BREAKTHROUGH ???

Last Tuesday I received my 1st 5 lb star.  It had been a LONG time coming for I was wraping up my 9th week on program and was only then reaching my first mini-goal.  Today is Sunday and, according to my own scales, I have down quite a bit more this week and "may" even be on target for reaching my first 5% this coming weigh-in. 

What clicked?  Why the slow start?  I attribute it to game playing without strategy.  A little game of roulette.  Where we spin the dial (eating whatever we want while the wheel turns) and begin our praying, coaxing, and hoping as the week winds down. 

With no plan...the outcome is left to chance.  Do I want to "chance" my health and happiness?  No...I do not!  My Pastor teaches..."Knowledge APPLIED is Wisdom".  There has never been so much information available to us....right at our fingertips.  I chose Weight Watchers because it is a sound eating plan.  No gimmicks.  No pills.  Nothing CRAZY!  People are literally dying to loose weight and all I have to do is change my mind.  All I have to do is DECIDE to apply what I know, learn what I do not know....and change my thinking which rules my actions.

I'm going to go thru my days with a plan...with purpose.  I'm not going to allow "events" and poor planning to toss me to and fro like a boat in a storm.  I will carve out a plan for my life ... beginning with regaining my life. 

This is MY life and I have not been in control of all areas of it.  I was created to lead.  To be the head...not the tail.  I am bright and beautiful.  I'm kind.  I'm loving, passionate, and compassionate.  I have hidden behind fear and insecurity for way too long.  And I'm laying excuses down.  No more stopping at a "little success"...as if that is sufficient.  No more going into my day without a written plan to succeed. 

Afterall....this is a journey.  And a journey requires a map unless you don't care if you end up right back where you began.