Day 8 -Choices matter

"If you only do a third of the work, you only get a third of the results"
-Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss

Tuesday night.. Monica, Sarah, and I did Biggest Loser Wii... we were tired during the warm up... out of shape is an understatement... from where I came from. :(

I got a cough drop... and the saying on it said, "You can do it and you know." -WOW!! :)
And "Let's hear your battle cry"

DAY 8 -YOU CHOICES MATTER
I am offering you life or death, blessings or curses.
Now, choose life! ... To choose life is to love
the Lord you God, obey him, and stay close to Him.
-Deuteronomy 30:19-30

FOCUS FOR TODAY

First you make choices... and soon
those choices begin to shape your life.
That's why you must make smart choices...
or face the consequences or making dumb ones.

Often, our actions are simply the result of impulse or habit.  God asks that we slow down long enough to think about the choices that we make, and He asks that we make those choices in accordance with His commandments.

Do you sincerely seek to improve the overall quality of your health?
Then vow to yourself and to God that you will begin making the kind of wise choices that will lead to a longer, healthier, happier life.  The responsibility for those choices is yours.  And so are the rewards.

The thing you should want most is God's kingdom and doing what God wants.  Then all these other things you need will be given to you. -Matthew 6:33 NCV

If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father.  He loves to help.  You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought.  People who  "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves.   Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open. -James 1:5-8 MSG

Above all and before all, do this: Get Wisdom! Write this at the top of your list: Get Understanding. -Proverbs 4:7 MSG

Since behaviors become habits,
make them work with you and not against you.
-E. Stanley Jones

He who does not overcome small faults,
shall fall little by little into greater ones.
-Thomas a Kempis

There may be no trumpet sound or
loud applause when we make a right decision,
just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
-Gloria Gaither

Are you waiting for something big to happen before you revolutionize your exercise habits?

:-/  Nobody understands how badly I want to get back to working out consistently.  I want to know what's wrong with me!  I just can't seem to make it happen.

One part of my brain is saying, "You need to work out, you need to get in shape, this is what you want to do with your life."  But the other part is saying, "I just don't want to.  I want to be lazy.  I want to sleep and just chill."

How do I tell that part of my brain to be quiet?!  Before I fell off the boat... I was working out 5 days a week for at least an hour or two a day. I need someone there that will make me go Ithe gym even when I don't want to... an accountability partner...

Every step of your life's journey is a choice... and the quality of those choices determines the quality of the journey.

If you listen to correction to improve your life, you will live among the wise. -Proverbs 15:31

Physically fitness is not the result of a single decision that is made "once and for all."  Physical fitness results from thousands of decisions that are made day after day, week after week, and year after year.

 GETTING HONEST
Make a short list of people whose healthy habits you admire. 
Then, jot down a few things you can do to become a little more like them.

*Melanie, is the first that comes to mind.  She is a trainer and she lives what she preaches. 
That is who I'd like to be like.  She inspires everyone she comes in contact with.  She works extremely hard and pushes people to do what they never thought they could do and gives God all the honor and all the glory for her life.
-One thing that I could do to be more like her... is practice what I preach & make wise decisions.

One thing that Janet said today during the story that goes along with what I said in my last post was, 'Even if you can't talk about Jesus to others, we can act like Him.'  People don't always listen to what we say, BUT they remember how we acted.

"Wherever you go & whatever you, someone is watching."