well, I lost a pound this week. yay! I am now finally down .6 lbs from my original loss (because I gained a bit back). down to 279.4. So, I definitely know I need to exercise. I am just not making that a priority. I have done little things to improve my daily movement, which is good, but if I am going to really lose a big amount of weight, I am going to have to exercise. I feel like I have some valid reasons why it isn't being worked in, but they are just excuses and if I really wanted to make it work, I would.
So I am going to do the Biggest Loser cardio max 2-3 days a week and then ride our bike the other days, taking only Sundays off. See Kris for more weigh ins.
Oh and I am totally excited to be taking that ecourse I mentioned! I can't wait to learn about all the great natural, traditional ways to prepare food to make it more healthy and nutritious. I am working my budget to try and incorporate raw milk but I may not be able to quite yet. I am going to get a farm share of fruit and we are going to grow our own garden of veggies, I am going to get pastured eggs from a farm as well. I will blog a bit about that as I go. The course started this week and just talks about the basic definitions of natural and organic (according to the industry and according to God).
We are wrapping up our Revolutionary war unit this week and the kids are presenting a president report on Friday at our co-op. Then we will get into Lewis and Clark and the westward expansion of our country.
Oh and I made a sour dough starter this last week, from scratch! I made pancakes with it yesterday and they were great. I am making the bread today so I will let ya know how it comes out. I hear this is an art and it may not turn out the first time.
I haven't been blogging much on my spiritual journey as I had hoped. I had said at the beginning of the year one of my resolutions was to become closer to my Creator. I have been consumed with reading books, books about joy and God's love. I have loved them and have been feeling more joy in my life then I have in a long time. It is still mixed with days that I feel defeated. I think that satan wants to make me feel like that so I can't press on. But I am continuing to look up and know that God loves me even when I don't love myself. I still want to be better at doing my devotions. I don't spend enough time with God alone. But I am trusting him with some life situations and he is teaching me some things. And I am so grateful for that.
Yay on being down nearly a pound! I think you're absolutely right about Satan wanting us to be down on ourselves. Isn't it wonderful, though, that God loves us just as we are?
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YAY Deanna! That's moving in the right direction! I am super interested in the ecourse you are taking...pass along any great doable wisdom you learn!
ReplyDeleteAnd I too have meant to blog more about my spiritual growth...not sure why I haven't...but God has been working on me...thanks for the reminder to share that with others!
Working out has been a big key to being able to lose weight more steadily. Being a busy mama of 3,with a husband who works odd hours, I understand the lack of time thing! I'm so not an early morning person, but I have changed my schedule so that I'm in bed by midnight (used to be a stay-up-til-1:30 AM kinda gal...) and my alarm goes off at 6:30 so I can get in 30-45 minutes of exercise before the rest of the house is awake. It's been working out well for me, though I'd like to be able to work out twice a day. But so far that has been hard to do consistently. I know you have younger ones, so early morning may not work well for you, but it is totally about just figuring out a way to work it in. (kids' naptimes?). The Biggest Loser workouts really get me sweating though!