November 29, 2011
WOW It has been a while since I have been on here. I have a desire and I want to achieve my goals. I have done this before, I can do it again and maintain it. Starting out on this I am going to keep it at low level what I mean is I am not going to post on Facebook with it, but for those of you following me I appreciate your support.
In the next few times I am going to be thinking about what direction I am going to go about this in. I am going to look at what I need to change in myself to do this. I have to look in the mirror and ask myself "How bad do I want this?" I am going to do my best to post more often with progress and what it is I am doing. I appreciate your prayers and support during this. Hugs!!

So blessed!!

March 20, 2011,

March so far has been incredible. Yes we have had a few things that have been thrown at us but I have faith and I know that our God is BIGGER than anything that can be thrown at us to make us become negative or have sour thoughts.

We had the wonderful surprise of getting to see Lathen, Melanie and Andy in early March, so wish they could have stayed longer. Then for Spring Break Sara, Maddie, Kayla & Matthew were coming on Monday but completely surprised us on Saturday and stayed until Friday. We had so much fun went to the Aquarium, Victoria Zoo, and the Park. We are so incredibly BLESSED!!

Well I am still asking myself “Is it worth it?” when I am eating something. I am paying attention to the fact am I hungry, or am I just eating because I am bored, stressed or whatever reason. I know I eat for comfort it is so easy and put a load of stress on me and I eat. But you know what I saw something this past few days that I had not seen in a while and it was a number on the scale…it felt good and I liked it. I have been taking my medicine like I am supposed to take it and watching what I eat. Now to get my body moving on the elliptical that we bought a while back so my goal is to step on it and make it work for me. Starting small and moving more and more that is where it begins.

I just finished the class I was taking toward my Master’s Degree, now just two more to go. I have been doing some reading and I want to share a few of the things that have stuck with me. Many years ago I lost 85 lbs. I made drastic changes in my eating.  I also changed my mind set and what I visualized for myself.  One of the things I read this past week reminded me of these things.

One of the first things that jumped out at me was to renew my thoughts daily. This goes along with what I am reading from Made to Crave…which is asking God to help me through this with these cravings, feelings of being deprived and giving it to God.

Something else is something I know we are told often; don’t beat yourself up when you eat that piece of candy or more than you should have.  Tomorrow is a new day and a new start.

The other things are to visualize you thin. Do a lot of positive talk to yourself. Drink lots of water.

My biggest problem these past several months has been that I keep saying tomorrow, I will start tomorrow. Trust me tomorrow never comes. I have made a choice that tomorrow is here and I have been doing it this past week. I must add that Friday was not a good day for me. I feed my stress and sadness that the kids left. But yesterday was a different day as is today.

I cannot believe the difference in my sugar numbers that I have seen in making the changes I have made this past week. They are so much better. I have not got up once this past week close to 200, now to keep this up. I still have a lot to learn about living with diabetes. My goal is to lose my weight so I can lose the meds.

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We can all do this. My prayers are with everyone that you have a blessed week.

Till next time….Be blessed!

Been awhile...

I wrote this blog on March 11, 2011 I still wanted to post it. I am working on a current one to post soon.

March 11, 2011

Wow it has been awhile since I have posted. I have not stopped long enough to do it. Primarily because I knew it would make me stop and take a look at what I am doing.

What am I doing???? Well number one thing is that I am not staying on top of my sugar levels and what I am eating. I do not like feeling deprived and that is how I feel at times and I have been really stressed out so I have been eating for comfort. I am just one week and 2 classes away from finishing my Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction which I have been stressing out over. I am working on getting it all together. My weight has gone up and down within a few pounds. When I do myself talk ….(how many of you have these self talks?)............I tell myself I can do this I just need to find motivation well I need to just slap myself because I have all the motivation I need right in front of me. I also know that I saw my dad have diabetes, developed an ulcer on his foot that tunneled through to the side of his foot, then turn into gangrene and have to have his leg amputated right below the knee. Trust me when I say I don’t want this to happen to me so you would think I would not be messing around with this. My motivation is I want to be able to grow old with my soul mate, Ray. God has blessed me so much by placing him in my life. He is my best friend. Our plan is to sit on our front porch when we are 90 and drink Root Beer.  We have 3 incredible grandchildren, I want to be around for a long time and see these beautiful children grow up and have their families. I want to see all of my children have the joy of having children and watching them grow. I have motivation I just need to clear all the sugar out of my eyes and see it. Waking up with numbers that were close to 250 several days made me realize that if I go in for my check up my doctor will probably put me on insulin….not something I want to have to do. I am asking myself when I want something ….”Is it worth it?” I can do this. I am reading the book Made to Crave it is awesome.

March has been awesome we got to see our grandson, Lathen, daughter and son(-in-law) Melanie and Andy. That was such an incredible fantastic surprise. Now for Spring Break we get to see our granddaughters Sara and Maddie as well as our son and daughter (-in-law) Matthew and Kayla. They will be staying for 4 days.

Exciting news to share is that we have opened the shop up on Saturdays now. Anyone having crafts that they want to put in there on consignment contact me. It is going to be fun and awesome!!

Now is time to get this Spring Break going!! It is going to be fun and exciting!!

Keep me in your prayers as I struggle with my weight!!

I CAN DO THIS!!

Think about today...put yesterday behind you...move forward....

