1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:06,920 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey friend, Heather creekmar here, Merry Christmas. Thanks 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: for listening to the Compared to podcast. WHOA What a 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: moment we are in. I sort of feel like I 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: need to do this episode to document this moment for posterity, 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: because part of me is surprised that we're here, and 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: the part of me isn't. Up to eighteen percent of 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: adults in the US have tried using golp ones for 8 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: weight loss. I'm not conting those who prescribed them as 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,559 Speaker 1: type two diabetes management, but friend, that's like one in 10 00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: every five people almost. That means you absolutely and definitely 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: know someone or several someone's who are using glp ones. 12 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: Maybe you're the one using them, and there's no shame 13 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,520 Speaker 1: or blame here. That's not why we're talking about this today. 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to talk you out of it. If 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: you're getting the shots, I understand why. I'm also not 16 00:00:51,680 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: going to try to talk about losing weight in this episode. 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: My friend, you would have to live under a rock 18 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: to not want to lose weight. I'd like to lose 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: weight too. I'm going to talk about that a little 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: bit today. Some of you have been waiting or wanting 21 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: me to say that, so I said it, So there 22 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 1: you go. I would be thrilled to wake up tomorrow 23 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: morning and be missing a bunch of pounds. But the 24 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:17,600 Speaker 1: pressure right now seems so amplified. And maybe it's because 25 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: I've been in my own little cave trying to finish 26 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: the second book on aging, or maybe it's because I 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: haven't been on social media much, or maybe it's just 28 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: because this happens every December for me at least, maybe 29 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: it happens that way for you too. It's getting all 30 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: the family photo Christmas cards, it's thinking about being in 31 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 1: family photos or holiday events. It's figuring out what to 32 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 1: wag to office parties or dressy functions. It's fighting not 33 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:46,199 Speaker 1: to go back to the disordered ways. I always related 34 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: to food and December, which maybe you understand was eat 35 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: all the things. Now in January, I can starve myself again. 36 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,120 Speaker 1: So today, can we sort this out together? If you're 37 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: struggling that you're not where you want to be with 38 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: your weight, I hope you listen to this encouragement and friend, 39 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: if it does encourage you, like I know it would 40 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: encourage someone else in her life. So would you consider 41 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: sharing this episode with another woman you know or love, 42 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: maybe discussing it with her. Or if you're like, no, 43 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,520 Speaker 1: this private struggle, I don't share this with anyone, Well, 44 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: then hey, would you consider leaving a review of the show. 45 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: That's like the nicest Christmas present you could give us 46 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: is leaving a five star review wherever you listen. If 47 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: you don't know how to do it, reach out when 48 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: we can help. So thanks for being here today again, 49 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: Merry Christmas. Now let's get to this tough, tough topic, 50 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: what to do when the want to lose weight is overwhelming? Okay, Well, 51 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: today's show is sponsored in part by but let's say 52 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: inspired in part by the reality that I had a 53 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: few clients this week, new clients who literally or almost 54 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 1: apologized because they wanted to lose weight, as if they 55 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: were saying something bad when they confess that to me. 56 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: And they were clients to listen to the podcast, and 57 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: I think that they had taken from listening to certain 58 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: episodes of the podcast that it was bad for them 59 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 1: to want to lose weight. And I was happy to 60 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: let them off the hook with this truth, like you 61 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: would have to be abnormal if you didn't want to 62 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: lose weight, Like short of the small percentage of the 63 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: population that is underweight and maybe trying to gain weight. 64 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: It's safe to say that most people in the US 65 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 1: want to lose weight. It's okay. Now here's where it 66 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: gets tricky, though. Some of those who want to lose 67 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: weight wear a size two, and some want to lose 68 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: weight so they can fit back into that standard size twenty. 