Happy 237th birthday America!

Happy 4th of July friends! Today, we celebrate our nations independence and gracious give thanks to those men and women who have fought and died protecting our country's freedom.

Memorial Day Recap

I hope everyone enjoyed their day off yesterday. I am so very thankful for all the service men and women who have fought and died for our freedom.  Both my grandfather's both served in WWII and my baby cousin (who just graduated from West Point) will soon be on duty. I am thankful all who served and are serving, for their strength and courage (John 15:13). 

Roy 

Max

Stephen had the day off from work yesterday - and we literally stayed in bed until about 11am watching episodes of FRIENDS. My hubs is a fanatic and honestly, I haven't seen majority of the episodes, so we borrowed the DVD's from his parents and have been making our way through the seasons. It was a great morning just hanging out and doing absolutely nothing.

Finally, we got up and cleaned a bit and started to get ready for our bible study cookout at our home. We normally have our bible study on Monday nights, so we decided to have our lesson and extend it for dinner too. 

We had a blast - everyone brought a dish, we grilled out and had a wonderful time together.

Monica, me and Kristina

My friend Polly's clean eating banana pudding

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I'm done with the scale.

I've been very relieved this week that our scale is far away from us (it's in Alabama and were in Hawaii). Sounds strange I know, but do you know why?

Because I think scales are the meanest piece of equipment ever and no one should own them. My mood can be severely effected with the number that shows up. 

I get tempted by it sitting in the corner of our bathroom., It looks at me longing for me to step on and when I do, I feel like I am a complete and utter failure. 

Do you ever feel this way?

With our fitness program, Revolt, I have had great days and some terrible self loathing days. I've gained 6 pounds of water weight in one day (after our free day of eating whatever we want)  and been at a happy weight a couple days later. And it all has to do with a stupid number looking back at me.  

Well, I'm fed up. I'm not going to let that number control how I feel about myself. The number doesn't accurately reflect how I look or feel about my body. I need to love the person I am despite that larger or smaller number beneath my feet.

I loving that we are eating healthy and exercising. The Revolt workouts are great, eating clean is doing wonders for both the hubs and me, and my jeans are fitting better. I like looking in the mirror. So what if the scale says I haven't lost or up a pound or two? I am starting to see definition in my tummy, I am not craving bread and salt. I am working out without being exhausted and feeling invigorated afterwards. I am becoming a healthier me and I love that. 

Forget the scale. I'm taking a better and smarter approach to getting healthy and it doesn't have anything to do with those bright red numbers screaming at me. My body is happy that I am putting good fats, fruits, veggies, protein into it. Its loving that I'm gaining muscle weight instead of blubber. Im building it up instead of tearing it down. I am finally treating it like the temple God made it to be and Im very excited about it.