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#1 tip for consistency in your weight loss habits in 2025 · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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Music.
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One of the biggest problems with reaching your weight loss goal is staying consistent.
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Part of the struggle is because you may be setting goals that aren't realistic.
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So if you didn't listen to last week's podcast, go back and check out that episode first.
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But if you listened today, I want to share my biggest tip for staying consistent
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when the goals are realistic and the answer might surprise you. So let's dive in.
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Okay, y'all. So last week, I went all in on setting realistic goals.
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Okay. And what that really looks like from start to finish, as far as practicing
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some things that maybe you have felt like are irrelevant or not necessary up until this point,
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really diving deep into your day-to-day,
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really thinking through the steps and thinking through how they will impact
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you so that you can actually achieve the action steps every single day.
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Okay. And so last week, we really just outlined how to create realistic goals
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and then action steps that will actually help you reach the goals, right?
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But also keeping in mind like you plan
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to do them for more than one week and
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not fall off your new year's resolution right and so today though I really want
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to dive in a little bit more on this topic because there's so much to be said
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about the work we talked about last week right there's so much to be said about
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truly just owning and acknowledging okay this is what my day-to-day life looks like.
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This is what I know that I can realistically handle.
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You know, these are the things that come easiest to me in my current season.
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So I'm going to start here first.
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But even still, even if we feel like, okay, we've got a great plan,
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I can really see this working out for myself, I really think I'm going to achieve these things.
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Even still, life can sometimes come along and try to derail us, okay?
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Consistency can be hard, especially when all our days look different,
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right? No day looks the same.
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And so I have my number one tip for you guys today, and I will tell you,
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it is not going to be what you hear everywhere else. Like you are not,
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you are probably not going to have heard this, you know, from a weight loss podcast before. Yeah.
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But I think, you know, sometimes it's designed that way because the world doesn't
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always want us to know the truth.
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And so this is what I know to be the very truth. Okay.
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And so the number one way to stay consistent in your weight loss habits,
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in your goal setting, truly in any change that you want to make in your life
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is to give that to the Lord every single day.
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Okay, and that does not sound as fun and as exciting and as,
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you know, noble or as, you know,
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in your face, right, as some of these other strategies out there for consistency. see.
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But it is without a doubt, the way that chains are broken, the way that lives
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are changed, the way that things that you thought would never happen actually happen.
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And y'all, this is something that I am still just like learning,
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gosh, day to day, minute by minute, I am still like being reminded to come back here to this, right?
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Because, okay, and so before I dive into all my tips, right,
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I do want to like just be super vulnerable and honest.
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There is so much practical information out there, you know, and I give it too, right?
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There is so much practical information. And I believe that some of this practical
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information has a place in our lives, right? I believe, and I know you believe
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too, that like, yes, the Lord can change our lives.
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The Lord can, you know, do anything, right?
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But we also have to show up. Like we can't lay in our bed all day and expect
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God to like help us lose weight. Or we can't lay in our bed all day and expect
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God to, you know, build our business, okay?
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But I do have just this, and this is like,
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Personally, for me, probably the biggest like focus specifically of the year for me.
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But because sometimes because there is so much practical knowledge,
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we get caught up in it and trying to do all the things and be all the things
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and say all the things and accomplish all the things.
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And the Lord's just over here like, hey, like I didn't ask you to do all that.
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You know, like I kind of laid out what I thought you should do and you over
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here trying to do the most, you know what I mean?
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And so I will say I have seen this time and time and time again,
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specifically in the world of business for myself.
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You know, like I and so I know like, you know, I get bombarded with business
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stuff on Facebook, Instagram, you know, that that is my algorithm, right?
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It's like how to grow your business, how to have a successful business,
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business, business, business, you know. So for you, if you're listening to this,
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I have no doubt that your algorithm includes weight loss, right?
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How to lose weight the fastest, how to lose weight and keep it off,
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best foods for weight loss, you know, all the things, right?
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And so number one, what we have to remember is these people,
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it is their job to grab your attention, okay?
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So these captions are intentional.
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They are relying on your desperation, right? But number two,
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there are many ways to grow a business.
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There are many ways to lose weight. Okay.
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But what I have personally learned just in 2024 alone,
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that while some people can grow their business by putting out Instagram reels
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every single day, and I have bought into courses, I have gotten sucked into, you know,
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the experts and all this who have had great results and have,
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you know, are successful with their method and their way, right?
