Tired today.... Glad it's labor day.

Chasing pavements....

Introducing the Real FAT Dietitian

Okay, I know what you are thinking. Is she really a dietitian? Why yes, I am. Why am I putting myself on display? Because dietitians eat too. Yes, we are nutrition experts, but we still struggle. I just had to say it. I am one of a few African American dietitians in this business and believe me I questioned the Lord repeatedly about this calling. I recall sitting in class thinking, "I am the largest person in this room!" but I was also thinking "My mom wouldn't listen to anyone in this room." She'd fix them a sandwich! :-) Fast forward more years than I care to say and here I am....the F.A.T. Dietitian. Full, Free-spirited, Fabulous, and always First-Class. Absent-minded (slightly), Arrogant (a bit), and Authenticated (my origins are supported by unquestionable evidence: see THE BIBLE). Tenacious, Talented, and Teeming with uniqueness,(or maybe I'm just peculiar, uncommon, unusual: see 1 Peter 2:9-10). Anyway, that's me! Can you say FFFFAAATTT!?!!!!!!!!! So what is this part of my blog all about? Well, I have decided to chronicle my own weight loss journey. I have seen the scales tipping and now I have 35 pounds to lose. I'll keep you posted every step of the way and I'll be sure to post pictures. Being F.A.T......I don't mind......being unwell, well, that's unacceptable.
Here's me NOW!
weight 166# (correction, Jenny Craig said 173# HUH? WHAT U TALKIN' 'BOUT?
height 5'2
bust 40
waist 36
hips 40
BMI 31

Goal
weight 142#
bust 36
waist 27
hips 36
BMI 26

P.S. Sorry you can't see my hair. My sisterlocks are too, too, fabu...
Till next time... Hugs and squeezes with all my heart.

Remember this week to:

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 2:5)

In the home Christ-likeness is kindness;
In business it is honesty;
Toward the weak it is burden bearing;
Toward the sinner it is evangelism;
Toward ourselves it is self-control;
Toward God it is reverence, love and worship.
—Unknown

Someone sent this to me. Be Blessed

John W. Gardner

The things you learn in maturity aren’t simple things such as acquiring information and skills. You learn not to engage in self-destructive behavior. You learn not to burn up energy in anxiety. You discover how to manage your tensions. You learn that self-pity and resentment are among the most toxic of drugs. You find that the world loves talent but pays off on character.
You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you; they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.

Headed to the gym......4:45am WHY?????

Hi ;)

Life Today

It's been awhile. Trying to figure out this thing called life. Joined Jenny Craig when I hit 173#s. So far I have lost 5 pounds. 30 to go..........

Ministry Logo

here's a better picture of the logo

Minus the Mzgetreal (that's just for me!)

Diabetes

What is this blue circle?
The universal symbol for diabetes.
The purpose of the diabetes symbol is to give diabetes a common identity.
Until 2006, there was no global symbol for diabetes.
It aims to: support all existing efforts to raise awareness about diabetes
inspire new activities, bring diabetes to the attention of the general public
brand diabetes provide a means to show support for the fight against diabetes

No child should die of diabetes
Diabetes is fast emerging as one of the most serious health problems of our time – a global epidemic that claims more lives each year than HIV/AIDS.
Children with diabetes in the developing world are particularly vulnerable. Many lack access to proper care and the life saving medicines they need. As a result, they become chronically ill; many die quickly, while others develop severe complications such as kidney failure, blindness and nerve damage.

