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- 0:39Oh, y'all. Okay. Can we just say I'm proud of you if you clicked on this episode?
- 0:47Because you know by the title that I'm probably going to step on some toes.
- 0:52I also just want to say, y'all, the devil, he's out here.
- 0:56He has been messing with my computer as I've been trying to record this.
- 0:59So I'm just going to proclaim now in Jesus' name, Satan, you are not going to
- 1:05ruin this episode because I know someone needs to hear it.
- 1:10And if we're being honest, you know, this is a topic that I have needed to hear
- 1:13in the past and probably still do, you know, periodically, you know, present day.
- 1:19So today we are going to get a little deeper and talk about the reason behind
- 1:26your commitment to certain health habits, okay?
- 1:30And the reason behind certain goals that you want to reach, even if the habits
- 1:35haven't shown up yet, you know, for reaching the goal.
- 1:38And I think this topic is so important, especially right now,
- 1:45right? Because if you look around, everybody's getting skinnier.
- 1:48We've got all the options for ways to get skinnier. And it can be a really big,
- 1:56pressure. You can feel pressure. You can feel like a weight on you about it.
- 2:02It's hard enough right looking in the mirror every day like just us right just when it's just us,
- 2:09but it's even harder now that you're looking around and seeing how easy it seems
- 2:14to be for other people to lose weight and how other people are talking about
- 2:19their weight loss so much more,
- 2:21And so we can easily become,
- 2:25someone who chases after,
- 2:27a result out of our flesh, period. Okay?
- 2:34And so I want to just kind of dive in on this today so that,
- 2:39because I know from experience and I know from multiple clients' experience,
- 2:45chasing something out of your flesh never ends the way you want it to, right?
- 2:52Even though in those moments, we may feel that desperation in a way that is
- 2:57just gut wrenching, the outcome, it may, the outcome may be the weight loss, right?
- 3:04But you're not fulfilled in the way you hoped it would fulfill you.
- 3:09Or life just seems to be harder in other ways.
- 3:13And so it bears a question like, are we idolizing our body or are we honoring
- 3:21our body? And so today we're going to kind of talk through...
- 3:25How that may look, either way, right? And then some things that you can do to
- 3:32kind of identify whether you might be in the idolizing boat.
- 3:39And I think I want to start though and make sure that we all know that this comes without shame.
- 3:45I think we become better people by hearing different perspectives and allowing
- 3:53maybe the Holy Spirit to stir something in us about a certain perspective, right?
- 3:58Like you can hear about, man, people be giving perspectives and opinions all
- 4:03day, every day from every which way, right?
- 4:05And so I think what is beautiful about being a Christ follower is sometimes
- 4:12when those perspectives kind of stir in us, right?
- 4:16When we're not just hearing it as somebody else running off at the mouth,
- 4:19but it actually stirs in us and prompts us to say, maybe I should examine that
- 4:24a little bit more. Right.
- 4:26And so I have had this all throughout my life.
- 4:29I'm actually very, very thankful for all the women in my life that pour pour
- 4:34out and say things that may cause me some offense.
- 4:38Right. But eventually cause me to look, to look to turn around and look at myself
- 4:43and so and I also want to share that I.
- 4:48I have experienced this recently right idolizing my body and,
- 4:55I want to share that with you you know how how it's looked for me recently because
- 4:59I don't think I think gosh in this culture right it's so easy to get caught
- 5:04up in it it's so easy to do it without even noticing and like,
- 5:08I feel like even though I've created a platform that really tries not to put,
- 5:12the physical aspects of weight loss on a pedestal,
- 5:17gosh, it can still sneak in.
- 5:19So even just recently, my personal struggle with losing baby weight, okay?
- 5:27After I had my first daughter, that was kind of really what the program was
- 5:31born out of. And so I struggled, obviously, to lose weight, but I also struggled
- 5:36to kind of figure out how I was going to do it and whatnot.
- 5:40And so that was its own beast. Well, then I had Glory and I had built this program.
