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Faith and Perseverance

My dear girlfriends, I thought to write today about faith and perseverance. But before I come to that I would love (so excited) to share the results of my weight lost. Well since this is September, exactly six months after I posted about my plan for weight lost I would love to reveal my weight. I now weigh 81.5 kg. Hiipii (I hope you are screaming for me as well). My target weight was 80kg by the end September, I still have a week to go and 1.5kg to lose. To be honest it was not easy, it never is, but I held on and pushed through. I believe the one thing that helped me was fasting. Some time ago I fasted for a week and I lost like 4kgs. Please don't get me wrong I will never fast to lose weight (not that is wrong though), but who will say no to the physical benefits. I believe it takes faith and perseverance to lose weight and I praise God he stood by me. I love what the Bible says about self-control and perseverance in  2 Peter 1:6    " (add)  to knowledge s elf-control, to

One Step at a Time Part 1

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I have been trying to write this post for a week now. Each time I open my blog to write I look at the keyboard and the words seem far from my mind. I know what I want to say and what title to give but starting seemed like mountains to move. Here I am today enjoying the blessing of words written. "One step at the time" (I took a picture of me and my husband's foot prints on the beach, cute isn't it? :)) this phrase means so many things to me, carrying so many stories of my life, my dreams, struggles and goals. But the story I want to share today is my weight loss program I started two weeks ago. Before I go into that let me share a scripture with you. "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, And He delights in his way." Psalms 37:23 As hard as it may be to lift up your foot to take that first step this scripture can take the weight off your feet to make that first step and to continue taking more steps each day. How comforting to know that