Last night I had the most interesting conversation with a friend of mine who lives in Hollywood. This person lives in the midst of glitz, glamor, and extreme excess. They very much live in that world but refuse to live like that world. They are determined to teach their kids something rare… the courageous choice.
It’s funny though we weren’t talking about food, I kept thinking about you, my blog friends, throughout this conversation. I kept thinking about you because the courageous choice is exactly what’s at the core of the food issues we tackled on the blog yesterday.
You see, there are two kinds of courage. There’s the courageous act which is what makes our heart beat fast when the knight fights the dragon or the firefighter rushes into the burning building. These are extreme events most of us won’t ever face. And because most of us aren’t put in positions to participate in a courageous act, we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as courageous.
But there’s a second kind of courage that dare I might say is widely available but not widely embraced. It’s the courageous choice. This is the decision to do the right thing even when it’s unpopular, uncelebrated, and probably even unnoticed.
In the context of our discussion yesterday, the right thing is to make healthier choices for ourselves. The right thing is to find the satisfaction to our deepest needs with God not food. It’s the choice to walk willingly on the path of discipline in the area of our food choices. It’s coming to the realization that changes need to be made and making those changes in the quietness of our pantry when no one else is looking.
It’s me respecting myself enough to be courageous for me.
When I am courageous for me, I am sticking a stake in the ground and saying I’m more than the sum total of my screaming taste buds. My heart doesn’t want that junk food. My arms don’t want that junk food. My legs don’t want that junk food. My soul doesn’t want that junk food.
And my hiney certainly doesn’t want that junk food.
It is possible to silence the screaming taste buds sweet sister. It is possible to quiet the battle in our minds. It is possible to make the courageous choice. It is possible to stand in that pantry and declare you were made to consume food but food was never meant to consume you.
It is possible to consume only that which will add to your health and not take away from it. It is possible.
So make that choice.
And then make it again.
And then make it again.
And I’ll be right here to cheer you on every step of the way.
You are a courageous woman. Now, go out and prove it to yourself.
Leave me a comment today proclaiming you are a courageous woman and I will pray specifically for you today.
Also, check out these links for further encouragement on this topic:
http://lysaterkeurst.com/2009/04/no-sugar-thing/
http://lysaterkeurst.com/2009/04/not-to-beat-dead-snake/
http://lysaterkeurst.com/2009/04/and-then-my-hunger-pains-just-wore/
I am a courageous woman who will do God’s will concerning my marriage, no matter how unpopular my choices may be
Lysa I enjoyed your blog today too. Yes I’m a courageous woman too. Even though my eating habits are shot through the roof 1 or 2 meals a day what I eat isn’t very good either. But you know what with your words of encouragement and your prayers and Jesus to back me up and His help I’m going to get on the right track to a whole new me! LOOK OUT HERE I COME! HUGS! BETH
Hi Lisa – yes, I am a courageous woman too!! This is so insightful and it helps to read this and see it articulated. As women, we all struggle with this to some degree. So thank you for sharing your thoughts and all the encouragement. I declare unprecedented victory in this area of my life, because I’ve always struggled with it, but I refuse to give up!!
Lysa,
Thank you for your post. I struggle with food and cravings a lot. However, there is a much deeper issue that is at work in my life, and I would appreciate your prayers.
In 2005-2006, I embarked on a low-carb lifestyle journey, to detox from starches and junk food, and to lose weight and get healthier. I lost about 40 pounds, and looked and felt great. The cravings were gone, and I had energy and vitality.
Then, out of the blue, a man made an inappropriate comment to me at work. It really wasn’t that bad in and of itself, but what it represented to me sent my mind reeling. I was wearing a flattering outfit, a little form-fitting, but not skin-tight. The outfit was work-appropriate.
I work in a Doctor’s office. The man who approached me was a patient on his way out of the office. I gave the polite, “Hi, how are you.” and he responded with, “Are you behaving? You don’t look like you are!” This comment was punctuated with the “head bob”–you know that thing men do when they are looking you up and down.