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That ain't the way for me, sis. Like that ain't the way for Constance to grow her business, okay?
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Reels are not fun for me. They feel extra hard for me.
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They feel like not doable for me in this season of life because I am so involved
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in the actual day-to-day of my business.
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It's like I am either neglecting my clients to make reels or I am neglecting
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the reels to be with my clients.
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And it's like the lord has just zoomed out
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on me and been like what are you here for like are
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you here to to make reels are you here to dive in and just
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stress yourself to death about some reels you know to get one
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new follower are you here to serve and to pour into the ones that you have you
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know to to love on them the most and truly help them in their journey because
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they are here they're showing up you know what i mean and they want your help
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and so anyway that that's just like a personal thing for me, right?
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But to rewind, if I was to just take all this practical advice and all this
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internet information at face value,
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it would tell me that I have to do reels to grow my business, okay?
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But then if I get quiet with the Lord, if I unsuck myself from the black hole
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that is social media, right?
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The Lord has told me otherwise, okay?
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And so for me, not only having clarity in my day-to-day,
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but then also being consistent in these goals and actions that I'm setting for myself and my, you know,
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my growth, I know that by daily surrendering it to the Lord,
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I am cutting out a lot of the just wasted time junk that can come from, again,
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the good practical knowledge that we see out there, but also realizing that
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all the practical knowledge is not meant for us, right?
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There's only some, okay? And it's up to us to, again,
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you know, give it to the Lord, but also remember our season,
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who we are, like what, you know, what our goals are, that kind of thing,
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and really put it into life.
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Perspective for us for that season. Okay.
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And so this is why, like, if you've been a part of our program,
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or if you are a part of our program now, you know, we are never going to give
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you hard and fast rules, because we don't believe that there is one way for everyone to follow.
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Okay. And this is this is part of it, because just everyone's life is so different.
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And you know, like I mentioned on the last episode, while somebody could commit
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to exercising daily and truly see a health and a body change,
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somebody else may truly not have the energy or the time to be able to do that.
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And if they feel based on all that practical knowledge out there on the internet, y'all,
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if they feel that the only way to lose weight or to physically feel better is
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to get to the gym every single day, and then they are looking at their life
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and realizing, I don't, I can't fit that in.
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Then where does that leave them? It leaves them defeated, right?
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And so, you know, this is why we never just put out hard and fast rules.
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But even so, even when you kind of identify your path for yourself and you feel
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in communication with the Lord, you feel a peace about where you're headed and
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how you're getting there, right?
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Sometimes it can even still be hard to
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stay consistent okay and so
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that's what i'm going to talk about today and i will say i
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use the reels as the example but y'all but i've done
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giving up on real reels and reels are not not a thing of 2025 for constant shelby
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at perfect fit nutrition but for me in other areas i will say that the true
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thing that i will say that i am working on this specific practice that I'm about
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to roll out for you is rest for myself.
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Okay. Not just physical rest, but mental rest, emotional rest.
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Okay. Cause I could be sitting on that couch, not doing a thing,
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but your girl's brain will be going a hundred miles an hour.
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And that is not true rest, you know?
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And so 2024, I have been sick a lot and I feel like it's just my immune system
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saying you have got to chill out.
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And that is so hard to do when you are running, again, running and trying to
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grow a business and all the things, right?
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But it is something that, again, practical knowledge would tell me work more,
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do more, you know, make more time, wake up earlier, stay up later, whatever.
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And so I'm having to revert back to this every single day, minute,
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hour, Lord have mercy on my soul, okay, to try to implement what I know may not look,
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right in the world's eyes, like it may look counterproductive even in the world's eyes.
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But for me, I know this is what's going to get me to where he wants me, right?
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And so I've just got a few things like for, you know, not how,
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like kind of how to make sure we are giving it to the Lord every single day,
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because we can say it every, you know, at the end of this podcast,
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you can say, Lord, I'm going to give it all to you.
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But then tomorrow, are you going to be stressing over grocery shopping and meal prepping?
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And when are you going to find time to exercise and whatever?
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Yes, we are the worst about that.
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Right. And so these are some practices that have really kind of helped me through
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throughout this, you know, season and journey.
