Amen HB!  Healthy diet and exercise!  Sis HG, no one is judging you nor putting u down... we don't know how much u weigh .. and no matter what the weight, we love you anyway.    It's like HB said though, we want a spouse (and ourselves) to be committed to eating healthy and exercise... in other words not too skinny and not too fat.

I hear so much about anorexia .....     Sure it is a problem with some ... but being overweight far, far outnumbers those that are under.  Anorexia is not an epidemic here .. but being overweight is.  We as a country just can't stop eating.  It is our comfort.  We are comforted by the pleasure of the taste of food and the endorphins they release.  There are probably ten obese people for each anorexic one... and that's not including those that are 'overweight' which would probably be total like 20 to one.

Obesity is much more unhealthy than being underweight.  A friend of mine at church was on 8 medicines .. then she lost considerable weight.  Now she not only looks great but says she is taking No medicines now.  Ms Daisy is a few pounds underweight and is only on one medicine .. at 80 years old!  Sadly, Most of my Christian friends are either overweight or obese .. and many of them due to the excessive weight have blown out (damaged) their backs and knees and have diabetes ... and some are disabled ... because of lack of self control in the eating area... and most of these guys (and gals) I never see or hear of them exercising (nor fasting) .. but they will talk about food ... and another thing that's kinda strange is that in the church it's the same as the world, we are just as overweight and obese as they are.  

I think if we were more different from the world we would shine brighter ... and we would be more appealing to those who need hope.

I Love you too sis ..........

I managed 4.5 miles on the treadmill. I had a nice salad for lunch.

It's all good.

OMG....Shea dear, thank you and Ramone too.

Thanks for the prayer HB.  My daily prayer is to be more like Christ ... though I am far from that ... I press on.  I have been around the block a few times.  We are living in difficult times.  I know that it is hard to find a compatible woman that will stay with you all your life.  We are just too selfish ..... too full of ourselves to submit to someone else.  The cares of this life are more important to us than the commands of God almighty who created us.  We say we love and adore God but we can't love and respect our brother, sister, or spouse.

Once we marry we start trying to change the other person into the image we want, not letting Christ change him or her into His image.  We are so certain that our way is the right way and the sinful spouse (or date) needs to change.  We hypocritically and judgementally focus on the speck in his or her eye and repeatedly nag about it while we say and do nothing of the log in our own eyes.  We remind the spouse of their faults over and over and over.  Like a devil we become the accuser of the brethren ... or the spouse anyway.  Behind closed doors instead of making love we make war.

Many have fallen in the war on the family ... and many more will.

When you've been around the block a few times you begin to know the neighborhood.

God bless you sister Bride.

P.S.  A special woman for me?  I'm probably off the scope for most women.  Maybe my frequent church and Bible study attendance in my relatively small town is putting me in a nook  or cranny where most women don't go.  It may be like a 'monastary effect' for there are very few single women my age in the churches and Bible studies I go to.  Maybe the Lord wants me to go to a bigger city with more Christians.  When I talk to the ministers of the churches I attend they want me to go to their church but they provide no single group to grow in or meet anyone in.  Ministry is about meeting needs but the churches I go to don't meet the singles needs.  I may start going to a nearby church with like 4000 members with a friend of mine who wants me to go with him.  If so this would be the 5th or sixth church in my area I've attended .. I just kinda get tired of the church hopping .. but maybe the Lord wants me to do it.  I dunno.  He knows.  

Sis I know u probably wanna hear the positive bubbly stuff, so, sorry 4 the long philosophical post ..........  when I get over this sniffle I'll start exercising again.    <><  <3

Yeah sis .... if I wouldn't type so much I could practice guitar more.  Gotta get ready for the Blue Meanies.