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Restfinder
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Sorry about missing the other chat thread being in Announcements. I've closed that thread and started this new one. I will be starting a challenge next week, so get ready!
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@restfinder = thanks for the addition of being a leader - hope I can be of help as the group continues to grow2
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I found that having more than one leader is really helpful.
Down another pound to 238.4. Praise the Lord!
I'm still having trouble with swelling in my left foot. Taking two different diuretics is supposed to keep that from happening, and up until two weeks ago my feet rarely swelled, so not sure why it's happening. Last night, after I took off my flip flop, the lines it made were still quite visible even two hours later and the foot was slightly red. Just odd. I'm wearing my croc thongs today just in case my new Skecher flip flops are causing some kind of problem. Not sure what in them could be causing the problem. The bands are cloth and so is the toe brace, so it doesn't seem likely.
Y'all have an awesome day. I'm going to get to my Bible Study now, probably do some more transposing of sermon notes.
God bless.4 -
June 16 2021
Great day to be alive - am so thankful that the Lord gave me another day here with my family and friends though I look forward to the day to be with Him and not having any pain
Day 11 of logging on here at MFP - don't know why I find that so motivating to see the days logged in a row but it does something for me.
Am doing well with my food program (Bright Line Eating) and feel so much better with no sugar no flour and 3 meals with no snacks - the Lord is really opening my eyes to who to eat healthy and to understand why I need to eliminate sugar and flour from my food intake -my pain on a level of 0 - 10 has gone from 9 down to 5 just by eliminating those 2 items, especially the flour. Stomach issues are getting better - I am seeing that flour was the culprit in many of the issues I have with food.
Just listened to part 1 of a sermon by John McArthur re Homosexuality - he sure has a way with words - looking forward to listening to part 2 tomorrow (these are shorts sermons of only 30 minutes where most of his sermons are 1 hour) but hubby and I are going to get back into going through the book of Romans using all the sermons John McArthur has done - it will take a LONG time to go through them all but we will really understand that book of the Bible when we do. We listened to all his sermons on the book of Daniel and it took us close to 4 months to do that listening to one every other day - but we really understand that book now - have printed up all the sermons for the book of Daniel for future study. Will be doing that with the book of Romans also. Our church is doing a 22 week series on the book of Acts and am finding that one helpful also as we have never had a pastor go through that book completely re a series - just helps with understanding the book when we have good teaching.
Did you notice I put up a thread here in the discussions called Scripture verses - would be nice if everyone could share what they are reading - I am going through what would be called Systemic Theology explaining what I believe with Scripture to back it up. When I am done that which will take some time I will be breaking it down more into all the different topics such as 'Who is God, Who is Jesus, and so much more - lots of research to find find all the verses to explain it - but it brings me such joy to read and study and write out verses showing different topics. So what are the rest of you 'studying' in your devotion life.
I have written my food into my food journal (paper one) and then I put it into the food tracker here and am 1 calorie below 1200 so am on track. The food tracker told me that if I eat like this for 5 weeks I would be 7 pounds lighter which makes me happy. Am so glad that I found that I could edit the goals for calories per meal and now can work on making sure I get in enough - though I am not counting calories but portion sizes but when I eat the proper portion it give me the right amount of calories - isn't that great!!
Look forward to hearing from all of you - would love to hear what your food looks like for the day, if you are following a food plan or are you winging it, how it is going with the way you are doing your 'program' and would love to hear thoughts re what you are learning through your devotions
Take care everyone - be blessed
-Marilyn
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I'm noticing in the tracker many foods don't have the potassium listed. Since that's vital for me to watch, I did try an edit today on my lunch...I'll play with it some more...as it "let me" but then didn't show up, hence the need for more playing.
I went to Market Street at lunch and got more baby cucumbers to do up my salad tonight. I got lunch at McDonald's and was given the wrong drink...a coke....that I can't drink. What I really wanted was the ICE and I was really unhappy since I didn't get my tea or the "lots of ice" I asked for....oh well. I went back at 1:00 for that tea!
I saw that up there Marilyn! I use Charles Stanley's devotionals and Life Principles Bible. I ran myself out of time this morning since I didn't rest well last night and stayed down until 6:15. It was back to work today. I'm taking a vacation day the 21st and will be aiming to get some laundry done at last. I was in so much pain for over 2 weeks and am down to wearing elbow length shirts in this 98 degree heat but I'm OK as long as I am indoors. I love my off days but am discouraged a lot of late in the little I accomplish. Praying that I get back up to snuff soon. I've been so weak and fatigued that much of my time off is spent napping and doing the bare essentials in housekeeping, appointments and the like.3 -
Oh yay...I found the one that I had "corrected"...and switched it out. That's good to know we can do that. I saw the thing about reporting incorrect values on Android but I don't have this set up on my phone yet.2
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Good day everyone, I am still getting used to this site but liking things, found this quote a blog today and I love it. "We aren't being asked to build the Great Pyramids, we are trying to better ourselves by taking steps towards a newer healthier version of ourselves."
