Hi everyone,
I want to apologize for not posting in a long time. It takes me forever to actually write anything worthy to post because I am a perfectionist when I write. I end up re-writing the piece three or four times before I actually post. For this reason, I keep procrastinating and never really start at all.
That being said, I do have an update!
In the beginning of this journey, I tried a number of different things (for weight-loss) that would have been helpful if I could have stuck to them long term. I ended up gaining to 292 lbs before I started losing. I decided to count my calories daily and limiting myself to only 2000 per day, which helps me make allowances for myself. I saw this visual aid once that one Chips ahoy cookie is equal in calories to a bowl full of strawberries. That forced me to make choices constantly throughout the day of what I should eat. for example, if I eat this cookie or doughnut or chocolate bar now around lunch, I will only be able to eat half of what I would eat at dinner calorie wise. So you can see that being conscious of what I eat has helped me focus on eating better things throughout the day. I have allowed myself one day per week that I can go over my limit, bu the funny thing is, that now that my stomach has begun to shrink, that even if I have not been counting throughout the day, my body is now telling me when I have begun to go over my 2000 and I start to feel off.
I started this mid February, and I am thankful that the Lord has helped me have the discipline to keep it going to this day. Since then I have lost... 14 lbs.! I am now at 278 lbs and am pumped! I will be making another step soon to aid the progress and eliminate most carbs out of my daily diet. Again I will allow myself a day per week of breaking the rule, but in general I will be removing that from my regular diet.
Now, the bad news is that I really struggled with the entertainment change I wanted to make. I have tried to fill my time with other, more productive things, but have still crawled back to my old habits of games and movies. To be perfectly honest, I really don't want to give these things up entirely, but am still wanting to learn self discipline to control these things and to keep them in their correct place priority-wise.
So continued prayer is still much appreciated, and I will try to do better at keeping y'all updated!
Thank you all so much for the encouraging notes, comments and prayers for me on this journey!
