September 26th, 2011

Every once in a while a experience comes along so huge it takes your breath away and leaves you so thankful you can hardly find words to express it.

Here is an interesting storey: I have a lot of things in my experience right now that I would represent as “Needs” Some with work, some with my personal life and some that are a combination of both. I am also well aware of some of my friends who have significant needs right now also. With this being the case I was therefore quite thrilled with the following verse in Isaiah this week, “And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I (God) will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I (God) will hear.”

Then last night I heard the following:

Pray desperately for the need, but let God answer!

Here is the storey that was told to illustrate the wisdom of this. A young man owned at one time a very nice dog; she was well trained and loved nothing better than to travel with him to work. She being very intelligent soon learned that a certain time was quitting time and so often within about fifteen minutes of this time she would get impatient to go home and start barking and creating a disturbance to the point where sometimes they would just go. However once in a while the work needed to be done and going home was not an option, yet the dog would not stop insisting so a few times she then got taken home and left at home on her own while the “have too” work was completed. She did get what she wanted, but in reality she really didn’t want that and would have far rather remained where her master was. Being a dog of course she didn’t understand this. However this was used to illustrate that often when we see a need and start praying for the need we also formulate in our mind what the answer to the need will be. We need to be careful that we don’t do this as often what we perceive the answer of the need to be is not what the answer should be. God knows, let Him answer!

This is so huge for me, this means I can learn even better how to pray for the need, maybe even more desperately than I have here to fore… however rather than compiling in my own mind what the answer is I am hence forth going to work just as desperately at letting God work uninterrupted and let Him answer without any interruption or input from me no matter how well intentioned it might be.

Well now that that is out of the way on to other news. I now weigh in at a whopping 287 lbs as of this morning. This is exciting as I am now starting to fit some clothes which were a little too snug just a mere six or seven weeks ago

A Quick note from Yesterday

September 8^th, 2011

It is another very nice sunny day here at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. I once again completed my “Hot Yoga” class and so am fairly proud of this accomplishment. It is several weeks now that this has been my program and yet I am still very pleased that I have kept it up. I have to decide soon how I am going to go forward with this. I believe I will buy a ten time pass. It means I get to go to class twice a week for six weeks so it works best for me.

I am still continuing to keep first things first, struggling a little with the lesson that is mine to learn right now. I am finding however that as I keep first things first the other lessons that come up while causing some struggle are not quite as daunting to deal with as they would be if first things weren’t first.

I may add more to this later, currently I have to get a proposal delivered and a couple of other stops taken care of.

It now is September 9^th, 2011; I never did come back and add anything. Today I have so far worked on some drawings and cleaned up my desk a little.

Hey just keeping on keeping on!

September 7^th, 2011

Summer is here!!! Lol!!! This week has been extremely warm… forecast is almost 30° Celsius for today and this is very warm for here. The kids are back in school, Kelsey’s first day of High School went well so we look forward to more days like that. I have thanks to a long weekend done little blogging of late, however I have stayed on track on all fronts and thanks to this currently roll in at 292 lbs which is down significantly from my starting weight of 305 lbs.

Above is a picture of a graph of the five weeks of August and it would seem slowly I am shifting in the right direction as far as my Calories and getting higher Calories earlier rather than later in the day!

Well better let this be all for now… I am working on some fairly interesting lessons right now. Funny how we get one thing down and then God says, “Good work with that, now how about you deal with this!” I will go into more detail sometime I am sure… however I am working on it in a similar manner to my recent challenges.

Rainy September Morning

September 2^nd, 2011

A little rainy and cool this morning, however they are optimistically promising nice weather for the weekend. It will be interesting to see how things unfold over the next few days.

I get to have lunch with friends today that I have been looking forward to for a while. It should be nice. Lunches like this always have a way of lifting my spirits.

I have to write a weekly report, I have a couple of jobs to update in tracker and I have a couple of things to follow up on and quotations to get out before to late today. It should definitely help the day go by fast.

I am very pleased that today I can still report that first things have continued to be first. The success I had with the exercise challenge for August is keeping me hopeful that I will know an astounding and resounding victory with this also.

Summary for September 1^st, 2011

Total allowed calories today (Sept 1^st, 2011):    3097

Total used:                                                         2225

School is back in for the Kids today!

September 1^st, 2011

Hot yoga went very well this morning. I believe I got farther than I have so far… more coaching from the instructor as it was a smaller class than the class Tuesday morning. I didn’t have nearly as many dizzy feelings. I do need to get a larger, looser workout shirt as the one I got yesterday is just not quite big enough to be comfortable.

Yesterday seemed a good day with the calories… however it would appear I am not loosing what I did and it likely has something to do with the fact I still seem to be loading towards the end of the day rather than at the start. Will do something to change this as it is a key towards feeling better.

August has ended and I have nailed my commitment to exercise at least 20 minutes every day! I am thrilled with this and am going to carry on in this light. Lets see where I am a year from now doing this.

Summary for August 31^st, 2011

Total allowed calories today (Aug 31^st, 2011):  2631

Total used:                                                        1764

Oh on a side note some dweeb broke into my car yesterday and stole a bunch of stuff!!! It included my bag full of used "Hot Yoga" clothes... maybe there is a little justice in the world afterall!!!