Being healthy

God wants us to live healthy lives. He wants us to eat the foods He created for us. He gave us animals, vegetables, fruit, grains, etc. He does not want us to eat whatever we crave, stuff that makes us feel good, comfort food. We need to glorify God even with what we consume. He made us in His image, and we are destroying that by eating fast food and soda and all that unhealthy junk out there. 

I've been dealing with health issues, not really sure what is going on, but I get nausea, light-headedness, and stomach problems in general. I've been doing a lot of research lately and the doctors have been testing, but nothing seems to stand out as to what is going on. I have since quit drinking soda and trying to stay away from aspartame, I've been shopping for whole foods like veggies and meats, trying to stay away from boxed foods, and I've been exercising. I also have recently learned that what you eat can alter how you feel. FOOD IS MEDICINE people! You can heal many ailments by what you put in your mouth! And it doesn't have to be pills! 

I am still learning and still failing at times, but my attitude is changing toward food. I'm tired of feeling sick, I want more energy, I want to be able to travel and do all the things I love! I can only do that if I start eating to live instead of living to eat. This is my favorite quote as of late "No food tastes as good as healthy feels." It's true! 

I began a journey this month, and every day is a struggle, but I vow to continue on this journey until I feel better and learn how to eat right and hopefully lose some weight in the process! Time to glorify God with my body!

Appreciate your loved ones

Nothing makes you appreciate your loved ones more than when you are scared you'll lose them! My husband was in a car accident last week. He swerved to avoid hitting a car and ended up hitting a tree in a ditch. I was wondering why it was taking so long for him to get home from work and he was 30 minute late by the time someone called me. It is so terrifying to get a call from a nurse saying your husband is at the hospital because he was in a car accident. They don't tell you much over the phone! The only thing she told me was he's fine, but his neck hurts. It doesn't really help much with my anxiety until I see him with my own eyes! He ended up being fine, but it could have been a lot worse. He could have hit the other car head on, he could have hit a light pole he missed by inches, or the guard rail that was on the other side. God was definitely with him that afternoon, he only had a small bruise on his knee and he now has back pain, but it's way better than anything else that could have happened! I am so thankful he's okay and I got a reminder to appreciate him more, just like my last post, you never know when you will see someone for the last time.

Here is the "green machine" all banged up:

Today my 65 year old Aunt will be buried

I hate losing loved ones, especially suddenly. This is the second time I'm losing an aunt in her 60's. My dad's sister had cancer and passed away pretty quickly. This time, it's my dad's sister-in-law, she had a lung disease that they only found out recently she had, and there's nothing they could have done to stop it anyway. She got real bad, real fast. My Uncle had to make a decision to pull her off life support. It all happened so quick that it was so hard to make that decision, but her lungs were beyond repair and she would need a machine breathing for her the rest of her life, and her brain was not getting enough oxygen, so she probably would have been in a vegetative state. It's so sad. 

I just saw her in July, Dave and I were having a date night, and we ran into my uncle and aunt at the restaurant, it's a nice memory I have of her. You never think one time will be the last time you see someone. 

Hug your loved ones often, tell them you care, be there for them when they need someone.