November 16, 2011

Hey gang - weighing in the same this morning.  YEA.  I am committed to having you as my personal accountability partners through the holidays.

Got a new website for you to check out this morning - www.recipekitchen.net    

When you go to the website, along the left-hand side, there is an HCG section and 6 recipes there.  Most are for phase 2.   Be careful though - they are combining veggies and using tomatoes in the mixture along with other veggies.  That means you are substituting the tomato for your next fruit.   YIKES!   However, the recipes look great and sometimes for a special treat I can see giving up a fruit.  Remember to count backwards - "I can do anything for 20 more days."   The Word teaches us that we can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens us.  It is God's good pleasure to see us healthy and free from the chains that keep us in prison.  I am constantly looking at new places in my live to see freedom.  God is still opening my eyes to past chains that are yet to be shattered.  These lies must be broken.  Freedom in all areas of my life - I will accept nothing less.  How about you?

I was thinking last night while I was making all these healthy things for a luncheon today - turkey, almond flour dressing, pumpkin-pecan spice cake (with almond flour) and topped with a cream cheese icing - "Man, this is a lot of work.  Gone are the days of packaged foods and quick fixes."   And I felt my spirit retort, "time in the kitchen is a SMALL price to pay for your HEALTH and the JOY of having your clothes fit."   BUSTED.   Yes, cooking healthy takes more time - BUT, I could be sitting on the sofa feeling bad about myself, eating the next brownie, searching the web for the NEXT diet that I HAD NOT tried (remember I've done them all) and eat another brownie because, "I'll start over tomorrow.  I won't eat anything all day since I just ate brownie #4."   Ever said that LIE to yourself?  And by 10:00 I was sick to my stomach - which I thought was hunger but it was left over sugar trying to digest - and was eating again - only to repeat the cycle OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER.  

Not now - It is for freedom Christ has set me free (Gal. 5:1) I am standing firm - cooking as long as it takes, shopping in the right stores for healthy choices, eating plates of color at each meal - etc.   AMEN!

Choose live and eat to live, PK