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Dear Chihuahua of Fear…

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I am writing this post in response(or a reaction) to a challenge launched last week by Holley Gerth as part of her series of  “God-sized dreams” posts. I have written before about my desire to see God using me and my gifts in the right place at the right time. I believe it hasn’t happened yet as the magnitude of my expectations hasn’t been fulfilled. My heart still aches with desire and vibrates with longing every time I read about issues that burden me. So dear Chihuahua of Fear, I am writing this short letter to let you know that I haven’t given up on my dream to serve. I recognise your whispers and I bring them to light and put them to shame: I was created for a purpose and the time is coming when I will discover it, walk in it, delight through it. I am a very imperfect human being but my God is perfect beyond reproach and this reality is the rock I stand on. There is no cancellation of God’s …

Healthy Living Challenge: Day 28 – Going back to the basics

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After writing my post yesterday I had a bit of time to reflect on the whys and I realised in the course of last week I made a few typical dieting mistakes: 1. I forgot to eat when it was time to eat and then I ended up eating too much/getting dizzy/eating the wrong things. 2. I forgot to drink plenty of fluids and as a consequence my bowel movement has been less regular. 3. I got lax about wheat and I pinched here and there things I shouldn’t have. 4. I didn’t plan as carefully my meals and I ended up eating less veggies than in the weeks before. 5. I got lazy and didn’t make time to exercise/blamed it on the weather. 6. I read too many dieting books but couldn’t synthesise all the information into one common philosophy, so to say. So today I went back to the drawing board, so to say, and I mended a couple of things. For starters, I drank PLENTY. I made two teapots of herbal tea …

Healthy Living Challenge: Day 25 – Easter Joys

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This post will not be my typical healthy living entry as such but because Otilia, from Romanian Mum was so keen to find out :-), I will tell you about our new family tradition, an Easter tree!! I actually had seen in before, on two separate occasions but it was only last week, when we were invited for dinner with friends and I saw their own version that I thought: “Aha,  I can actually do this myself!” So last night I sent hubby to find a sturdy tree branch. Fortunately for him, there are loads literally lying around as in preparation for a new road layout and he didn’t have to look long or do anything illegal 🙂 I had bought from PoundLand a few bags of small and medium fluffy chicks, three decorative egg types and some very cute miniature nests. Emma was fully on board with this, helping me hang the eggs, decorating the hollow ones with stickers and filling them up with small treats like chocolate coins and mini-chocolate eggs.  The result …

Healthy Living Challenge:Day 22 – Dieting Book Feast!

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Okay, my friends, I haven’t been ignoring you or slacking off with my healthy living task. On the contrary, my scales have been a stable 68.4 kilos this week and I did a lot of research in order to provide you with some valuable dieting material, just in case you were inspired by my posts. The first read I want to bring to your attention is Anna Richardson’s Summer Body Blitz Diet. Wow, Anna is a girl after my own heart with her dieting book! She has only 5 rules to stick to: 1. NO WHEAT; 2. NO DAIRY; 3. NO SUGAR; 4. NO CARBS(after 6 p.m, that is!); 5. NO ALCHOHOL. Of all the dieting books I peeked at in the last few weeks, her philosophy is the closest to the way I have been trying to lose the weight(plus she mentions a summer body in the book title, the very thing I am aiming for :-). She also has a section made of simple-to-follow yet delicious recipes and a “Fast Food” section that …

Healthy Living Challenge: Day 20 – Health on a plate

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Today it was “leftover” day in our household. I had made my turkey burgers and quinoa salad from yesterday evening so all I had to do is make a fresh salad of organic lettuce and tomato and my dinner was ready. I am always experimenting with my food so last night I  added a thin slice of Gruyère cheese into the burgers and it melted when warmed up today. Delish! I had also more confidence in making the quinoa salad second time around and realised that a cup does us just fine and nothing goes to waste, which I hate seeing. Hubby enjoys my food more than ever, he had always been a healthy eater but he just loves trying new things and he got spoilt in the last three weeks. Well, this is day 20, there are exactly 20 more days left of this healthy living challenge and I am heading for the kitchen to make myself a fruit snack as I got hungry again after out very healthy dinner at 6. Talk tomorrow! …