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!
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