Join me in the fight for Life
http://www.lifeforachild.idf.org/

GOD and my BRA

Sounds weird, I know. What does God have to do with my "undergarments"? Well, let me tell you. It is so easy to turn over the big things to God.....the new job, school, spouses, children....we beg and plead, please Lord just help a sister out! But God is so into details. He will handle even the small stuff if you just hand it over. Bank on His promises. Be anxious for nothing because when you turn to Him, He really will work it out. Funny story, I ordered 2 bras from essential bodywear. I knew they were coming on Friday and I was was excited (yes, excited about bras! when you are a big girl good support is hard to find!) Anyway, I checked the mail for the slip of paper indicating that a package had been delivered for me that day and was waiting in the apartment office. Weird, no slip in the mail! Awwww Man!!!! So disappointed, I went to my apartment only to find the FedEx slip on my door stating the package was in the apartment office. So I got back in my car and drove to the apartment office. They searched and checked every where. No package. I called FedEx and explained and they were equally as sure that the package had been delivered. Now, an investigation.........at this point all I could do was sit and wait. Truly, no anxiety, I just prayed for God be in the details of my life and I trusted that I would get my package, not because of the investigation, but because of what I know my God can do. Monday I spoke with the Fedex representative and the wonderful DFW bralady. Still no package, all I could do was wait and trust that it would get to me. I paid rent on Monday and asked about the package. It was there, just overlooked on Friday. Yay God! He got me my bras! I know you guys might think I am reading too much into the obtainment of my bras, but I know my God. He is in the details. Be anxious for NOTHING......I'm laughing now because so often I am discouraged by my own unbelief. Come on, He listened to me about my bras people!!! I know He is listening about the big stuff too. Somethings He handles quickly, somethings takes longer because He is designing and crafting them just for me. So God is in the small stuff too. You can miss how He is working if you only focus on the big things. Big changes come in due season, but search for Him in your everyday details. He's there, Trust me... I know. :-)
I choose to cast all my cares on the Lord and the Lord will sustain me. Psalm 55:22

It's Official!!!

Thank you Jesus for this day! So Blessed am I!

Thank you Tiny, Quentin, Brian, Lesley and Sonja for braving the elements (Can you say DOWNPOUR!?!) to spend this special day with me!

Thanks for the roses Quentin! Love You!

Meet Keosha!

My great-niece...I'm a great aunt! What!?!...I think I'm too young to be a great anything except a great woman! :-) Love you timmy 2

Missing family

I'm missing my brothers today. Love you Robert and Mikey. Everyday!

Sisterlocks Rule!!!

My sisterlocks are changing and growing.....Yeah!

SISTERLOCKS RULE!!

I got sisterlocks about 5 months ago and I LOVE THEM! I think they are maturing very nicely. I am so glad to be free from EXCESSIVE haircare!!!
Go Misty, Go Misty, You're free now, Go Sisterlocks!

Thanks to Tafi! My wonderful consultant!

I'm trying to mature and look like this! These ladies' sisterlocks are so beautiful and too FIERCE!

this little sweet heart loves her fingers!

Camille is Here!!!!

Meet My Goddaughter Camille!

DOB 4-23-09

Isn't she sweet and beautiful. Watch for more to come.

GRADUATION

You know that feeling you get when you've worked really hard for something and you finally get it.....that's not how I'm feeling right now. I feel absolute heartbroken over my disbelief that God would get me to this point. It's been 9 years. Over the last 9 years I have felt so disheartened over my efforts to complete my Masters degree. I let pride hinder me because I couldn't face failing. I wanted to give up so many times, but there was a presence urging me on. I hated that presence because it wouldn't let me stop. I hit wall after wall and yet the presence urged me on. Why???? I realize that the presence of God, His Holy Spirit, will not be stopped in the lives of those who belong to Him. Why was it so important to Him for me to continue? I cried, screamed, ached, and down-right got angry many times over the past 9 years. What was the point? Couldn't He see that I was "too through" trying and not succeeding. I realize that my God wanted me to experience Him in a new way. He showed me that He is my father indeed!
What do you do when you are at your end?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when the situation is beyond your control?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when you have exhausted all of your tricks and go-to people and not one of them can offer you anything?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when what you say you believe and what you practice come head to head?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when you cry daily because you feel like life has become that dream you have of falling, falling, falling, falling, and any minute you know that you will land and crush every bone in your body....that the pain will be beyond what you can bear?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when He brings you to the end of your sufficiency so that you can see that He is all the sufficiency you need?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when you realize that the problems you've had is because you believe that you know you better than God?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when all that you value changes and you realize that what you fear is really being out of control?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when He shows you that He loves you, won't ever leave you, and will patiently wait until you are ready?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
What do you do when what was important no longer seems important anymore?
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"

Bow down and worship Him, He who knows all that you are better than you ever can.
Why do I insist on assuming that I know me better than Him? We know that other people don't always get us. We know that we show what we want to show to others. But do we realize that we are also putting on a show for ourselves? I am not as good as I think or as bad as I think. What I think about me is irrelevant. I'm concerned with what God thinks. After all He has searched me and knows me. When I sit and when I rise. He perceives my thoughts from afar.....Where can I go from His Spirit? Where can I flee from His presence? ....He created my innermost being; He knit me together in my mother's womb. ...All the days ordained for me were written in His book before one of them came to be.....How precious are His thoughts...How vast the sum of them! What does it matter what I think? I only know what I have been. How precious are His thoughts because He knows how I started, why I was created, what I have been, what I am becoming, and the capacity in which I am able to do the things He has assigned for me. He is continually building individual capacity. What He desires for me to do, He has equipped and is equipping me for those tasks.

