I just wrote a friend who has the blahs today. I think the message I gave her is the message I needed for myself. Keeping a positive attitude is so important in life. I used to not have one. I was always the person who looked at the glass half empty. I could not pray when people asked me to pray for them because I didn't believe God would really answer my prayers or listen to me, nor did I have much confidence in myself. Then one day, I literally cried out to God that I had had enough of being so over weight. I could not keep myself from eating. I remember that night. It was one of those remarkable nights when my prayer came deep from within me. Then, a peace came over me and I wasn't scared any more. I asked my husband to help me. Something I was too proud to do before. Much to my amazement, he agreed to the commitment it would take to help me and has to this day helped me change my life style and eating habits.

My biggest enemy is when I am not positive or when I get to where I don't care about keeping my body healthy. That's when I'll keep eating or not eat correctly. It's when I have stinky thinking that I get myself in trouble. Last night was one of those nights. Now, once I get started down that road, it's easy for me to just give in for the whole day. That's when I'm in danger of gaining weight because I will throw caution out the door if I don't get a positive attitude back right quickly about failure or falling down, or giving in. You see, I know I am going to have some of those failures or weak moments once in a while. When I do, I need to chalk it up and not use them as an excuse to continue the day out with stinky thinking. I need to accept my failures and weakness as being human. I think my problem in not accepting these has led me to a denial that keeps me on a path to continue the behavior. Once I do admit the weakness, I then can restart and NOT continue the behavior. I then put an end to the behavior by admitting to the behavior to my Lord. For me, there are going to be a lot of restarts until I get it right sometimes in a day, but when I get it right, how sweet it is.