Congratulate me, I've lost 10 pounds. Unfortunately, I tend to lose weight on the "lose one, gain two" method. Yeah. I know.
I have good intentions. I have hundreds of cookbooks to help me with this. At last count there were more than 200. I read them all of the time. I look at the pictures. While sitting in my rocker ... probably munching on something.
I've joined Zumba. That was pretty easy since it meets.... 25 feet from my office door. It helps, but I'm wondering if eating the hamburger on my way home is a good idea. Ummmm...
Maybe if I tried the "eat less, move more" method of weight loss it might take. But... why risk it?
The truth is, I'm lacking discipline, at least in this one area of my life. My problem is not gluttony: It's that I like food. I don't eat a lot of food, I just eat the wrong stuff. Why have an English Muffin when you can eat a fresh-from-the-oven blueberry muffin with a powdered sugar glaze? Really now, do I have to ask why?
Discipline would be easier if it was.... oh.... easier. It's the level of difficulty that makes it something worth obtaining, I guess. If discipline was easy it would be called ... fun. I looked in the Bible to see if I could find a loophole. You know, some verse that says "hey discipline is hard so if you can't do it, that's ok." It's not there. Surprise, surprise.
As long as I'm on the subject, discipline is probably lacking in other areas of my life. I should go to bed earlier, get up earlier, clean more, complain less... you get the idea. But here's my hope and my strength. I don't have to do this alone. As a matter of fact, I don't have to rely on myself to do this at all. I can actually ask God to give me His strength to see me through things, even as tough as losing weight. He tells me I can count on Him for anything. Everything. (Phil. 4:13 I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.)
So... here goes... God help me with my weight and the disciplines needed to have less of it. Lord, help me be a loser.... I think. = )
I have good intentions. I have hundreds of cookbooks to help me with this. At last count there were more than 200. I read them all of the time. I look at the pictures. While sitting in my rocker ... probably munching on something.
I've joined Zumba. That was pretty easy since it meets.... 25 feet from my office door. It helps, but I'm wondering if eating the hamburger on my way home is a good idea. Ummmm...
Maybe if I tried the "eat less, move more" method of weight loss it might take. But... why risk it?
The truth is, I'm lacking discipline, at least in this one area of my life. My problem is not gluttony: It's that I like food. I don't eat a lot of food, I just eat the wrong stuff. Why have an English Muffin when you can eat a fresh-from-the-oven blueberry muffin with a powdered sugar glaze? Really now, do I have to ask why?
Discipline would be easier if it was.... oh.... easier. It's the level of difficulty that makes it something worth obtaining, I guess. If discipline was easy it would be called ... fun. I looked in the Bible to see if I could find a loophole. You know, some verse that says "hey discipline is hard so if you can't do it, that's ok." It's not there. Surprise, surprise.
As long as I'm on the subject, discipline is probably lacking in other areas of my life. I should go to bed earlier, get up earlier, clean more, complain less... you get the idea. But here's my hope and my strength. I don't have to do this alone. As a matter of fact, I don't have to rely on myself to do this at all. I can actually ask God to give me His strength to see me through things, even as tough as losing weight. He tells me I can count on Him for anything. Everything. (Phil. 4:13 I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.)
So... here goes... God help me with my weight and the disciplines needed to have less of it. Lord, help me be a loser.... I think. = )
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