New Chapter

  Tomorrow starts a new chapter in my life, and you, my dear friends get to read about it. 

Over the past year and a half, I have blown up. Not literally but 'mass'ively. My weight has hit a new, all time high. It's not something I'm proud of or boastful of. You know, in the way we talk about how much we've gained after Thanksgiving dinner. Like, that's impressive!

   I used to have an inner tube tummy. Now I have a swimmy ring! The kind for the pool, you blow it up and slip around your waist. But mine isn't full of air, and there's no slipping anything around my waist.

   Ok, enough of the graphics. I can complain, I can mope....I know I can because I've done both. If you recall an earlier blog, I love food.  Every time my weight would get me down, I'd turn to food. 

   Last week I went to the doctors for cholesterol/hdl/diabetes check. Before I stepped on the scale I told the nurse how much I weighted. She thought I was kidding. Nope, I wish. 

I know exactly how much I weigh, and for some odd reason, I don't look all that heavy to other people. Or so they say.

  Now is the time to get off the couch, ( or rather out of the kitchen ) get out there and start exercising!!

My hubby and I plan on 'trimming the fat' this summer. Probably should have been doing this all along. Literally, off our steaks and burgers. Maybe hold back on the 'super size' fries. Hold back on the fries altogether. 

 When I'm down about my weight, or anything else, I want specific kinds of fast food.

Funny, there's something about fast food. While eating it, I feel happy, I laugh and converse with who ever is with me. But as soon as I'm done.......I sit back, sigh and groan, wishing I had worn elastic waist pants.  

The grease and fat just sit there making me incapable of movement or conversation.

I feel disgusting.

  So, let's hope that at the crack of dawn, I'm up and ready to face this challenge. Dawn may be too early. Maybe before the heat sets in.

   I would say face this challenge head on, but it's not my head that needs to lose the weight. Although, my face is looking rather plump. I think I see a couple of chins trying to form. 

  

1 Corinthians 10:31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

  1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? 



In the light of what I eat and drink, in the way I eat and drink, I must keep these two verses close to my heart. Do I glorify God in the manner of eating? 

My goal is not to have a beautiful outward body, but to have a healthy body and healthy life style that will glorify God.