Keeping My Hands Busy

Have you ever noticed that when you are caught up in an activity that you absolutely LOVE, you rarely notice you are hungry?  In fact, there have been times when I've gone an entire day without eatting just because I was so busy doing something that completely captured me - heart and soul.

Why can't each day be like this?

I guess each day can be like that as long as we ensure to not allow the mundane to rule our time.  Does this mean I'll never clean my house or do laundry again?  Probably not, but we should work to remind ourselves that life isn't just about chores.  Bottom line: we have to shake things up from time to time to keep things interesting.

I'm creative and love to paint, draw, and crochet.  One thing that I've always wanted to do (and have tried several times) is to knit.  Yesterday I decided to take another dive into knitting after finding a fabulous little yarn shop not far from my new office (yes, I just started a new job this week, too).  The shop turned out to be as delightful as I had anticipated and I left with a new skein of yarn, new knitting needles and new enthusiasm in keeping my hands busy.

Once I arrived home for the evening, I immediately retrieved my yarn.  It was quite a bit later before I realized I was hungry and wanted to eat something.  And even with that realization, I was only interested in grabbing a quick bite so I could get back to my knitting.  You see, my new yarn, new knitting needles and new enthusiasm had completely captured me and that's a good thing.

For me, this is key in understanding one reason why I overeat... frankly, most of the time it's simply because I'm bored.  So here's to not being bored and keeping life interesting every single day. 

Cheers!

Leap of Faith

Since returning to the blog, I've had Einstein's quote regarding insanity in my head and it's making me realize that I need to apply something different this time around if I'm going to win this struggle with my weight.

I certainly know what doesn't work.  The next question that comes to mind is what haven't I tried?

[insert moment here to ponder the question]...

It took me a long time to come up with something I have not tried, but after several days of consideration I have an answer:  using my faith to help me.

Okay - some of you will check out now and that's okay.  I get it that faith in something unseen isn't for everyone, but it does work for me.  My faith gives me great comfort in times of despair.  It adds to the immense joy I find in most days. 

My faith also helps me with challenges.  When I feel I have no strength left to manage an issue, my faith helps me to be strong.  When I'm unable to find forgiveness for a wrong committed against me, my faith helps me to soften.  When I'm tied up with anger, my faith helps me to loosen fury's grip.

Even with all this evidence of how my faith helps me, I've never used it in my weight loss efforts. This is something I could try that's different.

[insert another moment here to consider the idea]...

It doesn't seem unreasonable to apply my faith to this challenge, too.  So I'm going to take a leap of faith and incorporate faith into my losing fat efforts... let's call it faith-based fat loss.  I'll start with a daily prayer that simply asks for help: 

I can't do this alone, Lord... I humbly ask for Your help.

K