one by one

Today, I didn't eat popcorn during a movie. That's a victory.

Today, when I found myself watching basketball and eating breadsticks, I focused on the conversations until I was done eating, then I watched the game. That's a victory.

One by one.

Step by step.

The goal is not weight loss. The goal is not fitness. The goal is sanity.



God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time; accepting hardship as a pathway to peace; taking, as Jesus did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; so that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with you forever in the next. Amen.