Resolutions...

I know, I know, not original at all, but Jeff and I are both hopping back on the wagon! We are in pretty bad shape and need to get eating healthy and exercising again. I am basically in the same shape as this summer, which stinks because I was doing so well with exercising and eating well until about mid October. My clothes were all loose, and I felt GREAT. Now the weight has all crept back and I am addicted to sweets. I hate that! We're trying to clear the house of junk, but some of it is Hannah's!

Anyway, yesterday and today I've felt better and have been eating for the right reasons. I just have to be real careful not to focus too much on my failures because I get depressed and turn to food. I've been so hard at work on Board Cert. stuff, I think food has become my stress-reliever, which is so ironic because it only causes more stress. I make food my idol and defile my body with it. Like in 1 Corinthians 6:12-13:

12"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13"Food for the stomach and the stomach for food"—but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

I realize it's not sexual immorality, but food is meant to nourish my body, not for me to long for it and eat more than my body calls for. This will no doubt not be the last such entry, but I'm resolved to keep focusing on the prize, on Jesus and His love for me, not my temporary body. The true damage I do when I give my heart to food is not physical, but spiritual. I will ask His help to focus on those rewards, of losing the desire to turn to food and finding my fill in Him instead of losing weight. That is my resolution for 2008!