Fight Obstacles with
“The Do What You Can Plan.”
It is late Tuesday evening, and I hear a train in the background, dogs barking and banging on the door, and I am sitting on my couch as part of our dinner cooks on the stove in the kitchen. I am caught in a spiral of pain, weight gain, medication reaction, and depression. How do I overcome and find a plan to fight these negative forces in my life?
Before this I hovered around 210 pounds, but today, I sit on my couch weighing 250 pounds. Shame doesn’t begin to cover the emotions I feel. I want to change this about myself, but I don’t know where to begin. I know the why of wanting to change. She is gone with her father to challenge him at a game of pool. My 13-year-old daughter is so happy and well adjusted, but what message am I sending her with my weight? Will she have a bad body image? Will she not eat because she doesn’t want to be fat like her mother?
The plan involves recognizing “the change that God wants me to make; my small next step; and then how I will celebrate when I succeed in taking my small step.”
She writes: “It’s not about the size of our faith or the strength of our efforts. It’s about who we’re placing our faith in and what HE CAN DO.“
Tomorrow, I am going to walk up and down my hallway for five minutes and eat a serving of fruit for lunch. I already bought the berries and grapes.
[tweetthis twitter_handles=”@MaryHill16″]See me on the other side on Thursday when I will write about my celebration. [/tweetthis]
This post is my second entry for THE MARCH SOLSC! #SOL16 which started Tuesday. It is also part of my book review for Holly Gerth’s LifeGrowth Guide for You’re Already Amazing. This post has Amazon affiliate links for this book if you use to purchase, I earn a small percentage of the sale which I use to pay my blogging expenses. You can read the original review here.
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Dear Mary,
I SO understand your struggles! Living with fibromyalgia, I struggle with the very issues you wrote about. This year I am focused on making sustainable nutritional changes to foster weight loss and improve my health after receiving some sobering news at my last doctor’s appointment. It’s challenging but as you said – I can do all things in Christ Jesus who strengthens me!
I’ve been sharing (and will be continuing to share) as many health related books as possible this year as I am reading everything I can get my hands on.
I highly recommend Sugar Crush and Let Food Be Your Medicine by Don Colbert (a Christian MD) to you (both reviews are on my blog).
Have a blessed week!
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I will check these books out. Thanks.
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Mary, setbacks are so hard. You make progress and then fall back and it’s no fun. But, yes, you are already amazing and taking small steps are worth celebrating. It’s easy to compare ourselves with others and think we aren’t doing enough, but God doesn’t ask us to do what others can do, He asks us to do what we can do and that is enough. Blessings to you and I hope you are able to have some help in managing you pain. You are a brave, beloved daughter of God!
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Mary, I hate setbacks and hope you can get some relief from that pain. Pain is a weapon of the enemy – debilitating and horrid. I pray you can get some “RPM’s” going on!!!
I’m so sorry for your setback. I will pray for victory to rise within you from the inside out. You’re right. You ARE amazing!
Mary, I too believe the truth that you and I are already amazing! BUT you are so right..that mirror often doesn’t or tries to make us believe the lie that we aren’t. You can do this girl! 🙂 God will walk with you if you put your trust fully and completely in Him. (I am also saying these words to myself!) But somedays that is so much easier said than done, isn’t it?!
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I am saying Tara’s words to you and to myself as well. I live in pain and the weight is inching up. I know that God created me and that He loves me and that I am amazing. Head knowledge today. Heart knowledge…NADA! I will be lifting you in prayer, Mary and will be joining you in your steps as they are mine as well.
With love, and caring through Christ, ~ linda
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