69 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: And that's where it gets so deep and so complicated, 70 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: because each of us is convinced that our struggle with 71 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: our body and our desire to shrink is about something 72 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: inside of us. It's something with us is flawed. This 73 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: is my problem. It's my body that's the enemy. It's 74 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: me that's the issue. It's my willpower. It's the way 75 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: I eat, it's the way I exercise or don't exercise. 76 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: This is about me, me, me, me, me. But friend, 77 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: if we can just who let's zoom out, we can 78 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 1: pause and step back and say, wait a second here. 79 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: If everyone, almost everyone, wants to lose weight, no matter 80 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: what her size, it's gotta be about something deeper, right. 81 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,720 Speaker 1: If we can zoom out, we have a chance of 82 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: seeing that this problem isn't actually just about our bodies. 83 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: It's about something much deeper. And I mentioned in the 84 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,040 Speaker 1: intro that we needed to note this moment, this cultural moment, 85 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: for all of posterity. And here's what I mean by that. 86 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: As recently as too or three years ago, we had 87 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: celebrities with large bodies promoting body positivity and shouting big 88 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: is beautiful, and then Ohsanthic, they've shrunk. What's the message, 89 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: big ain't so beautiful anymore. If you have a chance 90 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: at skinny, you should take it, no matter what it costs. 91 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 1: And the biggest disappointment to me and all this really 92 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 1: isn't the celebrities, like I get, they will have an 93 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: easier time finding roles if they fit a certain body type. 94 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: What confuses me is tennis star Sermena Williams, whose angle 95 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: was she had been doing everything quote unquote right and 96 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:41,039 Speaker 1: her body wouldn't shrink until she started on the semaglutide. 97 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: And that scares me, friends, because she's a professional athlete. 98 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: Professional athletes know how to feed their bodies appropriately for 99 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 1: the amount of exercise they do every day. And when 100 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,359 Speaker 1: she says she was doing everything right, that's a different 101 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: kind of right than when you and I give ourselves 102 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: credit for choosing vegetables and taking a walk and say 103 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 1: we did things right. Now she knows about how to 104 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: feed her body appropriately. And yet she said she was 105 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,680 Speaker 1: doing that and she didn't shrink, and so the assumption 106 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: was that because she didn't shrink, she wasn't healthy. Enter 107 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: glp ones. They help her shrink. They make a difference. 108 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 1: Now she's healthier. I'm confused because we know what the 109 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: GLP ones do. If you're not familiar with them, they're 110 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: essentially appetites of presence. No, it's more complicated than that. 111 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: For sure, they're stirring hormones that help you feel satiated, 112 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: and some definitely need that. For sure. That's part of 113 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: our body system that maybe broken, and the semiglutides can 114 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: help set it right. I don't have any problem with 115 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: the rationale for why someone would need to use a 116 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 1: GLP one. But then there's others like many of the 117 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: already thin Hollywood celebrities like the cast of Wicked, for example, 118 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: who have just emaciated themselves. Their hunger and fullness cues 119 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: probably weren't messed up. The glp ons suppress appetite, so 120 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: you can give yourself what is essentially a medically induced 121 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: eating disorder. You eat less and you probably will shrink. 122 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: A starving body shrinks, and the cultural moment is this. 123 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: I've never been a big body posi fan, like body 124 00:07:33,520 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: positivity movement is not one that I signed on to, 125 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: but the redeeming quality of that movement was that there 126 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 1: was some level of cultural appreciation that people can come 127 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 1: in different sizes. And now the GLP one message is 128 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,920 Speaker 1: vastly different than that. It's that we're all deep down 129 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: thin people just waiting to starve our way out, and 130 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: we've forgotten as a culture that keating disorders are very dangerous. 