Standing in Your Truth With Yanni
The podcast "Standing in Your Truth" will feature Yanni and a group of friends engaging in profound and intimate discussions on subjects such as mental health, finances, faith, and strategies for finding motivation during difficult periods. In this space, guests will be invited to share their life journeys, including the challenges they've faced and the obstacles they've overcome. This podcast aims to provide a platform for individuals to share their stories, ensuring that everyone's experiences are acknowledged, valued, and celebrated.
Standing in Your Truth With Yanni
Embracing Obedience: A Journey into Faith, Fitness and Personal Transformation
Ready for a transformation? My dear friend Monita and I shed light on an often overlooked aspect of obedience, and its role in faith and fitness. Discover how embracing this challenging act can lead to discipline and life-altering changes. Get ready for a journey into my 75-day challenge, a blend of workouts, reading, dieting, and hydration. The roads may be rough, especially on weekends, but trust us when we say, the beauty of completing the challenge is worth every sweat drop.
To achieve anything significant, you need not only the will but also the right tribe around you. Learn from our experiences about the importance of accountability and community in the journey towards developing better habits and thought patterns. We stress the fact that failure isn't the end; it's the ability and courage to bounce back that determines the outcome. Additionally, we share our take on physical health, the science of endorphins, and the necessity of showing up, even when it doesn't feel pleasant.
And for those who think faith and fitness don't intersect, we're here to prove you wrong! Join us as we explore the spiritual side of obedience. See how surrendering to God's will and cultivating a positive mindset can help you overcome challenges and achieve your goals. We share personal experiences about using faith as a source of strength, especially during times of temptation. We conclude our episode with warm words of encouragement, reminders of God's love, and His desire for our growth and wellbeing. Tune in for an episode filled with life-changing insights, real-life struggles, and the joy of emerging stronger in faith and fitness.
Hello everyone, welcome to season two of standing your truth podcast. I'm your host, yanni. On this podcast, you will hear myself, family and friends having open ended discussions on anything from faith, finances, relationships and how to stay motivated during life trying times. Make sure you follow me on all my social media. Click within the bio, sit back and get ready to enjoy. Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of standing your truth podcast. I am your host, yanni. For those who don't know, I'm back again with I don't know. I feel like she's done it in my episode.
Speaker 1:In my episode where the podcast, like maybe like four times, three times, four times now. Anyway, I got Monita back again, y'all.
Speaker 2:Hey, what's up?
Speaker 1:So I texted her one day and I said, hey, I want to record with you about obedience. So they finally made it happen. That was about two months ago, just for y'all. Just for y'all now. But I think my main thing is I don't think people realize how much like obedience is, like that's a key part in your walk with Christ. And when I speaking of obedience, I'm just thinking of for myself here. Recently I feel like the Holy Spirit has been telling me certain stuff and to do certain stuff, whether it be check on people or record with certain people, or even when I'm tired and I don't want to volunteer, and I go and volunteer and you know whatever comes with the blessing that comes with that. And just realizing that when you're listening to the Holy Spirit tell you, like you know, to check on your friend, for some reason your friend falls on your heart.
Speaker 1:You're like I don't know why I thought about her forever, I didn't talk to her forever, and then you check on her or him or whoever, and they're like oh man, I'm so glad you checked on me, because today was a rough day, and I just don't think that sometimes realized like that obedience and that listening leads to where the Lord is using you to bless someone else. That is like what's been on my heart.
Speaker 2:Yes, I know that since the first day we met, we've always talked about obedience. Obedience is not anybody's favorite word. It's like a bad word.
Speaker 1:It is.
Speaker 2:Let's keep it real. Nobody likes that word.
Speaker 1:No, I think I've been thinking about like why, but I'm not like I can see why. Because a lot of times, if you think about obedience, it also tells you where you're messing up and where you're not perfect or where you're falling short.
