Biggest Obsticle I listed when joining 5K5K in Dec'08 and where I am now

[Michelle Chacon]

December 2008

I began recently to get both my financial and physical health into shape according to God's plan. I have always been pretty healthy and what others would call thin, but I had gained about 15-20 lbs more than I felt good with. I felt tired and sluggish. I am already a vegetarian and eat healthy other than soda and sugar, which I have cut way back on. I joined a gym and have lost the weight, cut back on the soda and sugar. I am in the process of barrowing my friends crown financial book and reading through the Bible on examples on financial things. I have for the last couple months tried to listen to Dave Ramsey when he is on the radio or there is a program on about financial matters. I believe God is really moving his people at this time to get ready and get our finances in order. The only problem with some of the programs is you have to buy them and they cost a lot! I think this is Awesome and is definately God's timing ! My biggest obstacle is Financial!!! Everytime you get ahead the devil throws something back at you and you fall even further behind. It seems the harder you try the worse it gets! I believe with a group working together and praying together we can all beat this through God's power. Where 2 or more are gatherd there I am also.

July 2009

I must say God has really blessed me through this process! I have paid down over 5K in debt and am still working toward the 5K run. I have given up caffeine all together! And I loved my dr pepper. I have cut way back on eating sugar and junk food. Bring fruit to work to snack on. I was in a wreck the end of November 07 and got a settlement which allowed me to pay off my debt from my wreck as well as some other debt. I still have some old medical bills that are pretty old, but plan to have the rest of my debt payed off with exception to house, car's, student loans, by march 2010! That feels so good to think about!!!! I have restructured my student loans to one payment and will begin repayment this next month. I have been having some trouble with my heart and had to slow down on the exercise and found out I have mitral vavle redundancy and angina, but stopping the caffeine and taking some new medication has helped. I am slowly getting back into the physical aspect, but listening to my body. I tend to go way over board and over do it. I just have to say that I wish I would have know all these principles years ago! It makes everyone look bad who is in debt and especially the christians! I have apologized to all my debtors when I payed them off and apologized to God first and foremost for not living up to His Light. I was totally nieve about finances and the Bible/God until just recentally God started speaking to my heart and I would turn on the radio and hear something I had not heard before. My parents left the church when I was young and somehow inbetween then when I found the church again on my own I missed that part and racked up credit card debt, which you just don't have enough money to go around to pay everyone. You have the best of intentions to pay everything, but at the end of the month there is not enough left. God has truely blessed me in trying to learn and correcting my past mistakes. I am going back and paying even the old things which are hard to track down. I started with the most current and am working back. Almost There!!!!!!! Praise God! Please continue to pray for me as well as everyone on this site. I plan on getting my tax return and using my 401 k to pay off the rest and then start saving for retirement.