131 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: When you starve, you waste away all your muscle, which 132 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: will do long term metabolic damage. And when your body 133 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: runs out a muscle to use for fuel, it starts 134 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: to use your organs. Anorexics often die of heart issues, 135 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: even at very young ages, because of electrolyte imbalances, and 136 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,600 Speaker 1: also because the heart muscle is one of the muscles 137 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: that can waste away in a starving body. It's so dangerous, 138 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: and yet it's popular again. It's glamorous. We're dying to 139 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: be thin again. Didn't we already do this in the 140 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: nineteen nineties, Like I thought, we had learned better, and again, 141 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: please hear me. For some there's definitely a place for 142 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 1: these medications. A good doctor shouldn't give it to someone 143 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: with an eating disorder background. If you have a significant 144 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: amount of weight you've been battling to lose, this might 145 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,680 Speaker 1: make sense for you. If you're a professional athlete who 146 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: just had a baby, or a Hollywood star who already 147 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 1: wore a size two. I'm just gonna say it, I 148 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: think this is very dangerous. Of course, reality check here. 149 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: Some of you have tried them and they didn't work 150 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: for you like you hoped they would. You were super 151 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: sick from the side effects, or they just didn't do 152 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 1: much to silence your food noise. You could override whatever 153 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,520 Speaker 1: fullness cues you were getting, and it just didn't make 154 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: a difference. Honestly, friend, I can only imagine that that 155 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,680 Speaker 1: is very frustrating. It was supposed to be the answer, 156 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: and once again it wasn't. That's maddening. It's just another 157 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,920 Speaker 1: opportunity for dight culture to tell you there's something wrong 158 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: with you. You're not good enough. If you were better, you'd 159 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: know how to lose weight, you'd do better. I'm so sorry, friend, 160 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: do not listen to that, because those are lies. But 161 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: I'm sorry this added layer of the medications are making 162 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: this whole relationship with food and body thing even worse 163 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: for you. Now that's hard, but let's zoom out again. 164 00:09:57,679 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 1: Let's take a thirty thousand foot view and let's get personal. 165 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 1: I know what you mean when you say you just 166 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: want to be smaller. I know why you want to shrink, 167 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,080 Speaker 1: and I know why you believe in your heart of 168 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: hearts that thinner is always better because part of me 169 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: really wants that too. And I'll say more about that 170 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: right after this quick commercial break. You see, the glp 171 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: ones are so tempting because it seems like we can 172 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 1: snap our fingers and shrink, and some of us have 173 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,920 Speaker 1: been waiting for that opportunity our entire lives. Like I've 174 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: personally wrestled with the thoughts of, well, maybe I could 175 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 1: do the microdose, or what if there is something wrong 176 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: in my body that only the golp ones could fix, 177 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: Like shouldn't I try it? And yes, friend, hear me. 178 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: I have so much freedom from my body image issues, 179 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,320 Speaker 1: I really do. I don't spend a lot of time 180 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 1: fretting over my body or how it looks anymore. I 181 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 1: feel very alive in my purpose and I don't spend 182 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: a lot of time worrying about how you think I look. 183 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: I really do feel free in the body image arena. 184 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,760 Speaker 1: And yet, and this is a big aunt. I'd like 185 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: to lose some weight. When I first started talking about 186 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: body image issues is a little more than a decade ago. 187 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: I was forty years old and I wore a size four. 188 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 1: That statement is appalling to some of you, and then 189 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,560 Speaker 1: others of you are like, oh, I get that. I 190 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,200 Speaker 1: struggle a lot even though I have a small body. 191 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 1: But now, almost twelve years later, perimenopause, super stressful life situations, aging, Oh, friend, 192 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: my daughter's the one wearing those size force now and 193 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 1: as my weight crep up. As my size crep up. 194 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 1: Like I got to size ten and that really wasn't 195 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: a big deal because I had worn that size before 196 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 1: at certain times in my life. But then I kept 197 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: going to places I had never gone before, and then 198 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: I leveled out and I've stayed in the same size 199 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: for a few years now. Friend, I don't love ordering 200 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: