So far on this current journey toward the temple I have experienced several small victories. I am thankful and blessed by each one. I am attempting to relish them so that I can remain thankful and forward focused when I experience small or even large set backs.

The first set of victories may not at first even appear victorious. The first was asking a friend of mine to walk this journey with me with weekly visits and weigh ins. She has lost over 100 pounds through eating well and exercising!! She is currently working on maintenance, embracing the fact that this is a life long journey and taking a break from her scale because their relationship wasn’t healthy anymore! She agreed to meet with me! That knowledge alone helped me lose 1.6 pounds during the last week of school amidst baccalaureate, graduation, graduation parties, end of the year responsibilities and end of the year teacher gift preparation for the girls’ teachers! That was ahuge victory to me and I am SO grateful to her and God for helping me accomplish that loss during a time when fitting in exercise was not an option!!

Since we’ve been done with school, I’ve exercised every day (except Sunday). My plan was to take the weekends off, but I had time and motivation to get a workout in on Saturday and I did. Another small victory that felt HUGE!

We were all done with school on Thursday, May 23rd. The girls had been asking to go to the local library ever since the school libraries stopped loaning books in order to get ready for their annual inventories. So Friday, I took the girls to the library for them and I to get some books. One of the books I checked out was Michael Pollan’s, Food Rules. In it he talks about the “rules” which he says are more like guidelines of eating. One of them is the idea of eating to satisfaction rather than fullness and that has been working well for me the last couple of days! Another victory for this girl who hates feeling deprived or hungry!

So, with each small victory I gain a little more confidence that MAYBE I am truly on a life-long, forward-moving journey and road to the temple within my body and outside in heaven, my ultimate destination. Perhaps even my eating and weight and body composition can be sanctified!! After all, ANYTHING is possible with MY GOD!