I’ve always struggled with my weight. Always. I don’t really ever remember a time where it wasn’t a constant struggle. As a young girl, I would look at those girls with the picture-perfect bodies, and envy what they had. If only I could be thin, everything would be easier, I’d dream.
When I met my husband, and he loved me for me… I swooned! Someone actually thinks I’m beautiful!
After 6 years of marriage, I think I’ve finally learned one thing. My husband doesn’t need a skinny wife! He needs a wife with a happy, God-fearing , heart.
I was chatting with a sweet friend the other day, and when she said those words… those words that will be forever tattooed upon my heart-strings… those words that, I believe, will be life-changing for me… those words, that will actually be pivotal in my weight-loss ventures…
She said, “my husband said he’d rather have my heart be happy, than me have the picture-perfect body.”
A happy heart! That’s totally it. When my thoughts turn towards the scale, how this and that food will affect the little number going up or down, it doesn’t make me happy. It makes me stressed. It makes me miserable.
It makes me focus all my attention on self, rather than Christ living out in me.
Do I have a goal-weight in mind? Oh yes, I do. Do I think it is important to look our very best, (HOT EVEN), for our husbands? Oh yes, I do.
But not at the cost of being happy and content! Did you know, that when we are a miserable, rotten mess, we are so so ugly?!
That’s not the woman that my husband fell in love with! I want to be beautiful on the inside… and have it shine forth to my exterior.
All the fad-diets and skinny jeans will not make me beautiful if my heart isn’t content in who I am in Christ Jesus.
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