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We were singing a song entitled “Your Grace is Enough” at worship team practice last night.  In the bridge of the song, our leader asked us to write on a piece of paper Your Grace is Enough for… and ask God to reveal to us what He wants us to hand over to him.  My answer was- my failures.  I have so many of them!  I guess the one biggest on my mind was losing weight.  Now, I know I’m risking many butt-kickings by using the “f” word here, but it’s just where I was last night!  I feel like I’ve known for years how to lose weight, and just haven’t done it successfully.  I feel like I’ve let myself down, my family down, and my support system down.  But then I read what I wrote again.  If God’s grace is enough to cover my failures, then I guess I really haven’t failed.  I’ve only failed when I quit, and I haven’t quit.  I’m learning to rely on Him for more than just normal everyday things now.  I have given over this journey to Him, which is what I should have done right from the very beginning. So, if His grace is enough for me, I need to take a step back and let Him take the reins.  I’m going to start practicing what I preach! (or in this case, sing!)    

Ok so for you who are dying to know: (all 2 of you I think ) I ate the whole Snickers bar yesterday!  I actually ate 1/2 of it before dinner and then decided to eat the other 1/2 after dinner.  The original plan was to eat 1/2 yesterday and 1/2 today but I decided I wanted it out of the house so I ate the whole thing!  I ended up 3pts over for the day, and that is ok.  Today’s plan is 4 under so it will all work out and I will still be down a pound on Friday!  Oh, and it was absolutely wonderful and delicious!  And now I won’t have a craving for one for a long time!

Ok, a friend of mine just said she would like to have a Snickers bar- and I said “OH CRAP!!”  You see, my daughter bought me a Snickers bar from a vending machine early last week (my favorite!) and I put it in the cupboard to be saved for yesterday, my free day.  Well wouldn’t you know it, I totally forgot about it! It just occured to me when my friend mentioned it that I waited all week for that candy bar (and since my whole week was bad, I guess I should have just gone ahead and eaten it during the week) LOL Oh well, what am I gonna do?  I’m either going to cut it up in small pieces and eat one small piece a day or wait until this Sunday and enjoy it all at once.  You know my mind must really be slipping when I forget to eat a Snickers bar!

Do you remember the original Star Wars trilogy?  I love Yoda- so full of wisdom and yet silly at the same time.  Lately people have made comments like “are you losing weight?” or “I can tell you’ve been working out”.  My usual response to them is “Well, I’m trying”, however a popular quote from dear old Yoda is “No try- do!”  As I’ve said before, I know what I need to do to lose weight.  And most of the time, that is what I do.  So I think by saying I’m trying, that is not having the most positive attitude.  I should simply say, “why yes, I am losing weight” or “thank  you for noticing” So from now on, I am not trying to lose weight; I am DOING it!!