Real Hunger

Lord thank You so much for working and dwelling in me.  You continue to give me peace during my storms.  I know it is Your power and love that keeps me sane.  Thank you for not giving up on me as I sometimes give up on me.  It is good to know you are there when I feel like no other is there and understands.  AMEN !!!

Today I am working with feelings of hunger.  What I am learning today is that I am not hungry.  It is lunch time and I am not REALLY hunger.  Out of routine I feel compelled to eat.  I am noticing something that I have never known about myself, and I am amazed. 

It’s no big deal, my mother use to say it all the time “I am not hungry for what I have to eat”, I do not have a hunger for my lunch.  I was telling a group of coworkers and they laughed when I told them.  If I were planning a 5 Guys lunch with burger and fries I would be hungry for that.  I would be in my car racing to place my order for a double burger fries and DIET Coke.  Since what I have for lunch is a meterian salad with strawberries and I am not rushing to eat.  Which means I am not REALLY hungry.  Sure you could say I am bored with salads and I am, but if I were truly having hunger pains I would be rushing to eat it. 

I am ok with waiting until I am a bit hungry, I had my breakfast of oatmeal, strawberries, flaxseeds, and two boiled egg whites.  I have drank 16 ounces of water thus far and as a 10:30 a.m. snack I had a kashi bar/dark chocolate with almonds. 

So for now I am ok.  I am 45 minutes past my normal noon time lunch.  Yesterday I noticed I was not hungry.  I altogether passed up lunch as I was in the field.  Now being in the field at lunch time use to mean Mickey D’s, Wendy’s etc.  But I bypassed them and waited really til 6:00 and I had a smoothie with fat burner after my workout.  Later about 8 p.m. I had chicken breast and string beans.  Yummy Yummy Yummy ! 

I like the feeling of being in control of my eating.  It is a nice feeling.  On two occasions over the weekend I faced 2 birthday cakes and I didn’t eat ANY and I didn’t feel deprived.  I ate protein (meat) and salad, water and called it a day. Now check this out I am an emotional eater and I am going through some things right now, and I am so grateful that I am not turning to food.  I have been focusing on God's will and making myself ok with His will.  Also exercises gives me pleasure, that is after the workout is over.  I feel so good all over.  Thank You Lord for helping me through everything.

So much for my food, my exercise routine is awesome.  I have committed myself to working out daily, whether it is power walking, boot camp, ipump (resistant), water walk, or zumba.  I like the variety of the exercise, so I won’t get bored.  Tonight if it doesn’t rain, I will be walking with the ladies of NCBF.  I will refer to us as TEAM NCBF.  I am looking forward to our walk and fellowship.  We will be doing the 5 miles at Euclid Creek.   Feel free to join us at 6:30 today.    If it rains I will do boot camp.

Last week my weight did not change, I held on to my 4 lbs lost.  Yes I was disappointed, I had expected to see a few pounds come off.  I had to be a big girl and leave this to the Lord.  I am spoiled when it comes to weight loss, I workout, eat properly and I lose.  Didn’t work last week.  So I looked at my diet and made some modifications, 70% of weight loss is diet the other 30 % is exercise.  I made some adjustments, cutting back where I could.  I need to stay at 1200 calories per day. 

Encourage someone today to eat healthy and exercise, and encourage yourself. 

See ya !

Oh yeah for the remainder of this week I will cut out red meat.  Back when I started my weight loss journey I eliminated red meat and did chicken and fish.