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Hello, everyone! I’m not new to MFP, but it’s been awhile and I know I can’t do it on my own. I’m so glad to have found a group of fellow believers to take this journey with!
I’m a 42 year young (not old) lady, married, but with h no children. The Lord has much for me and my husband to do, and I want to be physically ready for any assignment He gives us. I also want to be an encouragement to my husband, as he is diabetic and has much weight to lose, himself. I have around 150 pounds to lose, so I’ll be here for a little bit. Lol3 -
Hello Lindsay! So glad to see so many showing up to join us in this journey. I'm loving the site, am glad I can still learn new things considering my brain wasn't used much all last year during the shut down! LOL We just reopened the office to the public April 1st. I am so very blessed to have stayed well and mostly stayed out of trouble. I have an awesome job at a Self Storage facility...been here for 22.5 years and tho I long for retirement...I do enjoy my job and the money I make doing it.
Be blessed all...2 -
June 17 2021
Greetings team mates - just read all the current messages - so good hearing from all of you. We all have things in common (1) our love of our Lord Jesus Christ and (2) we need to lose weight.
So how do you put these to things together? Have you ever done a search of Scripture to see what it says re what to eat and if we let ourselves get 'overweight' whether this is in disobedient to our Lord? Would love to hear your thoughts on that.
Today is day 12 of logging on to MFP - loving that I am getting a good streak going here. And one feature I am really liking here is the food tracker. Love that I have been able to put the meals into either breakfast lunch or dinner and that I can go and click on calories per meal and put in how many calories I will eat per meal.
I looked at the 'premium - $57 for a year or you can do it monthly. 1st month is a free trial - so I am doing the free trial and if I find it helpful will keep it for the year. So far I like it as there are no ads which is nice and just the ability to change up the meals re calories a bit more is a nice feature - but still just looking
So have any of you posted a Scripture verse yet? Would love to hear what your are studying in your devotions. How about prayer requests, anyone up for that?
Hubby is on his way home from getting a few fresh fruits - am going through more of that then every now that I am 100% on my program and I am really enjoying them. Lunch is all prepped and ready - so glad that I am keeping the meals as basic as possible with 2 - 3 options for lunch and for dinner = makes it a lot easier with planning and my family (hubby and our youngest daughter) are happy with the meals.
Till next time
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Marilyn, I haven't really done a study on eating in the Word. I know that we aren't bound by the Jewish laws of eating and that when Peter saw the sheet come down out of heaven, many of the things that the Jews called unclean, Jesus called clean. Gluttony is a sin, therefore if you sit around and stuff your face all day - yeah, you need to ask Jesus to forgive you and help you to fix what's wrong. I have a couple of genetic problems that put weight on my body, one of them only liposuction can cure - no diet or exercise will take off the fat this disease puts on - but, I do have weight that I put there. For some reason my body fights me when I try to lose weight. When I've done everything right (dieted and exercised regularly) I still didn't lose the weight that someone without my make up would have lost. I've baffled doctors and nutritionists because I should have been losing hand over fist but the weight wasn't coming off. I'm not making excuses, there are pounds that could come off and I'm fighting for those now.
Jms 4:17 Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
It's as simple as that. You have to be walking in a manner pleasing to the Lord, even in our health.
You asked about our studying. I'm transposing sermon notes onto a word processor on my computer so it's different every day. I love doing word studies and digging deeper into what the words mean in the passages, and many times I find they are far deeper than my initial understanding - like diligence. It doesn't just mean sticking to it, but rather there is a haste to the word. Do it quickly and don't give up! It is so very important in this day and age to know the Word and measure whatever we hear or read by the Word. So many preachers have compromised the truth to keep their pews filled and are ear-ticklers as well as followers of what the newest thing is. Measure everything against the Word of God and trust that what He said He meant, we don't need men to tell us what the words actually mean. If there isn't a disclaimer in the Word, then we shouldn't believe it when someone tells us there is. (IE: Rom 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." A lot of people add a disclaimer after the word death - unless you are saved. It seems that many preach that saved people are exempt from the judgment sin brings - but that isn't what the Word says.) I appreciate the biblical proofs when we bring something to the team to contemplate.
