The Skinty

Just Do It!!!

If I may borrow the phrase from Nike for a moment:) When it comes to the topic of health and fitness, rather it’s losing weight, eating healthier, developing a fitness routine or whatever else that fits the category. Very few of us have the thought one day and commit to some type of plan the next. Usually it’s think about it, decide to plan on it later, maybe come up with a plan but definitely talk about it to others and then maybe finally committing but usually watching all the time that has gone by and what could have been achieved during that time which then ushers you into the last stage of guilt. That’s followed by “well when I’m ready I’ll know so I’ll wait until I’m ready”, trust me when I say that day never comes. What may happen is the success of others may excite you to begin something or the tragedy of others may sober us into beginning but the perfect start day will never come. And if we do not commit to getting it done even when motivation comes were only as good as it is. In other words as long as I’m motivated to follow so and so’s plan than I’ll stick to it, as soon as it lose the appeal I’m back where I’ve started.

So how do we get past this pattern? By changing from a mentality that says I’ll do it when I’m ready. To a pattern of I’ll do it right now, may not be a perfect start but I’ll do it right now, I’ll start with small changes and build up, or I’ll go full throttle and decide to commit today. Whatever the situation may be just do it. Now for some of us, it’s not just an issue of committing it’s constantly trying to commit and failing, needing to know what to do in order to get over this hurdle, whatever your specific hurdle may be. To you I say your plan may not be to just do it in relation to starting a plan, but it may be committing to getting to the issues that prevent you from moving forward. Rather it’s a lack of knowledge or needing to find a right fit or getting at issues even such as food addictions, body image issues whatever the case may be. For that person it may be a matter of tackling some issues before moving forward yet point being still have to get at the business of getting at these issues as well. Contrary to popular belief, being a believer doesn’t shield us from danger harm addictions etc, we still have to do the work of healing. We have a wonderful Father in which we can seek in relation to said healing, but do not thing there is something wrong with you because you’re a believer struggling in an area. Do be concerned if you have no desire to change this fact whatsoever.

An issue for me was deprogramming myself of dieting so that I could began to develop a plan towards a healthy lifestyle. My plan of attack was simple I prayed admitted my inability to do it on my own not even sure of what my weaknesses were simply asked that the Holy Spirit would be my guide and He did indeed guide me. I learned that although I can be an emotional eater at times my primarily issue was that after years of dieting, I’d go into a permanent state of either being on a diet or being off of a diet. Being on a diet I was restricted to whatever was required of that particular diet. While off the diet I was allowed to pig out as much as I wanted to because there would aways be another moment to get the weight off. Starting in middle school it became a subconscious thing that even when I wasn’t thinking about dieting I would always help myself to what I wanted and more specifically that which wasn’t allowed while dieting because one day I’d get the weight off. So once that patter was revealed coupled with the leading that allowed me to see that I needed to learn how to eat properly, that I could have everything in moderation and even without physical fitness if I adhered to burning more than I ate, I’d lose weight. Very easy and what a relief, the struggle is falling back into old ideals so my just do it now is to fight that and move forward in what the Lord has revealed to me to do while continuing to pray for the strength given to me to get er done in the first place.

The moral of the story is there is no perfect day or perfect emotion or perfect plan to get you going. Commit to committing first than allow all else to follow and most importantly ask the Lord to reveal what you need to do and what prevents you from doing it, then allow the Holy Spirit to strenghten you to get it done. Keeping in mind that the journey isn’t a perfect one it will take work yet if diligent you will succeed.