that size of clothing. I don't love holding my genes 201 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 1: up to my husband's jeans when I take them out 202 00:12:14,559 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: the laundry and feeling like mine or wider. I preferred 203 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:23,839 Speaker 1: being smaller. But here's what else I know, aside from 204 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: wrestling the right combination of hormones in the season of 205 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:32,400 Speaker 1: my life, my body's mostly healthy. My hashi motos is 206 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: in full remission, not because I've been restricting food, but 207 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,560 Speaker 1: because I finally gave myself freedom to eat and cultivate 208 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 1: a healthy relationship with food. My thyroid numbers are great, 209 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: though I'll never stop taking my natural desiccated thyroid medication. 210 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: I feel good and energetic. Most days. I've worn a 211 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: continuous glucose monitor, like just for fun out of curiosity. 212 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: I have a long family history of diabetes, and my 213 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: blood sugar's good ize several days a week. I eat 214 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: nutritious foods about eighty percent of the time. According to 215 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: my blood work, symptoms and related tests, I'm actually healthy. 216 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: I just way too much. And every time I try 217 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 1: to put any amount of intentionality into being quote unquote healthier, 218 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: with the secret hope that maybe all lose some weight too, 219 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: I find myself resorting to my eating disorder defaults. I 220 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: tell myself, Okay, maybe I'll just like not eat bread 221 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: today and then I end up eating twice as much 222 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 1: bread tomorrow. I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, 223 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,959 Speaker 1: from research, from personal experience, from talking to hundreds and 224 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 1: hundreds and hundreds of you, diets don't work. I also 225 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 1: know that restricting food for me will either land me 226 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,480 Speaker 1: back into a place of a full blown eating disorder. 227 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 1: And that's if I get quote unquote good at restricting 228 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: again and I was very good at it, or it 229 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: will make me binge. I'll restrict and binge, restrict and binge, 230 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,920 Speaker 1: and that'll destroy the hard work I've put into healing 231 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: my relationship with food. I know I can't do that now. 232 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:17,600 Speaker 1: Some of you may be saying, Heather, I hear you, 233 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: but I'm not healthy, like I need to lose weight 234 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: and that will solve my health problems. I see you. 235 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 1: I hear you, friends, and I just pray that you 236 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: have a wonderful, understanding doctor who doesn't get his or 237 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:32,280 Speaker 1: her information on health from social media. Because I was 238 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,680 Speaker 1: just reading the other day about how keto carb free 239 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: diets are now being associated with greater levels of Alzheimer's 240 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: and dementia. It's a dangerous roller coaster We've been on 241 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: for the last few decades of cutting out entire food 242 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,200 Speaker 1: groups so that we could lose weight. And I know 243 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: for many of you you followed that plan because a 244 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: doctor told you to. Some of you went fat free 245 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 1: in the nineteen nineties when a doctor told you that 246 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: was the best way to lose weight, and then twenty 247 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 1: years later the doctor said you had to be carb free. 248 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: Maybe they were. There's some vegan period in there. It's 249 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: all been very confusing, and it's hard to know who 250 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 1: to trust and what is true because the science quote 251 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: unquote science just keeps changing. And I've hesitated to share 252 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 1: my journey in this. I certainly don't want to trigger you. Honestly. 253 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: Part of my fear is that some of you are 254 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,320 Speaker 1: going to say, oh, Heather can't relate to me anymore 255 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: because she's not as small as I am. And then 256 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 1: others of you are going to say, oh, Heather can't 257 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,040 Speaker 1: relate to me anymore because she's not as big as 258 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: I am. And I'm setting those fears aside today for 259 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: one reason. You need to know that you're not the 260 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 1: only one who holds a desire to lose weight. It's 261 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: not a you problem. Again, it would be abnormal in 262 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: our culture, if we didn't want to shrink, it's like 263 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: wanting to be poor, or wanting to be unemployed, or 264 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: wanting to be homeless. A thin body is a status, 265 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 1: and it's a signal of wealth, privilege, intelligence value. We 