Lindsay, welcome! My husband and I weren't able to have children. There was no obvious problem. For the first five or so years of our marriage I really struggled with this, then my Pastor's wife asked me a question that got my attention and helped me see the situation more clearly. She asked me how much we would be willing to spend to have a child before we trusted God. Yeah, it hit me that if God wanted us to have children there wasn't anything wrong with either of us that could get in His way. He simply had something different for us. I wasn't less of a woman, I just had a different path to walk than those who would be mothers. There are joys and sorrows in both conditions, and in both we have to be walking in obedience to the Lord.
Went a little off plan with my dinner tonight. I whipped up something quick and starchy! I didn't track either. Feeling very tired today and so far it's taken three different times on the computer to get myself here today. My husband teaches guitar to some kids in the Church and they were over today. I like to sit with the one who isn't doing the lesson so that meant a shortened time on it this afternoon. Then hubby needed a nap before going to work (home office) so that cut the second computer session short. I usually get a couple of hours on the computer (where I do my Bible study too) in the morning. I do better if I schedule time to meet with Jesus, I'm less likely to forget that way.
I hope y'all have a wonderful and restful evening. God bless3 -
@Restfinder - I wasn’t disappointed at all in my inability to conceive children. Since I was about 4 years old, I wanted to be a foster/adoptive parent, just like my great aunt & great uncle. The were only able to adopt one child, but they fostered 255 over the years. They always got the “bad” kids that nobody wanted (teens & pre-teens), and they loved the “bad” right out of them! 🙂 At least a handful of them ended up becoming pastors, and others became deacons and Sunday School teachers. Every single one of them kept in touch over the years.
My husband and I are working towards getting a home big enough to take in kids that need to learn what (who) Love is, and be healthy enough to keep up with them.5 -
LindsayMaria - What a wonderful ambition! God is going to work through your life in the foster care program. When I was a teen there was a family in our church that took in teen boys. There were some amazing results in their lives.
I am also one of the ones with no children. I did "inherit" 2 step-daughters that are 6 and 7 years younger than I am. They were in their late-twenties when I married their Dad 30 years ago. They have been wonderful to me, and have given us an incredible grandson.4 -
Is there a way to increase the font to read posts? I'm visually impaired and this teeny font is a strain. I need about a 14 font.
Am feeling better, a bit stronger it seems and am hoping for continued progress so I can tackle laundry and cleaning on my off days.1 -
Lindsay, that is so great. I've run across a lot of women who want children so badly and will spend a fortune to make it happen. Having a heart for foster children or children who need to be adopted is beautiful. I too wanted to adopt, but we were never in a financial position to do that. Three of my four cousins were adopted, and my sister has three adopted children, brothers and sisters from a foreign country (I can't remember which since I don't have a relationship with my family and only get snippets of information on them). When I was growing up I knew a family who had a foster baby. After three years they wanted to adopt him, but at that very time the mom wanted him back and gave her back to her - broke the families heart, but they were glad that she had turned her life around and was able to raise him. For a short time, over the holidays one year, my family shared our home with a teen that was in a half-way house, or some kind of home, too many years ago to remember, but that was such a great experience. I hope that you are able to have your dreams come true.
Bren, I looked but didn't see any way to make the print larger. They should get rid of the strike through and put in font size! LOL!
My new blender came today. It has more power than my Nutribullett does so should grind up my smoothies better and crush that ice better too. I thought ice in a smoothie was just for coldness, but it does at texture and thickens it - whoduthunkit? It's supposed to also chop stuff, so hopefully it will do that with nuts and things like that in recipes.
Oooo, I tried a recipe for fruit muffins. Super simple, oatmeal, fruit, protein powder, baking powder, vanilla, and stevia. Really good and healthy! It's a THM recipe, so I can't share it here, copyrighted!
Stayed the same weight-wise. I didn't stay on plan yesterday (not sweets but a starchy dinner), although I just tracked my food, and I am in on all my numbers and still able to have a fried chicken breast and half a cup of French fries for dinner! Wow!
Talk to y'all later. God bless, Kim1 -
Yum! I have tater tots planned for dinner with my grilled chicken burger. With tracking as is, I am a bit over on fat, 450 (or so) over on sodium but hey...2436 mg sure beats my normal 5500 mg! Yay...only 89 on carbs and low end for calories....and potassium looks great with less than my 2000mg. I'm liking it!
Kim, when I am typing my post, the font is just about right but when I post it, it's the teeny, tiny font. Oh well....can't have everything I want, right?
