Did you eat your dessert first?

Good morning, from icy Nebraska. They are talking about ½” accumulation of ice today for us so I drew some water in case our electric lines decided to go down. So I decided this would be a good time to add to my blog especially since my husband decided to go to work this morning. I told him not to call me if he slides in the ditch because I was sitting right here.

Yesterday was a rather interesting day after my first post to my blog. I would like to share one incident that happened.

My phone rang in the morning and it was a friend from my homeschooling days and she was in a panic about something she had done on email and she needed someone to tell her woos to. As we was talking I had shared with her that I had put up a blog and would like her to read it. She said she would so we hung up so she could read it.

Sherry (my friend’s name) said I didn’t teach her how to lose weight in there. I kind of didn’t know what to say because I didn’t know that I was to do that on my first posting. So I let her continue and she said that her dad always told them to eat dessert first even though they never did and she didn’t know that he ever did, but that was a saying she remembered he always said. So as we talked I discovered that she had a coconut crème pie in the refrigerator that had been calling her name and mind you she has done all those weight loss programs and diets just like the rest of us and she was being a good girl and not eating it and patting herself on the back each passing day as she suffered seeing it in there. So she finally said are you telling me I can eat that pie without feeling guilty and have all those other awful feelings that everyone has fed us over the years. I said go for it and she hung up. A while later she called me back and she said Renita I had a piece of that pie and I am full and she said you know what, it didn’t take a very big piece to satisfy me. She was elated.

So have you had your dessert first? Break some rules that aren’t going to do you any harm and try something new and see how freeing it is and how much fun and how good you can feel, because you committed a sin of your mind that you or someone had put there for all the wrong reasons.

Dieting is just that “die it”. I have been on a lot of the weight loss programs that are out there, Diet Center, Tops, Weight Watchers, using diet pills to lose weight with, and some that I don’t care to remember. Some of them worked, but only for a while, as long as I was willing to be diligent about it and eat only what they told me to. But when I learned there is a way to lose weight or dress size a more sensible way and fine out that it is something that can be restarted easily after you mess up that is the kind of weight loss program I want.

Hi, I hope you are having a slim & trim day.

I started today with mediation visualizing myself in my new log home dancing on the oak floors with my husband of 38 years. Then I started visualizing myself with a slim and trim body of a size 10.

As I think back over the past year of going from a size 22 to a size 12 it amazes me to know that I did it eating the same foods as I cooked for my family as well as being able to eat my dessert first.

Have you ever tried doing that, eating dessert first? That is so much fun, it is like you are finally able to get away with something sinful, because we all have been raised to eat dessert last and then you can't enjoy it or you are so stuffed that you can't eat it anyway. When I eat my dessert first I feel like a little kid again going against my mommies wishes, but this time she doesn't have to know.

I have found each step of this journey that I have been on in the past year and 3 months so much fun. I have been actually able to enjoy myself instead of worrying about the next bite that I put into my mouth or what I am going to cook or do I have to eat that chicken breast again.

Starting at a size 22 was the only way I decided I was going to measure myself, because I didn't want to step on that scale again and get depressed. You have to know what size you are because your clothes tell you that everyday. So that is how I started. Then I realized that my clothes were getting baggier and then one day I went shopping because I was sick of trying to keep my pants up so I was so thrill when I could get into a size 16. They were a bit snug, but still wearable and so much fun. I just had to share my picture with my coach that was helping me with this. I only bought 1 suit, it was on sale and 1 pair of slacks, because I knew I would still be losing, so I didn't want to spent much money on something that I would be giving away in a couple of months.

Then people started asking me how much weight I had lost and I couldn't tell them because I didn't have any idea. So I fixed my scale, because the batteries had been dead in it, and started weighing myself, that was a big no no because then I started watching my weight and getting more depressed and I wasn't losing anything and getting really upset. When you lose the way I am you may not lose in pounds, but you are losing in inches, so after a few months of that I decided to quit that garbage and with the help of my coach got back on track and started losing again just experiencing what my clothes were telling me.

Then I got to a size 14 wow, this was unbelievable I hadn't been a size 14 for 9 yr. My husband had bought me this beautiful western style skirt and jacket with all the trimmings for our oldest son's wedding. It was a one of kind design. I was able to wear it for a while, but eventually couldn't wear the skirt anymore because of the weight gain, the jacket I wore over all these years. When I got to the 14 size I knew I would be able to wear this suit again, the only problem was I couldn't wear it until it turned cold this fall because it was wool. Well, this last Sunday I wore it to church and you know what for the first time it felt a little big on me. But I didn't care that was my celebration. I had my husband take my picture in it Sunday so when I can figure out how to get it off the camera I will post it.

I am actually wearing a size 12 slacks and medium to large shirts or blouses, depending on how they are made. I am having so much fun with this. And now since I am writing this blog I am encouraged to take you with me as I continue to go down to a size 10 and beyond.

As far as weight goes, this last Aug. I went to the Dr. for a checkup, I hadn't been there for 3 yrs. and they were amazed that I had lost 39 lbs. over that time and here I had just started losing 1 yr. before that so I know that I lost much more then that, because I had 2 yr. in there of gaining before I actually started losing.

The biggest thing I have found is that my hiney came off. I have never had a small butt before, but now I just enjoy looking there and seeing that my clothes fit so nice back there, it is truly amazing. I love it.
Come back and I will try and fill you in with more about what I am doing and how I am eating, and what I am eating.