Saturday Day 11 Jouranal

Hello everyone!

I woke up, exercised and drank my quart of water with lemon. I had a fruit plate before breakfast with apples, strawberries, bananas and oranges, then I had an egg with sauted spinach

Lunch was a nice salad with 3 types of lettuce, parsley, tomatoes and slamon

Dinner was another fruit plate

1 pt post
1 pt exercise
1 pt fruit/veggie plate
1 pt no sugar
1 pt water -drank 2 more quarts later in the day

5 points for today
57 total points

Have a good Lord's day tomorrow
Annie L

Day 7, Tuesday, January 10

I woke up, weighted myself-lost 4.4 pounds! I needed this encouragement from the Lord. I have been very hungry for the last week. Then I exercised in the very cold outdoors, then drank a quart of water with a half lemon squeezed in it. Breakfast was chicken bone broth soup. Lunch a veggie plate of salad, dinner was chicken with a veggie medley of sweet potatoes, onions, garlic made by my sweet daughter Gen. I also drank another quart and a half of water in the afternoon. I no longer crave coffee probably because I can't have cream in it. I am now drinking a cup of herbal sleepy time tea.

Points:
1 exercise
1 water
1 veggie plate
1 no sugar
1 journal
4 pounds lost
9 points for today-Praise the Lord!
37 total points

Blessings to all of you!
Annie L

Day 6, Monday 9 Jan Journal

Hi Everyone.

I haven't been posting my eating and am sorry. I will start today. This morning I got a bad toothache so I am postponing the Liver Cleansing Diet and doing a Westin Price tooth saving diet per my 19 yo daughter, Gen's request. I am a week into the LCD and only had 7 weeks to go, but will start is over when my tooth is better.

I had a quart of water with half a large lemon in it before breakfast
Breakfast: 1/2 cup organic cracked oat groats soaked and cooked with Celtic sea salt
Before lunch another qt of water and some hot herbal tea
Lunch: one half Texas grapefruit
Snack: 1/3 cup sunflowerseed/almond mix with 1/4 Cup organic raisins
Dinner: Chicken bone broth soup with organic veggies and organic navy beans

Points
1 Exercise
1 Fruit/veggie
1 Water
1 no sugar

Total points to date 28

I will weigh myself tomorrow and I hope I have lost at least 1 pound.

Keep going strong in the Lord!

Annie L

Sunday Evening Journal

We had a busy day yesterday and wasn't able to post. I didn't exercise officially today since it is the Sabboth. We had a snow storm move in and I hope I can exercise tomorrow. I was able to eat well even when my husband broke out the chocolate. Wow! I am drinking well also. I will not weigh myself until Wednesday or maybe Tuesday, but I am hungry.

Saturday Sunday
1 pt for 2 qt water 1 pt for 2 qt water
1 pt for 1hr exercise 1 pt for journal
1 pt for veggie plate 1 pt for fruit plate
1 pt no sugar 1 pt no sugar

I will add up the points for tomorrow.

Have a blessed week everyone!

Annie L

Journal 2 & 3

I missed yesterday since I wanted to journal at night. I had a head ache and a cold comming on. I ate well yesterday and today and exercised each day. I praise God that I don't have a craving for sweets, but I really crave sharp raw milk cheddar and butter. I am doing this Liver Cleansing diet for 8 weeks and hope I can last that long. We are blessed to have organic free range chickens that I can make stock out of.

Yesterday Today
1 pt 2+ quarts of water 1 pt 2+ quarts of water
1 pt an hour of exercise 1 pt for an hour of exercise
1 pt fruit & veggie plate 1 pt veggie plate
1 pt no sugar 1 pt no sugar
1 pt blogging

Total points to date 14

I am praying for all of you to be keeping the temple of our Lord's holy spirit in good shape.

Annie

First Joural Post

Hello Everyone,

I am so glad to be back with you. I am sorry I didn't finish out the last challenge. God in his providence moved us back to the southwest mountain home. My husband's job was going to move us from the beautiful hill country north of San Antonio to Ft Wroth, Texas and at the last minute they moved us here. We didn't have inter net or phone for 3 weeks. We really miss our church family and have a very small church here that is quite liberal compared to the church we left and miss. We went back to San Antonio last weekend for vacation and were refreshed.

I usually do well loosing weight when I decide to do it on my own. I had planned to do the Liver Cleansing diet by Dr Sandra Cabot. A good friend recommended it to me and I started it on Tuesday, yesterday. What a blessing it is to do a 30 challenge with my 8 week liver cleanse. I had a pivotal birthday in November and am at 187.8#. I need to loose weight now before I begin having the bad medical problems associated with obesity. Thank you Dani Joy for not giving up on me.

