When I look back at the road I have traveled on this leg of my Journey, I can't help but to be amazed at just how it is I have come to this place.
The "leg" of my Journey I am referring to is the one where I shifted my efforts towards finding some help towards financial improvement.
The starting point was ,much like when I was at max weight, a very scary place.
I knew I had to do something....whatever I had been doing obviously was not working.
Like my physical condition at max weight, I had grown so far out of control that my options were clear, stay where I was which would only lead to disastrous consequences, or set about the challenge to change.
Like weight loss, I knew it would not happen over night. Like weight loss, I knew that improvement would be incremental, painfully incremental at times.
Like weight loss,incremental is monumental.
(Such a great line I came up with all those months ago!)
There were many many starts and stops along the way.
Much like getting on a scale daily, looking at my finances, the stacks of bills and the road to health all seemed so daunting.
I turned,much like in weight loss, to all sorts of quick fixes. 
None worked.
I put my energies into plans and schemes and promised dreams.
Again, nothing seemed to work.
In February, I took a job driving a bus.
It was not out of desperation.
I just knew I had to do something. 
10 hours a week.
Nothing huge. 
Certainly not game changing.
It was a first step. 
10 hours became 11 hours. 
Then 13 hours.
Then 15 hours.
Now it will be 24 hours.
As this new way became the norm, I began adding other pieces as well.
Much like moving the middle number on the scale, incremental changes lead to more incremental change.
Like weight loss and weight management, my finances are an ever evolving process.
Like weight loss, I work diligently at this daily.
Like weight loss,I can notice the incremental changes even early on in the process.
Like weight loss, one day at a time, one step at a time, one bite of the elephant at a time will lead to good even great things.
Like weight loss,financial improvement should not be a struggle. It should be and has to be a commitment to doing what is necessary.
One day at a time , every day!
When I look at my wardrobe, I can see the by products of my work with weight loss.
I look forward to the day when that wardrobe reflects the same success in my financial state of well being!