- 5:45I knew my methodology. I had created it from, you know, out of how I lost my
- 5:50weight with my first daughter.
- 5:52And so lost weight using my method, right? Using my program and it was very
- 5:58effective and I lost it very quickly.
- 6:01And, you know, I was proud of that. And I felt no, like I didn't feel this.
- 6:08Actually, I don't know. Maybe I did feel some pressure there,
- 6:10but I just remember feeling like it was a flow. It was so easy.
- 6:15I was able to do it. There wasn't anything that felt like it was a burden.
- 6:19I just I loved that process.
- 6:22And so this time around, after having Evie, like I've mentioned before,
- 6:26you know, I'm much older.
- 6:28And also I had some other things that,
- 6:32had to become more of a priority in my life than being able to buckle down as
- 6:39hard as I did after having Glory to lose this weight.
- 6:43And I struggled a lot with like, it just felt like a burden.
- 6:49Like I knew as a mom and as someone who has really had to practice laying down,
- 6:56you know, a too long to do list, right? Like I knew I could not just put my
- 7:00all into my post baby weight loss.
- 7:03But at the same time, it felt like a failure that I couldn't.
- 7:08Like I practically saw why I couldn't, but I still felt like a failure, you know.
- 7:13So I really had to examine like my motivation behind why am I trying to lose
- 7:18weight and why does it feel so heavy to me, you know.
- 7:22And I think it is easy to recognize that I felt like I had something to prove
- 7:28as a weight loss coach, right. Like I needed to be able to strive and show the
- 7:32world that I could lose this weight as fast as possible. And it was so easy
- 7:36and it was so fabulous. But I didn't.
- 7:37Even though my season was different, right? I have three kids,
- 7:42had some recovery issues after having Evie.
- 7:46We just, our season was just jam packed.
- 7:50Not to mention, I've got like, gosh, picky mouths to feed.
- 7:54You know, there was just a lot more going on in this season of having a baby,
- 8:00than like a lot more things fighting against me in this season than there were
- 8:05in the last seasons, You know,
- 8:08and so just recently, right, I had to like sit back and say,
- 8:13Constance, why are you wearing this with such weight, like burden?
- 8:17Why are you feeling so heavy about this topic?
- 8:22And it was because I was idolizing my body instead of honoring it.
- 8:27I wanted to look the way I wanted to look and I wanted it to happen now.
- 8:30And I wanted to show the world that this is how you can do it.
- 8:33And it's so easy because look at me. I'm a weight loss coach.
- 8:36And this is how I help people do it, you know?
- 8:42And so that was my perspective. But even thinking about like,
- 8:44okay, this one is a great example, maybe in your current life right now.
- 8:49Like, think about two friends, okay? You can have the same, like two best friends,
- 8:54right? Both eat healthy.
- 8:57Both could be exercising daily. And both could be drinking their water every day, right?
- 9:02But one makes it look effortless and she truly means it when she says it's part
- 9:07of her daily routine to feel better, right?
- 9:10But the other one who's doing the exact same things,
- 9:15could be so caught up in the striving of it all and hating each step of it every single day.
- 9:24Constantly running to that scale, looking for the results and the smaller pants
- 9:29and expecting that to tell her her worth, right? Instead of focusing on how she feels.
- 9:36So friend one is doing all these things out of the overflow of a grateful heart,
- 9:42of a comfortable heart, of, you know, a heart that loves how she feels when
- 9:48she is doing these health habits.
- 9:51And the other friend who's doing the exact same thing could be harboring a lot
- 9:56of frustration, a lot of resentment, a lot of dread inside of her body,
- 10:02right? And they're both the same.
- 10:06But it could easily be said that one is her body and one is idolizing her body, right?
- 10:14The same habits are happening.
- 10:17The motives are just different. One is striving to prove and the other is supporting
- 10:22herself with her habits.
