Happy mothers day!!!

My Sweetest mama, I love you!!!

Mothers are always on Stand-by mode.
Thank u for showing me the setting sun for the first time in my life.
Thank u for housing my lil frogs.
Thank u for the excitement of being alive.
Thank u for teaching me the Lords prayer even when i mumbled with words.
Thank u for 'try hard. Work hard. And if u can't do it, turn attention to something else' saved a lot of heartache.
Thank u for never saying 'I told u so'
Well - not often.
Thank u for always being there.
Available at all hours for advice on coughs, spelling, good books, stains, friends, using libraries, crossword clues.
ET AL.
Mothers can dry your tears down a telephone.
A mother has the magic glue that sticks the broken pieces together.
A mothers love is like tensile steel than feathers.
Mothers love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.
Mother love doesn't give a damn about ur looks. She thinks u are beautiful, anyway.
Mother love is the most elastic thing on earth - can be stretched too far.
They worry.
Mothers live in perpetual terror of fire and flood and lonely roads, of evil men and lunatic drivers, of failing brakes etc. They only let it show abt 3o'clock in the morning.
Mothers don't really have premonitions. They have been over every possible eventuality so often - both good and ill - that whatever happens to u, they've rehearsed it.
Mothers are inclined to worry. All the time. Thanks, for not letting it show too much.
I love it when u re excited and pleased bc i had a success and i love it even more when u still think i'm wonderful when i've fallen flat on my face.
Thanks for not telling me off in public.
U always got me home before u let me have it.
Thanks for being there when i've been unbelievably stupid
, for telling me what a fool i ve been in a variety of well considered phrases. And then put it behind and sort out what has to be done.
Thanks for not giving up on me. u were the only one who didn't.
I know if i turned up on the doorstep in the middle of the night, soaked through, with all my bags and speechless with tears you'd just say, 'oh love, come right in'. (lets hope it will never come to that). But its nice to know.
THANK U...
-for enduring the unendurable
-for making something out of nothing.
-for giving when ur pockets were empty.
-for loving us when we were unlovable.
-for doing the impossible with a smile.
-for giving me ur complete attention when i explained calculus to u.(lol)
Thank u for earning the money to raise me.
Thank u for meeting me at the school gate.
Thank u for dealing with that horrible boy.
Thank u for putting raisins in my lunch box.
Thank u for explaining take away and multiplying.
Thank u for making mumps not too bad at all.
Thank u for always being there when i need you.
And for surprises too.
THANKS TO ALL MOTHERS..
...who made hard times seem good times.
...who faked their portions at dinner so that everyone else got a lil more.
...who said go ahead and finish it all - they didn't really fancy ice-cream.
...who sang us home in the rain.
...who shared our chickenpox.
...who managed to smile when we ran a fever just before they were due to go out for their birthday treat by daddy.
...who cried only a lil.
...who let us have our own opinions - just as long as we knew why.
...who let us grow up and fly free.
The years have changed us, but brought us closer.
Mother, tell me, how the hell you cope???! I am proud of u, of what u do.
I love u for what u are.
I am so excited... I don't know how u fitted me in.
But u did.
And still do.
Ur life is so full, and yet I know that, always, always, There is room for Me.
Mother and child - FRIENDS FOR LIFE...(to my sweet mom, u re da best, I Love U).
By Jennifer O Omolu.

This is why I am happy, This is my story, this is my joy...

This is my story, this is my joy...

Now the fact is, I never really talked about my struggles with my weight because I felt that’s personal and since no success was forthcoming, I felt it needless to talk about it. That's history because I am ready to speak out. If I don't mention my efforts to anyone, then no one will know if I fail except for me - and no one will know how hard I worked if I succeed either. 

 I was Fab but angry within because i had this protruding stomach but not pregnant. Hmmm pity.

126 Kg here, January 2010 

Be encouraged!

I have been on a healthy eating plan (FYR - Forever Young Revolution) for a while now. I must confess that the challenge hasn't been easy being the 'anyhow eater' I was but I must say I am on; It's my new life style... I used to be a careless eater (not anymore), I really never cared about what I ate, the time I ate, why and how my body felt about the commotion I was causing in my body (I forgive myself). I just ate to satisfy my hunger ego. Sometimes it wasn’t real hunger, it could be anxiety, worry or just anything in the guise of hunger. A glass of water could have been ok but that wasn't what I wanted, I had to eat some more calories and the results = bloating. I kept putting on weight year after year giving excuses and promising myself that a miracle will happen before the end of each year. Guess? Nothing! I pretended I wanted to loose weight going on diet programs which made me grow bigger and bigger from 194pounds(88kgs) in 2002 - 275.5pounds (125kgs) in 2010, plus 81.5 pounds(37kgs) please don't scream L but I did some fake exercises which left me exhausted afterward. It's easy to eat a cup of ice cream than to workout you know. Oh no:( ! I evaluated myself constantly, sometimes not even consciously!!! Lord, I gave up; after all there were a lot bigger women than myself on the streets, celebrities in magazines and on television. Forgive! I even watched an American film that eventually sends out a clear message to big women not to worry about their God-given size. No, I didn't want to believe it but I did out of laziness and frustration. I also believed that I was genetically destined to be fat as my friends/family would say. Now that’s a fat lie, my mom was a model in her years and was crowned Miss Mamfe then, my dad played football and lawn tennis! Did I ever think about my health in the first place and the Dis-EASES associated  with being obesed (yes I said it, obesed), think of the  master Heart Disease and Stroke, the brother Diabetes, the sister Osteoarthritis, the uncle Sleep Apnea, and the aunt Gout plus many other relatives. My uncle died of high blood pressure and diabetes at the peek of his life and career, it was about time to sit down and think again, I mean over and over again. Ya I did!

