Well, here I am, the 6th day of the year and living out My One Word, the 2nd day of my '7' experiment, retraining myself to read every day and attempting to clean and organize.
Yesterday was a good day. I have a few food items that I am trying to finish eating so they are not wasted. We had Chinese food on Saturday, mine was chicken and I decided to finish it off for lunch yesterday and today. There is my birthday pie that will be gone tomorrow...today if I didn't show a little bit of restraint... Oh, and the waffle batter will be wheat in a day or two when it is gone. Wheat bread is on my list, so I'm thinking that wheat waffles in the mornings with a poached egg will make a fine breakfast. I make the batter from scratch and am using stevia in place of sugar. There is only one packet for batter that lasts about 6-8 days...not too shabby if I do say so myself! And I'm only making half a waffle each serving. Along with my breakfast I am enjoying a chai tea latte...it is NOT on my 7 food list...I took artistic liberties and decided that tea, water and juicer juice with my fruit and veggies is acceptable.
My biggest concern this first week is that there is waaaay toooo muuuuch focus on food when I am trying to not focus so much on food. Making sure I am eating from my list of 7, planning ahead for the day so I don't find myself eating something not on the list because I don't have anything prepared from the list...UGH!...food in my face! Okay, calming breath....inhale.....exhale. I am only looking at 7 foods, not from the plethora of options in my kitchen and pantry. There is a stash of junk food snackies waiting for the end of January. They are from my Christmas stocking, I know, it's amazing that they even still exist. Before you give me more credit than I have coming to me, I have been sick since November. This sinus/cold/flu virus thingy invaded my body and likes it in there, has created a beach-front home and doesn't plan on moving out anytime soon. I tried to evict the little buggers, but they are standing their ground! Perhaps after eating nothing but chicken, eggs, spinach, carrots, apples, nuts and wheat bread products for 3 weeks they will figure I have gone bat-dung crazy and move on out!
My One Word for 2014 is Authentic. After reading Made to Crave by Lysa Terkuerst I really wanted Jesus Girl to be MOW...I know, that is two words...I could take out the space between the words and make it one word?! It's obvious I like to make up my own rules. So, I started thinking about what constitutes a Jesus Girl, what kind of qualities does she have and 'authentic' kept coming up. I want to be authentic in my relationship with God, with being a better wife, in intentional listening with my children, spending quality time with my granddaughters, and the list goes on.
My goals for today are to read another chapter in 'Enough' and answer the questions and to clean off the shelving around the computer...that should take me up to bedtime.
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