GET MOTIVATED FROM THIS BEAUTIFUL POST FROM KIMBERLY TAYLOR.
Would you do me a favor? Please do not call yourself fat. It is ridiculous.
Just because you have excess fat on your body does not mean that it is who you
are.
If I sound like I take this issue personally…well, it is because I do. I
started calling myself “fat” when I was just 12 years-old. I had no idea that
my words would become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
To lose weight, I found a diet in a women’s magazine that gave me a mere 850
calories to eat per day, which is basically a starvation diet.
Although I lost the weight I thought I needed to lose, it did not last. The
minute I went back to my old habits, the weight returned plus more pounds.
Little did I know that similar self-defeating dieting cycles would play out
in my life for the next 20 or so years!
But then God showed me a
better way to reach a healthy weight based upon His word. He also taught me
about the danger of calling myself negative names:
Be sure the names you call yourself are ones to which you want to answer.”
Let me explain further why I believe calling yourself fat is ridiculous.
Fat is a part of your body. So is hair, bone, blood, and skin. Can you
imagine saying to yourself “I am hair” or “I am skin”? Sounds crazy
doesn’t it? Then why would you insist on telling yourself “I am fat”?
“I am” are the two most powerful words in the universe. After all, “I AM” is
the name of our God. When Moses asked God how he should answer when the
children of Israel asked Moses who sent him, Exodus 3:14 records the
following:
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to
the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
That is why I believe what you say after the words “I am” is very
important. “I am” is where you define
the person you believe you are or want to be. According to my husband Mike,
a brother at church told him once:
Take heed of the words you speak because your words are projected forward –
ahead of you and not behind. You will walk into whatever you speak. If you
speak positive words, you will walk into positive words.”
When I spoke “I am fat” to myself at the age of 12, I walked right
into living out those words in my future. This result confirms a Biblical
principle:
For He who would love life
And see good days,
Let him refrain his tongue from evil,
And his lips from speaking deceit (1 Peter 3:10).”
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t want to love life and see good days! But if
you are speaking deceit about yourself,
then you are short-circuiting this blessing in your life. You condemn yourself
to walk into future bad days.
The dictionary defines “deceit” as misrepresenting the truth. And I
have proven that saying “I am fat” is not the truth about who you are.
When you make yourself feel bad about who you are, then you are
more likely to turn to destructive behavior, like binge eating, in an attempt to soothe your hurt
feelings. It’s a lose/lose situation all around.
To turn things around, imagine that you are saying the same words to a
little child who longs to have your love
and approval.
Would you say those words to them?
If not, then don’t speak that deceit to yourself either! Encourage and
speak well of yourself. Speak words that you want to walk into in the future.
When you put God’s word into practice consistently, more good days will be
yours!
Be blessed in health, healing, and wholeness,
Kimberly Taylor.
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