Credits!

I was on Bernice Angoh Lakota's page on Facebook reading about her FYR 'Forever Young Revolution' challenge, when it stroke me that it is time to do something. Well I truly admire her and mostly the inscription ''Loving yourself a little differently''which best describes the revolution FYR, this caught my attention. Bernice is a mother of two but you can’t guess at her looks that she is her age and a mom of two. I contacted her, followed her on her blog www.4everyoungrevolution.com and bought her e-books (you are free to click on the link and follow too). She and a whole lot of other positive friends on Facebook encouraged me in one way or the other through motivational quotes, picture, posts etc. 

OMG I was actually blushing when comments were coming in on my most recent pictures I posted on Facebook earlier today. I felt flattered.

This is me, the new me, the happier version of me. Almost 17 pounds = 8kgs out in two months, Common, smile for me! THAT’S GREAT PROGRESS huh? I am on sweet heart.

The truth!

Any effort to lose weight will take commitment and effort and above all discipline, to be able 'not to crave' long throat unhealthy foods but stick to your veggies and fruits plus a lot of water. It doesn't take complicated combination's of unhealthy food or pills but a decision to live a healthy life, exercise regularly and that's good news. You are a step away Hun! It just goes to prove that you don’t have to lose weight instantly; the most important thing is that you are happy and healthy. Losing weight steadily and safely can give you that happiness and good health and seeking a way to lose weight too fast could damage your health more than not losing weight at all. Lose weight in a safer manner to be happy and healthy.  For me losing 100 pounds isn't a small goal right? But I’m on tract. Now everything you need to lose weight is already in your heart and in your house/market/internet etc, just a click/ decision away. It's up to you to use it.

Bless You!

Quote of the day:

It’s true, when your stomach is empty lots of energy is freed up from digestion process and it's used for other things like thinking; remember miraculous deeds have been performed on an empty stomach.

 The younger and slimmer version of myself in this picture (1999) are memories of my past I want to bring alive.

 Have a great weekend y'all!!!

Jennifer O. O.

SMILE: Smiling Changes Our Mood

 Smile always, it heals our souls. A true smile reflects who we really are on the inside.

Start your day with a smile and see how it ends. Oh you will love it! Trust me.

Smiling renews our looks and it calls for this attention because it is attractive in its nature.

Never compromise a smile, it could just lit up somebody's day and in return yours.

Just thinking about our Blessings alone should give us a reason to smile.

I have always wondered.

Can we really count our Blessings? I guess no, they are just too many for us to count(it will take a decade if i want to). I don't know about you because for mine, they are just too many. What i do mostly is smile when I remember them. 

Especially when I remember how the Lord Jesus died for me on the Cross of Calvary. No man has ever loved me that much except for Him. I love Him back wholeheartedly. 

I have many testimonies, let me share some of the reasons I smile;

I smile each time my mom tells me of my toddler/babyhood, how a TV set fell an inch close to me baby. (My late dad was an electrician back then and we had TV sets, electric distributors, wire and you name it' all over the place.) Babies have that tendency to always creep into those places they are forbidden to go to.

Thank God i grew up safe. Now that's big a Blessing huh!

I always have this great smile when I flash back to my primary school days, now we all wanted adventures in that age, I climbed the mango, guava, pear, plum trees, I seriously give God the Glory for not letting me fall down with a sprain or strain. For protecting me while crossing those big street roads with crazy drivers, for many other experiences i can't even remember. I can only Smile bigger.

Even when life seems to be hard(manipulation from the enemy) I refuse to frown, i will only smile in victory over the devil. 

Just smile even when you think you don't have a reason to. 

Smile :) 

Smiling not only makes us look younger and more attractive, it also brings numerous health benefits to us. 

There are many but i won't talk about them today because i want to rest my body. It is 2.13am and I had all this coming up to my head and decided to hit my computer buttons. So have a great night and here's a lovely creamy rose just for you, you deserve it.

Have a great moment today.

Jennifer O.

HEAR ME OH LORD!!!

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

Where there is sadness, joy;



O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled

as to console;

To be understood as to understand;

To be loved as to love.



For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

A Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi