Day Two was all about your partnership with God. It reminded us not only to avoid unhealthy foods, but to remember that you can ask God to help you with that part of the journey. That God is always protecting you and to try to remember that when you’re faced with unhealthy choices of all kinds.
So today I got up and had a stumbling block right away: a kid in my bed. I exercise behind the closed door of my bedroom because I find exercising to be super-embarrassing. So this was hard: do I wake up the little one to exercise or put it off hoping I’d find willpower later? Well, I ended up letting him sleep a while longer and then trying to transfer him to his bed, but he woke up anyway. I left him out on the couch with his brothers and went off to do my exercising.
In terms of exercise, I’m currently doing Nancy Marmorat’s video series on low-impact exercises. There’s one dealing with different groups of muscles each day of the week for four days, using simple items like towels and one pound weights. Yesterday worked on the stomach area and today worked the chest and shoulders (plus a warm up and several minutes of cardio). Then I’m doing balance ball exercises from physical therapy the last official exercise day of the week. I’m hoping to also walk the other two days, but I’m not going hinge all my plans on those two little walks.
Eating wise, I did okay most of the day. Breakfast looked like this:
(oatmeal, an orange, a slice of turkey bacon, and some green tea)
We skipped midmorning snack entirely. Lunch was some baked potato with very carefully measured sour cream and butter and a whole lot of chives (yum!) for only 400 calories of goodness.
Afternoon snack was chocolate pudding made with 2% milk (only 140 calories a serving for a 1/2 cup of yum).
Dinner was pasta & sauce with broccoli. I tried to eat more broccoli than p&s. And then I had a small piece of birthday cake (which I found to be totally reasonable given the skipped snack earlier).
Lisa Holcomb 