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Checking in for the end of week 5!…
- Share one wellness success and failure from the week.
- Share one wellness goal for the upcoming week.
- Share one significant point learned from completing the Begin With Christ homework.
- Share your weight loss, if you so choose.
- Share one way others can specifically pray for you in your pursuit of wellness.
1a) Success(es) this week: I’ve started keeping track, on a calendar again, how I’m doing. If I stay on plan for the day, I give myself a green dot. If I do some things toward my plan, but slip a bit, I get a yellow dot. And, if I really fall off, and don’t follow my plan at all, I get a pink dot. So far, the week’s been a good mix of green and yellow, with a couple of pinks. So, that means we’re progressing. 
I’ve had more days where I at least *tried*, so that’s a ’success’ in my opinion.
1b) Failure(s) this week: Several times, this past week, I was just plain rebellious, and ate when not hungry, fully knowing what I was doing. I just said, “I don’t care — I’m doing it anyway“. I’ve got to stop rebelling like that, and remember that my body is God’s temple, which I should be treating with respect. Also, I haven’t done my Bible studies at all this week, and that disappoints me.
2) Wellness goal for upcoming week: I want to continue to pay attention to my hunger signals, and try to do so at EVERY eating occasion, not just some. ((same as last week)) I also need to be more attentive to the spiritual side of things… I have really let that go, and yet, it’s the most important part!
3) I haven’t done my THIN WITHIN lessons this week, either, so I don’t have any “insights” to share. I plan to sit down for a while, today, though, and catch up a bit. Not because I have to, but because I want to.
4) Please pray that I will continue to really focus this week, and do what needs to be done… and, continued prayers for our financial situation (and hubby’s return to school) would be greatly appreciated. It’s our biggest source of stress, right now, and that doesn’t help in the eating department (for me, anyway). 
Thanks.
This song is so powerful… “just okay is not enough“… that’s the line that gets me.
Are you just “going through the motions” of a Christian life? Or, are you living every day in the abundant life God has for you?
“I don’t want to spend my whole life asking,
what if I had given everything
instead of going through the motions?
~ Matthew West, “The Motions“
If you want to make a commitment to stop going through the motions, click here to go to Matthew’s specially-created website for this purpose! 
Checking in for the end of week 4!…
- Share one wellness success and failure from the week.
- Share one wellness goal for the upcoming week.
- Share one significant point learned from completing the Begin With Christ homework.
- Share your weight loss, if you so choose.
- Share one way others can specifically pray for you in your pursuit of wellness.
1a) Success(es) this week: There haven’t been all that many “successes” this week. But, I *do* have a renewed motivation to really focus on things, and I have had a day or two where I did just that. So, that’s a mini-success, anyway.
1b) Failure(s) this week: I waaaaaay overstuffed myself on 3 occasions this week (hubby had a birthday, so we were eating with family — away from home — and the food was too good!). Not fun. I need to keep in mind that I hate that feeling of being overstuffed, ’cause I can’t enjoy my visiting with others afterward if I feel like garbage.
2) Wellness goal for upcoming week: I want to continue to pay attention to my hunger signals, and try to do so at EVERY eating occasion, not just some. ((same as last week)) And, I’d like to stop snacking in the afternoons, as an added “goal” this coming week! Lastly, I need to get back to doing my “homework” — my Bible study — for this challenge! (see below)
3) I haven’t done my THIN WITHIN lessons, this week, so I don’t have any “insights” to share. I need to pray that I will be more focused, and just do the homework — no excuses. This week my “excuse” was that the kids are home, and it’s just too hard to find the time — plus, I’ve been working a lot of hours, and then had review books to get to in my “spare” time. God should be coming FIRST, before all of that! So, this is another goal for the coming week (see #3, above!).
4) Please pray that I will really focus this week, and do what needs to be done… also, that depression will not derail me. We’ve been going through some really stressful times, recently, so depression often leaves me floundering, and I don’t feel like doing much of anything, most especially avoiding emotional eating. Thanks. ((repeating the same request from last week, as it’s still applicable)). Also, would love prayers for our financial situation… hubby’s trying to get things sorted out as to whether/not he’ll be able to go back to school in the Fall, and we need the loan stuff to fall into place for that to be possible. Pray that he and I will trust that God will make it happen if it’s to be. Thanks.
On to another week!