My sweet daughter Gen is doing the challenge also. She is a great help and inspiration to me. I taught her sound nutrition and she kept with it while I reverted back to bad habits.

I woke up early with the strong winds banging things around outside. I went outside and decided to jump on the trampoline in the dark. I jumped for 1 hour! I had only jumped a little yesterday and the day before. I drank a qt of water with half a lemon in it and had a half of grapefruit for breakfast while making pancakes for the children. I was very hungry by lunch and had a salad and some salmon. For dinner I had a veggie soup with onion, garlic, broccoli and beats. I also drank a second quart of water with lemon. I can't have any cow milk, cheese, beef, or butter. The liver cleansing diet is easy at the beginning and end since you can have eggs and chicken. It 4 week middle phase is only fish, veggies, nuts, fruit. It is a little more complicated than that. I wasn't going to start this 8 week cleanse until February, but we don't have a source of Raw cow milk yet here and I decided to do it now. Yesterday was easy and today a bit harder. Please pray for me as I pray for you. I gave away the fudge with without milk and cheese I should do well.

1 pt exercise 1 hour
1 pt journal post
1 pt No sugar
1 pt fruit plate
1 pt for 2 qts water
5 points total for today

Thanks!
Annie L

Start up Post for CCCIII

Greetings Everyone!

I am back for the CCC III. I wasn't with you for the first one, but was trying to do the second. I live in the San Antonio area of Texas and my family may be moving to Fort Worth in the next week or two. I have been married to a wonderful man for 23 years and have 2 sons and 4 daughters ranging in age from 5 to 22. I have been home educating all of our children since my 22 yo son was 4. My husband assure me that the home education began at birth or even earlier.

I have been struggling with weight for several years and actually lost 10 pounds during the last Spring into shape. I am hoping to loose another 10 pounds with this crunch and will need lots of prayer since we will be moving. I really want to stay here. We have a great church with all home educating families. It will be hard to move, but I trust in our Sovereign Lord Jesus Christ who loves us and cares for us. I am reluctantly going to post my measurements. Please do not gasp or laugh. Here goes: Wt 194#, Bust 45 in, Chest 41 in, Hips 49 in, both thighs 23 in and both arms 13 in. This vastly improved from last year and I have a long way to go.

I am glad to be blogging with you ladies and I will pray for all of your success.

Annie L.

Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah! We are overwhelmed by God’s mercy!

Hello Everyone,
I am attaching a note of thank to our church family. Yesterday there was a big wild fire that jumped from I 10 west to east I 10 in Boerne. The fire just missed our place by 8 feet. Please read the following. Thanks!

What a Father’s Day yesterday was! We enjoyed a good time of worship, preaching, testimonies, prayers, fellowship and good food at church. While fellowshipping afterward Mr. Horn who had left some minutes earlier returned and told us that the Seargeants’ had phoned him with the news that our RV was on fire! We jumped in our van and drove the 10 miles from church to the park. We were prevented by fire officials from entering the park. Breck and Vance were planning to go cross country to check the status of our RV, but diverted because we saw high flames billowing black smoke within the forests, and loud booms from exploding propane tanks.

We were told to move our car from the site and went down Highway 289 until we were told to move again down I 10. We are so thankful to the Ehlingers’, Shorts’, and Triebs’, who stuck with us, prayed and encouraged us in so many ways.

Breck along with Vance, Ryan Short and Von as well as David Triebs went by foot in separate groups to check the state of our RV, cars, tailor, RV park. Watching from a hill next to I-10 they could see that the grass fires had not reached our RV, but had managed to enter the park and burn trees and possibly other building and RVs. They saw pillars of black smoke wax and wane heralding the consumption of one RV after another, and possibly the central clubhouse and pavilion. We had left our cell phone in the RV and only Richard and Ryan had a phone. Richard managed our platoon of cars with children and wives keeping us from harm of the raging fires. Vance returned to us from the men. Richard and Vance made several attempts to get back to our RV and see the condition of the men. After several hours, he was able to retrieve all of the men and give them water. Vance brought Ryan his camera who verified that our RV and vehicles were all intact.

The Ehlingers graciously invited us to stay in their home until we can re enter the RV Park. We are so grateful to their hospitality and kindness. The Short’s took Breck, Vance and Genevieve back to RV not knowing if they could get into the park. They drove past the various sentries on roads into the area. It was like they just didn’t see them. They passed the road block and no sentry was on duty at the gate to the park. They drove in without any problem and went to our RV. All quickly helped them grab some essentials. A fire marshal showed up soon after and told them to leave immediately as the area was not secure, so they could not get much. Breck was able to get his car and drove down to the Ehlingers.

