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🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This episode gets real. If you have my book Eat Cake. Be Brave. Then you know that weight has been an issue all of my life. One of my earliest memories was getting out of bed and finding my mom eating frosting and watching Johnny Carson. I’ve tried different diets, and I know it is about the journey, letting God guide me, and having a conversation with my heart.
This is why I’m so excited about today’s guest. Amy Reinecke is someone who I discovered on Instagram and her website Beautifully Broken Journey resonated with me. Amy talks about her story, her struggle with weight, food, and dieting. We talk about how it is about the journey, loving your body, and trusting in God to guide you. This is a complex topic that is a lifelong journey. Hopefully, we can all inspire each other to take this journey in a gracious and loving way.
Beautifully Broken Journey
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0:00.0 | Hi y'all you're listening to ordinary people ordinary things with me your host Melissa Radke the |
0:07.2 | ordinariest of us all. Oh, listener. You did not sign up for this, unless you subscribed. Then you literally did sign up for this and that's on you. |
0:25.0 | But if you did not subscribe to our little podcast that could, |
0:29.0 | then I would advise you to count a three because it's about to get real up in here. |
0:35.1 | If you have my book Eat Cake, Be Brave, then you know that my weight has been an issue for all of my life. It didn't start in 12th grade. It didn't start after I got married. |
0:46.8 | It didn't start after my third baby because there was not a third baby. It started young, |
0:52.0 | really young. In fact, the earliest memory I have. The first memory of my life, |
0:58.0 | get this, was crawling out of bed one night, toddling down the hallway, and finding my mom sitting on the couch watching |
1:05.9 | Johnny Carson on the TV. |
1:07.9 | She was sitting on the couch and she was laughing and she was eating homemade frosting. And I climbed up on her lap and she was eating homemade frosting and I climbed up on her lap and she fed some to me and I knew then that |
1:17.0 | staying awake when everyone else had gone to bed meant you could enjoy freely what you could not enjoy when everyone was awake, you know, with their rules and whatnot. |
1:26.4 | And eating in secret became fun. |
1:28.8 | But honestly, it's not a lot of fun anymore. Now I'm at a place in my life where everyone, everyone, |
1:36.0 | has an opinion about my weight and my size. |
1:40.0 | Either they love me because I remind them of them or they hate me because I fly in the face of what is supposed to be beautiful. |
1:47.0 | Because of my weight I'm not supposed to succeed because of my weight I am not supposed to thrive. |
1:52.0 | I am supposed to be embarrassed. I am supposed to be embarrassed. |
1:53.5 | I am supposed to sit home and be shamed. |
1:55.7 | I'm supposed to sit and think about what I've done. |
1:58.3 | But I don't. |
1:59.6 | I don't for a number of reasons. |
2:01.7 | I don't because my daughter's watching and I'll be darned if I let her body size be the |
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