1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, their friend Heather Creek more here. Thanks 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,879 Speaker 1: for watching or listening to this Waiting for Weight Loss 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: series on the Compared to You podcast. We are cruising 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 1: right through all the way to Easter, talking about lots 5 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: of great stuff in the community. If you haven't joined 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: us in that community yet still open, go join us 7 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,119 Speaker 1: waiting for weeightloss dot com. And what's really special is 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: tomorrow Tuesday, March seventeenth, at twelve thirty Central. I'm gonna 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,080 Speaker 1: go live in the community, so I will be there 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: to say hey to you and answer any questions you have. 11 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: So I hope you'll join us Tomorrow, March seventeenth, twelve 12 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,440 Speaker 1: thirty Central in the community, and if you're on our 13 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 1: email list, you'll get investment about that as well. So 14 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: today we're talking exers bump bump bump. Okay, some of 15 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: you love exercise like you love it, like you genuinely 16 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 1: love it, and some of you genuinely hate it. Ugh, 17 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: I do it, but I hate it, and those of 18 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: you love it. Some of you just genuinely love it, 19 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,399 Speaker 1: and some of you like love it for maybe the 20 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: reason I loved it, which was I realized that as 21 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: long as I exercised a certain amount that gave me 22 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: more freedom freedom quote unquote, and what I ate because 23 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: I could again I'm quoting this, I could get away 24 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: with eating different things or eating more as long as 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: I exercise. And that's what our diets have trained us in, right, 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: I mean, even I'm thinking about weight watchers, like if 27 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: you exercise a certain amount of time, you got extra 28 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:01,559 Speaker 1: points to like eat more. Like exercise was always positioned 29 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: kind of as the counterbalance for food, and so in 30 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: that way, we very much have culturally learned to view 31 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: exercise and almost as penance, almost as like a compensation 32 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: for our food sins quote unquote on that word sins. 33 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: Exercise is something we end up doing a lot of 34 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: because we should, not because we can, not because it 35 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: feels good, but because we have to do it. In fact, 36 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 1: to talk to a lot of women every week, and 37 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: one of their main drivers exercise is all the mean 38 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: lies they hear shouting at them every single day about 39 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: how bad they look, how lazy they are, how fat 40 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: they are, how you know, unsuccessful they are, how shameful 41 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: they are. And they've come to believe that the only 42 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: way to fight these lies is to work out, Like 43 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,799 Speaker 1: if I go work out, then I can at least 44 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 1: tell the lie like shut up by exercise to shut up, 45 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: I did that hard work out, And it's almost this 46 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: belief system that I can make the lies go away 47 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: as long as I work hard enough to prove them wrong. 48 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: But friend, like, we were never instructed to combat the 49 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: enemy's lies with proving them wrong, right, Like, that's not 50 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: the solution. We want to exercise from a place of 51 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: remember our exhales. We want to exercise from a place 52 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: of our identity already being established, right, our worth already 53 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 1: being established, our purpose already being established in Christ. That 54 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: should be the foundation for exercising. Or maybe you're more 55 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: comfortable with this word joyful. Right, if exercise sounds of you, 56 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: what about thinking about it is joyful movement? How can 57 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 1: I move my body in a way that would feel good, 58 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: that would support my health? Right? Because exercise does have 59 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: great cardiovascular benefits. We need to get stronger. That's a 60 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: good thing as we age, right, exercise can help us 61 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 1: burn off stress. Exercise is good for our bodies. But 62 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 1: if we're just doing physical exercise, which is good for 63 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: our bodies, with a lot of mental trash going on 64 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: a lot of penance for food sins. Oh, I must 65 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 1: shooting all over ourselves around exercise. Then we might actually 66 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: even be negatively impacting the physical goodness of exercise by 67 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:54,359 Speaker 1: all the mental stress and turmoil we've put around it. Now. 68 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but for me, the struggle 69 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: has looked like what it counts. It only counts if 70 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: it's this long, or if it's this hard, or used 71 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: to say it only counts if I'm sweating. Right, maybe 72 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: you've done all those things too. So one day my 73 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,559 Speaker 1: youngest son, he was probably three years old at the time, 74 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: asked if we could go for a walk. And he 75 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: wasn't planning on walking. He had this electric motorized like 76 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: lightning McQueen car that went I don't know, maybe twelve 77 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: miles per hour, and he wanted to take it around 78 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 1: the block. Well, I'm twelve miles per hour might have 79 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: been too generous. It may have been more like five 80 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: miles per hour. It was very slow, and so as 81 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:41,760 Speaker 1: I thought about walking with him beside his lightning A 82 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: Queen car, I thought, Oh, he has a walk, but 83 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't really count. That's not going to be my 84 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 1: exercise for the day. And the unfortunate thing was he 85 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 1: was asking me to go for this walk during what 86 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: I had planned as my exercise time for the day. 87 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,000 Speaker 1: Perhaps you've been in the similar dilemma, And I said, yes. 88 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: It was a beautiful spring day, the sun was shining, 89 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: and I started this walk with my son, going very, 90 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: very slow, and I was thinking about all the ways 91 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: I would have to make up for that not being 92 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: my exercise for the day, Like maybe I could just 93 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: run to the gym leader. Maybe I could get into 94 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: workouts the next day. You know what kind of like 95 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,039 Speaker 1: floor exercises could I do when I got home that 96 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 1: would kind of counterbalance and kind of count for something, 97 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: all of those things that we tend to tell ourselves 98 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: in our heads when we have a disordered relationship with exercise. 