266 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: assign so so much to it, we idolize it. Of 267 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: course we desire that, of course we would, So what 268 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: do we do? It's frustrating to hold this desire that 269 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,880 Speaker 1: we can't just make happen. Like we live in an 270 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,480 Speaker 1: Amazon Prime society where we're used to getting what we 271 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: want delivered within twenty four hours, and it seems like 272 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: maybe golp once could do that, and for some maybe 273 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,160 Speaker 1: they have, again noting there's risks there, But for some 274 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:39,800 Speaker 1: of us, the struggle continues and maybe even feels harder 275 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: as it seems like others have found a cure for 276 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 1: their struggle. For anyone who tries the glps and goes 277 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,800 Speaker 1: off them for any reason, like that struggle that went 278 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:51,480 Speaker 1: away for a little while is just going to come 279 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: right back. And so what do I do when I 280 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: have an inordinate want? What do I do while I 281 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: wait for something that may or may not ever happen. 282 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: I may never get back to a small size or 283 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,600 Speaker 1: small size I like. I don't seem to have that 284 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,760 Speaker 1: kind of control over my body anymore. I could spend 285 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: my entire life trying to self optimize and troubleshoot every 286 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: little thing with the hope that maybe I could change 287 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: my body size, and none of it, none of it 288 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:30,119 Speaker 1: might work. And that means I have to count the cost. 289 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 1: What would it cost me to make weight loss a 290 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 1: main goal in my life? Frankly, friend, it would cost 291 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 1: me too much. It would cost my ability to be 292 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: present with my family, because I know what I'm like 293 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: when I am trying to follow a plan. It would 294 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:50,440 Speaker 1: cost me not being able to eat meals with them. 295 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: It would cost me a lot of mental stress and frustrations. 296 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: I'd have to turn my focus back to thinking about 297 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: food and exercise in my body and what the skill 298 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: says all of the time. If it cost me in 299 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,400 Speaker 1: my relationship with the Lord. Because that body of Thegitle 300 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: is so, so so tempting for me, I want to 301 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: listen to it. I want to believe that as soon 302 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: as my body is quote unquote good again, then I'll 303 00:18:13,280 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: be able to have this amazing Christian life. But I 304 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,960 Speaker 1: know that's not the truth. Once that idol gets me 305 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: to follow it, I keep following, and I can't serve 306 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,640 Speaker 1: Jesus and that idol for the sake of eternity. It's 307 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: better for me to stay the size and put that 308 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: idol aside so I can keep my eyes on Jesus 309 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: and not be distracted by body change goals that are 310 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 1: dictated by a body image idle. But here's the other truth. 311 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:47,879 Speaker 1: I don't want to be the biggest one in the 312 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: friend group. I don't want to be the biggest one 313 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: in the picture. I don't want to see pictures of 314 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,800 Speaker 1: me on the internet and wonder how in the world 315 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: I got so large. Friend. I did a speaking engagement 316 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: not that long ago, and they took a picture like 317 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: from below, aiming up into the right as I was 318 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: sitting on a stool, not a great angle. I want 319 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: to be the thin one. I want status. I want 320 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: you to see the photo and think, Wow, she looks good. 321 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,439 Speaker 1: I want glory. Yuck? Did I say that out loud? 322 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: I write about this in my forty Day Body Image Workbook, 323 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: close to the very end. But my struggle for glory 324 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,440 Speaker 1: is pretty similar to someone else's struggle for glory. Yeah, Yeah, 325 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: that's Lucifer, the most beautiful of all the angels. He 326 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,239 Speaker 1: wanted to be better than God, and we all know 327 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:39,719 Speaker 1: how that's turned out. And you may say how their 328 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to be better than God. I just 329 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: kind of want to be better than all my friends, 330 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,200 Speaker 1: or at least as good as them. I just want 331 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: to look better in pictures like just for me, I 332 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:57,240 Speaker 1: hear you. And yet, and yet, what's it gonna cost? Us? 333 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,280 Speaker 1: So what do we do? What do we do when 334 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 1: our want overwhelms us? How do I keep just going 335 00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: through day by day holding this want, this desire, this 336 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: goal for some of you, and yet knowing I don't 337 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 1: have the power to snap my fingers and make it happen. 