I found myself...
Once I peeled my onion away and looked at what there was, I was amazed at what I had let myself become. For once in my lifetime, I eliminated everything I had been told about myself and how society told me I should view myself. I was tired of all of the negativity and how it affected not just me, but also my family. No longer did I want to allow what the media wanted, but instead what was needed for me, my relationship with God, and my family. So once I peeled away everything and broke myself down now it was time to find myself and see just what type of a person I was and could be.
First thing was first, I had to look at myself and tell myself just how I truly felt about me. I eliminated all of the negative and began a new foundation by realizing that I am a good looking guy. We are all good looking people, we read in the scriptures that our bodies are a temple. How dare I say that God's temple was not a beautiful thing. How dare I question His creation because of what the "media" said I should be. I needed to realize that it is not about what they think, it is about what God has create and what I think, and my wife with her words helped that situation as well. We are all temples of God and with that said, God does not create ugly temples. If you let society tell you different, you are falling prey to them and it is time to cut out that crap from your life.
I started to realize that yes I am one of God's great creations. So with that said, why should I keep up with my body and my weight. Then I realized that indeed this was too important. Going back to the idea that your body is a temple I started to ask myself why am I putting so much crap into it? It's bad enough I looked down upon it with my society influence outlook on what I should be, but I am also not taking care of my body! I am cruising through life and not doing anything to make my body healthy and strong.
So I decided it was time, it was time to treat God's temple with the respect and honor it should be treated with. This meant that yes, I would have to stop eating the way I ate, stop putting chemically altered crap into my body. Sure, it tasted good. Sure, it took care of those cravings I had for food. But what did it do to my body? IT destroyed my body! It took away my health and made me an obese man who already had enough health problems to deal with. I have a heart that won't let me run. It wont let me be the person I had dreamed of being. But this, I had to find out the hard way, is not about me. The body and condition I have been given was a great blessing by the Lord. This was me starting to lay down my new foundation, on the foundation of the Lord and the realization that he gave me this body knowing, knowing that I could take the ball and run with it.
It was never in his plans to have me be some athlete or a mountain climber, or anything that takes a strong heart. I needed to change my life and explore my deep down inner self to realize God knew what he was doing when he gave me the health conditions he gave me. My foundation was finally laid. I knew at that point what I had to do. I knew that I could trust in the Lord, in his temple, in his creation that he knew what he was doing. It has taken me 27 years to come to terms of my health. It has taken me 3 months to change my life. In 3 months I have laid down a new foundation. That foundation is attacked daily but it holds strong.
I finally see me for me, not for what holds me back, but for what I have been given. No longer am I going to allow society to influence my decisions. I'm not going to let them determine how I feel about my body and I'm eliminating all of the negative words I use to think about myself. I'm building back up my foundation, brick by brick, using the foundation of God and Jesus Christ. My foundation laid, my bricks are going into place, it's a new life now. I have taken control of my eating, I monitor almost daily what and how much I eat to know that my body is getting what it needs, not what I want. I'm done with junk food, I don't need it. I have eliminated most sugar (I don't eat anything with more than 10g of sugar in it). Since I have decided to rebuild the temple that God has given me I have lost over 35 pounds, I sit right now at 210. It is doable, this to me has not just been about weight loss anymore but a new lease and purpose on life. I love my life now and all the blessings that I have.
Count your blessings
Remember you are one of God's temples
As we read in 1 Corinthians 3:16–17
I started to realize that yes I am one of God's great creations. So with that said, why should I keep up with my body and my weight. Then I realized that indeed this was too important. Going back to the idea that your body is a temple I started to ask myself why am I putting so much crap into it? It's bad enough I looked down upon it with my society influence outlook on what I should be, but I am also not taking care of my body! I am cruising through life and not doing anything to make my body healthy and strong.
So I decided it was time, it was time to treat God's temple with the respect and honor it should be treated with. This meant that yes, I would have to stop eating the way I ate, stop putting chemically altered crap into my body. Sure, it tasted good. Sure, it took care of those cravings I had for food. But what did it do to my body? IT destroyed my body! It took away my health and made me an obese man who already had enough health problems to deal with. I have a heart that won't let me run. It wont let me be the person I had dreamed of being. But this, I had to find out the hard way, is not about me. The body and condition I have been given was a great blessing by the Lord. This was me starting to lay down my new foundation, on the foundation of the Lord and the realization that he gave me this body knowing, knowing that I could take the ball and run with it.
It was never in his plans to have me be some athlete or a mountain climber, or anything that takes a strong heart. I needed to change my life and explore my deep down inner self to realize God knew what he was doing when he gave me the health conditions he gave me. My foundation was finally laid. I knew at that point what I had to do. I knew that I could trust in the Lord, in his temple, in his creation that he knew what he was doing. It has taken me 27 years to come to terms of my health. It has taken me 3 months to change my life. In 3 months I have laid down a new foundation. That foundation is attacked daily but it holds strong.
I finally see me for me, not for what holds me back, but for what I have been given. No longer am I going to allow society to influence my decisions. I'm not going to let them determine how I feel about my body and I'm eliminating all of the negative words I use to think about myself. I'm building back up my foundation, brick by brick, using the foundation of God and Jesus Christ. My foundation laid, my bricks are going into place, it's a new life now. I have taken control of my eating, I monitor almost daily what and how much I eat to know that my body is getting what it needs, not what I want. I'm done with junk food, I don't need it. I have eliminated most sugar (I don't eat anything with more than 10g of sugar in it). Since I have decided to rebuild the temple that God has given me I have lost over 35 pounds, I sit right now at 210. It is doable, this to me has not just been about weight loss anymore but a new lease and purpose on life. I love my life now and all the blessings that I have.
Count your blessings
Remember you are one of God's temples
As we read in 1 Corinthians 3:16–17
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”
The choices we make about the use of our personal temples will affect us throughout all eternity.
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