The Heart Behind the Change

              Hello Readers, I am new to all of this so forgive me if I Blog wrong! I have been wanting to start a Blog for sometime now. Unsure of what the content would be since I do not have ample crafting ideas and I love cooking but never write out recipes to repeat them.... I have delayed this process until now. I was reading an old friends blog the other day and was inspired to start recording my journey. I finally have something that I am passionate about and want to be able to share with many of those whom I love and for those who need to be inspired as I was inspired. The last 60 days I went through a program called The Lords Table by Setting Captives Free. It is a program designed to change the way you view food and to be set free from the sin of gluttony. I had success with it in the beginning and lost around 16 pounds. Around day 30 I kind of lost my focus on why I was doing the program in the first place. Although I did have close friends asking me how I was doing, I found that it was easy to cheat because not everyone knew what day I was on or what the challenge was for the week. Which defeats the whole purpose of the program. I was only cheating myself in the end. So I decided I am going to do the 60 days again and this time I am going to be blogging about it. My hope is that I not only get through the whole program with out cheating, but that I will have a heart change. That the things I learn more than anything is how to be a better steward of my body for God's glory and not my own gratification.

              All right so the title of this is the heart behind the change, so let me just share a little bit about where my heart is now, and how I hope God changes me. To me losing weight is not the priority of this journey, I hope it is the blessing that comes with it, but  that I can glorify Christ with the choices I make. I am one of those  that some people would say eat their feelings. When I am sad nothing comforts more then carbs and chocolate, when I am happy nothing celebrates better then a carton of ice cream and a slice of cake, when I am bored nothing fills my time better then cooking and eating. These are just some of the lies I have personal been telling myself for far to long, and have let them become normal. So much so that I did not even consider them wrong until recently. God wants us to turn to Him when we are brokenhearted , Rejoice with Him in our victories and triumphs (because they come from Him anyways), and fill our time with relationship with Him.
             
                So here it goes I am pushing the restart button and all of you are welcome to read all about it and comment as much as you want!! Starting May 7, 2012 is my first day back on The Lords Table and I will share with you the verses, the eating plan challenge for the day, my workout for the day, my thoughts and just all around how the day went.  I know this was a lot to read thank you for sticking with me!

~AMY