Speaker 2:Right, so well, obedience. You are submitting to something.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And our nature, our flesh. We don't like to submit to anything, but we tell other people to submit to us, but then we don't want to be submitted to anybody else. So obedience is submitting to something, regardless if it's a good thing or a bad thing. It may feel like a bad thing when you're walking in obedience because you're like this sucks, it hurts, it's uncomfortable. But you're right. With spiritually connected with God, obedience is required to order to see. I mean, god can work in your life, with or without us doing anything Right. We understand that. But also, god teaches us lessons and he's not a genie, so he doesn't just go around just throwing out things for us when we're not walking in. What obedience?
Speaker 1:He doesn't.
Speaker 2:He doesn't reward bad behavior is what I'm trying to say. But obedience is for our sake, not for God's sake. It's for our sake because it brings in discipline, and discipline is so. That way you can see something actually changing in our life. We actually want to see something. Now tell me I know you're telling me what have you been trying to do with the current obedience right now?
Speaker 1:So I'm trying 75. I'm not trying.
Speaker 1:I'm doing 75 part again for the third time, I think. The first time I did it, I think I made it to like day maybe 20, maybe 20, maybe a stretch. The second time, I think it was like day 15. This time I'm on day 18. Today's August 18, so day 18, so I did August 1st and the main reason for doing this again is just I, just I want to be able to complete this challenge. I'm like 75 part. Okay, for those who don't know what it is is, you have to do two 45 minute workouts a day, every single day, and one of them has to be outside.
Speaker 1:And for those who know, you're gonna be struggling with outside, but here recently is kind of weird because I've been doing this challenge and I'm actually enjoying outside and even getting used to the heat. So it's funny how sometimes having that mindset of oh it's hot, I don't like outside, I won't do it, you don't realize how, in the long run, I was missing like the blessing of being outside and seeing all the wonderful things that God created. That's the whole story on itself. But you have that and you have to take a gallon of water every single day. You have to read 10 pages of a motivational or like a self-help book. You have to follow a diet. I am counting my calories. I have an app that tells me what I have to be under. I think right now it's like right at 2000 or something like that, that I'm trying to get to stay under every day. Wait, work out 10 pages water diet oh, the fun one. But let's just be honest. The last one is no alcohol for 75 days at all.
Speaker 1:And it does seem hard when you kind of look at it or even just think about doing it. It's like whoa, I don't know if I can do that, but to be honest with you, it's really not that bad. The hardest thing is the two workouts, really, especially on the weekend, Because on most weekends you want to chill, you want to relax. You know you may want to I don't know travel or whatever it may be, but you have to remind yourself that you made this commitment to do this 75 days and that workout has to be part of your everyday. You have to work it in.
Speaker 1:Like if not, obviously you fail.
Speaker 2:And then you don't know whatever wants to fail.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to lie to you. The first time it hurt. The second time I said well, here we are again. This time I said I ain't going down like this. So it's just now to where I'm scheduling my life around the fact that I know I have to get two workouts in, I have to drink water. I'm watching what I'm eating. So that means I'm saying no to certain things Like no, I'm not really big on sweets, sweets are not my thing. I like food Because I like cheeseburgers and fries. Yes, like today, technically, I had Sam's pizza but I skipped breakfast. So I had my breakfast and lunch calories at one time. Yes, so that I made that all right. But you just happen to figure out, like, what you want, like as far as like to accomplish you like. I want to do this.
Speaker 2:So, but my music is very, almost kind of so what is the hardest part right now on day? What?
Speaker 1:day 18. The hardest part right now is it's hot outside and, like I said, I am getting used to being outside.
Speaker 2:But it's still hot outside.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I have to get outside work out in stuff. I don't get up at 5 am Right to do it. Oh, that's another thing. So on top of on top of starting 75 part, your girl had started Crossfit and I have like 0%, 0% athletic and I'm just.
Speaker 2:I'm just a testament. I've seen you and you're so cute. When you're doing this, though I'm your fan.
