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Hi, I'm Kim Floyd, a Certified Wellness Coach, speaker, and author.
Welcome to Take Back Your Temple! My dream is for women of faith to
take control of their health so they can fulfill their God-given destiny.
I am particularly concerned about African American women and how
obesity is weighing us down. It is estimated that over 70% of us are
overweight or obese. My goal is for us to value who we are. This best
way to do that is to practice positive health habits.
Excess weight strains our lungs and hearts, wears down our joints, and
leaves us open for disease. It makes things that should be easy for us
harder than they need to be. We sit on the bench when God designed
us to play in the game.
It's not about size; it is about stewardship and making the most of all
the resources God has give us, which includes our time, talents, and
yes, our physical bodies.
My own weight loss saga started when I was 12. I told myself that I was
fat, even though I wasn't. Now I realize I was creating my reality with my
words.
After going on a ridiculously low calorie diet, I lost the weight I
thought I needed to lose. A few weeks later, it was back—plus more.
Little did I know that the same cycle would repeat itself over and over
again for the next 20 odd years!
I became a diet queen: I tried Richard Simmons’ Deal-a-Meal (three
times), Weight Watchers (twice), Atkins, Stop the Insanity, Fit for Life,
Butter Busters, counting calories, counting carbohydrates, and counting
fat grams. I even tried an Optifast-like program, similar to the one that
Oprah tried. Unfortunately, I experienced the same result that she did;
my pounds came back with lightening speed plus more.
Between the diets, my eating habits were awful. I loved my “goodies”:
Candy bars, Doritos, and potato chips were favorites. I thought nothing
of eating at fast food restaurants for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Even
though I knew about nutrition from my training as a nurse, I didn't apply
it. It seemed easier to just zip through the drive-thru.
When I changed careers from nursing to training/technical writing, the
problem got worse; a job I had taken required extensive travel, so I ate
out in nice restaurants on the company’s expense account, ordering
appetizers and desserts along with my meals. After all, I wasn't paying
for it! As my weight climbed, my life deteriorated to simply work, watch
television, and sleep. I was up to a size 22 by then.
I knew something had to change. I was young, but I felt much older. I
liked myself, but I didn’t respect myself; deep down I knew I was settling
for what was easy instead of what was best. I wanted to find a quick fix,
a loophole that would allow me to continue to eat the junk food, but look
good and feel fabulous. Ironically, I only realized that I would never find a
loophole when I began tackling an entirely different area of my life that
had also spun out of control: my finances.
As I learned the discipline necessary to work my way out of $19,000
worth of credit card debt, I also learned the discipline necessary to
begin living what I know about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. First, I
implemented spiritual disciplines in my life and cut out all junk food
from my diet. I added complex carbohydrates to my diet, increased my
servings of fruits and vegetables, and ate modest amounts of lean
protein. Water was my primary beverage.
For exercise, I started with 15 minutes, 5 days a week, then worked my
way up to 45 minutes to 1 hour 5 days per week. I got an accountability
partner to help me stay on track, a coworker who had a healthy lifestyle
and was in fantastic shape. The pounds started coming off.
I won’t lie to you; I did stumble a few times. But, the memory of my diet
failures made me get back on track immediately. I was determined to
win this time, no matter how long it took. Plus, I soon started to feel so
much better with the junk food out of my life that the foods I wanted to
eat started to change. Now when I looked at Doritos, I was thinking
about how awful they ultimately made me feel, not how good they tasted.
However, the ultimate reason for my success this time was
implementing spiritual disciplines in my life. I lay my concerns before
God and ask Him to give me wisdom to make wise health choices. I
believe this practice gives me the power, courage, and peace I need to
be able to practice healthy habits in my daily life.
The day I fit into a size 8 was wonderful. I haven’t been that small since I
was a teenager. I had developed high blood pressure from the excess
weight, but the doctor cut my medication in half (I also have a family
history of high blood pressure).
Something had changed in me. I had been sleepwalking all of those
years and I was now fully awake, engage and excited about life. I was
now in the game and having the time of my life!
How would your life change if you decided to take control of your health
today? How would the lives of your children and the generations after
them?
Sometimes I wish that I could transplant how good I feel today into the
people I meet. I'm confident that if they got a taste of what true wellness
feels like, they wouldn't want to live any other way.
I pray many blessings upon you and most of all, I pray that you do
something good for your health today so you can be blessed to live well
for a lifetime.
Love,
Kim
Welcome to Take Back Your Temple! My dream is for women of faith to
take control of their health so they can fulfill their God-given destiny.
