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Jan. 6, 2006

Tipping the scale.

Posted in This week in the Silver lining

Hello friends:

To my disgust, I've found that I've put on the 30 pounds that I had lost back 2-3 years ago. I know what you're thinking; As a response to it, and as any american traditionalist would do, I decided to give up on trying to set any New Year's resolutions to loose weight, yet again.

However, I heard on several radio shows now, that in order to really attain results from New Year's resolutions, one has to set specific goals rather than general broad ones. It's because of this that I've set myself a 'specific' goal to loose 3-4 lbs. per month. I figured it would be attainable and by the end of 11-12 months, I'd be exactly where I'd need to be.

Six days into the month (Happy Three Kings day/Epiphany), I've found that I no longer can no longer have a clear distinction of how to go about it. I mean, it should be easy enough; exercise and eat less, right? I even set a few days a week as "gym" days. (Our Apt. complex has a gym I can use for free)!

However, I keep finding that (even before New Year's) for about a month or two, things have been 'too busy' to justify going to the gym. And they have! I mean, I'm not just putting excuses. If my gym day is Tuesday, we'll get home in time to go to bed! My husband finally said well, if this is going to continue to happen and you really want to do this, why not do it in the morning. Well that's easy for him to say since he is a morning person. I'm not! (you can ask Elizabeth about that ;) !

I am sincerely at a loss on this issue! (I really need to stop with the exclamations in this entry)! : P But really I’m noticing that my husband was correct in telling me that I should pray for The Lord to speak to my heart and tell me how can to best achieve it, instead of going by my own understanding, and so God can reveal to me his grace through the entire process so I don’t get down on myself.

I know now (after starting on my own), that’s what I must do. I need to pray for wisdom (to manage my time and meals better), and rely on God’s plan. Instead of trusting myself about knowing how much is “too much”; I’ll pray for being able to recogne when I’m “full”. (I’ve always had trouble distinguishing between “full” and “stuffed”). When I am full, but something tastes good, I end up eating it anyway.

It's about learning to deal with temptation. Temptation is something that affects all aspects of life. It is essential to learn from the Lord how to overcome it, in any sircumstance. Also, only if I have Him guiding me, can I not get down on myself through the process, and know that I have someone cheering me on and who loves me just the way I am even if I didn’t loose any weight ever. (Well, two with my husband). J

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Jan. 11, 2006 - I can sympathize

Posted by Mamishelle

I lost about 40 lbs since last Jan. but I think I put about 10 of them back on. I am feeling very dissapointed in myself. I made a resolution to stick to WW but am not doing to well with all the stress I am under. You see, I am a stress eater. Well, all I can say is that I am going to try to do better. Hope you are well, and look forward to reading more posts from you

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Jan. 13, 2006 - Or you could....

Posted by heresseven

Do what I decided to do this year and throw away the scale! I'm not sure how practical that advise is yet....I will let you know next January what the results are of my experiment. ....Just so you have a backup plan for your new years resolution! Happy to help! lol
You could post your results on here so we can cheer you on! But you have to promise not to be harder on yourself then G-d is, remember that He is very pleased with you.

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Feb. 7, 2006 - Weight loss plans

Posted by BeckyJoie

Lyssie, we love you and don't base that on your weight either! We just love you. And I think that you are a very pretty lady inside and out. Anyway, I know how impossible it is to console someone about their weight. So instead, I will make a couple of suggestions to try. I know of two weight loss programs that work. I have tried both with good results. One is found at SettingCaptivesFree.com and is called, " The Lord's Table". You get a free mentor and daily devotional as well as some accountability. As long as you don't feel like you have to be legalistic about the course, the extra support and daily devotional helps alot. It focuses on getting our satisfaction from the Lord not food. The other idea is a bit more expensive and at first more restrictive but it is biblical and works. I will say it is tedious though. It's the Maker's Diet. It is claimed to be a help improve health and long-term illnesses. So far so good for me. I'm on it now and have been for a few months. My SLE and fibromyalgia symptoms are not as bad and I'm losing slowly but surely in the weight category. Anyway, when you move our way, perhaps we can go walking together or swimming-if either of us can find the spare time, LOL.
Take care, sis! BJO

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I'm not a homeschooler....Yet! My husband and I have actually been diagnosed as unable have natural children. So I feel like in life, I am just waiting. Waiting to have the children to teach things to, or waiting for the joy of home-schooling, or waiting for an answer on something, or a house, or waiting to learn some new thing God wants to teach us. Either way you look at it, we feel that we are just usually 'waiting'. In the mean time, we just keep our hearts open and our eyes peeled. In due time, we will know and understand. WARNING: THE VIEWS PORTRAYED HERE ARE SOLELY MINE AND DO NOT REFLECT THE MENTALITY OF ALL CHRISTIANS OR ANY ORGANIZATION. I AM HEREBY WARNING YOU THAT AS A HUMAN I CAN MAKE MISTAKES, HOWEVER, I PRAY THAT I DON'T AS MY JOB ON EARTH IS TO BRING GOD'S WORD FORWARD IN LOVE AND I BELIEVE HIS WORD IS NEVER WRONG.