Happy New Year!!!

Ok, so last night and today... last night I was so good!!! I kept thinking, "that looks so yummy, I should eat it." Then I got thinking about how many people are in this and if each person is paying in $60 then if I really want the money I better not eat it. At one point I took my phone out and used my little calculator to figure out if a doughnut was really worth that much. I was strong. Kinda funny motivation, but it worked. Plus I told myself earlier that I can do it.

This morning I did not get up at 5:00. I did get my workout in, it was just later this evening after we came home from Shawn's Mom and Dad's. I did another Richard Simons workout. I wish my Turbo Jams would come already!!! Hello I'm totally excited about that. Today I was pretty good. I didn't drink enough water, and I did drink a soda. But during the entire party from last night to today, I only had one cookie and one soda, so other than that I was a good girl.

I am really looking forward to seeing how much I will lose this week. I was thinking about the biggest loser show and how they work out for like 4 hours a day and I was like, there is no way I can put that much time in... then I realized I don't have to. I just have to do what I can and over time this will all benefit me. I can't set myself up to think I will lose some crazy like 15 lbs my first week like some of the people on the ranch do. I honestly don't know what to expect when I get on the scale on Tuesday. I'm really hoping I will be under the 200 mark.

I was sitting in Sunday School on Sunday and we were having the lesson on how we still live in a time of miracles. I was thinking about what has been going on with Mom and I realized that we had hope and had prayed and exercised a great deal of faith on her behalf that she would be healed. There is no doubt in my mind that our prayers were directly answered and that a miracle took place. I was very overcome with emotion, and when we got home on Sunday I was talking to Shawn and I came to the conclusion that there is no reason that I can not ask my Heavenly Father for the miracle of Health for myself. After all it is a righteous desire, and He wants me to be happy. Then I was thinking more... about faith and hope. So you have to have hope first, so I really hope that I can lose my extra weight and become a healthy person again. I don't want to be overweight anymore. I have to exercise faith that I will be able to become a healthy person again by losing my extra weight. Then I was thinking even more and the AH HA moment happened when I realized once again that faith without works is dead. So how do I apply that to me and what I am going through? Well, I figure I have to do my part. I have to follow the nutrition and fitness plan that I have decided on and when I work and exercise my faith, I can have the miracle in my life that I am asking for. I am happy that this has all come into play in my life.

My arms are a little sore from my workout today. Kinda glad I didn't use the resistance bands yet.