Sat/Sun/Mon A gift from God and a look at Christians' love for food.

Long/Short catch up blog!

I had all intentions of blogging yesterday, but due to some comp malfunctions I had to hold off until tonight so I will try to give a brief recap of where I’m at and what’s going on…..

Saturday---- Kennywood Amusement Park!

Breakfast- Egg McMuffin

Snack- Potato Patch Cheese Fries (½ an order) 1 small box of Hot Tamales Candy 1 small box of Mike&Ikes

Dinner- 2 3oz chicken breasts, ½ cup of pasta salad, 1 cup of salad with what I’m assuming was full fat Italian dressing, ½ cup of fruit salad…..

This is where the small binge I had occurred…. 1 large chocolate covered salted carmel, 1 chocolate covered pretzel dipped in M&Ms, and 1/3 of a hard rock candy… Still all in all for all of the walking I did not that bad!

I know I let myself get extremely dehydrated and today… Monday… I’m paying for it! But there was not weight gained!

I had a great time at Kennywood however I wish my BF would have wanted to ride some roller coasters. Sometimes he is an old stick in the mud!

Sunday!

Coffee- 1 cup with 2 sweeteners and 2 TBSP of SF Hazelnut Creamers

Breakfast: 1 order of oatmeal from McDonalds.  If you haven’t tried there oatmeal and are stuck for a choice of food to eat there I really recommend this.  It’s filling, tasty, and satisfying…. CHURCH!

I love Sunday mornings…. Maybe it’s the hugs…. I think it’s funny before I started going to this church I hated hugs. In fact I’d usually recoil and cringe if people tried to hug me.   I was brought up in a very non-affectionate family.  I could probably count on my fingers how many times I’ve hugged my own mother.   We just weren’t that kind of family…. Not now…. Now I’m a church hugger…. That’s right I’m one of those people who will run up to you and grab you…. I will hug tell you I missed you and ask how your week was… Annoying as it may be I love it.  It’s like having a giant extended family…. 

I taught Sunday School again this week… my whole one person…. LoL she’s so darn cute and easy to teach. Plus she was pretty impressed with my craft! YAY!

After church we headed to Kroger’s to get some groceries for this week… I bought several types of wheat bread, grapes, and frozen veggies.  I also bought some veggie burgers… they were very… gross… I made them… I took a bite…. I tossed them…. $3.50 down the drain! YUCK!

After putting the groceries away I grabbed a quick bite to eat…. For lunch I made a BBQ chicken wrap with a Fiber OneWraps, 4oz of chicken, and TBSP of BBQ sauce.  I also munched on a few veggies….Then I started to get to work on my normal Sunday tasks, clean the bathroom, sweep and mop the floors, do the dishes, clean the counters, cut up watermelon, prep food, clean the kitchen again….

For dinner I had a peanut butter sandwich and some baked bbq chips.  I also made an iced coffee for a little pick me up…. I had a brief stent at holding the couch down… The it was off to meet my friend Karen at the walking trail…. We walked 1.5miles in  45minutes! YAY! CCC Girls!

Then it was off to evening church…….. More hugs… wonder how many calories that burns.

After I got home I had about 250 calories left…. Mmmm what  to eat….

I went with a 100 calorie ice cream bars yummmmms!

Off toooo bed!

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Present! Today is Monday! It’s a beautiful day with perfect weather. I didn’t get to enjoy much time outdoors today, but I’m hoping to change that for tomorrow.

Wake-up: 5:40am

Shower/Coffee/Dressed/Makeup/Hair/Pack food/Drive to Work/Work/Drive to Girlfriends Night!

Coffee: 2TBSP of SF Hazelnut + 2 Sweeteners

Shake: 1scoop of protein whey 1tsp of SF Metamucil blended with 6ice cubes and 1 cup of water

Breakfast- two mutli-grain waffles with 2Tbsp of SF apricot jam

Snack- 1 Dannon Light&Fit Strawberry Yogurt + 1/4cup of Corn Chex Cereal--- I know that seems like an odd combo, but I've really been digging the who crunchy stuff in my yogurt phase. It was super low in calories and added the perfect amount of crunchy salty to my sweet n creamy

Lunch- Today's lunch was rather kinda blah. It was tasty don't get me wrong, but exciting far from it! 4oz of chicken on a toasted light wheat bun with spicy mustard and 2 cups of watermelon. I've really missed watermelon this year. It seems like last year they were everywhere and super cheap. This year they've been over priced and lacking quality.

Snack- 1/2 of a 100cal bag of popcorn

Dinner @ Girlfriends-  I had brought 4oz of chicken brought from home and snuck it in in my purse! There were limited choices by the time I made it through the line so I only grabbed two little tomatoes and a diet cupcake.

I was a little disappointed BUT I realize now I should know better.  It wasn’t that there wasn’t any food. There was food, but no food I would eat.  Why? I’m not willing to sacrifice everything I’m working for for a brief moment of pleasure.  I’d rather be hungry and eat when I’m home then eat chips or desserts.  I have a tendency to wait… Go through the line later… let people go ahead of me… It’s usually to my disadvantage and tonight was one of those instances or was it? See sometimes I think God has a sense of humor and tonight I think He was feeling like He should throw a little irony in my life.  See earlier I had prayed that God would keep me from making bad choices and take away the temptation.  Well He did just not in the way I had hoped.  But it was His way.  I could have eaten junk but He kept me strong and true to Him and true to my mission.

Once I got home I ate two cups of watermelon and an FRS low cal energy drink.

I love 'Girlfriends' once a month women of all denomination from across the tri-state meet for food and fellowship. It is an amazing time. The people who run it Cinda and Terri do a great job making sure the topic is fun, a great time is had, and that everyone is well fed. 

Fed?!? That’s right it’s a meeting of Christian women there is going to be food…. Why? Why can’t you just meet and have coffee? I don’t know… Why are all Christian based meetings/get togethers centered on food?  We have a Sunday School class meeting once a month based around food…. Picnics…. Spaghetti dinners…. Fish fries…. You name it some denomination has it.  I read an article the other day that was talking about how 80%+ of Christian women who are involved regularly in church activities are overweight?!??! What? We are God’s girls.  Warriors on a mission to spread His Word… To spread His love… and to spread our waistlines?  How do we combat this?  Do we not realize that our excessive weight is the devil having a hold on our lives? Tempting us and torturing us with food?  So that we will stray from God and rely on cake or candy or fried garbage? There has to be a way to fix this….. Maybe we only fix it one person at a time… Maybe that’s my mission.  To fix it one person at a time starting with ME!

No exercise was done today and I used tonight as my rest night! My feet and ankle are thanking me!

Praises: I'm so thankful to a God who hears our cries. Who shows us mercy. Who never forsakes us. I’m so thankful to have amazing Christ loving women in my life.  For the hug of a friend I had been longing for.  For the ability to listen, love, and spread His Word.  May you all be blessed my friends.  If you are 1/10 as blessed as I am your life is amazing.  I may not financially be wealthy but my wealth is not of this world it is of His world.

 XOXO