Speaker 1:I have no clue what I'm doing. I would say shout out to Crossfit 432. My favorite coach is obviously Aaron, just because I'm boyfriend Aaron, be typing you.
Speaker 1:But Justin as well. No, they, they actually they. I'm sure they sit there and laugh at me because I look probably funny, doing All everything the wrong way, but at the same time they're very, they're very patient and they work with the fact that I haven't worked out before, but here I am trying it, so they'll tweak it and kind of make it so I can kind of do it. Or they'll come over there and tell me hey, you know, do this a certain way. And they even give me praise when I'm doing stuff right. And then not only just them as coaches, but the 5 am Class usually where I go, they're super encouraging, super encouraging, like you know. Keep going, y'all, and get a good job. They probably know I'd look terrible, yeah, but they encourage me because, say, I'm coming. So I would say, if you're looking for Crossfit gym, crossfit 432 is for me.
Speaker 2:Personally, I will say so yes, I mean slightly biased, but yeah, no, I've heard nothing but anything from that place, and you see great results coming out. Yeah, that's him, so yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's that's interesting in itself, but so right now, with your day 18.
Speaker 2:Oh, the obedience part of it. Is it finding you? Is it now starting to shift at the end goal? Maybe, like you know, whenever I'm hiking and I know how much more I have got to go, I already get annoyed where I'm at at that moment.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm and you start to surround yourself with the circumstances that are currently. You're looking around, you're like, oh, the Sun's beating down on me. I know I still have more to go. Um, does that at all yet? Creeped up in your mind of like seeing how much more still you got to go because you're only on day 18? Yeah, not yet.
Speaker 1:Not really, I think, just because my goal is to complete it Okay so. I'm not really looking at where I'm at because my goal is still my in my head. I'm still trying to get to. I think it's October 15th.
Speaker 2:Are you giving yourself short-term goals, maybe?
Speaker 1:Yeah, check all the things off every day. I have an app that keeps up with, like every day of where I'm at, but no, I guess no Compared to the first time.
Speaker 2:The first time. How did you do it?
Speaker 1:So the first time I made things extremely hard for me, so I made it so I couldn't eat out at all. That was my diet no eating out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember you tell me I just look at you like, um huh, the waste of my time even trying to do that.
Speaker 1:This because yeah, I just too much happening, moving and shaking, too many meetings, so that was unrealistic. Very much so, um, and it's funny because, to be honest with you, when I made that a little birdie named Erin, my dad told me that that didn't make any sense and they're probably should have changed it. So I was working on my stubbornness, um good.
Speaker 2:I definitely was like uh-uh.
Speaker 1:I could do it. I could do it like I'll plan ahead. Would you work for about five?
Speaker 2:days. Then they make any sense anymore but you, you felt like maybe you set yourself up for failure without even realizing it now now somebody that's listening.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Um, is it okay to fail a couple of times before you get it right?
Speaker 1:Yes, but the goal is to learn where you fell right. Yes, so you have to. You have to catch the lesson.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the failing because you're really not technically failing if you quit, if you quit your failing true. But if you keep failing, a lot of your version of failing- mm-hmm but you keep doing it. You're really a winner. You actually are doing a good job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's. I think, one thing that 75 heart for sure. It's taught myself that I am stronger than what I thought I was. Mm-hmm, just because not even just like doing crossfit is oh, girl, yeah, I know, Like that is a testament of its own.
Speaker 1:Yes, but the fact of like me, even with me reading so Fun fact I really think I could have been diagnosed with like dyslexic or something. So the fact of me sitting down every day and making my not well, yeah, I guess, making come, doing this challenge, but and reading 10 pages of a book, and that to me is a big deal Because, before I said, hate the idea of reading into some degree. Even now, if you told me, hey, you know, I read this out loud, I'm probably be like my cousin my ass, just because there's some things that I just It'd be twisted, and so it's like that's.
