As you guys know I simply love to bake and I have been desperately searching the internet for a low fat/low calorie cake recipe that makes sense.  If anyone has any recipes or website suggestions please post a comment.  I literally been feigning to bake but I’m scared because I’m trying to loose weight and I’m not one of those bakers that bake cake and don’t eat it…I’m not there yet:)  Oh yeah if anyone has some good bread recipes that would be great also.

Thanks

Tree

Does anyone have a list of gluten free commercial food items?   I desperately need suggestions, advice, etc on the gluten free diet.  You see I started my son on this diet about a week ago (based on the limited knowledge that I have) and I have seen such a tremendous change in his behavior.  (Oh yeah, for those of you who don’t know my son was diagnosed PDD-NOS.)   

I want to keep this diet going and be as strict as possible with it because of the wonderful change that is occuring in my son.  Again if you have any information, suggestions, ideas, recipes, etc to help me I will GREATLY appreciate it.  Also are there any gluten free ice cream cones my son loves ice cream on cones.

Thanks again,

Tree

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?  For the life of me I can’t seem to be consistent with any diet regimen.  I use to work with dietitians so I know how to allot certain calories for each meal, I know what’s good for me and what’s not but for some reason when it comes to dieting or should I say eating the correct portions…I fail everytime.  Well not everytime…the times I seem to do real well and lose say 15-20 pounds I end up pregnant…heehee:)

Seriously, why is it that I know exactly what to do, but fail to do what I know.  Yes I want to lose weight to look good (people can say they want to lose to be healthier yeah that could be part of it but we all want to be happy with the person we see in the mirror), I want to be healther, I want to be fit and energetic, I want to stay diabetes free and high blood pressure free.  I tried Christian Diets, Weight Watchers, Diet Pills, Eating Right and Exercise, etc…but I realized that its not the diet its me.  For some reason I lack the drive to go and run the track and I lack the self control to put that cookie down.  Its ashame.  I think I’m glutton:( Not in the sense of sitting eating a profound amount of junk in one sitting but using food as a crutch.  You know when you are sad, bored, entertaining (Something I LOVE to do). 

Lay It Down

I need to lay down this SIN yes sin that so easily besets me. 

Hebrews 12:1 “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

What is that thing that bogs you down? That stops you for being the best You that You can be.  For me I believe its my weight.  And from meditating on the scripture above I see that it not a lack of knowledge but a lack of patience.  I’m don’t consider myself to be a patient person.  I’m a “Go-Getter.”  That Go Getter mentality caused me to not give up on losing weight but it does make me restless in a process that requires patience and endurance.  The scripture says to, “…run with patience the race that is set before us.” Whew that’s some heavy stuff.  How many of us don’t attain our goals whether it is mentally, physically, or spiritually due to a lack of patience. Well we need to ask the Father for some help:)

Almighty Father I pray for all of us that want to do right and try to do right but at times stumble and find it difficult to stand again.  Give us the patience and endurance to run this race.  Let us not become weary in doing good but encourage us that at the proper time we will reap the harvest of that which we labored for if we do not give up.  Father as Your children we come humbly before you asking for forgiveness of that sin that so easily besets us because according to 2 Chronicles 7:14  You said, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. So that you can forgive our sins and heal our land (our thinking, our mindset).  You are worthy of all the Glory and we thank you in advance, for Your Word never comes back to You void.  So thank you Father in Your Son Jesus Christ name. Amen