I forgot to bring tea bags with me so am having a Sprite Zero. I don't have them as often as I used to and I did get kinda hooked on them when I was using that nasty Rybelsus and having severe nausea issues. I came off that on Thanksgiving day, last year and still have a lot left...a couple months supply. That's sad, as someone somewhere could probably use it....
I had one rental, went out for my sun and air time to take some locks off and will do it again before I lock up the cart at 4:30.
I am SO looking forward to my off days M-W, and have great hopes of laundry being done. My Inner Maid has been on extended leave since about April, 2017. and I need her services badly. I won't admit how many times I've bought new undies, socks, wash cloths, shirts, pants and sheets.....when I wasn't able or willing to drag my carcass around to the laundry room. There is hope for me....still.1 -
June 18 2021
Great to come to the group to read many messages - love it.
@bren5535 = you mentioned font size - I don't see it but I did read a message from someone who increased her font size - so will see what I can find out - I am sure it can be done just need to do some research - a good place to ask though is on the technical support thread - I have had good results from questions I have asked them.
Am enjoying great summer weather - it is 25C (75 F) right not which is just right but is going higher for the day - tomorrow will be a bit cooler than it will be 30C+ for a few days - that is too hot for me
Am enjoying the food tracker here - have been able to make up a few dinner menus and saved them giving them different names for easy access to the food tracker. Also I was able to edit the Calories per meal so have assigned a given amount for each meal and then have made up meals to get to the given amount of calories = all works out to 1200 calories total. Love this feature on MFP Also that you can print out your food diary - there is a place with each day where you can add notes so it could include a short journal of the day. Great feature.
And then there is the weight tracker - I love the graph it gives me - I weigh daily and used to make my own graph now I don't need to - it is made for me - so over a period of 30 days I can print it up to give me an idea on how I did for the month on a daily basis.
I have the best coach - Jesus Christ - and He daily encourages me to eat as per my food journal and when I think of going off plan He reminds me that my body is a holy temple and that I need to take care of it - and not to commit my food for the day and not follow through as the Word tells us that making a vow and not doing it is a sin. So I am careful what I decide to eat as it can reflex in my walk with the Lord. I am so grateful that my husband has a strong faith and loves the Lord so much - we have a great devotion time every morning - (we rise early for someone who is retired) and between praying and devotion/studying the work it usually comes to be about 2 hours on the lower side. We have been doing this now for years - when he was working we did devotions like this every 2nd day when he was off from work - and during that time we had to be really creative in how to keep the kids busy/entertained while we did this - they always were with us when we did the praying but when we got deep into scripture most time we could convince them to take some quiet time with reading on their own. Such great memories.
Have a great day - look forward to reading more messages when I come check again later
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Hi Everyone!
Thanks for inviting me over Bren! I would have been missing you and Kim from SP! I'm battling bronchitis right now and having lock jaw makes it very hard with the coughing fits!
Excited to get to know everyone on our journey to health
Missy
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Hello Missy! I am so glad you found us here! I am loving the site and the ease of the tracker, now that I figured out what I was up to. I'm so glad we have this optin...to stay in touch and carry on in our journey! Love you, Sister!3
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Oh, Missy, I can't believe that you are still having so much trouble with your jaw. Have you talked again with dentist to see if there is anything he can tell you? This has gone on a long time and with bronchitis now, you really need some help! Will pray!
Having quite a bit of stomach pain this morning. I'm hoping it isn't the Willow Bark giving me trouble because it's the only thing that helps the pain in my hands. I think it might be the IBS-C though and not much I can do about that. I would appreciate your prayers.
Getting a bit of laundry done today and watered the flowers earlier this morning. Not much else planned for the day. It's quite hot outside. When I went to do the flowers around 9 AM it was already in the 80's. Well, I say flowers. We have one hanging pot that has flowers on it, the morning glories that I put at the base of our lamp post are growing but have given just one or two flowers and they fell off the second day after blooming. They are in a pot so not sure if that is the culprit. There are also some Japanese Beetle holes and I saw one in the pot earlier, so that may be stressing it. Poor plant! We have several in pots on the porch too but none of them have bloomed. We have a couple of pots of parsley but don't use it in anything, so they just keep growing. Our pastor's wife wanted Mom to feel at home and knew she had a green thumb so we planted several different things, parsley being one of them.
Well, I hope y'all have a wonderful weekend. Much love4 -
Good day all, today is going to be a great day. I am rested and ready to face the world.
Missy praying that you get better soon.3
