Struggles

Ok, so I have made it through my 2nd weekend on a diet. Weekends seem to be more difficult for some reason, maybe because it's easier to just grab drive thru than to cook a healthy dinner. Either way, I made it through, and I can't say that I didn't cheat at all but the few little cheats I had weren't too bad. But if those little cheats keep my on my diet, than I feel like as long as I am not binging on twinkies than that's okay.

I have always thought that after a few weeks on a diet your stomach would shrink. I wonder if that's true because so far I feel just as hungry as I did 2 weeks ago! Like I said before, sometimes it feels good to be hungry, but only for so long! My biggest struggle is snacking. I always feel like I want a snack. On the diet I am on it's okay to snack but it should be on veggies....which gets old quick! I have to remind myself that just because I am hungry does not mean that I have to eat but I also don't let myself get ravenously hungry because then I want to binge....finding that balance is hard but I am getting there. I have also found that when I am hungry I go drink a glass of water and that usually helps.

Everyday is a new day and I know that tomorrow will present new challenges but with God I know that all things are possible. I am doing a study on Psalm 51 and it has been really refreshing for me. Tonight's study was on "restoration". Here is a few sentences that really spoke to me... " He is refining us by His grace so that we can shine with His character...He was willing to be condemned so that we may live in beauty and for the purpose which we were first constructed, the praise of His glory".