Slavic Christians are overweight

Your grandmother was overweight. Your mother is overweight. You are overweight. Your daughter is on track to follow the same patterns. All because self-control was never established around food. Food was used for comfort and escape instead of learning to communicate your emotions. 

Dear heart, if only you knew that the weight you carry isn’t “genetic.” It was passed down by people pleasers and trauma survivors who were too afraid to talk about what they felt, so they ate their feelings away instead.

Until the roots of these wounds come to light, become uprooted, and are replaced with God’s love and forgiveness, you will unconsciously keep eating the same and will pass the pain onto your daughter.

Today is the best day to start the process of emotional weight loss.

Today is the best day to recognize that what you’re feeling isn’t bad; it’s what all humans have felt: shame, guilt, fear, failure, loneliness, etc., but it doesn’t have to define or limit you.

All those feelings can be traded for love, joy, peace, kindness, self-control, hope, forgiveness, etc.

The question is, are you tired of carrying the emotional weight yet, and are you willing to let it go so you can live a life of freedom in your body, mind, and spirit, as He created you to?

If you are and live in WA, SC, FL, or ID, I’d be happy to help you every step of the way.

I've been carrying 47lb of emotional weight since January, and I want to help you do the same—reach out whenever you’re ready.

The amount of excuses I’ve heard for why people put on weight and don’t [want to] get it off is for this reason alone—excuses.

The honest truth is that we’ve been taught food scarcity—“eat because famine is coming.”

Eat for comfort.

Entertain with food being the star, not the people around the table.

Finish your plate because kids in Africa are starving.

Stop being picky, eat what you’re given, and be grateful.

Eat past fullness to appease the host.

…And we wonder why our Slavic Christian community is obese.

Our people are addicted to worshipping food—this is rooted in the demon of pleasure, Beelzebub.

Our pastors, parents, spouses, and children are overweight, and we’ve never thought to go into depth to find out what emotional wounds they’re medicating with food.

If this conversation were about alcohol or drugs, we’d be excommunicated from the church and gossiped about.

But since we’re making excuses about food, it’s forgivable.

When we look at scripture, we frequently read verses that speak of gluttony as a sin. In fact, it names that more than being a drug addict—how ironic that we look down on someone struggling with the latter, but celebrate the ones who publicly binge at parties...

It’s time the excuses stop.

Maybe we’d stop hating our bodies too.

We’d stop comparing diets that don’t work (from which you regain all your weight because your mindset about food never changed in the first place).

Stop posting food and celebrate the people who gathered together.

Stop making excuses about why you can’t work out (which doesn’t matter because you’ll eat back the calories after the workout to justify your effort).

Do you see how unhealthy this gets when you go deeper?

Being all those things listed in the post has nothing to do with food; it has everything to do with the emotional work you refuse to do, and you cope with it through food instead.

Like your unprocessed trauma.

Shame around your body image.

The message you were told about how you should look.

How food was used to control you.

This secret pain continues.

If you or someone you love is struggling and is using food to cope, reach out to me. I’ll help you uncover and heal the roots so you can thrive!