I'm to the point now where I've pretty much met my weight loss goals and I'm ready to maintain. Well let me just tell you that maintaining is a whole new mindset. I've always been big on goals... easily measurable goals. Well... when your goal is to maintain... and that scale stops moving - something just doesn't seem right. It didn't SEEM like I was accomplishing anything anymore.
Add that to an extremely challenging week last week - the most challenging I've had in over a year since I began my journey. I felt like my life was very out of balance and I found myself turning to food for comfort - just like I had for the previous 20 years of my life! It's VERY scary to think that after all the work I've done to lose this weight, I could so easily slip into my old ways!
I took my own advice and confessed to Josh four days into the week. He gave me a pep talk, but it didn't help. The day next four days I continued to turn to food for comfort. I was MISERABLE! I had flashes of my "old life". I was scared to death that I would give up like I used to......
I had such an urgency in my heart to ask God for mental strength and stability! Last week, I was reminded of the importance of having a strong mind!!! My mind was so weak that when I went to my aerobics class I literally felt like I couldn't make it through one song. It wasn't because my body was weak... I had been faithful in my personal training and aerobics classes for months.... but my mind was weak. That experience showed me that I MUST MUST MUST feed and fuel my mind with God's Truth, inspiration, with positive music, books, media, with positive and encouraging people, with anything I can get my hands on that will strengthen my mind. We must guard our minds as if we were guarding the lives of our loved ones from the evil one!
I'm happy to report I am 100% back on track and feeling stronger than ever. It's as if last week never happened... but it did.... and I'm GLAD it did. It reminded me the need to fuel my mind FIRST, then fuel my body! I know with everything in me that my life depends on it!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Tip #19: The truth will set you free!
I used to think that when I "slipped" and overate that I had blown the entire week. I honestly in my heart of hearts thought I had blown it by making one wrong splurge. That is soooooo far from the truth! We all splurge, we all slip, we all make wrong food choices and we always will! But one slip doesn't mean that all the hard work you've done is for nothing. On the contrary, all of your hard work has made it so a slip here and there is NO BIG DEAL!!!
Here is the catch.... start over A.S.A.P!!!!! Do not allow yourself to tailspin out of control. I'm sure most of you know exactly what I'm talking about when I say "tailspin." It's that mindset day after day after day that says, "I blew it again... and again.. .and again... oh well.. oh well.. oh well!" A gain of 2 lbs turns into 5 turns into 10 turns into 30 turns into 50.
The key is to stop the tailspin before it even gets started. We all need to find out how we can stop our tailspin. I can just tell you what stops mine.... and that's confession. Yep... confessing to Josh in particular of the condition of my heart with regards to where I'm at in the battle. The bible says the "truth will set you free" and I believe it wholeheartedly! By just confessing I'm taking a step towards FREEDOM!!!! When we keep things secret... keep things in the dark - there is NO HOPE for freedom!!! This applies to MANY areas of life, food is just one.
It was a couple of months ago I had made a week's worth of "bad choices." I had gained four pounds. That is the most I have gained this past year. The "old me" would have kept that secret to myself many many months. And as a result I would have gained a tremendous amount of weight. What I've learned about myself is that I'm either pressing TOWARDS the goal of staying healthy or I'm binging myself back into darkness. It's all or nothing for me.
Once that week had passed, I knew I needed to confess the state of my heart. I didn't want to go down the dark road of bondage ever again. I am sooooooo glad I did confess this to Josh. He truly is a man after God's own heart... and he helped me sort through my crazy thoughts!! IMMEDIATELY, I was free!
Friends, you can choose to live in freedom too! Live in the truth, always!
The truth will set you free!
Here is the catch.... start over A.S.A.P!!!!! Do not allow yourself to tailspin out of control. I'm sure most of you know exactly what I'm talking about when I say "tailspin." It's that mindset day after day after day that says, "I blew it again... and again.. .and again... oh well.. oh well.. oh well!" A gain of 2 lbs turns into 5 turns into 10 turns into 30 turns into 50.
The key is to stop the tailspin before it even gets started. We all need to find out how we can stop our tailspin. I can just tell you what stops mine.... and that's confession. Yep... confessing to Josh in particular of the condition of my heart with regards to where I'm at in the battle. The bible says the "truth will set you free" and I believe it wholeheartedly! By just confessing I'm taking a step towards FREEDOM!!!! When we keep things secret... keep things in the dark - there is NO HOPE for freedom!!! This applies to MANY areas of life, food is just one.
It was a couple of months ago I had made a week's worth of "bad choices." I had gained four pounds. That is the most I have gained this past year. The "old me" would have kept that secret to myself many many months. And as a result I would have gained a tremendous amount of weight. What I've learned about myself is that I'm either pressing TOWARDS the goal of staying healthy or I'm binging myself back into darkness. It's all or nothing for me.
Once that week had passed, I knew I needed to confess the state of my heart. I didn't want to go down the dark road of bondage ever again. I am sooooooo glad I did confess this to Josh. He truly is a man after God's own heart... and he helped me sort through my crazy thoughts!! IMMEDIATELY, I was free!
Friends, you can choose to live in freedom too! Live in the truth, always!
The truth will set you free!
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