What do you do when you realize He is everything?

"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"

Psalm 46:10 encourages us to reflect on what God can do in the face of what we are unable to do.
REMEMBER THAT “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore I will not fear, though the earth do change” (Psalm 46:1-2a). Hallelujah!

Congratulations to me for bowing to my knees and giving up so that He could give me a greater capacity to do His will. Thanks Jesus, I love you.

sweet interns.....lovely ladies, lovely spirits, I'll never forget!

sweet C4...Just gorgeous!

sweet educators...we make this look easy!

The truth of the matter....

PHI 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

Jesus is my Truth!

Jesus is my most noble King!

Jesus is my righteousness!

Jesus is my purity!

Jesus is my one true love!

Jesus holds all my admiration!

Jesus is most excellent and the only one worthy of all praise!

I meditate on Him day and night!

“When I overcome this problem, I am really going to be happy.”

A friend sent this to me. It spoke to me.....always procrastinating and saying later after I fix this......Well later never comes! Enjoy LIFE today in every Way!

Whether the problem is a trial, a bill or a person, you can (and should) be happy BEFORE any of that changes or improves.

Let's Change It Today:
1. The problem is not the problem. It's HOW you look at it. When the disciples were in the boat, WATER was flooding their ship (Mark 4:35-42). Their focus was the water, when it should have been JESUS in the back of the boat. His presence is FULLNESS OF JOY.
2. Happiness is NOT a state of being, but a state of THINKING. Proverbs 23:7—As a man thinks within, so is he. There can be no doubt that a STATE OF MIND always leads to a STATE OF BEING.
3. Happiness is LEARNED. In Philippians 4:11 Paul said, “I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.” How did he learn it? He GAVE UP trying to fix everything on the outside, and embraced God’s presence (Christ in him) as his source of true happiness.
4. See your life as a gift to others. You are more blessed (= HAPPY, FORTUNATE) when you give, than when you receive (Acts 20:35).
5. Happiness is a decision. Someone told me recently, ‘when I decided to do something about being unhappy, everything began to change.’ It was simply their DECISION, that brought about change. Don’t underestimate the power of decision. (Deuteronomy 30:19)
6. We DO need to set our minds on things above, not on this earth (Colossians 3:2). No matter how good our life on earth can be, IT is nothing compared to the pleasures, happiness and joy we will have in heaven.
THINK IT & SAY IT:I will focus on the PRESENCE OF GOD in my life. He is with me. I fill my mind with the Word of God and it produces joy and happiness. I will not try to fix everything on the outside, but enjoy God’s love, and expect His presence to melt my mountains like wax! I choose to live life on the giving side, and expect great reward in heaven. And I choose to be happy today, in Jesus’ Name.

Thanks "Luscious" Lesley aka "The Lionness"

Growing Older

GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

I will be 33 in under 2 months and I, like most people, am feeling reflective over the past year and looking forward to the upcoming year. Although I am loathe to type it, I feel that so much of my life has been on hold for so long because of the things I have felt obligated to do. How has almost 33 years of my life gone by? Now don't get me wrong, I've done a lot, but there is still so much to experience. I feel like time is racing now and I just want to have fun on the journey. So many great people have come into and out of my life. Most recently I have been thinking about all the great women of God I have met over the past few years. Just think about it. How has God, in His divine grace and mercy, interceded on your behalf by putting just the right people in your life. People that make you think differently, challenge you to behave differently, and gently nudge you to expect more and demand more because you are a child of God? I see my Lord so clearly in the people He has blessed me with. Not perfect people........understand that please. But that's what makes it so great. In all of our imperfections, He's still God!!! He's still on the throne. How awesome is that. I don't have to do anything to add to Him. My entire life is about the gifts He is continually bestowing on me! Everyday He loves me. He is so REAL and has all of my heart. My prayer is that as I leap into the next year of my life that I will learn how to show my love for Him to others in my life. I am desperately in love with Him and I am so grateful that the God of love, who doesn't need me to add to Him, actually considers me everyday. I'm on His mind. WOW!!! How blessed I feel right now. I pray that you understand where I'm at........and if you don't I pray you will one day. I grow up everyday in my Lord Jesus Christ because He has given me the opportunity to do so. No, I'm not perfect....but I am His.