Tuesday (Week 2)

I weighed in yesterday morning and I lost 3.6 pounds over the past week.  I'm happy!  This was even after eating "off plan" for lunch and supper on Sunday.  We had lunch at church and will be for the month of November and my choices are very limited, but I enjoyed lunch even right to the ice cream dessert.  I'm not going to stress about it, but make wise choices and enjoy treats now and then.  :)  We had choir practice Sunday evening and I didn't eat anything before heading out, so by the time we got home after choir and evening service, I was starving!  LOL  Dh offered to make me some toast and I gladly accepted.  ;)


Haven't gotten in exercise, but today I worked outside in the garden and you can't tell me tilling the garden isn't exercise!  :D

Bible reading....  I'm still reading Numbers along with the Good morning Girls.  Today we read chapter 7.  Long reading, but I'm always fascinated on how Moses got to speak with God.  I've also been reading the She Reads Truth devotionals and it's been great! This week they have focused on "Open Your Bile Launch" and it has been so good!  I've been struggling with getting my Bible reading in and wondering if I should be getting up extra early or what, but this week's readings have been encouraging to me and I know that no matter what time I open my Bible, I can have time with Him.  I'm hoping yet to also read Ps. 119:9-16


"My false qualifications, however commendable, are always and forever trumped by God’s grace."   Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams of She Reads Truth

Starting this week, I'll be weighing in on Fridays.  :)

Friday :)

The weekend is ahead and I've made pretty good choices when it comes to food this past week.  I didn't start THM until Monday, but for most of my meals they were on plan.   I did have a couple of cheats, but I'm ok with that.

I was going to have Monday as my weigh in day, but maybe I'll change it to Friday starting next week as I didn't weigh in this morning.  :)

A few of the recipes I enjoyed out of the new THM cookbook were

bring on da buttah pancakes
strawberry cheesecake shake
banana oat shake

The quiche recipe look really good, but I didn't have all the ingredients so I ended up making my own using a couple other recipes.  It was delicious!  I made a coconut crust, but I may try an almond flour crust or now that I've made up some baking blend I'll use that.   I can picture some cream pies coming up.  :)

Like I mentioned in my recent post, I'd like to add in my Bible readings.

This week I've been reading Numbers with the Good Morning Girls and while Numbers can be a hard book to get in to, it is amazing on some of the nuggets of gold you find while reading what may seem like boring passages.

I still struggle on getting in my Bible reading each day and prayer time, so it is something I'm going to have to focus on better.  I just don't want it to be another job I want to check off my list when I complete it. 

I hope to post  at least a couple times a week! 

Believe It Or Not, But....

....I'm still HERE!!  LOL

I've gotten of track with walking and my eating habits.  It hasn't left my mind though and  I'm hoping to start back up soon.  I just find it hard with the garden and all, that I don't have time to get out there for a walk.  But I NEED to MAKE time, so I'm going to just have to get up and go.  :)   I have been "exercising" out in the garden, but I know it is not the same.  :)  My weight has gone up 3 pounds too, so talk about discouraging and also getting me to think of getting back to WORK!!  :)

Anyway, that is a tiny update from me and I hope the rest of you my friends have been doing better than me.  :)

P.S I've kept up with my reading my Bible through in a year plan and it has been so good!  I'm in the book of Psalms and Acts.  :)

I can't do this alone, this keeps me walking in humility...

How do you find the Time

How/where do you find the time to exercise??  I've been NOT walking lately and just feeling a bit depressed about the whole thing, I guess.  I wanted to walk 500 miles this year and I'm way behind and right now have zero desire to even try and catch up, although while typing that, I felt a tiny spark of courage to actually try to do that!  LOL

So my question is where do you find the time and when do you try to exercise as in waht time of the day??

Ok, I had better go and check my waffles!!

Be right back!!  :)

Ok, waffles are looking good, have a couple seconds before I make the next one.  Hee hee

I was getting up before 7am and walking, but that hasn't been happening the last few weeks, my alarms goes off and I don't get up.

