Hello all! My name is Dawn….and I am obese. OBESE that word just sort of sits in your brain doesn’t it?!? Who decides who is obese anyway??
Well in this case, it doesn’t matter who decides, because I have decided I am what I am, and something has to be done about it!
As I told some of my friends this morning, my body is the temple of the Lord Jesus Christ!
1 Corinthians 6:19
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
I am a Christian and my body is NOT my own yet I have taken it into my own hands, and I have desecrated that temple over the years. Yes I’ve had 6 beautiful children in our 13 years of marriage, but those babies did not do this to my body. My choose fast good everyday during one of my pregnancies did this to my body, years of binge eating did this to my body, years of emotional eating did this to my body…”I” did this to my body!
So first things first….I joined the local gym!! That is something I NEVER thought I would do, but I got a letter in the mail a couple of days ago that they were cutting their membership fees in 1/2 for the next week only, so after talking to my husband last night, we decided this is the right thing for me to do. So I stopped by and got some information to get started!
This will mean I’m up at 5ish in the morning to get to the gym by 6am to work out when the doors open!
My first official workout will be Monday morning! Between now and then I’m going to use this time to get more information about being healthy as far as exercise and nutrition is concerned. I know NOTHING about exercise!! The only thing I know is I don’t get any!
OK stepping out of my comfort zone and posting my weight out there for all to see!! This morning I weighed 253.6 pounds!
Stepping out of my comfort zone again and sharing my measurements in inches:
Chest: 55
Waist: 50
Hips: 55
Thigh: 25
Calf: 16
There you have it! I am your average “Humpty Dumpty”!
What I am not going to do is weight myself every week! Actually I am not going to weigh myself for the first 2 months.
I am obsessed with those numbers on the scale! After the first two months I will weight myself monthly and post it here.
As for measurements I think measuring every 2 weeks or so will be a good start, so I will also post those here.
For those that are reading…pray for me!! Major changes are coming for me in 2007!
Blessings, Dawn
I am a slightly outspoken, free spirited, life loving, SINNER saved by the GRACE of Jesus!! I am also very blessed to be the wife of a loving husband and 7 awesome kids that I get to be around every single day!
