I’ve learned a lot about dominion over eating by watching my son’s response to food over the years. He’s 16 today, and what I call a “slim-jim.” He’s always been thin and has never had food or eating issues.
He’s been an inspiration to watch because I was never the way he is. I was raised to eat everything on my plate, overeating was okay, stuffing yourself was normal on occasion, and so on. He has never believed any of this or accepted it. He has really been in touch with God on this subject.
What I’ve noticed in watching him is that he always stops eating when he’s full. It’s very simple for him. It doesn’t make any difference how much food is on his plate, what is being served, or even if his favorite dessert is available. He simply, flat out, will not eat it if he is full. And by "full" I don't mean stuffed or really full. I mean "just enough." He fills easily, with moderate portions of food. He will walk away from any food without giving it a second thought and not feel any loss at all if he figures he’s had enough to eat.
My explanation for his dominion over eating is the spiritual peace he feels within between himself and God. He does not equate happiness or contentment with material food. It’s a spiritual thing for him, not necessarily a conscious understanding, but a profound feeling he was born with that guides his decision-making in regards to food. He could “care less” about it, you might say. Food is definitely a “no-big-deal” for him.
I find major lessons about attitudes toward food in watching him. He lives out, without realizing it, Jesus admonition to “Take no thought about what you eat.” He doesn’t, either for pleasure or for entertainment. He has greater things to do with his life than idolize food.
And perhaps that is a key point—idolizing food.
To idolize food is to make a god of it—to bow down to it, honor it, worship it, fear it and live one’s life around it. This is a direct violation of the First Commandment, have no other gods than the one God.
When we focus immense attention on the content of food, the ramifications of what we eat, what to eat, what not to eat, and so on, haven’t we made food into a god? And it’s a god that is not God! So, what power is there in it? None!
I like my son’s attitude, and I’m still learning from it.
I like to cook. I like to try new recipes. I like to try new foods. I appreciate fine cooking. But sometimes, I have to stop and wonder, “Do I need to back off here and get my perspective on what real food is better in view?”
Food, the raw stuff that really matters, is not material. It’s spiritual. And when we find it in Truth, take it in, hold on to it and understand it, genuine contentment, satisfaction and joy settle into thought. It then becomes easy to walk away from the table. It’s easy to say no to unnecessary desserts. And it’s easy to not overeat.
Like my son, there are vastly more important things to do in life than take thought for food.
The food that leads to settled contentment comes from above and is built into our being. We’ve had it all along. God gave it to us. And there isn’t anything from the grocery store that can augment it.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Taking in spiritual food
Yesterday we began a discussion about looking at food from a spiritual point of view. Not looking at material food and trying to spiritualize it somehow. No-no… But we talked about spiritual food, the word of God, which nourishes us spiritually and meets human needs.
There is mega-attention given in society today to food from a material point of view,--what it contains, what it causes, the good, the bad, the ugly, and so on. But there is very little attention to food from a spiritual point of view. And this is the greater need.
Life is so much more than a conglomeration of carbohydrates, vitamins, proteins and amino acids. Life is spiritual. It’s sustained by Spirit, and is discovered in spiritual understanding.
When we are actively consuming spiritual truth, understanding our relationship to God better and finding peace about it, eating habits moderate, gluttony disappears, contentment settles in, and many more benefits appear that manifest themselves as healthy fit living.
Spiritual food is not material food looked at from a divine perspective. Spiritual food is spiritual truth, understanding, inspiration, enlightenment, divine consciousness and their kin.
When we take in spiritual food, we make better human choices and experience better effects.
For instance, my wife made this delicious “Clementine-vanilla bean quick bread” last weekend that came out of a Martha Stewart magazine. It was yummy. The problem was, I couldn’t stop with one piece. I wanted another and another and another… There was no satisfaction from eating it. In fact, each bite I ate, it made me want to eat more.
Has that ever happened to you?
It was a bit agonizing, because I began to reason, “What is the point? If it tastes really good, but I’m not satisfied after I eat a piece and only want more, was it really good for me?” I looked at the recipe and saw that it was loaded with sugar.
I did not eat endless pieces! I do have more dominion than that. But after a piece or two, I thought, I need to pray for spiritual contentment and specifically rebuke the belief that sugar has any kind of hold on my desires. I need to take in a heavy amount of spiritual truth to counteract this pull toward eating more of this sugar-laden bread.
