Instant Gratification.  That thought/desire is a large roadblock while losing weight.  I struggled a lot with that last week.  I mean come on–I am eating better and working out, I should be a lot thinner right?  I feel thinner/stronger, I should look like a size 10 by now, right?  Um Hello–only week 3 impatient one.

Ugh–ok so I had to stop a lot and tell myself “slow down, give it time, take it day by day”.  This is a lifestyle change right?  Yep but I want it NOW–oops there it is again.  The impatience got worse too when I weighed in.  I was down .8.  Well instead of focusing on the down part I kept focusing on the “only .8″.

OH INTERRUPTION, well and a confession.  I am writing this while in church–yep in church (I did confess this fact after the service to the minister).

As I am writing this, one of our Ministers is doing the Children’s Sermon.  He is talking about growing.  He is asking the kids about physical growth and about other ways that they can grow.  As he asked “in what other ways can you grow?” those words hit me hard and fast.  Ding, ding ding…that is what I need to take as my focus through out this weight loss.  Instead of staying focused on shrinking, I need to focus on growing. Um what? Really?  Let’s explore this.

When I stop and think more about it–over the last 3 weeks I have lost 9 pounds, but have had growth in so many more areas.  That is it!  Focus on growth.  Celebrate the gains not the losses.  The gains??  YES the gains.  The emotional, physical, and spiritual gains need to be my focus, not the loss on the scale.  WOW!!!  That thinking carries so much more power than just thinking about how much have I lost.

Reminding myself of areas of gain rather than focusing on that loss number will definitely be a challenge, but I am up to it.  Are you?  So from now on this is no longer a weight loss blog, but a Gains blog.  Gains, and growth now are positive words in weight loss–who would have thought that?  Tell me your gains!

Realizing all this makes me feel less guilty for writing this in church.  

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