New blog

See my new blog following my Whole30 journey.  Cantbethisfatforever.blogspot.com.

Detoxing the Mind and Body

I have recently watched two documentaries that have really changed my life. Hungry for Change, and Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. One of the biggest things I have learned from these documentaries is that it is all about the types of food that you eat. If you are eating a healthy diet of nutrient dense food, you are going to feel full, and the good stuff will stop the cravings for the bad. But if all you are eating is “fat free”, “artificial sugar”, processed foods you don’t have a hope of losing weight because those things are toxic and grab onto your fat cells, so it doesn’t matter how hard you work your body says, “we have to save this fat because it is protecting us from the toxins” and your body won’t let you lose the weight. When you detox your body and then you replace those refined, processed, low-nutrition foods, with foods high in real nutrients, it doesn’t matter so much how much you eat because everything you eat is beneficial. But our minds and our bodies are addicted to those processed foods and we WANT, we CRAVE them, we NEED them. We just have to DETOX from our addiction to food and replace our food with good things. When I look at what I feed my kids, I am doing a terrible job. I am trying to reset my eating to be healthy, but I still buy them breakfast cereal with refined sugar (and LOTS of it). My cabinets are full of boxed, processed foods, that resemble real food, but isn’t actually real food. Like Veggie chips. Yeah they are good, they are made from potatoes and not fried, but they sure aren’t nutritious and they won’t ever compare to the real “veggies” they represent. I just recently purchased a juicer, and yesterday I did day 1 of the Joe Cross/Dr. Oz juice cleanse(he was the guy from Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead--Joe Cross, not Dr. Oz). I got through almost one day, had a juice that was NOT good, and it kind of ruined the juicing thing so I quit....and had a regular meal last night. And the cleanse is described as a weekend cleanse...but it really should be a weekend at home with no contact with the outside world cleanse because there are so many temptations out there to pull you away. Like work for example. Although I do totally love my juicer and won't stop juicing as occasional meal replacements (I might even try the cleanse again---but I am leaving out the onion in the "lunchtime" cleanse). My kids love it too. K. can hardly wait for the jucie to stop coming out so that she can drink it. Anything I juice she drinks...she isn't turned off by the varying tastes or murky green colors. She drinks it down and asks for me. C. on the other hand won't even try juice unless it is apple. She says the others look gross. And my DH doesn't help. He makes gross faces and refuses to try the more savory juices...until I give him the death stare and make him take a drink. While researching Hungry for Change I came across this blog which I totally love. Spend some time there, it may change your life. So...that is enough babbling for now...not sure who I am writing this for...mostly myself. It is something I need to remember when I want to reach for the bag of doritoes and coke zero.

a MILE-stone

It is official. It wasn't just a fluke. I can run a mile without stopping. :-)

I am seriously a dope!

I just accidentally deleted 25 posts...I was trying to delete my drafts, and instead deleted my posts... I am just sick over it. Seriously. How on earth did I just do that, and there is no undo...why didn't it pop up and say..."Are you sure you want to delete your posts from the last two years of your life?" Today is kind of sucky now.

For a Season

In the past God has really shown me "words" for a season. It hasn't necessarily been for the year...but it is just something that keeps repeating, kind of like a theme for that time in my life. When I first started going to life group and Justin and I started going to Lifechurch, the word that kept repeating everywhere I turned was righteousness. Something I needed to learn and accept. After a really dark time with God was followed up by serious redemption, the theme for me became Grace. Right now, my theme is "portion."

God wants me to make him my portion, instead of relying on unhealthy "portions" of food. Very clever God! I have been feeling this draw for a while...and now I will begin my study of the word portion.

Last night I sat down to read my Bible (for the first time in I don't know how long) {{shaking my head in shame}}. I prayed for what God wanted me to read. He just spoke into my heart and led me to Acts--to find out about the beginning of the Holy Spirit...the one who is with me as my strength and comforter when things are hard with this new lifestyle. I love when God shows me just what I need right at the perfect time. 

 

   

 

 

Fall Festivities

What a fun fall we have already had, and it isn't over yet!

Here are a few of the festivities we have participated in and still have many more to go.

This is the best weekend of the year...well, next to Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Okay, so it is a pretty good weekend of the year. It is Homecoming, and we are host to the world's best homecoming celebration. Walkaround on Friday, the Game Saturday, Church Sunday! Next weekend is jammed packed and Tuesday is the Halloween Festival, Thursday is Justin's last football game. He is 7-0 and looking for that final win for his first undefeated season!!!!

What a great time of year.

I don't wanna grow up