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And really, you know, it's been ongoing for different things in my life.
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So, but remembering like to constantly surrender it all, right?
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And then commit to doing your part and then letting go.
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Okay. And that last part's the hardest. Okay. Okay. All right.
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So the first thing that I have been doing that I really think helps is praying in the morning.
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Now, I know a lot of y'all hit the feet on the floor and you were running, right?
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But I think there is a pocket in your day.
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It may look unconventional, okay? It may not be quiet, you know,
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you by yourself watching the sunrise.
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You know, it may be with your kids running around, or it may be with,
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you know, you driving down the interstate headed to work with a coffee in hand.
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But I think just starting your day praying, it serves as a reminder of God's
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presence in your day and your situation, every minute, every hour.
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But it also serves as a reminder to you, like, okay, yes, I have these desires,
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but also I'm going to give them to the Lord.
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He's here with me in these desires. He's here with me in my day, right?
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And it's such a sweet reminder of like God's love for you.
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You know what I mean? And we sometimes can't slow down enough to just say, oh, good morning, Lord.
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Thank you for, you know, waking me up. Thank you for this vehicle that I'm driving to work in.
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Thank you for these loud kids, Lord, you know.
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And so just taking that time in the morning to pray, really,
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for me, it kind of sets the day off.
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And there are still days, obviously, that I forget this. And I can tell that
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like, today is a cray cray day.
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Why is that? Oh, yeah, I forgot to, you know, have my quiet time with the Lord this morning.
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So then also with that is practicing gratitude. OK, because, yes, we all want to grow.
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We all want to do more, be more, whatever. OK, reach these goals we've set.
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But I think it's really humbling and truly just such a beautiful thing.
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Like, I don't really know how else to describe it to say, oh,
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my gosh, Lord, thank you so much for everything you have done for me,
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okay, in the past, in the present, in this hour, you know what I mean?
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To just practice that gratitude and remember all the things you have while you
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are looking towards the things that you hope to, you know, accomplish, right?
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And then reminding yourself that,
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It's his, not yours. So like saying out loud, like, Lord, these are the things I want, right?
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But ultimately, it belongs to you. Like everything is in your control.
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Again, in this world of such practical, easy to grab, always available knowledge,
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it is so easy, y'all, to forget that like, oh, yeah, I actually have zero control.
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Even though there's so much information telling me how to control this that
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and the other of my life I actually don't have any control you know what I mean
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and sometimes it takes like a really,
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impactful situation or moment or what you know like a health scare or you know
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a job loss or whatever to really truly remind us of that but I think we can
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you know stay in tune and just remind ourselves daily,
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like, hey, it's not mine, it's his,
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all of it, every single bit of it, right?
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And then from there, okay, then we kind of move into the weight loss, right?
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Because that's where we are focusing on this podcast.
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Again, it can really be for anything, right?
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But one thing that I have really leaned into with myself, and I think it's something
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that a lot of my, specifically my IPFN Plus, like our up-level clients who we
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work really closely with,
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I think it's a common topic amongst them is praying for the discipline and the
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self-control that you lack around food.
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Okay? Because this is something, y'all, I do not, again, I do not care how much
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information is on the internet, how much practical knowledge you can jam in. Okay?
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It all flies out the window if you struggle with discipline and self-control,
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okay? Because that's the root.
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Like, if you think about it, that's the root. Like, we could be rocking and
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rolling, you know, not eating sweets, not having our coke, getting to the gym.
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But if something triggers us emotionally or just even time-wise, okay?
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If our first thing we do is let go of the discipline and let go of the self-control, it all spirals.
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Okay, this is when the spiral begins for almost everybody.
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Something happens that makes you let go of the discipline and let go of the self-control.
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Okay, and so part of that, in my personal opinion, is like we jam our day pact with so many things.
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And so then it's so much easier to just let go of the discipline in the area
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that feels the most uncomfortable, which for a lot of us is food.
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You know, a lot of us have been battling food for a long, long time.
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And so it's really easy, like when you're saying, oh, but, you know,
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my daughter needs me to take her shopping. And oh, but my husband needs me to go run this errand.
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And oh, but my job needs me to do this, that, and the other.
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Like all those things sound so much more noble.
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And so we are easier to say like, okay, I just won't worry about,
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you know, getting, you lunch I packed today. I'll just run through the drive-thru.
