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Incredible God deserves Incredible Praise
That is my “name” on myspace. I am listening to the song right now and the
words are so moving, here is my favorite verse:
“What kind of man would do this for me
Victory, grace and mercy
He is so special/Simply Incredible
So incredible
An incredible God deserves Incredible Praise”
So as you can see I am getting my praise on
today. I have come to realize in
strengthening my faith with the Lord that nothing has to be wrong for me to
praise him. I praise him simply because
he has done so much for me. There is a verse in the Bible that says there is no
greater love than laying down your life for a friend. God did that for me and
for that I am eternally grateful.
Because God has granted 3 things that are helping me get through my
weight loss with the success that I am.
He granted me victory. Before I started out on this journey he ensured that I would be victorious when it was sad and done. When I started doing what I was suppose to do and when I started listening to him. I had to humble myself back in September and call on him because I realized that I did not have the strength alone to do this. I call on Jesus when I am working out because there are so many times that I want to quit, but I push for that extra 5 minutes. He designed me to be a competitor, so therefore he is pushing me to do another 5, then challenging myself to do another 5 after that. I thank him every time I complete something hard for me, I thank him when the scale goes down. I have learned that through my praise I will become victorious because what God has for me, is for me and he has already destined that I win this.
He granted me grace. His grace surpassing all understanding. There have been times during this journey, even since September that I have fallen but he understands. Can you imagine?!? I barely understand and forgive myself but God is one of 2nd chances and he grants them to me daily. Through his grace and knowing that I am going to be victorious I have a renewed belief that the dreams I have for my life and my weight loss are not too big, they are obtainable and very achievable.
He granted me is everlasting mercy. Where would I be without this? If he was not a God of 2nd chances I would have been done a long time ago. Because of his love and mercy I know that when I continually ask for help and strength, he grants it to me. He never brings up my past mistakes and shortcomings, simply hands it to me and wraps me in His arms and lets me know its going to be alright. This is what the song means to me and I am so glad that I am listening to it right now. When things in life get too much for me to bear, I simply put on my gospel and remember that no matter what I am going through, God is simply incredible.
Today I went to my WW weigh in and I am ecstatic about it! I am officially back in the 260’s. I weigh myself at home daily and then have a home official weigh in on Monday morning. With these 2 weigh in’s it keeps the weekend eatings under control, it works for me. I am proud to report that I am down to 269.8lbs!!! I have not seen a WW 260 since last May! I am still above my April weight but only by .6 lbs. So since September I have lost 13.4 lbs! I have a ways to go before I get to my first 10 % goal through WW, but I am so glad that the scale is continuing to move in the downward direction. I am seriously not caring how long it takes me to get to where I want to be, because the changes that I made are all for the better and they continue to make me the healthier woman that I strive to be. I would love to hit my 10% WW mark before my wedding though. Maybe that is a good goal for me. That is losing 26.6 lbs before May 20th. Very achievable and I believe that with how I am working out and eating that its going to come before that.
I do have to admit that I prefer to use my home scale because its lower LOL. Although this morning it was playing mean tricks on me. I got on it and it said that I was 267.4, well I hadn’t peed yet. My parents brought me Gabby and I didn’t get my full 8 hours of sleep so I was a little “off” this morning. So I peed and got back on, it said I was 265.8lbs, I couldn’t have peed 1.6lbs. So I checked it again, 268lbs and again because that sure in hell wasn’t right, 268, again 267.8…what the heck ever. I just gave up and wrote 267.4lbs in my journal because I usually just get on once and go from there. But seeing 265 was so lovely…Prayerfully tomorrow I will have a more accurate number to journal, I am not feeling 100% about today’s weigh in at home. But I won’t post weight again until Monday, I wish I could stay off the scale that long.
Tomorrow morning I am going to test my resting heart rate again. That is one thing about the HRM, you have to keep it updated or else it is going to give you the wrong calorie reading and I don’t want that especially since I use that as my AP converter. When getting my AP’s for WW, I just convert every 100 calories burned into 1 AP. I have asked several people and my leader and she said that is a good way to getaccurate AP’s so I need to make sure that all my information is updated. I also have to change the weight in there. Right now my resting HR is 90 something, I pray that it went down. The average RHR is around 70 something I believe. That is what I am aiming for. I don’t want my heart doing a lot of extra work when it doesn’t have to.
I believe that if I ever saw Kim, from the Biggest Loser, I might have to choke her and then give her a big hug. I am so sore from yesterday’s workout and I haven’t felt like this since I first started jogging on the treadmill, makes me question my other workouts. However, I know that any movement is good, so I am going to continue to do what I am doing but implement this DVD at least one day a week or make it my weekend exercise. I am contemplating doing some variation of it today, however my knee muscles are sore. I believe though that its important to work through the pain. No just waste days waiting for pain to cease. However, if I don’t believe in over exhorting yourself in the name of “no pain equals no gain” crap either. If it was serious then I wouldn’t even think of doing something but its that good soreness, the kind you get when you workout a new part of your body that has been laying dormant for a while. I notice Kim does a lot of squats and I believe that is what is killing me so bad.
I got my pedicure today. I know that I didn’t work
out the 10 days but I worked out 8 of them and that is darn good. Rewarding
myself for my achievements is very monumental for me and its good to reward
myself with something other than food.
There was no exercise for me today besides what doing house chores entails. My legs are killing me from the squats that I have to do and I even practiced the side kicks and controlling my core. Geesh, I am picking up things already from the video. That is definitely going to be my weekend workout…I like feeling the soreness although it was a shock….
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Congratulation on all your victories and them purdy pedicured toes. :wink: You're cracking me up with your love/hate relationship with KIM. LOL Now you understand how I feel about MY Bob, lol. Keep on moving forward Tia, slow and steady wins the race! I'm right here with you, cheering you on and ready to catch you if you fall. Together we will all reach the goals we have set! Have a great day!
Big Hugs,
Mags -
Tia you will get there one pound at a time remember your mini goals don't get impatient and don't worry about the scale it does me the same way ...
hugs
Sherry -
Congrats on your loss. Emmi
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I've been reading about how important it is to take days off from exercise BUT that it's ok to use those days off to do things like walk around the block or play outside with your kids... and I think... my days that Ican't make it to the gym for whatever reason... or the days I go but KNOW my workout ain't what it should be... those are my walks around the block days off. You have to have balance. My body is killing me right now... my butt especially... I walked at a 3.7mph pace yesterday! OY!
I almost always pray while I"m working out... even if it's just, "God give me the strength to be the woman you ordained me to be..."
Getting ready to go to the gym... love and hugs
heather
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