Thank you so very much for taking the time to read my blog. I have never been one to be a great writer but it's something that I would really like to start doing more of. For one, I think it will help me understand my life so much better in regards to where I have been and where I'm heading with my life. The first 47 years seem like a lot of chaos and confusion but oh how I have learned so many valuable lessons.
I have titled this blog Living Today Well because one of the greatest lessons that I have learned is that I must focus on today and stop thinking so much about tomorrow. Too often I look at my past goals and wonder why I haven't succeeded. I realized that so much of my energy and effort has been geared toward the end result rather then focusing on today and living today well ... or living the best that I can today. Although it is good to plan and to set goals, the Bible tells us that we don't know what tomorrow holds or even if tomorrow will come. How many blessings have I missed in my life because I was so focussed on what lied ahead in my life rather then enjoying today to it's fullest!
And so it is with this new HOPE that I set out on my sixth year of this crazy journey. I had done so well my first year and then maintained quite well up until this past year. My knees became so soar that I could no longer swim. This caused me a great deal of depression and anxiety and I ended up going right back to my old habits of eating because it made me feel so good. But you know, the crazy thing is that I would feel good while I was eating but then I would feel horrible after because my body was hurting with all the extra fat I have been carrying around. Well, this past September, I had a double knee replacement surgery and I was in rehab for a couple of months. Here also I gained a lot of my weight back because I couldn't get up to exercise and frankly, I was bored out of my mind sitting in that nursing home. Oh, I had lots of good times ministering to others there but I also had plenty of time to be bored ... But, today was a new day my friends and today was my first day back in the pool! It felt so wonderful to be back to swimming which is what I love to do, even though my knees felt so funny in the water. I had a wonderful swim.
My hope is that I can journal my daily experiences here and I hope that you, the reader, will feel free to post on this blog. I hope that you will be encouraged to live your life well too and that you will find a renewed sense of joy in your heart.
I will be weighing in weekly and measuring monthly. Here are my current results.
1-10-11 362 lbs
Stomach is 61" around
Chest is 58" around
