Well today was much better...I know I did bad yesterday and so I worked hard on it today...
Cup of Coffee
2 scoops of coffee mix
2 creamers
1 splenda
20 large green grapes
Lean Cuisine
Swedish Meatballs
Quaker Mini Multigrain
Chocolate Mint package
1 Slice homemade Cheese Pizza
20 large green grapes
Luna Bar
Choc Peppermint Stick
Chicken Fried Rice
Ok the total calorie count is around 1090 then add the calories for the grapes (I still have not looked up the cal count on them!) So I know im around 1200 or alittle more...but not by much!!!
Im pretty proud of myself and I know God has helped me all through out the day since I can not do this on my own...
I will weigh in the morning just to see how things are going....I will give an amount in the morning!
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Nikki's Food Diary (6*7*08)
Ok...I fell off the wagon on only the second day...but this morning I have prayed to God to help me stay on track and I confessed how I messed up yesterday and I already have a feeling of renewed power...God must have given me the strength already to help start the day...
Cup of Coffee
2 scoops coffee mix
3 creamers
1 splenda
One cup Total Honey Cluster Cereal
One cup skim milk
Luna Bar
Nuts over Chocolate
Quaker Multigrain cakes
small package
chocolate mint
prepackaged stick
of Colby cheese
Ok...here is when I did really bad...
I started to feel awful that afternoon and so Nate was gonna
"cook" and this is how he cooks!...
Double Cheeseburger from
McDonalds
and later before bed he went out and got
6" Subway sub white bread
BMT, Mayo, Mustard, Cheese,
Lettuce, Tomato, Onions, Pickles
and so you can see that Double Cheeseburger most definatly
had about 1/2 the calories for the day at the very least!!!
So I have prayed and asked forgiveness for my weaknesses and today
will be better!!!
Cup of Coffee
2 scoops coffee mix
3 creamers
1 splenda
One cup Total Honey Cluster Cereal
One cup skim milk
Luna Bar
Nuts over Chocolate
Quaker Multigrain cakes
small package
chocolate mint
prepackaged stick
of Colby cheese
Ok...here is when I did really bad...
I started to feel awful that afternoon and so Nate was gonna
"cook" and this is how he cooks!...
Double Cheeseburger from
McDonalds
and later before bed he went out and got
6" Subway sub white bread
BMT, Mayo, Mustard, Cheese,
Lettuce, Tomato, Onions, Pickles
and so you can see that Double Cheeseburger most definatly
had about 1/2 the calories for the day at the very least!!!
So I have prayed and asked forgiveness for my weaknesses and today
will be better!!!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
God's Power...Not our Own...
Many people talk about willpower when it comes to losing weight...they say that is all you need...if you had it...you would not be overweight...
Now this might just be the case for people that do not have an issue with food...or that keep weight off very easily since willpower is quite easy when things are going good and easy...but what about for those people that keeping weight off is hard??? Well let me tell ya...willpower is NOT enough..since when things are hard or difficult...willpower goes down the drain...
So what do we need, you might ask...we need to look to God and his word for that answer...
John 15:5 tells us that "...for apart from me you can do nothing."
Apart from Christ our efforts are unfruitful...we just cant do it! When we try to do it alone or by the help of someone else instead of going to God...he is going to let us see for ourselves what will happen...and what will happen is that we will fail! We have to come to understand the scripture at Psalm 127:1 that says "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted..."
What that means is that unless we go to God for the help of his Holy Spirit...our efforts and time is a waste...it wont last...that is why diets DONT work! They may work for a time...but for LASTING benifits...we must have God's help and direction...only then will we have a house (body) worthy of housing the Holy Spirit of God in!
So look to God and ask him for his Holy Spirit to help keep you strong and to help guide you in the ways that will work for LASTING benifits...
Just remember the scripture at 1 John 5:15 that reads "And we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for."
So we can be confident in our prayers to God that he will listen and when we ask for anything in line with his will for us...he will answer us!