Speaker 1:That's kind of, I guess, one of those silent battles that I fight every day. So this challenge is kind of putting a little spotlight on that and allow me to kind of, I guess you can say, silently, work on it and silently grow it to where Um, that's not my different issue.
Speaker 1:Well she's an arm issue, but maybe a little bit less of a issue. Yeah, then it was before, so that's nice. And then also, I think, the idea of doing it with the community it's very important. You always talk about, when it comes to raising a kid, that you need a tribe. Yes, but I think we forget as adults we need tribes to, yeah, like we need a community around us to Uplift us on.
Speaker 2:You know, just every day, just check in and say, hey, how are you doing? That's how well. We were created for was for community. It wasn't for individual, by yourself. Let's do this by ourselves, yeah, but for community. So walking in obedience Helps when you have somebody giving you some kind of accountability.
Speaker 1:So it's we have a group on Facebook for a 75 hard and it's I think it's literally called the 75. Oh wow, that's pretty cool accountability group and it's about maybe like 10 or 15 of us in there. Oh, that's awesome, yeah, and everyone posts on there and, to be honest with you, some people have posted on it. Hey, you know, day 10 I fell. I'm starting again on Monday.
Speaker 2:Oh, so yeah, every time you fail, you got to start all over again.
Speaker 1:That's a big commitment.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm just saying there's there's like no grace in that one. Okay, it's straightforward.
Speaker 1:Black or white, there's no gray in the middle. Okay, it's funny, good. Last night we went out To a friend's bar and everyone else was drinking. You know they looked at Aaron and I and I was like, uh-uh, I am too far into this. We're on day 17. Check that somewhere else.
Speaker 2:Yes like no, that's good I. No so this is not so much a bad thing to have to start all over is because you're trying to Re-change thinking habits and having to Tell yourself, your body and your mind that you were in charge, not your body.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't realize that yeah, because you think about it, our flesh wants to be in charge constantly and and there's a thing about it a lot of people don't realize that they're walking around trying to sustain their own Strength, doing it on their own, and they can do a great job. I've seen a lot of people superficially doing it for a while, but they always end up failing in the longer term because they're all self-sufficient on themselves in their flesh. And God intended us to eat healthy. In the Bible it shows everywhere. It shows unclean and clean animals. For a reason he talks about eating of from the earth and in tilling and I mean there's just so many Resources of eating great things for us. He never intended us to not eat well and to to work and to exercise and all those things going hand-in-hand, but everything in moderation and everything in balance. But he knows that we're not going to get it right and he has a lot of grace for us. But when it comes down to seeing actual change in our bodies not up, we're not talking about trying to be in a bikini, but we're just talking about being the best healthy version of us and learning how to reach angels habits, just to be able to get through the 75-day challenge because that's really hard.
Speaker 2:Alone, like I know, I wouldn't commit to that because I don't like nobody telling me what to do Okay, and I don't want no 75, 75 day challenge telling me what to do. But whenever I was at 200 pounds after my son this is my third child and I let myself go because I was really bad in depression and I was going to postpartum depression. So I really just all the weight that I carried I never got to. It was. It was harder for me to lose it because I was so depressed and I just remember it took me a whole year To finally find a balance, but I was a lot more fails Before I could see any consistent results. Because we always think we did really good for five days, the weekend's not gonna matter, or we do really good for for two weeks, well, this one time is not gonna matter. And so I understand why they did that 75 day challenge is because it does matter. It will push you back and even after the 75 days challenge, your body is now as accustomed To be able to find an all happy medium. Now that you find a happy medium, now you you don't want to be.
Speaker 2:You got to be careful not to be addicted to the results but be addicted to the process, because if you get addicted to the results, you always strive and never, ever having up. You will have a new goal. You'll always have. Something we need to do is enjoy the journey of it so that obedience won't be a burden, because obedience makes us feel like we have to be owning to somebody. So we need to look at it as I'm gonna enjoy this journey just like being a Christian. You know I preach this all the time. This is a something I don't like that word preach, but I say this all the time when you're walking with the Lord. It's an everyday deal. God doesn't want you to have an end, an end goal of saying I'm gonna, I'm leading to be perfect in Christ. No, he's saying I want you to be imperfect with me every single day.