I need to do it in the morning before breakfast, because after breakfast, my mornings are then filled with school, dish washing, school checking and lunch making, plus I try to squeeze in a couple loads of laundry and hung out on the line.  :)  Afternoons are more free for gardening, sewing and that sort of thing.  We won't be able to take school off completely this summer, that is a whole other story.  So once summer is here, we will do gardening and outside work in the morning and school doing the hot part of the day.  That is my plan anyways.

So my days feel full and I don't know when/how to fit in exercising.  So please share what works for you.  I know I should just get up early, but that is hard.....

So, I'm all ears.....  :)

Ok, back to my waffle making....  P.s the children are thrilled to be having waffles for supper!!  :)

Another p.s I've been keeping up with my Bible reading.  it has been good!  I'm in 2 Chronicles in the old Testament and in the Gospel of John in the New Testament.  It has been good and a blessing.  Some of Chronicles was dry, but it is all recorded for a purpose.  :)

Ok, I'm done rambling for now!  No time to proof read, so I hope this all makes sense!!  LOL 

Tanya  thinks she should buy another waffle maker, takes to long to make a batch of waffles for a large family with just one waffle maker.  LOL  :)

Week 5 - Wednesday Evening

Another day ended....

Two miles in for me today.

Reading in Leviticus, lots of instruction on how to sacrifice and how it all was to be done.  It has been mentioned a few times how these offering were a sweet smelling savour unto the Lord.  I can't help thinking what a smell, burning flesh and blood....   It was all a shadow of what was to come though.  It has been interesting reading.

I allowed myself 2 cookies today!  LOL

So far it has been a good week....

Monday Morning -Week 5

The numbers on the scale were lower this morning!!

My weight on Jan. 6/12 was 174.2lb
Today's weight Feb.6/12 was 169.2lb

SO I've lost 5 pounds so far!!  Thank you, Lord!

Goals for this week

WALK 14 miles, I'm thinking of having a couple days of 4 miles and the rest just 2 miles, or I may do 3 miles Monday-Thursday and then just 2 on Friday.  I'll see...

LIMIT the sweet intake, I do allow myself some dark chocolate now and then as a treat and this past weekend, there were just to many sweets around!  I ate more than I should have, so I was surprised at the scale this morning.  I'll remind myself to make wise food choices.

READ my Bible every day - this has been wonderful and I've been enjoying it.  Today I start the book of Leviticus.  It has been a very long time since I have read this book.  Looking forward to seeing what the Lord shows me while reading, may be "dry" but I know I'll find a treasured verse or more.  :D

I hope to visit your blogs this week, I know how encouraging it is when others comment!  :)

Friday Evening - Week 4

I was able to get in my two miles today.  So my week's total is 10 miles.  I made good choices on eating and I will see what the scales show on Monday morning.  :)

Another week is just about ended.  Tomorrow is my day off, then a new week starts!  I feel good about this week.

Yesterday while I was on the treadmill, I was reading my daily Bible reading for the day.  I'm in Exodus now and I was reading chapter 33.  I'll be honest some of the reading in Exodus was a little dry, not all but a couple of chapters were.  Anyway, what stood out to me was how awesome and amazing it was that Moses could talk to the Lord face to face.

"So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend". Exodus 33:11a

A little later in the chapter, it says Moses was not allowed to see the LORD'S face and the Lord covered him with His hand when he passed by, but he was able to see the LORD'S back.  To be in the LORD'S presence... wow....  What a special privilege!

Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’  Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”

And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

 Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here.  For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”

 So the Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

 And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”

 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”  But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.”  And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.  So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.  Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.” 

Exodus 34:12-23

Today we are not blessed in being able to speak to the Lord face to face like Moses did or even see His presence, but the Lord does use many ways to speak to us and show us His great love.  The wonderful thing is that we can still have a close relationship with our Lord.  We also have the blood of Jesus, the gift of eternal life and the promise of being face to face and living with our Lord Jesus one day.  

Getting back into GOD'S WORD has been a blessing to me.  I've been reminded on how much the Lord loves us and after the fall of Adam and Eve, He gave us the plan of redemption, so that we could ONE day be with HIM FOREVER.  Just had to share my musings I had while on the treadmill yesterday.  Our Lord is so GOOD.