Pleasant Day !

Because of God I had a pleasant day ! I was focused on God and his goodness and I worked to give Him the glory throughout the day !

My workload is about to go to the ceiling. Our department is taking on more responsibility daily. Lord give me the strength to handle the increase and to keep my mouth shut. Our department is feeling overworked. Some decisions have been made to increase all our work, extended hours and everything. I am waiting to be lead by God on this ! I want to submit to my employer because I do need my job, but I want a life outside of work.

Now I want to give so many thanks to God for keeping me focused during decision to make healthier choices. Monday is my best workout day, I did my bootcamp workout and then Zumba, Yeah, Zumba. It was fantastic. I am slowly and I do mean slowly feeling better about both my workouts. I modify everything, because I am out of shape and because my left shoulder hurts. I realize that when I workout my shoulder hurts less, so I challenge my shoulder slightly at every workout. My hair looks like a nest, I have to get it together by Friday because I have a photo shoot. Yeah, photo shoot, I am excited.

I lost 6lbs and some ounces when Kim/Kathy weighed me in tonight. I am going into week 3 this means I have lost an average of 3 lbs per week. Today I had chicken noodle soup for lunch, 8 glass of water, should drink 2 more tonight. I also had an orange for a snack. I skipped breakfast, I wasn't hungry. I am taking my supplements B12, vitamin D, Cinnamon, One a Day. I am trying !

Thank you Lord ! I feel wonderful ! I got stress but I am managing it.

Basketball Wives, I shouldn't love this crazy show about all this drama, but I do :)

Can't wait til June for the new season.

Thank You Jesus ! Thank You Jesus !

I am giving thanks and praises to God ! God provides ! Oh Yes He does !

God is so amazing ! So very amazing ! I have reliable transportation ! This has been a stress on me for the past few months. What a ordeal ! Thank you Lord ! Thank you Lord !

All I want to do is give God the glory today ! Thank You ! Thank You !

It's Saturday It's Saturday, Me oh my it's Saturday !

Again it is Saturday ! A day of taking care of my business (TCB) and enjoying life. That I did, the Lord enabled me to take care of some serious business, and also enjoy the birthday party of my lil cousin DaDa who is 6 years old. He enjoyed himself with all his lil cousins and family. We have a family of young children which is wonderful, to carry on the family and to give us joy. It was a pleasure to see them playing, running and dancing in the bowling alley. Bowling party, Yes it was fun. Even lil Jayden bowled, yeah right ! But he tried, and he did dance. He really can dance, he broke it down, way down. Funny ! He loves the beat in music. I saw family I hadn't seen in awhile. We have a after party at 7:00 at ChuckE Cheese, yes ChuckE Cheese again. Yes we went last Saturday, it was so much fun we are doing Part II. Tree enjoys parties and so she planned her grandson 2 parties in one day.

I took care of business, I had to find another car, the other one was a loser. Big time loser, I didn't talk about it in my blog because I didn't want to address it until it was over. Sometimes I can't talk or express when I am going through a storm. I want to give God the praise for allowing me to keep my cool, stay focused and move on. My family and friends transported me around for a few weeks until I could get through. I knew God was always with me, I was listening quietly to God, so that I could learn the lesson in all of this. I realized it when I was walking out the door this morning to look for a car. I was not grateful for the car he hadn't blessed me with awhile ago and not taken care of business. This time I am more grateful and humble and don't take driving and having a car for granted. At night I would pray that I had transportation to and from work, and He yes God worked it out that I made it everyday that I needed to go. I posted a sign in my room that said "God is our provider", I believe it. For many, many years I realized on my mom to be my provider and to be my back bone, now it is me and God. Yes me and God, I am the leader of my household and I am taking responsibility for this role. My mother was a perfect example of a woman who took care of business. If you knew her you knew she handled business first and did not burn bridges. She was an excellent example for me.

Tomorrow I have to finish up my car business so that I can get to work. I am remembering that God is my provider. I will do as God leads.

Oh yeah my health and fitness is coming along very well, I am drinking 8 to 12 glasses of water per day. Yes, ME ! And rather enjoying it, straight water with fresh lemon, it is working ok. I am eating very well, even today while others indulged in the good taste of Pizza I had salad and water. It was cool ! The Pizza didn't look that good :) I am down about 5 lbs since last week, God is giving me the power to exercise 2 to 3 times per week and to eat healthy on a daily basis. I want to feel healthier and I need to look good in September for my friend's wedding. I need to do this for me. I will be going to get fitted in a few weeks with my another bridesmaid and select a dress. We are wearing short sleeves so I am working my arms muscles in the evening. Lord Help Me ! God can do anything ! I am doing my part ! I chose not to do the bariatric surgery because I want to be able to firm up as best I can. The surgery would have left me with extra skin and I cannot finance plastic surgery. I did plenty of research on You Tube and with those I know that have had the surgery and there is extras skin especially on the tummy that would require a tummy tuck. If I don't have a tummy tuck the skin on the tummy would require me to go up another size, just because of the skin. I figure if I work out, I can tone as I go. Another con was that I would still have to exercise to keep it off. Ohh No ! If I do all that I don't want to ever have to exercise again. So I might as well do it myself. This is my story, and my decision for me. Lastly I don't need medical side effects; I don't want to jeopardize my health.

Until I blog again !

ChuckE Cheese

Today was really good, I accomplished much of what I set out today. Me, Brandy, Nique, DeAngelo and the kids went to ChuckE Cheese. We had a blast, the kids really got to be kids. It was an absolute pleasure to watch them play, laugh, dance and just have fun. Watching all the kids in the building have a wonderful time was awesome. They all seemed to get along, and play well together, even if they didn't know one another.

