Daily food update for 3.31

Here is my food for today. It was not a healthy day, but I didn't drink pop. I realized that I ate too much after I had the pizza for dinner. I did workout and burned a lot of calories. It felt good. We'll see if this works.

			Free Calorie Log my-calorie-counter.com
			Cal	Fat	Sat	Chl	Sod	Crb	Fib	Sug	Pro
Breakfast
5	1 oz	Breadsmith® - Beer Bread	360	2	1	0	590	73	3	55	12
			360	2	1	0	590	73	3	55	12
Lunch
2.5	1 oz	Seneca Apple Chips - Granny Smith	375	23	3	0	25	45	8	23	0
			375	23	3	0	25	45	8	23	0
Dinner
1	2 medium slices	Pizza Hut® - Cheese Pizza, pan style crust	522	22	29	50	1002	141	4	108	17
			522	22	29	50	1002	141	4	108	17
Snack
2	serving 1 Package	Reeses Peanut Butter Egg	360	20	7	0	280	36	2	32	8
2.5	1 oz	Seneca Apple Chips - Granny Smith	375	23	3	0	25	45	8	23	0
			735	43	10	0	305	81	10	55	8
Water Tracker
Totals Target Balance			1992 1400 142 592	90 50 180 40	43 16 269 27	50 250 20 200	1922 1800 107 122	340 200 170 140	25 25 100 0	241 40 602 201	37 50 74 13
			Cal	Fat	Sat	Chl	Sod	Crb	Fib	Sug	Pro
Activity
0.75	hour(s)	Tae Bo - moderate	-1045
Totals			-1045

3000 Calories!

So this past week I cancelled my subscription to Weight Watchers. I did not do the meeting thing and I did not keep up with the points very well. I have not been losing any weight for the past 4 months. I don't want to keep wasting the money. It is money we need for other things.

I started to track what I am eating and doing for exercise on this calorie counter online, that is free!!! It is my-calorie-counter.com (http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/calorie_counter.asp).
So anyway, I started that on Wednesday, the 26th. I put in everything I eat, any activity I do, weight, and measurements and it will do the calculations for me.

That said, I have had a VERY VERY BAD week/weekend. I averaged 2700 calories a day. NO WONDER I AM SO OVERWEIGHT!! I ate over 3000 calories a couple of days this week. (I didn't have my computer on at all until tonight so I didn't imput everything until now.) I can't believe it. It makes me so sick to think that I have been eating that much. I am very disapointed in myself too. I need to have a lot more self control.

So, here is my thinking. This thing also allows you to post your entries for the day as blog post. So I am going to be doing that from now on. If I don't get it posted that day, send me an email (those of you who know my email) or put a comment on one of my postings to let me know that I am slacking! That way you all can help keep me accountable. We'll see if it works. So, here is my food journal post for today.

			Free Weight Tracker my-calorie-counter.com
			Cal	Fat	Sat	Chl	Sod	Crb	Fib	Sug	Pro
Breakfast
1	1 can 12 fl oz 355 mL	Pepsi® - Mountain Dew (can) - citrus-flavored soda	170	0	0	0	70	46	0	46	0
5	1 oz	Breadsmith® - Beer Bread	360	2	1	0	590	73	3	55	12
			530	2	1	0	660	119	3	101	12
Lunch
1	tbsp	Salad dressing, KRAFT Ranch Dressing	74	8	1	4	144	1	0	1	0
2	Serving - 85 G	DOLE FRESH VEGETABLES - SALAD BLENDS - AMERICAN 12 OZ BAG	30	0	0	0	20	6	2	4	2
1	1 burger	Roy Rogers® - Hamburger	472	25	1	64	607	37	0	0	26
			576	33	2	68	771	44	2	5	28
Dinner
1	1 can 12 fl oz 355 mL	Pepsi® - Mountain Dew (can) - citrus-flavored soda	170	0	0	0	70	46	0	46	0
2	2 medium slices	Pizza Hut® - Cheese Pizza, pan style crust	1044	44	58	100	2004	282	8	216	34
			1214	44	58	100	2074	328	8	262	34
Snack
1	2 Tbsp 39g	Hershey's® - Chocolate Syrup	100	0	0	0	25	24	0	0	1
5	1 oz	Breadsmith® - Beer Bread	360	2	1	0	590	73	3	55	12
1	cup	Ice creams, vanilla	289	16	10	63	115	34	1	31	5
			749	18	11	63	730	131	4	86	18
Water Tracker
Totals Target Balance			3069 1400 219 1669	97 50 194 47	72 16 450 56	231 250 92 19	4235 1800 235 2435	622 200 311 422	17 25 68 8	454 40 1135 414	92 50 184 42
			Cal	Fat	Sat	Chl	Sod	Crb	Fib	Sug	Pro
Activity
Totals			0

Happy Easter! (3 days late)

Happy Easter to all!

Christ is risen!

He died so you can have life!

Be thankful for all your blessings in your life.

This is our family pic for the Spring, however, we couldn't get Jet to sit still so it's just James and I!

Here are a couple of pictures of Jet on his Easter egg hunt. We bought some plastic Easter eggs and filled them with puppy treats. He then ran around the house and the back yard finding them. It was sooo cute.

Here is Jet with his Easter bunny. He was cuddling with it on the stairs. He had a long day.

Young adults will leave church if they’re overlooked, study says

James found this article the other day and I believe it speaks volumes to the frustrations of the church and young adults.

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=24629

Here is a snippet then you can go read the rest on that page...

"More young adults are falling away from church and many are finding church
irrelevant to their lives because their needs are not being met, according to
new statistics released by LifeWay Christian Resources.

