So today after ½ mile walk with Aussie (when it's hot, she turns back), I declared myself "on vacation" the rest of the day. I almost baked brownies, almost opened a bottle of wine, and almost gave up.  I did clean out a drawer, clean some of the windows on our French doors, and put away some of my winter clothes. And I am going to have a drink or two tonight. What I am not going to do is give up on this experiment. I just have to remind myself (and you) that the ‘seesaw scale syndrome' is part of the deal.

SPIRITUAL thought/action: "Spiritual hunger can never be solved on a physical level....If you are willing to refrain from dieting and needing an instant solution, and if you want to use that relationship with food as the unexpected path, you will discover that God has been here all along." Geneen Roth, Women Food and God.

PHYSICAL/MENTAL/EMOTIONAL thought/action: "Why must we ‘taste' life in order to see you? May we, existentially, surrender our emotions, intellect, and physical senses and experience your holy presence in the here and now of daily agendas? ... Let me out of the prison of unfeeling...When I am exhausted from fleeing your call, tasting all the polluted waters of the world, you offer me the spring of water welling up to life....Yes Lord, we taste and see that you are the ultimate Living Water that quenches the deep thirst in our souls." Mike Anderson, Scent of Life.

Not giving up no matter what the scales say tomorrow.  (Like God is not giving up on us.)   Lolly