Jayden looked the atmosphere, he rode rides, walked around and he had Pizza, cucumbers and orange slices. He loved the food, after he ate he set out to explore ChuckE Cheese. I know he appreciated the trip, right before we left he gave his auntie Nique a really big hug. It was a trip she planned for him and it went off well. Oh, yeah, Jayden hugged a little girl slightly smaller than him. They embraced for a few seconds and then just walked away from one another. I guess when they see another child their same size in this big world, they recognize each other with a big hug.

Brandy and I agreed we would bring the kids periodically to let them enjoy themselves.

One major plus for me, I spent a whole day without shopping, spending money. Except for food at Chuckie Cheese. This was a plus for me. As we pulled out of Golden Gate I wanted to run in Marshall's, Old Navy, Bed, bath and Body works or Dots, but I didn't, I wanted the day to be about the kids. I want to control my spending, and I did. Praise God.

While at ChuckE Cheese I had an all you can eat salad. Yummy, I had two serving, with diet Coke. Excellient. But just as I was leaving out I had pizza. Oh, well, this story didn't have the happy ending I had hoped for but, you know I don't feel guilty. I enjoyed my family today.

I better do a exercise video tonight. :)

Grateful ! Grateful ! Grateful !

First I want to start by thanking the All Mighty God for allowing me another day on this earth. I am simply grateful to Him for always, always providing for me and LOVING me for who I am

The last few of days have been good. I have a bit more energy about myself. Today while at lunch I got more Vitamin D and a B12 supplement. Little by little I am working on me. I drank lots of water today and had a quarter of a grapefruit. WOW, yeah grapefruit. For lunch I had a chicken breast with a wondeful tomatoe basil sauce. It was heavenly. I had nonfat greek yogurt and a apple as a snack.

Friday for lunch I had pizza with good cheese, I did not want to deprive myself :) I did not have alot of guilt about it. Today is Saturday and I had a banana, turkey breast and coffee for breakfast. Brandy and I are taking the children to Chucky Cheese. I plan to have a salad and then tofu for dinner. Yummy ! I will need to drink my water, I notice I do well on weekend with water consumption.

Thursday I received a exercise video. I was able to WATCH it, but I did do a 20 minute workout and passed on the 60 minute one.

I did Tru Image 2x this week and 1 exercise video at home. I am taking baby steps to this healthy lifestyle change. I weighed in today Saturday, and I had lost 4 lbs. Monday evening I plan to do my bootcamp workout and the Zumba class. Yes, we gonna shake it up. Takeema does the step part of our boot camp session and she does a great job and we break a sweat.

Kim/Kathy and Debbie are the same sweet encouraging ladies. Kim/Kathy has excitement and Debbie is calm and nurturing. A dynamic team. I love that we are Christian woman working together to be strong.

I am preparing myself for a healthy life, I watched both my parents suffer from illnesses associated with bad eating. I want to live a strong life to help family and friends and to work in God's kingdom. Oh yeah and I want to look really cute in my friend Nicole's wedding :) We got alot of work to do planning and I want to be ready to do what is needed.

I need to pick up some Vitamin C today and tofu !

Oh yes, my work week was awesome. I worked really hard this week. Our entire team did, our supervisor rewarded us with Pizza. That was really nice of her. She made a special effort to say thank you to me for working to meet the needs of our agency. The words Thank You goes a long way when building a team.

This morning I got up read a scripture and started my day. Awesome ! I am in the word ! I got up did some touch up painting on a cabinet and talked to my cuz Monica. It is always good to hear her voice. I love the weekend. Then I found out Liza and James had their baby, lil Jordan. Oh what a beautiful blessing.

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Marvin Sapp Praise Him In Advance

I did it ! WOW !

WOW, WOW, WOW !!!

All praises go to God ! God you have truly blessed me ! I feel fantastic ! 60 minutes of workout, boot camp style. I am amazed at how God gave me the strength to get through this workout. I modified everything so that I could accomplish my goal of getting a good workout. Kathy, Camille and Lavisa encouraged me and helped me get through the workout. Kathy is amazing her personality is so exciting. She welcomed me back and encouraged me as a good coach should.

Kathy has given me my meal plan, no bread, rice, cheese or pasta. Now I thought I had been eating good since January, and I had, but my meals included these items. This evening for dinner I have unsweetened Green Tea (Trader Joes), string beens stir fried with almonds and, turkey breast. Delicious, Delicious. She encouraged me to drink water as my friend Nicole always does. Water, Water, Water ! I will continue to drink my water making sure I get through my expected amount. I have to daily journal my food and turn it in to Kathy.

Lord help me to continue to want to be strong and continue to surround me with patient, good friends and family. I have been in a deep hole and God is giving me the tools to dig myself out. I have gained 60 lbs, yes 60 lbs. I am concerned about my health, I have been depressed, and it was making me physically ill. I had little concern for me. Just living day by day. God does not want this for me.

My work day went well. I accomplished alot and my supervisor wrote me a email to thank me for doing a good job ! I am impressed ! I love the ladies I work with, they are super cool and we have a good day. Amy is leaving soon for maternity leave. I will miss her, we have worked together in various department for at least 12 years. She is a good Christian woman and has a good family. I am happy she is living her dream. I have always said one of my reasons for remaining where I work is the people I work with.

My goals is to lose 20 then move to level 2. To accomplish this goal I will drink required water, stay with meal plan and add water 3 to 4 days per week.

Until I blog again !

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