My new plan - Bible time

So. This morning I woke up at 6am and said to myself, "Why am I awake?" Okay, so I guess I will feed the baby and read a book. I have been working myself through the "Grub and Stakers" series from Charlotte MacLeod. This morning I thought, "I could read a lot of bible in the same time I take to read a chapter or two of a mystery." So I opened up to the book of Matthew. This month the kids have been watching the movie "Matthew" with Bruce Marchiano and following along in their bibles. There are a few verses in there that I don't think I have ever actually read for myself before. God has such a quirky sense of humor. He just ties things together and reinforces what you think is right. Pastor Mark was preaching this morning on living generously. One of his 4 points was that we need to give God our first time in our day. Since the first thing I do every day is feed the baby, I can spend that time reading or studying or praying instead of just occupying myself. So far so good. Let's see how long I can keep it up. 31 days is a habit!

My new plan - weight

With this last baby, I am officially the heaviest I have ever been. This really irritates me. I put on weight the whole time I was nursing Lucy 10 years ago, 40 lbs in 9mths. I am NOT doing that again! I can say that because I think it was mostly from bored eating, depressed eating, and pouting eating. I am back to my "Weigh Down" mentality. Brilliant concept, flawed theology. I started Wednesday and I already dropped 5 lbs of what I can only assume was water weight. The irony is that part of my reclaiming my life plan is that I put a glass of water in the fridge. When I open the fridge, I see the glass and it triggers my brain to think before I eat. If I am eating to entertain or coddle myself, I take a drink and close the fridge. I also have resigned myself to posting my weight on the homemaking Yahoo group when it changes...either way. I only ever weigh myself at my mil's house since she has a scale and I don't. This helps because I don't obsess about it.

So here is my plan:
Step 1 - Water glass in fridge, water bottle in headboard
Step 2 - Reduce visual food temptations
Step 3 - Gum available for when I feel my jaws need to be active
Step 4 - Menus laid out in advance WITH TIME FRAMES!
Step 5 - Post progress on website.

Fed up with myself

I am on the wagon. I guess that is as good a start as any. I am drastically cutting back on my unneeded eating time wasting electronic indulgences. I have recently realized that I have just been wandering around from one digitalized distraction to another while stuffing my face without realizing I am wasting my whole day. I am back to my "Weigh Down" mentality. I started Wednesday and I already dropped 5 lbs of what I can only assume was water weight. The irony is that part of my reclaiming my life plan is that I put a glass of water in the fridge. When I open the fridge, I see the glass and it triggers my brain to think before I eat. If I am eating to entertain or coddle myself, I take a drink and close the fridge. I also have resigned myself to posting my weight on our home organizing Yahoo group when it changes...either way. I only ever weigh myself at my mil's house since she has a scale and I don't. This helps because I don't obsess about it. I have recommitted to re-claiming my life. The last 2 years, we didn't even put up our Christmas decorations because the clutter deterred me from the attempt. I am not going to let that happen this year. My challenge to myself is this: Let's see if I can get to the point that I can invite Dad for Christmas without cringing! Having aired these plans outside of my own head should elevate my feeling of accountablity.