What's Up With Blogger?

Okay, I just came up with something!!! Is it just me or is blogger having some major issues? I can not comment on anyone's posts. It is frustrating the dickens out of me. I get these long comments typed up then go to publish and it keeps sending me to "sign in" over and over again. UGH!!!! Sorry. it just happened for the 3rd time and I am mad.

Ever since there were a couple of days that we could not access blogger a few weeks ago, I have been a little nervous about the future of the site. Should I switch to another host? I don't want to lose my blog! Anyone else feeling like this???

Major Blockage

I have been trying to write a blog post for about an hour. I got nothin'.

The Day of the Dorito

I remember sticking my hand into a bag of Doritos one time and subsequently enduring the most heated argument that ever has taken place between 2 voices in one person's head.  It was during this argument that I realized I had a trust issue. (Okay, I realized I had issues, period. But mainly a trust issue.) For the first time it really hit me that even though I knew it would be better for me to release the chip, remove the hand and throw away the bag, I didn't trust that I would be okay without the chips. I didn't trust that life would go on for me if I didn't eat those chips. I didn't trust that the helpless feeling would pass. I didn't trust that I could be just as content without eating those chips. I didn't trust the TRUTH.

What did I trust? My flesh. My desires. My wants. Those were the things that I had placed my trust in. There was (and still is) this little voice inside my head that speaks for my fleshly desires. And dang it, that voice should be selling oceanfront property in Arizona. It's good. It's real good. It can rationalize, coax, assure and it really knows how to close a deal. The only problem with this voice? It's a LIAR.

Romans Chapter 7:

4 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin.

The day of the Dorito was when I realized that part of me didn't want to eat the chips but another part of me did. Two very distinct parts. And I realized that the part of me who did want to eat the chips was winning more battles in the war than the other part.

15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

So frustrating! I thought to myself, why do I always trust the sleazy salesman voice who cares nothing about me instead of trusting the voice of truth that died for me to be free?

19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

On this day, with that thought weighing heavily on my mind, I chose to put up the Doritos. By the grace of God, I stopped eating them. The day of the Doritos will live in infamy. It is forever etched in my mind. Because it was the day I understood that the truth really will set me free...

21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

To be free. At the heart of it all, that's what we want, right? Freedom. But we first must know The Truth. We must know it so that we can recognize it and hear it. But freedom does not come when we merely know the truth and hear the truth. Freedom comes when we act upon the truth.

It seems the key to this whole thing is in the very last sentence of Romans 7:

So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Fill your mind with the truth of God's Word.

Believe the truth.

Trust the truth.

Believe it and trust it over the flesh. When the voice of the flesh begins to whisper in your ear, demolish it with the Truth. Allow the Truth to reign in your life! I refuse to be a slave to Doritos. If I'm going to be a slave to something, let it be for the cause of Christ, the only cause worth living for and the only cause worth dying for. Amen.

My Weekend and Good Recipes

Just returned from a Girls' Getaway with my First Place 4 Health group. We had a blast. The first day was all about relaxation at the spa and today was all about adventure in the great outdoors. I chose to go canoeing for the first time ever. It was awesome. That is something I would have never dreamed of doing a  year ago.

The food part of the weekend went well. I planned all our meals and prepared them. We had plenty of fresh fruit and healthy snacks the whole time. I find it very interesting that I never stressed about food. I am going to have to go back over the details of why it was so stress free...I know the pre-planning was part of it but that I have always known.

I made a couple of recipes that were really good:

Mexican Chicken Casserole with Charred Tomato Salsa

Healthier Sausage and Cheese Breakfast Casserole

(I used whole wheat bread on this)

Everybody really seemed to like these recipes so I give them 2 thumbs up! I never make "healthy" recipes, just usually come up with my own stuff, but these impressed me. I will have to do this more! Also thinking about a Cooking Light subscription. Anyone else have one? Opinions?

Trackers for Friday and Saturday:

So, about my June 30 day challenge for "Eating Well". I have already come of short of each of the three sub goals I set for myself the ultimate goal being "Eating Well." AWESOME ME! So technically I...failed? But that doesn't make sense because even though I didn't meet all of the goals I had set for myself, I still feel that I ate well over the past three days. And that is the point, right?

Thursday was crazy, I just didn't track and frankly, I'm too tired to think back that far right now. Plus, what is the point of that? (Tracking is supposed to happen as you eat, not days after you ate, just sayin') Friday I had more than one up or down arrow on the tracker and pretty sure each day I had something that is not on the "choose often" list. So like I said, technically a failure. But actually not a failure. Because I still managed to eat well all of those days and I am still in control and making wise decisions. I guess if I can manage to eat well and not reach any of my goals and the same time then my goals weren't very good ones or maybe they were just unrealistic. Not sure. I'm going to have to think about this.

At any rate, tomorrow will be a continuation of eating well. I am still doing this challenge. To my other challenge buddies, you know that saying "Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will land among the stars"? Yeah, it's like the cheesiest thing ever but it is so true for us. Just the fact that we have goals and are going after them is a really, really big deal. If we can face falling short on a goal or two and continue going on...even bigger deal! Press on, keep the faith.

Now melatonin, come to mamma!

 

Weigh-In: Point 2 lb. Loss

161.8

Down .2 more! Thrilled with that since I had dessert practically everyday. And they weren't Splenda desserts, either.

Today was the first day on the Eating Well challenge. I was a bit off guard as Wednesdays are my craziest day of the week. But tonight as I filled in my tacker I was happy to see that I had eaten just about as close to perfect as possible with the exception of too much Ranch dressing. Dang the Ranch dressing. I'm pretty sure it would make tar taste good. But, that's why I made the provision for one up or down arrow per tracker because no one is perfect. I know a few others of you are doing the challenge--best wishes! We can SO do this! Thank you Josie for doing this!

I had a great FP4H meeting tonight. I just love my girls. They always uplift me and I'm just so thankful to have that support system in place. This is the best news ever--we are having a Spa weekend Retreat and it starts TOMORROW! A whole weekend of relaxation, outdoor fun, eating well, spending time with good friends and the Lord. What could be better than that!? So I will probably be MIA for a couple days. Rest assured I will have my entire accountability team staring over my shoulder the whole time. Not likely to screw up:)

In honor of National Running Day today I tried to run a mile as fast as I could without really hurting myself. I ran it is 9:05! I was trying for a 10 minute mile and 9 is what I ended up with. Amazed at what my body can do these days...