Daniel Fast - Day Fourteen

June 23, 2013

Day Fourteen

Today went well. It was tough at lunch. Instead of the burgers and hot dogs that my in-laws had planned to make, they served yummy rotisserie chicken and rice.  Oh, how I've been longing for chicken!  I could have easily resisted the burgers, but the chicken was One Tough Temptation.

I did it, though. :)  We enjoyed our vegie skewers and corn on the cob. I figured out that I do NOT like eggplant. I'm pretty proud of myself for trying, though.

I also did great at church tonight. There was a party of sorts after the worship time with all manner of sweets, chips, and treats.  Thankfully, I wasn't hungry at all after eating our peanut butter and all-fruit rice cakes at dinner.  It wasn't a hard thing to resist. Especially when I could visit with friends, the gooey brownies faded from my memory.

What I did do today that left me really defeated was something I told myself I wouldn't do.  I stepped on a scale.  I haven't weighed myself since we were going to the YMCA. I don't know what I weighed going into this fast, so I have no frame of reference.  I shouldn't care about the scale. I did not go on this fast as a weight loss tool. Yet, I can't help myself from wondering if eating this way would make an impact on my weight.  I have been recording my food and I am under on calories almost every day. Surely, I should see some loss. Yet, how would I know??

The number I saw on the scale was NOT a pretty number. Not what I was hoping to see, that's for sure. Sigh.  I don't know what I was hoping to see. But, two weeks on the Daniel Fast isn't going to get me to a pretty number. Now I know.

One cool thing I learned today is that I really like grilled cauliflower.  Yum.