I am particularly concerned about African American women and how
obesity is weighing us down. It is estimated that over 70% of us are
overweight or obese. My goal is for us to value who we are. This best
way to do that is to practice positive health habits.
Excess weight strains our lungs and hearts, wears down our joints, and
leaves us open for disease. It makes things that should be easy for us
harder than they need to be. We sit on the bench when God designed
us to play in the game.
It's not about size; it is about stewardship and making the most of all
the resources God has give us, which includes our time, talents, and
yes, our physical bodies.
My own weight loss saga started when I was 12. I told myself that I was
fat, even though I wasn't. Now I realize I was creating my reality with my
words.
After going on a ridiculously low calorie diet, I lost the weight I
thought I needed to lose. A few weeks later, it was back—plus more.
Little did I know that the same cycle would repeat itself over and over
again for the next 20 odd years!
I became a diet queen: I tried Richard Simmons’ Deal-a-Meal (three
times), Weight Watchers (twice), Atkins, Stop the Insanity, Fit for Life,
Butter Busters, counting calories, counting carbohydrates, and counting
fat grams. I even tried an Optifast-like program, similar to the one that
Oprah tried. Unfortunately, I experienced the same result that she did;
my pounds came back with lightening speed plus more.
Between the diets, my eating habits were awful. I loved my “goodies”:
Candy bars, Doritos, and potato chips were favorites. I thought nothing
of eating at fast food restaurants for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Even
though I knew about nutrition from my training as a nurse, I didn't apply
it. It seemed easier to just zip through the drive-thru.
When I changed careers from nursing to training/technical writing, the
problem got worse; a job I had taken required extensive travel, so I ate
out in nice restaurants on the company’s expense account, ordering
appetizers and desserts along with my meals. After all, I wasn't paying
for it! As my weight climbed, my life deteriorated to simply work, watch
television, and sleep. I was up to a size 22 by then.
I knew something had to change. I was young, but I felt much older. I
liked myself, but I didn’t respect myself; deep down I knew I was settling
for what was easy instead of what was best. I wanted to find a quick fix,
a loophole that would allow me to continue to eat the junk food, but look
good and feel fabulous. Ironically, I only realized that I would never find a
loophole when I began tackling an entirely different area of my life that
had also spun out of control: my finances.
As I learned the discipline necessary to work my way out of $19,000
worth of credit card debt, I also learned the discipline necessary to
begin living what I know about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. First, I
implemented spiritual disciplines in my life and cut out all junk food
from my diet. I added complex carbohydrates to my diet, increased my
servings of fruits and vegetables, and ate modest amounts of lean
protein. Water was my primary beverage.
For exercise, I started with 15 minutes, 5 days a week, then worked my
way up to 45 minutes to 1 hour 5 days per week. I got an accountability
partner to help me stay on track, a coworker who had a healthy lifestyle
and was in fantastic shape. The pounds started coming off.
I won’t lie to you; I did stumble a few times. But, the memory of my diet
failures made me get back on track immediately. I was determined to
win this time, no matter how long it took. Plus, I soon started to feel so
much better with the junk food out of my life that the foods I wanted to
eat started to change. Now when I looked at Doritos, I was thinking
about how awful they ultimately made me feel, not how good they tasted.
However, the ultimate reason for my success this time was
implementing spiritual disciplines in my life. I lay my concerns before
God and ask Him to give me wisdom to make wise health choices. I
believe this practice gives me the power, courage, and peace I need to
be able to practice healthy habits in my daily life.
The day I fit into a size 8 was wonderful. I haven’t been that small since I
was a teenager. I had developed high blood pressure from the excess
weight, but the doctor cut my medication in half (I also have a family
history of high blood pressure).
Something had changed in me. I had been sleepwalking all of those
years and I was now fully awake, engage and excited about life. I was
now in the game and having the time of my life!
How would your life change if you decided to take control of your health
today? How would the lives of your children and the generations after
them?
Sometimes I wish that I could transplant how good I feel today into the
people I meet. I'm confident that if they got a taste of what true wellness
feels like, they wouldn't want to live any other way.
I pray many blessings upon you and most of all, I pray that you do
something good for your health today so you can be blessed to live well
for a lifetime.
Love,
Kim
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My Background 15 years of experience as a Health Educator Certified Wellness Coach (Wellcoaches Corporation) Member, American College of Sports Medicine Practiced as a Registered Nurse (R.N.) for 9 years Has maintained an 85 pound weight loss herself for several years and understands the struggle personally |
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