Exercise: x
0-5 (9am)
large bowl of cereal
Note: I'm going to try something a bit different today with my eating. I am struggling to adjust to this new schedule where I have to go into work at 11am and don't get home until 1pm, right over my normal lunch hours... So, I ate a generous bowl of cereal today (didn't go past #5 though) and am hoping that will last about 3 hrs until about noon. If I get hungry while I'm working I should be okay with waiting a bit before getting home. I may also bring along an apple in case I get hungry before noon because I don't want to be completely on empty while dealing with 50+ kids! If I get hungry for breakfast by 7am then it's easy to manipulate this schedule as I just get hungry for my "lunch" by about 10am and then I just eat an early "lunch" at that time... It just gets a bit more tricky when I get hungry a little later.
0-5 (1pm)
banana bread w/ margarine, coffee w/ milk & flavored creamer, watermelon
Note: It worked:-) I was hungry probably around 12:30...perfect timing:-)
0-5 (6:45pm)
hamburger stew (w/ potatoes & carrots), 2 pcs bread, bit of cucumber, apple, & coffee and banana bread for dessert
Note: I was rumbling away while teaching my last piano student this evening...and am so thankful that 0-5 eating flowed so smoothly today:-) Praise God!
Purpose of this Log
1. To help hold me accountable to myself and to the Lord. It helps me be more intentional and apply observation and correction more effectively.
2. To be transparent to others that they may also hold me to account and help sharpen me (GENTLY PLEASE) as they feel led by the Lord.
3. As I proceed prayerfully and intentionally, under the canopy of God's grace applying observation and correction along the way, my hope is that others can also learn a thing or two from my failings...make that "learnings"...and also from my victories in the Lord.
2. To be transparent to others that they may also hold me to account and help sharpen me (GENTLY PLEASE) as they feel led by the Lord.
3. As I proceed prayerfully and intentionally, under the canopy of God's grace applying observation and correction along the way, my hope is that others can also learn a thing or two from my failings...make that "learnings"...and also from my victories in the Lord.
In a Nutshell
I am following an approach to eating that is outlined in the "Thin Within" book by Judy and Arthur Halliday. I am not focussing on measuring or weighing foods or labelling foods as "good" or "bad" but rather aiming to eat when I'm hungry ("0") and stop when I'm satisfied ("5"), focussing on the keys to conscious eating (listed in the right hand column).
Another central Thin Within (and more importantly biblical) teaching that I aim to use with this food log is observation and correction, living under the canopy of God's grace on the path of God's provision. In a nutshell it's about turning to God and confessing and repenting and the amazing grace and love of God that changes us from the inside out.
Another central Thin Within (and more importantly biblical) teaching that I aim to use with this food log is observation and correction, living under the canopy of God's grace on the path of God's provision. In a nutshell it's about turning to God and confessing and repenting and the amazing grace and love of God that changes us from the inside out.
Keeping in mind at all times...
The most important aim of my life needs to be to "seek first His kingdom and His righteousness" (Matt. 6:33) and sit at my Lord's feet, feasting at the Lord's table (Ps. 23:5), getting "fat on Jesus," filling up on His Word and finding true satisfaction that can be found in Him alone. The Lord's Table study brought this into proper focus for me.
"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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