Category: Living Fit For Life
Love Your Body Month Recap
As this month is coming to an end so quickly. I thought I would throw up a quick recap of what we talked about this month! If you have an exercise routine, post idea or question please feel free to comment. I want this blog to be a place were you can come and learn how to live both a physically and spiritually fit life. If you are making that choice to live a fit life both in the physically and spiritual I think it’s important to seek knowledge in both departments and a lot of times they work hand in hand and that’s what I love about fitness for our body and spiritual fitness for our hearts!
This concept of Love your body is so broad. It could boil down to so many different area’s in your life both physically and emotionally. Whatever your struggle I hope that your were really able to work on these area’s and when I mean work I mean gradual change.One day at a time. I think sometimes when we try to change area’s in our life we try to change too much to fast. It’s not something that is going to happen over night but over time if you really focus on Loving yourself as God loves you will be radiating a love for not only yourself but those around you. (We will revisit one topic in March about last weeks post (eliminating one bad habit and adding a good one in its place). Don’t worry I haven’t forgotten keep up the hard work ladies! We are in this journey together to help each other live both physically and spiritually fit lives!
Matthew 5:5 ” you’re blessed when you’re content with who you are-no more, no less. That’s the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can’t be bought.”
The bible affirms self-acceptance by exhorting believers to love others as themselves. Matthew 22;37-40 “Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all my soul, and with all my mind. This is the first and great commandment. and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
The bible teaches that when we genuinely open our hearts to him, God accepts us just as we are. And, if he accepts us-faults and all-then who are we to believe otherwise? God Loves us and wants the best for us, He wants us to live a healthy lifestyle. We can start this journey today, remind yourselves daily of the benefits you will earn when you start loving your body and establishing healthier habits and thoughts.
Reference-Food, Fitness and Faith for Women
Week 1: Being content where you are physically, building confidence and tapping into Christ strength your goals won’t seem too far off. You will begin to build the confidence you need to become stronger not only physically but spiritually.
Week 2: This week we are beating perfectionism. Perfectionism is our enemy and Christ wants us to know that he didn’t create us to be perfect but holy and blameless, and wonderfully made in his image.
Week 3:Step 1: identify what is draining you,Step 2: come up with a plan of how you are going to eliminate this habit,Step 3: adding in a good habit
Blessings Ladies,
We will revisit Week three in two weeks! Keep working on eliminating the bad and adding one good habit in its place.
Free To Be Me
I was driving just this last week and this song came on the radio. It caught me at a moment were I was feeling a low and imperfect on so many levels. It was one of those God moments were the lyrics just set my soul at ease.
At twenty years of age I’m still looking for a dream
A war’s already waged for my destiny
But You’ve already won the battle
And You’ve got great plans for me
Though I can’t always see
Cause I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I’m so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I’m free to be me
When I was just a girl I thought I had it figured out
See my life would turn out right, and I’d make it here somehow
But things don’t always come that easy
And sometimes I would doubt, oh…
Cause I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I’m so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I’m free to be me
And you’re free to be you
Sometimes I believe that I can do anything
Yet other times I think I’ve got nothing good to bring
But You look at my heart and You tell me
That I’ve got all You seek, oh
And it’s easy to believe
Even though
Oh, I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I’m so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I got a couple dents in my fender
Got a couple rips in my jeans
Try to fit the pieces together
But perfection is my enemy
On my own I’m so clumsy
But on Your shoulders I can see
I’m free to be me
And you’re free to be you
More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/f/francesca_battistelli/
We all have dents in our fenders and rips in our jeans. God is helping us put the pieces together and he wants us to be the best version of ourselves, spiritually and physically.
Love Your Body:Part 3
You heard me right last week it is elimination time! Are you feeling drained, wore out, like you can barely make it through the day?
Take a look at your current life circumstances. Just take this week to evaluate exactly where and what this drainage is a result from? Maybe it’s the foods you are eating, maybe you aren’t drinking enough water, maybe you haven’t made it to the gym for a while, too much coffee, too much time on facebook or watching tv.
