I am back!!!! Did you miss me?? Did you make it through yesterday without me??? I am sure you
did fine. I left you last with a lot of information on the wonderful vitamins that are essential in your day. Well they are essential in mine. I hope that you can find what is "essential" in yours.
I know probably at this point your fighting a huge battle in your head. You are walking past donuts, and cakes and even brownies. You want to eat that fried chicken that looks sooo good to you, and who could pass up a free double cheese burger from McDonalds that some random person just handed you, just to watch you fail.
I have spent a few days telling you how certain foods are going to help you. Let me just take this blog to encourage you. I know that at this point it seems hard. And maybe you are still saying, "I will start tomorrow" I am telling you, do not wait until you get sick to start eating right. Why not be the best you can be, right now.
Now, with my "life style" change it is easy for me to say "no" to places like McDonalds, because I cannot eat bread, I cannot eat cheese, I cannot eat dairy, and I cannot tolerate greasy and oily foods. So for me, this change in my life, and the way that I am eating may just be easier for me than it is for you. But that doesn't mean that I wasn't hungry, or irritable, or hurting when I first changed my eating habits. I just didn't have a choice. I couldn't go back. I had to fight through it. The food that these restaurants offer, literally makes me sick. So it is very easy for me to say "no". But I hope that after reading this blog it will make it easier for you to say "no " as well.
So, here is a little game that I played. It's called, "look at yourself through the eyes of your children" That is exactly what I did, as I was being carried away on a stretcher and put in the back of an ambulance. My kids sat and stared at me, with confusion. All the way to the hospital all I could think about was. "I didn't want my kids to see that, I didn't want them to see there mommy needing help" I am their "caregiver" and I couldn't do my job. Not really a proud moment for me. I couldn't do my job because I was too busy being "tired" and filling my schedule up with everything else, except for the needs of my family and more importantly the needs of me. We had so much going on in our day, homeschool, soccer, church activities, I didn't have time to make a healthy meal. All I had time to do was go through McDonald's and grab a quick dinner. The truth is, that I didn't MAKE the time in a day to prepare a healthy meal.
For one year I sat around this house, accepting my weight, accepting my tiredness, and watching my kids have fun. I couldn't play with them, I was too tired, and depressed and I hurt too bad. I wasted one year. One year that I will never get back.
A wise women once said to me, "you wouldn't take your kids to just any doctor would you??. You would take them to the best there is. So why wouldn't you do the same for yourself, You are just as important in their eyes. They need you?" Look into your kids eyes. You are EVERYTHING to them. What would they do without you?? Now, none of us are guaranteed a tomorrow, but what if that "tomorrow" was taken away from you because of selfish choices. You ate what you wanted to eat because you wanted to eat it. Maybe instead the thought needs to be. " I will eat, what I am suppose to eat, and do everything in my power to be healthy so that I can fulfill my purpose as a mother/ father. Those babies are gifts!!! When someone hands you a gift like that, a gift that needs you in every aspect of their lives.....why would you neglect your own life and your own health, and risk not being there for that gift, in every way that you can .......they need you......give them your best.....:) You are worth fighting for.................
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