Ebb and Flow

There are days when I find myself never wondering when or what I'll eat - no snacks, just breakfast, lunch and dinner and I'm good.

Then I'll have a day (like today) when I find myself at Chick-fil-a for breakfast and am quite sure that a very big, very hungry, linebacker has invaded my body and given me his appetite. You could call it ravenous. . .

I remember being at the beach a few months ago and telling Chad that I was constantly hungry and could eat nearly anything in sight - just the kind of appetite you want at the beach with a swimsuit in your daily wardrobe. . . but I've been thinking - (shocking, I know) that it's very common to have an insatiable appetite when we are ovulating and maybe that's how God intended it, right? Didn't He create me after all. There must be a reason I crave chocolate, and that my car ends up at Chick-fil-a, when I wasn't planning to go there. Is it simply related to hormones or is there more to it?

Is it possible that to be more desirable to our husbands our bottoms should have a bit more shape and our tummies a little more full. Could that have been God's plan? Why am I programmed to think the complete opposite, sadly society has been plagued with a standard we cannot meet by what the world thinks we should look like or weigh.

Think of the early paintings, those priceless works of art of women in the buff - they aren't slim like Gisele, they are fuller figured Marilyn's with gorgeous curves.

What if it were possible to set a new standard of beautiful that begins with our hearts. Could we teach this to our daughters? That the secret to happiness is much less about the size of our jeans and the number on the scale and much more about love, mercy and grace. . . I hope so!

By the way, my breakfast fillet and sides of pickles were AMAZING!!! :)

And, don't worry - I'm not about to go pick flowers in my birthday suit!! Ha! =D