I prayed to know that my contentment and happiness came from God, not from elated taste buds. I was already a complete whole being, feeling and expressing the fullness of God’s love, I affirmed, and found genuine happiness and contentment in knowing this truth. This truth was spiritual food, and sufficient to meet my need, I accepted.
A desire to keep eating the bread disappeared, and I was content without it.
And this is what I mean about consuming spiritual food and experiencing a good benefit from it. When we keep our thought inspired and enlightened we are much less likely to fall into mindless traps of the carnal mind that lead to poor eating habits and undesirable choices.
Contentment, joy, satisfaction, wholeness, fullness, health and fitness are qualities of God, expressions of divine Mind, and they come direct from God, not from anything we put in our mouth.
When we are filled with spiritual food—when our consciousness is filled up with heavenly inspiration—we won’t be reaching for something that cannot satisfy and mindlessly absorbing that which does us no good.
Are you reaching for spiritual food today?
There is mega-attention given in society today to food from a material point of view,--what it contains, what it causes, the good, the bad, the ugly, and so on. But there is very little attention to food from a spiritual point of view. And this is the greater need.
Life is so much more than a conglomeration of carbohydrates, vitamins, proteins and amino acids. Life is spiritual. It’s sustained by Spirit, and is discovered in spiritual understanding.
When we are actively consuming spiritual truth, understanding our relationship to God better and finding peace about it, eating habits moderate, gluttony disappears, contentment settles in, and many more benefits appear that manifest themselves as healthy fit living.
Spiritual food is not material food looked at from a divine perspective. Spiritual food is spiritual truth, understanding, inspiration, enlightenment, divine consciousness and their kin.
When we take in spiritual food, we make better human choices and experience better effects.
For instance, my wife made this delicious “Clementine-vanilla bean quick bread” last weekend that came out of a Martha Stewart magazine. It was yummy. The problem was, I couldn’t stop with one piece. I wanted another and another and another… There was no satisfaction from eating it. In fact, each bite I ate, it made me want to eat more.
Has that ever happened to you?
It was a bit agonizing, because I began to reason, “What is the point? If it tastes really good, but I’m not satisfied after I eat a piece and only want more, was it really good for me?” I looked at the recipe and saw that it was loaded with sugar.
I did not eat endless pieces! I do have more dominion than that. But after a piece or two, I thought, I need to pray for spiritual contentment and specifically rebuke the belief that sugar has any kind of hold on my desires. I need to take in a heavy amount of spiritual truth to counteract this pull toward eating more of this sugar-laden bread.
I prayed to know that my contentment and happiness came from God, not from elated taste buds. I was already a complete whole being, feeling and expressing the fullness of God’s love, I affirmed, and found genuine happiness and contentment in knowing this truth. This truth was spiritual food, and sufficient to meet my need, I accepted.
A desire to keep eating the bread disappeared, and I was content without it.
And this is what I mean about consuming spiritual food and experiencing a good benefit from it. When we keep our thought inspired and enlightened we are much less likely to fall into mindless traps of the carnal mind that lead to poor eating habits and undesirable choices.
Contentment, joy, satisfaction, wholeness, fullness, health and fitness are qualities of God, expressions of divine Mind, and they come direct from God, not from anything we put in our mouth.
When we are filled with spiritual food—when our consciousness is filled up with heavenly inspiration—we won’t be reaching for something that cannot satisfy and mindlessly absorbing that which does us no good.
Are you reaching for spiritual food today?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
What are you eating today?
Last September, I wrote a number of blogs that centered on a spiritual approach to making wise food choices. The posts inspired a vigorous and lively discussion among readers on the topic and left me believing there was still a whole lot more that could be said on the subject!
Another approach to the topic I’d like to take is looking at food from the opposite point of view than we did last time.
Before, we conversed significantly about how to demonstrate dominion over food choices, how not to be influenced by gluttony, laziness, sloth, and how to find peace of mind when walking through the grocery store deciding what to buy, and later in the kitchen with what to cook.
Jesus taught, “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.”
Hmmmm. What does this mean? Does it mean totally ignore what you put into your mouth? Does it mean eat anything put in front of you? Does it mean it makes no difference what you eat?
What does it mean to take no thought for what you eat?
To understand his saying, you have to back up and understand that he had already taught the important of consuming spiritual food. “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,” Jesus said.
