I wasn't able to attend this Sat. morning class because I sustained an injury in my right calf playing basketball on Friday night against the Young Women. I had felt great throughout the game until the last few minutes when I became confused and then stepped wrong. Ouch! I have been taking it easy and resting it so I am doing so much better now. I was so worried about not being able to exercise that I felt despair. I was able to get through this and I am doing much better now because of the encouragement I felt from many of you. Even from those of you who also received injuries as well. I hope you are also doing much better now. I appreciate you. I tried my best to continue diligently with portion control since that was all that was within my power in these last two weeks. I struggled on some days but then on others I succeeded which is the way it truly goes.
Erin taught the lesson this week on The Body is a Blesssing. The link can be found on the sidebar for that talk. Our bodies are amazing and it was our challenge to remember that! Also, Gloria showed an interesting video presentation on the effects that refined sugar has on our bodies. Since not everyone was able to stay to watch that video, Gloria will make arrangements to make sure that you can watch it if you'd like and you can arrange that with her. I also heard that the Y.W. basketball game was a topic of conversation for the importance of exercising and realizing that we need to take baby steps to stay fit.
Jan. 23~
I felt today's meeting was very insightful. Melanie shared lots of positive and encouraging information today. Here are some of the highlights:
- Take care of our bodies to the best of our ability. (1 Nephi 3:7)
- Keep a WOW journal and write down how you resisted food temptations. (like not eating that brownie you really wanted)
- Consider how much energy you use to carry your own body. How else might you spend that energy if you felt healthier?
- Be healthy.
- Reach our goals. We can do this!
- Remember the beautiful dream that Melanie has in mind for each of us. Make our own dreams reality.
- Mormonad: Don't be fooled! Remember the story about the snake.
- "Being in the water won't drown you but staying there will." We don't have to stay where we are at. We have the power within us to change.
Remember: We'll be starting a clothing exchange in the next two weeks. The purpose and hope is that as we lose weight we'll not be in any one size very long and exchanging our clothes amongst each other will help with the expense of buying new clothing.
Other inspirational quotes:The greatest wealth is health. ~Virgil
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend. ~Bruce Lee
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. ~Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
One starts an action simply because one must do something.
- T. S. Eliot
No comments:
Post a Comment