Speaker 2:Hmm, there's something sweet about that and he's like grace, grace, grace, grace. But he also knows that he gives extended grace because that's his job, right, that's who he is. He gives mercy and grace like he just gives away, like candy, right? But we, if we want to see change, we're gonna have to submit to something and we're gonna have to figure that out and follow that all the way through. I'm really proud of you for actually sticking this out, and you already know that I Don't like the word fail, because it's just, it's just a setback right, it's a setback, that's it.
Speaker 1:But I think it, I don't know. I guess, when you think about the idea of fail and I'm thinking about that those times when it did happen I just think this challenge also kind of Makes people like for myself, or I'm like go, go, go. It makes it to I have to slow down and check in with myself, because this challenge is, even though it's a group of us doing it, we're all individually doing it, like it's. I'm responsible for my 75 days. So the idea that, like, I'm gonna have to schedule time to make sure I'm able to do I need to do so it's like you know, I can be doing with things in the community. I know it was like it's weekends ago and I volunteered and we are outside. Well, we got there, they had us there super early, so we had like an hour and a half. Well, we walked. That are 45 minute outside walking.
Speaker 1:There you go, look at that, so you just could you just kind of what you said where it's like it comes to, where it's. Yeah, it comes easier even I'm gonna be honest, it sounds that hope Erin is not looking for this. I Find myself not getting up at like four yes, cuz I we go to gym at five. I found myself and I'm getting up at four and it's like my body's popping up to where it's just natural.
Speaker 1:Yes and I, and if I sleep in I'm actually more tired. Yes, then I am funny to get up at four you finally got it because I'm telling you whatever.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, this is exactly what happens to me. I'm automatically. I don't ever use an alarm because my body's been used to the conditions that.
Speaker 1:I have put it through.
Speaker 2:Once you make your body Comfortable for a long enough, it's gonna submit automatically. It just submits because, guess what, you are in charge of your body. Yeah, the body is not in charge of you. And we, our body, wants to sit there. You know, like those people that are trying to run away from it and like a crime, like something that's really bad, but they're not moving fast enough is because our body hasn't caught up to their mind yet. And then, once that gets in the line, they take off running. But but I'd love how you're saying that, because I remember whenever I was working out and finding that balance Because I've suffered with eating disorder and I've also suffered with With two different eating disorder not eating anything to eating everything I was a bench eater and then I would starve myself for days and days and days, and then I would go back and forth and then I got addicted to working out, I got addicted to the process of it and then I went through all these couple years of going back and forth.
Speaker 2:But I noticed that when anytime I started something, it always took my mind in my body about three months to To change my taste buds, to change Kind of like. I guess I'm just so stubborn that it took me a long enough to have to learn to change the way I was doing things. And once I stopped Doing this, certain habits it, like you said, you get up early. All of a sudden you don't crave that thing no more. All of a sudden this gets better.
Speaker 2:So there is actually what hope in the process if you just stick it out and if you like that 75 day challenge, jesus, if you mess up on the 18th day and you have to start again, we'll just don't look at it that okay, I got to start all 18 days again, guess what. Just say I'm all I'm doing, just adding Continuous more until the day I died, like this is for a lifetime. This is not something that I see myself. After the 75 day challenge, I'm still gonna keep going. Yeah, I'm just not gonna be like completely Stricted, but keep it going forever. So that way it's not just and for all. After that 75 days and you've been looking really good, yeah, I'm shocked.
Speaker 1:I can't know about two workouts every day, girl right there I saw some curves Erin.
Speaker 2:if you're listening, she got some curves Erin. Erin's like, yes, you know that it's, it's trying to pop out, but yeah.
