Changing My Life One Day at a Time

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Living the Healthy Good Life

So I sit here trying to decide what to post. A beautiful empty canvas in front of me and no true thoughts in my fingers.  I have been slacking on the posts recently.  But hey, it's OK because I have been doing so much more lately and blogging is falling to the wayside.

I am taking enjoyment in keeping food, healthy food, ready in the fridge and freezer.  Having foods prepared helps me to be able to put together a healthy meal in minutes and not letting the 'what's for dinner' woes from taking over and the Unhealthy Food Trolls putting their spell on me.  Their spells are disastrous for healthy families and healthy eating habits.

The spell that was usually unleashed on my family has been the- 'you're too tired, hungry or sick to prepare a home made meal so go ahead an get a pizza, burgers, tacos anything you want from the fast food monsters.  Don't worry about the calories and the extras you get from hidden, unnecessary ingredients.  You're too tired to worry about such things.'  

The spells of unhealthy choices have always worked.  It didn't matter about the time, the money, the unhealthy foods or anything!  What mattered was that I got food in my belly and the bellies of my family- healthy or not, it did not matter.  I was so deep into the woes of unhealth!  I am so grateful I have been able to swim and pull myself up to the edge of the barrel I was sinking in to see or peek over the edge and see that health and a healthy lifestyle was obtainable.

Many thanks to my health Coach team and my family who have been their helping me get back on the healthy life path.  Thanks to all the inspirational and wonderful friends, family and strangers who provide examples of endurance and success with me and my family.  This great network of people are the reason I have been able to change my life at this time.  My timing is right and I am open and willing to learn from those around me.  I am even learning from myself as I remember things I have learned in the past and apply them to my life's situation now.

I have also been repairing/mending towels, clothes and backpacks.  I have put food away using the 'Seal-a-Meal'.  I have rearranged cupboards in my kitchen.  I have gone through piles of clothes that don't fit- too big or too little.  I have been researching how to remake some of these clothes, so that I don't have to buy anything new right now.  I have very little money and I would rather use the money for healthy foods. New clothes can wait.  

I am talented enough to make do with what I have and I know I can alter some of my clothes to get some more wear out of them as the pounds drop. Skirts, t-shirts, tops and even some of my pants can be altered.  So I am going to be fine.

Now blue jeans for my hubby are a different story.  But thank heavens, his new temporary job is supplying him with a couple of pairs of jeans.  Now if he can only not lose too much so that these new jeans fall off him!  He might look awful funny wearing his jeans down below his hips!  A good belt should help him there.  Also we do have a few pair a jeans in smaller sizes for him to work into to.  I just hope they will be the right sizes for him.  

Why is it that girl clothes are easier to alter than men's?  At least that is the stoma(belief) I am sticking too.  I have not had any tailoring training and boy at this time I sure wish I had some.  But it is all going to be fine.  I can't do everything, but I can do a lot.  

I can do a lot more than I have been and I am grateful for this change in my life.  I am finding the real me, I am letting myself take charge of my life again.  I am not allowing life to swallow me up anymore.  I am making a difference in myself and my family, one thing at a time.  We are living a healthier lifestyle and we will change our little world and the lives of our posterity.  This is so very exciting!!

Would you like to join me on this wonderful journey?  I would love to have you come along with me and make a better life for your children and their children.  We have so much to be grateful for and there is no better way to say thanks than to Pay Our Blessing Forward!!!

Call me, text me or e-mail me and let's talk and put something together to change our little world!!

Love to you all.............

Shari

PS.  Yesterday my son and husband were at the store.  Pilot told me that he couldn't find dad anywhere.  He said that he finally saw clothes that he recognized, but the body inside them didn't match the body of his dad.  And then he looked closer and it was his dad.  He did not recognize his dad's new body size.  COOL!!! lol....   Hubby wasn't too big but 35 pounds has made a huge difference in him and obviously even Pilot who is with him every day saw a huge difference!!!

This new lifestyle living is changing our lives and we laugh about it and are content with loving it, each and every day.

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