Changes Day 2. Eating healthy

This is day 2, and i am here to give the report of the day. First i gotta say that most of the time the preparation is what makes everything hard. Someone once said that an organised person is the one who plans 80% of the time and 20% is carrying it out. so i had to research and see how i can improve myself, preparation is the key. And in terms of food here is what i do;

1. prepare my meals before i sleep. Preparing the things that will not perish or not be fresh the next day. Foe example, for salads, prepare the veges the day before and then refrigerate. When you are ready to eat you just add dressing. Microwaveable food containers will come in handy. If the food needs warming, you just put it in the microwave and they are ready to eat.

2. plan your meals well in time. For you to prepare the food, you got to have a plan, a meal plan of what you will be eating. This will help you to have a variety of meals, know what to buy when you go shopping an also help you with eating at the right times. Most of the time i just eat any junk because there is no binding schedule or plan to show me what i should be eating, so anything that is quick and near is OK. Planning is the solution to finding yourself in the McD drivethru.

Today's meal

I ate the same thing for lunch and dinner, There is room for improvement.. Okay here is what i should have done, i should have separated the food,i should have ate the green salad and the fish together and the other salads together. Well,Next time!

The green salad
Ingredients
Tomato
Green Pepper
Cabbage
Cucumber
Lettuce
Vinegar
Olive oil
Black pepper
*for this salad, what ever that works for you, this is what works for me.
Directions
Slice the tomatoes, cabbage, green peppers into strips and the cucumber cut them in a normal way. The lettuce should be cut into small chew-able pieces. Mix everything in a salad bowl, then add vinegar and droplets of olive oil to taste and some black pepper to taste. Its ready!

Beetroots salad
Ingredients
Beetroots
Onions
Sugar
Salt
Vinegar
Directions
Boil beetroots until they are well cooked. Peel them and grate them. Slice a quarter of an onion into thin strips and put them in the grated beets. Add a spoon of sugar and a pinch of salt to the beets then add vinegar and mix it all together. Done.

Pumpkin salad
Ingredients
Pumpkin
Sugar
Butter
Directions
Wash the pumpkin, then add a small amount of water, like 3 tablespoons of water and add some sugar, around three table spoons. When the pumpkin is ready and well cooked, add butter to it and mash it until its soft like shown in the picture. You have your pumpkin salad

 Potatoes
Ingredients
Potatoes
Olive oil
Pepper
Salt
Directions
Peel potatoes and cut them into small pieces and boil them, when they are just about ready, add some olive oil droplets and let them fry a bit, add pepper and salt to taste and they are ready.

Steamed Salmon Fish
Ingredients
Salmon
Lemon/ vinegar
Salt
Pepper
Olive oil
Directions
Rub the salmon with lemon or vinegar, pepper, salt and olive oil, then steam the fish until its ready. After the fish is ready, i dish it on a bed of onions because of the smell.

 The complete dish!

I will write about how i plan my meals and what i have for snack tomorrow! God bless!

Changes...A healthy lifestyle!

My tertiary school life was filled with the desire to be healthy, but it never happened. I always had excuses to give or maybe i was just not faithful enough to my planned routines. Keeping healthy requires a lifestyle change, discipline and determination. Its challenging and one can be easily discouraged by the slow change and unnoticeable changes that are taking place. So one needs to be determined to embark in this journey of no return.
A desire to change was all i had and it remained as a desire. I kept on postponing it to a further date with quite reasonable(to me anyway) excuses; i still have more time, let me enjoy this time for now, school life does not allow such commitment, my housemates will be affected if i change my lifestyle, i do not have enough money to support the new life and many more.Are they reasonable?

These excuses costed me four years filled with a fruitless desire to change my lifestyle to become more healthy. I am in my final year now still... no change. I am still the same Pamela i was, but i feel robbed by my own excuses and procrastination. I desire to feel different and look different as well as do things differently but i just never seem to start and commit to my routines. I had to develop a new approach and tactic towards this. Do you know why i stress this too much? Because if affects my whole life; my decisions, my ambitions, what i can or cannot do, my husband and kids will also be affected by this. If i can't start living a healthy lifestyle right now, what makes me think i will be able to when i am much older, having too many responsibilities and other people's lives to think about? really, how will i be able to make such changes with all those responsibilities if i can't make them now when i only have myself to think about?tell me, how???

