Ok….I completed the first leg of my weight loss journey and I am currently weighing in about 40 pounds less than where I was last October. I am proud of that, but recently have become less and less motivated to keep on losing since my reason for losing has been to get pregnant. Well, on our vacation, Mark and I had a discussion about getting pregnant and my weight loss goals. It wasn’t a fun conversation, but it has certainly got me more motivated. Although no official “target weight” has been set yet, I know that I will be losing at least another 35 pounds before we start trying for a baby. It is a bummer to feel like I have worked sooo hard and have to do it all over again to get to my goal, but it is nice to have a goal that both Mark, and I, and the future baby Kinnari will benefit the most from!
So I am back on weight watchers! I am following the core plan, which helped me to drop the last 10 pounds of my first 40 which were quite difficult! Also, I am really trying to step it up when it comes to keeping my body active. So, inspired by my cousin, I am going to try to blog about what kind of exercise I do and I will also do a weekly update with weight loss (or, hopefully not, gain).
Mark was a little bothered by the fact that the guarantee of attempting to get pregnant was such a major motivator for me. Although I think part of that is because he doesn’t feel quite so intensely about becoming a parent soon, I think that he is right….I need to work on what motivates me….
I need to lose weight and get in shape because that is what I have been called to do. No, God doesn’t tell us to judge people by their appearance….and He certainly doesn’t tell us that we should be vain and be overly concerned with how we look, but He does tell us that He has created us to be a temple for Him. Our bodies are a divinely created gift and we are to respect them and love them and serve Him with them….that means fueling them with healthy foods and exercising them to keep them in good, working order! So I am going to be trying to keep that in mind each time I am tempted to help myself to a second serving or to skip my workout…. I need to be doing this, primarily, for Him!
Verse of the Day:
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?”
~1 Corinthians 3:16
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