The forever female issue of weight control! It’s the Holiday season with Thanksgiving and Christmas throwing delicious food our way. So weight gain becomes one of the most talked about topics around the table and then you use News Years as a way to condone or make an excuse for your intake of food during those holidays, by making a resoluntion. Well my story is similar but a tad different. Hopefully, I would like to have pictures of progression of this challenge.
History:
So as a child, elementary –ish age, I was always a “regular size” because in Milwaukee, WI we always played outside, walked everywhere especially to and from school, etc. Then middle school same type activity and my family could tell you that I could care less about what I looked like then. Ended up in Holly Grove, AR and I think I in my best shape living there because we walked up and down the road ALL THE TIME and my aunt fed us homemade chicken and dumplings ALL THE TIME. Then come high school in Missouri and my awareness of my physical frame became more and more a concern, its high school…
You’re physical frame or outside appearance period was a sign of how you were to be treated. I became more aware when I joined the cheerleading squad, when I became the basically the big girl @ 5’7” and 155lbs when everybody else was like my height or shorter @ like 100-120lbs. I used to think I was crazy big…fast forward college
Freshman year was no joke. They talked about freshman 15, but I managed to pull a freshman 30! I had reached my max weight at like 180lbs. I got kicked out that semester and ended up at CMSU (now UCM) and ended up going back down to like 160-170lb I called myself working out, but was inconsistent but managed to lose about 20-25lbs. But up until graduation, Dec 2005, I stayed about the same.
Fast forward…I moved to New Jersey/Philly and is saved by the grace of the Triune God in 2006 (check back a testimony blog...coming soon!)
Now Im in New Jersey back in the dorms for graduate school, this time not so much of a problem with the help of a good friend Trisha (Dean) Bell. We cooked a lot and it was easier with kitchenettes in the rooms. I move out the dorms in Spring of 2007 and move to Philly in a house full of ladies (Lighthouse!!) and started working full time. Problem now is that what to each for lunch from corner store to corner store, staff birthday cakes, lunch at Famous Dave’s etc and now working in Center City Philly my choices have increased
Now 170lbs went to 200lbs…Im at my max
I did get a gym membership that I hardly use, but by Gods grace my friend JennyG has gotten a membership at my gym and we have been going pretty hard since Wed Dec 3rd at around 5am to about 6:30am, Monday thru Friday we are in the gym!!!
I need to keep track of possible progress and hopefully public encouragement and accountability during this process.
Goals:
Lose 35lbs, monitor portions, stay consistent in the gym and hopefully encourage others in the process
I have been thinking how I can serve the Lord in the process knowing that my life isn’t mine anymore, I was bought with a price. So now I was thinking about legacy, if it’s the Lords will that I’m married and have children. I want to be able to be healthy for my family. Our lives are to be fruitful and as I was looking at Gal 5:22 and seeing were and how I can be fruitful and purposely in my pursuits of weight loss. Patience and self-control are the fruits that stand out the most and I truly want to God to get maximum glory out of my life. Also, stewardship stands out meaning to properly take care of what was given to us by God and offering it as a sacrifice back to God. I lack discipline and ideally to practice discipline, not in a legalistic manner, but to truly glorify God in all that I do.
My focus verses:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “…do you now know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify Go in your body” (although Paul talks specifically about sexual immorality in this passage, I believe that this passage would apply to because it is a privilege and honor that the Holy Spirit will dwell in our fleshly bodies. For example to how we keep our homes, we want our homes to be a representation of our stewardship of worship before the LORD of properly taking care of what He has graciously given us)
1 Corinthians 10:31 “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God”
Proverbs 25:28 “a man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls”
Regarding endurance for this goal and for my walk with Christ
Hebrews 12:11-13 “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those have been trained by it. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.”
