victory!

Victory over the scale today!!! woohooo! The scale finally gave in. lol. 152 lbs today!!!! :) Man that felt good and so rewarding coz It's been so challenging to keep going and keep my meals healthy without seeing progress this past 3 months! So it was very motivating for me today! Celebrating with a walk. Just a light walk coz I'm sick but don't want to stop coz I'm trying to set a routine of walking every day. :)

So the 10K walk is in a week and a half. I'm soooooooooo NOT ready!!! I don't know I've been wanting to back down but I really wanted to do this. Well, I have a week or so. I hope I get better soon too!

going down...

So I weighed myself last week and finally, the scale is going down! Not much but at least it is going! :) Yay God! I'm in the process of decluttering my bedroom yesterday and I came across a entire bin of clothes for when I lost the weight! Can you believe that?! An entire bin! So I finally made a hard choice to give that bin an expiry date. I've committed (with my hubby as my witness) that in 1 year, if I still don't fit those clothes, they ALL gets tossed!!! Ahhhhhh! Kinda scary to finally give that bin a deadline. :( But I'm really tired of hanging on to those clothes. I guess, that in itself is progress.

Did a 100 laps last Sunday!!! Wooohoooo! That's 8K! :) Need to do 125 laps to get to 10K...

I LOVE these two boys!!!



my son and my nephew

No eating after 6 p.m.

Check out this article about not eating after 6 p.m. I know the famous idea out there is to eat small and often and as much as I know it works because I've done it before (in terms of weight loss), I have to disagree now. It is very important for me to lose weight but an even greater priority for me is to make sure my body in the inside is healthy meaning that my organs aren't overworked. The thing about eating often is that, you don't give your body enough time to digest the food. It takes your body at least 4 hours to finish digesting your food. So if you eat often like around every 3 hours then your digesting food for around 12 to 14 hours a day! That's a lot of NONE STOP work. Anyway, that's my view on it.

So other than that, I appreciate the article and would really like to get into the habit of not eating after 6 p.m. It will be VERY hard but will give it my best! :)

HABIT FOR THE WEEK: drink 2 liters of water & no eating after 6 pm!

Here's the link:

Eating After 6 pm: Why It's Bad For You- Diet Blog

dragging my feet

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. booo. Well, life happens and it just got too hectic.

January and February's been a struggle with eating clean but just taking it one day at a time. Still trying to find a lifestyle change that I can keep permanently. Trying to watch my portions. I haven't cut anything out completely (except pop of course) but try very hard to have light dinners and no late eating (but it's soooo hard!). So I still have cakes at parties and even have a bit of dessert at lunch but always watching my portions. Some days are good and some days aren't. I think though I need to start being very strict about keeping a food journal coz sometimes don't realize how much I've consumed! yikes!

I've been walking though! I LOVE Leslie Sansone DVDs! I do 3 Fast Miles everyday and I try to do another 2 or 3 miles at a later time... lunch or after work. I try to walk everyday regardless of how clean I eat. This past Tuesday though I was immobilized by some serious hip pain so I just rested and gave my body a break (not that I had any choice anyway). Today though I really surprised myself coz I did some interval running/speed walking. I was so surprised that I did 69 laps in the indoor track. 69!!! Didn't think I'd get that much in. lol. On days like today, I love that there's a tangible proof that my body is getting stronger even if I don't see it in how my clothes fit or even on the scale. I make it a point to walk everyday either 3 or 5 miles and I'm just hoping someday I would see it do something other than make my body stronger (like lose inches or weight).

done... done... done

I'm happy to say I got my 3.5 miles in today. I took it easy coz I'm still not feeling 100% and haven't worked out for a week and a bit now. Hoping to do more walking this afternoon! :) But I do feel good going for my walk this morning! Praise God!

fruit of the Spirit...

Galatians 5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control..."

This past Sabbath my PH (Pastor Husband) mentioned the fruits of the Spirit in his sermon. He said that for mid-week prayer meetings at church they encourage everyone to pick a specific fruit of the Spirit and for the next month practice that fruit of the Spirit and to pray for this to grow. That got me thinking which fruit of the Spirit would I like to pray for and practice this month. The first one that came to my mind and seem to stick was self-control. How fitting, I thought! This would tie nicely in with my goal of disciplining myself in my appetite, time management and relationships (God and men). So for the next month, I will be praying and practicing self-control. With Him beside me, I'm hopeful that it will be a month filled with many challenges but also sweet victories! :)

Weigh In Day!

Weigh in day this morning and I'm thrilled to say that I've lost 4.5 pounds!!!!!! This is so awesome especially it's weight loss that I don't feel I deserve because I've been kinda off routine. I've been sick with little energy that I'm not able to workout and there's been too many get togethers in the evening when I'm suppose to have my lightest meals. So 4.5 pounds is an awesome loss and surpassed my goal of 2 lbs a month! YAY GOD!!! :)