I came up with an appropriate retort and retreated to my desk, but I felt blindsighted and violated. I was sexually abused as a child, and submitted to a lot of sexual harassment in jr high and high school, because I had a lot of naivete, after 5 years of being sheltered from the world, in a Christian School. I was shy and awkward, an irresistable target to the boys, who saw someone who was so easy to embarass. They made gestures. They made very inappropriate comments. One of the guys even touched me inappropriately in class, until I belted him one, (without any premeditation–this was strictly a gut reaction!)…(Believe me, he DIDN’T EXPECT THAT ONE AT ALL!).
Since the inappropriate comment, that was made by the patient in the Doctor’s office, I have gained back the 40 pounds, AND an additional 60 pounds to go along with it. It’s like the extra weight is an insulator around my frightened heart. If I am fat, then I am invisible–at least when it comes to attention and attraction from the opposite sex.
(Believe me, though, sister, being fat has not made me invisible to the women around me. To them, I am a disgusting item of scorn, an ugly blob, who must not possess an ounce of willpower, or she wouldn’t be fat…I hate the looks of judgment, when I have a cookie with my lunch, or go to a company potluck. I hate the comments about what I should and shouldn’t be eating, being made by mean-spirited women, who are no bigger than Jillian, the trainer on “The Biggest Loser.”)
I hate being this large, but I am scared to death to look any other way. I know I need to change my lifestyle, due to health concerns, high cholesterol, poor physical condition, shortness of breath when I try to exercise, etc.
I want to be the courageous woman you talk about. I want to find healing from the damage that has been done to my mind and spirit. I also want to be victorious over the demons of my past.
I want to find comfort in Jesus, and not be so reliant on my Mom’s blackberry cobbler. (My mom passed away 3 years ago–I make the cobbler when I particularly miss her, the simple food item transporting my mind back to her kitchen table, to the side of my Mom that I can remember with fondness–not her critical side that dominates most of my memories of her.) I know that “comfort food” is only a temporary comfort. God wants more for me than that.
Thank you for being an encouragement to so many, and I appreciate your prayers.
-rjc
08/18/10
I can’t say that I have ever felt myself as being “courageous”, yet I realize after reading your post I am. I am courageous and will continue you to be in other areas of my life as well. Praise God for the wonderful gift of courage!
Gallerhea’s story really touched me. As an adult I lost a significant amount of weight and was feeling better and healthier than I had ever felt in my life. It was great having that much energy and feeling good about myself. Then, the husbands of two of my dearest friends (at the time) made advances toward me that shook me to my core. It destroyed those friendships and I proceeded to gain 70ish pounds. I understand the invisible/not invisible part. I’ve struggled with the aftermath of that event for 10 years. I desparately want to be free.
In my head I know what I have done to “protect” myself is not logical, but at the same time seems impossible to stop.
Hi Lisa,
I made it through one night without eating sugar and so far so good today!! Thank you for helping me get on the offense in this weight battle. With God’s help – I can WIN!!
Thought you would enjoy reading about Katie,
http://kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/
This excerpt will get you started. Copied straight from Katie’s blog: It’s long. This will change your life today!
It is my 16th Birthday and I am eating sushi at my favorite restaurant with my parents when I tell them that I would like to explore the possibility of taking a year in between high school and college to do mission work. This is unheard of in my family and they say they are not sure and will think about it. I am nervous, but somehow I know it is right. He changes their hearts.
I have just turned 18 and find an orphanage online. I beg my parents to let me visit over break, just three weeks. A month later I am on a plane. I am so excited. I am so scared of being, but I know He is going with me. I fall in love.
I graduate high school having made the commitment to teach Kindergarten for a year at a school in The Middle of Nowhere, Uganda. In August I get on the plane. I’m apprehensive and I cry most of the way because I miss my Mommy and my boyfriend. I am eager, but so uncertain. I trust Him. I teach 138 children how to speak English and to love Jesus.
It is October and I am just not sure I can do it anymore. I live in the smallest room I have ever seen in the back of a pastor’s house. I am more uncomfortable than I had bargained for. No one understands, not people here, not people at home. I am tired. But I am prideful and I am not going to quit. I don’t like this. But I know He has a plan. I learn, I grow, He is there.
It is December and God has spoken very clearly about opening a ministry that sponsors 40 of the orphaned children in the village where I am working. This involves moving into a different house, ALONE. It is big and I cannot imagine how God will fill it up. I am lonely and I am anxious. But I am still trusting. He fills the house, and we now have 400 children sponsored.