99 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: And so as I'm walking, I very much heard the 100 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit say, Heather, this counts. I was like, what, no, no, no, 101 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 1: this doesn't count. And I really heard him whisper again, Hoather, 102 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: this counts. And that was kind of the beginning of 103 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: a change for me in my relationship with exercise to 104 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 1: recognize Scripture tells us like in Christ, we have freedom, 105 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 1: rights for freedom, You set us free. I was in 106 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: bondage to exercise, to all my rules around to exercise, 107 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: to trying to make the lives shut up. If I 108 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 1: exercised enough, right exercise how to hold on me? I 109 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: was exercise as slave. And scripture tells us we're not 110 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 1: to be a slave to anything or anyone. But Christ 111 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: and I had made exercise into this thing that it 112 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: was never intended to be. It's a good thing to 113 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: strengthen your body, to work your body, but I had 114 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: made exercise into this way of assessing my own value, 115 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 1: assessing my own worth, deciding for myself if I was 116 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: good or bad based on how much exercise I did. 117 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: And that was a disordered relationship with exercise. And so 118 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: from that stay on, I've tried to be more thoughtful 119 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,239 Speaker 1: about exor sizes that I enjoy and what actually feels 120 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 1: good to my body on that day. And so as 121 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: we think about exercise, that's one of the questions I 122 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: want you to think about, right, what is your relationship 123 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 1: with exercise? Has your relationship with exercise been more of 124 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: a penance type of relationship where you are exercising to 125 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: cover your quote unquote food sins, or have you been 126 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: able to engage in exercise because it genuinely feels good 127 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: to your body and you enjoy it. I think that's 128 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: actually the goal. And so every day, as you approach exercise, 129 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 1: I would say ask yourself these two questions. Question one 130 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: is what would feel good to my body today? Right? 131 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: Because ladies, especially like if you are of a certain age, 132 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: really any age, I think we all are like this 133 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: all the time. Right. There are days when you feel great, 134 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: and there are days when you don't feel so great, 135 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 1: and sometimes that connect doors, hormones or other things. Right, 136 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,319 Speaker 1: but if you wake up and you don't feel so great, 137 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 1: that's not the day to go try a new class 138 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: at the gym, Right, that might be the day to 139 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: just do something like walking or stretching. But then if 140 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: you wake up he had a great night's sleep, you 141 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,480 Speaker 1: feel like you've got lots of energy, man, that might 142 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 1: be the day to try something new, find a video 143 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: online that sounds fun, maybe do more strength work. But 144 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: make it where you are asking yourself every morning, like 145 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 1: what would feel good today? What what's my body asking 146 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: for today? What would feel good to my body today? 147 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: And honoring your body in your choice around exercise, because honestly, 148 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: I think that's how we honor God and our choice 149 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,280 Speaker 1: around exercise is by listening to the body He created 150 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: for us with all these signals that it gives us, 151 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,680 Speaker 1: right and honoring that. And then the second question is 152 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: what's realistic for what I have today? Right? If you 153 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: are building your schedule around your exercise, friend, that's a 154 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: disordered priority. Right. There's nowhere in scripture where you can 155 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,959 Speaker 1: tell me that the first thing on my to do list, 156 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 1: the first priority should be exercise. For Timothy tells us 157 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: that physical training is of some good. Of course it is. 158 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: It's great, right, But if your life is exercises on 159 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 1: the calendar and then everything else is kind of squishy, 160 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: that's out of order, my friend. You should look at 161 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,839 Speaker 1: the priorities that you have for the day as it 162 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 1: aligns with God's word, right, Like, oh goodness, I know 163 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: some of you have. The struggle is real. Right. You 164 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: can make time for exercise every day, but making time 165 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,680 Speaker 1: to spend in God's word and prayer, that kind of 166 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: falls off. Sometimes you gotta switch it, my friend, You 167 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: gotta switch it. There's no excuse not to. So ask 168 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: yourself what's reasonable for my day? If I've got a 169 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: crazy day, just back to back to back. Maybe what's 170 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: reasonable is just like taking a ten minute like I 171 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: just got to catch my breath, walk right, or spending 172 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:13,239 Speaker 1: ten minutes on the floor doing some bridges or crunches 173 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: or something that feels good to you, strengthening your core, 174 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: doing some free weights, whatever feels good to you, right, 175 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: Or maybe you've got a free afternoon. Hey, that's your 176 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: time to go spend a little bit more time. Maybe 177 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: it's a longer hike somewhere, or maybe you can go 178 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: to an hour long class of the gym if that's 179 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,520 Speaker 1: something you enjoy. But look at your day and reasonably 180 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: assess what would work, and remember to keep your priority straight. 181 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: That's what's most important. Hey, how is your relationship with exercise? 182 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: Let's talk about it in the community. You can go 183 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,600 Speaker 1: to Waiting for Me last dot com. Join us there. 184 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,719 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see you there and hear how 185 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:58,960 Speaker 1: you're doing with exercise and maybe how you want your 186 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,839 Speaker 1: relationship with exercise to change. Our coaches are there and 187 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: we can help encourage you on that front. To you, 188 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:08,080 Speaker 1: we'll see you next time. Thanks for listening today. 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