Speaker 1:But the funny thing is somebody asked me. They were like oh, what should like body go for 75 heart? And I'm like that, yeah, I'm not focused on that. Oh, yes, my mind is on the. I want to be able to. I'm going to complete the 75 days and that's what my mind is is. Looking at that schedule, what does that look like? You know, buying groceries? What does that look like to make something under my calorie count?
Speaker 2:That's where my mind is like a whole brand new lifestyle. Yes, so that's.
Speaker 1:I'm not worried about it If whatever is going to come off and shape up or whatever it happened it'll happen, but if I, if I sit there and focus on that, then I'm I'm taking my mind off of what I feel like my mind needs to mean to make sure that.
Speaker 1:I actually complete the challenge itself. But it's funny. Just just what you were just talking about made me just think of how important it is just to just show up, like you. You know, sometimes, being a Christian, I feel like you. Yes, you're a Christian, yes, I'm doing a 75 part, but I also just have to show up every day. So I have to just show up to cross fit and I put it on my, it goes on my podcast page the idea of, like I'm in the season where I feel like I'm just it's just uncomfortable. Like CrossFit is uncomfortable, for one because I don't know what I'm doing, for two, I don't run, and then for three, it's the idea of, like me having to like literally push myself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mentally I have to say, yes, your arms hurt.
Speaker 2:You're going to finish this out, so you really got to be uncomfortable? Yes, because you can't grow in comfort.
Speaker 1:No, and I and I just had to memorize that because I was like I feel like I don't know. I feel like I just like I want more from life and I want to be able to give back more. But I'm having to realize to do that I'm going to have to become uncomfortable and be obedient to when the Lord is telling me to do certain things and when he's telling me not to do certain things. Yeah, we're talking about that.
Speaker 2:Because it also to. When he calls you, he will equip us right. But here's the thing what are we doing on our part to be equipped in the physical? Because I know, when God showed me some couple of things, that I'm in my direction with ministry, and just not even just ministry, because ministry is for everybody, like we should all be talking to people about Jesus being there for them. But in the long run, to sustain, how am I taking care of myself, Like my health, how am I eating, If I'm over here constantly playing with the light socket and asking God please protect me from me not getting shocked, but I'm putting my finger or the spork in the light socket, playing with just fire? I'm just playing with it. I'm going to get burnt because I'm not stopping it, I'm not stopping the destruction of my body and my and everything and our bodies are a temple. They and the Bible says we are. We are his temple and how are we taking care of that temple he gave us? And it God's not wanting us to be vain and trying to get us to have the perfect body or strive for that or compare ourselves. He's saying how are you healthy? Are you taking care of yourself? That's it.
Speaker 2:So I went the opposite direction. I remember I was. I went a little too far. I'm going the other direction and when I pulled back I realized that I just wanted to. I wanted to live longer and stronger. So whenever, like you're doing your nonprofits, you'll be able to now have more energy. Now I'm sure you have had more energy. I'm sure you've been able to have a lot of that stress that you carry with being so busy. It's. It doesn't, it's not as like bombarded on you, because working out it stimulates so many things.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like people don't realize that.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Like it's it definitely I can be in a mood, yeah, and go do a workout and come back and I'll hold it. Like literally that was last, I think last Saturday or last Sunday. Yeah, I had to do my last 45 minute workout and I was like let me just go do my workout and it was in the sun, in the heat and everything Hot, but I did my workout, came back and I was in a better mood.