It is January and I am looking at a little girl, crushed under a brick wall with no one to care for her or her younger siblings. I offer to take the three home with me until we find them a better placement. I am not really sure what to do with them, but I know they are God’s children. They stay.
It is three days later and the littlest looks at me and calls me mommy. My heart might break in two. Something clicks. I am even more scared than I was the day I stepped on that plane, but I KNOW. Today I have 13.
I have to deliver a baby, give a boy stitches, pull a tooth, give and injection. I am petrified. But no one will do it if I do not. He is present, He holds my hand, they are all fine.
It is August and I must get on a plane back to America to go to college, as I have promised my father. I do not remember how to be a teenager or what it is to be normal Brentwood, Tennessee. I will have to leave my babies. I will have to make new friends. I am sad and I am terrified. He wraps His arms around me. He puts just the right people in just the right places, and they help me and they make me feel at home.
First semester is over and He speaks clearly to me that I cannot serve two masters. “Go HOME,” He says, “and stay.” I am uncertain, but I want to be obedient. He squeezes tighter. I am thankful.
I have to look at my loving parents who have given me everything and tell them that I will not go to college right now, because I feel God wants me to be in Uganda. I know how disappointed and how angry they will be. I am more scared than I was when I got on the plane and more scared than I was when I took my first children. But I know that this IS the Plan. They love me anyway.
It is February and my daughter’s biological father comes to take her away. My heart breaks in half, and I am not sure I will ever be able to get out of my bed again, let alone foster another child. I am more than devastated, but I want what is best for her, what He wants for her. She comes back and her biological father learns about Jesus.
It is March and a lame little girl is brought to my gate. She is undoubtedly mine, but I am still anxious. What if I can’t do it? I don’t know what to do with a special needs child, especially as my 13th child. I am criticized and ridiculed. I wonder. I trust and praise God for her sweet little life. She starts to walk.
I find myself in a village full of starving people that for some reason seem to want to kill me. God says to serve them anyway. I am not sure how it is going to work, or if it is safe. I can’t figure it out, but I know He can. 1,200 Karamajongs, the poorest of Uganda’s poor, are now served hot meals daily.
We keep taking in more children until there are 400 in our program. There is no way we will raise enough funds, but by now I have stopped worrying. He has always provided. Blessings rain from the sky, and all 400 children go to school.
I am 20 years old and have 13 children and 400 more who all depend on me for their care. Who are all learning to love Jesus and be responsible adults and looking up to me. The reality of it all can be a bit overwhelming at times. However, it is always pure joy. There is a common misconception that I am courageous. I will be the first to tell you that this is not actually true. Most of the time, I am not brave. I just believe in a God who will use me even though I am not. Most mornings, before I even get out of bed I am overwhelmed with His goodness, with His plan for my life; I stand in awe of the fact that He could entrust me with so much. Most days, I don’t have much of a plan. I don’t always know where this is going. I can’t see the end of the road, but here is the great part: Courage is not about knowing the path. It is about taking the first step. It is about Peter, getting out of the boat. I do not know my five year plan; even tomorrow will probably not go as I have planned. I am thrilled and I am terrified, in a good way. So some call it courage, some call it foolish, I call it Faith. I choose to get out of the boat. To take the next step. Sometimes I walk straight into His arms. More often, I get scared and look down and stumble. Sometimes I almost completely drown. And through it all, He never lets go of my hand.See More
Having struggles with my health the last 6 months or so…and I haven’t necessarily contributed to making things any better. Have been eating sweets and neglecting exercise, recently rededicated myself to treating my body like God’s temple. I don’t feel right praying for good health when I abuse my body nutrionally and by neglecting exercise. Please pray for me to keep strong and determined even when I’m tempted with weakness! Thank you and God bless you and the work you do here! <3
Hey Lysa, I am a courageous woman who is learning patience through God’s will on healing for me with chronic low back pain. I also wanted to say I will be leading a women’s group through my church on your book What Happens When Women Say Yes to God. Any suggestions to add to your book for a leader, feel free to send them my way. I cannot wait and think it will change all the women’s lives that come to the group! Loving the book so far.