In 1980, more than 100,000 people age 18 to 34 were baptized in Southern
Baptist churches. But in 2005, that number fell to 60,000, which is drastically
lower considering the United States population has climbed above 300 million.

What’s the problem? Why are young adults not finding church relevant for
their lives? LifeWay Research, a department of LifeWay Christian Resources of
the Southern Baptist Convention, sought to find answers by conducting an eight-month research project which included interviews with unchurched adults, regular church attendees and church leaders from geographical regions throughout the United States. "

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Nebelsick Triplets updated...

My sister updated her blog with new pics of the Triplets. They are growing a lot.... go look and see the pics...

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More thoughts on Where I think the church will be in twenty + years...

I recieved this comment on my previous post "Where I think the church will be in twenty + years..." and I just had to write my comments on it. I know I am sort of rambling here, but I have a lot of questions and a lot to discuss. Please join me in this discussion. I would love to hear what everyone thinks.

Krismisstree posted...

“Interesting...what's your take on the Hebrews 10:25 verse, then? Don't give up
meeting together as some are in the habit of doing? Do you think that command is
'covered' by meeting in small weekly groups, and not getting direct food from a
church service preaching the Word? Just curious on your take on Hebrews 10:25
and how it relates to your post.”

Hebrews 10:25 says "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching." (NIV)

I am not suggesting that all meeting together will be stopped by what the future has in store. Today I was talking to a professor from Central Baptist Theological Seminary and he was saying that “home churches” have been on the rise. They are the people who don’t find the conventional church appealing to them, so they have a church in a more comfortable setting. That is a lot of what I mean by small family groups/Bible studies.

Church doesn't necessarily have to be a structured, liturgical style. As long as people are coming together to worship God, does He really care how it is done? Granted, there will be those that will only get their spiritual “food” from what they listen to on their I-Pods or what-have-you. If those people are to truly live in the Word of God, they will understand that fellowship is an important part of being a Christian.

They will need to have someone to bounce questions off of. However, like we are doing here, they may still not come face to face. I think eventually if they understand, and are reached out to by those that are a part of a community (whether bigger or smaller), they will join a community and have that fellowship.

I do believe that each person needs to have a day of rest. How that person chooses to rest is a part of their own lifestyle. Each person is different. In this day of age, not every person has the liberty to be off of work on Sundays. Therefore the church needs to be flexible with how they offer that fellowship to individuals. If that means that the only time someone can join in some kind of worship is with a small group, at least they are in fellowship and worshiping a God who knows all and understands.

Does that make any sense? Does it matter if someone is hearing the word through preaching or discussion? Can a discussion take place of a sermon? What do traditional sermons do for you? Do you really come away from a traditional sermon every week wanting to implement everything you just heard into your daily life? If you had to choose, which would you prefer as a worship setting... the traditional church or small family style discussion group worship?

Let me know what you think.

Where I think the church will be in twenty + years...

I must say, looking at my church today and looking at where I think it will be in the next twenty years, I don't see it being at all the same.

With the advent of webcast ministries, and the ever popular I-Pod, I think the Church is going to have to figure out how to reach those of this technology savvy world. We are a society of constant motion and multi-tasking. Churches may find they have members who want to listen to the weekly sermon while riding mass transit to and from work. In the working world it is also a known fact that the younger generation has strong ties to family. We’re seeing more and more where families spend their weekends together, not in church. Making church services available anytime will provide the desired spiritual lessons people are seeking on their terms not on the terms of the church. Along with this, churches need to be open to giving up the traditional Sunday morning worship for a more family friendly evening session

The "old" way is dying, and that may be bad or it may be good. There will still be those who will need to attend a church in a "church building" but I see more people getting their spiritual fulfillment over the internet. Churches are going to have to start sharing their buildings, or selling them to move to smaller, more environmentally friendly buildings, so they have less to maintain on their own. They will not always have the monetary funds to keep a church building up and running. Churches will have to choose between having a great, nice, huge, archaic building, and having a meaningful and productive ministry to the world. Christians will have to figure out how to reach the world and those who are lost through alternate means.

The sense of community that a church provides will have to be broken down into smaller groups. I don’t see the huge gatherings of people coming together but a couple of times a year (i.e. Christmas, Easter, and a couple of other special days.) Sermons are going to have to be extremely relevant to a person’s everyday life, or they will get bored and go someplace else for advice. Small “family” group Bible studies focused on relevant issues may be the main source of religion for many people.

Pastors may have to change tactics in the way they work. Bi-vocational pastors may become the norm. If the church as we know it now still exists, the standard sermon will have to be altered to a way that makes people think and want to come back that next week to hear more (Isn’t that the ultimate challenge now?!)

People are less and less willing to give up their money to an entity in which they don’t feel connected closely to. Church giving is down in almost every single church in the United States. However, when a crisis comes along, people will give up their Starbucks for a week to help out. For example, when the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, 2005 in South Asia, churches came together and gave millions upon millions of dollars to the cause. When Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, churches gathered together money, manpower, and supplies and contributed to that cause. Mission opportunities will need to be available for people to attend. This will need to be spearheaded by mission-minded people. Churches will have to be willing to reach out to other churches and become communities with other churches to make these options viable.

As for mega-churches... I think the gigantic, make-me-feel-good, not have to think because I am being told what to think, churches are going the way of the smaller Bible studies and smaller, more connected churches. However, each church has to find its niche market (to use business terms) and appeal to the people that will support it. Each age group and ethnic group will have to be satisfied and that means each church will have to be different. Churches will have to understand that they can’t reach everyone, but they can help those people they don’t appeal to find a church that does appeal to them. Therefore, churches need to be connected to one another through the wider church community.

16 Month Old Can Read!!

This video is amazing!! You must go see it.

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