Monday Reload ~ God is blessing your efforts. Look at the amount of weight that is being lost week after week. Turning setbacks into comebacks. Refusing to quit. Love yawl so much. Bless the name of the Lord!
With that said, take a look at my first meal of the day. It's a Quest Peanut Butter Cookie (Don't eat these without heating for 15-20 seconds. That turns them from tolerable to tasting like homemade.), with a cup of Healthwise High Protein Hot Chocolate. This ends up being about 320 calories full of protein, fiber and fat. Well balanced.
BUT,
I've been taking some flack about the meal replacements I use. Our Shibboleth family members and supporters may think I'm defending myself with what I say next but I'm really not. I'm trying to help those who give me flack get over their objections so they can be successful.
I eat a lot of whole food. However, I am a busy busy person. Instead of making quick choices in the fast food drive through I make choices that are healthier by being prepared with plenty of options like this Quest Cookie. Filling, healthier than fast food (BY FAR) and fat burning. Lifestyle requires ability to improvise. I love whole foods but sometimes I just don't have time to prepare, cook and pack. Instead of being unprepared and making poor choices I make sure I have plenty of approved, well balanced, and tasty portion controlled meal replacements in my survival kit and pantry. If you aren't prepared you will make poor choices. What good does it do for you to preach clean eating, veganism or anti gmo type eating plans when you are unhealthy and possibly over weight due to not being able to stick to those restrictive plans year around.
I am Shibboleth! All in. This means that if I feel like shopping at Trader Joes' or in the organic section of the grocery stores and then cooking a favorite clean eating recipe that I can do that. Shibboleth means if I just don't have time to cook a free roaming, hormone free bison steak, quinoa, and mashed cauliflower that I don't have to do that. Shibboleth means if I want a darn chocolate chip cookie for dinner I can have a chocolate chip cookie for dinner. If I want spaghetti or pizza I can have those too. I can eat at grannies. I can eat at mamas. I can make mock tuna helper and mac and cheese if I want to do that too! I can be a vegan today but understand that all of that plant based starch is going to cause the fat bus so I can avoid plant based starches! ANYTHING. I can do anything with this plan and with the knowledge that I have garnered from this program. I am the BULLY. Food is no longer the BULLY. The difference is that my lifestyle meets me where MY MOOD IS and in the MOMENT without me having to sacrifice my efficient fat burning status. Sometimes I feel like being a caveman. Sometimes I feel like being a vegetarian, hugging some trees, crossing my legs by the candlelight and saying a prayer, but sometimes I just want my $%^$ G butter or Quest Chocolate Chip Cookie. Do it the way the worlds is teaching you with their fake nutritional news or do it the way Shibboleth teaches you! Shibboleth? Combine foods and or ingredients properly to control fat storage and weight loss hormones. Control daily portions and plate portions by eating unto Him and you will lose the fat.
So, until you lose the weight and keep the weight off for a year or two, please don't preach at us about how unhealthy we are eating on Planet Shibboleth because we eat a high protein cookie in a wrapper that has trace amounts of splenda in it.
Splenda may not be the best thing in the world for you but its a ton better than those prescription medications in your purse. Let's get you off of those by getting the pounds off and then we will go chase down some free roaming chickens and hug some trees.
Warm Regards,
TJ
PS ~ My grammar is poor. I hear that one a lot too. Perhaps, I'm just busy and don't take the time to run a grammar check or perhaps I'm just a fool. Well, a fool with a plan is better than a wise person without a plan.