Faith and weight loss

So today I want to talk to the Christian woman who is afraid on some level that you're just, you just don't have what it takes to lose this weight.

Right? I'm talking to the woman who keeps starting and stopping, who has made her inability to lose weight a way of life.

Right? I'm talking right to somebody specific.

I don't know what you look like.

But I want to talk to the woman who has struggled to lose weight, right? The woman who has struggled to lose weight.

And you might be believing that you have a discipline problem.

But I want to pull back the curtain a little bit and help you to see what might actually be going on underneath there.

What if underneath there you actually have, you ready for this, an expectation problem? right? What if it's an expectation problem, right? Like where you keep hoping that you're going to, like, this is going to be the diet.

This is going to be the meal plan.

But you start out thinking you're going to do well.

You think you're going to succeed while simultaneously expecting to fail.

Does that sound like you? Right? And it's one of those things where I see this in my clients all the time.

You can reflect back on your weight loss so far, and all of your past starts to become evidence of your future.

Like you remember all of the times that you quit.

Right? You gave up.

Life got hard.

It was Christmas.

It was, I don't know, Thanksgiving.

It was summer vacation.

And you just gave in or you just got tired of all of the hard work that it required.

And you were seeing so little output, like nothing was really changing.

And then slowly, little by little, and maybe this is your pattern, you just get so overwhelmed and discouraged.

by how it's just not happening fast enough.

Or maybe you're in a situation where life just got really heavy and you allow your feelings to be the very thing that determines the next thing you do.

Life is really hard.