The Food Fight

It's starting the get warm, you want to break out the tank tops, capris, and shorts. Oh my goodness what I would pay to wear some shorts. So I settle and wear them only around the house because well I may be strong in some areas but body image well let's just say it's a work in progress.

But really who have I to blame for that? Myself. You know I've thought about eating, exercising, do whats healthy and what is best for my body and it all stems back to you have to want to do it and actually put forth all the effort necessary to see results. So it's not about that I don't want to for me, it's about the effort. 

Being a Christ follower, a wife, a mother, an employee, the list goes on and on, you have to be dedicated to your title to succeed and my main problem is right now in this season in my life being "an exerciser" isn't a huge priority because honestly my time is pretty much pressed anyway.

One of my pastor's was explaining the value of being a doer of the word not only a hearer. This is my problem with exercising and choosing the right food to eat. I'm a hearer but not a doer. Plain and simple.

I read this verse in the bible; I'm going to give you to different versions of the same scripture.

Philippians 3:19 (KJV)
 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Philippians 3:19 (NCV)
 In the end, they will be destroyed. They do whatever their bodies want, they are proud of their shameful acts, and they think only about earthly things.

Now I realize that this can be applied to many different hazardous things that we as humans may do to our bodies but the spirit is speaking to me and my issue with health and food and exercise.  And I know I'm not the only one out there, but I am the only one that I am responsible for. 

God's saying I can't do whatever with whatever I want to end and not pay a price for it later. And this hits me to my core because I automatically think about my family. I wouldn't want my kids to be without a healthy mother because she chose a hamburger instead of a whole wheat sandwich. I would hate to not be able to run around with them, play with them, help them practice for t-ball without me.

So my spirit, my body and my mind have made a commitment to choose  wisely. Instead of drive-thru lunch I will pack a sack lunch, instead of a coke everyday water; I mean after all water is going to help me glow better than any coke every could lol :) But seriously if we make small commitments every day, small changes for a better me, a better you, and if we stick with these commitments, I mean really try hard all we can do is succeed right!?!

And with each success something else can be changed. The thing is to not be discouraged keep on keeping on. And remember always you were wonderfully and beautifully made by our Father God!!!