Hello. My name is Tina and I am a starter-of-project and a finisher-of-few. I am sure there are a few others like me out there. I know that I have missed blogging for over a week now and I can say I have really missed it. Blogging is a project that I started many years ago because I thought that it would be fun and then I got overwhelmed with the fact that I didn’t know anything about blogging which intimidated me every time I started to write something which led to an empty blog page for a couple of years. Then in the last several months I began doing the 17 Day Diet and I decided that I was going to use my vacant blog as my accountability partner and I stuck with both for a good little while. Then my life got really busy and I started missing a day here and then two days there. Over the last few weeks I have really been more busy than usual. I have spent many extra evening hours at work along with all the other stuff that my family has been involved in. I think in the last two weeks there has only been about 2 days that I have gotten home before 9 pm and those few occasions it was shortly before 9 when I got home. This has made blogging almost impossible. I could have blogged but I would have given up packing my kids lunch, folding clothes, or just setting down for a few minutes with my family to just rest a bit before bedtime. If you really want an idea of how behind I really am – as I type this I am watching DVR-ed episodes of past shows I tape and I just heard Oprah say “Thanks for watching and have a Happy Easter everyone.”
So here I have found myself on Sunday afternoon during a holiday weekend with nothing special going on and thought that I would try to sit down and get back on track. (as I play catch up on my dvr-ed shows – lol) I have been thinking about my blog a lot lately and I do think that it has evolved into something more than just a 17 Day Diet plan. I would like to think that my blog has been more about sharing my ups and downs with getting healthy. It has been a way to hopefully encourage others who read it to know that all of us are alike in our struggles. We may choose different ways to try and lose weight or just get healthy but we can all benefit for seeing that our struggles are not just our own. So over the coming weeks I hope to change a few things up. I do still plan to follow my 17 Day Diet Plan because I do believe in the healthy way of eating that it calls for. I do plan to still record what I eat and my exercise because it helps me to have a place where I know others are reading what I am doing. However, I plan to incorporate other things that I am learning about living a completely healthy life. I want a healthy body but I also want a healthy mind, soul and spirit. After all Deuteronomy 6:5 says Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. I want to live my life – my whole life – with this in mind. I don’t want to simply lose weight. I don’t want to simply get healthy. I don’t even want to just do the right thing all the time. I want to live out my life striving to Love the Lord with all my heart, soul and strength. I want to be obedient to what He calls me to do. Whether that is to stop running to sweets to make myself feel better or to meet my fitness goals for the week through the strength that God gives me or to sharing what God has lain on my heart to others to encourage them to make better choices or even fall into God’s grace when we don’t make those better choices.
This is one project that I don’t want to not finish. I want to do this as long as God puts it in my heart to share my everyday life and as long as He gives me something to say that can help others along the way.
Hope to be talking with you again real soon!
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