serial youth pastor

That’s right.  I did it.  This morning on my way to work I stopped and got Naked along the way.  Get your minds out of the gutter.  That’s not what I mean.  It has been a year or so since I’ve purchased any Naked juice.  This morning I remembered our local Sunmart sells it so I stopped and bought a bottle.  I now remember why I am so fond of Naked juice.  It’s unbelievably awesome.  I’m trying hard to make smart food choices in my journey to 100.  Over the last 2 weeks I haven’t lost any weight.  So I’m dropping my calories down to 1800 a day in hopes this will spur on my weight loss once again.

I’m frustrated but I’m still plugging away working out and mainly focusing on cardio now.   I’m 15 pounds from the halfway point in this journey and that excites me.  I’m hoping to be a little past the halfway point by the end of next week.  I would be very excited over that.  I have come to a realization though while commenting over at Soon 2B Healthy.  Here it is…

It’s so easy to become the person who we don’t want to be by over-focusing on that person. Maybe that doesn’t make sense. The more I focus on losing the wieght the more I feel “weighed down.” So I took 1.5 weeks off of working out. Today was my first day back and it was awesome. I did gain like 2 pounds back over that 1.5 weeks but hey I’m ok with that. I have come to realize that this journey of mine is going to be a slow going one and now I’m ok with that. When I started I wanted it to be over fast and since then I have realized it won’t be it’s really kind of freeing in a sense.

Through this process I am falling in love with God in a different way now.  It’s hard to explain but I have a greater appreciation for who he has made me to be.  It’s an awesome thing.