Committed vs. interested.

I struggled to get up this morning. I really wanted to skip working out. Really bad. I usually feel like not working out, but times likes these happen when I don't get enough sleep. I really need to work on being committed to getting enough sleep. It will really help me stay with my goals in the long run.

Today the book talked about being interested vs. being committed. If you're just interested in weight loss, you "only stay with your plan until something better comes along." So if there's a party with great food, or someone brings in something delicious, or people want fast food, you tend to fall off the wagon a lot. Or even if you hit a plateau, you tend to give up. When that happens, you blame other people or situations (Too expensive, they keep tempting me, etc.)

When you're committed, you stay on your plan no matter what. You say, "I'm going to do this no matter what the situation or hardship." I feel like in the past, I've definitely taken the interested approach. I am deciding today, to be committed. I'm doing this no matter what. I want to be healthy. I want to be thin. I want to be able to wear a bathing suit and not feel TOTALLY uncomfortable. I want to wear clothes in the under double digits :) I'm committed to this no matter what my daily struggles are.

Even if I go to bed late, I will still be committed to waking up and exercising. If people go out to eat, I will be committed to eating my healthy option. If someone's eating cake, I'll eat the snacks I have. If I hit a plateau, I will be committed to finding out the issue, and doing what I can to get past it. I am committed to weight loss.

Today I am committed to exercising for 30 minutes :D

"Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also....If you know the he is righteous (God/Jesus), you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him." 1 John 2:22-23, 29

So much to say and ponder about these verses. In a day and age where people say, "every road leads to God" this verse really sticks out. I know, that I have come to say, "you don't know what Jesus is doing in someone. He could be working and manifesting in someone who claims another religion." So is this denying Christ? I'm not saying there are other ways, what I mean is that Christ works in ways that even we can't imagine. Now my question is, is this Biblical and true? Verse 29 makes me wonder...