Hurry Up and Wait

"I had dinner last week with a friend who’s lost twenty pounds and kept it off, and he was telling me about what has helped him change. He read an author who helped him understand what’s good for you and what tastes really good but can hurt you in excess. (In the latter category, sadly, is pretty much any food that ends in ‘o’: nacho, burrito, frito, dorito, taco, mayo, potato, oreo…) But this is the comment that stuck with me: the best diet in the world doesn’t help if you won’t eat it." -John Ortberg

It has to be something you can like. It has to be something you’ll actually eat.

December is just around the corner and my post pregnancy goal of dropping to my original pre pregnancy weight ain't happening by the end of December. Normally the fact would drive me off the wall but I've decide to finally come to terms with reality. I have lost most of my weight and no one is bothering me about it except myself. I tend to be too hard on myself sometimes.

I'm such an all or nothing person that I want things to be done right away or else I don't even want to bother or I get disappointed too quickly when I don't see results immediately. This whole experience  has been teaching me to sympathize with anyone  who is trying their best to lose weight but still struggling. I never really knew how hard it actually is to lose a pound than to gain it. It's also taught me patience, way more than I prayed for. Nine months of pregnancy and now post pregnancy weight loss has taught me one thing "Hurry up and wait."

I realized I was measuring myself with how much I weighed. If I was skinny then I was happy if I wasn't skinny then I was unhappy. The numbers on the scale became my mood thermometer with weight my idol. I finally decided to turn it over to God and have Him worry about it since He is Up all night anyway. Since, I have stopped putting my trust in dieting, worrying about losing weight, put my scale aside and have started eating healthy, I have become much happier and content with where I am right now and working on where I'd like to be some day is my motivation to eating right and staying active. I trust God to sustain me and see me through. Sounds silly, but He cares about the little ordinary things~ I just know it. Why else should we say grace before dinner, other than to thank God for the food and also to control our mouths so we don't stuff ourselves.

You don't need will power, all you need is change of habits. 

" Where this is no vision but lots of methods, there is legalism.
Where there is vision but no understanding of method, there is frustration.
Where there is neither vision nor method, there is apathy.
But where the vision is strong,
and method is actually effective and workable,
then transformation can happen." 

-John Ortberg

xoxo
El