Day 22

This whole process is changing me!  (I guess that was the intent, right?)  Some days, I'm not sure it's for the better!  (This is a joke)  I do believe that my love of sweets is changing.  I am still on track, but those times when I've tasted of something sugary, it hasn't been as good as it "use to be".

Like today.  I bought frozen chocolate-covered bananas.   My plan was to have them in a few days (on day 25)...as my reward.  Kind of counter-productive, isn't it?  However,  my daughter didn't want hers today so I "tried" it.  Even though it was dark chocolate (which I'm not a fan of, by the way), it was very sweet and I ended up trading it for some kale/carrot/spinach chips.  Sigh.  Who am I?

I haven't given up, though.  I've just been, well, tired.  You know those days where you work really hard at one thing (like work) and the other (like housework) doesn't get done, or not done as much?That's been me, lately. My multi-tasking superpower has faded somewhat this week.

But, I'm not quitting.  Granted, I didn't exercise yesterday or this morning.  Yet, when I got home, I had my third work-out shirt ever given to me as a gift.  

My alma mater!  My husband wanted to encourage me because I'd been working so hard.  I needed the encouragement today.  I was reminded of a scripture:

"I count not myself to have apprehended;

But this one thing I do,

forgetting those things which are behind

and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded,

God shall reveal even this unto you." ~Philippians 3:13-15

And, I did my workout: complete with scrunches, planks, weights, and 9 Refit songs.  Let me say that again, 9!!!!  I began with, what? 2 or 3?  I've also been ending the workout with some worship songs, where I just lay down, and give praise/thanks to God.  It's a good time.  I've got my eye on the prize. I press on.

Are you still curious about my food intake?  Yep, I'm still on track.  It's day 22 of the Advocare 24 day challenge...that means in 3 days, it's a weigh-in/measure day!

Here's what I ate today:

Breakfast: Advocare Shake
Lunch: Salad with grilled chicken and boiled eggs
Dinner: Grilled porkchop, homemade potato chips, and wheat bread
Snacks: Berries, granola, banana


Are you like me?  Do you need encouragement, like my husband was to me today?  Try this on for size (one of my favorite scriptures):

"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, 

what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink;

nor yet for your body,

what ye shall put on.

Is not the life more than meat,

and the body more than raiment?

But, seek ye first the kingdom of God,

and His righteousness;

and all these things shall be added unto you." ~Matthew 6: 25, 33