Health tastes delicious!

Right now I just finished drinking a spinach/mango/orange juice smoothie - tasted great! Next time I need to use more ripe mangoes, but otherwise great. I still don't know if I'll ever come around to the salad idea, but if i can find ways like this, and putting veggies in my eggs, to eat a balanced diet, then it'll be no problem. I do hate grocery shopping though - it makes a lot of different deeply ingrained thoughts inside of me fight. I don't like spending extra money on things that are fleeting - food gets eaten once! I know it goes towards a longer goal of extended health, but still. And then I figure, out of all the things I spend money on and with all the extra I've been able to save up, it shouldn't be hard to spend a little extra on the quality food that goes towards my HEALTH. I also hate things that you have to spend on on a regular basis - see: gas. Rent. Cell phone. Internet. Food. And you can sometimes get away with not paying for the other stuff...but not really food. Well, I guess if you garbage pick and whatnot...that's besides the point. I had some other thoughts too, but I've had so many random thoughts and so many blogging ideas that I can't remember anything.

Ah, I do remember one thing. I got really annoyed at work today. I've never had a problem with this before, but the conversation lately goes from weight to weddings to talk about food and calories back to body image then other people and then weddings again. Whenever that stuff has come up I've just gone along with it - I've never minded talking about it before, just kinda listened and was enthusiastic and offered what input I had. I never had a problem with body image or food because I am who I am and I'm healthy and strong so I have nothing to worry about. And I've never had a problem with love and weddings and engagements. But there is such a stress of importance on that stuff lately that it's frustrating. I've also never been someone to think that I really needed to be dating, that I HAVE to marry someone during my life, or even really ever wanted to be in a relationship. Here's the solution to end the poor self-esteem, to end the jealousy and the endless comparison and the rat race and to stop the Joneses - stop talking about it. If you are healthy, then stop worrying about how much you eat. Stop worrying about how you look. Stop worrying about what other people look like. Stop worrying about dating someone, or not dating someone, or finding the perfect person, or what it'll look like if you are broken up with. STOP worrying about PERCEPTION and be concerned with the truth, and what's real, and your freakin self. Do what God commands you and the rest will fall into place - stop worrying about what it might be or could have been, because if you have true faith then you should know that He's got plans for you that you can't DREAM of - so why waste your time and effort creating lesser dreams that will probably not happen?

We are God's warrior princesses! And I am glad that I have sister princesses, "to have a friend that can be challenging and encouraging and edifying all in one fell swoop."