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You can find an excuse for why we are letting go of that discipline or letting
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go of that self-control.
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And it can be a really, really good reason sometimes.
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And so I'm not saying one way or the other, whether like which choice you made
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was good or bad, but I am saying that we can pray for that discipline and pray
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for that self-control continuously, okay?
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And watch the Lord reveal ways that you were able to better have it, okay?
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Or even just make it all feel a little bit easier, okay? Because without the discipline.
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We feel out of control and we feel helpless, right? If we don't have the discipline,
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it's just all up in the air and we're just all kind of like walking around like
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chickens with our head cut off, you know?
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And I can easily feel this from a lot of clients who are just like,
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I've been out of control lately. And I'm like, yeah, you've lost your discipline.
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You know what I mean? But you're also, you know, scrolling your phone and able
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to like comment on this post.
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So like where, where it like, you know what I mean? Like, where is that discipline
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that you need to stay on track?
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Why are you sitting on the couch scrolling your phone instead of,
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you know, up making yourself a decent lunch or out walking, you know,
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to the mailbox and back for goodness sake?
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You know what I mean? And so, so yeah, the discipline is something that we cannot
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just like conjure up, you know? Yeah.
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There's again, plenty of practical information for how to, how to become more disciplined.
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But at the end of the day, if we just prayed for it, you know,
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if we just ask God for help there, and that's really hard because for so many
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of us, the discipline and the self-control is like our deepest shame spot.
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You know, like we're so shameful because we feel like we lack the discipline
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and because we feel like we lack the self-control.
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And it feels like everybody else around us has more of it than we do.
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So sometimes we don't even want to utter those words aloud, even just to the
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Lord, right? because it just feels so wrong of us to not have that.
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But the truth is that's what God wants the most. All he wants is for you to
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ask for it. You know what I mean?
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Because like, if you think about it, who do you think is in charge of the lack
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of self-control and the lack of discipline if it isn't the devil himself, right?
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Like who would it be that's trying to come in, Create chaos in your brain and
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in your schedule and in your mind, in your world, right?
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So that you let go of all the discipline and you let go of all the control.
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Who do you think that would be other than the master of chaos himself?
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You know what I mean? So all God wants from you is to ask him.
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God, come shield me, okay? Armor me from this mess.
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And so I'm going to read, y'all, this one. And in fact, I talked about on the
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last episode for just a minute that I released a goal, a faith-based goal journal,
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and I wrote in the front page of each one that went out.
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And so I wrote different things for, you know, just across the board.
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But one Bible verse that I wrote in several of them is like one of my favorite
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ones lately. I mean, it's been one of my favorite ones for quite a while.
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I even have a bracelet like with it on there because it is just so like spiritual,
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spiritual warfare is just such a thing.
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You know what I mean? And when we open our eyes to it, it's like we can't unsee it, you know?
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And so this is, this has just been on my heart and I'm going to read it to you
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guys today. It's Ephesians 6, 10 through 18.
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And it says, finally be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
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Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers,
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against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world,
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and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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Therefore, put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes,
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you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
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Stand firm then with the belt of truth buckled around your waist,
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with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with
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the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.
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In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish
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all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
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Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word
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of God, and And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers
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and requests. Y'all, all kinds.
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With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for the Lord's people.
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And so I think like, it is just, this is just such a powerful one for me because
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like so many of my ladies, you know, like we're praying for our, you know,
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uncle's health and our kids grades and our husband being laid off from his job
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and all these things that are really so important, y'all. They really are.
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But that doesn't make this battle with your weight, this battle with your self-worth,
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this constant nagging in your brain, any less important to God.
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It's all important, okay?
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And so it says right here, pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds
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of prayers and requests, okay?
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So this is your permission to just pray for the discipline and the self-control,
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okay? and suit yourself up because the devil is trying to get you where he knows
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you're not willing to ask.
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If you are not praying for these things, then you are letting him win because
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he's like, ha ha ha, she's too shameful to even ask or she doesn't think it's
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worthy enough to even ask.
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Meanwhile, it's literally tormenting you every day.
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Could you imagine a life without the torment about your weight and about your
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body and about your self-worth? Could you imagine it?
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Because the devil doesn't want you to, you know?
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Anyway, so there's my rant on that.
