Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Summer Health Challenge Week 4

June 30, 2014

Well, that’s crazy, I know I published this, but wordpress says not and my post is also gone. So, looks like I get to write it all from scratch again. If it poofs again, I’ll know it’s not supposed to be published which will make all this a moot point and no one will ever know. Crazy!

So, it’s week 4 of my Summer Health Challenge and also at the end of month one and I’ve not made progress as in losing weight or changing habits. Lots of thinking? Yes, but that’s about it. So, I need to do something different and this is it:

I’m going to be fasting – as in giving up certain foods and sticking to a plan – for the rest of the summer. Right now there are some big prayer intentions in my life and I want to do make fasting a way to pray for these intentions since they are really serious. Here’s the plan for this first month (June 30-July 31):

I’m going to make the Four Food Groups my eating plan – Grains, Meat/Fish, Dairy, Vegetables/Fruit. Hey, it worked then and it will work now! I’ll eat a portion from each group at each meal and no snacks in between or at night (that’s where the real fasting comes in). No junk food, chocolate, or coffee either! Also, 1.5 liters of water every day (a French thing), and a multi-vitamin at lunch. For exercise it will be yoga from my Yoga For the Rest of Us dvd’s each day. No aerobics or getting my heart rate up (the 8 and counting dental/doctor appointments this month will do that) – what I need is stress relief, more flexibility, and pain relief.

I simply can’t do the calorie counting, the food diary, and all that. I can never keep it up so what I do has to be simple and this is the simplest plan I know of – going back to the basics.

So, I start tomorrow. I’ve got a chart and a prayer so I’m ready. Be with me Jesus – I trust in You!

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On June 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Matt said:

Ha, that was probably my fault. Changed servers over the weekend. I made a royal mess of a lot of things...

On July 2, 2014 at 1:54 PM, java_queen said:

Oh well...stuff happens right? :-)

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June 30, 2014

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