S2. E5. Navigating the desire for weight loss
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[00:00:00] You don't need to burn off what you ate yesterday, and if you feel the need to berate yourself or punish yourself to undo what you've done.
You are not taking full confidence in what Jesus did for you on the cross
The goal is not perfection. The goal is grace applied.
You have to take confidence in what Jesus did for you on the cross and operate from a place of victory, not for it.
Welcome to Your Daily Bread podcast. I'm your host, Abbie Stasior, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. My prayer is that these bite-sized episodes will help you heal your relationship with food and improve body image, as well as help you grow closer to God. Now, I can't personally heal you, but each week I'll be directing you to the one that can, and that is Jesus.
As a disclaimer, I'm not a pastor, but a sister in Christ providing you with some food for thought for you to bring to the Lord and into your quiet [00:01:00] time as your daily bread. Let's dig in. Hello. Hello. Welcome back to Your Daily Bread podcast. As y'all know, we are in our Lent season and Easter is fast approaching. I pray that, today's message speaks to you so personally and really is incredibly healing and convicting.
Father, God praise you that your mercies are new every single day. Lord, we, are just so grateful that we have the opportunity each day to start each day fresh and that we are cleansed by your blood. And we start each day with a clean slate, Lord. And it's not because of anything we have done to earn it, Lord, but it is because of Jesus's great sacrifice
I pray that as we go into today's episode, that you speak intentionally and so personally into the spirits of every single listener. Lord, I pray that your Holy Spirit does what [00:02:00] only he can do, and I pray that you have your way in me. Lord, I'm just so grateful that you use me as a vessel Lord, and I pray that everything that is said today, that is not what I want to say, but is what you want to say through me, and I pray that.
This episode and this whole show will be number one, glorifying and honoring to you, but to Lord incredibly healing for your people. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. We are getting into Lamentations chapter three, verses 21 through 23. It says, yet, I still dare to hope when I remember this. The faithful love of the Lord never ends.
His mercies never ceases. Great is his faithfulness, his mercies begin afresh every morning.
Whatever you are walking through right [00:03:00] now. Whatever you have done will do in the future. In what ways we've slipped up and not stewarded our body well, or backslid. We need to dare to hope in this because, regardless of what we've been through yet, and this is in the book of limitations, where there's a lot of just depressing verses.
Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this. Whatever you've been through yet. You need to still dare to hope , that his love is faithful and it never ends. His mercies never cease regardless of what you have done in the past, you are not too far gone for God. There's nothing that you can do in the future that can separate you from God's love.
Greatest is his faithfulness. He is faithful to you and his mercies. Begin afresh every morning. Every morning you have a fresh chance to honor him. You are washed with the blood every morning. You [00:04:00] start clean. Each day is anew. When I'm working with people and healing their relationship with food. A common theme that I see \ is that their days are not starting afresh every morning the way that they steward their body today.
Is because of how they stewarded their body yesterday. So if they overate yesterday, they're going to undereat today. If they overate yesterday, they're going to over exercise or exercise extra today. That is not how God calls us to operate you start each day with a new opportunity.
To steward your body differently and better, and honor him and grow and try again, not to undo what you've done, not to punish yourself. You do not need to punish yourself or your body. You don't need to burn off what you ate yesterday, and if you feel the need to berate yourself or punish yourself to undo what you've done.
You are not taking full confidence in what [00:05:00] Jesus did for you on the cross because he paid it all. His body was punished enough. You don't need to punish your body now because he paid the full price for you. He was your replacement. You have been reconciled with the Father
god is not mad at you for anything that you have done or things that you will do. God already knows what you're gonna do, and he loves you anyway. And he knew you even before he formed you in your mother's womb, and he knew everything that you were going to do. It's not a surprise to him, and he loves you anyway.
And he sent Jesus to die for you anyway, and he made a way through Jesus and his sacrifice to be reconciled with him because he loves you that much. He wanted to make a way to be so close with you closer than your skin. That's how he is. And if he was so mad at you and so upset with you and how you stewarded your body, why [00:06:00] would he make your body his dwelling place?
