This month I have started some online teams. (which by the way are about the most beautiful things I have ever seen, complete strangers encouraging, celebrating and challenging one another.) One of the goals for this team is to start changing our mindset about health, fitness, wholeness. What does it mean to be WHOLE, spiritually, mentally, physically? How can we sustain a lifestyle of this? We are trying hard to journey to wholeness and not to a number on a piece of machinery. This week I asked my team to really meditate on being Gods masterpiece. To let this really sink in. I gave them the verse Ephesians 2:10 (VOICE)
10 "For we are the product of His hand, heaven’s poetry etched on lives, created in the Anointed, Jesus, to accomplish the good works God arranged long ago."
YA'LL, he says we are a product of his hand...heaven's poetry. And many times instead of that wowing our socks off, or maybe it does for a minute, and then we step on this stupid little thing that shows us a number based on that specific day, and all those promises instead of sinking into our hearts fly out the bathroom door.
I had my girls look at this picture for me and asked them to really let it sink in. When we talk about exercise and nutrition I want their goal to be something different. It's awesome to have to goals, you know me and my goals, but we need to change our mindset on some of them.
And it just made me MAD.
Super MAD, with tears in my eyes MAD.
I was so mad at that dumb scale.
I was so mad at those who have told us that the scale really matters.
Mad we base our health and happiness off a certain number.
Let me whisper in a screaming gentle voice to you, The SCALE DOES NOT DEFINE US. It does not show us our worth or value. It should not have power over us, but yet many times it does. So many women are defeated every single day by these stupid numbers that many times trick us. We see the scale daily in our bathroom or at work in the gym, and it taunts us to get on: "Come on just check, real quick...maybe you have lost some lbs, you have been working out really hard, get on... oops...nope you haven't, better get back to work fatty."
There is nothing Satan wants to do but get us to step on the scale and be discouraged about the hard work we have put in. I DO NOT OWN a scale. My mother-in -law has one in her house and many times I am tempted to step on it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME I do the little scale gremlins start to say,
"you weigh more then you did 10 years ago."
"The magazines say for your height you need be 10 lbs less."
"Your friend who is the same height is way less weight than you."
And then all the hard work I have put in, and the confidence I had is gone. JUST LIKE THAT...gone...and I start to second guess myself.
YA'LL, IT IS TOTAL BS. I am in better shape now then when I was a collegiate athlete. I wear a smaller size in clothes then I ever have. My body fat is less, but the scale says I weight more. The SCALE can lie and defeat us. DON'T LET IT! (A true indicator is clothes sizes, measurements, body fat.)
Some of you know you have lbs to lose to be healthy. And when you get to that goal it should be celebrated. It's a goal you crushed. Crush it then move on from the scale.
Bottom line:
Be content in who you are RIGHT NOW.
Nourish your body with whole foods and make time to move your body with enjoyable exercise because it breathes life into your WHOLE self. The person you will become as you stay disciplined on this journey to wholeness breathes life into others. Make your WHY to be whole, not to be happy with the scale, because trying to please the scale is exhausting. Kick it to the curb.
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