The Start of My Weight Loss Journey – Week 1

Lose weight or shed baggage.

I keep telling myself that this journey to lose weight is going to be easy, but the reality is that it\’s totally not happening as fast as I would like it to. I know that everyone has a different body type and metabolism plays a role in it… but dang, can a sista\’ get a break!

I have literally been in this battle to lose weight since I was a child. It wasn\’t until recently that the truth really resonated with me… this isn\’t really a physical battle, it\’s a spiritual one.

The battle isn\’t again flesh & blood, but powers & principalities.

It makes me feel free to know that the battle is first an internal one, but at the same time it\’s a bit intimidating to think that it is actually a battle. The relief I get is looking at it through the eyes of Christ… I know to some that might sound strange, but for the past 12 hours I have been listening to sermons based around faith for healing by Andrew Womack.

It truly makes me feel empowered to know that I have more authority over my body than I\’ve had in the past because I made a decision to let go of my own path and choose life through Jesus. God is so good.

The Revelation…

The truth is that we are spirit beings having a human experience and the weight that I am attempting to lose is not \’who\’ I am. I am a spirit, and the weight is something that my body is holding, but the real question is what does this weight represent?

If I am completely honest with myself and the rest of the world, the weight is coming from baggage that I have been holding onto since as far back as I can remember. It represents a false sense of security and safety, protecting me from the outside world.

As a child, I lived in a pretty abusive household, and I never truly felt safe. I lived in fear and because of the life I was living and the shame that I bore at that time, I carried more and more weight to protect my inner self from being hurt, damaged, neglected and abused. However, the truth of the matter is, the life that the young version of me was living was all based on a lie anyways. The reason that I held on to the lie was because it was all I ever knew… in fact it\’s all most of us know, but the truth is…

The Truth Shall Set You FREE

It is our Father, God, the one and only true God who has led me to the truth. I came into revelation not long ago that the fat is a form of disease that died with the sins of the world. At this point I have identified that I am a spirit, I am not my body, which holds the weight and because I am now able to separate the two, it\’s only a matter of time before my body is weightless. But what is time?

Time is a measurement of growth. As I grow in more revelation of the truth, programming my mind to the word of God, I will no longer be conformed to the world, but I will be transformed by the renewing of my mind and I will prove (show in the physical body) what is that good, acceptable, perfect will (or word) of God. [Romans 12:2]

It\’s a relief to know that God has been by my side keeping me safe throughout my entire childhood of painful experiences. It is He who has delivered me from the struggle and the pain of the past and it is He who will also give me the courage to let go of it all.