About Me

Hi and welcome to my Faith and Healthy Journey. I want to tell just a little bit about myself and my journey of becoming Healthy.

I come from a family of 10, got married at 18, had my first child at 19, was divorced by 20 and have been remarried for the past 9 years and I had one more daughter after that. Growing up I was very thin, only weighing 95 lbs. I could eat what I wanted, drink what I wanted. No one ever taught me anything about being healthy or eating right.

Growing up in family of 10, being the middle child having one older brother before me and 3 brothers after me. We were not rich and eating out was a luxury back then. During meal times we mostly served ourselves and we were lucky if there were seconds. I tried my best to go first and made sure I got  enough for seconds.

I took that mentality or way of eating with me in my Adult years. After having my first child, I realized that I needed to watch what I ate. I didn't gain that much from the baby, but then I started to work at a place where they served us lunch {like a buffet}. Over the course of the 5 years working there I had gained 30-35 lbs. I will be posting a picture of that very time. Yikes!!! I'm 5'1, so I'm not that tall and gaining all that weight was not very healthy.

During my divorce I had gone to the gym 4 times a week for about 4 hours, and was able to get in shape but after working out I would go and grab Del Taco as a reward. Kind of defeating the purpose. But when I got re-married I stopped going altogether and that's when I had gained the majority of the weight {30-35 lbs}. I was comfy with my hubby and so I was happy and eating all that food at my job. Once I had gained all that weight I soon got pregnant after that with my second child. I had got really sick with gallstones during this pregnancy {probably because of the weight I gained and way I was eating}. I had to learn really quick what I couldn't and could not eat. Having this problem I was told to not eat, greasy, fatty, fried or acidic foods. Huh? That was all I consumed, I felt like I was going to starve.

I sought the advice of a nutrionist who taught me how to eat right and that's where I began my journey to eating right and exercising. But with the baby, and going back to work and having the gallbladder removed, I was able to start to eat those foods again. And soon enough I had gained 15-20 lbs this time.

A couple years later I changed jobs and started working at a Health Management job, I didn't know too much about it but didn't care it was income for me at the time. But little did I know all the stuff that was going to help me. I learned so much working at this place and gained so much info on weightloss and exercising. I began to exercise again and started eating right and lost some pounds. But once I left there and stayed home for awhile I tried to stick to it. But you know what happens you get comfy and so I began to go back to my old eating habits, big portions. Thankfully I wasn't eating all that greasy fatty foods at my old job. Over the course of the next couple of years I had stayed at a moderate weight and didn't really exercise or change anything.

Last summer, I began to run for a 5k. It was challenging and everytime I had eaten horrible and tried to run it killed me. So I tried again to change the way I ate it didn't last long and went back to my bad habits. I also love, love sweets and so that didn't help either. During the fall last year I started a new job working at a place that feeds you well, and yes greasy, fatty fried foods. And so what did I do...of course I induldged. All that work during the summer and up to the fall went out the door.

I made new years resolutions with my eating habits and blah, blah you know the drill. You do it for a while and then go back. So a couple of months ago I purchased a Juicer, this for sure was going to solve all my problems. But I'm on it, I'm off it. So here I am praying that God would help me take control of my eating habits. A couple of weeks ago I had went clothes shopping and was so dissappointed in myself at how I let myself go all these years. And my clothes were not fitting anymore, I felt sluggish, depressed, angry, moody and undetermined. I watched this video on what juicing did to help someone lose alot of weight so I began to juice again. And started to walk here at my work. It has helped me but I want to be surrendered from this addiction, yes it's an addiction of food and sweets.

This body that God has given me is His temple, it's His and He dwells in here. I know the begining of this new journey is going to be tough, hard, and I ask for your prayers. I pray that God would be glorified in my body, that everything I put in it glorifies Him. There is all this food that He has made and is soo good for us. But I've been putting things man has made that is bad for me. I also suffer from a few health that made losing weight hard. But enough with the excuses!

If you struggle as I do, please let's do this together, lets be good stewards of our bodies. First we must put Him first, surrender all to Him. Give Him full control over you. I will be sharing my struggles through this journey, encouragement, resources, recipes and some great tips!

Would come back and join me! If you would like to join me please leave me a comment and we can pray for eachother.

Seeking Him,
Adrienne