He loves it there. You're his baby girl. He loves you so much. You are his beloved. You do not need to earn or strive for God's love a lot of people feel like they need to do that and work out extra and eat super clean to be holy and righteous again.
There's nothing that you can do to make you holy and righteous. Holiness is because of Jesus. You are made righteous by God. It is not because of anything that you've done. We have to get out of this cycle of earning and striving and that will help us to not punish ourselves when we slip up or backslide.
Love covers a multitude of sins. We know that God is love. So God covers a multitude of sins. And we are all going to stumble in, in many ways. And that's why Jesus died on the cross for you. In Isaiah 53, it [00:07:00] says that he was pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities.
The punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds, we are healed. His wounds, not your wounds. So if you are wounding yourself, if you are punishing your body, berating your body, being harsh to your body in any way because of how you stewarded your body in the past and you feel bad or guilty about that, that's not bringing you healing because it's by his wound.
You are healed. Lastly, verse six, it says, we all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. So the lord's not surprised when you go astray and when we mess up with our relationship with food. He knew how you, you were going to stumble, and that's why he made a way for you to receive his grace and his mercy.
One thing that my pastor [00:08:00] said. This past Sunday, which was so profound and hit my spirit, I knew that I needed to share it. This week on this episode, he was talking about purity and how purity does not equal perfection, but I think we can relate this to our relationship with food.
The goal is not perfection. The goal is grace applied. The goal is to receive God's grace, his goodness, his love, his mercy, and apply it to your scenario. Apply it to the ways that we've stumbled and we've messed up to be washed with his blood and apply the blood to whatever you've gone through. It's not for you to strive and earn, to try and figure out how to reconcile yourself.
God already figured out how to, how to reconcile you, and it was through Jesus. So if you are still. Punishing yourself feeling you have to, earn the burn and, and burn to earn. I see it both ways. I hear that you gotta earn your burn in a workout class. And then I also see it where [00:09:00] you have to burn calories to be able to earn a treat.
If you are in that burning, earning, striving, punishing your body, berating your body, restricting your calories after you slip up, if that is your pattern, we need to break free from that. And you have to take confidence in what Jesus did for you on the cross and operate from a place of victory, not for it.
And if you are someone right now where you know that you need to break free from this, I want you to see this as an invitation for deeper healing to. Establish more intimacy with Jesus because whenever we mess up, he just embraces you. He comes close, he's close to the broken hearted and those that are Christian spirit, and we know that when we slip up, we, we are Christian spirit.
He's close in those moments and he embraces you. He's not mad at you. So we don't wanna stiff arm him. We want to receive his mercies that begin afresh every morning and see each day as [00:10:00] new, not each day lingering. Because each day you should be eating and exercising in a way that glorifies and honors the Lord.
One Corinthians 10 31 says, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for the glory of God. So if you're eating and drinking today because of how you ate and drank and exercised yesterday, that's not doing things as unto the Lord. That's going against scripture. That's actually not honoring to God.
So if you need help breaking free from this cycle of needing to earn and burn things off and punishing your body, and you want to receive God's grace and his mercy, develop more intimacy with Jesus and truly be delivered from an unhealthy relationship with food, exercise in your body. Click the link below in the show notes and book a free 20 minute Food Freedom in Christ.
Call on these calls. You are going to be on Zoom with me and we're gonna. Talk about your relationship with food and what you're struggling with. I'm going [00:11:00] to be able to give you some very tangible tips on your nutrition and how to improve. Give you a couple scriptures to meditate on that directly relate to your personal scenario and how you're struggling with your relationship with food right now.
It will be very personalized. You'll walk away with tangible tips in those 20 minutes, and you'll also get to trial my counseling style and see. What does it look like to work with a dietician that is also a Christian nutrition counseling with a faith-based approach? You'll get to try that out free for 20 minutes and the link to book that is in the show notes, I would love to serve you.
to kickstart healing your relationship with food with Christ.
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