SOW RIGHT OR WRONG BUT WE WILL REAP!

Credit for this cartoon goes to:Woman's World.





These are my sentiments exactly.

There are so many new fangled ideas on the market and I do not know how to work many of them. The can opener is my one victory. I could at one time, roll the windows up and down on our car. I still can if the electronic windows don't quit working. To make a DVD or a stereo, microwave, and many other things work , it is beyond me. I like things simple. That way you don't have to wonder. It just works.

I think that is how it is with losing weight. You have to put less in than you put out. If you put the same amount in as you put out then things will remain the same. That is how it has been for me the last couple of weeks. I am positive that if you put more in than you take out then you will gain weight. See its simple. We just have to put less in or do more. If we both, put less in and do more then we will show a greater loss.

We do have to eat. It is not like stopping something completely. But that is no excuse by any means. It is what the Bible talks about to some extent when it says, "We will reap what we sow."

I know that these verses pertain to souls but I am using it to explain , I believe what we can look forward to in regards to losing weight.

Psalm 126:5

THEY THAT SOW IN TEARS SHALL REAP IN JOY.

As far as eating the things we want but do not need, I think that if we sow by only eating the amount our bodies needs to function correctly then it may at times cause us to want to shed tears because we feel we are depriving our flesh of it sensual desires. There will come a time that we will reap the rewards of good health and a smooth running body if we give it only what it needs and eat the extras only rarely. We can reap in joy if we want to, concerning this part of our lives IF WE WANT TO.

Galatians 6: 7

BE NOT DECEIVED; GOD IS NOT MOCKED; FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.

We need not try to fool ourselves, God will not be mocked, he has made us and He knows what and how much we need to make this body run the right way. If we eat more than we need then it will show. We may put on bigger clothes, darker colors, let no one see us when we eat but it will be there for all to see sooner or later and the one that matters most (God) sees everything all the time. WE ARE GOING TO REAP WHATEVER WE ARE SOWING.

I write these things to be a help to myself but if in the reading you find that they might help you with your struggle for victory then I am very happy to share my way and hopefully it is becoming our will. connie

THANKSGIVING A TIME FOR THANKSGIVING

I want to make this a special post. One of thanks and thanksgiving to the Lord for to Him I owe everything.





Thanksgiving should be more of an attitude than an observance; more a way of life than a day apart; more a habit than a holiday; more a spirit of gratitude than a time of feasting.

----william arthur ward----





WHEN WE DRINK FROM THE STREAM REMEMBER THE SPRING.

chinese proberb





Our despondent moods are, for the most part, moods of ingratitude.

----earl riney----





HE WHO THANKS BUT WITH HIS LIPS

THANKS BUT IN PART;

THE FULL, THE TRUE THANKSGIVING

COMES FROM THE HEART.

--j.a. shedd



God gave you the gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say "THANK YOU"?

TO MAKE EXCUSES

" Wanting to win is common to all; working to win is the real mark of a champion."
author unknown


We are always trying to make an excuse why we are overweight.

An excuse is an excuse.

EXCUSE---To make apology for; to try to remove blame from; justify,Something offered as grounds for being excused

I know that there have been many times in my life as I was trying to lose the excess weight and something unexpected came up, like a death, a celebration, a holiday, these were times that I would make excuses to go back to an old way of eating. I know that when I do things the same way then the same things keep happening. I gain weight. I also know that if I want to lose weight then I must do things in a different way .

With God's help, I have been able to lose this week. I am very thankful that no matter what came up that I was able with His help to stick to my plan.

Like the quote at the top of this post, I also know that wishing or wanting does not make a thing happen. I have to do the work to get it accomplished. We all do. If there is something in our lives that we want to accomplish whether it is losing weight or not, we each have to have the goal and do the work necessary to accomplish the fact.

I love the cat jumping on the scales with balloons in his hands(on the right side bar) to make himself weigh less. I have tried in my own way to do this many times. Weigh with my shoes off, wear the lightest weight clothes that I have in my closet, not eat for the day before, none of these things work. They are all just a means of lying to myself. I did not do the work necessary in the last week to show a loss. Now I am having to face the judgement of the scales as they tell me the truth.

My Dad used to say, "if you have trouble sleeping at night, keep getting up early enough in the morning and stay up all day, then when you lay down at night , you will be able to sleep." I know this is true because I have tried it out and it does work. It is the same way with gaining weight. To gain you have to eat more than your body needs to operate. So to lose weight you have to eat less than it needs to operate. Then you will lose weight.

I have been doing something this past week that has helped me a lot. If I feel like I am going to die if I don't get what I want to eat, I try to eat something with less calories. I wanted a piece of pie so much, one night but instead, I settled for an orange. It worked that time.

Another time, I was very hungry , at least that is what my mind was telling me but then I remembered that I had read several times over the last month that sometimes when we feel hungry it is really that our body is wanting water. I have found this to be true many times this week. I was really quiet satisfied after drinking a glass of water.

I hope things have gone very well for each of you this week, whether you have been trying to lose weight or accomplishing another goal in your life.

REVELATION 4:11

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power
: for thou hast created ALL things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.


NOTHING BEFORE, NOTHING BEHIND,
THE STEPS OF FAITH
FALLING ON THE SEEMING VOID, AND FIND
THE ROCK BENEATH
--john greenleaf whittier

WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY

WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY. I belive that is the way the saying goes. I have the will, I am determined to find the way. I didn't want to do this again , after losing my other blog on losing weight, but here I am again. I guess I will keep trying until I die. connie