Weight

Before my accident, I weighed about 190 pounds and ran. However, following that trauma, I stopped running, and got heavier and heavier. When I hit 300 pounds at the beginning of 2005, I was disgusted and decided I had to do something about it. So, that year I walked over 1050 miles, and, combined with watching my diet, was able to drop a lot of weight. I set the ambitious goal of getting down to 200, and never got that far, although in the late fall of that year I did drop to 220 for a time. In 2006 I resumed running, and continued most of the year, but haven't been able to run since December 18 due to foot pain. I've put some of the weight back on since then, and do not feel good about that, but still have my goal in my sights. I'm trying currently to get it going back in the right direction again. It was a heady feeling in 2005 to lose that much weight, and one which I want to experience again. And, as the Apostle Paul notes in Philippians 1:20-21, "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ ..." So I want to glorify God with my body and my life, and keep it in control.