What I Do? or Woo Hoo I'm 142

I was very pleased to step on the scale to see that im down another pound! I started at 180 last November and have slowly lost a pound here and a pound there.

What is more important is that I have made some life changes and I want to inspire other women my age that its never too late in life to get healthy. I am just beginning a new life and want to start it healthy and the best Cheryl I can be :) A lot of people ask me "What do you do or What did you do" so I will list a few of the changed I have made sense February of this year.

I get up each A.M and pray and read a good inspiration of some kind. (Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach)

I go to church. I go to bible study. I go to a few groups that support me.

When I feel sad or negative I stop and start over with my thinking. I take every thought captive on most thoughts. When I stop doing that ...I START again! Even if it takes me a few hours. I do it. I have people in my life that will not let me cry or moan and expect me to snap out of it FAST.....

I surround myself with good positive people...and I become the person I would like to surround myself with!

I believe and dream big!

First thing in the A.M. I drink 20 oz of water
Then I eat fruit
Then breakfast and coffee
Fresh whole food.
No wheat at this time (may add it back someday)
No packaged processed canned foods frozen food
No fast food and limited eating out at restaurants
Organic food
Organic oatmeal
Organic fresh fruit
Organic fresh vegetables
extra virgin olive oil
organic 1 percent milk (I use the Horizon brand with the fat replaced by good oils)
Natural Organic salad dressings like Annies (I love goddess and woodstalk and ranch is good I hear, I find things to deliver Goddess (Darma)
Grass Fed Beef (maybe once a month)
Cage free organic brown eggs
I only eat meat maybe once a week or so
Hormone free chicken (organic)
Organic coffee with 1 percent milk (I use Newman's own french roast lately)
I use palm sugar which is low on the glycemic index
Think Thin energy bars (one a day and add the calories)
No white sugar
1 T honey or pure real maple syrup
Natures valley olive oil spread in place of butter (Whole foods or natural grocers)
Cheese of all sorts. Just 1 oz .....
Organic cottage cheese
Exercise 30 min a day or more outside on a jog walk
Or jog indoors when its cold
Lift weights for my arms
When i get remarried some day i will let my husband chase me for exercise :)

Chocolate: Where is chocolate here? Well.....I love it and believe dark organic chockey is great for you. I just for now am getting to goal weight so I left it out and do not miss it at all now. It took me months to get there. I did a whole super pound of peanut m and m's a few months ago in a weekend so I decided to stop.....

Alcohol: For now i am in a healing and growing mode and this is not a part of my life. Just like chocolate its gone for now. I am GREAT without it. I really am.......

When I go to someones home for dinner or out to dinner my goal is to not be a bore and talk about my eating style unless they ask...I eat a little bit of everything and enjoy myself with NO guilt and do not think of the organic thing. I do it at home enough that every now and again I can have fun. Pizza and Mexican food...:)

I went to a potluck party last Sunday and I had a bit of it all and skipped the dessert / cookies and still lost this week. I did fill up on salad and just a scoop of other things. More a taste.....

Do I cheat ever? YES...... I'm human. My angels call me on it if it seems like im out of control on the cheat. Like right now I went mad with the I cant believe its not butter spray. Not organic NOT healthy Not good ....when its gone i will not buy it again! I love love love my human angels:) smooooooooooch

and LAST....My mentor is who told me about all of the above and he does not want any credit ..:)So I put him last! He is not last in my book...

He says that in the end I did it and I listened to him and yes I do listen to him and I did not have to take his advice, yet....how could I not when I trust that his advice is the best for me and from God? Before anyone gets all thinking im perfect and always listen to everything. I don't and it grieves me when I do not listen because it only hurts me in the end.

My advice is to find a mentor! A lady or man at your church or group or a online mentor ..someone who you are accountable to.