Welcome

This is a documentation of my journey seeking "my best self"
I am a blessed woman, 2 healthy loving sons and an abundance of all that one needs.
This is not a journey to more of the material stuff, but in seeking my passion and living my best life.
Due to illness, parenting, and busy everyday life, life has lived me instead of me living life.
The purpose of this journey is to turn this back one step at a time.
How will I accomplish this? This I will learn gradually, one thing I am sure of each day of my journey will take me closer to myself.

Blessings,

ETA: I am separated and I can assure you it is for the better. The boys and I are doing good, they are sad but at least they have some breathing space now and don't have to march to the beat of their father's drum anymore. I am more relieved than sad and feel freed from his constant state of depression and lathargic way of living.


dinsdag 30 oktober 2007

Back on track

I am finally off the meds and don't have to keep track of my daily intake anymore ! I am regaining my appetite and eat between 1000 to 1500 kcal daily, such a relief after more than a month of eating less than 1000 kcal daily. My body seems to be extremely happy too caus since I am eating more I have been losing more weight, I guess lil ole body is not feeling starved anymore and doesn't need to hold on to the excess fat.


I elimanated all meat and poultry out of my diet again and started reading and applying the teachings of queen afua again. I love love love "sacred woman" I love the fact that the teachings apply to every aspect of life. I really recommend it to all the ladies out there who get overwhelmed by life from time to time. Also recommend it to the ladies with female problems, heal the womb and you heal your mind, body and soul!

Inspired by the queen I decided to take up Hatha Yoga, yesterday was my first class. I was a bit scared because of all the aches and pains I have and did not have a clue what to expect. All I can say is WOW and Why did I not do this before?! The class was relaxing and inspiring, we did excersises for the womb and for the back and this morning was the first morning since I can remember that I woke up without backpain!!!

The fallchallenge is going great and I lost 8.8 lbs so far. I started on 09/17/2007 ( a bit earlier than planned I was supposed to start on the first day of fall 23 rd of september )with a weight of 149.6 and today I weigh in at 140.8. 4.4 lbs to go and I have a healthy BMI of 24.8! The last day of the challenge will be the 21th of december. Can't wait to see the endresults!

Since I have been looking at all the ladies their progress pics I decided to post a few pics myself. They aren't really progress pics but you can see the difference well at least I can ;-) Click on the pics to see them enlarged that way you can see the difference a lot better.

This first pic was taken in Surinam december 2005 when I first saw these pic I realized that I really really needed to take better care of myself! The lil man beside me is my oldest son.



This pic was taken about a month ago. I will ask dh to take pics this week so I can post a more recent pic.



That's it for now, I will update more often now that I don't have to do the depressing daily intakes anymore :-D

Blessings,

Chayil

5 opmerkingen:

Reflection zei

WOW!!! Talking about an awesome progress. Congratulation on healing your body. I'm going to re check out the Sacred Woman book. I tried reading it 2 years ago and I don't think I was ready for it. Thanks fot the suggestion.

Anoniem zei

Hey Chayil,

Your weightloss and overall wholistic revamp is truly inspirational.

I admire your dedication as you move to wellness and congrats for being able to come off your meds.

Thanks for your support and I will be back for more inspiration.

(hugs) Neosoul

Micmo179 zei

Chayil your pics have given me so much inspiration to get back up and try again. I was too ashamed to continue blogging because I felt I like I fell so far behind that I couldn't continue and I began to figure what's the point continuing on with my weight loss. I admire you so much. You are a strong, dedicated, beautiful woman. I only hope to be like you oneday. You are my inspiration.
God bless with your health and wellness.

sweetnes zei

You and your family are so lovely! Congrats on all of your progress :)

Simply Me zei

WOW! That is simply amazing. Well done Chayil for everything. I know how good it must feel to wake up pain free.