Why is it so easy!

I know I can post long post but I have got something on my mind this morning and today i am interested in the opinions of those faced with the same challenges. 

I do ask that you think about your answers and answer according to your life, your opinion and not what you think is right or what should be right.

I know what is right but do I do it.....Not always.  I am off more than I am on ...... what am I talking about?

Why is it so easy to slip and fall off the wagon the behavior wagon.   We signed up for a lifetime committment to some type of Bariatric procedure.  This was a lifetime committment.  We married this thing.  Why is it so easy to commit weightloss adultery?  Why do we cheat?  Who are we hurting?  Why do we skimp on water, vitamins, exercise.  What does this say about us?  Does this mean we will cheat at everything?  Is this a situation that we can look at learn from, repent, be restored, continue the journey or do we say hell I have had enough I want a divorce.  These and other question lurk in my mind and I want to know how you feel and if you are guilty what are you planning to do about the affair you've been having?

It's like you stated, because it's easy.  Staying true to your commitment in anything takes a lot of discipline.  And lets face it for the most part exercise doesn't feel good while you're doing it and the most unhealthy foods taste good.

Just my .02

Your two cents are worth its weight and you are right the odds are against us so whe have to be mindful in order to beat the odds.  Thanks!

This will probably sound crazy coming from me, but

I made a VOW to GOD that if HE would grant me this surgery, there are some things that I would never cheat at doing.  Namely, taking my vitamins, exercising, and drinking water.  HE kept his part of the deal and I'm keeping mine.  There are times when I want a divorce from the above mentioned things, but the Holy Spirit won't let me file the paperwork.   I'm grateful.

I AM guilty of having a cookie addiction and not always eating the healthiest food.  For this, I take it day-by-day.

Good post.

Excellent response.  I believe very enlightening.  I was excited all the way through this praying and asking GOD for success, understanding the journey and what was required....but like many other things in life....I became distracted.....lost my first love so to speak.....I am trying to remove the distractions....because this thing is not over for me......I have to finish this.....I have to find success....this cannot be another failed marriage in my life.  I will rethink, my position.  Thanks for the response.

Its all part of the human condition.  Doing what we enjoy is easy and doing what we need is usually less so.  I'm just plain fallible in every way.

I fkcu up nearly every aspect of my life on a semi regular basis.  Why would this be any different?  Like every other life issue, I try to correct and refocus each time I stray.  I'll fret over my transgressions only if I ever start to give up completely. 

I thank GOD that everyday we can start over and continue the journey!  It is always an option!

I think there can be a couple of things. 

First none of us went to bed thin and woke up fat over night.  That means we have years worth of bad behaviors ingrained in us to fight against and overcome.

Also for those of us that have been overweight since childhood the unknown can be scary. I, personally have never been thin, even those times I have successfully lost over 50 lbs, I was always obese.  I know how to live this life as the Fat Michelle, I don't know yet who Thin Healthy Michelle is, but I hope to meet her soon.

I always have said I think 90% of this journey is mental and if you can change your habits and not self sabotage yourself you have found the secret to long standing success.

Michelle that was a word!  And a good one might I add.  Thank you!

Pastor Di...all i can say is that your questions reminds me of Romans Chapter 7......all day long.......

"15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do.   16 If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.   17 But now, [it is] no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.   18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but [how] to perform what is good I do not find.   19 For the good that I will [to do,] I do not do; but the evil I will not [to do,] that I practice.   20 Now if I do what I will not [to do,] it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.   21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good.   22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man.   23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.   24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?   25 I thank God -- through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin."

Bro Doug...