Well, it has been a week since I last wrote in my journal. Many things have happened since then. From Monday, April 10th to this morning I have lost 80 pounds and as of Saturday, April 29th I have lost 30 inches. The closer to the 100 pound mark that I get the more excited I get. I have been walking around the track at the high school. Last week we walked ¼ mile (1 lap around the track) on Monday thru Thursday. This week we started walking ½ mile (2 laps around the track). Yesterday, I could only walk around the track 1 time because my hips and lower back were hurting. However, I did do some other cardiovascular exercising after I did the 1 lap around the track.

We did a health trade show this past weekend at the Georgia Congress Center in downtown Atlanta. The show was called Alive!Expo 2006. We were there on Saturday and Sunday all day. I was able to get my walking in as we had to walk quite far to get to the truck. We were not able to park close by; we ended up walking about ¼ mile away, which I might add seemed like 5 miles away. At least I was able to do it and not collapse. Progress is good no matter how it comes I guess.

I have spent a few days walking around the track with issues going around in my head. One day I was so upset that all I did was fuss to myself as I was walking around the track. I was walking around the track “alone”. I was so upset because I felt once again that I was nobody’s priority. God quickly let me know that I was His priority and that I should be MY priority and not worry about anyone else. That really put me in my place. I know that I have a lot of things to learn about myself and believe me. . . I am trying to look introspectively when these things happen so that I can become a better person. I look forward to the day that I can repay these people for all that they are giving to help me along this journey. I can only pray that God will bless them richly as they are such a blessing to me. Truly, I want to get healthy and help others get out of their ruts as I am having the opportunity to pull out of mine.

When all is said and done: I AM victorious, I AM an overcomer through the Blood of the Lamb, greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world and I CAN do ALL things through Christ that strengthens me. God is great and He is greatly to be praised. I need to definitely work on my personal relationship with Christ because I know that the closer I am to Him the less these things will bother me. I am looking forward to the day when issues will just roll off and I won’t even give them a second thought.

I am sitting here looking out the window and we are having what I figure to be a nice Georgia rain. It is actually raining, I mean rain that you can see coming down in sheets and there is even some thunder to go along with it. It is soooooo cool. I just love the rain. I am thinking since it is raining so much that we are probably not going to go walking. Honestly, I must say that the idea doesn’t hurt my feelings too much. I know that is bad; however, it is truthful. Remember how much I love to walk. Well, we have discussed it and we are choosing to not walk today due to weather and time constraints. There is just too much stuff happening tonight to get it all done and walking too. Sooooo, we are going to walk tomorrow. I might go and walk down to the corner and back just so I can say that I got some exercise. I’ll see if it happens or not.