My Goal for this week

So one of my goals this year is to work on my nutrition.  I don’t want to go on some diet.  I don’t want to count calories, macros, micros, carbs, bleh, bleh, bleh!  I have no interest in it!

My goal is to seek the Lord and be obedient to what HE wants me to do.   I want to make lasting changes.  I want the Lord to guide me not the world.  There is so much stuff out there – eat this, don’t eat that, avoid all of this certain food group, etc.  I am just not into that.  I feel like those extremes will set you up for failure.

But I know the Lord wants me to make better choices, to be a good steward of the body He has given me.  I will probably never have a six-pack and you know what — I don’t care!  My goal is not to have 2% body fat (or whatever number you can insert here).  My goal is to be fit for His calling on my life.  To be the mom, wife, employee, Bible teacher, etc He wants me to be.  And you know what,that is all that matters.  When I stand before the Lord, He is not going to ask me if I had 2 % body fat, ate 100% clean, had nothing processed, etc.  What He will ask is was I obedient to His call on my life.  And I want to be able to say yes.

That being said, God has been working on me to set small realistic goals.  Nothing extreme but small realistic goals.

So this week my goal has to do with:

Yep – you guessed it —-  COFFEE.  More specifically, having an afternoon cup of coffee.  You see I have gotten into a bad habit of having a cup of coffee in the afternoon at work.  I don’t do this on the weekends, just at work.  So I end up having 3 cups of coffee a day during the work week, instead of my normal 2 that I used to have.

So this week I am dropping the afternoon cup of joe at work.  I survived yesterday.  And to be honest, I did it more out of a habit than a need for an extra jolt of caffeine.

How I go about setting these goals is during the week before, I pray and ask God what do I need to set as my goal for the upcoming week.  Oh I could come up with a million ideas but I want the Lord to guide me.  I believe that is where true success lies.  So I ask Him and wait for what He lays on my heart.  Then I add it to my weekly spreadsheet I have.  I have a spreadsheet to list all of these goals for this year so in December, I can look back and see what the Lord has done in my life.

It won’t be fast.  It will be slow.  But I would rather be slow and steady, making lasting lifestyle changes than go to some extreme, burn out, and be frustrated at failing yet again.

The time is going to pass either way.  I would rather see a pattern of small successes than a pattern of extremes, frustration, disappointment, and failure.

How do you go about setting goals for your nutrition?  Do you set small goals or do an overhaul on how you eat?  I would really love to know.

I’m Back!

Hello Everyone!  I know it has been way too long since I have posted but I needed to break away from my blog for a little while.  But now I am back and I wanted to take some time to re-introduce myself to you.

So I will start with telling you 10 things about myself:

1.  I am Texan through and through.  I don’t want to live in another state but if I did have to live somewhere else, it would have to be somewhere in the South.  I do love South Carolina.

2.  I love interior decorating.  My father was an Interior Designer so I get that from him.  But if you where in my house right now, you would not be able to tell that I love it.  We live in a rent house right now and I have just not been in the decorating groove here.  Probably because I know this house is just temporary.  But really any place we live is temporary until we go to be with the Lord.

3.  I love fitness.  You will see me post a lot here about fitness and what I am doing.

4.  I hate diets.  I do.  I don’t believe they work.  I hate tracking my food.  (gasp!)  I hate calorie counting.  I hate the extremes you see in the health and fitness world.  I believe in making small changes that you will keep.  This year I am making one small nutrition change a week.  It will be a slow process but I would rather do it that way and develop long-term healthy habits than be on a dumb diet roller coaster.

5.  I believe the health and fitness world is going about the obesity problem all wrong.  I believe the root to the obesity problem is a spiritual one.  Being overweight is a symptom of a deeper issue.  My desire it to help women seek the Lord and discover His great love for them and all Him to change them from the inside out.  God is more concerned about the inside that what is on the outside.  He is working on me through this and I want to help others as well.

6.  I LOVE to teach the Word.  I just love it!

7.  I just discovered the HGTV show Fixer Upper and I love it.  It makes me want to move to Waco, buy a fixer upper and Chip and Joanna Gaines fix it up for us!  I just love their style.  I would totally want to be their friend.  🙂

8.  I love New Orleans.  I have been able to go there every year for the past 5 years for my birthday and I just love it.  I hate Bourbon but I love everything else.  NOLA is so much more than Bourbon Street.  When we went last month, we went to Preservation Hall for the first time and it was awesome.  When you walk in and see this set up, you know it is going to be good!

9.  God made me to be a boymom!  I have a 5 year old adorable son and I just adore being his Momma!  I love playing cars, good guys/bad guys, superheros, building Lego sets, and everything else that comes with being a boy mom.  My house is full of toys and I don’t care.  As long as I have toys in the house, it will never be totally clean.  Sometimes all the toys gets a little crazy but I know that this time is a sweet time and it won’t be here very much longer.

10.  Philippians is my favorite book of the Bible.  I love the encouragement that Paul gives in this book.

So there you have it.  10 things.  I was going to do more.  Maybe later.

I would love to hear from you!  Tell me what is one thing that you love to do!