Slow and steady.....

I've been dieting for a month and a half now and lost about 14 pounds. Tomorrow I weigh again and maybe it'll be more. Today finally people are beginning to say something. I don't notice a big difference in clothes or the mirror myself, but then agai,n I look every day. The people who commented don't see me regularly. I'm ecstatic that somebody can tell. I've been pleasantly surprised at my will-power to stick with it. I have weak moments but my desire to lose the weight finally out-weighs my desire to have it my way when I want it. Maybe this time next year I'll be a skinny little thing! I'll be happy to be a healthy little thing. I pray it helps my knees and hips, as would seem logical. I really think that the Lord has helped me most of all. Maybe it's not my willpower but His sustaining power. I'm so grateful for it. For all the years I ignored His promptings, I'm blessed that He still messes with me. But that's the way He is. If He can have such patience with me, I can have the patience to lose the weight. I know He's been bringing me a long slowly and steadily through the years. He's so faithful. I can hang with Him to watch Him wittle the weight away as I'm faithful to the road He's given me back to health.