Way Cool :)

Our church had Homecoming this past Sunday and there was table after table full of food, and I think three tables full of dessert but I didn't eat anything except four pieces of cauliflower, some celery sticks and one small piece of peanut butter fudge (I did have breakfast that morning, a boiled egg and oatmeal). 

So I got on the scales Monday morning and I weighed 236.8.  I went to Captain D's for dinner and had the steamed talapia.  I didn't eat the roll and only a few bites of the rice.  I did eat the fish, the green beans and the steamed broccoli.   I weighed myself again before I went to bed and I was still 236.8.  This morning I got up at 5:30 a.m. and went down to my fitness center to workout.  I lifted a few weights and did some sit-ups.  I weighed myself this morning and I was 234.4 lbs.  I'd lost 1.2 pounds between last night and this morning!

Yesterday I was at a faculty meeting at Beulah Heights University and one of the other professors (Bishop Jonathan Alvarado) noticed that I'd lost weight.  I think he's the first person to notice.  That's probably because I haven't seen him in about six months so he got the "before and after" effect.  People at church and my family see me every day, or at least once a week, so they don't notice it. 

The point I wanted to make was that the comments by Jonathan were very encouraging.  It made me want to work out, so I went home and got in a treadmill workout last night and I worked out with weights this morning.  I always get encouragment from my friends on Facebook and such, and it always helps, but when someone physically notices the difference it is really motivating.

Verse of the Day:  Deut 3:28, NKJV

28 But command Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you will see.'

Encourage someone today.