Blessings and excitement!

This day began with a blessing and is ending with excitement. First my blessing is that all my test results came back normal. Praise the Lord!! It is such a great feeling when test results come back normal. Next, I got a walk in at lunch with a friend. I even got some sweat in today. I drank 120 oz of water and made good food choices.  I would consider today an all in all good day. I'm excited about tomorrow as it's time to start spinning and the gym again!! It's not a time to complain, it's a time to rejoice and strive on towards my goal.

"Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, “God has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me”? Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening? God doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired,

they walk and don’t lag behind." Isaiah 40:28-31 The Message

I'm still looking for my accountability partners. 

"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." James 5:16 (ESV)

Accountability Partners Unite!

Well, It's been a LONG tour on this incredible journey of new life. I'm at my final 60 pounds to lose and have been for awhile now. I lose and then start feeling good and think "oh, I can eat whatever I want now." This is not true for me and my body as it likes to put on the weight ever so quickly. I realize this is a life long change and that I will have my ups and downs with my weight but, I am in control and need to realize that I can be an enabler or an overcomer. I know in looking in my past that I have overcome a tremendous amount of bad habits but I also realize that it's so very easy to be an enabler and bring those bad habits back again. I can be an enabler at times telling myself that one ice cream won't hurt me but unfortunately, one ice cream can lead to another ice cream in one week and before I realize it that one ice cream turns into a nightly routine. I am an overcomer and I will continue to be an overcomer. I will not let food rule my life and I will choose to make food a necessity and not a desire.

"For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins." 2 Peter 1:5-9 English Standard Version

 I definitely have taken things to the extreme while I have been on my weight loss journey. Unfortunately, I do well on one plan and then get bored/give up. I'm great at starting things but often fall out instead of following through. Yes, I have lost 200 pounds and yes, I have kept it off for 2 years. I do see how far I have come and that's great but I am ready to find the finish to my beginning. It's these final 50-60 pounds that are the most difficult. I AM ready to continue on my journey and I AM ready to see/meet that final goal. My ultimate goal was to be at my goal weight at or before I turn 30. Well, it's getting close to that time and May 2014 is right around the corner. 
I am ready and willing to ask for help in my journey. It is time to enlist you in being my accountability partner. Yes, all of you! I can't promise that I won't cry, make excuses, or get aggravated at you. I hope you know that by you pushing me I will love you for it and in the end I will love you even more for it as you didn't let me give up. I need to make sure that I keep up this blog (to continue to motivate myself), keep up my water intake, make good food choices, spend time in prayer, spend time reading devotionals along with the bible, and exercise daily.

Tomorrow starts with Day 1 to reaching the final goal. Who is ready to help me to my completion of this long  journey and be an accountability partner for me? It would be great if you can send me texts, e-mail, facebook messages. Prayerfully by May of 2014 I will be at my goal weight!
It's time to get rid of L-A-Z-Y and start being A-C-T-I-V-E!!

"So let’s do it—full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out. Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word. Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching." Hebrews 10:24-25 The Message