Daniel Fast - Day Twenty

June 29, 2013

Day Twenty

Woohoooo!!!!!  Tomorrow is the Grande Finale!  I am really kicking myself for not checking in with my weight when I started this.  This week, where I've been working at implementing some of the Eat to Live ideas for my meals as well as set aside snacks for good.  I'm down almost 3 pounds for just this week! I've never seen the scale go down like this. Yay. :)

Today we worked HARD.  We sweated ourselves into a major stink pulling out poison ivy and pruning back the jungle that took over some of our yard. We gained about 6 feet of yard, depth wise.  We pulled two loads of brush and ivy to the dump.  And I know I sweated out nearly every bottle of water I drank today.  It was hot, humid, and a glorious way to sweat out a pound. Our yard looks wonderful.

Sad part is my husband is now reacting to the poison ivy. He is so strongly allergic that even though we were suited up in long sleeves, pants, and gloves, he is swelling up like crazy. :(  He's headed to urgent care in the morning, as they were already closed when he started reacting. I feel awful that he's fighting this again. I hate that stuff!  I am so hoping we can keep it out of the yard now.

After we finished working, took our showers and just relaxed under the breeze of the fan, we loaded up the gang and walked down to the local pizza place for dinner. Super fun treat. It's been weeks since the children have had pizza. They were so excited.  David, Elizabeth, and I all had a salad. I brought some walnut halves and my own greek dressing since I am thinking theirs likely had some sugar in it. They usually do.  The children enjoyed their pizza and we enjoyed our salads and an order of potato skins shared between us. 

Yes. It WAS hard to see everyone eat that yummy pizza and not have a nibble.  I so love pizza. Then there was that yummy, chewy bread they give with the salad.  Another tough temptation.  However, when we started walking home, I felt quite full but not that uncomfortable full feeling I usually have when going out for a pizza night.  I felt so wonderful knowing I was able to resist the food I love the most while putting food my body needed to restore after a hard day of work.  Even that soda we craved for a Job Well Done wouldn't have given me the great feeling I had when I walked home without guilt.  I didn't overeat, I didn't eat foods that I would later regret, and I felt full and happy.

Even happier when I stepped on that scale tonight!

Tomorrow is the last day. I feel like I should do something to celebrate, but I just don't know what. We are hoping to go to friends after church for lunch and dinner then back to evening church tomorrow. That would be a very special gift.  However, with David's poison ivy so bad, I'm sorta thinking we may just lay low for the day. 

I do confess, I'm a little nervous having no restrictions to my diet.  I'm glad I'm moving on to ETL next.  It gives me a framework and I like that.