weighty matters

Things I don’t mind you knowing about me:

I strongly believe that raisins ruin many baked goods, like carrot cake and oatmeal cookies.

I am going to be 40 this year… no hang ups on announcing my age to the world.

I don’t get on Facebook very much at all (not even once a week sometimes).

I won’t vote for Obama in the upcoming election.

I think it is a matter of salvation that you are baptized for the forgiveness of sins.

I think it is important that you work on living to Christ’s standard for your life.

I have read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy MANY times, as an adult.

I struggle with gossip.

I take prozac and suffer from depression.

I started my family when I was 19 and unmarried.

LOVE having a nice glass of red wine.

I love coffee (guess that is out already).

Good news is God already knows all of that and some stuff I didn’t tell you.  Bad news… I have been holding back on letting God deal with something that weighs heavy on my heart.

If you are in my Sunday morning ladies Bible class you will know what I mean when I say that I have finally uncovered my Nineveh, I have come out from below decks and am asking to be thrown into the sea!

So here goes.

WHAT I DON’T WANT ANYONE ESPECIALLY GOD TO KNOW ABOUT ME:

I weigh 199.6.

I HATE exercise.

I LOVE food!

There I put that out there.

God has been calling me to deal with my weight, my self-discipline and my self-control.  I feel one big thing He wants from me is to just put myself out there and stop hiding.  So I am gonna go to press with my weight loss journey.

If I do nothing else on my blog, I WILL blog every Tuesday.  Last week I told you I went to my first Weight Watcher’s meeting.  Today I went to my second.  Here are my results, which I just promised to show you every week, even if I hide behind a pillow when I hit “publish”:

at least it didn’t go up my first week!

In front of God and everybody else:

I am committing to attending weight watchers until Nov 20th.

I am committing to earnestly pray for all of my food, exercise and health choices.

I am committing to blogging all of my results… the good, the bad and the ugly.

I am committing to allowing God access to this dark corner of myself!

I will blog more about this choice and the convictions I feel God has placed on my heart later.  For tonight, for now… “one small step” at a time.

Thank you Tawnia for sharing your weight watcher’s experience so openly.  It makes a big difference to see you succeed and to know there is someone out there working on it.  Thank you for answering my personal questions so willingly!

Thank u readers for letting me share things with you that I am sure you don’t really want to know.  I suppose I will have to give you TMI alerts from now on!

Gonna go use the last of my plus points for the day!!

Love and Hugs,

Latte