- 10:26So there is a difference between caring for your body because it has value versus
- 10:32trying to control your body so you'll finally feel valuable.
- 10:38Let me say it again. There's a difference between caring for your body because it has value, right?
- 10:43And trying to control your body so you'll finally feel valuable, right?
- 10:49So this verse in 1 Corinthians 6, 19 through 20, do you not know that your bodies
- 10:55are temples of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God. You are not your own.
- 11:02You were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies.
- 11:06Now, some can say that this is a verse used to encourage that good eating and physical habits.
- 11:12Y'all, I probably use it myself in that way to say like, you don't feel like
- 11:16it, but do it anyway, because the Bible says to honor God, right?
- 11:19Like I definitely, we can position that verse in that way.
- 11:25But if like deep down, it is still from a place of fleshly striving,
- 11:33if we're saying honor your body because it honors God, but really it's gonna
- 11:37make me look good in this two piece in the summer, right?
- 11:41That is from fleshly striving, then that means we've missed it.
- 11:45Right? Like we've missed it. I can honor my body.
- 11:50At 132 pounds or 122 pounds, right?
- 11:57I can honor, you can honor your body at 210 pounds or 140 pounds.
- 12:04Like it doesn't matter the weight, right?
- 12:07If we are honoring from a posture of true like eyes on the Lord instead of,
- 12:16oh, if I was smaller, things would be better.
- 12:20Oh, if I was smaller, I could honor God more easily in my actions throughout
- 12:24the day. Oh, oh, oh, like all these excuses.
- 12:26But really where it's coming from is not from the heart. It's from that fleshly desire, right?
- 12:34So if you are finding yourself in a place of like constant guilt
- 12:41about not accomplishing everything you said you wanted to do,
- 12:44or if you find yourself like letting the scale tell you how you're going to
- 12:47feel about yourself today, like it's weigh-in Friday.
- 12:50And if you haven't lost the weight that you expected to lose,
- 12:53then you are like down on yourself. You have negative self-talk all day. Like, right.
- 12:58Or if you are striving out of fear of not seeing change instead of striving
- 13:04out of the overflow of wanting to support a healthy body and healthy habits.
- 13:10Or if you are striving out of telling yourself, like, okay, once I do this,
- 13:15then I'll be happier, then you might be idolizing your body and idolizing those health goals.
- 13:22Because the difference is you are looking to a future body as the answer to
- 13:28all your problems instead of looking to God to solve your problems right now.
- 13:35He got you right now. You know, you don't have to gain, lose,
- 13:38whatever, a pound, right? Like he's got you right now. And then out of that,
- 13:43surrender and that comfort, then you're able to serve your body well, right?
- 13:49Just today, I was reading in my Bible study.
- 13:52I'm doing a Bible study with some other women in business. And so we're reading
- 13:57a Bible study on rest and the Sabbath.
- 14:00And, you know, it was really challenging. Like, okay, we say God's number one in our lives.
- 14:07But if we choose an action that does not reflect that, then what does that say?
- 14:12If we truly feel like we cannot lay down whatever it is that has a hold on us,
- 14:18whether it's our work, whether it is.
- 14:22Social media, whether it is consumption in general, like consumption of things
- 14:29or food, excess spending, whatever it is.
- 14:32We're saying you know god's our our homie our number one right but if we,
- 14:38when it comes down to the crossroads and we're still choosing to open the instagram
- 14:43app when we know we need to be you know doing something else we're still choosing
- 14:46to work while it's supposed to be time with our family we're still choosing to,
- 14:52you know strive towards a specific body even though we feel that resistance,
- 14:57then like what is that really saying about us, right?
- 15:02And so two, like to take that even further, could this be the reason that regardless
- 15:08of your striving, your results always feel void?
- 15:11Like I have so many women that will go hard for a few weeks and then they just
- 15:16fall off and like we don't hear from them. And I'm like, what's the deal, you know?
- 15:20And it's because their health habit choices came out of a desperation effort,
- 15:28a striving effort, right?
