A new journey... Thx to St. Therese

Over the Christmas break we found out about an orphan hosting program through New Horizons for Children .  This is a wonderful ministry that brings orphan children from The Ukraine, Latvia, and China in hopes of finding them a forever family.  New Horizons for Children is not an adoption agency. 

Anyway, a friend of mine introduced us to this wonderful ministry.  E are now eagerly waiting to hear when Lisa is coming.  We chose, or really God choose, Lisa for us.  She is a beautiful, bright 14 year old girl. She will be staying with is for 5 weeks.  The Chinese government says she is to old to adopt, so the hope is she will come learn English and maybe one day to come back on a student visa. 

Our role in all this is to show her the love we have for her, what a Christian family is like and to teach her English. 

We are very excited and a bit nervous of the unknown.  We are amazed at her strength, courage, and love of adventure.  It takes a lot of trust to leave your country and all you know to go stay with strangers in another country.  

I'm going to try to keep this blog of or adventure.  We will have exciting, busy days and just ordinary stay at home days. I am hoping we can show Lisa that she is lived and wanted.  She is important to us. Please pray for Lisa and for her to have a safe and wonderful journey with us. 

Starting Light Weigh One King tonight

I'm very excited about starting Light Weigh One King tonight.  (www.lightweigh.com) it is a spiritual weight loss program.  I have two wonderful ladies joining me. 

I am finally ready to get this weight off and keep it off.  Taking my mind off food and leaning more on God and Christ will be refreshing. 

Thanks for reading,
Cheryl

Concerns

I had the Light Weigh One King orientation meeting.  Only 5 ladies showed up.  Out of those 5 only 2 signed up.  I am hoping that the three of us can work together and give each other strength over the next 12 weeks.  I am looking forward to this.

I am concerned about the sacrifices I will be making.  I have been watching myself closet lately and realizing how much I eat when I'm not hungry.  This is going to be a tough fight with myself but I'm tired of being fat.  I'm ready to be thin again.

Please say a prayer for me.

Cheryl

Wondering

I'm siting here waiting for my kids to finish a home school class at the local recreation center.  I'm listening to Catholic pop music and thinking about my purpose; what God is asking from me now.  I have reached all my personal goals, let him guide me through home schooling my kids and adopting a beautiful baby boy.  What does he need from me now?

I am beginning the new Light Weigh spiritual weight loss program; One King, on Monday.  Is this what he needs of me?  on the one hand; it seems so simple, showing up to the meetings and starting the dvd and facilitating the meeting.  However, I have a feeling the sacrifice I am going to be making to get rid of this weight and guide the participants through this journey of ours, will be tremendous.

I have become such an emotional/compulsive eater that this is going to take such will power on my part.  I am going to have to dig deep and trust God, the Saints, and Angels to get me through this.   I hope I can fulfill whatever God of asking of me.

Please pray for me.

God bless

Cheryl

I have fallen off the wagon...

In the past months, I have not been eating right, or exercising.  Things have happened in my life to cause me to slow down a bit.  However, now, more than ever, I need to begin to get in shape.  We have chosen to adopt a new born baby in about a month.  I am going to be a new mother again!  I am so excited I can hardly see straight.  But that leaves me with another worry.  I am an older mom that is borderline obese.  This is not a good thing.  I need to get into better shape and loose some of this weight so I will live a long life and be able to bug my kids well into my nineties. 


My plan right now is to begin exercising again.  I need to begin by walking and running again.  I plan on meeting up with Michelle, and my dear friend Harmony at least once a week.  I am still trying to cut my eating in half.  That is not going very well at this time.  This month will be especially hard for me since I am an emotional eater and I have the high stress of waiting for our son to be born and praying that his first mom will still let us raise her son.  The first mom is an amazing young lady.  She is intelligent, beautiful and level headed.  I love spending time with her. 


I am needing help getting motivated to exercise.  I am hoping my friends will pull me out of this rut.

I am doing better

I did better with my eating yesterday.  I had 2 eggs with cheese for breakfast, then I actually waited for lunch to eat then had a turkey sandwich for lunch.  For dinner I had ravioli.  I did great last night until around 8pm and had some crackers with pb&j on them.  Yea, I know, it is not a well ballanced diet, no fruit or vegis... that will come later.  I'll be going to the gym this morning b/c our afternoon is slam packed with activities until tonight.  I am not looking forward to working out alone on the treadmills.  I will hopefully find a class to join once I get there. 

So far this morning, I have had a of hot chocolate (with coffee in it ;-).  I am hoping to do better today with the eating and excersize.  Pray for me!

My First Blog

So, here I am starting my first blog. I am dedicating this site to St. Therese of Lisieux. She has helped me lose weight in the past so I am trusting her to help me again. She is the saint of the little way. You can offer up little sacrifices for others (like little prayers) while trying to reach a goal of your own. I have learned through her that it is not all about me. It is about trusting in God and praying for others. Through this I can do anything. So, here I go beginning my weight loss with a little help from the Little Flower (another name for St. Therese).

Through this blog, I will share with the struggles I have with my weight loss. Knowing me, I will probably share things through out my life in this blog. I am an emotional eater. When things are going well ,I tend not to eat as much. When I am sad, frustrated, anxious...I eat and I eat and I eat.

Today started out well, then my wonderful son decided to bake a cake all by himself. He chose a chocolate sheet cake. I have eaten my weight of chocolate cake. So I am not starting this blog off very well.

I am hoping that by blogging about my eating habits and my emotional struggles I will be able to stay on track and conker this weight problem I have. I am wanting to lose 50 lbs. This may not seem like much for some but for me it has been difficult.

Thank you for reading, please comment on my blog as long as it is encouraging and productive.