Lysa ~ you have an incredible gift of encouragement. I know I speak on behalf of many sisters out here – thank you for your obedience in living out your “giftedness”. (is that a word?) I was going to sit and watch some t.v. and hang out on the computer, but ya know what ~ I have a DVD (exercise) that is calling my name. It is time to be the change that the enemy wants to keep from us! One day at a time, one defeat at a time, one courageous choice at a time! XXx’s and OOo’s to you for caring so much about others!
I had gained too much weight and in March I started exercising with a personal trainer at her gym. It seemed indulgent and expensive at first, but I couldn’t do it by myself. After seeing my blood pressure drop by at least 30 points on the top number, I realize my health was definitely suffering and I was doing something good for my health. In addition, I started attending their boot camps and made friends. I am only down about 15 pounds, but feel so much better. Please pray for me to stay the course and eat healthy. That is my biggest struggle. I suffer from emotional eating and cave into cravings often. Thank you for your prayers!!!!!!!
I have so much on my mind. Lysa, I have a few questions for you. I do not know if you can answer then or if it will be what I WANT to hear but I’m asking for your honest feedback if you can give it to me.
For the last few months (2-4 months), I’ve been going through a depression. I finally went to my doctor about getting on some meds for that. However, I have stopped going to church. This really concerns me because I love church, my church family and helping/participating in church events. Is it possible to take a break from church and not ruin your relationship with God and Jesus. Does that make sense? I still believe in everything I believed in before my “break.” But I don’t know if I can get back into church, i don’t want to deal with the questions like “where have you been? or other questions about why i haven’t been to church. I mean, I love my church family, like I said, but I don’t think they need to know about my depression and my need to take a “break” from church. I’m afraid they will not understand.
Thank you for your ministry. I do appreciate your blog and what you write about it.
Lysa, I wished I could do a chest thump with you right now! YES! I WILL make the courageous choice… tomorrow… because dang it, I just ate that cupcake… that I didn’t really want! I am 95% healthy (eat healthy and exercise 5-6 days a week)… but I love my sweets and they get me every time but I never thought about making a “courageous choice.” And I never thought to ask myself, “Do my arms and thighs, and bum want this right now?” What a concept! God bless you! ((Insert fist pump!!))
Lysa,
Thank you for your blog about fasting from sugar and now this one about being a courageous woman, or just plain courageous. From all of the blogs I read, I am in almost all of them. I am lonely and food somehow is comforting, but my health suffers. I do not eat as much as I used to eat and I eat healthier than I used to eat, but I still weigh more than is healthy.
Please just pray for me.
Thank you for your blog and your articles.
Linda
Wow! This was exactly what I needed to hear.I have had pre-diabetes for 4 years and have not given up sugar. Please pray that I can tuck your words in my heart and trust God to transform the way I view sugar. Blessings, Teresa
Thank You once again Lisa for writing (sharing) a revealing and moving article.
I too struggle with food choices and would appreciate any prayers. You will be in mine as well. Goodluck!
Thank you Lisa!!!
Please pray for me Lysa for I am a courageous women. Pray that I will lose weight and be all God has called me to be. I thank God for you and your Ministry for keeping it real so GOD CAN BE GLORIED THROUGH YOU. May God continue blessing you.
Love,
Christine
I am a courageous woman!!!!
Been trying to loose some extra pounds, and both today’s and yesterday’s posts came right to the heart of the matter… Thank you!
Thank you, Lysa! I have gained more weight than my body needed; I have had 4 children within about 2-3 years apart, plus I have mitral valve prolapse and stenosis of the heart; I started caring also for my 89 year old grandmother who moved in with us last year; plus my dear husband had stents put in his heart about 2 years ago…so I must lose the weight for all our sakes. the worst of it is that my 9 year old daughter has started on her own weight journey…she is overweight and the doctor is concerned that she may need bloodwork soon to determine if she needs cholesterol drugs.. pray that I may be a better example to all of His Strength to conquer this! Lysa, my husband is also overweight; he is older than I am, and he is a truck driver. Pray that he and my family will see radical changes in my life.. Thank you for all you do, and for your transparency!
Lysa, I want to have this courage. I am obese and need to take action. I appreciate your message here and this past weekend in Apex. Thank you.
“I am a courageous woman.”