338 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 1: What do we do with this want? Well, here's what 339 00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 1: I think we do. I think we have to hold 340 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 1: a posture of humility from a position of secure worth. Okay, 341 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: that's not the answer you're looking for. Attract with me here, 342 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say one more time, hold a posture of 343 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:39,160 Speaker 1: humility from a position of secure worth. Flippants too. Jesus 344 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,879 Speaker 1: modeled for us a posture of humility. We read how 345 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,119 Speaker 1: Jesus emptied himself of all of his glory, and that 346 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: was glory that was rightly his, because he was God. 347 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: But he came to earth to be like us. He 348 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: took the human form of a servant. Isaiah tells us 349 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: that the body he chose for himself was nothing to 350 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 1: look at. I mean, wouldn't his mission have been easier 351 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: if he had chosen to be the best looking guy 352 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: on the planet. I mean, then everyone would have paid 353 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 1: attention and respected him. Right, seems like that would have 354 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 1: been an important part of strategic ministry. And yet he didn't. 355 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: He modeled for us a posture of humility. He modeled 356 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: for us what it's like to not live with selfish 357 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: ambition or conceit. He did not rely on his looks. 358 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 1: He didn't fret over whether or not he was good 359 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,200 Speaker 1: looking enough. He spent his life on earth serving the 360 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,560 Speaker 1: interests of others. And that's what we're commanded to do too. 361 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 1: In this passage, anyone who tries to make it seem 362 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: like being a good steward of your body is the 363 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: most important thing you can do for the kingdom really 364 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:42,399 Speaker 1: needs to read Philippians. Jesus wasn't all about himself. He 365 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: was all about others. But here's what we often miss 366 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: when we think of humility. We're quick to say, oh, 367 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 1: I've got that, I've got humility because I already think 368 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:55,880 Speaker 1: everyone else is better than me. But that's not true humility. Remember, 369 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: our answer is holding a posture of humility from a 370 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: position secure worth. Humility isn't deferring to everyone because you 371 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: feel like yours goum and they're awesome. Humility is knowing 372 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: your value, being secure in your worth, and still deciding 373 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 1: to elevate others above yourself, thinking of others first, putting 374 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,640 Speaker 1: others interests and needs above your own. It's not differring 375 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: because you feel like you're the least. It's choosing to 376 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:25,560 Speaker 1: be the least here on earth because you know God 377 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: has already chosen you, and you already have crowns and 378 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,360 Speaker 1: rewards waiting in heaven. You know this isn't the life 379 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 1: that really counts. Not that you blow this life off. No, 380 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: God gave you people to love, gifts to you stuff 381 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 1: to do here, but you know that you are not 382 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: of this world. You know that this culture's way of 383 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 1: thinking and doing things is different from God's. And at 384 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: the end of the day, you're gonna choose to obey 385 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: him rather than believe how the social media influencer promised 386 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,440 Speaker 1: a better life. Here Christmas time and the Christmas song 387 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 1: I Love Oh Holy Night. I love it because of 388 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: that one line. Then he appeared and the soul felt 389 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: it's worth. Our souls will never feel their worth apart 390 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: from Jesus and friend, isn't that really what we're longing for? Like? Okay, yeah, 391 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: we can say like I want to be healthier, I 392 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 1: want to be able to move better. You know, I 393 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:25,919 Speaker 1: want this or I want that. I just don't want 394 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,320 Speaker 1: people to overlook me anymore. Like I want to fit in. 395 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't want to be the fattest person of the 396 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: extra You're like. All of that is true, and yet 397 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 1: at the heart of it, I just have to wonder 398 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 1: if I just want to feel my worth. I just 399 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 1: want to feel valuable. I just want to feel like 400 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: I'm lovable and worthy and I'm okay, and I fit 401 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,760 Speaker 1: in and no one's thinking bad thoughts about me and 402 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: I won't be rejected. I just I want that kind 403 00:23:55,760 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 1: of security. I want to know my worth. This is 404 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: that reminder. I can't know that worth apart from Jesus. 