Now this might just be the case for people that do not have an issue with food...or that keep weight off very easily since willpower is quite easy when things are going good and easy...but what about for those people that keeping weight off is hard??? Well let me tell ya...willpower is NOT enough..since when things are hard or difficult...willpower goes down the drain...
So what do we need, you might ask...we need to look to God and his word for that answer...
John 15:5 tells us that "...for apart from me you can do nothing."
Apart from Christ our efforts are unfruitful...we just cant do it! When we try to do it alone or by the help of someone else instead of going to God...he is going to let us see for ourselves what will happen...and what will happen is that we will fail! We have to come to understand the scripture at Psalm 127:1 that says "Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted..."
What that means is that unless we go to God for the help of his Holy Spirit...our efforts and time is a waste...it wont last...that is why diets DONT work! They may work for a time...but for LASTING benifits...we must have God's help and direction...only then will we have a house (body) worthy of housing the Holy Spirit of God in!
So look to God and ask him for his Holy Spirit to help keep you strong and to help guide you in the ways that will work for LASTING benifits...
Just remember the scripture at 1 John 5:15 that reads "And we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for."
So we can be confident in our prayers to God that he will listen and when we ask for anything in line with his will for us...he will answer us!
Nikki's Prayer for the Day
Dear Lord, Almighty God...please be with Amy and I as we work through our day...
Please help us keep strong in the fact of your love and knowing that your Holy Spirit is with us throughout our day helping substain us...
Please help us to come to a better understanding of the amounts of foods we REALLY need, Lord...we have both come to think we need so much more than we really do...please help us see the areas in ourselves that need to change....and please help us...with your Holy Spirit to do just that...change...Lord!
I thank you for bringing me to Amy...as a support and friend...I thank you for making the light brighter and brighter on the things I need to change about myself...Please continue to make that light bright...Lord! Please show me the way to walk and the things I should do. Please help Amy and be with her today...Help her not to fall into temptation and to stay strong in you Lord!
I praise you and send out praises to your name...Lord God! Thanking you for all that you have given to me and my family...and how you continue to help us and keep us strong in you...Lord!
Please be with both Amy and I's families today...keeping us all safe and healthy! I believe that whatever you ask for in Jesus name...you will get and so I am asking for a Healthy, Strong relationship with you God..both for me and for Amy! Thank you for all that you have given to us and in Jesus Christ name I pray....AMEN!
Please help us keep strong in the fact of your love and knowing that your Holy Spirit is with us throughout our day helping substain us...
Please help us to come to a better understanding of the amounts of foods we REALLY need, Lord...we have both come to think we need so much more than we really do...please help us see the areas in ourselves that need to change....and please help us...with your Holy Spirit to do just that...change...Lord!
I thank you for bringing me to Amy...as a support and friend...I thank you for making the light brighter and brighter on the things I need to change about myself...Please continue to make that light bright...Lord! Please show me the way to walk and the things I should do. Please help Amy and be with her today...Help her not to fall into temptation and to stay strong in you Lord!
I praise you and send out praises to your name...Lord God! Thanking you for all that you have given to me and my family...and how you continue to help us and keep us strong in you...Lord!
Please be with both Amy and I's families today...keeping us all safe and healthy! I believe that whatever you ask for in Jesus name...you will get and so I am asking for a Healthy, Strong relationship with you God..both for me and for Amy! Thank you for all that you have given to us and in Jesus Christ name I pray....AMEN!
Friday, June 6, 2008
Nikki's Food Diary (06*06*08)
Ok here is what I ate today...
One Cup Coffee:
3 creamers, 1 splenda, 2 scoops instant coffee mix
150 calories
One Luna Bar:
Smores
180 calories
Lean Cuisine:
chicken enchilada suiza (did not like though, ate 2/3)
270 calories
Cottage Double:
cottage cheese and peach topping
130 calories
20 large green grapes
salad:
lettuce, carrots, turkey, cheese, onions
200 calories
Luna Bar:
Chocolate Raspberry (my all time fav!)
190 calories
Lean Cuisine Panini
Steak, Mushroom, Chedder
340 calories (really to high for dinner...probably wont get again!)