Speaker 1:But I don't, I don't know. I feel like sometimes we, especially as women, because a lot of time we put ourselves on the back burner, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:But that and orphans. That's what I was looking at the endorphins in us when we're working out it. Anytime we work out, anytime we are moving and shaking our bodies, we are shaking up the process of Of being stuck, like our fats are being stuck, our hormones are being stuck and all of a sudden you're shaking your body, you're like a shaker, and all of a sudden you're disrupting the laziness in ourselves. I'm doing it this way just so it can kind of be more Understandable. So, if you think about it, what it was you call those workout things, that fiber, like just shake the powder, yeah, yeah, and so doing that, imagine you're just shaking up your life and you're all this in your body is like wait a minute, this routine that we were so used to her doing it's not working, no more. So now, all of a sudden, there they are submitted, until you now, because now you're control of what you're putting in your body and what you're doing and you're changing in your endorphins. Yeah, I mean, it actually says right here, says they're released. Oh my gosh, they're released during pleasurable activities such as exercise, and those endorphins are gonna help and improve yourself well being. So you actually are been doing really good and I wish, like you're right, I wish many people understood that. But it goes back to you got.
Speaker 2:We're talking about obedience. But what about the spiritual side with obedience and the reason why we? Because we're all spirits right, we were all spirit um spiritual beings, and so with that God says well, how do I help my daughter to Sustain her mentally on hard days where she doesn't feel like working out, she don't feel like Eating really good, because whatever we came into the 75 day challenge, we're going to go in with it. So if you came in there with eating habits for many, many years, because it came from a root, from somewhere when God comes in and says, like my daughter, I know this about you and I want you to come to me so I can help sustain you and you don't have to do much with me. I will sustain you if you just do what you just said show up. And we just show up. And Because God don't believe in laziness, I'm gonna tell you right now people think he does, but he doesn't. He likes people that work and he shows up for people that work and that put the work in it. He didn't say being perfect, he just says show up and pick, take the first step. You're putting work into it.
Speaker 2:So if you're going in with all this like extra crap that you had from the way that you see, the way that you didn't implement exercise, the way that your old routines, and you're coming into a challenge and you're wanting to lose weight, you got all this stuff that you're carrying and no wonder why you quit in five days. Because God's like you were not intended to carry what you had when you started. He's like I want you to go ahead and plug in somewhere so you can start coming to me and inviting me, so I can Heal that in you, so you can endure the long run, so when, every time you want to quit, you'll be able to keep going. But those habits mentally are still there and they're not going Anywhere until you keep walking it through and God can be able to release. Every step of the way he can release is like what is that?
Speaker 2:Boris Gump, whenever he started running really fast and he had all those chains on his on his legs right. He had he was crippled right and he had to wear those things until one day he was pushed to the point where he had to run now that he had the help to walk. All of a sudden, god's like okay, my son, I need you to run now and he was forced in.
Speaker 2:The only way that he got to be able to run is because he was pressured. He was pushed to the limit where he had a choice either you keep going or you stay walking real slow. But for his gum was pushed to the point where he had to run for his life to save his life. And he did that and the chains came up and he was set free. But you got to show up to walk it out to get it.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's funny because even now, like a lot of my walks and stuff that I do, I find myself in like either Having nice long prayers, 45 minute long prayer talks, yeah.
Speaker 1:God yes or Sometimes you're listening to praise the worship music and it's just, it's just, it's just soothing. I think it's also this time. It just allows me to just like slow down, and those are those moments where I'm like okay, lord, here we am. Another day. Even before I started, I just was like a lot of I'm gonna need you for this process for sure, and Show me what it is that I need to be getting out of this, and We'll see 75, because you do want a healthy mindset For sure.
Speaker 2:A good, positive, healthy mindset when you're going into a challenge, not thinking superficial or short-term, something that's an actually healthy, realistic end goal. The end goal is just for you to be able to live longer and healthier and To take it on, to take care of and honor your body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think also even for me is something that I've always struggled with is I will start something but not finish it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I had that problem too. Yeah, that's why this is just challenges, is personal, yeah well, and I like that because me and woman, that is something that I've struggled with you for many years and but that came from a root, because of the disappointment that I would have so that's why I never stick to nothing, because I knew I was.
Speaker 2:It was a Disappointment that was running from a codependency of disappointment. So when I figured that route, it was easier for me to focus on giving it to God and keep walking up and showing up. And when I lost the weight and I was exercising and I was doing everything in a different Way, the results were different, even on hard days. But sometimes I'm just saying I love a good old pizza, okay, and so I can tell you. Let me tell you, I just have to.
