Apparently, studies show giving your body breaks between eating allows it more time to rest from the energy-consuming tasks of the digestive functions. Digesting food requires lots of energy and attention from your cells. When it doesn’t have to do all the work of digesting, your body can do other things it needs to do, like rest and repair which also require a great deal of energy.
Enter Grace. Literally, Saving Grace. Being a Christian, “Grace” is supposed to be an important word in my lexicon, but to be honest, I am just beginning to understand it and its magnitude.
Take time to congratulate yourself and commemorate the event. You can write it on the calendar, check the box on your exercise journal or food tracker, or even give yourself a Facebook shoutout if you’re feeling it. This life is yours; claim its events as newsworthy and revel in your own glorious headlines.
I’m not here to tell you that getting healthy is an easy undertaking, but I will say that if you practice a little Mary Poppins theology, this will work a whole lot better for you.
The key to success to always have a back-up plan. Do our military forces charge in with no plan B in case their initial strategy doesn’t work out? No.
Recognizing that “honor” is my ultimate goal usually informs me as to what my next best decision should be. Once I was able to define “honor” was the goal, I could evaluate my actions against it.
As a kid, I was pretty sure I’d have one of those lives where everything turned out exactly as I’d planned and I’d be confident in all my doings. Here I am mid-forty-ish, and I realize I’m not really even sure what I want to be when I grow up. But I’m working on it. These are my musings about what I consider the most important aspects to the fine art of figuring it all out.