We must start somewhere

O.k. I plan on being completely honest and open with you. When I declared war on my weight, I weighed 380 lbs. This was Friday August the 13th, 2010. Since then I have lost 1.2 lbs and now weigh 378.8! This may seem like only a small victory but a victory is a victory. Sooo...after being overweight for most of my life, why have I chosen now to REALLY start working on the problem? It began a few weeks ago when my five years old and I were racing and he was beating me everytime. This may seem cute, except I was really trying to win the races. Not so cute now. After that day I began to pray and ask God to please help me lose weight. While I have been in Christian ministry for over 12 years, I have only pastored (bi-vocational) for three months and it has become more evident to me that I need stamina to preach every week, go on visitation, work 45-50 hours a week, spend quality time with my wife, two children, and one on the way, & run Miracle Morning Ministries. I came to the conclusion that I CAN'T do this! - at least on my own. I turned my attention to God's Word and began to see what it had to say about weight, food, etc. What I came across did NOT make me happy at all. The Bible has a word for me... GLUTTON!! This cut me to the core and I decided to research this deadly sin. So I began to look and boy did I find information. It will be this information as well as what I learn from God's Word that I will discuss my WAR on WEIGHT!!