“New Year, New Beginnings Revisited” Weight Loss Update

It’s been a while since I’ve uploaded recent pictures of my weight loss journey. During these last few months, the Lord lead me in other directions, but today, HERE I AM! It’s been a rough road…one of great sacrificing, endurance, diligence, fighting with myself and Fighting The Devil! My weight loss hands down has been Spiritual Warfare. I have so much further to go, BUT TODAY, I’m celebrating what I did accomplish in GOD through Jesus Christ!!! TGBTG!!!!

It’s been a road of high heights and low valley’s…a journey of much learning…learning what works eating wise and what doesn’t…learning what my triggers are and avoiding them…learning what makes my spirit weak and what makes it strong…having to talk to myself when I feel weak, tired and unmotivated. I owe God EVERYTHING. For every-time I felt like I didn’t want to make it to the gym, He gave me grace to go. For every-time I wanted to eat something contrary to health and wholeness, the Holy Spirit would minister to me and deter me. For every-time I felt like giving up, The Lord placing in me a double portion of anointing to motivate and compel me to keep fighting, it’s not in vain.

When I created the cover picture for this blog, I just raised my hands and cried…nobody knows the sacrifice, the pain and endurance just to get here…it’s such a blessing just to be here, not looking at how much further I have to go, but seeing what I was, what I’m not and actually see my body being transformed, there are no words!!! For the first time to see the fruit of your blood, sweat and tears, No Words!

I look at these pictures and I feel so motivated to just keep going. I see a glimmer of light at the end of my tunnel. There’s hope for me when at times past, I’ve felt so hopeless. I can actually see with my eyes for the first time the fruit of my labor. Sometimes you forget where you’ve come from because you’re looking at how far you have to go, but these pictures today, I truly understand fully the condition I was in and that makes me weep. Even though I’ve always believed by faith I could change, I had the vision, but to actually see the before and after pictures and see the transformation, I’M FULL OF PRAISE TO GOD AND SO JOYFUL!!! As I’m writing, I can’t help but to cry and Praise God…to see what I’ve been fighting for even if it’s just a glimmer, I’ll take it.

My progress has been slow, but steady. At times I get a little down on myself when I don’t see the weight come off faster, but I’ve been told that if I took the weight off too fast, I wouldn’t learn the lessons God is teaching me on how to overcome my flesh…I wouldn’t learn how to fight and learn the techniques needed to not only to lose the weight, but keep it off for life. The long road The Lord is taking me through will help me in the end to appreciate the sacrifice…the blood, sweat and tears it would take to reach my final weight loss goal, so once it’s off, I’m not coming back down this street in the Name of Jesus. This weight loss has been pure grit, endurance, a made up mind and a fight…no shortcuts…no weight loss supplements…it’s just me and Jesus…He’s teaching my hands to war and my fingers to fight and this time, I’m learning slowly how to Win!

Continue to join me on this journey. During prayer this morning, the Lord laid it on my heart to fast regarding the areas I’m struggling in, BUT, asked me to make this fast public for others to join in…there’s strength in numbers. Next Friday, I’ll share with you what the Lord is laying on my heart. If you’re struggling with something and need God’s grace to help you overcome, Join Me! If the Lord is calling you to commit to something and you haven’t been, Join me! If you need to further re-align yourself with the purpose and will of God and need help getting there, Join Me! Details forthcoming.

Enjoy the pics compliments of my daughter, Cydnei Adamson. Thanks Charlie, You’re the Best!