Speaker 1:I may, I may, oh, I can eat it. I just have to just count my cow.
Speaker 2:Yes, Well, you know, a slice of pizza done takes like pretty much most of your no, it was like 340. Oh why you got a good piece of pizza.
Speaker 1:It's like I was a cheese.
Speaker 2:Pizza was 340 and the 3d one was For something okay. Yeah, yeah, just one slice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was my breakfast and lunch it's a, and then the way my stuff is set up to where if I work out I don't get all of my calories back, what I do from workout, but some of those do go back to them. Oh, I gotcha, I got you yeah cuz I first was 100% out, like not as they were gonna, I'm gonna eat everything and I'm gonna wear yeah so I knocked it down. I think I'm at 50%.
Speaker 2:Okay. Yeah, so I get half and half yeah well, I love, I love to talk about obedience. I know that we could talk about obedience in all different areas of our life, but we're talking about it as far as your, your 75 day challenge.
Speaker 2:But obedience is not a very popular word and it just talks about submitting to something. But I Rather like for me. When people hear me say, why love to submit to God? Why would you want somebody to tell you what to do? And just over you pushing you, I said well, first of all, it's not like that. When I submit to God is because I know that I'm the weaker vessel.
Speaker 2:Hmm, and he's a stronger one in me, and Knowing that he can take care of his daughter so much better because he knows us. He knows that we're gonna have days ahead that we're gonna be tempted to to want to cheat, to not want to do a good job, and he's like if my daughter comes to me and abides in me and and lets me take care of her, I can do anything. And what is that verse, though? I can do all things to Do, christ, who strengthens me. I was like You're like we. We both went blank. We're like, I know. We know that verse.
Speaker 1:Whoops, that's on my breast that I don't have on my wrist actually right now.
Speaker 2:And I have one across right there that you can have whenever before you leave it's a magnet Okay. I know oh.
Speaker 1:That's cute Okay.
Speaker 2:That's nice.
Speaker 1:Well, that's.
Speaker 2:We forgot that we're recording and yeah over here just like so this is us, we just be talking real life for real.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, we can definitely in this wait, so take, this is my podcast. We need you to pray yourself, right, oh?
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, is that how it goes now?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know your thing now. Whatever, my guests is praise.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah, okay, let me on a spot like that. All right, let me start to my little spiritual muscles.
Speaker 1:I Know my little spiritual muscle like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, horn. Okay, dear heavenly father, we thank you for this conversation. We thank you for just Constantly being the stronghold in our life that we need and we want. And I know not many people understand when we're talking about you in such a an easy, relational way, but that's how you are. You're not a goddess that's up on the throne and makes us feel like we are Little peg it's. You know just that. We're just nothing.
Speaker 2:No, you, you walk alongside of us and you know the struggles that we carry and you know that our, our path is not always going to be the best Because of things that we've done or other people and or the enemy comes into taxes and I pray for the listener that they would be encouraged About not being afraid of the word obedience, but that they look at it and take charge of their own lives so that they can be able to see and produce the best fruits for their life. The goal in life is To benefit us, to be able to grow and to do better, and not to harm us. God doesn't want to harm us. He wants to encourage us, to lift us up and change us and renew us. So I just pray that Yanni continues with the 75 75 day challenge and that she has Another podcast on this father, that she will be an encouragement to somebody else and to keep going with that positive reinforcement father in her life. And I just thank you for this time that we have and your holy, precious name.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. And just for those listening, remember that she were loved. You're unique. God does not make mistakes. You're not alone, and if you're needing someone to talk to, you can always DM me and we'll. Either I'll be there to listen or we'll get you over to someone that can better suit to help you. But just remember, you're never on, no matter what the devil may tell you. That ain't the truth. Have a great day and peace out.