Monday Musings? Monday Miseries! But I won't give in! I won't quit! I will journey on with those 2 words that are so hard for me...patience and fortitude!
Guess you've figured out by now this past week showed no gain but no losses. Not in pounds, not in inches. It baffles my mind really how it can happen. Eating wise I had a fairly perfect week. Followed my macros, had 3 good IF days, so yeah, how nothing??
I don't know the answer to that question, but I know my journey isn't over. What are patience and fortitude anyway? Webster says patience is the capacity or habit to bear pains or trials calmly or without complaint. The Bible tells me it's a fruit of the Spirit, so if the Spirit lives in me then patience should too.
Now fortitude is having courage in pain or adversity. See how they go together? Interestingly, I've never thought about it until now. But I see that without fortitude patience would be really hard!! It's probably why I've failed so many other times. My patience only lasts so long before the pain or the trial overcome me and I give in to my flesh! But this time I started in a different way and didn't even know it. I started with fortitude! I determined and committed to myself 1 year on this journey no matter what!!
So, with this new found patience WITH fortitude, I can press on. I can look at weeks that look like no progress and say "I'm still good. I'm still doing exactly what I said I'm going to do. And that in itself is a victory!" I can remember all I've learned and that this WOE isn't just about losing weight. It's about healing my body from the inside out. I've abused this vessel for many years, so it certainly isn't going to heal overnight.
So, my encouragement and even challenge for you this week is this - have you found your fortitude to endure the journey? When your week doesn't look like you expected do you quit or do you give yourself a little grace and find that patience deep inside yourself? It's there my friend, I'm sure of it. How do I know? Because if I can find it ANYONE can find it!!
So, give me some comments on how you endure. How you show patience and fortitude on your journey to keto on....
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