Yes, I am dense and the title is spelled correctly! The Holy Spirit has been talking to me about me. God crafted me a Type A person, by no design mistake. I love numbers because they help track and gauge success…right? Well, kinda.
“To weigh or not to weigh…that is the question!”
Yes, weigh…but how? Using what?
(Just ignore her, I did this week! She’s totally sucking it in right now…he, he! 
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Lucy, well, she’s the obvious choice. But this dusty investigator opened a new case. Can I quantify success utilizing something other than Lucy? Here are the results of my one week fast from Lucy.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I’d gotten so used to my morning accountability with Lucy, that I became (more) nuts not stepping on her. I didn’t know another way to weigh success! Humm…new methods to weigh my success sans Lucy. HELP GOD! I went to my notepad.
I chose to quantify my “success” over emotion eating this week by:
- Identifying words to express my feelings instead of binging!
- Receiving comfort from turning to God!
- Celebrating that my kids wanted a banana for snack instead of a treat!
- Exercising my body five times this week!
- Shopping (yes shopping!) While dress shopping, I didn’t realize until after removing the dress, it was a size SMALLER than my norm!
- Asking for help (did you read that!) to help sift through these ever-evolving emotions of mine!
- Receiving help to sift though the emotions!
Now this one, you’re going to have to sit down for…cause it’s crazy exciting!
- Washing/drying my “skinny” jeans to shrink them down because they were too big!!!! Old Steph dreaded putting (or shall I more accurately write, “stuffing”) myself into my skinny jeans post wash because of MUFFIN TOP!
From Wikipedia:
“Muffin-top” is a generally pejorative slang term used to
describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the
waistline of pants or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing. This generally occurs when an individual wears low-rise, hip-hugger pants, or midriff-baring tops that are too small.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muffin_top
So, which weigh?
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” John 14:6d-g (NIV)
HIS WAY reveal truth and rich life…sometimes with a scale and sometimes without!
Which “way” will you “weigh”? How will you choose to quantify your successes – by numbers only or another way?
Yeah – so nice that my body would like to contort to a pastry, huh?!?
Muffin-Top. Hmmmmm.
There’s actually a name for that? Ick!
The rest of me wouldn’t look so bad if not for that part.
Being the Type-A that I am, I appreciate the diagnosis and naming of my physical malady, Dr. Steph!