Each morning I start a new food journal entry on my phone.  The button is labeled "new day".  Isn't that beautiful?  It's an occasion of serendipity by the app's publishers, I'm sure.  However, it's meaningful to me that each day I can awake and hit "new day" and be reminded that - it's REALLY a NEW day!  (Occasionally I break into song, like Jennifer Hudson in the Weight Watchers' commercial.  Be very glad you can't hear me!) ... It makes me think of sunburns.  The last time I had a sunburn, I was miserable and nauseated and regretting my time in the sun.  If a sunburn lasted forever, how awful would that be?  God, in His mercy, made skin to regenerate.  God, also in His mercy, made the sun to set and rise again.  Earth dynamics play a role; sure.  But truly - I think it has more to do with hope.  Awakening to a rising sun so that we realize: today is a new day and there is fresh hope!  There are different decisions to be made and grace to be grasped.  The same is true with weight loss!  There are different (eating/exercising) decisions to be made and grace (when I fail OR when I succeed) to be grasped.

So ... drumroll please ... WEEK ONE IS COMPLETE!  I considered obedience and discipline this week more than I have in quite a while.  And the Lord allowed me to identify emotional eating triggers.  That alone makes it successful week! Now add to that the drop of 6 pounds and I'm feeling mighty fine!  But again - tomorrow's a new day.  Let's be sure to rejoice in the LORD and allow HIM to direct this path!

P.S.  Ever try to find a 6 pound weight to photograph?  Yeah.  Not so easy.