Total so far is 1460...but I dont have a clue to the calories in the grapes...I have to go look that up...Total is alittle high...I was aiming for 1200 or so...but TONS better than I usually eat...so it is an improvement...if I had not had the last thing....or did a better choice...I would have been better off...
It is 7:00 here and I plan on not eating after 7 at night...only water after 7 if anything...I am going to try it and see...I have heard it is not good to eat late at night...
One Cup Coffee:
3 creamers, 1 splenda, 2 scoops instant coffee mix
150 calories
One Luna Bar:
Smores
180 calories
Lean Cuisine:
chicken enchilada suiza (did not like though, ate 2/3)
270 calories
Cottage Double:
cottage cheese and peach topping
130 calories
20 large green grapes
salad:
lettuce, carrots, turkey, cheese, onions
200 calories
Luna Bar:
Chocolate Raspberry (my all time fav!)
190 calories
Lean Cuisine Panini
Steak, Mushroom, Chedder
340 calories (really to high for dinner...probably wont get again!)
Total so far is 1460...but I dont have a clue to the calories in the grapes...I have to go look that up...Total is alittle high...I was aiming for 1200 or so...but TONS better than I usually eat...so it is an improvement...if I had not had the last thing....or did a better choice...I would have been better off...
It is 7:00 here and I plan on not eating after 7 at night...only water after 7 if anything...I am going to try it and see...I have heard it is not good to eat late at night...
Nikki's Thoughts to Ponder...
Here is a scripture that stuck out to me today...I am reading the book by Joyce Meyer called "Eat and Stay Thin" and there was a scripture that popped out to me while I was looking through the book...
2 Peter 2:19 which reads (New Living Translation) "...for you are a slave to whatever controls you."
In my notes that are in my bible it says that If we refuse to follow God, we will follow our own sinful desires and become enslaved to what ever our body wants...
So in refusing to do what God wants us to do...or by refusing to listen and follow God...we are becoming slaves. In the case for me...I am a slave to food. I have let it lead me instead of being led by God...I let my cravings and desires come before God and have let my mind be controlled by those cravings and thoughts. Instead of going to God for help and strength...I have gave myself over to this master...I have became a slave to food.
So as I read this...I find that what I see is that I have to not let the food control me...I have to use it in the proper light and go to God when I have the thoughts all the time over food. Having my mind thinking about food all the time leaves little room left to think and meditate over God and the things I should be thinking about...
So my prayer to God is this...
Dear Lord, my God...I come to you to thank you for this chance to change my life into one that serving you comes first. Please help me learn how to think on you and not on food throughout the day. Please help me put food in the proper place and not in the front of all my thoughts and feelings...Dear Lord help me learn how to live without having to think on food all day long...thinking of my next meal from the time I finish the meal before....instead help me think of you and your goodness and about things that will help me grow strong in my relationship with you God. I love you and I am your servant...help me in this fight with my mind. In Jesus Christs name....Amen!
2 Peter 2:19 which reads (New Living Translation) "...for you are a slave to whatever controls you."
In my notes that are in my bible it says that If we refuse to follow God, we will follow our own sinful desires and become enslaved to what ever our body wants...
So in refusing to do what God wants us to do...or by refusing to listen and follow God...we are becoming slaves. In the case for me...I am a slave to food. I have let it lead me instead of being led by God...I let my cravings and desires come before God and have let my mind be controlled by those cravings and thoughts. Instead of going to God for help and strength...I have gave myself over to this master...I have became a slave to food.
So as I read this...I find that what I see is that I have to not let the food control me...I have to use it in the proper light and go to God when I have the thoughts all the time over food. Having my mind thinking about food all the time leaves little room left to think and meditate over God and the things I should be thinking about...
So my prayer to God is this...
Dear Lord, my God...I come to you to thank you for this chance to change my life into one that serving you comes first. Please help me learn how to think on you and not on food throughout the day. Please help me put food in the proper place and not in the front of all my thoughts and feelings...Dear Lord help me learn how to live without having to think on food all day long...thinking of my next meal from the time I finish the meal before....instead help me think of you and your goodness and about things that will help me grow strong in my relationship with you God. I love you and I am your servant...help me in this fight with my mind. In Jesus Christs name....Amen!
