A whole new wardrobe :)

I haven't written much about my eating and exercising lately, but the most exciting news is that I fit in to my "skinny" jeans this week! I tried them on on a whim after realizing that it'd been a month since I had, and they fit quite handily. These are the jeans I picked up in NM when I was at probably the best fitness of my life; my "pre-marriage" jeans. It's fun to be wearing them again. I've been having trouble with cookies though. And chocolate chips. Once I start them, I just can't stop. I'm frustrated by my lack of self-control, my "weakness." But then I was reminded of the verse in 2nd Corinthians, " three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it from me but he said 'My grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in weakness.'" Paul calls whatever he is struggling with his "thorn in the flesh" "a messenger of Satan sent to torment me." That's how I feel too. So, how do I use this "thorn" to tap into God's power, so that I get to a place where I can boast in my weaknesses? I'm not sure yet. But it does make me smile to think of my addiction to chocolate chips as a "messenger of Satan sent to torment me." :)
Here's another angle though. A statement I came across yesterday about the need to take care to not make your body an idol. So I stopped to analyze if I have done that: I spend a lot of time thinking about exercise and what I eat. A lot of time planning or regretting. I give things up in order to have my body look the way I want to. And now that I am more pleased with the results I've been having, I spend more time in the mirror admiring how I look or taking pride in what "I've" accomplished. Oh my, that all sounds really bad. But, on the flip side, we also are to be good stewards of the bodies God has given us and a large part of my fitness endeavors have been because I was not living in a healthy way. I guess there must be a fine line and I'm also guessing that they only way I'm going to be able to walk it successfully is by grace. More grace! Always, more grace...maybe that's how I glory in my weaknesses: because of them I will never fulfill my need for God's bounties of grace.