After several weeks of McDonald's and junk food, 7 Reasons to Begin Again!

1. The scale.  (How can an inanimate object be so annoying, yet so inspiring?!)
2. The lean cardiologists I bump into around the hospital, who spend their days counseling people who eat like I've been eating lately and are DYING BECAUSE OF IT.   Dr. Westerhausen's voice in particularly drifts up to me out of my McDonald's bag like an uncanny echo caught in the paper and foil.  If I'm ordering a Jalapeno Burger, I can't seem to escape the nagging fear of looking up and seeing one of them.  The only thing that makes this fear unrealistic? They probably don't know what McDonald's is, or where you would find one. 
3. The ladies at my church, who try to stay accountable and disciplined, or share their own struggles to eat nutritious food.
4. My co-worker Christine, who goes home and exercises even after long days in the operating room.
5. C.S. Lewis, who said,
   

   “You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again...Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.” 

6. Jesus Christ, that great champion of calm self-denial.                "...You who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus who was faithful to him who appointed him..." Hebrews 3:1-2
7. THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH RE-STARTING MULTIPLE TIMES IS IF YOU DON'T!