I woke up this a.m. with a horrible thought. I know in the lifelong plan of being healthy this should not matter to me, but I'm talking to you this a.m. from my flesh. I woke up thinking, I think I'm gaining weight! Yeah, good morning fear.
My fingers are swollen this a.m. It started last night when I realized I couldn't take my mommy's ring off. I did get it off eventually, unlike my class ring a few years ago when I woke up with swollen fingers and had to get it cut off at the hospital, where it took them 30 minutes because they couldn't fit their cutting thingie under my ring.
So since my fingers are swollen I automatically think the rest of me must be swelling and the scale is going to shock me. So, I don't step on it. And the only reason I do not step on that scale is because I told you that I would do it on day 15, and I keep my word.
I remember when I lost weight back in 2003, I would eat very well and walk, and a few days of that I would step on the scale and say, IT WORKS!! What a shocker. Eat well, exercise, and the extra fat comes off. But the way I felt this a.m. was that if I stepped on the scales and it showed a gain or no change I would say, "Well really? You mean I can make a very small change and not exercise at all and it stays the same or goes up??" WHAT A SHOCKER.
I can tell you one thing. The Lord is my just scale. He measures me not by what I am on the outside, but by my heart. I will not let my failures at weight loss and health determine my worth to God. Nope. Not gonna do it. I love my children when they are failing miserably, and that is only because I am loved like that from my own Father in Heaven.
HOWEVER, what are the chances I am going to be healthier if I do not make a huge effort to do so? Slim to none.
Brian Regan says it best. Laugh with me. .Brian Regan at the Doctor
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