ILMS 46 – Written in Iron Ink: Weight loss

Special Guest: Sara Borgstede from The Holy Mess

 

Job 19

 

Sara’s story -

https://www.theholymess.com/100-lb-weight-loss-how-did-you-do-it/

the importance of therapy

Weight Watchers or other accountability program

10 years maintaining, changing habits, and beginning to love exercise

 

Highlights:

Compassion God has for His children overflowing to compassion for ourselves

 

Recommended encouraging Scripture

• write them on notecards to keep in front of you

Isaiah 43:19

Hebrew 12:1-2

 

Food, eating, and the deeper struggle

- relationship to emotions

- relationship to shame

- getting to those roots

- hope for the new thing God is doing and His work

 

Calling out cultural ideas about food and body image

 

The relationship between fellowship and food

 

Handling food at parties, potlucks, and church events

• find one person to focus on at the event
• shift in focus and thinking about the event
• tiny bites

 

Finding Goals

Accountability and relationships

 

Isaiah 43:4-5

 

Connecting in the journey

www.theholymess.com

www.faithfulfinishlines.com

 

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