- 15:32We have said, I want to lose 10 pounds. So these are the things that I'm going
- 15:35to do to lose 10 pounds. But we have then taken the process and the outcome,
- 15:44out of God's hands and into our own, right?
- 15:47Instead of doing our best to honor our body in the way that we know how for
- 15:51him, we've made it about control and desperation for us and what we want to see, right?
- 15:58And it's hard because, like I said, just like those two friends I just mentioned,
- 16:03they're doing the exact same thing, but one's heart is so different than the other's, right?
- 16:13And so all it is, is it's got to be a heart check and checking in with those health habits too.
- 16:18Like, is this miserable for me? And I'm forcing myself to do it out of a desperation
- 16:25versus I know God's got me. I'm going to do my best in these areas, right?
- 16:32In Exodus, it says to have no other gods before him. Okay, so think about that.
- 16:38Or are you looking at your girlfriend and seeing how she's dropped a pant size?
- 16:43And then all of a sudden, all your faith and all your trust and all your surrender, it's out the window.
- 16:49And you're researching weight loss possibilities or weight loss avenues that
- 16:55you otherwise would have never chosen. That's desperation.
- 17:01The Lord don't place desperation on our hearts, y'all. That's somebody different.
- 17:04And it ain't God. Okay. It's not the Holy Spirit.
- 17:07Put in desperation in our hearts, right? So have no other gods before him.
- 17:12In Matthew, Jesus says you cannot have two masters.
- 17:18Like you can't, it's either one or the other.
- 17:20Like, so who are we choosing and who are we trusting? Ourselves and our,
- 17:26you know, desperate desires to change by trying to control and do the things
- 17:31that the world tells us to do or him? Right.
- 17:35And then in Matthew, he goes on to say, do not worry about what you'll eat or
- 17:38drink or the clothes you wear. He says, look at the birds and the lilies,
- 17:43right? Like if he takes care of them, he'll surely take care of you.
- 17:48So seek him first and then all the things will be given to you.
- 17:53So like, what if we flipped it on our head, right? Like, what if we said,
- 17:56like, I'm going to choose instead of taking it all into my own hands,
- 18:01making myself a rigorous workout plan and, you know,
- 18:05meal prepping for the whole week and meal planning and, you know,
- 18:09only drinking water and not having the cake at my kid's birthday party and,
- 18:13you know, gosh, eating too little at Thanksgiving because we've got that coming up, right?
- 18:17Like, what if we flipped it on its head and said, you know what,
- 18:20God, like, I know that I've got struggles with food. I've got struggles with
- 18:24consistency. I've got struggles with whatever, whatever your struggles are related
- 18:28to your health and your weight, right?
- 18:30Like I know these things about myself. So I am opening my hands.
- 18:33I'm giving it to you, God. I am trusting that you're going to meet me here and
- 18:38take care of me because that's what the Bible says, right?
- 18:42And trusting that whatever that looks like, like whatever the outcome is, right?
- 18:47It may not mean that you lose three pounds by the end of the week, right?
- 18:50That's what we want. We want to say, okay, God, I'm going to trust you.
- 18:52And the next thing you know, you got a six pack, you know, but it may not look
- 18:56like that, But trusting him anyway, because, gosh, what if it just came with
- 19:00a piece about food and about your body?
- 19:04Oh, my gosh, just that alone. Right. Like if we just got the piece,
- 19:07even if we didn't lose a pound, if we just got the piece, that'd be worth it
- 19:10all. Right. Because we trying to lose pounds out here because we ain't got a
- 19:13piece for, you know, for most of us. Right.
- 19:17Ecclesiastes 4.6 says, better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls
- 19:24with toil and chasing after the wind.
- 19:27So this means that striving extra hard out of trying to prove yourself or out
- 19:31of envy, okay, out of control is literally going to get you nowhere.
- 19:38Like you are out there just chasing the wind. Jess and I were talking about
- 19:42this on last week because this Bible verse came across in a study that I was doing.