…by His grace alone…
So as a child, elementary –ish age, I was always a “regular size” because in Milwaukee, WI we always played outside, walked everywhere especially to and from school, etc. Then middle school same type activity and my family could tell you that I could care less about what I looked like then. Ended up in Holly Grove, AR and I think I in my best shape living there because we walked up and down the road ALL THE TIME and my aunt fed us homemade chicken and dumplings ALL THE TIME. Then come high school in Missouri and my awareness of my physical frame became more and more a concern, its high school…
You’re physical frame or outside appearance period was a sign of how you were to be treated. I became more aware when I joined the cheerleading squad, when I became the basically the big girl @ 5’7” and 155lbs when everybody else was like my height or shorter @ like 100-120lbs. I used to think I was crazy big…fast forward college
Freshman year was no joke. They talked about freshman 15, but I managed to pull a freshman 30! I had reached my max weight at like 180lbs. I got kicked out that semester and ended up at CMSU (now UCM) and ended up going back down to like 160-170lb I called myself working out, but was inconsistent but managed to lose about 20-25lbs. But up until graduation, Dec 2005, I stayed about the same.
Fast forward…I moved to New Jersey/Philly and is saved by the grace of the Triune God in 2006 (check back a testimony blog...coming soon!)
Now Im in New Jersey back in the dorms for graduate school, this time not so much of a problem with the help of a good friend Trisha (Dean) Bell. We cooked a lot and it was easier with kitchenettes in the rooms. I move out the dorms in Spring of 2007 and move to Philly in a house full of ladies (Lighthouse!!) and started working full time. Problem now is that what to each for lunch from corner store to corner store, staff birthday cakes, lunch at Famous Dave’s etc and now working in Center City Philly my choices have increased
Now 170lbs went to 200lbs…Im at my max
I did get a gym membership that I hardly use, but by Gods grace my friend JennyG has gotten a membership at my gym and we have been going pretty hard since Wed Dec 3rd at around 5am to about 6:30am, Monday thru Friday we are in the gym!!!
I need to keep track of possible progress and hopefully public encouragement and accountability during this process.
Goals:
Lose 35lbs, monitor portions, stay consistent in the gym and hopefully encourage others in the process
I have been thinking how I can serve the Lord in the process knowing that my life isn’t mine anymore, I was bought with a price. So now I was thinking about legacy, if it’s the Lords will that I’m married and have children. I want to be able to be healthy for my family. Our lives are to be fruitful and as I was looking at Gal 5:22 and seeing were and how I can be fruitful and purposely in my pursuits of weight loss. Patience and self-control are the fruits that stand out the most and I truly want to God to get maximum glory out of my life. Also, stewardship stands out meaning to properly take care of what was given to us by God and offering it as a sacrifice back to God. I lack discipline and ideally to practice discipline, not in a legalistic manner, but to truly glorify God in all that I do.
My focus verses:
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 “…do you now know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify Go in your body” (although Paul talks specifically about sexual immorality in this passage, I believe that this passage would apply to because it is a privilege and honor that the Holy Spirit will dwell in our fleshly bodies. For example to how we keep our homes, we want our homes to be a representation of our stewardship of worship before the LORD of properly taking care of what He has graciously given us)
1 Corinthians 10:31 “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God”
Proverbs 25:28 “a man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls”
Regarding endurance for this goal and for my walk with Christ
Hebrews 12:11-13 “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those have been trained by it. Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint but rather be healed.”
…by His grace alone…
cheatam!!! you got a blog... can't wait to read more :)
ReplyDeleteDo what you can, exercise, eat healthy, and know the Lord is well pleased with u for Christ's sake. I had a racist background, but when I saw all my acceptance was in Christ and by His blood, I could no longer look upon others in this self-righteous manner. If God accepts us for Christ's sake alone, it matters not what men say.
ReplyDeleteThis was a beautiful post. I can so relate in many areas that you referenced. I know this posting is older but I really am glad to have read it. I think I too will be meditating on those scriptures. I'm sure I've read the one in Hebrews but I don't ever remember it meaning anything to me personally. Thanks for sharing.
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