Today was another pretty uneventful day.

I was proud of myself with regard to exercising today. Since I was here all alone I decided to take one of my exercise DVD’s into the living room and exercise. I did it. I did all the exercises even the ones he did on the floor. It felt really good to make a right choice and do it for myself without anyone else directing me to do the right thing. Yeah for me!!!!

I spoke with my best friend again and she encouraged me that God is still in control and he has this whole thing in control. God is greater than all things and He IS in control. Praise Him for His Majesty!!!

Well, I did not sleep very well last night. I was hot and uncomfortable. I will have to see what I can do to rectify this situation. I guess all in all it was a good day.

For the most part these days I stay in my room and work on the computer. I think that I realized something today that I had not thought of before. As I was mulling over in my mind the constant inability to be anywhere on time reminded me of (Read on …)

Well today was not a very eventful day pretty much by my choice. Today is the 30 day marker of my dieting experience. 30 days ago I started on this healthy venture and to date I have lost 95 pounds. I would say to lose 95 pounds and 30 inches in 30 days is quite monumental wouldn’t you? I spent most of the day in my room programming my new MP3 player that we got yesterday at Wal-Mart. I needed something to take with me when we walk the track so that I can listen to music. So, I think that I finally got it programmed properly or at least good enough for it to do what I need it to do.

I gave Miss Olean $ today so that if she goes to the market she can buy me a pineapple. She went and brought back a pineapple and cut it up and put it in the refrigerator for me. Rosa had saved some plates of food from the class today and brought them by we ate that and boy was it good. I am having a hard time believing that you can eat healthy and it really is tasty. However, I continued grazing what seemed like the rest of the day. I found myself eating walnuts, pineapple, watermelon and whatever else was around. I guess I mostly found myself nibbling on the walnuts because they were out in a big bowl. Soo does that mean that my food addiction is not gone yet? I suppose that it might never be gone I will just have to learn to push myself away. Miss Olean was making some pork n beans and I must begrudgingly admit that I did have a fork full of those too. That made me really upset with myself because I know that I’m NOT supposed to do those things. However, if I look at the good side of it I guess that I would have to say that it was good that I only had ONE fork full and NOT more. I do know that I was doing wrong because I felt like I was sneaking food when I had the bite. When you feel like you are being sneaky then you know you are doing wrong. I KNOW with God’s help I will and am overcoming this addiction.

Oh well, off to bed I go. I’ll see how good I sleep tonight.

Today my friend Dean came over to pick up her Cacao and then we went out and spent the afternoon together. I met her daughter, Deanna, she is a really wonderful young lady. We took my car and went to Conyers, GA. We had a delightful time. We went to Wal-Mart because I wanted to pick up some things. After we went to Wal-Mart we were going to go and get something to eat and we sort of got turned around and when we got to the place it was too crowded so we went over to a health food place to find that it wasn’t there. Sooo we ended up going to get a pedicure at a place nearby. I was able to get a pedicure in the Spa Chair. This was a first for me. The people there were so nice. They didn’t make me feel fat at all. They just opened up both sides of the chair so that I would be comfortable and then got on with the pedicure. After we were finished we headed back toward home. So, all in all it was a great day.

I got weighed today and I have lost 90 lbs.

Well, it has been a week since I last wrote in my journal. Many things have happened since then. From Monday, April 10th to this morning I have lost 80 pounds and as of Saturday, April 29th I have lost 30 inches. The closer to the 100 pound mark that I get the more excited I get. I have been walking around the track at the high school. Last week we walked ¼ mile (1 lap around the track) on Monday thru Thursday. This week we started walking ½ mile (2 laps around the track). Yesterday, I could only walk around the track 1 time because my hips and lower back were hurting. However, I did do some other cardiovascular exercising after I did the 1 lap around the track.

We did a health trade show this past weekend at the Georgia Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The show was called Alive!Expo 2006. We were there on Saturday and Sunday all day. I was able to get my walking in as we had to walk quite far to get to the truck. We were not able to park close by; we ended up walking about ¼ mile away, which I might add seemed like 5 miles away. At least I was able to do it and not collapse. Progress is good no matter how it comes I guess.

I have spent a few days walking around the track with issues going around in my head. One day I was so upset that all I did was (Read on …)

Today was another crazy Wednesday. We did the nutrition class at the Senior Center where Joy teaches. We had Romaine lettuce leafs filled with pate’ from carrots and beets topped with Joynaisse dressing. Also, they had juiced beets for beet juice.

When I got up this morning and got weighed I was sort of discouraged. I wasn’t able to tell if I was still losing or not. Trying to get on the scale and have it weigh properly with me being so big can be discouraging. I so want to get below the 500 lb mark. I know that I should be happy considering (Read on …)

Today I got up at 5:45 am so that I could get ready to go walking. I didn’t sleep well since I had to get up and go to the bathroom 3 or 4 times because I drank water up until 9:00 or 10:00 pm. Besides all of that. . .my body was aching from the exercise that we did yesterday afternoon. This was a good thing, nevertheless, the aching stinks. I am looking forward to doing it again this afternoon even though I am aching. So, all that being said. . . I never made it to doing the walking this morning; however, I DID get up early with good intentions.

Today I met my friend Dean in person for the first time. What a wonderful time of fellowship we had. She is one fun and crazy girl!!! It was nice to finally (Read on …)

Today, I met with Deborah, the life coach. We had our meeting with just the two of us. Basically, we went over the technical stuff about who she is, what our goals are and our course of action. Again, I was overwhelmed at how BIG and in control God is. In our session today she shared a couple of scriptures with me and you guessed it. . . they were two of my favorite scriptures. The first one was Romans 8:28 and the second one was Philippians 4:8. She gave me some homework and this is not going to be easy. I have to write 100 things that I like about myself. I’m not too sure about that. I could tell you about someone else; however, trying to find that many things that I like about myself will be tough. Also, we had time to talk about something that I wanted to talk about which turned out to be a really good thing. I was starting to feel stressed out about (Read on …)

Tonight I finally met the magnificent, Dr. Leroy Russell. He brought a friend with him. Believe it or not, this man was ready to marry me while I was fat. He could then help me lose weight and once I was thin I would not be able to divorce him as marriage is forever. Strange things in life do happen I must say. He was a nice enough man and as flattered as I was I am definitely NOT ready to get married and mess up my journey at this point. Regina came by so we could do the measuring thing; however, we were having so much fun that we never seemed to get to the measuring. Barry came by and made a batch of collard greens, fish, and rice which we ended up having at about 10:30pm. This reminded me of the “last supper” that happened two weeks ago. Barry was here 2 weeks ago on the night I arrived. Tonight he said that he was able to visually notice my progress. This was encouraging for me to hear. I am liking to hear when people can see a visible difference in my progress.