Weigh In: .8 lb Loss

167 lbs

I thought the picture of the road was appropriate for today's weigh-in post. Here's why:

1. I have lost weight 3 weeks in a row now. I have also been on a consistent work-out schedule, with this road as my partner, for about 3 weeks. Coincidence? I think not.

2. In trying to lose weight, something I have been trying to do for most of my life, it has finally been made clear to me that I must choose the narrow road. The road that is "less travelled by." The narrow road is the one that leads to where I want to go. Where I NEED to go.

3. I will forever be on the road. Never "arriving" is something I had to come to terms with, both concerning my health and life in general. This has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. --Robert Frost

The Narrow and Wide Gates

Enter through the narrow gate.

For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction,

and many enter through it.

But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life,

and only a few find it. --Jesus Christ (Matt. 7:13-14)