FAT MAN, THIN MAN, FATTER MAN...GOOD GRIEF!! I have been "overweight" or whatever other descriptive you care to use to call me fat, most all of my life with occasional spurts of weight loss. I've been up and down the scale several times, (mostly up) and have gained and lost over 300+ pounds in my life. However, I've begun to see myself as more than just a "fat" person...it gets easier to take on a different outlook when one doesn't fight for every breath, or have joints scream in pain every time you move. For the story of what got me to this point please click on the page: "HOW DID I GET HERE?"

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Monday, September 13, 2010

LETS NOT GET TIRED OF BEING GOOD TO OURSELVES

"So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up." Galatians 6:9 (New Living Translation)

Ok, I admit it. Sometimes it gets tiring to always make the right food choices. To always think about what and how much I’m eating. It would be nice not to always have my guard up. Don’t I ever get to catch a break?


But not doing these things only brought me to where I no longer was in control of my life, my health and I was largely unhappy with my life.


Today I feel so much better than before I started clawing my way out from morbid obesity.


It’s like the Apostle Paul told us, don’t get tired of doing what is good. In this case I am doing “good” to myself. I am reaping a harvest of physical and emotional blessings!

Which is not to say that anyone should ever lose the chance to do good to or for someone else!
It is not selfish to take care of yourself, or put your needs ahead of others...sometimes. If I'm honest with myself I know the difference between taking care of me and selfishly putting ME first.


I get a lot of compliments on my weight loss…that is reaping a blessing!


I do not need to walk with a cane or use the car door to pull myself up out of the car anymore…blessing!


I seldom get out of breath (even when I’m really exercising)…blessing!


I no longer care where I park the car…I can walk again…blessing!


I no longer stay in the car and wait for my wife to shop; I get to go with her…blessing! Not kidding either!


The smaller portions of food I eat now taste supremely better than the mindless bucketfuls I used to snarf down before. I really didn’t even taste the stuff I used to put thru my lips and over the gums, look out stomach here it comes! Again…blessing!


Really there is no comparison to my former way of death via eating vs. the new way of eating to live!


So I remind myself to not get weary in doing good for others like the Bible instructs us, but I also remind myself it’s ok to be good to me too!


Ah my friends, these are some of the heavy thoughts that keep me moving towards lighter living.
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