Breck said that form the look of the burnt land that the fire came across I 10 from the west and burnt a large hill across from our RV then traveled in a valley toward the park. Then, the fire went up the hill toward our RV when it hit a trail that Genevieve had made going to our gardens on the side of the hill. This was a well used trail by our children. The fire had also gone the other side around a large cabin near our RV, up the hill, devastating many RV, a large club house, large pavilion meeting house and the bathroom and laundry room.

We are very grateful for the Seargeants for telling you all to pray for us! We thank you for your prayers! We thank our Sovereign Lord and God who saved our belongings and for the Ehlingers’, Shorts’, and Triebs’, for their prayers and encouragement and help. God gave us the peace that passes all understanding and preserved us very well. We are so thankful for God sending us to BCA and giving us such godly and dear families in Christ!

Anne

Getting Serious

I don't recall getting this big, but I have been hovering around 200# for the last 2 years. I know it was from lack of exercise and poor eating, using food as comfort instead of the Lord. I am trusting God to help me get back in shape and this blog has been a good encouragement. I am finally ready and convicted to do so.

I have started an Arise and Shine 28 day colon cleanse to get started. My daughter Gen is doing it with me. We started at the beginning of the month, but took 4 days off since we stayed with some friends for 5 days. I only planned for 2 days. We had a great time, but the cleanse went aside. We restarted on Monday. There are 4 weeks to this cleanse with a week of cool down,

The cleanse uses herbs and bentonite clay with psyllium shakes to get rid of accumulated mucous plaque in your colon. You also take a pro-biotic before bedtime. I have done this twice in the past with good results, but never followed up on it with the week of cool down. After I wake up I take the shake, followed by herbs 1 1/2 hour later and continue this throughout the day. The first 3 weeks you eat meals instead of a shake-3 meals the first week, 2 the second, 1 the third. You do PH testing before starting the final week of fasting with fresh made juice. You can eat only raw fruit and veggies, a small amount of soaked nuts, no salt, sugar, grains, meat etc. The diet makes a good cleansing diet, but not good for long time eating.

We are doing week 2 and will start week 3 on Monday. We added some good apple, carrot, onion, spinach, celery and beet juice this morning which should help. I have some unflavored colloidal minerals on order which should help also. I feel great in the morning, but have periods of feeling nauseated and sick throughout the day. This is not a time for heavy exercise and will get back to strenuous exercise when I start the Maker's Diet.

This is a drastic step, but I have been so undisciplined with eating, that I needed a drastic step. The cleanse is so restrictive and I am committed to staying on it that it will be a good start to loosing my masses of weight. My plan is to do the cool down week eating salads and raw food and lacto-fermented green beans, okra, cabbage and beet Kvass. Then adding bone broths. After this week I plan to do the Maker's diet very strictly, phase 1 for 2 weeks, phase 2 for 2 weeks and phase 3 until I get down to at least 150# or maybe forever. I should be done with cleansing by the second week of July so I won't post any measurements until I have finished with a week or so of the Maker's Diet (book by Jordan Reuben following Biblical principles of eating).

Sorry this post is so long. I haven't posted in a while and needed to catch up.

Blessings,
Annie L

Tropical Traditions

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to share this link to you for Tropical Traditions. They have $5 off of shipping right now and coconut oil and palm shortening on sale. The palm shortening is not hydrogenated and a great substitute for that nasty partially hydrogenated soy shortening (Crisco). http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/blog_specials.htm

Trans fats or partially hydrogenated vegetable oils are very bad for your health making you more susceptible to heat disease, cancer, diabetes and more. They stay in for system a very long time.

Tropical Traditions is a Christian owned company and very good to deal with. I have used their coconut oil, palm shortening and red palm oil. All of these oils are good for weight loss. The coconut oil is especially good and there are some good book on this subject by Sally Fallon and Mary Inig. Mary Inig is a doctor who has done the research and lead the fight against hydrogenated vegetable oils and vegetable oils which are more harmful that butter, coconut oil and palm oil. She has a very interesting story of fighting the big bag companies that were poisoning us with their junk food.

I hope this is helpful to you. You ladies in Europe can probably find a better source near you. Tropical Tradition is in the unites states of America. Also, even if you don't order today, sign up for their email specials. They often have free shipping along with their sales.