405 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: No amount of weight loss No amount of surgery, no 406 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 1: amount of fixing, trimming, reshaping, no amount of trying to 407 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 1: get everything right in my diet and exercise and health things. 408 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:22,480 Speaker 1: No amount of self optimization is going to make me 409 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:26,520 Speaker 1: feel my worth. It just doesn't work that way. We 410 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: were not designed to feel worthy based on how our 411 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: bodies look, or really any of our achievements. Right. I 412 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: think about Paul saying like all of his resume is 413 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: dung in light of the Gospel, in light of Jesus, 414 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: and that has to be our posture too. We can 415 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:54,040 Speaker 1: only have a posture of humility from a position of 416 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: secure worth. Once I know my worth is found in 417 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: Christ alone. Period. It's settled. I'm not still trying to 418 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: earn it. I'm not still striving for it. I'm not 419 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 1: still trying to prove it. My worth isn't ten pounds away, 420 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: twenty pounds away, one hundred and twenty pounds away. No, 421 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: my worth is settled. And because of that, I can 422 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,720 Speaker 1: lay down that desire I have for glory. I can 423 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: rest in humility and say it's okay. If I'm not winning, 424 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: it's okay. If I'm not the prettiest girl in the picture, 425 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: it's Okay, if you all got to see that picture 426 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 1: of me online that was taken from below my thigh, 427 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: it's okay, because that's not really what it's about. I'm 428 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: still worthy. God loves me, he sees me, he knows me, 429 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: He has a plan for me. And so if your 430 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 1: wont to lose weight is just overwhelming you, here's my charge. 431 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 1: Be overwhelmed by something better this Christmas season. Be overwhelmed 432 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,880 Speaker 1: by the fact that God, God, the God of the universe, 433 00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: made himself a person, not a hot person, a person 434 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: so that he could come and be rejected and die 435 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: the death that you and I deserve to die because 436 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,800 Speaker 1: we're the ones that committed the sins. He didn't, and 437 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: so he died and then was raised from the dead 438 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: and restored to glory. He overcame sin and death so 439 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,919 Speaker 1: that we could be reconciled to God and someday spend 440 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,879 Speaker 1: eternity with him. That's a gospel friend. And if that 441 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: doesn't overwhelm you, if that doesn't amaze you, if that 442 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 1: doesn't stir your heart, then that's the place to start. 443 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,399 Speaker 1: Ask yourself, why why aren't I impressed by that? Why 444 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 1: do I feel like, yeah, yeah, Heather I know that, 445 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 1: and yeah, but I would still be happier if I 446 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 1: was skinnier. Friend, your soul will feel it's worth only 447 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: when you're worth is found in Jesus. Thanks for listening today. 448 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: I hope this has encouraged Joanavian has a leave us 449 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: a review or share it with a friend. Starting December thirtieth, 450 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 1: I've got a series of interviews with real women who 451 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 1: have gone through our programs, but real women who started 452 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,360 Speaker 1: off with big body of struggles that we have been 453 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: able to help and walk with over the last few years. 454 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 1: You're going to really love hearing their stories, so make 455 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: sure to tune in starting the end of the month 456 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:43,880 Speaker 1: into the new year. And hey, our next forty day 457 00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: journey will start on January twentieth. If you need more 458 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,560 Speaker 1: of this kind of encouragement. If you've tried all the 459 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: health and diet things, you've tried, all the exercise things, 460 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 1: you've done the same thing over and over again, you're 461 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: expecting different results. Friend, try a new way this year, 462 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: join us on the forty day Journey beIN's January twenty 463 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 1: can find out everything you need to know at improve 464 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: body image dot com. Thanks for listening today. I hope 465 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: something has helped you stop comparing and start living. 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