sushi

I know that I should do All You Can Eat restaurants but we wanted to try this place for a while. :)


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Beauty

I am forever change by the encouragement and love God has given me through these sisters in Christ. What a challenge they have put forth by the lives they live and testimonies God has given them!

Oh what an incredible blessing!



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Sabbath beauty

Sabbath Afternoon 1000 Islands Cruise



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I'm 4 lbs away from my Phase One Goal!!!! YAY! 151 today :D

f.j.

Today was VERY hard to eat on time because it was a CRAZY day at work. lol.

Anyway, had to ask Hubbs to pick up breakfast for me coz I was sooooo hungry. Had 1/2 a Everything Bagel w/ light cream cheese. I ate the other half during my mid a.m. meal. Then Had lunch at like 5 pm. bad, I know!!! Then that was it coz we've been busy w/ the move. Ugh, not good for my metabolism! :(


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Fun at Walmart & Canadian Tire

Finally bought dressers after 4 years of plastic stackable shelves for our clothes. :) Also got more storage bins. Moving is no fun but at least get to reorganize.


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f.j.

So far so good.

Had protein shake for breakfast with apple; peach cottage cheese; half a 6" tuna sub for lunch; ate the other half for my
mid afternoon meal; and hopefully broccoli soup for dinner.

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My 1st 10K Experience

Sporting Life 10K ~ May 1, 2011

Group shot before the race

There were around 15,000 participants that morning. Incredible!!!

Hubbs and I crossing the finish line. I was singing the Hallelujah Chorus in my head!!! lol

Our victory picture. I was so thrilled to have done it!

Group finish shot

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Location:Yonge & Eglinton, Toronto

Lip Heaven

This is the only lip therapy that stops my lips from drying and cracking. Love it but do NOT love the price! lol



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community and reflections

Over two months ago, my good friend and awesome accountability partner created a private group on Facebook where we can come together and be transparent about our journey to better health and eventually slimmer and stronger bodies. It has been an incredible blessing for me because I get to walk with other ladies that struggle with our love affair (as one of them put it) with food. It's comforting and encouraging that someone else out there knows that it is hard... every day and that every morsel of food that enters my mouth NEED to be a conscious decision. It has been an incredible blessing to get to share and support each other. To cheer each other on and to see lives transform. :)

Blogging has been something I enjoy doing but lately I haven't had the time or rather I haven't been making the time to blog. This morning I quickly scanned through my past blogs and realized that I've been struggling with the same last few pounds in the 150s for over a month now. It's taking close to two months to shed the last 4 lbs in this weight level. This raised a few red flags for me to take a closer look at what might be happening.

I know that my weekends are quite bad and are most often not good/clean eating. Potluck alone would kill any diet. lol. But I try to eat very small portions of what I really want. And I do have one meal where I don't count calories at all. But at times (and it's been happening more often of late), it is more than just the one meal a week!!! NOT GOOD! So I'm recognizing that I need to closely watch my weekend intakes. I need to think and recognize what I really want to have during my treat-meal and then cut it off after. I need need to be consistent in writing my food down esp. during the weekends even if I don't know the caloric value of the meal. This practice will take being conscious of what I eat to another level AND also it serves as a research too... to see what isn't helping and what is definitely working! :) So weekends and food journal will need to be closely guarded in the coming months.

In the physical part of this, I find I'm more comfortable wearing tops that is a bit form fitting and even though my roll still is there and can be visibly seen... I'm ok with that. I know that if I continue to work hard physically and be conscious of my fuel intake then my body will eventually shed the excess garbage that it's storing. lol. I'm proud of the work I'm doing and I know that, like the food, I need to choose this every day.

I'm recognizing more and more as I continue in my journey that this... all this... this journey has to be a choice committed to every single day!

Almost! almost there!!!

Getting close to my phase one goal!!! 151.5 baby!!!!!!! :D

Goal!!!!!... and best record (so far)

Since my 1st 10K, I didn't want to stop there. I wanted to keep going and so I registered for 2 more 5Ks this summer and may be another one in the fall. :)

Anyway, my goal was to jog my 5K within 45 mins. In the beginning of May, I think I clocked in 57 mins. I was so incredibly surprised to have done my last 5K jog in 45 minutes!!!! WOW! Incredible... love how my body is definitely getting stronger and stronger! :) LOVE IT!

Sporting Life 10K

I've been meaning to post like a million things but it's been quite a busy month. Good news though, it's been a pretty ACTIVE month! :)

The Sporting Life 10K earlier this month was an amazing experience! There were over 15,000 people there that morning and we were so pumped to be a part of that. :) Everything about it was incredible but the most incredible moment was crossing that finish line. I just couldn't believe I actually did it! What makes it the incredible even great was that I jogged the last 5 km non-stop!!! Never thought I could do that... didn't think I could endure it! lol. It was definitely a "biggest-loser moment"! :D

I am so thankful to my husband for doing this with me and being just an encourager through it all. He just kept saying "keep going... just keep going, don't stop". :) We finished 1:25:00 which was awesome coz my previous time was 1:40:00. Woohooo! My confidence about how much my body can get stronger is definitely at an all-time high! :)