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Eating Feels Normal Again After Years of Abnormal Eating (#71)

July 18, 2018 By beautyinchrist 4 Comments

I told y’all about the weekend where I finally realized that I was eating, and it felt normal. Well, that’s what I wanted to talk about on this podcast episode. It was a good feeling. It wasn’t abnormal anymore. It wasn’t complicated.

What does normal eating feel like after 10+ years of struggling with so much fear, guilt, abnormal thinking, and restriction around food?

It looks like:

(A big thank you goes to this month’s podcast sponsor, ‘Bliss Nut Butters.’ I will be running a giveaway at the end of this post for them till next month!)

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How the Men In My Life Have Made Me Feel Valuable (Episode #70)

July 11, 2018 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

(Thank you to my brother for the photo!)

The men in my life. I’m thinking primarily of my daddy and my brother to begin with; they have ALWAYS made me feel valuable. They never reduced it to the way I looked, the size of my waist; in fact my brother has told me that he thinks women need to nourish themselves more and be stronger and not focus on skinny. I LOVE THAT. I need to hear that especially with the pressure to look a certain skinny size when that’s not how I was created.

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WIAW: When A GIANT Muffin For Lunch Hits The Spot

July 4, 2018 By beautyinchrist Leave a Comment

A giant Costco sized muffin. They used to be a ‘terror’/fear food for me. But it hit the spot. My sweet sister brought it home from the local coffee shop, and it made my heart skip a beat to see that giant delicious carbyyy muffin.

A muffin without a calorie count on them, a muffin that is just a muffin, is so good for me. It’s incredibly wonderful to be able to just bite into the fluff and enjoy each bite without fear.

It was like freedom eating that muffin, because I wasn’t worried about it. I wasn’t worried about a ‘balanced meal.’ I just ate, and it was just so delightful.

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What I”ve Learned About the Benefit of SHORT Workouts

June 18, 2018 By beautyinchrist 2 Comments

I used to ALWAYS go for workouts longer than an hour, because I always wanted to burn the max amount of calories possible, but it was also so wearing on my body, because I did it 6 days out of 7, almost without fail. My life revolved around workouts. I didn’t like the idea of short workouts at all, because I thought of them as ‘not enough’ or ‘not legitimate’ if it wasn’t over 30 minutes.

God has totally changed my heart here, and I wanted to share it with you.

I was really cocky about how I did the long hard workouts, how ‘strong’ I thought I was, but mentally, emotionally, and even physically my body was breaking down more than it was getting stronger. This past year I really finally felt the effects of that, and they weren’t good.

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