Thank you Lysa for your obedience to God. Showing your transparency and sharing with strangers how God has encouraged you and helped you. I want to be a courageous woman and I am so thankful for all the comments. His strength is perfect in my weakness. 1 Corinthians 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. I pray that we are all reminded of this verse when temptations surround us. Thank you for your prayers for me. Have a blessed day. Amen.
Dear Lysa,
I just read all of the posts(I think) related to your sugar fast. I know that it was over a year ago that you wrote about your battle with food but it blessed me so much just 10 minutes ago. It was like you wrote everything that I am going through and have thought for years and still haven’t seen to completion. Thank you so much for your transparency. I am praying that it is the final push that I need to take care of this once and for all.
Blessings to you!
“I am a courageous woman.”
Thank you. You have a way of helping me to see things from a different perspective. I especially like your comment about not feeling deprived, but feeling empowered instead. I desire your prayers that I will be able to make the courageous choice. I have gained more than fifty pounds in the past five years….It all began with the death of my precious mother, then the death of my younger brother two years later, layoffs at my office (resulting in those of us left being very overworked, overwhelmed, and stressed), layoffs at my husband’s job (resulting in his plant shutting down last December and he’s now enrolled in college as a displaced worker). And…on top of all of this, I turned the Big 5-0 in June. I feel like at this age and time in my life, if I don’t do something soon, I’ll never change. There is a strong history of heart disease in my family (my father and younger brother both dying in their 40′s from heart attacks; my mother having by-pass surgery in her 50′s) and I’ve already developed high blood pressure. I so DESPERATELY covet your prayers. Thank you so much.
PS our ladies Bible study is currently studying your “Becoming More Than A Good Bible Study Girl”…..and we’re all learning much. Thank you for that as well.
I’m in! So sick of how I am filling myself with more of everything else than Christ. Thanks for the words of wisdom & encouragement!
I am a courageous woman. I love your post and it was a blessed confirmation for me of the quote I have had posted in my kitchen over the last year and a half as I have worked to lose 57 pounds. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
Though I do try “making the healthy choice” the act I repeatedly do, I have not always succeeded. In the past, when I have made a poor choice, I have beaten myself up, branded myself a failure at being able to lose weight and have given up more times than I care to count. But somehow God’s tender mercy has been working on me and I felt Him trying to teach me to freely forgive myself for my poor choices as quickly as He forgives me – and then to turn around and try again. Thus, over the last year and a half the small act I try to repeat is to come back and try again quickly. Not to beat myself up and give up when I have made a poor choice, and continue on that path to further poor eating choices. So though I may not be excellent at always making the right choice, I have become excellent at trying again, and again, and again. And it has worked! 57 pounds gone, started swimming and daring to be courageous. God is good!
Dang! I wish I had read this before I went to lunch and had two jr. chicken sandwiches and a 12 oz Jamoca shake. Now, I am stuffed and wishing I had NOT made these poor choices. I did NOT feed my body with the fuels it needed. This was a totally mental choice! And I mean mental in so many regards!
Thank you, Lysa! You are so REAL. And I love that about you. Wish you were my neighbor so we could share coffee (with splenda, of course) together. I am praying for accountability in this area of food. I think I have finally come to grips with the fact that it is a stronghold for me. Yikes. I said it. Please pray for me. Please pray for a friend to stand alongside of me…maybe even exercise with me, and maybe, just maybe go sugar free with me. Thanks! God bless you.
I am a courageous woman. I AM a courageous woman. I am a COURAGEOUS WOMAN. I see myself in so many of these comments – the thoughts, feelings, bad choices, etc., and desperately want to (and need to) make this change. Thank you for your posts and prayers for all of us.
I am going to become “a courageous woman” and take back my weight problem & nip it in the butt. Please send some prayers my way, as I struggle through this journey. Thanks for the words of encouragement.
Today I declare that I am a courageous woman. I am addicted to food but with God’s help and the prayers of my sisters-in-Christ I know that I can control food and not let it control me!
I’m courageous, I made it through a 3 day vacation with no sugar! If I can do it there, I can do it at home. (I could still use all the prayer I can get, though!:)
Thanks so much for your encouragement
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I am a courageous woman! Over not just food, but also over everything else that I struggle with – worry, panic attacks, self esteem. I can be so much more if I let go of these issues and false comforts and just turn to God to provide strength, support, love, and peace. Please pray!