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But I'm just so passionate about it, y'all. And it has transformed me so much,
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like, specifically with anxiety.
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Y'all, I could not, oh my goodness, good gracious me, eight years ago,
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five years ago, I could not have imagined a life where I didn't wake up daily
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worrying about, was somebody going to die? Was somebody going to get sick?
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Was somebody going to have a car accident? Like for real, for real. Okay.
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And now, I mean, it is insanity to me that when I started just offering up those
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like really morbid, like really scary, really like I was almost afraid to like
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speak them into light because I thought, oh, is that going to make them come
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true? You know what I mean?
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But asking and offering that up to the Lord so consistently,
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it is, you can ask my husband Who I am today is not who I was,
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not even by not even a little bit in that aspect of my life.
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So I know it to be true. Right. And so that's what tormented me every day.
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But I know for a lot of you, your weight torments you.
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Your lack of control around food torments you.
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OK, so then with that, I'm going to continue to move on. OK,
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be slow and intentional around food.
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OK, this is something, again, especially if we've got a lot of that shame built
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up, we don't even give ourselves space, okay, around food. We're just like,
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oh, we're just going to, you know, binge it anyway. So let's just go ahead and do it.
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Let's just get it over with. And so I'm asking you to slow down.
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Give yourself and give God that space to work, right?
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Walk by the snacks counter at work. Don't stop. Walk by it again.
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Don't stop. Just give yourself a minute, okay?
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Give God a minute to work, right? Because you may find that when you walk by
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it the third time, you don't even notice it. You don't even want it.
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But if you had stopped the first time out of habit or out of impulse or out
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of just continuous negative self-talk, I'm just going to eat it anyway. I may as well stop now.
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You know, you didn't even give yourself time to prove that you and God are at work, right?
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Then continue, continuing on,
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refuse to let your mind convince you to look the other way on this topic.
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And so that's another like really big one, right? It's like,
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we'll set goals or we'll say we're, we'll set out for change,
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but then we'll get so caught up in our day, so caught up in our brain that we'll
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just be like, oh, yeah, I don't have time to think about this.
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I don't have time, you know, and we just kind of go back to our normal habits.
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Nobody said that changing habits wasn't going to feel weird.
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It wasn't going to be hard.
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It wasn't going to be, you know, uncomfortable. Like nobody said that.
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Right. And so sometimes we just from the jump, from the first uncomfortable,
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you know, spark, we're just like, OK, I'll just I'll just, you know,
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go back to my other habits.
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And so I will say for me, y'all, one thing specific to kind of what I was talking
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about earlier with like resting, one thing that I've noticed is that like to
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me, my phone equals work, you know, and that's unfortunate, but it is what it is.
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You know, like I don't have a physical workplace. Like a lot of y'all walk into
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the hospital and you know you're at work.
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Well, for me, when I open my laptop or pick up my phone, I'm at work.
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Well, so that can be very hard when you always have your phone.
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Okay. So just like if you were always at the hospital, don't you think you would
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always be pressured to work?
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Yes. But you, you know, you get in your car, you come home, right?
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Or my teachers, if you were always at school, don't you think you would always work?
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And so for me, it's been about, you know, this process with resting has been
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about also forcing myself to disconnect from my phone, which means I can't just say,
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oh, I'm not going to pick up my phone because it is such a habit now to pick up my phone.
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Like I do it without even thinking and so i've been having to put it in other
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rooms At night I have started putting it on a charger in my closet instead of
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like beside my bed and so you know.
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I am trying to force myself into a different habit, into a different way.
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You know what I mean? And so I'm not saying that you're just going to magically
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be able to walk by the snacks counter and not eat it the first time.
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I'm saying it might feel forceful. It might feel uncomfortable.
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It might like make you sweat a little bit to do this because any other time
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you would just walk right up to it and grab a piece of candy or grab a cookie, right?
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And so, yeah, this is where our work comes in, right, is to be slow and intentional,
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but also refusing to let our brain convince us, oh, no, let's just go back to the way things were.
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Let's just walk up and grab that. Let's just walk up and grab that cookie or
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let's just one night only, Constance.
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Let's just put that phone by your bed nightstand.
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You know what I mean?
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And so, you know, and we just rely on the strength of the Lord to make us do that.
