Sufficient Grace

The weigh in: I am a little late with this post but here is it nonetheless: My weight Monday June 4, 2012 - 170lbs!!! Ahh! It's worse than I thought :( Still it has been a good week and a half - haven't quite seen results yet, but I have been sticking to my plan and I feel so much better. Here's to another week of discipline and hard work! With the Lord's help and some encouragement from wonderful friends and family, I CAN DO THIS :)

Yesterday I "got back on the horse" in regards to my weight loss efforts. After two weeks of vacation  - bad eating and no working out - I feel like the task before me is more daunting than ever. I never thought it would be this hard or take this long... After I had my son Elijah - who is now almost 15 months - I thought I could be back to normal in 6 months or at the very least within the first year. Now that both of those goals have passed me by and I am still struggling with the last 15-20lbs, my current goal is to lose at least 15lbs (ideally 20...) before I get pregnant again.  I don't have a lot of time if we still want our kids to be approximately 2yrs apart like we have always wanted. It has been a challenge, to say the least. I have made progress along the way, but I have also put back on a few pounds that I had lost - that is so discouraging. I know what I need to do, but it is a matter of discipline and consistency. A few months ago I was on a roll, I was mot...

I have been wanting to blog for a long time now, but kept finding a reason to delay. One of the biggest reasons was that I could not settle on what I considered to be a "great" blog name, haha! I am still not completely sure, but I think "Sufficient Grace" is a very appropriate reminder for me. "And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness."" 2 Corinthians 12:9 Never before in my life have my weaknesses been more apparent; nothing like marriage and motherhood to reveal just how flawed and weak I truly am. It is a wonderful and very difficult place to be, but my hope is that I learn to lean more and more on the sufficient grace of the Lord. As I recognize my weaknesses, I pray that His grace becomes continually more visible in my life.  So here is to the beginning of my blogging journey! :)