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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, Heather Creakmar here, Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: or watching the compared to podcasts. Today, we're in a

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Speaker 1: special series called Waiting for Weight Loss that we're doing

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Speaker 1: through the Lenten season, and really the heart behind the

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Speaker 1: series is for us to check ourselves. The weight loss

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Speaker 1: isn't a bad goal, but if it becomes our first pursuit,

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Speaker 1: our primary pursuit, if it takes over everything else, then

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Speaker 1: perhaps it's at a disordered place. But you've got these desires.

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Speaker 1: You want to lose weight, you want to be healthier,

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Speaker 1: you want to feel better in your body, and then

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Speaker 1: you also have the desire to serve the Lord and

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Speaker 1: keep him first. How do you make it all work together?

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Speaker 1: How do you keep the pursuit of weight loss from

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Speaker 1: taking over your life? And that's what we've been just

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Speaker 1: beginning to explore in this Waiting for Weight Loss series.

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Speaker 1: If you've missed any of the episodes, go back. You

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Speaker 1: can listen to them all right here anytime. Today we're

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Speaker 1: at episode thirteen and the theme for today is sustainability.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to dig into it with you. Today.

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Speaker 1: We're talking sustainability and it's kind of been a big

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Speaker 1: buzzword in culture. Right, you want sustainably farmed foods or

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Speaker 1: sustainably produced I don't even know, but you hear the

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Speaker 1: How does this apply to what we're doing around our

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Speaker 1: bodies and trying to change them, trying to lose weight,

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Speaker 1: trying to get healthier. I think this actually could be

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Speaker 1: it connects so intricately with an episode we did a

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Speaker 1: few days ago, the topic of patience, because most of

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Speaker 1: us want to have our bodies changed by Saturday. We

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Speaker 1: And then I've got this added pressure coming from every

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Speaker 1: you change your body by tomorrow, right, Like, you've got

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Speaker 1: there's some things that we miss in that paradigm of fear, right,

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Speaker 1: because that's what it is. It's a fear driven urgency

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Speaker 1: for change. To happen just like that. But here's the

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Speaker 1: thing about our bodies. Right, And I'm not a doctor,

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Speaker 1: this isn't medical advice. Please consult your doctor around all

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Speaker 1: of these things. Right, But our bodies like to feel safe.

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Speaker 1: Our bodies are happiest when things are just copaesthetic. But

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Speaker 1: they like things to be just the same. That's when

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Speaker 1: to put some stress on our bodies to change them. Right.

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Speaker 1: That's why we exercise, lift weights, or maybe make some

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Speaker 1: shifts in the way we eat, because that change can

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Speaker 1: force something good. But too often what happens is when

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Speaker 1: we want to change our bodies, when we want to

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Speaker 1: at once, and it's not sustainable. In fact, let me

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Speaker 1: go beyond just deeming it not sustainable, it's not healthy.

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Speaker 1: You see. The truth is if your weight loss program

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Speaker 1: If it's causing you to be depressed, lethargic, anxious, angry

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Speaker 1: all the time. Friend, Like, those aren't markers of health, right,

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Speaker 1: giving you that even if you're losing weight, what you're

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Speaker 1: Thin people are healthier people. But now looking back at

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Speaker 1: my body. What I love about some of the research

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Speaker 1: We didn't hear that in the nineties, Right, That your

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Speaker 1: body needs a certain amount of calories. We're hearing more

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Speaker 1: let's go back to you, right, is the way you're

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Speaker 1: But then it stops working, or your body's overwhelming desire

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Speaker 1: on carbohydrates, protein, and fat, the three macronutrients every cell

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Speaker 1: And although diet after diet comes out and says, ooh,

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Speaker 1: The trends of our culture around food and diet have

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Speaker 1: the healthiest place for us, as Christian women who desire

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Speaker 1: all different. Ask the God who made your body, how

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you don't get outside help. Of course,

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Speaker 1: It's actually lust and greed kind of go together. Lust

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Speaker 1: Lust and greed are kind of the same, like driven,

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Speaker 1: Lust is similar. Lust connects to impatients because it transforms

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