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But again, it's not going to be just like this magic snap of your fingers where
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the Lord's all of a sudden like, oh no, girl, you don't want to,
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you don't want nothing on there.
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Make that candy taste like dirt.
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Like, no, like that is literally that for some people that is a miracle, right?
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But for the most of us, we're actually going to have to put forth that effort, right?
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And so it's going to feel like a fight against our brain. It's going to feel
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like an internal fight against the habits that we have formed.
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And so, you know, we talk, I think I talked about this on the habit stacking
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podcast a couple weeks ago, like our brain likes routine.
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Our brain likes to know what's coming next and how the pathway is going to go, right?
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And so it's going to take some harsh unlearning, some consistent walking by the dang snack counter.
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You know, not just one day is going to cure you. You know, it's going to be
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days and days, weeks and weeks of walking by the snack counter,
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not stopping, okay, before that begins to feel like a habit and doesn't feel
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like such an internal battle, right?
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And so again, again, relying on the Lord, okay,
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through that process, will prove to be just so helpful for you,
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you know, in something that otherwise would feel impossible, right?
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And then last, ask for forgiveness when you mess up, okay, because you will,
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you know, you are going to walk up to that snack counter on the first,
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you know, try and grab the cookie and shove it in your mouth before you even think about it.
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Like, you are going to eventually do that, okay? I am going to climb into bed
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with my phone eventually at some point or another, right?
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And so instead of just saying, oh, well, this is, you know, this is who I am.
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I can't stick to anything.
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You know, you ask the Lord for, you own it.
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You own it, not only to yourself, but to the Lord, right? You say like,
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God, like he's already forgiven you.
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You know what I mean? But you say it anyway. You say, God, I literally didn't
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even realize what I was doing.
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I feel like the devil took over my legs and walked me over to that snack counter
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and took over my brain and forgot what we were doing.
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You know what I mean? Or whatever it may be.
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But I am sorry. Like, I sinned.
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You know, I'm asking for forgiveness, you know, and, you know, wipe this slate clean.
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Get this burden off of me. Let me wake up tomorrow with a positive mindset and
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feeling more ready than ever to continue this walk with you,
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you know, and just by saying that out loud to him, you know,
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obviously, sure, he loves that, right?
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But it also like makes us go, okay, I'm forgiven.
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You know, instead of wearing that burden on our back for the mistake that we
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made, like we're saying it out loud, we're owning it.
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And then we are moving on, which is so can be such a battle for so many of us, right?
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And so you don't even you are going to you 100% are going to mess up,
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you're 100% are going to revert back to whatever habit at some point in this process, right?
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And so accept that and then say, okay, what's the next best thing?
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The next best thing is knowing it's going to happen, but then also saying,
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I'm forgiven and I'm continuing to move on without any shame or without any
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weight about that mistake on me, okay?
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I'm going to continue as if it didn't happen and it was just fine and we're moving forward anyway.
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You know what I mean? Because otherwise you're going to wear it and it's just
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going to weigh you down, weigh you down, weigh you down until you start,
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you know, again, adding more mistakes and.
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Forgetting to wake up and pray, forgetting to do your gratitude,
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forgetting to, you know, worry about the discipline or the self-control today,
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forgetting, forgetting, forgetting until you're back at square one, right?
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So it's just better to like shake it off, wipe it clean and keep moving,
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right? Because then you just keep growing.
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You keep seeing this progress, right? Instead of like laying down in your mess.
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So I don't know if this one was a different one today, y'all,
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but I am just, I am feeling it so much personally, right?
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But also I'm feeling it so much just in this new year vibe for so many of you as we, you know,
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step off into new year, new you, all the, all the hopes and dreams for 2025,
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but maybe forgetting the most important part, which is to include the Lord in
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it all day, every day, even the smallest things, right?
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And so again, it's going to feel uncomfortable and unnatural for some of us.
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Like it's not going to feel, you know, the easiest or like, like,
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you know, I don't know, it's definitely not going to be the three-step solution
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that we're all searching for on the internet, right?
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But I will tell you, it will be the most impactful, the most life-changing,
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the most peace-bringing thing you could do.
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So yeah, just putting your weight worries into the Lord's hands and letting
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Him take it right and do more than you could ever imagine doing on your own.
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So I hope y'all have an awesome day. And as always, remember to say grace.
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