Hello my fellow readers! I sure hope you've had a wonderful blessed week. For me it has been a week of challenges and discoveries.
This week I joined the Trim Healthy Mama Turtle groups. This is their description of the group and a link for you to find on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/407690945990018/
We are a group of women following the Trim Healthy Mama principles in order to gain health and lose some, or a lot of weight. What makes us Turtles is not so much how much we have to lose, but the difficulty we have in losing. An average healthy weight loss rate is typically an average of 1 to 2 pounds a week. Here in the Turtles we lose much less than that. Most of us here lose half a pound or less a week. Some only lose a half a pound a month.
Many of the women here are Turtles because of a vast variety of health issues. We have a lot of healing to do before our systems can even really begin to lose the weight. For us the “Healthy” in the title is our main goal while the “Trim” is a wonderful by product we plan to eventually see from our gained health. We really believe that slow and steady will help us win the race in terms of both health and weight.
You can imagine how excited I was to find this group. It has been frustrating yet enlighting to realize I am not like so many of the Trim Healthy Mama ladies. I don't loose 5 or 8 lbs in a month unless it is my first month trying a diet and than slowly that weight starts to come back. It's like my fat is so comfortable being attached to me that when I throw it out it screams, "No, don't do this to me! I'm so comfortable here in your thighs!" I know that it helps to know I'm not alone. Other Mamas are following plan to the T and still not loosing as fast as we would like but we still see the benefits in the long haul of this new way of eating.
My Week:
It started last Friday by taking my children up the San Bernardino mountains for a Jr. High retreat where they were serving as leaders. My son had never driven on his own there and we thought it would be a great way to give him tips and safety precautions and make it a date for my husband and I.
Well, I don't know what was wrong with me but as soon as we started to go up the mountain I started to get a headache that very soon turned in to a migraine! I had not had a migraine in months why now? I've been up that mountain dozens of times and never had I had this issue! We spent a few hours just driving around and by the time we came down to the city with my husband this migraine was in full swing! It continued on Saturday and we had a party to go to. At the party I did not eat on plan and oh did I pay for it! Sunday my migraine continued and now my hormones started to do their nasty thang! I was in a horrible mood, nauseated, emotional and not to mention the body aches that started on Monday! I had not had a Fibromyalgia episode in months and now I was in total bed rest with not an ounce of energy and severe pain all over my body. Thursday I started to feel better and I was inspite of my bed rest eating clean and for that I was very thankful because I know that eating clean is what helped me heal faster than other times.
I didn't loose weight...again, but I am full of energy and I know I am doing right by my body and eventually will start to let go of this stubborn fat!
I made a yummy Low Carb (S) Cheesecake and it was super delicious! I found the recipe for the cheesecake on this blog:
http://www.piarecipes.com/2013/04/new-york-cheesecake.html
Remember that small victories are still victories. We may want the results of our efforts to show faster but God has perfect timing in all He does. We just have to continue to do our part and He takes care of the rest.