- 19:48And we were talking about like our future and just how, you know,
- 19:53excessive the world can be and how, gosh, excessive in all ways,
- 19:57right? Including weight loss and health, right?
- 19:59But this was, we were talking about something different.
- 20:01And I mentioned this verse in Ecclesiastes and I was like,
- 20:07babe, for the first time after reading this verse, I was like imagining myself
- 20:11out here, out, we were sitting outside and I'm like, I was imagining myself
- 20:14out here, like truly just running around, like chasing some wind.
- 20:18And like, I would just be running back and forth in the same area,
- 20:23you know, for the rest of my life, instead of just saying, like.
- 20:30That the one handful with tranquility, like, God, okay, like, it's yours.
- 20:36And so here's the piece that you're promising me, right? And like,
- 20:40I'm going to stop striving based on what the world says or what what the world
- 20:45looks like and just let you guide me in however that looks.
- 20:52I can tell you from experience, like the outcome is much more fruitful and you
- 20:58are much less exhausted, right? Like that's that, right?
- 21:04And so with this, I'm not saying to completely abandon your health, right?
- 21:08Like, don't come off of this podcast and say like, okay, well,
- 21:11then Constance said I can go on out here and eat these Oreos,
- 21:14you know, because if I don't, then I'm striving and I'm, you know,
- 21:20idolizing my body or whatever. No.
- 21:22I'm saying to make sure that your priorities and your motives are aligned.
- 21:29To make sure that you're not waking up every day,
- 21:32trying to strive, trying to do, trying to produce, perform, whatever out of,
- 21:39a heart that's telling you you're not enough and this is how you're going to become enough.
- 21:46This is the body you want. This is how you have to get it by hustle,
- 21:50by hustle, by killing yourself trying, right? Like that is what I'm trying to open your eyes to.
- 21:57If you are waking up every day saying, I need to get skinnier at all costs,
- 22:00and it's consuming your brain in a negative way so that out of that,
- 22:07you are then depriving yourself.
- 22:11You are then doing things out of desperation. You are then withholding or restricting
- 22:20in a way that feels like punishment.
- 22:25Then maybe we just need to check that, you know?
- 22:29And it can feel really counterproductive. Like it's a really hard thing.
- 22:33Again, from experience, it's a really hard thing.
- 22:36But by placing the Lord first, He will help us with our desires so much more
- 22:41than us trying to control it ourselves if we just check ourselves, right?
- 22:45And then say, whoop, I've had it backwards.
- 22:48Lord, I'm gonna need your help here, you know?
- 22:52So three things that I just want to call you to okay to help you kind of walk through this,
- 22:58after hearing these words from me the first one is take some time like when
- 23:02you turn this pie I mean you've probably already got like a like a stirring
- 23:06and like maybe your stomach feels a little nauseated after hearing some of this and so
- 23:11there's your sign you know but take some time to
- 23:14after this podcast is over to examine this about yourself right like again without
- 23:18judgment without shame, right?
- 23:20Like noticing doesn't mean shame.
- 23:24Like we can notice and then we can move through that and shift without feeling
- 23:31the guilt and the shame of what it was that we noticed, right?
- 23:36So notice your thoughts, notice your actions present day or maybe in the past,
- 23:42right? And ask yourself, like, am I doing this to support my body?
- 23:46Or because I'm trying to fix something that makes me unhappy about myself.
- 23:51Okay? Because nothing is going to fix your discontent-ness. Is that a word, discontent-ness?
- 24:00If it ain't through the Lord, right? Like that's what we out here in this world,
- 24:04spending all this money we don't have, doing all these things we shouldn't be
- 24:08doing, seeking happiness essentially.
- 24:11But like, if we're bypassing the Lord, baby, you ain't never gonna find it, you know?
- 24:16So just take some time. Like what are some habits, some things in your life,
- 24:21strongholds even, right?
