Makeover!

I have been completely neglecting my poor blog lately. This whole working mom thing is just consuming all of my time. If I'm not working there are games, practices, laundry, working out and other chores that need to be done. Not that I think you don't know that and deal with the same thing. It's just that for the past four years, I really didn't have to deal with that. Working part time allowed me time to get everything done in a timely fashion and well, I kind of liked it like that. But back to my poor blog. I felt kind of bad for not having touched in over a month so I I decided it could use a makeover.

As I've mentioned dozens of times lately, back in June 2013 it became very clear to me that God was insisting I begin taking better care of myself. It's been a very slow process. But I've never given up. (I hit the 60 pound down mark this week!) I've struggled with whether or not to share my successes and my struggles or to muddle through the journey just me and Jesus. And for now my mind says share everything! That was the original point of the blog anyway. To help me from maybe oversharing things people don't care about on other social media sites. It's an outlet people can choose whether or not they want to click on the link and find out more. (So if you're reading this... Thanks for clicking the link!)

But lately I've been struggling a whole lot. Not with the food and fitness part of getting healthy. But the making sure God is in control part of the journey. And this is easily the most important part of the journey. I just keep asking myself; How can I be messing this part up? Yet I don't do much else to address the problem.Without the spiritual part of the journey, without God's guidance, this journey is pointless. So after completing a three week challenge group with some fun people on Facebook, I decided I do so much better at anything when I have an outlet to share and keep me accountable.

So welcome to my new made over blog. I'm hoping this new focus on faith, my faith, and fitness, will help me desire the spiritual part of this journey more and more. I pray that this will also be encouraging to someone else. My posts now will primarily focus on my journey to get healthy and hopefully you'll stick with me for this part of the journey. I'm sure I'll toss in many other tidbits about life along the way so even if fitness bores you, go ahead and check in once in awhile. As we head into fall working out and healthy eating becomes so much more difficult for me. Fruits and veggies aren't in season any more. There are so many yummy comfort foods and baked goods I enjoyed making. The weather gradually becomes iffier. The day gets shorter and eventually it'll be dark when I go to work and when I get home. BUT... I am not giving up. I am not in a hurry. I refuse to give up.

I'm 10 pounds away from halfway and that is providing me with lots of motivation right now. However I realize it may take me until the end of the year to get there. Unfortunately I looked back and it took me over 4 months to lose the last ten. I just kept losing the same 5-10 pounds over and over. Every time I've lost weight before that would have been the end. I would have made peace with staying there. That peace would have eventually led to slowly gaining it all back and more. It has taken much prayer to not let myself accept where I was. I used to hate walking, but I've slowly learned to love it, especially since I went back to work. It is a garuanteed time to get quiet and talk to God. I need that! Even though I'm struggling, He still listens. He still speaks. He is still in control.