Blessings,
Annie L

Forty, Fat and Female

Hello Everyone,

I just thought I would share a simple fast and treatment for cleansing a tired gallbladder. When I worked as a critical care nurse many years ago, the doctors would say that the profile for a hot gallbladder was Forty, Fat and Female! Most of you do not fit that profile and I have known of 20 year old young men who needed to have their gallbladder surgically removed. The gall bladder is located on the right side of your abdomen attached to your liver. It produces bile, a thick, green fluid that aids in fat digestion. The gall bladder can produce green stones that interfere with normal function and cause blockages making it very sick.

There is a simple fast and treatment that you can do routinely to clean out the gallbladder. You need to plan 3 days. On the first 2 days you can only eat apples or pears or their juice. You can drink a lot of water and some herbal teas also. On the third day you need to do a juice fast-drinking only apple or pear juice plus water. Just before going to bed, prepare a mixture of 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice and 1/2 cup olive oil. Drink this all at once. The taste is not pleasant and can be followed by 1/4 cup of freshly squeezed orange juice. Go to bed soon after drinking the lemon juice-olive oil mixture and sleep on your right side all night. You want the mixture to go into the gall bladder and dissolve some stones. In the morning you should get some nice fluorescent green kidney stones released. The 3 days is necessary to make sure your intestines are clean and the juice-oil mixture can get to the gallbladder.

My husband and I have done this every 10 years or so and have had great results.

Starting Post

Hi Everyone. I am having trouble posting this blog. My first ten attempts failed. I am ready to start. I had a nice visit with some wonderful missionary friends: Bob and Sandy Frazier yesterday afternoon and was acutely aware of just how fat I am. We have shared good healthy recipes and encouraged each other in the past. I haven't seen them in over a year and was quite embarrassed. I am going to post measurement, but please no laughing, crying or disgusting noises.

For 4 May 2011: Wt 198.6#- ouch!, but down 8# from the start of the last challenge. Bust-45 in, chest 41 in., waist 45.5 in, hips 51 in, R & L thigh 24in, R arm 15 in, L arm 14 in. Wow! I did it. Now all I have to do is loose it. Please pray for me as I pray for you. May we all be able to glorify God with our bodies and lives.

Introduction

Hello everyone!
I am Anne and have done the last 3 challenges from Dani. I am blessed to be married for 22.5 years to a wonderful and godly husband and have 6 wonderful children. I am living in the hill country north of San Antonio and am a home educator. I have been blessed here with a good church and good like minded friends.

I have tried setting weight loss goals of 20# for the last challenges, but an going to a more reasonable goal of one pound per week. I got a nasty virus 3 weeks ago from my 5 year old daughter and was week and sick for several days. I lost a few pounds and am determined to loose more. I haven't exercised since then, but am going to resume walking at least 30 minutes with my daughter Genevieve. I am not doing this Spring in2 shape challenge to win points, but to make myself a more useful servant for my God and King as well as for my family. I am going to loosely follow The Maker's Diet and pray that God will help me with the rest. I am busy with home educating and ministering to family and brothers and sisters. Starting the day with exercise should help give me more energy.

I look forward to getting to know all of you. I tried changing my profile photo and have not been able to upload the new one. Blessings to all of you who are doing this challenge with me!

Annie

Tursting God to do great things

Starting the third week already! I have been walking 3 miles with my daughter Gen each morning up and down hills and I do stationary exercise. I have cut out sweets, starches, junk food and eat smaller portions. I feel hungry most of the time. I weighed myself this morning and only lost 1#total for the 2 weeks. I did lose 9 cumulative inches. My face seems to look slimmer. I remember my older brother stating that he hated the way women looked after losing weight with their sunken in faces. My face could stand to slim down and I am not worried. This is my third challenge. I was moving during the first challenge and didn’t get into it. The Sweating off the fat was a good challenge and got me serious about exercising and eating better. Now, I am tired of being fat and look forward to God’s working in me to glorify him with my body.

I am thankful for the extra point challenge this week and really feel that I haven’t been drinking much water. With this challenge, I got a half gallon mason jar and filled it with filtered water. I have been pouring this into my drinking glass and I only have one more cup to finish. I have gotten into a bad habit of getting a very strong cup of freshly ground and freshly brewed coffee in the morning and nursing it all morning long. This challenge has really put this important ingredient back into focus. Thanks Dani Joy.

Please welcome our new member, Mary Merritt. She should be posting soon. She is a godly older woman and good friend who could use our encouragement. Thanks!

