HI All! Looking for friends and fellow encouragers!!

MFPdusty

I have been doing this for 11 days and I have lost 6.4 pounds already. I have been doing DietBet (very encouraging) Wii Fit Plus exercises and Leslie Sansone Walk at Home DVD's. I do the 5 mile one. Each mile is a 12 minute mile so all 5 miles are done in 1 hour and you burn an incredible amount of calories. I do this every day. Also, I am using the My Fitness Pal app to keep up with calories. I am personally sticking to a 1200 calorie intake per day. I am simply eating smaller portions and better foods and I enter every single thing I eat in the app with no cheating. If you want to join with me please friend me. The most important thing that I am doing differently this time is relying on God to help me. I am praying my way through it. I am doing a bible study called Made to Crave and it is changing the way I view this process. I have always thought this problem was too little for God to care, but I was so very wrong. He does! I am praying my way through it and so can you! When my sweet Tyler brought me a snickers bar and put it on my desk so proud that he did something for me, I smiled and told him I loved him for thinking of me. For about 2 seconds I screamed on the inside and then I remembered what to do. I prayed to God for help. I prayed that he would help me to resist the snickers, but this time I added a different prayer. I also prayed that he would help me to not feel like I was being deprived of something, but to help me feel that I was being victorious over over that stupid candy bar. HE DID IT! I don't know why I would have ever doubted that God truly wanted to help me with my addiction to food since that is what I asked him to do, but I guess I doubted myself. I will never do that again. I turned to food for everything (when I was sad, when I was happy, when I was mad, when I was scared, when I was depressed, etc. etc.) I am learning to turn to God for my needs instead of food and as a result this is the first time in my life that I have honestly put in really hard work for diet and exercise and achieved a positive result. I know that 6.4 pounds loss may not seem like a lot to you, but it is HUGE to me! I have climbed a mountain and survived. I see others in my path, but I know I can climb them too. With your help and with my God, I know that all things are possible. Thanks for joining me on this path to recovery.