I have been thinking of cutting sugar from my diet and really pondering it this week. Then I read this post and the other one on this subject. So today makes 4 days without sugar. It is very hard!!!! But I have been so miserable with my extra weight and the guilt cycle that eating junk food brings into my thought processes. I truly need to find balance in the area of taking care of myself. One thing I have discovered is that I am addicted to sugar, plain and simple. I long for it, crave it, and think about it throughout my day.
My 4 days without sugar have been filled with crying out to God for help and rehearsing scripture in my brain. I know that each bad habit must be replaced with a good one, or a different bad habit will take its place.
Thank you for the encouragement. I am fighting this fight one food choice at a time.
I look forward to hearing more on this subject.
Thank you,
Tasha
OH, I want to scream it out loud to all of you, but I don’t know how to on the computer!!
I found this website randomly called “setting captives free” and it has a FREE 60 day course called “the Lord’s table” and it teaches you the seriousness of the sin of overeating and how to feast on Christ not on food. It has changed my life, every part (plus I’m 20 lbs lighter). You should check it out, it’s amazing! http://www.settingcaptivesfree.com
I will be courageous. No, I am courageous! My problem is not just sugar. You see I have a system. I will eat regular food, followed by something with salt (chips) followed by something sweet (chocolate or who am I kidding, any candy). Thank you Lysa and all of the courageous women out there. I knew you were out there, I just did’nt realize how many. With prayer from you all, instead of lifting my hands to my mouth I will lift up my hands to Our God in Praise.
Lysa,
This resonates with me and the live I’m seeking to live. Thank you for the encouragement and for praying!
Grace and Peace,
Sara
Thank you! Thank you! Until today I never really thought to give this issue to God. I didn’t want to bother Him with this! Crazy actually saying it out loud. I just thought this is my fault and I have to fix it. NOt working out so good. My weight has consumed me for way too long! I have never thought of myself as Courageous, but I change my mind today! I am Courageous and I can do this! I am so thankful for what you are doing! May God Bless you and all of us that are struggling!!
I can’t find anything on the eating plan. where is it listed?
I saw something on TV last night that so resonated with this subject of eating. Most women will watch what they eat, drink and quit smoking when they are pregnant but when they deliver the baby they go back to their old ways. Why can’t we treat our bodies as a temple even when we are not carrying a child inside of us???
This is so what i needed to read. Honestly i feel like hopping on to my bed and crying. I feel like every day i am repenting for my bad eating habits. What makes me feel even worse is that i am 8 months pregnant and I still can’t stop eating garbage. No kidding everyday when i go to bed i say okay this is it, as of tomorrow i am only going to eat healthy, but i get up and i do it all over again. I don’t know what to do. I pray i read scriptures to help me, but i know its all about self-control, but i am having a hard time with the control part .
Thank you for your prayers.
Michelle D
I used to be very disciplined with my exercise and ate fairly healthy. But then major stressors occurred and I’m amazed at how that discipline went out the window. I’m determined to get back to making the choice of living healthier, no matter what my human emotions are.
I have decided to lose the 40kg (around 80lb) that I am required to lose. I started on this journey on Tuesday this week. God has been speaking to me very firmly about doing this for a few weeks. I have had confirmation from scripture and other things and then I come across this on your blog… more confirmation. For me it is a preparation for the future. God wants me to be healthy, as I have a hubby with a illness that is life threatening, in the future. So I have to get myself in a healthy place for him, myself and for my children… thanks for this encouragement.. I will keep coming back to read this as a reminder…
Lysa,
I would like more information. I’ve read all the comments but I have not yet found what protein drinks you are using and the name of the pills. Maybe I missed it. Can you please e-mail me the information.
Thanks and God bless.
Thanks KristaI quitted before 15 days and this time its going very successfull, my secret is quite simple, found it on some quit smoking help website, here is the link http://www.quitsmokinghelper.info ,but its nothing with sites and books and etc. important is to scare from the results of smoking and care about the future,
Hi there, I posted a comment on here a quite a while back. Just wanted to say that I am 19kg down.. which is approx 41lbs down… I have 55lbs to go!! To God be the glory for giving me the strength and the vision to achieve what I have achieved so far… Lisa