33 by 33

The title of this blog is thirty3 by thirty3...The idea started when I told my mom and dad that I was going to set a goal to lose 33 lbs by my 33rd birthday.  It's still a goal of mine, but this blog is not a weight loss blog.  I'm not gonna share every morsel of food I ingest or the number of minutes of cardio I do everyday.  However, the fact that I have (more than) 33 lbs to lose does factor into my journey to getting back on track.

I've decided to come up with 33 things that I want to change, or do differently, as I approach 33.  I suppose I will start with the 33 lbs, just because I've already mentioned it--and because it's a huge one!  I don't know how many days are left until my birthday, but I know that 33 lbs in 3 months is gonna be a great feat.  BUT, it's also not impossible!

A lot of the 33 things I am going to change will impact weight loss.  I actually have more like 50 pounds to lose, but I will cross the first line before I shoot for the next :)  I have tried a million "diets" and I'm pretty much a pro at losing weight...It's keeping it off that I have a hard time with!  This is going to be a much more simple approach of eating better (anything is an improvement, trust me) and exercising (chasing Avery doesn't count--though it should!)

I am going to close this with a passage from The Message Bible...Romans 12:1-2

Romans 12

Place Your Life Before God

 ^1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Good stuff, right?

~XO