Diligence

Like when I was quitting smoking, one of my biggest challenges in dieting is self-control and discipline.  I'm counting calories (myfitnesspal) and upping my water intake and doing the "squat challenge."  I want to get fit for health purposes and for the sake of stamina and energy because my job will become more physically tolling for a brief while after Sukkot.  

As with everything, when looking for motivation and purpose, I always try to find validation and support in The Word:

1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

[31] Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the honor of Yahveh.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

[19] What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ruach in you, which ye have of Yahveh, and ye are not your own? [20] For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify Elohim in your body, and in your spirit, which are Yahveh's.

Galatians 5:16 KJV

[16] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Romans 14:17 KJV

[17] For the kingdom of Elohim is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ruach.

Romans 12:1-2 KJV

[1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Elohim, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto Elohim, your reasonable service. [2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of Elohim.

Romans 8:5 KJV

[5] For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Proverbs 25:27-28 KJV

[27] Not good to eat much honey: so  to search their own glory, glory. [28] He that no rule over his own spirit a city broken down, without walls.

1 Corinthians 9:27 KJV

[27] But I keep under my body, and bring into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Matthew 4:4 KJV

[4] But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of Yahveh.