stalled = frustration?

You know when sometimes you hit a wall or hit a plateau. That has been my feeling in my areas of my life. I have been on a lifestyle change or diet for 18 months, and I have hit a plateau. My level of frustration has hit an all time high. I still have 20 lbs to go to my next goal and no matter what I do I seem to stay within 5 lbs up and down.

Now if weight was the only placed I felt like I am not making progress, I could make some changes in that area. I have felt like life is full of things I am stalled in. I would list them but you are not hear to read all my failures.

This Sunday I was driving to church, running late and thinking I it is time to give up on being healthy, yes I have meet most of my goals but I am stalled in weight which has caused so much frustration.  My frustration had reached an all time high so after church I was going home to eat something out of a box with a side of a pan of brownies. Now as you can guess I am in service daydreaming of all the ways I can break my "diet", when the pastor says something that stops me in my tracks.... If you are stalled at something and are frustrated that shows you care and will overcome whatever you are stalled in (yes that is my paraphrase his was more elegant and with scripture).

I realized that my frustration is a sign of how much I care about my health. I really do want to be a person of health and balance. I can not give into the numbers on the scale, it is a day by day (for me minute by minute) choice. I can do all things through Him who gives me strength...I believe that can be physical, emotional, and spiritual strength!