The Most Powerful Weight Loss Drug I Know..

I lost weight this week, and it was intoxicating.. but I think the ironic thing was I knew before stepping on the scales that I had because I could feel the difference.

At the potluck church dinner on Sunday I surveyed the desserts and realized none of them appealed to me... then the shocking thought came to me that there wasn't any dessert I was craving.... ( It was Mother's Day after all, and I like sweets!!)

After last week's post I realized that so much of what I was saying I needed to internalize on a more consistent basis, and something clicked.

It really is the hopelessness and despair of the effort of trying to lose weight that makes it so hard.

I think the most powerful weight loss drug out there is hope. Not hope in the "I hope I win a million dollars" kind of hope -- but the hope that comes when you realize something isn't impossible, the hope that buoys you up, the kind of hope folks talk about in the noun sense of the word not the verb..... "It gave me great hope for our future" kind of hope.

Then suddenly the issue of weight loss doesn't become about IF, it becomes about WHEN... and HOW..... and that's a major major difference...

I am not doubting IF I can lose the weight, I know by God's grace, I will, now its just a matter of remembering that on the rough days..