I just read something that really gave me insight into my attitude about food. First, it gave the passage in John 6:9-11 "There's a young boy here with 5 barley lovaves and 2 fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd?" . . . the men alone numbered 5000 . . Jesus took theloaves, gave thanks to God, and passed them out to the people. Afterwards he did the same with the fish . . . And they all ate until they were full."
Then the follow up question: In what ways have I dismissed a smaller portion size as insignificant when compared to my immense hunger?
That is just what I needed to hear this morning! God is sooo good!! I am trusting my feelings about what it would take to satisfy my hunger instead of doing what is right and trusting in God to satisfy my hunger with His correct portion size. I just have to give Him my portion and ask Him to make it be enough. WAY COOL!!!
Let's all give God the portion we believe He wants us to have and ask Him to make it enough to fill us. That'll make for some super successful Friday's!!
It's 12:30 pm and I can't sleep so I'm going to read some posts, some Bible and do some praying for my fam and you girls. This is the best time to pray. It's so quiet and peaceful.
Am hitting the treadmill again now that I'm healed up and feeling frisky!!
I allow myself a sweet treat on Sunday's so I had a little tiny chocolate thing but after no sweets for so long I didn't even enjoy it - YEA!!
Am working on those next 4 lbs for March's goal doing the same things - small portions, eating only when physically hungry and working out on the treadmill (now that it's getting warmer I might take it outside) and some isometrics. Most important: turning to my Savior to save me from myself !!!
Now that I'm feeling back to normal, I'll have a little catching up to do. Made a list for the weekend (I love my lists! only way I can get things done). So after a little fun w/my ep friends, I'm off and going.
Looks like this will be great food weekend - small portions of healthy food. I read once that food in fact tastes better when you're physically hungry and as you get full you're food looses it's acute flavor. Sometimes I have continued eating past satisfaction to try and re-capture that first bite flavor to no avail and consequently ended up overeating. Have any of you heard this too? It does help me to stop eating if I know the food isn't going to taste any better as I keep going. That's a good thing!
Knowing I'm not the only one this weekend who will be reaching for a saucer instead of a plate is encouraging. I'm glad we're in this together and we can relate to how difficult this can be.
Hubby bundled me up and took me to the dr's yesterday. He has changed sooooo much. It's nice to have a nice hubby. Dr. gave me meds for strep and Vicadin for pain (now that's my kind of med! haha), I'm feeling much better but don't know if I'm healing up or it's the Vicadin. I need to eat gentle today and not over do it. Sometimes after healing up I've been ravenous and ate all I wanted so I need to rein it in today and stay in control. Don't think I'll add in a workout yet - maybe Sunday.
Have an appt. w/the flower lady for my daughter's wedding today at 3:00 so I'm planning on resting off and on today so I'm not too tired for the meeting. We're fortunate in that our home is above the shop offices so I can just go upstairs and lay down for awhile.
It's casual Friday for some of you so let's be casual with our attire, not our food - stay tight!
Thank you God and girls for all your loving support and prayers!! Thanks Chantal and Kyrie - you young gals keep me feeling young, too! I've definately got a lift in my step since, after working all day, hubby & I were able to restore our backup with only ONE day to re-post. I'm delighted to say the least. I didn't confess before that it's our own fault for the crash. We had WAY too much history on Quickbk and following thier advice we're suppose to close the bks each year. I tell hubby he's maintenance impaired - haha
You asked what biz we're in, Chantal. We manufacture musical instrument components for acoustic and electrical guitar manufacturers. We use CNC machines to make necks, bridges, fingerboards, electric bodies and inlay. It's just a great business in that we don't have to advertise and we don't have to deal with the general public. As you can tell, it's like any other business with it's ups and downs but overall it's been good to us and our employees. I do the bookwork and manage the inlay production as well as order entry, production purchase orders, etc. Like any small business we wear many hats. Hubby runs it w/me. He's very creative and energetic so he has always had a couple of things going at the same time and recently has created dll's for commodity trading that he leases. He's been interested in markets and commodities for about 10 years now so he trades and hosts a trading room from about 5 to 3 upstairs then comes downstairs and takes care of the plant for the next 2 or 3 hours. Those are are 2 businesses. Keeps us busy.
Thanks again for all your prayers!! All of you BIG HUGS!!
Both!! First I cried now I'm laughing because it's getting ridiculous! I've had a rough couple of days (as you can see from my previous posts) and NOW we had a huge Quickbooks Company file crash. Whoa! Looks like I'll be re-entering data from the first of the year. Oh my!! Please pray for my spiritual protection.
On the other hand, my daughter is growing closer to God, asking, seeking and knocking. Praise the Lord!! Who cares what else comes our way - she is growing spiritually!
Thanks for your prayers. If I'm re-entering data you probably won't hear from me for a week or so.
Joe just came in and picked up his last check. (It isn't Christinese but) this just BLOWS!!! I hate having to cut back and hurt other people's lifes!! "Recession" sounds like such an impersonal word but it is a kick in teeth (for me and our guys). The layoffs are due to inexpensive parts being made in China (guitar rosettes for example) and the lack of money people here in the US have for extras (like guitars). Part of their lack of money is due to the raping of our society by banks that hold credit card account rates at 30%. Our congress needs to put an end to these userous rates! Meanwhile, Joe's looking for another job. And he's a GREAT employee.
Here's another month and another God given do over (if you need one)!! I love do overs!! Did good this weekend with food, not as good with exercise. Didn't have time to get in my exercise because my hubby and I spent a LOT of time crunching numbers on the P & L to make the biz work. Let two employees to - ugh!!! I hate doing that to someone's life. But it's not possible to keep the business going and keep them on payroll, too. Speaking of payroll - need to get to work because today is payday for our guys and I do the payroll.
I hate doing that to someone's life. But it's not possible to keep the business going and keep them on payroll, too. Speaking of payroll - need to get to work because today is payday for our guys and I do the payroll.