First Signs Of Progress

Time for today’s weigh-in. Drumroll, please….

From last week, that’s a weight loss of 2.6 lbs. The crazy part is that I was still at 307.4 on Sunday morning. In trying to figure out what made the difference, I can only place my finger on one thing: prayer.

Thankfully most of the people who read my blog are Christians and understand that. In the event that there is someone who doesn’t, maybe they’ll call this a “post-hoc fallacy“. Not to anger you, but that seems like a really nice way to explain away faith. The problem is for those of us that believe in the power of prayer, you can’t convince us that after trying everything else with no results that prayer did not cause the results. Could I have done it without prayer? Maybe. But I’ve tried before and failed every time.

I won’t rehash my last post, but you can consider this one an extension of it. Glory to God, all this week I’ve been able to:

maintain a reverent prayer posture and attitude
get up early and exercise (even if I complain about it at first)
be unnaturally diligent in healthy, responsible eating habits
continue doing a Bible study on disciplined eating (and actually benefiting from it) that I’d prefer stopping

Three days might not seem like much, but trust me it feels like a lot. Especially because I’m finally denying my habitual, emotional, “normal” cravings and replacing them with more healthy and even spiritual practices that will change my life. The only thing that causes me consternation is that my stomach feels empty almost all the time, and I don’t like how that feels, so if this is the lifestyle change I want, will I feel this all the time? My suspicion is that no, once my stomach shrinks to an appropriate size and my body gets used to only getting the food it needs and not everything it thinks it wants, it will slow its roll and be happy with what I give it.

Thanks for your prayers. Don’t stop now! Within two weeks I hope to be below 300 again.

-j

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