Down to the Core

This morning I read a web article that showed 25 women and their amazing weight loss results.  What was interesting to me is that these women all used something different to help them lose weight.  Different diets.  Different exercises.  Different apps and programs.  The article was a list of 25 different things that have worked to help people lose weight.  The truth of the matter is though, that article could have listed 25 million different ways people have lost weight...and every one of those points would have been valid to someone, somewhere in the world.  What stood out to me loud and clear was not the 25 things that were different...but the 1 thing they all had in common...they wanted it.  They wanted to lose the weight.  They wanted to accomplish their goals.  They wanted to succeed.  They wanted it so badly that they did it.  And really that's what it all comes down to.  How bad do you want it?  I have had this blog for a few years now.  When I started it I wanted it to be mostly about my weight loss journey.  After reading it I realized it took a different path.  I do not mind sharing my life with whomever wants to take the time to read about it.  I find blogging to be fun and therapeutic.  I censor as I feel necessary and only share what I am brave enough to share at the time I'm writing.  I have read, in all of my fitness magazines, that it is important for your core to be strong.  So I am going to strengthen mine.  My core to my mental health is saying what I need to say.  Crying and laughing and treating each day as a gift.  My core to my spiritual health is being in the word daily.  Remembering Creator's promises and believing them to be true.  Connecting with people who can teach me knew things and listening to some hella (90's reference word!!! What?!?!) good worship music.  And my core to my physical well being is doing what I need to do to have it.  Eating right...not dieting.  Exercising...but making it fun not work.  And making it a lifestyle change.  And using this blog. For what I had originally intended it to be.  To motivate myself.  To share my struggles and success.  To inspire.   I need to get back to the core of The Double Chin Diaries...so here we go...

Hello.  My name is Jeanette...and I am a compulsive over eater.