- 24:24That are happening out of striving instead of out of a place of contentment and peace.
- 24:32And for some people, this is going to look like some of the health habits we
- 24:36talk about here, right? Like not everybody is comfortable with tracking their intake.
- 24:43Some people can track their intake and be like, well, all right,
- 24:46well, that's what I ate today. See you later, my fitness pal. Catch you tomorrow.
- 24:50And they're so comfortable with it. But some people are so busy striving for
- 24:57this ideal body or this ideal lifestyle or whatever it is they've got their heart set on.
- 25:03That it causes them extreme anxiety to track because it's never going to be good enough, right?
- 25:11So again, it could be health habits that we talk about here,
- 25:13but maybe they're just not right for you right now, you know? Yeah.
- 25:18The next step would be to notice how you respond when things don't go how you want them to.
- 25:23Okay, so like if you said, all right, this is how my day is going to go,
- 25:26or this is how I'm going to eat, or this is my meal plan, and then that doesn't happen today.
- 25:31Do you respond with a failure mentality?
- 25:34Does it turn into like one of those negative spirals where you tell yourself
- 25:36you can't do it, you're always going to fail, you're never going to lose this
- 25:39weight, and the next thing you know, you quit trying at all, right?
- 25:44Or do you give yourself the grace and the encouragement that you think I would
- 25:49give you or that you would give someone else, right?
- 25:53Do you actually zoom out and say, okay, girl, I understand why maybe you didn't
- 25:56stick to your meal plan today because work got crazy, your kid got sick,
- 26:01your husband picked up pizza on the way home without knowing that you had planned,
- 26:05to make salads for dinner or whatever, you know?
- 26:08Like, can you zoom out and take yourself out of the equation but still look
- 26:13at what happened and say, gosh, that deserves some grace, right?
- 26:20And then three, recognize that you can still have goals, right?
- 26:24Like you can still work towards physical changes. Like it is not shameful to
- 26:28try or it is not, you know, idolizing your body to try to physically improve, right?
- 26:36But begin removing the foundation of doing specific things because it's what
- 26:41you need to do to fix about yourself, right?
- 26:46We are not doing things out of a fixing, right?
- 26:49We are doing things out of, Lord, I know you made me perfect in your image,
- 26:56but I do want to support my body in the way that I know I need to.
- 27:04I do want to support my body so
- 27:06that I can live a life and do the mission that you have called me to do.
- 27:14I do want to learn to support my body in a way that doesn't have me constantly
- 27:18obsessing over food, over how I look, over the negative aspects of,
- 27:25you know, my body, my food, my everything, you know, that has to do with me physically.
- 27:31Like, I do want to continue in this direction. I just want to do it with a different
- 27:37heart posture, right? Lord, can you show me how that's supposed to look for me?
- 27:44He may answer you with some wild stuff. I'm just,
- 27:48Just recognizing like, okay, I know I don't have to stop with my goals,
- 27:53but I do want to align my goals with a lifestyle that he has,
- 27:58for me that feels like a lifestyle of tranquility instead of chasing the dang wind, you know?
- 28:06Y'all, you can improve your health from a posture of ease and alignment.
- 28:10I've always said that. And I feel that way, you know, about other areas of my life.
- 28:15Like I've been able to improve my work ethic.
- 28:18I've been able to improve my marriage, like from all these things,
- 28:21from a posture of ease and alignment, just from growth over time in the Word
- 28:26and growth, again, by things people have poured into me that I otherwise would
- 28:30not have known, right? By learning, learning.
- 28:34But even in this season for me I have been able to improve my health to get
- 28:40closer to that pre-baby weight to physically you know feel better,
- 28:47through ease and alignment by just laying it down laying that pressure of getting
- 28:52back down to my baby weight in a certain amount of time right or getting back
- 28:55down to my pre-baby weight,
- 28:57as quickly as I deal with glory or get back down to my pre-baby weight so that
- 29:01I can tell everybody that I did it.
