The Detour

     In June  my family took a trip to Hawaii.  On one of our drives we were following behind my son. He took us down this road that had a most beautiful view.  He soon called us to say that he took us down the wrong road and we would need to turn around. We were ok with that because we saw a part of Hawaii we would not have seen had we not gone on that little detour.

     A few days ago I was riding on my bike around the small community I live in.  It was a road I always travel on so to me it was no big deal going down the same road I always go along.  On this particular morning I looked ahead like I always do and all of a sudden there was a dog on the path I usually go down.  If you know dogs and bikes, well they don't usually get a long so well.  So I decided to take a little detour down another road that I have never been down before.  As I was going down the new road, the thought came to me that I don't know what is ahead of  me on this new road, what if there is an even bigger and scarier dog down this road.   That thought led me to think that I could either turn around and go back or I could just stop where I was and be stuck on that road forever between a a dog I knew existed and a fear of a dog that I had no idea if it was even there.  Well I had things to do that day so I decided to take my chances and keep going on that road. Lucky for me I did not see another dog but this situation got me thinking about detours in life.  Peggy Worthen said, "We have to learn to be flexible and to deal with the unexpected. Happily, I have also learned that if we pay attention, prepare for the unexpected, and learn not to panic when we are forced to take a longer detour or a different route, things will often work out better than we could have planned on our own." (BYU speeches. June 6, 2015. Unexpected Path.) 

    A year ago I went on a detour in my weight loss journey.  This detour began with COVID and is turning into one of the longest detours I've been on in life, but what I am learning now is going to make my life so much better than I originally planned.  Before Covid hit, I was down to the lowest weight I had been in a very long time.  I was not quit 200 lbs but I was close and I was so excited.  My thoughts about Covid took me on this detour and I gained 50 lbs back.  This set back got me searching for answers to my weight loss dilemma.  One thing I have learned on this journey is that with every set back there is something that needs to be learned.  I just have to figure out what it is I need to learn.  Christy Lee my life coach, you will hear me talk a lot about her, because she is very instrumental in my life and this weight loss journey.  Anyways Christy Lee and I were in a training with Leslie Householder. In this training Leslie's husband Trevan talked about detours in life.  He  said "  The detour is the path!! Christy text me The detour IS the path!! If you would have lost all of your weight in that first year, you may not have felt the need to be learning all of this right now."  This detour that I've been on is my path! The things I am learning right now are so important for me to know! They are  helping me in so many aspects of my life.  I'm learning how to be the person my Heavenly Father wants me to be now that my children are raised and almost all of them are out of the house.  So my goal is to do a Pod Cast/ Youtube video once a week.  I am creating both and you will be able to choose what you want to follow me on.  Pod Cast, Youtube or this blog.  They will be in all three places, I will try to make them as close to each other as possible or even the same but sometimes the blog might be a little different.  I'll probably write it up before hand but when I do the Pod Cast I will talk about the same subjects but they might be a little different.  So please join me every Friday on this weekly voyage and see what kind of detour we can travel on as I continue my journey in finding myself through weight loss and learning there is life after all the kids are gone.  I'm excited to have guest speakers and different topics that will help inspire me and I hope they will inspire you. 

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