What are my goals?
As I move forward in the journey of my life, I once again ponder this question. What are my goals? What should they be? Do I even have any? Well, yes, I do have some and I need to figure out how to break them down into bite size pieces.
First of all, there is my spiritual life and health. I feel that I am in a constant struggle for consistency in this area. Sometimes I wonder if something is really wrong, why don't I keep myself in the word and leaning on the Lord for help? Well, all I know is that I need to keep working at it and that He is always waiting there to help me.
Second is my physical health. I have struggled with this since my teen years. In Highschool I was at my thinnest, eating a very unhealthy diet and keeping very busy. After I got married, my weight crept steadily up and then we had children and it was up then down, then up then down - I think you get the picture. About four years ago I started a new way of eating with the Prism program. It was a program in which you work to understand why you over eat and also was a very restrictive low carb diet. It was broken up into 6 week phases and each phase added back foods that you had given up. I lost a total of about 50 pounds and although not down to my goal, I felt great and weighed less than I had in years. I kept the weight off for about 2 years and then had an emergency appendectomy and went off my good eating and have since gained every pound back. It is important to me to be in good physical condition so that I can keep up with my boys and be able to join them for fun activities. Another thing that is a concern is the fact that my mother has had type 1 diabetes for over 30 years and now my father has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I know if I don't get into shape and start eating right that I will likely face some serious health issues down the road and I don't want to go there.
Another area that I feel the need to improve is in the area of homemaking. I have trouble staying motivated in keeping up a menu and cooking, keeping up with the chores and clutter around our home. I chug along pretty well for awhile and then I just get tired of it and then things snowball and boy is it difficult to get on top of things again. I really want to work toward keeping a more consistent routine going.
OK - there are some big, general goals . . . I hope to break them into smaller bite size chunks in my next post.
First of all, there is my spiritual life and health. I feel that I am in a constant struggle for consistency in this area. Sometimes I wonder if something is really wrong, why don't I keep myself in the word and leaning on the Lord for help? Well, all I know is that I need to keep working at it and that He is always waiting there to help me.
Second is my physical health. I have struggled with this since my teen years. In Highschool I was at my thinnest, eating a very unhealthy diet and keeping very busy. After I got married, my weight crept steadily up and then we had children and it was up then down, then up then down - I think you get the picture. About four years ago I started a new way of eating with the Prism program. It was a program in which you work to understand why you over eat and also was a very restrictive low carb diet. It was broken up into 6 week phases and each phase added back foods that you had given up. I lost a total of about 50 pounds and although not down to my goal, I felt great and weighed less than I had in years. I kept the weight off for about 2 years and then had an emergency appendectomy and went off my good eating and have since gained every pound back. It is important to me to be in good physical condition so that I can keep up with my boys and be able to join them for fun activities. Another thing that is a concern is the fact that my mother has had type 1 diabetes for over 30 years and now my father has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. I know if I don't get into shape and start eating right that I will likely face some serious health issues down the road and I don't want to go there.
Another area that I feel the need to improve is in the area of homemaking. I have trouble staying motivated in keeping up a menu and cooking, keeping up with the chores and clutter around our home. I chug along pretty well for awhile and then I just get tired of it and then things snowball and boy is it difficult to get on top of things again. I really want to work toward keeping a more consistent routine going.
OK - there are some big, general goals . . . I hope to break them into smaller bite size chunks in my next post.
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