Victory, Strepp, and Pressing ON!

Hey y'all!
So, you'll notice a weight tracker above. I really dreaded putting that thing back on my blog as it's a hard core reminder of where I am in the physical realm. It was like if I didn't list it then I didn't have to face it. However, as I was choosing my little symbol for a weight tracker, the little turtle stuck out to me. Ah Ha! Finally, I'm not ashamed that this is a slow process and that turtles take their time...who always wins the race..the tortoise or the hare??? There is much wisdom in that old story. It's ok that I'm a turtle. I'm gonna be the proudest turtle there ever was :) so, every Wed. evening after Weigh N Pray, or Thurs. morning..I will update this tracker with my weigh in weight. By the way, I'm not intimidated by that number of 266.2- nope! It's just a number and God loves me and is at work in me. He's transforming me daily into the women He has called me to be. I'm in the trenches of life, carrying my cross and following Him. I'm claiming in Jesus name that we all be set free from food addiction and reclaim our lives to healthiness!!! yahhooooo!!!!!!!

From the inspiration of my weigh n pray friends and other's who encourage me.....I have decided to try harder at using this blog from the perspective of my health journey. Yes, you'll still get some sappy stories here and there that have nothing to do with my health.
By the way to my Weigh N Pray friends, the following has been copy and pasted from the email I just sent all of you...so don't bore yourself by reading it over :) k?

Today, I've had an amazing day with self control- by the grace of God!!!!!!John and I had the whole afternoon and night together...alone....no kids.... :) ....:) You're wondering..."Why on earth is she emailing us then?" Well......many of you noticed last night that my throat was hurting at the end of weigh n pray.I woke up this morning in a lot of pain, took anna to p.e. class and then thought "Gee, Kara, if you do have strepp throat, which you are prone to get, you better stop into Urgent Care and get on some meds asap!" So, sure enough, I have strepp.We disbursed all of the kids and then I was determined to have a fun day and evening despite the strepp.....God gave me the most amazing fun day and kept the pain far from me until about 9 p.m. this evening. As we sat at Eastside 9 watching Glenn Beck's comedy live satelite thing...I slowly started to fade. I can barely talk now...it hurts bad!!!! So, here I sit typing as I'm definately not in the mood for anything else...wink...wink :) teeheee :)
Victories: I had barely enough food to sustain me before my early bird special dinner at "The Beef House"....oh...my!!! How scrumptious!! I had a broiled pork chop, 1/2 baked pot. with little butter and sour cream, small cup of broc soup and 1/2 plate of salad with 1 T. of regular dressing...and of course 2 rolls...they were worth every stinkin' calorie!!!! All in all, I know I was still under my calories for the day and I felt fabulous!!! We then traveled back to Lafayette for the Glenn Beck thing and usually when I'm at the theater I must have Cherry Pepsi.. Now, I don't drink Cherry Pepsi anywhere else. So, get this!! This is how cool God is...I ordered the cherry pepsi and then John ordered a Mt. Dew. I heard the lady say something like "Do you want regular Mt. Dew sir?" I said, "Wait a minute on mine. Do you have diet Mt. Dew because the list out here on my side does not mention it?" She said YES!!! God knows I love Diet Mt. Dew!!!!!! So, I saved myself a good 300 calories since it was huge honkin' cup of soda, by the grace of God there...then, I ate just 2 handfuls of reg. popcorn with NO extra butter on it!!! John got one box of milk duds and I figured I ate 150 calories worth of those. All in all, I felt fabulous!! This may seem like a lot of food to some of you...but trust me...it totally beat my normal which would have been Appetizer of Fried Zucchini, Petit Filet Mignon, Baked Potato- I would have scraped that plate clean, salad piled high with the extra cheese, bacon bits and croutons and loaded with thick lucious 1000 island dressing (3 T. worth at least) plus 2 1/2 rolls at least with lots of butter and jam. Then, of course since it's a bday celebration....dessert!! hello!!! Gotta have a treat, right??!!What a glorious day!!!
Then, I would have went to the theatre, a few hours later..ate a tub of buttered up popcorn, the soggy kind!!! A large cherry pepsi, and probably gotten a refill on the pepsi. Don't forget the entire box of milk duds...all for me...no sharing of course! John would have wanted his own box.

I share all of this as an encouragement that this journey is literally one step at a time and we will not give up. I will type and say these words until the day i die...we will not give up. God doesn't ever give up on us and I will never give up on you, my friends who are on the healthier life journey. There is victory in Jesus, our Savior forever. He sought me and bought me with his redeeming love. He loved me ere I knew him and I my love is due him.....so the old hymn goes.
Loving you all more than you know! You are my friends, my encouragers, my prayer warriors. Prayer opens the door to amazing things. So...press on...and pray hard :)
I loveyou,
k