{"id":6132,"date":"2013-02-02T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=6132"},"modified":"2013-02-02T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:47:43","slug":"skinny-saturday-dont-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=6132","title":{"rendered":"Skinny Saturday: Don&#8217;t Quit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=6133\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6133\" alt=\"f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39.jpg 550w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39-250x250.jpg 250w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/f4a144d2a5de67efbfc01f853cf7fd39-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This morning Tim had a men&#8217;s bible study social event.\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s leading a small group for church this winter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an early Saturday morning group so he thought it would be a great idea to put together a breakfast for all the guys.\u00a0 He was expecting a rather big group, so he decided to go the whole nine yards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pancakes<\/li>\n<li>Scrambled Eggs<\/li>\n<li>Bacon<\/li>\n<li>French Toast sticks<\/li>\n<li>Orange Juice<\/li>\n<li>Donuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is your mouth watering yet?<\/p>\n<p>Mine was!\u00a0 In fact as I watched him load up the pounds of delicious food, my stomach seemed to be actually growling audibly!\u00a0 I have such a soft spot for breakfast food&#8230; ugh!<\/p>\n<p>However, while he was gone this morning I forced myself to do my workout (even though I didn&#8217;t want to!).\u00a0 Then when he came home a little later, with a ton of left over food and I let myself have one of the left over pancakes (that were delicious!) and then I stopped.\u00a0 Did you hear that?\u00a0 I stopped. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The Baker&#8217;s came later in the morning for their piano lessons and we were able to give them a bunch of donuts to take home with them.\u00a0 Thanks goodness for that!\u00a0 We still have quite a bit of left over donuts (I guess they all filled up on pancakes and bacon and didn&#8217;t have much room left over for the donuts&#8230;)\u00a0 but it was nice to be able to give some away.<\/p>\n<p>As I got ready to eat lunch I opened the fridge and gazed at all the left-overs and donuts.\u00a0 All I wanted to do was gorge on donuts.\u00a0 All I wanted to do was make a giant plate of cheesy scrambled eggs and greasy bacon and pig out.\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s days like today I have to remind myself why I started.\u00a0 Why am I doing this?\u00a0 Why do I want to lose weight so badly?\u00a0 What&#8217;s my true innermost motivation?\u00a0 What do I hope to gain from all of this?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>And then I remember&#8230; it all comes back to me.<\/p>\n<p>So I loaded up an extra giant bowl of spinach, grabbed a banana and water bottle, and walked away from the fridge.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Tim had a men&#8217;s bible study social event.\u00a0\u00a0 He&#8217;s leading a small group for church this winter.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an early Saturday morning group so he thought it would be a great idea to put together a breakfast for all the guys.\u00a0 He was expecting a rather big group, so he decided to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6139,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6132\/revisions\/6139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}