November 3, 2011

Good morning to all,

I am heading to my mom's in Warm Springs this evening after work and spend a day or so with her.   I haven't seen her in awhile and I am really excited.   We love to cook together and she found a beautiful pumpkin cheesecake on the cover of Southern Living that she wondered if we could make with almond flour and xylitol.  "Why certainly," I proclaimed.  I will use the almond flour in the crust and xylitol in the cake and voila.   If it turns out great, I will share the recipe. If not - I will keep trying.  :)

I took some left over turkey breast (about half a breast that I had baked in the crock pot) and added a couple of cans of chicken stock, a couple of cans of fire roasted tomatoes, one small can of green chilis, a couple bags of California blend frozen vegetables, and some tabasco and made a yummy soup!!  Fat free (almost) and WAY healthy.   I didn't add any oil or fat and I pulled the skin and the fat from the breast as I was cutting it into chunks for the soup. It made a BIG pot and my husband loved it.   He ate it with the almond flour "cornbread" and boy was it a treat!

I appreciate all of you who work diligently each day to read labels, read menus, check vitamins - I know it seems a big task sometimes, but when we all get through our FIRST year of health it will be worth it.  I know that Nehemiah must have thought building a wall in 52 days was impossible, but he trusted God and was not intimidated by the masses.  People will tell you that life cannot be lived eating healthy and "everyone cheats."   Does that have to be true?   If someone opens the door one crack and looks at a pornographic site - it MAY push them into a journey they never intended to walk.  Is that ONE CHEAT worth it?  That's why we guard our virtue, guard everyday from that ONE CHEAT.  It's not fear that motivates us to protect our health, but the TRUTH that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit and he deserves the best we can give him.  He can't use us AS EFFECTIVELY when we are riddled with weight-induced diseases.   Right?   The other thing that I always read is that for every 10 pounds of extra weight above your normal body weight you carried, a certain number of years is deducted from the end of our lives.  I want to live to be 100 and I can't do that carrying that extra weight.   Amen.  

I am determined, like Nehemiah, to see my life rebuilt and restored to the fullest.   I will post guards and put up safety boundaries and fight for my life to be the best it can be.   Our bodies can repair themselves, but we have to do our parts!

Choose life and eat to live - PK