Discussion Board

Hello everyone!

I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. I'm so thankful for the men and women that have given their lives for our country and for those who now serve in the military.

Jubilee - your post warmed my heart and I'm thrilled that you are doing so much better. To God be the Glory! It is also a blessing to hear how much your daughter is enjoying her mission work in Mexico.
I loved what she said - "There's no such thing as a "small" project in God's kingdom when it's done for His glory." She is so right.

KC - I know what you mean about Memorial Day being emotional. I lost my dad to Alzheimer's in Jan. of 09, and I think about him everyday. He was in the Navy for a couple of years, post WWII. I remember him telling us about boot camp a few times - he didn't like eating beans!

Tex gal - let us know how your trip went, and what type of meals you did while camping.

Today was kind of a long, uneventful day, and as a consequence I ate out of boredom. Nothing bad, but just too much I guess - feeling a little too full - yuch.

God Bless You ALL

I'm back!

It was a long trip, the weather didn't always cooperate but we are home safely so I'm happy. Me, with a few extra pounds unfortunately... I did try to eat well most of the time, but wow it can be hard in some restaurants. No baked potatoes, the only sides are fried or with butter, salads pre-made and already have cheese, etc. I certainly wasn't perfect, but I could have done much worse.

Something happened that I thought you would appreciate. We bought 4 tickets to Universal studios, but then on the day to go my husband wasn't feeling well and wanted us to go without him. I didn't really want to, but keeping the kids stuck in a hotel all day and losing all of the money wasn't a great choice either. When we arrived I went to the ticket line, saw a family and gave them my hubby's ticket for free. They were quite shocked but appreciative considering the price of a ticket! Now, I told you this not to brag on me but to understand how cool the next part was to my kids. I had told them that we should bless someone else with our unused ticket rather than throw it out, and share God's blessing with us. About 4 hours later we were walking into the Islands of Adventure side when a family came up to US as we were walking and said - "We are leaving now, but we purchased these eXpress passes and have barely used them at all, Would you like them?" What a wonderful blessing! We were able to get on rides so quickly in the busier part of the day, because this family was so generous to us - and what an amazing example to my children seeing how we were blessed after helping someone else!

A "out of the mouth of babes" moment occurred on vacation - we were in a gift shop and my daughter found one of those little wall plaques that have cute sayings on them. She pointed out one for me that said "I keep losing those pounds and they keep finding me!" Ahem... I felt like I was being given a message to stop making excuses and eat healthy consistently. I'm not setting much of an example if I keep regaining those 10-20 pounds and them losing them. It may not sound like much, but it really got to me if that makes sense, a gentle correction I needed from above even though I know my daughter didn't mean anything at all badly/mean by it.

We attended a wonderful church service on vacation, and was very blessed by it! I also had an incident with my son (13 and full of hormones! ) that wasn't good but did result in our having a L O N G discussion about girls and appropriate behavior, etc. etc etc. It won't be the last discussion we have, I'm sure of that, but it did end up being a really good talk once he stopped sitting there like a robot. Oy....

I've been reading and catching up - I won't comment on everyone because I have to go leave now, but hugs to all!

I missed you all!

Welcome back and thanks for your good stories, LTL!!! OK, Monday is the day for you to return to your good McDougall habits! NO EXCUSES!!! Right?


Ha ha!!! Let us look up to the One who gives us strength for journey!!!

I'm going to be out of touch for a few days. May you each be blessed as we strive to present our bodies as living sacrifices.

Remember that little compromises often lead to big consequences. Consider Uzzah reaching out to steady the ark. Or, David not going into battle when he should have. Little compromises are not so little to God. I'm often convicted by James 4:17 "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." I've spent a lifetime compromising in the area of healthy eating thinking that I was getting away with it. How wrong I was.

Thank you Pinkrose for reminding us to rejoice in each and every day as the Lord has made it. I'm thankful also that His mercies are new every morning. I sure need them! Don't we all?

Blessings,
Jubilee

Hi All,
Jubilee, I'm glad you beat that illness. Where would we be without your uplifing scriptures. I went by the Thrift store yesterday. I felt the urge to stop because I was looking for a stationery bike. I had to go to the bathroom and didn't want to. But I did anyway. There was a Weslow bike. I wanted it for Jose as much as for me and Alex. I thought it would be great for after dinner. So far we have all been using it. What a blessing.

The weight is coming off so rapidly. I swear I can feel it disappearing off me. I am eating very much like a Mary's Mini I guess.

Steel cut oats
beans and brown rice
strawberries and apple.

Some times I eat cherries or an apricot. Wonderful fruit is coming in so abundantly. It's strange. I never liked fruit before this program. So many changes have been made. I am astonished that I love my plan. Sometimes when I'm cooking the meat and I'm hungry it looks tempting. But it passes. I've never been a meat eater anyways. This morning was a 'thankyou breakfast for all school volunteers. I tried not to go but ended up there anyways. I sat down and had a piece of bread and a cup of coffee. Everything else was egg based or sausages. It looked good but I just went and sat down with my coffee and talked. This is GOD. NOT ME.

Great message kcwriter! Thanks to everyone who has been posting such uplifting and encouraging things recently.

Our camping trip was great. We did some hiking, some biking, some geocaching, some bird watching, some fishing (no catching!) and a LOT of resting when it was too hot to do anything else! I saw a bald eagle on Memorial Day - that was very cool. We made friends with a guy and his son who were camping in the site next to ours and that was a real blessing. I mostly ate really healthy - we cooked potatoes and veggies in foil packets over the fire several times; roasted corn on the cob; ate some canned beans; snacked on fruit and granola bars. I did use a little butter on some things, but otherwise everything was vegan. My one big "cheat" was when our new friends grilled some pork & venison sausage and I gave in and ate a piece. I turned down meat all the other times they offered it to me, but I wanted to taste that. It did taste good, but I know it was only a one-time thing and I'm not going back to eating meat on a regular basis!

Since getting home I am trying to get back into eating more fresh foods and avoiding the high fat snacks. I found out how badly out of shape I really am when we were hiking and biking on our trip! Time to get serious about losing some more weight. Gotta get to the grocery store and stock up on fresh veggies and fruit again.

Thanks to everyone for the great support here. It definitely makes things easier when you know there are other folks out there doing the same thing and encouraging you.

Hi Tex,

I think leaving home is the hardest thing when doing any eating plan. I am a very routine person. I open the fridge and see my salad and think, Oh, it's time for salad. I'm such a ding dong.

We all went 'fishing'' yesterday. Had a long walk and thanks to the glory of God, my knee did not hurt. I am getting stronger and stronger and lighter and lighter. Glory!
I have a new attitude with this way of eating. all my life I have been all or nothing. If I blew it, well I was a failure. I WANT to eat like this. but if I have a bite of something. I will. I think tasting something is perfectly okay if that is what you decide. I generally know for myself that if I taste a sugar item, I am lost. And I am then in torture. Because then it talks to me. I hate that. So I ignore it like it is a demon and don't give it any power.
I sound kinda wacky, huh. Well, for the first time I am very happy and getting healthy and keeping up with 'their' 36 year old father and two kids. Pretty good. Be blessed. ,kc