Isn’t May a great time to start afresh? I think so. It’s springtime, the weather is getting warmer, summer is approaching, and if you have forgotten your new years resolutions, it certainly is not too late to remember them.
Okay, I officially fell off the band wagon again, but this time, I promise I am on it to stay and here is why. I was reading my scriptures this morning and I received some inspiration in my read. I was reading in Mosiah when Alma the Younger and the sons of Mosiah were taking people away from the gospel and being very wicked. An angel comes and visits Alma and the sons of Mosiah and tells them to stop their wickedness. The angel mentions the reason he came was because of the many faithful prayers of Alma’s father, Alma, and the other believers of Christ. Alma the Younger is so shocked by the angel that he falls to the earth and is struck paralized for three days. When he returns to conciousness he has completely changed and instead of tearing people away from the church, he works to convert people to the gospel.
As I was reading this it hit me: if I pray with enough faith, I will be able to conquer this weight. The Lord will bless me with the inner strength I need to succeed. Heavenly Father knows that I want, and need to lose weight and He will help me. I need to show that I have faith that He can help me. I am very excited about my new inspiration and I am very thankful that Heavenly Father blessed me with this inspiration.
Over the next while I will be looking for my own “angels” to change me and make me who I truly am. I have decided that I am following the Weight Watchers points system to assist me in my weight loss.
Right now I should eat 37 points per day. Of those 37 points, each day the following foods need to be consumed: 5 fruits and vegetables, 2 tsp. of oil, 2 dairy products, and six 8 oz. portions of water. So here we go. I plan on color coding to see what I have completed for the day. Dairy, Fruit or Vegetable, Oil, Water.
Day 1
Breakfast: 1 cup oatmeal, 1 cup skim milk, 1 tbsp brown sugar, 1 pc toast w/ 1 tsp butter. 8 pts.
snack- 1 orange, 1 fat free yogurt. 3 pts. (11 total)
Lunch- egg salad sandwich, (2 eggs, 2 pc bread) bowl of cereal, milk, cucumbers. 16 pts. (27 total)
20 oz water.
I had a couple pretzels (0 pts.)
20 oz water
Dinner- Breaded homemade chicken nuggets, big baked potato, green beans, salad w/ light dressing, crystal light. (11 pts.)
Dessert- 2 popcicles. (3 pts.) 41 point total today. This is great! Weight Watchers allows you to have 35 extra points to use throughout the week. So I have 29 remaining extra points for the week. Yay!!! What a great eating day. I got in all my dairy, almost all my fruits and vegetables, one of my oils (I am counting my salad dressing because it was oil based) and all my water!! What a success.
