Monday, January 18, 2016

MLK Day

So since it's #mlk day I've been seeing a lot of quotes on Facebook and I've even posted one myself. I saw one that really made me think and reflect.



I think this is certainly what I did when I moved to Chesapeake. But it's also what I've done just recently when we moved to Ohio - and I think the Ohio move was more on faith. I quit my job and moved however many miles it is from North Carolina to Ohio and we are staying with family while we are looking for work and a place to live permanently. That is a gigantic leap of faith, and we can't see where we are going to land right now. We don't know how our story ends. But taking that leap of faith, or first step up the staircase, was so important. I have faith that everything will work out for the good. It might take time, it might be hard(it already is hard), but I'm learning and we are growing as a family and I'm growing personally. 
It's exciting and frightening all at the same time. There are so many things that I need to learn and I'm excited for this part of our journey. Part of me wants to skip to the end, like when you want to read the end of a mystery book first to know who the killer is, just so I will know how it ends. But that's faith...I believe that we will be taken care of. Life might not be easy - but I don't think we would appreciate it if it was easy. I've seen people who have everything handed to them and they are miserable. There isn't an easy route to fulfillment. The happiness must be found in the journey - or it won't be found at all.  

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Biggest Loser

I love watching the Biggest Loser. I don't really know why. I mean most of the contestants gain their weight back...but I just get sucked in. It seems like the people with the best chance of winning are those with fitness backgrounds who just gained weight recently or due to a traumatic event. The ones who have always been overweight will do ok on the show but possibly not as well long term.

That's hard for me because I'm one of the people who has usually been overweight....and I hope I randomly lose weight while eating chocolate and watching Biggest Loser? Seems unlikely.

Monday, January 4, 2016

January

So I just read my last post...I'm pretty sure I"ve gained 20lbs since that post and I absolutely haven't dieted or exercised. I started and stopped Yoga and didn't even make it to the gym (except the one time I went in to cancel my membership).

Since it's January and time for resolutions I'm going to resolve to stop dieting this year. I'm going to start logging my food on MyFitnessPal again and I'm going to walk - probably. 

At church we are doing a 28 day fast which is perfect. It's not too long or too short. It starts today and goes until the end of January. I'm fasting from pop and from games on my phone. I've deleted all the time waster games. Even the fun ones and the one where I've been stuck on the same level since Saturday and I really wanted to beat it. Deleted from my phone. That way I can't "forget" that I'm not supposed to play them. 

So my goal is each time I would pick up my phone to play a random time wasting game I'm going to do something else instead. Like go for a walk. Talk to my kids. Write a blog post. Write something else. Read. Pray. Interact with the world. Meditate. Pretty much anything else. My only other rule is that I shouldn't just use that time to Facebook or Pinterest instead. Because that would defeat the point. 

We shall see how well I do. I did have flavored coffee today...which still isn't pop. But it was delicious.