God's Strength

I am continually amazed at God's strength that he gives me everyday.  My entire life (well at least from about age 13) I have battled weight.  I have spent my life on yo-yo diets.  I would do really good the first couple of weeks or even the first couple of months, and then I would hit a plato of about 50 lbs. or so and that would be it.  I couldn't find the strength to keep the weight loss going.  I have felt like a failure in this area of my life for most of my life.  Then I started down this new journey and have realized that I'm not a failure. I have just not leaned on God's strength the way that I should have.  All the talk about "eat less, exercise more", "you gotta have the will power to do it", "you have to want to do it for yourself, no one else", and "you can do it if you put your mind to it"....that's all true.  But what I have learned through everything is that until I gave it all to God and asked him for the strength to get through this battle (and it is a daily battle) I will never succeed.  For anyone who has ever tried to loose weight, even if you only had to loose 10 lbs., you know what a struggle it can be.  The only advice I have is to lean on God.  He can and will carry you through the battle.  I had a great weekend this past weekend.  Very relaxing and not to bad in the food area.  I did have a little more than half of a milkshake from Cookout but other than that I did pretty good!