- 29:02And, you know, here's why my program's amazing, right?
- 29:06Like, even in this season, I've like learned a whole nother layer of this for
- 29:10myself that like, okay, yeah, I'm still steadily losing weight.
- 29:15But gosh, it's not from that striving. You want to know it's funny?
- 29:19And like, the first little bit where I was like,
- 29:25trying to get back down from a from a place of striving was like this the slowest
- 29:29weight loss I was having you know and so then when I was finally like you know
- 29:33what Laura whatever we're gonna figure this out you know when it comes and,
- 29:37my hands are open right I'm gonna stop striving because I know it's not serving
- 29:41me or you well like well then it's just felt so much easier to lose and I and
- 29:46the smaller you get the harder it is to lose y'all that's like,
- 29:50science so it scientifically it doesn't even make sense that I've lost weight, but then it's,
- 29:57easier coming off as I'm losing.
- 29:59I don't know. It's wild. It's totally the Lord. That's all I'm saying.
- 30:03And so just with that, you can still work to improve, right?
- 30:09The Lord wants us to do that. He wants us to like put forth good effort, right?
- 30:14But just from a posture of comfort and not pressure and striving, right?
- 30:23You can make strides every day without running from the guilt that you feel.
- 30:30Like the guilt is the reason you're making strides. That doesn't have to be
- 30:33the case. You can just make strides out of ease, out of alignment, out of comfort, right?
- 30:39And without doing it perfectly because you're doing your best.
- 30:43But it does take that time to examine your heart, right? And see where maybe
- 30:47we need to zoom in a little bit, right? And then also praying for the change.
- 30:53Really like, man, spiritual warfare is such a thing.
- 30:57And so the minute that you recognize this in yourself, the devil won't come
- 31:03after it 10 times harder, right?
- 31:05And so really being adamant about praying for that change and praying for, you know,
- 31:11protection and continuing to show up in that headspace day in and day out,
- 31:19right? So that the Lord don't take you out.
- 31:21I mean, sorry, so that the devil don't take you out, right? Yeah.
- 31:26So, I know this, again, this one's a little different. I told y'all we were
- 31:29going to start bringing a little bit different topics here. And by no means am I perfect.
- 31:35If you had told me five years ago that I would have been getting on a podcast
- 31:38talking about idolatry and reading Bible verses, I would have probably like thrown up in my lap.
- 31:47It makes me very nervous, right? Because it's not, I mean, I'm real good at
- 31:51getting out here talking about food and weight loss and encouragement and all
- 31:54that. But this is a newer thing for me.
- 31:58But I am feeling really called to kind of tie it all together because it is.
- 32:02It's not one or the other. It's not Jesus or a skinny body, right?
- 32:06It's not Jesus or a healthy person.
- 32:10It is both and, right? We cannot live a healthy lifestyle without full surrender
- 32:17and without realizing that God comes first.
- 32:23Then comes whatever he has for you for that health improvement you know there's
- 32:31a lot of other things that come in between but you know what I'm saying.
- 32:35A great resource, if you're like, okay, I'd love a little more help with this.
- 32:39So a great resource is our Consistency Over Chaos Week.
- 32:44In this week, we teach you how to like stop that noise, the pressure, right?
- 32:49The overwhelm, the push to lose weight. And this is how you do it.
- 32:53And this is what this one, an influencer said. And this is, you know,
- 32:56what I read and whatever, right?
- 32:57We teach you how to stop it, how to like get still, how to find peace in your
- 33:03day so that then you're able to lose the weight from a place of ease.
- 33:08And create a more aligned rhythm, right, of putting God first and everything else next, right?
- 33:14And so again, this takes practice, but this week really introduces you to how,
- 33:19how to put that practice into place.
- 33:23So if you're interested in that, check out, it's our website,
- 33:26it's perfectfitnutrition.com backslash C over C, and we'll put it in the description as well.
- 33:33But as always, I hope you guys, especially, especially today with this topic, remember to say great.