Friday, November 28, 2014
Yummy Dessert (MRT TEST - LEAP DIET - HASHIMOTO'S)
It's so niee to enjoy this yummy dessert, perfect with my LEAP protocol!! I'm only on phase three of the LEAP diet and it is amazing how accurate that MRT test really was... It's like I'm "eating clean" for "MY BODY" personally! This means that I really am experiencing feeling good continuously while my weight is slowly coming down - it has finnaly stopped going up!! My digestion feels good! Cutting out the things I was sensitive to has had an amazing impact!
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Living with Hashimotos: I feel like it's my birthday.
Today is an amazing day. I see God's hand moving in my life, it feels like today is a birthday of sorts - like it's my birthday - but it's not.
Have you ever loved something so much - something that you had to give up for a time? In my life I discovered that I loved swimming. I loved it so much. With God's help and the guidance of a beloved friend - who is also a fitness mentor and Christian woman mentor, I started swimming after nearly 20+ something years of absence. I wasn't even sure if I could really swim, I was venturing into the unknown. As a young person I used to love to ride bikes miles away to the lake and then swim across the lake. I started swimming when I was six months old. But years had passed - nearly 20 or so years when I really barely touched the water for swimming - an occasional dip was all.
With the help of a beloved friend and mentor; she encouraged me, challenged me -- just swim... Get in the water and swim three times a week for 30 minutes. Rest at each end of the pool. I'll meet with you in a month and we'll work on your swim stroke. So I did... Wow was that hard!! I would rest at the end of the pool for MINUTES!!
I care about modesty and I really wasn't comfortable swimming next to men - especially wearing such a small amount of clothing... But I had three swimsuits on - and I wasn't a pretty sight. That's how I wanted it -- I wasn't anything good to look at, a bit mismatched, layering on the suits I found way to swim modestly. A one piece suit to take care of this issue - another one piece to cover that issue... And then a pair of swim shorts for some length and coverage. I was good.
I went into the sauna to pray and sing hymns while I stretched before I entered the water. It brings tears to my eyes now because swimming became a time for me to spend with God. While I worked out increasing my fitness ability, I was communing with God, singing, praying and trusting Him for the laps that would come.
...To be continued
Have you ever loved something so much - something that you had to give up for a time? In my life I discovered that I loved swimming. I loved it so much. With God's help and the guidance of a beloved friend - who is also a fitness mentor and Christian woman mentor, I started swimming after nearly 20+ something years of absence. I wasn't even sure if I could really swim, I was venturing into the unknown. As a young person I used to love to ride bikes miles away to the lake and then swim across the lake. I started swimming when I was six months old. But years had passed - nearly 20 or so years when I really barely touched the water for swimming - an occasional dip was all.
With the help of a beloved friend and mentor; she encouraged me, challenged me -- just swim... Get in the water and swim three times a week for 30 minutes. Rest at each end of the pool. I'll meet with you in a month and we'll work on your swim stroke. So I did... Wow was that hard!! I would rest at the end of the pool for MINUTES!!
I care about modesty and I really wasn't comfortable swimming next to men - especially wearing such a small amount of clothing... But I had three swimsuits on - and I wasn't a pretty sight. That's how I wanted it -- I wasn't anything good to look at, a bit mismatched, layering on the suits I found way to swim modestly. A one piece suit to take care of this issue - another one piece to cover that issue... And then a pair of swim shorts for some length and coverage. I was good.
I went into the sauna to pray and sing hymns while I stretched before I entered the water. It brings tears to my eyes now because swimming became a time for me to spend with God. While I worked out increasing my fitness ability, I was communing with God, singing, praying and trusting Him for the laps that would come.
...To be continued
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