Last year on my birthday, I decided to take the weight-loss plunge. For years, I have been lying to myself and saying, “This year, you are going to get healthy!” But, I would make no lasting changes to my eating or exercise. When I came home to work in 2010, I just knew I would have time to devote to my health; and, while I did have the time, I lacked the motivation. Even though I was disgusted with how I looked, was tired all the time, saddened by my health limitations, and in all ways negatively affected by my weight, I still could not seem to muster up the energy to get started and stay … [Read more...]

Today is “No Diet Day.” No Diet Day is, “a day dedicated to raising awareness of how unhealthy dieting can be harmful, or respecting and accepting body types, and promoting healthy eating rather than dieting. No Diet Day aims to help to teach people to have a healthy relationship with food, and to ditch restrictive diets and the harmful results they often have, such as anorexia and body-type perceptions in the media.” – daysoftheyear.com Heather, You NEED to Lose Weight! Ever since I can remember, I have been hammered with this thought: “Heather, you need to lose weight.” Not, “Heather, … [Read more...]

No matter in which phase of life we are, we all struggle with gloom and unhappiness if we set our minds on the wrong targets. Sitting around thinking about what we do not have is a recipe for despair because there are always better circumstances we can conceive in which to find ourselves. With that being said, I want to approach this topic carefully. Please understand that I am in no way suggesting that single adults are inevitably unhappy (certainly not true), a segregated minority (again, not true), or that they should stop wanting a relationship. God made us to desire relationships and … [Read more...]