Bob said all you have to think about is what you have to do today. This was going to be about how I have not done what I wanted to do. Here is it January 4 and I have not done it. I have had good intentions but good intentions do not get it done unless I put some effort to it. So I am going to put these 4 days behind me and move forward with tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new day and I will not beat myself up for these past 4 days. They are what they are and will move forward now.

It has been nice these past two days to go back to work. Getting back into a routine has been nice. I missed my students so it was good to see them. I have to admit that my other thoughts are that now that it is after the first of the year, January and now we are getting closer to TAKS. Not my favorite subject but that is ok. It is what it is. We will make it and we will get through it.

Now as I type this I am watching the Biggest Loser. My heart goes out to these people. But I am not here to talk about Biggest Loser…because I am determined to get my act together and be my own biggest loser. I need to drink more water, leave the snacks alone….now this is my most difficult thing leaving snacks alone. I get bored I want to eat. I also need to get myself on the elliptical. It is not going to do it for me I just need to do this. I can say all of this but getting it done is another story but I pray this week that I can make the right moves to get these things done. So please pray for me.

This weight did not come on overnight and it is not going to disappear overnight but I want results fast. I know that I am not going to see them fast so I have to be patient and patience is not my virtue however I am not going to pray for patience. Sometimes it just seems so hard to turn away from food or my desire that I am craving or I see something that looks good or sounds good and I just eat it. I know I shouldn’t but I do. I used to eat for comfort but that was many moons ago. Sometimes I look at myself in the mirror and I cry because of the fact that I have let myself go. I remember that day that I tried on those pants in Lane Bryant and how it felt. That was such a rush and felt so good. I loved being able to bend over and tie my shoes not having to sit down and tie them. I could see my collar bone…didn’t know I had one till then or at least I had forgotten since I had not seen in so long. I felt so good, I had so much energy, and felt awesome overall. I can do this I know I can.

Now here is the part I say I can do this I know I can but then I ask myself why don’t I do this, why don’t I do what it is I know I need to do. I have to make some changes and stick to them in order to do this. I have to change my thoughts, my desires and my actions for anything to work. As I said before I am not going to pray for patience I am praying for guidance, and for my desires for food to change. I am working on new thoughts about food I will let you know how this goes.

I pray each of you are reaching the goals that you have set for yourself.

God bless each of you!

With God all things are possible.

All Things Are Possible...

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
-Philippians 4:13

Well the New Year as began. I sat thinking about what and how I wanted to start this off. My plans for the first day did not go as I thought they would but that is okay because they went even better...I had an awesome day spending the first half with my awesome hubby and the second half with our youngest daughter, we had lunch and went purse shopping.

In my thoughts I have been thinking that I wanted to find scripture to use in my blog. I found several websites but they were usually for websites where people had written books and had used scripture. Finally I was looking and I found www.christianbook.com with a book called Faith & Fitness by Tom Hafer…did I order this book….no it is what I saw on this page that gave me what I needed it was the product description.

“What does faith have to do with fitness? In Faith & Fitness author Tom Hafer explores the connection between a strong faith and everyday lifestyle choices.”

Now this was not the whole description but as I read this I realized that I have what I need: I have my Faith in God, I have my Bible, and I have Prayer. Then I thought about one of my favorite Bible verses Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”

Now that I have what I need I in place I am ready to begin. Please feel free to comment share your stories, share Bible verses that are important to you. If you want to share a picture email fstorms62@yahoo.com it to me and I will post it. This does not just have to be a losing weight, share your thoughts, share ideas; just share….it is about support and sharing knowledge. I am blessed to have the support of my family. My husband is awesome. I do not feel that I have to lose weight because of anything he said because he loves me for me as I am. Our talks are just that we want to be healthy so that we can live to be 90 and drink root beer on our front porch sitting in our rocking chairs. My family understands what I am doing and supports me.

God knows that I am not strong when it comes to my cravings so every day I am sure several times a day I will be asking God to give me strength. I like Proverbs so I am going to begin ready from there in my Bible. I will also be using the web site www.sparkpeople.com because it has tools to help also. I will add my link to it here soon. I will also be posting a picture of me on here for my now picture. I have decided that as hard as it is I will be posting an “as is” picture.

Without going into long details I have come a long way since I first became overweight. My heaviest was 285;  however in 2000 I lost 90 of those pounds. I remember when I tried on that first pair of jeans after losing that weight. I did not buy any new clothes during those months of losing weight. It was on December 18, 2000 in Lane Bryant in Waco, Texas I had began 285 size 26 and on that day I put on a pair of size 18 jeans. My mom was there with me and she had been there with me during all those years so you knew how excited I was at that moment. That was an incredible feeling. Not only did I lose weight during those months I learned about me that I could do something I set my mind to, that I was worth something, that I was not worthless, that I was a good person…I had spend so many years believing otherwise. I felt like I had began life over at 38 because during this time I turned 38.

I am so blessed now to have gone through what I went through in those years because I was once told I had to go through those times so that I can appreciate the good with a different outlook and know how blessed I am. I like to think and as far as I am concerned I am the most blessed woman in the world. My prayers is that through this blog and all of us sharing with each other we will help each other along this journey, share stories and ideas with each other as well as anyone who stops by to read it.

God bless each and every one of us!!

With God all things are Possible!!!