Annie

This is just the beginning

It has almost been a week and I am definitely sore. Genni and I are walking 3 miles up and down the hills in this beautiful hill country. My body is feeling the pain :) This is my plan to walk the 3 miles in the morning and do some other stationary exercises. I am also cutting way back on carbohydrates including bread, pasta, fruit except grapefruit and berries, rice, sweets, cereal. I have been doing fairly well, though we had spaghetti yesterday for lunch and we are having pasta fazoole tonight. I plan to slip the pasta to my 4 year old daughter who is not over weight and will love the extra pasta. We are planning to eat better as the week progresses. I desperately need to go shopping. My biggest challenge right now is the delicious raw Jersey cow milk we are getting from a local dairy farm. I have been drinking it when I feel hungry and am going to limit it to one cup per day. I am very over weight and will email my measurement to Dani Joy. I hope to loose 10-20 # on this challenge. If I can do more than this with God's help, I will post my before and after measurements. Blessing to all of you who are more faithful in this than me. I thank God for my daughter Genni who is an encouragement to me.

My Introduction to CCII

Hello Everyone. This is Anne. I am a home ecucating mother of 6 wonderful children ages 4-21. I have been married to my wonderful and godly husband for 22 years. I was able to keep my weight under control with exercise and moderate eating until after my 3rd child was born. I was still well under being obese. I really learned some bad eating habbits when my husband's job took him away from us for two years. He also put on some weight, but not nearly as much as me. I am now way above the obesity level for my short stature. I was encouraged by the Sweating off the Fat when I began to exercise and lost a few pounds and inches. I am joining this with my 18 year old daughter Gen. I am looking forward to the 10 week challenge, but am not ignorant of the challenge with 3 birthdays, Thanksgiving and pre-Christmas baking. But that's why it is called a challenge. I am thankful of Dani Joy's words in the last challenge that I don't need to believe the lie that I will always be fat. We began yesterday with walking a several mile course up and down hills in this beautiful hill country north of San Antonio and I am thankful for the cool morning as we move out of the hot summer. With the Almighty God helping us through this challenge I pray that we will all experience a measure of success so that our temple of the Holy Spirit will be more useful to God in his plan for us to glorily Him.

Thanks Dani Joy - Anne´s FFF Journal 1

Thanks Dani Joy for inviting me to join this seminar. Looking forward to the October Christmas crunch. I just started back on Monday with exercising after a month of being gone half a week each week. Gen has been my walking partner and we are walking 30-50 minutes at a fast pace up and down the hills in the beautiful Hill Country north of San Antonio. I can only stand exercising before the sun comes up with this hot and humid weather. I am also doing other exercises as time and energy permit. I measured everything this morning and will post any losses in the coming weeks. Sorry, if I were where I wanted to be I would openly post my measurements.

Last Post for Sweating off the fat!

Hasn't this been fun! With the new challenge this week, Gen and I actually ran our 3 mile course! I am not a young woman, nor am I in good shape, but with Dani Joy's encouragement, I was able to run. My 7 year old daughter said, "Mom, you ran?" Not very good when your own family doesn't believe you, but I have Genevieve for a witness. I have had the desire to loose weight and be more physically fit as I enter the latter part of life. I definitely don't want to be a fat grandma, nor a unhealthy burden to my children. This challenge has given me the push I needed. I especially appreciate Dani Joy's encouragement about "not believing the lie" that I can't be slender again. Now, I have a very long way to go, more than 50#, but looking at the photos of Dani Joy at the race in Spain is remarkable. It looks like she has lost half of her weight since I last saw her in person a few years ago. Thanks Dani for your testimony of God's faithfulness in giving you success in fitness. You look great! I want to be part of the next challenge and the ones after that since I have a long way to go! Thank you all for your encouragement and testimonies. I did the last challenge and didn't have much success since I was stressed in the middle of a big move. We may be moving again, but I am going to keep exercising and eating better.

This is getting fun!

One more post for one more point this week. I was discouraged since I only lost 8#, so I decided to measure myself. I hadn't posted anything for the last measurement loss of 9.5 inches earlier and measured myself today with another 12 inches total loss. Praise the Lord! I still want to loose more weight and inches and am so glad that Dani Joy has invited me to this blog. Also, for you thin people, it is a long journey left for me to be a normal size so stay encouraged. Can't wait until the next challenge. Thank!

Hi Every one!

Thanks for the encouraging extra points this week. I didn't see the point counter worksheet and got it from my daughter Gen this morning. Our friend Hannah just joined the blog and told Gen she exercises 90 minutes each day. This motivated Gen and I along with my oldest son to walk our normal 30 minute course twice. I was so tired after the second walk that I said I was done for the day, but after sitting here at the computer I may be able to do another 30 minutes later when it gets a little cooler. Thanks Hannah, Gen and Dani Joy for your encouragement!