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Tips, Quotes & Words of Wisdom that has seen me through...

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
God Is An Artist~GREAT FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

EPHESIANS 2:10 KJV
¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Look around. See for yourself. God is an artist extraordinaire!
When we gaze at a beautiful sunset, or look at the infinitely varied forms of life we find surrounding us, and realize that God designed it all, it is easy to be impressed. God is an
artist. The most brilliant, creative artist ever to exist.

But when we look at our own lives and consider what God is doing there, we tend to forget that God is an artist. He is making something beautiful out of you and your life. You may not see the beauty now -- you may not even see any design or evidence that God is working -- but you will recognize it someday.

God's intention for you is to be much more beautiful and glorious than a sunset or a school of multi-colored fish. And you will be! God will not fail.

"Wait a minute! I can see plenty of people that God has failed on. They are anything but "beautiful and glorious" -- inwardly or outwardly."

Yes... today. But God is not finished. Many great works of art take a long time. Don't judge too soon!

God is an artist and He is working on you and me. Go ahead, God. Let's see what you can do.
Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.
We always get the weight loss progress we deserve-we just don't always get it the week we deserve it.
You do not have to be perfect at this but you do have to stick with it.
A moment on the lips, forever on the hips.
If you really want to do this, you'll find a way; if not, you'll find an excuse.
Be-Do-Have: Be Committed. Do what it Takes. Have what you want. - Dr. Phil
The hardest battles in this life are the ones we want to win the most.
A goal without a plan is just a dream.
Prepare and Prevent OR Repair and Repent!
It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before...to test your limits...to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
It's not a diet, it's a"live-it."
A little bit of this and a little bit of that is how I got to be big and fat!
Success consists of getting up more often than you fall down.
Keep your eyes on the prize and your soul on the goal!
I eat everything I want--just not at the same time.
Let your head be more than a funnel to your stomach.
Occupation: Waist Management!
I'm not willing to do anything today that I'm not willing to do forever.
In a world full of caterpillars, it takes balls to be a butterfly. (LOVE this one!)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy
I'm not where I could be, I'm not where I should be, but thank God I'm not where I was.
Winners do the things that losers aren't willing to do.
Winners make things happen...losers let things happen.
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.
Beating yourself up does not earn you any activity points!
I'm on a low-carb diet. Whenever I feel low, I eat carbs.
It is better to waste food than to "waist" it.
If you're ready for change, you're ready to stop making excuses.
If you bite it, write it. If it goes internal, journal. If you nibble it, scribble it.
The first bite of something tastes the same as the second and third. Are you really getting something else out of the other bites?
Before you change what you see in the mirror, you have to see in the mirror what you want to change.
Never trade for what you want at the moment for what you want most.
Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest in the world is to act according with your thinking. - Goethe
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up." Vince Lombardi
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can." author unknown
"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." Ralph Marston
"Never, Never, Never give up!"- Winston Churchill
"The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken"- Samuel Johnson
"The first and the best victory is to conquer self"- Plato