It's been a very long time since I posted anything to the blog. If anyone out there was following, I apologize.
Updates on Hawaii: I finished out my 40 days, fairly pathetically. My passion for Hawaii went from a downpour to a morning dew... I am still not sure if it was God or my frustrations. Probably a bit of both.
For a while I felt my passion for Hawaii had left me all-together. But this spring it has begun to spring up in me again. And frankly, I find it annoying. Hawaii feels like it moved another 250,000 miles farther away. How in the world can we ever afford to live in Hawaii? Is it worth the sacrifice it'd surely be? Would moving there mean too much time away from our children, working three jobs and them feeling neglected?
The bottom line is, if God wants us there, it is where we want to be. If God does not I am praying my desire to live there would end.
Updates on weight loss: So my dieting efforts went very well and I was able to drop from a size 16 (snug 16 at that!) to a tight 12/comfortable 14 by late October. I lost a total of 18 pounds. I had a great idea to maintain my weight through the holidays then in January try to drop another 15 or so.
I'd love to say that I am 25 pounds lighter than when I started this weight loss journey in August. Or that I kept the 18 off. I am not really sure what happened, but I gained back 8 of it. Thankfully, not all 18, but I am so sad I gained even a pound of it back. :(
Through Christmas I was fine -clothes fitting well, scale still staying around 173-175. But then BAM! New Year's morning I felt my pants cutting into me as I sat on the couch. ??? About two weeks later I got the nerve to get on the scale. 180! Oh no! Then with a lot of sad things happening in my life, a lot of stress, a lot of seemingly unending hardship I fell of the weight loss wagon so hard I broke my head open! I got on the scale a few weeks ago and saw it was 186. Oh so very sad...
I like to watch the television show, "The Biggest Loser" and I feel anxious for all the contestants when they go home and face the daily grind and pressures and temptations. Losing the weight is hard, but keeping it off is nearly impossible for some of us.
I am working on getting back the courage to try again. I need to figure a lot out about why I turn to food and have such a hard time limiting myself.
I am going to start a new blog about getting my entire life in order (not just my weight). When I blog about my weight loss I will post it here too. If you'd like to join me on my journey of getting healthy -holistically, please join me there!
Aloha,
Rhiannon
Updates on Hawaii: I finished out my 40 days, fairly pathetically. My passion for Hawaii went from a downpour to a morning dew... I am still not sure if it was God or my frustrations. Probably a bit of both.
For a while I felt my passion for Hawaii had left me all-together. But this spring it has begun to spring up in me again. And frankly, I find it annoying. Hawaii feels like it moved another 250,000 miles farther away. How in the world can we ever afford to live in Hawaii? Is it worth the sacrifice it'd surely be? Would moving there mean too much time away from our children, working three jobs and them feeling neglected?
The bottom line is, if God wants us there, it is where we want to be. If God does not I am praying my desire to live there would end.
Updates on weight loss: So my dieting efforts went very well and I was able to drop from a size 16 (snug 16 at that!) to a tight 12/comfortable 14 by late October. I lost a total of 18 pounds. I had a great idea to maintain my weight through the holidays then in January try to drop another 15 or so.
I'd love to say that I am 25 pounds lighter than when I started this weight loss journey in August. Or that I kept the 18 off. I am not really sure what happened, but I gained back 8 of it. Thankfully, not all 18, but I am so sad I gained even a pound of it back. :(
Through Christmas I was fine -clothes fitting well, scale still staying around 173-175. But then BAM! New Year's morning I felt my pants cutting into me as I sat on the couch. ??? About two weeks later I got the nerve to get on the scale. 180! Oh no! Then with a lot of sad things happening in my life, a lot of stress, a lot of seemingly unending hardship I fell of the weight loss wagon so hard I broke my head open! I got on the scale a few weeks ago and saw it was 186. Oh so very sad...
I like to watch the television show, "The Biggest Loser" and I feel anxious for all the contestants when they go home and face the daily grind and pressures and temptations. Losing the weight is hard, but keeping it off is nearly impossible for some of us.
I am working on getting back the courage to try again. I need to figure a lot out about why I turn to food and have such a hard time limiting myself.
I am going to start a new blog about getting my entire life in order (not just my weight). When I blog about my weight loss I will post it here too. If you'd like to join me on my journey of getting healthy -holistically, please join me there!
Aloha,
Rhiannon
