January 31, 2012

• Made to Crave

   

   

  

  I guess I've been out there with my weight loss journey, sharing photos, sharing my mental process, and sharing the bumps along the road. 

  At the end of November I broke up with Weight Watchers...it was a good thing.

  I felt ready to handle weight loss without that program I wasn't even following (I am doing the old WW program, not the new, new program)

  For about 6 weeks I sorta...well it was the holidays and I just enjoyed, I tracked some days, I weighed in weekly, but I didn't stress.

  I gained 3 pounds. I was okay with that. 

  Then the new year came and I felt refocused, but was still fighting.

  Then some girlfriends talked about this book, "Made to Crave".

  Our pastor shared about how serious are we about sin, are we serious enough to get radical. Another sermon was about the power of the Word to battle sin.

  This was all swirling in my brain.

  I've always felt overeating and being greedy in my eating is a sin. No matter the food...carrots or carrot cake...if it is eaten with wrong motives then it can be sin.

  I ordered the book and when it came I devoured it!

  Now I've done two other bible study weight loss books...I sorta didn't expect anything "new" with this book, but it was a fresh perspective on eating and my walk with God. 

  There are a couple of main things that jumped out to my heart from this book. 

  1) She talks about how foods are not the problem, but we have trigger foods. (It's our hearts that the core of the problem lies...what we're craving) However there are foods that can send us in a downward, out of control eating cycle. For me I have notices sugar and chips do that for me. To be a living sacrifice I've felt that God has asked me to not have one bite of those foods until I am not mastered by them. I don't know how long I'll go without, but when I am tempted I hear "not one bite". For some this won't make sense, for others this will make complete sense. I have cut off those foods, not in a legalistic way, but in a way to lose the pull of those foods...I want to crave God more than chips or sugar. 

  2) She talks about how she viewed her stronghold of food like a tall tower and when she was tempted to overeat, eat with greed, or eat something she had felt she wasn't to eat to show she wasn't mastered by it; she'd envision taking a brick off the tower and building a pathway to prayer. That image has stuck with me. 

  Eating, food, being overweight, losing weight...is more than just a number on the scale or a size of jeans...but a heart attitude of contentment.

  I've lost those 3 pounds and hope to lose the last 25 in 2012!

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