Fee

I had my lap-band surgery 9/5/2013 so I am completing my first week. I heard about this procedure back in 1995 and I decided that I didn't want to do it because I didn't want to give up pizzas. Growing old sucks but choosing to be old and in poor health just bites. I came to the realization that life is meant to be lived with a purpose and that I am more than just my next meal. I created a rule for dating that I applied to eating earlier this year. It has helped me move off the bench, to use a football analogy, and put me into the game. The rule is as follows:

Feelings are not right and they are not wrong they just are, it is what you decide to do with those feelings that will determine the path your life will take. Where you end up tomorrow is by your own design so choose well and take control of your life.

In dating this rule helped me get out of dating the wrong kind of people I was attracted to but in my eating it helped me make a decision. My feelings about eating are twisted so I need to channel Mr. Spock and think logically about what I choose to eat, how much I eat, and when I eat. I will not die from not eating that pizza today but I will end up 6 feet under if I eat that pizza today for I am an addict when it comes to food. This distraction has taken me away from my health, my spirit, and reduced the quality of life. A life given to me as a gift from a creator that loves me and wishes above all things to see me again, not defeated by His enemies nor by my inability to stand steadfast in His promises.

If you haven’t guessed I am a Christian, and although many people have a problem giving up control of their lives to a God they cannot see I find comfort in that I am more than just this being here and now. If I didn’t believe there is a God then I would know exactly when the earth would be destroyed because it would be the day I died, and no one would be left on this 3^rd rock from the sun.

One scripture meant more to me before the surgery than any other and it was something Jesus Christ said:

Mathew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?”

Life for those who believe is about choices, a test if you would, to see our resolve to live, act and participate in the battle for life, love and faith. Christ chose to die on that cross for me, so I could have this time to learn how to exist in Love for my wife, kids, neighbors, and friends.

No matter where you exist today, nor if you believe in God or not Shakespeare had it right when he penned the immortal words in Hamlet. “The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves”

For those of you who made the choice to participate in your life and take control of the hunger that never leaves us I will pray for you all. For those of you who haven’t done the surgery yet but get this posting as an e-mail or clip I also pray for you because the future is now up to you. I have given you the keys to take control, thrown down the gauntlet, drawn a line….find the courage to cross it.

Great post!