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Master the pause.

“Disgust at our bodies is learned, not innate.”

Name it to tame it.
“Potty train” your feelings.
Anger is a secondary emotion.

“Food is not the enemy-satan is. And his strategic plan is to render us ineffective, or at least sluggish, for the cause of Christ. When we are stuck in issues of the flesh it’s really hard to passionately follow hard after God.”

Proverbs 23:20-21
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

“My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger it will still be missing when I get smaller.”

“I didn’t have a weight problem. I had a spiritual problem. I depended on food for comfort more than I depended on God”.

God, not food, is in control of me.

“It’s not easy to dare to actually live a life in which we put scripture in action.”

Permissible, not beneficial

“Desperation breeds degradation.”

Quiescence of the brain through less use/ease of running/endurance

Brain training the acc. Long runs at low intensity. Helps brain to resist fatigue.

“We already know that inducing fatigue in the body through exercise triggers adaptations that make the body more resistant to fatigue in the future. Brain fatigue works the same way.”

“Mostly slow training [80/20] also does a better job of strengthening the parts of the brain where tolerance for suffering resides”.

“Runners are generally quite willing to suffer, but they need a reason”. Hahahahahhaaa

Interleukin-6 (IL-6)- [slow and steady wins the race, by small and simple things are great things brought to pass]

“The key requirement for strengthening the arobic system is stress. Unless you subject your arobic system to a significantly greater challenge than it faces when you are at rest it will not adapt.”