she almost laid down her religion and if religion is all she had then she can lay it down and pick it up again! She can't do that if she has a relationship with the Lord. I thank God that my weight is the lowest it has been in twenty years!!! God is good all the time and all the time God is good!! I realize that I am not what I look like to me but I am what I look like to God. I feel a Hallelujah right there!! Feel free to inbox me and give me some feedback I would love to hear from you!!

Accountability

I am still hanging in there. Though not easy at time, I am still determine to take this weight loss journey all the way. It takes a made up mind and I thank God for a made up mind. I haven't always had a mind to eat right, but thanks be to God who love me such much and only want the best for all His children. There was a time when I didn't want to be held accountable for my actions and I didn't always listen when the doctors told me that if I kept gaining weight, I would be headed for serious health problems. Someone once asked me " what was my motivation for getting healthy?" I told them that I was motivated by the terrible pain that I was having in my back and legs. I always felt swollen and my feet was always in pain. Sometimes I couldn't walk on it. But thanks be to God that was six months ago! I have now lost over twenty-five pounds! yay!!! I had a wonderful Mother's Day. My weight was down by twenty-five pounds since last Mother's Day. Our children blessed me with lots of gifts and love. I am so glad that God trusted us to raise four beautiful children in which we are proud of. A mother love will never wear out but instead it goes on and on.!! I found that I can't be afraid to answer to someone because all they want to do is to help. I have our baby daughter and husband that keeps me in check!!! Our daughter is also on this journey with me except she don't have nearly as many pounds to lose as I have. She is doing great on her journey. She has also lost almost fifteen pounds. I had to send up some prayers for her because she was headed down the same path that I use to be on which was not good at all. But she has a clean bill of health and only God could do that. my whole grain wisdom for the day: The fast track to lasting change is the slow one! I cm reminded of the Word that says I will never leave you, nor forsake you. We will always have the Lord on our side and He WILL NOT leave us!!!