Healthy lifestyle
To me this encompasses every department of my life; physical health, finances, mental health, spiritual life, social life, family, friends dreams and all other things that are my life. Healthy means balanced to me, being in a good state, organised, functioning wealth, ready to defend when problems come. That is healthy to me and a healthy lifestyle is achieving all that in every department of my life. is it feasible? i say YES. A BIG FAT YES!! because through Christ i can do all things because its HIM who gives me strength. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE! and you what, i am going to achieve all this. I am determined to go through the changes, because in order to change,i gotta go through some changes. Pastor William Murphy III, changes. That's ma song! I have decided that i will blog about this. and whoever wants to join or start up their own changes journey, do it. It might not be the same as mine but you do feel that you need a change in your life. Do it. it might be breaking free from the lifestyle of drinking, smoking and clubbing, do it. it might be running away from what you know you are suppose to do, do it. It might be turning your life around and surrendering to God, do it. It might be getting a job and starting a responsible lifestyle, do it. Taking care of that child that you abandoned for such a long time, do it You. Taking your walk with Christ more serious, do it. You know the changes you need in your life. Go right ahead and do it. Through CHRIST you can do all things.

Here are some of the photos of what i ate today for lunch as a new start in a new day to a new lifestyle. 1 Corinthians 6: 19-20....my body is the Temple of the Holy spirit who is in me..... i am changing my diet!

An attempt of

chef salad

Ingredients

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Carrots

salt

Olive oil

Chicken breasts

Directions

Cut some broccoli and cauliflower into mouth fitting chunks and  thin slice carrots then steamed all the veges together. Add a  pinch of salt and droplets of Olive oil. 

With the chicken, cut it into strips then boil ity to cook. Add droplets of oil to brown it a bit. Then toss it around salad to give it the meaty touch. It ready!

Yogurt Coleslaw

Ingredients

Cabbage

Tomatoes

Cucumbers

Natural yogurt

Directions

Thinly slice raw cabbage would for normal coleslaw, cut the tomatoes into strips and  slice the cucumbers normally. Mix them together in a salad bowl and add some raisins and dress them with natural yogurt. And you have your meal. 

please overlook the presentation of the food, it will improve with time.

My breakfast was just a banana raisins milk shake which unfortunately i didn't snap.
Banana Raisins Milkshake
Ingredients
Banana
Soya Milk (any milk you prefer)
Raisins

Directions
Cut the banana into three pieces then put in the blender, throw in some raisins, half a hand full will be enough. Pour a 3 quarter full cup of milk. then blend until its smooth. You got yourself a banana raisins

Be blessed!!!

You Called...

This is a poem i wrote in one of our church camps, Bible conference March 11-13 2011 to be exact. Check it out:

You called and i heard your voice
Heard it but not for myself
I heard your voice for my brethren and my friends
For my sister seated at the right corner
For my brother in the yellow shirt
You called and i heard your voice
but not for myself

You called and i heard your voice
but i was busy looking at the latest fashion
I was still trying to update myself with the latest news on yahoo
"who did what, where and why"
I was caught up with makeup nails and twee-zing my eye brows

you see when your call came my nails were still wet with nail polish to answer your call
I still had 5 more lines to go on my cornrows
I was still undecided on which shade of pink will go perfectly with my eye shadows
you called
and i heard
but i was still busy

you called and i heard your voice
But i couldn't respond.
My skirt was too short for me to kneel down
I had my 'Sissy Boy'  white pants on, to kneel down
When you called i couldn't answer though i heard your call

God you called and i couldn't answer
'cause brother man was still checkin' me out, for me to break down in tears of repentance
Daddy when you called, i heard you but i had a reputation to protect
I had 'Self' to worry about

Oh Lord you called for me, but i had all sorts of reasons why i couldn't answer
By now Daddy please call again
cause
i have all sorts of reasons to answer
call again cause self is dead

Many times we hear God call us in different ways but we always have reasons to NOT answer the call. It could be our lifestyles, our circle of friends, our habits that we are still nursing or our sins we still wanna hold on to.

But God does call for us, through that sister who is always bothering you about coming to church, through that brother who always tells you that Jesus loves you, through that classmate of yours who invites you to endless programs in your church, through that desire you always have to want to change through that still small voice from within that tells you the time of change is now. God wants you and He call for you just as you are but The decision is your, will you answer the call??
He says "Here I am i stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, i will come in and eat with Him and he with me." Revelations 3:20. Will you answer the call?will you open the door and let Him come in? Will you invite Him in your heart? in your life?

Why don't you pray this prayer and answer the call, and invite Jesus into your life
say " Dear God
        I admit that i am a sinner
        please forgive me and change me
        I acknowledge that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sin,
        and came to life again on the third day
        Right now,
        I invite Jesus to my life.
       And i accept Him as my personal Lord and Savior
       Amen"
If you have prayed that prayer, congratulations!! you are now a born again child of God " If any man be in Christ, He is a new creation. Old things have passed away behold all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5: 17. You have answered the call and have welcomed Jesus to dine with you. I encourage you to take another step of faith and look for a Bible teaching church and join the family of God. The Bible says there is Joy in Heaven as you give your life to Christ, (Luke 15:7). A welcome Home party just for you. Congratulations!!!

I would also like to hear form you about write me at  lrtmolema@yahoo.com and tell me about your experience. Once again CONGRATULATIONS!!!