Happy New Year!

Wow where did the last two months go?!

I am sitting here and wondering why time seems to slip past so quickly and quietly.  I realize that anyone who may follow this blog may wonder when I am actually going to obtain my goal.  But I am learning that the important things take time, patience, long suffering and a lot of hope.   Along with that there needs to be a huge amount of work and sacrifice.

I realize that I struggle with wanting the easy, quick, fast and immediate results.  I want this trial/challenge to be over with already.   My heart desires it, yet there is a part of me that fails to follow through.  And I am striving to teach myself that anything worth doing, takes time, effort and a lot of sweat.  I could continue to do a 100 day challenge or a 10 week challenge, but what I am realizing is, I need to change, and change takes time.

So again I take it a day at a time,  I look at what I have been able to change, and count them as successes.   I have goals.   Here are a few:

Lose two pounds a week

Read scriptures daily

Take it a day at a time

Eat more fruit

Eat more vegetables

Portion my food, correctly

Exercise each day

By my birthday in August, lose 64 pounds.

Pray daily

 There are a few short and long term goals.  I have to alter a lifestyle and I cannot expect changes to become habits in a few short days.  I need to be patient.  (Which for the perfectionist in me is very difficult).

While reading the scriptures I came across a verse, (this is why I love reading the scriptures, I always read what I need to hear),  it is in Isaiah 40: 31  

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

Trusting in the Lord to lead me, is so difficult sometimes, because I want to say I can do it on my own.  I am realizing that anything that I have  accomplished and succeeded is because I have received help from the Lord.   I truly haven't done anything on my own.   It requires a lot of humility to get down on my knees and ask for help.   Yet, I know this scripture to be true.

I am still plugging along,  I did only gain 3 pounds over the holidays, which I count as a magnificent blessing!   I lost two this week!!  Oh!   I also signed up again for another Zumba class,  I need it!

My hope and desire is that when we get to August, you will read an entry from me that says, I have reached my goal!   Now it is time to put the desire to work!