15 Pounds!

My rate of weight loss has been slowing a little lately. I've been going up 1 lb, then dropping 2, then going up. There's been a lot going on, plus I started the weight training program (Buff Brides) recently, so that might have to do with it also. At least I'm losing weight, though!

Nathan bought me a new scale, so now I can keep track of my weight at home, too! So sweet of him to do that for me :-)

In other news, being engaged is CRAZINESS! No wonder so many brides go postal about wedding stuff. They're just using it as an outlet for all the emotional stress involved in preparing for marriage.

Nathan and I just started pre-marital counseling and it's gonna be AWESOME, but it's also gonna be a tough process. There's a lot of spiritual crap that we need to get rid of to really be ready for marriage. The spiritual effects of being engaged are very interesting. A friend of mine told me that when you're dating, Satan's scheme is to try to push the couple together in unhealthy ways (physically, emotionally, etc), but when you get engaged, it shifts. Now that there's a commitment and movement towards a lifetime commitment, he tries to pull a couple apart. We are definitely feeling that full-force and it's quite the spiritual battle.

I know that with prayer from our friends and family and prayer times together, we'll be able to persevere through all the difficult moments and become even stronger as a couple. I'm excited about what God's gonna do in our lives, as freaked out as I am sometimes about the exact process of how that's gonna happen.

I'm so glad to know that I can trust God in all this and that He has our best interests in mind! He's on our side, so we can conquer anything that comes in our path!