Growing - One Day and One Commitment at a Time

One of the things I'm learning is that growth happens in spurts. Sometimes growth (in any area of our live) seems slow and it's hard to measure progress from day to day. There are other times when we can almost see it happening before our eyes. The challenge is to be faithful when it feels like nothing is happening. In fact, learning to be faithful and just hang in there in those times often results in the most growth of all.

That is certainly true on the Medifast plan (although we want to "shrink" and not "grow" :-) ). Even when the scale is frustratingly stuck, things are happening, not only inside our body but inside our mind and our heart. Choosing to stay on plan even when we're not seeing fast results on the scale is important, not only because eventually the scale WILL catch up with what we're doiing, but also because we are learning to do what we need to do, regardless of the results.

If our focus is on becoming healthy, then we will make healthy choices and not allow the scale to determine what we're going to do. Learning that now becomes critical when we reach goal and beyond and the scale is no longer a daily measure of our choices. We have to learn to do the right thing because it's the right thing to do.