Half off special

When we go to restaurants, it's hard to know what an appropriate serving size. The book says to just half everything you eat. If you're having lasagna, picture a normal size you would take and cut it in half. If you're doing a multiple course meal, half everything so you get a taste but don't overdo it. And don't go back for seconds. "I you crave seconds, you're probably hooked on the taste of the food rather than needing more fuel." It said that a good serving size for pizza is two slices for a female (yay me). They also said if you can't seem to stop yourself from finishing the other half, that you need to examine your "emotional needs." "Maybe someting else in your life requires attention or needs to be filled." Body vs. Head.

I just finished 20 days of weight loss. I'm super excited I've gotten this far. I'm motivated to continue going because of great results and just FEELING better. Like I didn't want to wake up at 7, but I'm wide awake and ready to go now. :)

"For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father." Rom 8:15

"What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Whom will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?...For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Vs. 31-35a,37-39

I love the first verse that specifies that we are not slaves but sons. That we are co-heirs with Christ. The more significant part to me is it says that we are not slaves to fear. I was a slave to fear for so long, and I'm day by day throwing off those bondages that have ensnared me for a long time. I can remember a day when fear was so crippling and powerful, and nowadays, it tries to rear it's head but it's conquered pretty easily. God is good.

I love how the next part of the verse talks about how God is for us and graciously gives us ALL things. He loves us immensely, and wants to shower wonderful things on us. It's not enough that he's given us life, he wants to give us overflowing, abundant life. The last part of the verse, the "nothing can separate us" part, is what got me through one of the darkest times in my life. When I was sick, and weak, and depressed, and just having a terribly rough time, that verse got me out of despair. The fact that nothing can separate me from his love helped me to get out of bed the next day. God is good. He loves us. He is faithful and even doting. What a good God.