Day 2: Operation HOPE

Well...I made it through Day 2 of Operation HOPE (Hold On Pain Ends)!!  Whoo Hoo!!

Just like yesterday, I woke with my alarm at 6:00 a.m.  My first though was the same as yesterday, "Okay, Lord. Let's do this."  This is going to become my prayer every morning.  It's short, sweet and right to the point.  It does my heart good to know that I'm not doing this on my own strength, but that the Lord is literally coming beside me and helping through every pace of my day.

Breakfast for today was lemon water, green tea, a hard boiled egg, and the dreaded grapefruit (I'm not a grapefruit girl).   Loved the egg...and you know what the grapefruit was actually not that bad. 

Lunch was another big salad with 4 oz. of chicken and avocados with a dressing of oil and vinegar, and more lemon water.  Loved, loved everything about this salad!!

Snacks of grapes and a KIND bar got me through a couple of hunger pangs during the day.  So glad I had these snacks today...so glad!

Dinner was the dreaded vegetable and tofu stir fry with lemon water.  The vegetables were amazingly awesome.  The tofu...not so much!  I literally spit it out into my napkin.  It was G-R-O-S-S!!  However, my 10 year old daughter and husband liked it.  Go figure.

It's now almost 8:45 p.m., and I'm ending my day with a cup of vanilla chamomile tea.  Two nights in a row I've had a cup of tea and totally enjoyed that.  Before this, I can't remember the last time I've relaxed and enjoyed a cup of tea.  I'm so glad that I'm being forced to relax at the end of the day with a cup of tea.  I sure can get used to this!

And, amazingly, just like yesterday, I'm not hungry at all, and feel very satisfied.  I'm so thankful for that.

This second day wasn't bad...but it was hard.

Hard because I was very busy today, and had to make conscious decisions to do what I needed to do to stay on track.  Hard because I had to spend around 3+ hours in the kitchen during my busy, run around day.  Hard because I've been battling a headache, pain in my neck, back, hands, arms and legs today.  Hard because I had to eat tofu.

In the hard, I had a peace.

Peace that God is carrying me and giving me strength through all the hard.  Peace in the busy.  Peace that this whole food plan will be a balm to my weary, broken body {I know I said this yesterday, but it's So. Very. True.}. Peace that I have HOPE...hope that there will be an end to this pain {I know I said this yesterday, too, but it's So. Very. True.}.

I'm committed to this process.  My eyes are on my prize...to be healthy and pain-free.

Day 3...watch out!  Here I come!