Listen now | May I give you permission to try something different? Listen in for tangible, start-today steps to a more nourishing 2024 for body and soul.
Oh Kelly, this is a beautiful story of redemption in this area. I am thankful for your vulnerability that encourages us in so many ways. Yes and amen to our value being found in the One who loves us unconditionally 🙌. Thank you for this reminder to look up rather than around us to find our worth and know our true beauty.
This spoke right to my heart. I’ve been on and off the diet roller coaster since I was in my teens. Successes. Failures. All I was left with was a broken relationship with my body and with food. Embracing body positivity helped my mental health but I ended up more overweight than ever, and with newly developed knee problems I suddenly had a new reason to lose weight. Entering into intentional weight loss again after finally making peace with the mirror and my plate was a difficult decision. But 2 years ago I began again. This time I had a lot more grace for myself, I would stop the lies that tied moral value to my food choices before they could take root in my heart, and I made healthier choices for my knee not my vanity. Years of dieting had left my metabolism a bit of a mess so my efforts stalled after a 5% loss over 4 months. 2 months later I reluctantly started on a medication to help. I’ve since lost about 15% of my starting weight, with my weight staying stable for almost a year now. Yet it’s been with so much more peace and grace and freedom. I am no longer a slave to the meal plan or the scale or the mirror. Rejecting the world’s ideas of beauty and health and “happiness” is hard. But I cling to the One who gives me true value and worth and beauty and that helps.
Oh Kelly, this is a beautiful story of redemption in this area. I am thankful for your vulnerability that encourages us in so many ways. Yes and amen to our value being found in the One who loves us unconditionally 🙌. Thank you for this reminder to look up rather than around us to find our worth and know our true beauty.
This spoke right to my heart. I’ve been on and off the diet roller coaster since I was in my teens. Successes. Failures. All I was left with was a broken relationship with my body and with food. Embracing body positivity helped my mental health but I ended up more overweight than ever, and with newly developed knee problems I suddenly had a new reason to lose weight. Entering into intentional weight loss again after finally making peace with the mirror and my plate was a difficult decision. But 2 years ago I began again. This time I had a lot more grace for myself, I would stop the lies that tied moral value to my food choices before they could take root in my heart, and I made healthier choices for my knee not my vanity. Years of dieting had left my metabolism a bit of a mess so my efforts stalled after a 5% loss over 4 months. 2 months later I reluctantly started on a medication to help. I’ve since lost about 15% of my starting weight, with my weight staying stable for almost a year now. Yet it’s been with so much more peace and grace and freedom. I am no longer a slave to the meal plan or the scale or the mirror. Rejecting the world’s ideas of beauty and health and “happiness” is hard. But I cling to the One who gives me true value and worth and beauty and that helps.
I love this, Jane.
Thank you Sandy! Praying it blesses 🙂