Surprise!

As mentioned in the previous post, Thursday was a really bad day. I also had a realisation about how I felt about things at church that was really negative. It was based on several weeks of observations about myself, but things hit the fan on Thursday.
Later that afternoon, I had a meeting with someone who gave me a solar flower for my desk. It constantly moves. It is hard not to smile when looking at it...

 

See, how cute!

Grump!

Yes, I've been VERY grumpy.
The new diet has been exceptionally hard.
Within 36 hours of following the diet and going from grumpy to really depressed, I figured that a small friand would give me to the sweetness and texture that I felt my body missed most of all. I knew that it was off my diet, but felt as long as it was once when things are really bad, and small - that it wouldn't be heaps bad. Things did pick up a lot.
I've exercised 3 of the last 4 days with varying degrees of exhaustion, but felt pretty good on the whole with that.
I suppose the two big things with the diet I need to work through are:
1. What do I do for food when I'm out and about for hours without access to foods that fall within the diet restrictions.
2. I need to find the time to get some interesting ways to cook the evening meals. Also some quick, easy and yummy options. At the moment things are pretty ordinary. :S

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Lemon heaven scent

Something to remind me of God while my brain cannot do it.

The start of something new...

The time has come.

A change has to be made.

A change for the better.

A lifestyle change.

Does it mean I can't enjoy food?

NO!

I just need to think about what I eat and when I eat it.

Does it mean that I have to kill myself exercising?

NO!

I just need to plan to regularly exercise, make it manageable and do it.

Can I do this alone?

NO!

I need help.

My mind plays games, so it needs encouraging words.

I crave things that aren't healthy, help me see past the craving to the goal.

I will find it hard to remember that I am doing this to...

lose weight

to be healthy

enjoy the life God has given me

feel good about investing in myself

I will find it hard o remember that...

I will feel good about the outcome

this will not always be about saying 'no', it is just for now

moderation is key

that this will take time

there are people out there who love me because of the person I am inside, not what I look like on the outside.

I will record my progress here 

for you to see

 for you find out how you can be encouraging me

for you to be encouraged by the way God is working in my life.

Please come on the journey with me.

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I've been waiting two weeks.

Finally my pay arrived. 

I went to my favourite florist

and

Bought a waratah to brighten my flat.

Isn't God's creative genius amazing! 

p.s if you have been for a bushwalk near Sydney this spring, it is really good season for Waratah's in the wild.

Cupcakes!

In a few days time, I probably will not be allowed to bake cupcakes for a couple of months (yes, it's called trying to lose some weight). Before that happened, I took the opportunity to bake some cupcakes from scratch. They are the Vanilla cupcakes I made before, but this time I iced them with Lemon Blossom Icing. I don't think I beat the mixture quite enough, but still taste good.

Perfect with a cup of tea!

Some creation to add to the box

This week's been a bit of a downer for me. No real reason - just don't feel great. It's harder to see beauty around me when this is the case, so I'm going to put up a couple of things I've seen over the last couple of weeks that I haven't added.

At the conference this week, there was a Bowerbird that had made it's nest right near the cabin I was in. If you don't know anything about Bowerbird's, the male makes the nest and decorates it, hoping to attract a mate. The male is black - like a small crow - but in the sun is iridescent blue! As you can see from the pictures below this Bowerbird has found bright blue 'rope' and put it around his nest. There were stolen blue pegs too :). The nest itself is the vertical twigs with the tunnel in the middle. Mr Bowerbird is in the nest in this photo.

So you will have seen my earlier veggie box post, well about a week ago, I pulled up the rest of my carrots - and have a look at what I found in the bunch.

The are so entwined that I am not going to be able to separate them without breaking them away from each other!!!!!

I love purple, and a couple of weeks ago I was waiting to cross the road at some traffic lights, and have a look at the bower of purple hanging over the fence.

Finally, the most beautiful thing that I've had happen, I don't have a photo of. When I arrived home from my conference on Wednesday evening, Tarquin came out to see me. He followed me around for the rest of the night and took every opportunity he could to cuddle up with me and purr loudly. He is an enormous blessing to me. I don't think I've posted a photo of him on here yet, so I've got one I took about a month ago of him enjoying one of my pillows and the sun.