Nikki's First Day...
Ok...it is Friday!!! And the start for me! Below are some pictures...one is of the scale this very morning...I have gained 3 pounds more than I thought...nice huh???
So my beginning weight is 243! Not 240! Do you like my scale? I love it, and the very best part is that it was free! I got it off of Freecycle last year some time.
Ok...on to the nitty gritty...
I am going to the grocery store as soon as I get enough courage to do so (Conner is NOT good in the stores!)...I am planning on getting some veggies, fruit and some lunch stuff for me...oh...and of course some snacks...I will be snacking on LUNA bars since they are very easy on my system and fill me up (I had gastric bypass surgery and so I cant handle much sugar!) and low on sugars and taste like a candy bar...how much better can you get than that!
I am going to tone down my bread intake ALOT! I eat entirely to much bread...I know it and I realise it...so now the only thing left is the change it! I dont think I can take it out entirely...but I can tone it down.
Water...Water...Water...and even more Water is going to be my drink of choice! I have gotten off of the Diet Mountian Dew and so I only crave that every once and a while...not to bad. My goal is just to drink water throughout the day...not really regulate it or try to track it...I have a big green cup that I fill from the fridge jug we have and so as long as I drink a big glass every hour or so...I should be ok...
Lunch is going to be the toughest for me...I really dont know what to eat...I usually graze through the day....but I have to stop that and just eat 3 meals with 2 snacks...I am really thinking of getting those lunch things for the microwave... those little tv dinner things...or I can have cottage cheese and ham roll ups...I will have to look and see what I want to get...
Breakfast is going to be Special K cereal (I love that stuff!) with skim milk, or oatmeal with Splenda brown sugar...
Dinner is going to be just a smaller version of what we already were having...I have discovered that I LOVE Gordons Grilled Fish in Garlic butter sauce and it is only 100 calories a fillet! So I might eat that more with some brown rice...
I will give you an update every day on what I ate and how I did...and the emotional stuff to! I know there will be emotional stuff since...well...to be honest...I have to overeat for some reason...right???
So my beginning weight is 243! Not 240! Do you like my scale? I love it, and the very best part is that it was free! I got it off of Freecycle last year some time.
Ok...on to the nitty gritty...
I am going to the grocery store as soon as I get enough courage to do so (Conner is NOT good in the stores!)...I am planning on getting some veggies, fruit and some lunch stuff for me...oh...and of course some snacks...I will be snacking on LUNA bars since they are very easy on my system and fill me up (I had gastric bypass surgery and so I cant handle much sugar!) and low on sugars and taste like a candy bar...how much better can you get than that!
I am going to tone down my bread intake ALOT! I eat entirely to much bread...I know it and I realise it...so now the only thing left is the change it! I dont think I can take it out entirely...but I can tone it down.
Water...Water...Water...and even more Water is going to be my drink of choice! I have gotten off of the Diet Mountian Dew and so I only crave that every once and a while...not to bad. My goal is just to drink water throughout the day...not really regulate it or try to track it...I have a big green cup that I fill from the fridge jug we have and so as long as I drink a big glass every hour or so...I should be ok...
Lunch is going to be the toughest for me...I really dont know what to eat...I usually graze through the day....but I have to stop that and just eat 3 meals with 2 snacks...I am really thinking of getting those lunch things for the microwave... those little tv dinner things...or I can have cottage cheese and ham roll ups...I will have to look and see what I want to get...
Breakfast is going to be Special K cereal (I love that stuff!) with skim milk, or oatmeal with Splenda brown sugar...
Dinner is going to be just a smaller version of what we already were having...I have discovered that I LOVE Gordons Grilled Fish in Garlic butter sauce and it is only 100 calories a fillet! So I might eat that more with some brown rice...
I will give you an update every day on what I ate and how I did...and the emotional stuff to! I know there will be emotional stuff since...well...to be honest...I have to overeat for some reason...right???
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