Day 10

I forgot to mention what ended up happening with the car break-in. The day after it happened, the police found all of my cards: debit, credit, gift, ID and social security. I was floored! Especially cause I didn't have to figure out how to figure out the social security thing. I was very thankful that I got those things back but there were still some things I missed. I loved my hemp lotion and berts beeswax chapstick. So one day I prayed, and told Jesus that it would be awesome if I got those back. Guess what? The next day the police station called and told me they found my purse and the rest of the contents of my purse. Including my chapstick and lotion! So I have closure.

As far as food, I've been a 7 on a scale of 1-10. I have cheated a few times. On Saturday I stopped by a friend's house and her husband offered to make me dinner. Part of it was pasta. I had decided before I even started the diet that if anyone offered me food, I wouldn't turn it down. Plus, it was chicken parmesan...VERY GOOD! So I ate it. I didn't feel the best after eating it, but it might have been cause I ate it too fast. Yesterday my sister and I planned a surprise birthday party for our younger sister cause she is turning 16 tomorrow. One of her friends brought very good chocolate chip cookies. I ate 3 and had a mad stomachache! I made a mental note on that one! I also drank a soda yesterday AND today. Fail!

I'm still on the diet train though! It's all about what you do after you make a mistake, not the mistake itself. I know that this is what God wants me to do and if I fall and stay down I have done a great diservice to myself and disobeyed what God has told me to do. Failure happens but after a few failures comes success! And success happens because you have learned from the failures.

Life is a journey

Not a destination

There are no mistakes

Just chances we've taken

Lay down your regrets cause all we have is now

Wake up in the morning

And get out of bed

Start making a mental list in my head

Of all of the things that I am grateful for

Early in the morning

It's the dawn of a new day

New hopes, new dreams, new ways

I open up my eyes and

I open up my mind and

I wonder how God will surprise me today

Early in the morning

It's the dawn of a new day

New hopes, new dreams, new ways

I open up my heart and

I'm gon' do my part and

Make this a positively beautiful day

~India Arie