Our Journey to Forever - Private: Day 3

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Day 3 - Getting Easier

I did it! I heard that the first three days were the hardest, and I think I believe it. Today I wasn't nearly as hungry. In fact, after my lean and green, I was completely stuffed! The food is getting more palatable. It's amazing how good things can taste after you've spent three days starving yourself...

Anyway, it's been a good day for the diet. Andrew and I were out today and I kept wanting to stop and get stuff. You know - the stuff I probably wouldn't have really gotten anyway, but the fact that I couldn't made it torture. I wanted a candied apple from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. I wanted a candy bar from the check out lane at Target. I wanted a hot fudge sundae from McDonald's. Don't even start to ask me about the dessert menu at Applebee's. And then there was the pizza at my sisters house that her husband had loaded with extra toppings that looked amazing. In fact, you should have seen me drooling over Peter's Kraft macaroni and cheese (I hate Kraft mac and cheese, by the way). Anyway, I'm still experiencing a LOT of food triggers, but I did it and it's getting easier. I felt good all day and was never really physically hungry - just emotionally wanting. I have never really thought of myself as being a food addict, but watching myself go without it makes me see things a little differently. It's been kind of fun and interesting for the budding therapist in me.

The fun thing about this diet is that I think it will help me learn to really love cooking an entirely new way. I think I will learn more about flavoring with herbs and spices and how to cook more with vegetables and create deliciously palatable healthy things. I figure I can start slowly by learning to cook these things on a small scale for my lean and green meal, but eventually I will feel comfortable with it and start pushing it on my family too. Tonight at Applebee's I ordered a from their 550 calorie and under menu. I had a steak and this delicious portabello mushroom stuffed with spinach and topped with a slight amount of parmesean cheese. The flavors were delicious. It tasted so rich. And yet it was so low-calorie. That's what I am hoping to learn how to do. Tomorrow I want to make these great stuffed peppers that I have had before from SkinnyTaste.com It will be yummy.

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Family Proclamation

The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

We, the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children.All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose.In the premortal realm, spirit sons and daughters knew and worshiped God as their Eternal Father and accepted His plan by which His children could obtain a physical body and gain earthly experience to progress toward perfection and ultimately realize his or her divine destiny as an heir of eternal life. The divine plan of happiness enables family relationships to be perpetuated beyond the grave. Sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally.The first commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife. We declare that God's commandment for His children to multiply and replenish the earth remains in force. We further declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife.We declare the means by which mortal life is created to be divinely appointed. We affirm the sanctity of life and of its importance in God's eternal plan.Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. "Children are an heritage of the Lord" (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.The family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity. Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities. By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners. Disability, death, or other circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation. Extended families should lend support when needed.We warn that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets.We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.

This proclamation was read by President Gordon B. Hinckley as part of his message at the General Relief Society Meeting held September 23, 1995, in Salt Lake City, Utah.