I’m looking for your honest opinion. If you picked up a book with this as the introduction, would you read it?
Do you ever find yourself wondering what God thinks as He plans out your life? What formula He uses to make sure that you experience the exact amount of hardships and blessings to shape you into the person he needs to perform whatever it is He has planned for you? How patient he must be as He waits and waits for you to realize the potential that he has programmed into you?
How about your side of that story? Do you hear the sometimes subtle sometimes not whispers of God in the back of your mind? Do you hear Him pulling you towards that calling He has set aside for you, but you are hesitant to follow? Do you find yourself paralyzed at times thinking of how inadequate you are in the scheme of all that He has planned?
One day during my 42nd year on this planet, while pushing well past 300 lbs on the bathroom scale, I opened up my daily journal and I wrote these words about my dissatisfaction with my lifelong weight issues:
The truth is that I’m addicted. Not addicted to food, no, that’s not it. I’m addicted to being fat.
As long as I’m fat, I’m safe. As long as I’m fat, no one is going to look up to me. As long as I’m fat, no one will expect any more from me than what I am doing right now. Here, fat, and comfortable in this mediocre existence I am like Jonah. Safe and secure in the belly of a big, fat fish. And as long as I’m here I don’t have to be the person that God has been pleading with me to be.
I have tears flowing down my face as I write this. I’m not dissatisfied with my life. I love my job, I have the best family and friends anyone could ever want. I am blessed. But I know—I have known—that God has something He wants me to do, and I have been running from it. It’s time to lose this protective shell and stop hiding.
I didn’t break free of my protective shell that year. It would be 3 years before I finally made the decision that I was ready. As I write these words I am still on that journey to get rid of all of that excess weight. It’s been a really difficult path, full of life-changing realizations, learning about fitness and nutrition and commitment, and many stumbling blocks along the way. I feel that God is whispering to me to put down in words all that I have learned, and so that’s exactly what I’m doing here. And if I only sell as many copies as I have friends, I am going to get this book written as I answer God’s call on my heart to help others who are just like me.
Awesome yes I would read it. God’s plan is not always our plan. We have to become willing to live His Will!
Than you for sharing
Write the book! 💝
Oh Anna! You have found your calling. You help others on a daily basis and now this stronger calling to share what you are doing by writing a book! How courageous.. Following the journey will give folks a bit of that courage. To achieve a transformation, such as you are continuing to do, and sharing it with others, blesses the reader. Showing them that true transformation is available to those that work hard. That the destination is worth the journey. That they are not alone and can do this. Please, write the book. Share with those who do not yet know you. The world will be better for it.
Yes, I would!! Your journey has inspired me!
Yes I would read your book. Your intro was honest and sincere. I’d love to hear about your journey.
Definitely…. let me know when it’s published!
I would read it in a heartbeat.
Yes I would so read it! Your journey is what I’m going through also! Maybe your book can help me find my path.
Yes I would read your book! I’m lost in my world of fat for a long time…
If this blurb had been on Amazon I would have hit the prebuy button.
Go for it! It will be very motivational for those of us. Yes us, that have been shielding for many years. Thanks Anna. I am a fan of your writing, so I am bias, but I am looking forward to get my copy of this book.