Whatever it is for you be aware of your daily routine and keep a lookout for these draining habits. Write a few down or type them in your notes in your ipad or kindle (a place that you frequent often).
Once you have identified the one that is the most physically and mentally draining. Take a few steps to eliminate it from your life.
I’m not saying this will be easy but if you just first focus on eliminating one bad habit and adding a good one in its place overtime this concept of taking away unhealthy habits and replacing them with healthy habits won’t seem like such a huge unachievable task.
From experience when I would try to add new healthy habits and eliminate bad ones I would set myself up for disaster and a feeling of unattainable goals. I was trying to change too much at one time and it was unrealistic. This is honestly were I would just give up and slip right back into my unhealthy habits. Don’t set yourself up for failure with these huge expectations of yourself. I told myself one day at a time. One small change at a time and as time moves on I was beginning to feel healthier and living much healthier. (This concept really could be applied to all different areas of your life whatever you may be struggling with).
Step 1: identify what is draining you:
For me it’s eating after 8pm specifically sweets, I know that I’m not even hungry but eating out of boardroom and should be grabbing a glass of water instead.
Step 2: come up with a plan of how you are going to eliminate this habit:
Find an accountability partner, a friend that you can call or even your husband when you are feeling those weak moments that you can depend on that will tell you the tough stuff but totally out of love and wanting you to be successful in eliminating the bad and bringing in the good.
Usually in the past when I have tried to eliminate late night eating it was my husband. He tells me no you know you don’t want to do that and usually just leaves it at that. It reminds me that ya, I did ask him to help me be accountable and told him to stop me so I can’t really get mad at him for something I asked him to hold me accountable for:)
Step 3: adding in a good habit:
For me it’s drinking a glass of water
Trying to establish this repetition for three weeks straight to create a norm in your life and establish the new healthy habit. would love to hear your success stories 🙂
I came across this verse and it reminded me that what I take in can affect my outpouring of what comes out on the outside, which reminded me of the whole love your body theme this month: ” what? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” ( 1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Happy elimination time!
Blessings, Michelle
Love Your Body Month Part 2: Beating Perfectionism
Love Your Body Month
Live Fit’s first post and first challenge
January has come and gone so quickly. How did it go? Did your motivation continue or did you start to loose sight of the goals and allow distractions to set you off track?
A few of my goals: To drink less coffee this year,read my bible everyday, to make more time to listen to God
Whatever your goals may be: to eat healthy, to workout more, to just maintain your current fitness level, to run a half-marathon, spend more time in the word, use God to help you keep sight of these goals.
I sit here thinking of my goals and find myself always wishing for more. wether it be financially, spiritually,socially, wanting to be in better shape and I ask myself why can’t I just be content with what God has blessed me with right know right here? Why is this so gut-wrenching hard to find contentment ?
I honestly think in the American fast paced life of go. go. go. we can’t even find a starting place we can’t even be content for one millisecond. I honestly think back to many of my journey’s of trying to loose my weight or times where I was just trying to get back into shape and was upset and disappointed in myself. Why couldn’t I allow myself to feel content in this moment, and allow myself more time to know that If I kept God in the forefront of my mind and goals, that things would fall into place.
I came across this verse Phillipians 4:11 “Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned whatever state I am, to be content.”
This put it in total perspective for me. “For I have learned whatever state I am, to be content”. God wants us to be content if we are 5lbs from our goal weight or just starting out a healthy eating plan.
He wants us to Love our bodies to be content with the amazing people he has created us to be! If we find that contentment in the hard times, trials and seasons of our lives and we let him know our requests he will grant us that peace that surpasses all understanding. He will give us the strength to stop wishing on our goals, but to get up and to accomplish them using his his help
I present this challenge to you wonderful ladies: Our Febuary Challenge is to Love our Bodies! To often we are always wishing away our hips, wanting that six pack, and the list goes on, on. Today make a pledge to Christ and each other to unconditionally love your body this month. Being content where you are physically, building confidence and tapping into his strength your goals won’t seem too far off. You will begin to build the confidence you need to become stronger not only physically but spiritually.
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