Food is my addiction

Happy Summer everyone.  I'm off of school right now the perfect time to learn a new way of eating.Today I reached a new mile stone.  I'm down 40 lbs since January 1, 2019.   5 months of hard work and dedication.  I've lost 40 lbs but I've gained a whole lot more.  I've gained a better understanding of what food means to me.  I've gained a better understanding of what I want my relationship to food to be.  I love life not food!  Recently I started intermediate fasting....if that is what it is called. I eat 2 meals a day.  That has been really hard.  I won't lie, Very hard.  You would not think going from 3 meals a day to 2 meals a day would be that big of a deal but for me it has been hard.  What I do like about it is I only have to plan 2 meals now.  My biggest problem is figuring out how much food I need to eat so I don't feel like I'm starving.  haha  I keep telling myself that if I feel hungry my body is ...

When I was a little girl my mom and dad would load us in the car with rakes and hoes.  We would travel to Heber AZ to clean the graves of my grandparents, sisters, and other family graves around them.  I loved doing this!  It is one of my all time favorite memories.  I still do this with my kids or like today my kid.  We went to Pima and Thatcher Cemetery but all the graves were already cleaned so we didn't have much to do.  I love this day, I love thinking about all those who paid a huge price so I could have the freedom I have today.  I love thinking of my ancestors and all they went through so I could have the freedom I have today.  I love this country.  I love the flag and what it represents.  I may disagree with the leaders from time to time but I do not disagree with what this country stands for.  FREEDOM! The next time you want to sit  while the National Anthem is being sung or the next time you do not put your hand on...

A couple of weeks ago I went to a training for school.  Like most training's I was afraid I would get nothing out of it.  This time though I had Christi coach me through changing my attitude about training's and I was all set to learn.  Little did I know that on the second day of training's my life would be changed from one of the speakers.  John Izzo author of Stepping Up , How taking Responsibility Changes Everything.  I had not read the book, shame on me, but I am reading it now. The first 2 sentences talk about what I want to talk about today.  "Responsibility changes everything.  The Moment we decide that we are the ones who are capable of and responsible for changing things everything shifts." He goes on to say "You are responsible for your own happiness, for the success of your relationships, for the morale of your workplace, for the success of the company where you work, and for your life. What's more, you are responsible for poverty, for glo...

Tonight when my 17 year old son and I were heading up town, we had a conversation about how girls feel about their body image.  He said this girl has a hard time because she is a little over weight.  I said ya there are  a lot of girls big or small that have a hard time with what their  body looks like.  I  then had a moment when something our Prophet Pres. Nelson said.  He said in April 2018 "  My beloved brothers and sisters, I plead with you to increase your spiritual capacity to receive revelation..........Choose to do the spiritual work required to enjoy the gift of the Holy Ghost and hear the voice of the Spirit more frequently and more clearly. We need the influence of the Holy Ghost to help us know our body  is perfect for us.  Can we take care of it better.....YES, But guess what you need to love the body you have all the time.  Satan attacks us We are in a spiritual battle that has never before been seen in the history o...

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do. by Jeffrey R. Holland When I was first married, my mother asked me what it is I call my mother- in- law.  I told her I didn't know what to call her.  My mother looked at me and said  "Lena, she is now your mother too, you should call her mom."  So that is what I did.  I started calling her mom and she became a very important person in my life.  So today I share with you my Mother-in-law.  She is a great inspiration to me.  My mother-in- law and I do not have a traditional relationship associated with that title.  We are great friends and I love her like my own mother.  I love her because she mothered my husband.  I love her because she loves my kids and they love her.  I love her because she is a great example as to what a true woman should be.  I would do anything for her and I know...