{"id":217,"date":"2011-06-13T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondgorgeous\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-06-13T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:35:18","slug":"just-keep-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondgorgeous\/2011\/06\/just-keep-swimming.html","title":{"rendered":"Just Keep Swimming&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cJust keep swimming, swimming, swimming.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dorie the Fish from <em>Finding Nemo<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have more than a hundred pounds to lose,\u201d a friend told me. \u201cIt seems hopeless &#8212; like I\u2019ll never get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How do you eat an elephant?\u00a0 <em>One bite at a time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How do you lose a hundred pounds\u00a0 <em>One pound at a time.<\/em> Or, as Dorie says, \u201cJust keep swimming.\u201d\u00a0 Keep doing the healthy things and developing the good habits that will enable your body to burn off the extra fuel you have stored up.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get discouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Just keep swimming!<\/p>\n<p><em>Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/em><br \/>\nSusan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJust keep swimming, swimming, swimming.\u201d Dorie the Fish from Finding Nemo \u201cI have more than a hundred pounds to lose,\u201d a friend told me. \u201cIt seems hopeless &#8212; like I\u2019ll never get there.\u201d How do you eat an elephant?\u00a0 One bite at a time. 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