Life revolves around ….food! I find myself taking pictures of food that I have prepared, posting them on FB and Instagram and I don’t even know how to cook!! Social gatherings are never without yummy treats. Date night includes a meal out or movies with M&Ms thrown into the buttery popcorn and splashed down with a coke. I get angry when Hubs orders a coke zero, seriously don’t mess with the sugar! I’m all about taste and flavor to which my friend told me it’s called an addiction and it is all in my head. I am addicted to flavor, if it tastes gross, I don’t want it. Making a banana smoothie with vanilla protein…does not taste like a vanilla milkshake, and I cannot trick my brain into thinking it does!!
Have you ever tried to reprogram your thinking when it comes to food?! Well if you have than you and I are alike. My whole life I’ve been fighting my bulges. Again today, I am reflecting on my protuberance problem and I have discovered that I have just lied in the last sentence. I have not been fighting it all my life…I have fought it off and on, that is why my weight goes off and comes back on. What I also have discovered that my problem isn’t that I love flavor, or that I can’t persuade my brain to think differently but it’s that I lack GRIT! I NEED GRIT not GRITS!! My stamina sneaks out to lunch once I’ve lost a few pounds, I feel thin so LET’S EAT! I will admit that more than grit is involved in successful health and body transformation but for now I’m focusing on grit.
Over the years I have pulled from an endless bag of weight loss tricks, starting in junior high with this book; 
And when I say endless, I mean it because I am still adding resources to my never ending struggle. My bag of tricks holds book’s, video’s, classes, supplements all of which have never been fully utilized, as I lack the grit to stay with it. If only I had ALL the money I’ve spent over the years on achieving weight loss, I could go on vacation….and eat, drink and be merry! I can’t even recall the number of prayers, pleadings, and promises I made to God, if only he could make me skinny in my sleep, only to rise the next day eating a fat stack of pancakes smothered in butter and syrup.
Hubs and I were driving this past week, and talking a little politics. He mentioned something he’d do if he were President, and as we passed a multitude of eating places my stomach already growling, I said ” If I was President I’d get rid of all the fast food joints.” He chuckled as he drove us home to eat our steamed veggies and chicken. Of course losing all the fast food places would take away tons of jobs so I wouldn’t really want to do that, but seriously there is one on every corner and they tempt me! so OFF with their heads!!
I do know that gaining grit can only come from within, you can’t find it in a book, video or bottle of supplements. All of those things however, can assist in maintaining that grit. When I fall off the wagon, I always know how to get back on. And that’s where I am today, getting back on. How bout you?
Join me today as we get some Grit not Grits!
Lord, you have watched, listened and even helped us in our weight loss struggle. We are never a failure in your eyes, let us not see ourselves as failures, and may we continually grow in strength, courage and knowledge leading to grit, as long as we live. In Jesus name Amen.