Gaining Faith and losing 93 give or take

  I started around the 5th of Jan my journey of losing weight. A year later I'm about 93lbs or so down. I had planned on starting to lose weight months prior. What type of things I thought I might be able to eat. Getting to the Gym. Amazingly enough that was not the main part. It was gaining the faith that God was going to get me through it. That He was the only way I would be able to take on this task.
   This paragraph is perhaps for newcomer bare with me. Why would you say that God is the only way? Plenty of people lose weight and totally take all the credit. Easy. My biggest obstacle was and always is my migraines. When you have one you can hardly get anything accomplished. I would get up to 12 a month. Sometimes have them for a month at a time. You enter survival mode when you have one. The second obstacle was my knees. I at the time had five knee surgeries under my belt and just can't do anything at the gym. The third obstacle was my children having more needs than an average child. I couldn't just leave them with whomever whenever I felt like. The schedule due to the special needs that require therapy and going here and there. Getting stuff done was hard enough not to add on a even greater task. Than the final thing was I couldn't just chose a dieting program. I have issues with food and migraines. I had to make my own diet plan up. OH my word I almost forgot the Hypothyroid disease. Yes I have that and I had to get my thyroid level right in order to lose weight.
    Now you are probably saying why now? Why did you even bother with all the stuff that was happening. I felt like a didn't have a choice. One my knees were giving out faster with all the weight. Two my kids have impulse control issues. If they got away from me at a park or in a parking lot I was helpless at the weight I was. I had to chase down Leah in a parking lot just recently. I am faster than her. I would not be able to of caught up with her just a few months ago. That is what made it worth it. Also I had a break from my migraines where I didn't get them nearly as often. I knew it was time.
   People ask me how I did it. Physically a diet plan is this plain and simple: intake    Now on to the most important element. I had to understand before I started this who would be responsible for this. NOT ME. I had started and failed so many times before when it came to losing weight. I was a complete and udder failure in that department. I had thought about that too. I probably won't even lose ten pounds. It is a shocker that as somebody that is really quite dependent on Christ to get her through the day didn't think of Christ for this. Thought  I was all on my own. But we do that don't we.We got this I don't need any help.Then when something goes wrong who is to blame? That's right: God. But we didn't get out of His way. That is when things really get screwed up. So I decided I am going to lean on Christ. I am going to trust that He will be there when it is hard.When I can't get it figured out. When I want to give up. Just like every other thing in my life.
    I had troubles. I had pain. I had a lot of it. I had to get two knee surgeries in the mist of it. I had stress. My daughter was losing her therapy. It was a really bad time. I was losing control of that situation. My husband needed a new job. My other daughter we had to watch off hypoglycemia issues from earlier that we had no clue what caused it. It would have been easy to lose focus. To say I'm taking a break with everything going on. But I didn't believe that is what God wanted me to do. Because through it all I had a sense of peace. A little one during the whole therapy thing but nonetheless. I knew that I had to give it to God and keep moving.
    To end this, I want to say obviously I had to put somethings aside. My social life was none existent basically. I think my friends can vouch for that. I stopped watching any shows or getting into all of that. However, God was very much a focus in my life. I might of gotten a little too focused on what I was doing but there was a spot in the gym that I made sure I thanked God for all He had done and still does. And I have family to attend too they were second to God. If I can't get to the Gym because one of them needed something so be it. When I started homeschooling in the fall I worked my schedule around my family's not the other way around. If you have a goal that you want to obtain you can still obtain it while putting God and Family before it. If you can't than that goal is not worth it. God and family are worth more than anything else. Through Christ if it is what He wills you can achieve.