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!!