Green Smoothies

Who would have thought that you could mix something like spinach, apples, bananas, pineapple, oranges and kale....it is WONDERFUL! I have a few people in the family hooked like Cliff; Crystal; Lisa; Briggs, James and Ashlyn. So good and good for you!

Be Happy Where You Are At

It is early in the morning...well not now though it is 5:15. I got up at 3:30 this morning and I get a lot done and then sometimes go back for a rest a 6:00 until 7 and get busy on my day. I have to say I am content for the moment of where I am. That could be a good or a bad thing. With being laid up and out for nearly a month and a half it has been hard to get back into the swing of things on a run basis but every day I am healing from my injuries. It takes time and I need to take it so that I can get stronger every day.

While reading about the people in the Old Testament especially the prophets though they were persecuted because of what they knew to be true, they stuck to doing what Heavenly Father asked of them and never backed down. With my natural woman characteristics I want that same conviction to be happy where I am but to work at being better every day. If we berate ourselves that mentality sticks with us and we aren't moving forward....we are at a stand still. Take from your readings the important things that will give you that stick-to-it-ness to keep the obstacles from blocking your successes.

CHOICES

It has been sometime since I have written....it is already November 2nd election day. A lot has happened with some of my choices: one in which laid me up for sometime with not being able to do a lot having missed a step at 4:30 in the morning to go exercise. The thought was on my mind earlier than that. I was so grateful for my body and how each part works together to help me breathe, walk, think...it was going to be a great day. It was a Monday morning the 27th of September and I was eager to move my limbs. However not in quite the way I anticipated...missing the bottom step to the landing, spraining both ankles and a fractured 5th Metatarsil bone in my right foot.

Okay, I had my prayer, got dressed, had an option of what shoes to wear....whether to turn the light on or not....not wanting to wake anyone up. The first thing I did was yell for Cliff out of a dead sleep to come help me. Jacque heard me fall and asked Spencer to get up and help me. Oh, no....I was in so much pain I couldn't walk on any foot.

I cried all day long. Anyone called, I cried. At that point I didn't think I would be doing the things I wanted to accomplish...would be put on hold....for how long; at least 6 weeks. Well, now that it has been six weeks I am doing more but my foot is still swollen and bruised. Rexene brought me an ice thingy to put on my foot and when my foot is extremely tired I go up and read, watch tv for about two hours changing every 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off. I have been on it for 4 hours and I am going to have to take a break.

Lois Middleton came to see me and after I told her what I just told you...she said you could look at this accident two ways. Perhaps Satan is saying okay she is so appreciative of her body lets give her a trial and will she still be grateful for her body and/or maybe I have been serving many in and around me...maybe they need to learn to serve you. Think what you will!

I am a survivor. I actually did exercise every day in which involved my upper body strength...walking with a walker back and forth to the bathroom, to the doctor and around the upper part of the house in which I should have stayed longer. This too shall be past and I will be better for it.

First Day of Many

I started today writing down my foods I have eaten. I have done fairly well and glad to say that I have finished eating before 6:45 p.m. and now will just drink water for an hour and be done for the night.

I also started writing down what I have been doing all day to see where I procrastinate. It is my hope that their won't too many days wasted.

Every Day is a New Day

I have had some yo-yo days over eating and exercising. They seem to be the same ones and if I could just get past the hard moments then maybe, just maybe I can get control of what I need to do. They say you should write down EVERYTHING you eat. My perfectionistic ways are also putting down the fats, carbs, proteins etc...but after day three I have not done any of that.

Notebooks....I like them! I have scores....the kids will have an interesting time figuring out my journals as I have about 6 and I write in them when I find one to write in so they aren't really in order. One day however, I will try to figure it out before it is too late. I have done well for many years keeping track and having them in order when Spencer and Crystal were on their missions. What joy that was for us....we were so blessed. We have great blessings now....but those were awesome days.

Back to the notebook. I thought I would make a habit out of keeping an 'everything' I eat diary for one month and if I master that I will add either one of the following...fats, carbs or proteins or calories to what I write down. I WILL master the habit I am trying to form. The 'I WILL' says I will do it....if I said 'I will try'.....I become a failure even before I try.

Forever Ago

It seems a long time since I have written and it has! It's true that every day is a new day; and the days go faster when you are older. Or is it just that we are so busy and hopefully it is the right kind of busy.

I am not going to catch up the last two months as my time is limited. I will however, add this little tidbit and I don't even remember where I got it from. Try whipping strawberries in a blender with milk with some xylitol and whip some air into it and drink it down 1/2 hour before eating your next meal. They say you will fill fuller and not even want to eat much or more throughout the day. Have a great one!

Belated Journey

Last week I was going to share with you my journey with the Belly Fat Cure? Well, a lot happened...I was sick and I shot out of town without checking weather to surprise the girls in Idaho. I took Jacque with me and we left in a rain storm...the worst over the Bozeman pass going about 20 miles in hour and not seeing where we were going. I knew their was a big yellow truck behind me and thought I was safe if he didn't get too close. We went slow but kept moving. I have been in some scary driving moments but this was right up there. It rained pretty much the whole way but we arrived safely.

So my journey begins now after a week of being sick to my stomach and leaving town.

For breakfast I had 1/4 cup blueberries; 1/2 cup Fiber One cereal; Ezekial bread toast with coconut oil spread and cinnamon. In a half hour I will have a glass of water. It was a wonderful!