Hard Week

This week has been one if not the most difficult weeks I have had since I started this Journey to a Healthy Life. No one ever said it will be easy; however this week has pushed me to new limits. It broke me down and even brought me to tears. My encouragement seem not to be here this week, infact my push I uesly have felt like it was sitting on the shelf laughing at me. I cried out to God asking “why me, why now.” It’s a question I can not answer, but in the meantime I left the door open to satans attacks and that is just what he did. It is like that old saying goes “if you give him an inch, he will take a mile.” My mom and grandma use to tell me that. As I started my workout, my mind said, “Why do this no one really cares if you lose weight. Just give up Mark.” I allowed that to run my last most of this last week. However by mid-week I ran that thought back through my head and took authority over it.

God will not say “give up” and He will not discourage you. NO FOLKS! God is the opposite of all that. He my friends will encourage you NOT to give up. When you allow a thought like I did into your mind it starts to control you and your life. Like me you can take authority over it.

I had to refocus my workout and my mind to be back on Christ. I know to some that sounds foolish to have my workout focused on God. Infact I have been told it was foolish God don’t care about your workout. He dose care about every aspect of your life. He is my biggest encourager to finish this race I started and finish strong. We need to not leave these doors open for satan because he will attack.

Now its confession time. On Saturday we held BBM’s first ever Harvest & Costume Party. I went as a Pirate for all you minds that wanted that info (Picture at Bottom). However I cheated yes I said it cheated on the diet part of this lifestyle change. The good news and there is good news I pick myself back up and got back on that horse. I am going strong again.

Well folks, my time is coming to an end today. I want to encourage all of you today, no matter what I know we all get tired in this fight we are in. Trying to change our lives for the better. There are greener pastures on the other side. I know it is hard to see them now and at times they fell like they are never going to come. It will be here faster then you think. Stick to it, fight it out and YOU will see what I am talking about.

MEAL IDEA:

I love fried chicken, mmmmm. I am acturally crazy about it. However thanks to Tara, I got a sub for the flower, oh and its bakes not fried but still mmmmm good. Take your chicken breast and cut them up into strips, take an egg and beat it in a seperate bowl, dip the chicken into the egg, then roll it in French Fried Onions, then throw it in the oven and bake it. Last part of this is EAT and ENJOY. It is good for dinner and parties. I say you go and try it for yourselfs.

Thank you & God Bless
Mark "BigBear" Meyer

"LET THE NEW LIFE BEGAIN"

Imagin a young 25 year old man sitting in his doctors office, felling nerves. He is expecting to hear bad news, but hopeing to be wrong. Then the doctor enters the room, time seems to slow down. She puts her clipboard on the table and takes a seat next to the young patient. For the first time since entering the room she makes eye contact with him. Then proceeds to ask the 25 year old, “How are you truly felling today Son.” The man knew when a doctor ask that question it is useky followed by some bad news. She countinues by explaining that they got all the blood work and test back. Then tells him, “Usely when a 475 pound person comes in to see me, words like dietbeites-heart issues- even stroke pop up as major concerns, however those issues are not even a conceren as the blood work showed all normal on them.” That young man took a big sigh of releif and was very thankful for the good news. Then came that bad news that rained on his prade. She told him, “ you have none of those type of issues, however we do have a huge conceren. If you are to countinue on this path you happen to be on, you will sadly not live past the ripe age of 30 years.
Now picture that young man as he left his doctors that day. What was going through his head? How he must have felt? Did he only have 5 years of his life left? Even better imagin you as that young man. Can you see it? NO! Well I can, becouse that young man was me. I was the one to receive the bad news, the one to be told he would only live another five years. With that said I can proudly say “I am here sitting at a computer in October of 2011 and this past June I celebrated my 30th birthday.”
As I waited five years ago to see whats next in my life,I started to plan and do things I wanted before I die. I forgot one piece of information that was buried in my heart, that God has a bigger plan for me in my life. In Janurary of 2008 He started that plan, by bringing a red hair southeren girl into my life as I stared a new journey. I moved to flordia, then Mississippi all the way to Pittsburgh, Pa. All just to be close to her, however I did not know that was part of Gods Plan. She got me reconnected with my mom and we moved back to Airzona to be close to her. After a few months in Pheneix we moved to Kingman. At the time I did not know that was all part of His PLAN. By way of a young man name Kyle we got back into church at Hilltop Foursquare, a small church Pastored by Norm Taylor. This was the second part of the plan not knowing it would lead to a big part of this plan God had laied out. The person God had chosen for this part is a pastor and spirital leaded also became a mentor to me. Her name is Rhenda Pence and she had a huge inpact in my life. Infact not knowing it at the time her whole family was part of this master plan. Through her I was introduce to a diet I am currently on. It allows me up to 50 carbs a day and doing a daily walk. I added a day and night work out too. My work out reps are 60 incline push ups= 120 a day, 4 min. jog= 8 min. a day. 120 crunches=240 a day. So as you can see it is a perrty good little work out.
With this blog I will keep my readers updated on how this life style change is going for me. I will try to post pictures and even some recipes (Low Carb). I also would like to write a book on “Staring a New Life’ and a recipe book for others who would like to join my and Rhenda on get our life back. We can do it one step at a time.

God Bless,

Mark AKA BigBear