Jesus was not advocating ignorance, apathy or neglect in one’s choices. He was re-directing attention from focus on material consumption to engaging with proper spiritual consumption. It wasn’t what went into the mouth that was of primary concern to him, but what was going on in consciousness. He knew that when one’s thinking was right with God, human action and effect would be right with God too.
“…every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,” is reference to spiritual truth, or divine Science. Truth is what nourishes us and sustains us in all the right ways, not carrots and potatoes, ham and eggs.
People can eat the “right” material food, but if they lack spiritual inspiration, joy and feeling close to God, life is still going to feel out of balance, malnourished and weak. Eternal life and health don’t come from vitamins and proteins. They reside in Spirit and are discovered in spiritual understanding. And when they are understood, they translate into a healthy fit body that is quiet and obedient to the demands of Truth.
It’s spiritual food coming from God that properly nourishes the human mind and fills it with inspiration that translates into healthy living.
Paul wrote, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
So, when it comes to discussing the topic of food, the “food” we need to "put on our plate" is not what sits on the shelves of the grocery store, but the spiritual truths of God that inspire, uplift, buoy, fit and shape our views and lives to conform with the healthy fit man and woman of God's creating.
What “meat and drink” are you consuming today? Is it the healthy kind served up by God?
Another approach to the topic I’d like to take is looking at food from the opposite point of view than we did last time.
Before, we conversed significantly about how to demonstrate dominion over food choices, how not to be influenced by gluttony, laziness, sloth, and how to find peace of mind when walking through the grocery store deciding what to buy, and later in the kitchen with what to cook.
Jesus taught, “Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink.”
Hmmmm. What does this mean? Does it mean totally ignore what you put into your mouth? Does it mean eat anything put in front of you? Does it mean it makes no difference what you eat?
What does it mean to take no thought for what you eat?
To understand his saying, you have to back up and understand that he had already taught the important of consuming spiritual food. “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,” Jesus said.
Jesus was not advocating ignorance, apathy or neglect in one’s choices. He was re-directing attention from focus on material consumption to engaging with proper spiritual consumption. It wasn’t what went into the mouth that was of primary concern to him, but what was going on in consciousness. He knew that when one’s thinking was right with God, human action and effect would be right with God too.
“…every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God,” is reference to spiritual truth, or divine Science. Truth is what nourishes us and sustains us in all the right ways, not carrots and potatoes, ham and eggs.
People can eat the “right” material food, but if they lack spiritual inspiration, joy and feeling close to God, life is still going to feel out of balance, malnourished and weak. Eternal life and health don’t come from vitamins and proteins. They reside in Spirit and are discovered in spiritual understanding. And when they are understood, they translate into a healthy fit body that is quiet and obedient to the demands of Truth.
It’s spiritual food coming from God that properly nourishes the human mind and fills it with inspiration that translates into healthy living.
Paul wrote, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”
So, when it comes to discussing the topic of food, the “food” we need to "put on our plate" is not what sits on the shelves of the grocery store, but the spiritual truths of God that inspire, uplift, buoy, fit and shape our views and lives to conform with the healthy fit man and woman of God's creating.
What “meat and drink” are you consuming today? Is it the healthy kind served up by God?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Down with overeating
If combating the temptation to overeat, starve gluttony out of your way of thinking by not feeding it with compliance, passivity or mindlessness.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Layers of unflattering error
I caught a segment on TV a few days ago about a young man who lost 450 pounds. They showed a before and after shot of this guy, and the difference in appearance was astounding, as you can probably imagine.
What grabbed my attention, though, was how strikingly handsome this man was at a normal weight. At 650 pounds, his innate beauty was very difficult, if not impossible to see, from a physical point of view.
I pondered the metaphysical lesson.
Covered under layers of fat is one way mortal mind tries to hide the beautiful man or woman of God’s creating, but there are many other ways cover-ups happen.
People can take on layers of fear, anger, disappointment, discouragement, pride, conceit, and other sins. And if allowed to grow, adding layer upon layer in thought, they soon hide the beautiful, humble, strikingly handsome creation of God underneath. It's not a physical cover-up so much as a mental one.
This ought not to be!
We must vigorously rebel against any tendency of the carnal mind to hide our beautiful spiritual character under layers of error, mental or physical.
I pondered what layers of error I might be laboring under that needed to be shed. I’ll keep those thoughts to myself! But you may have some layers you’d like to shed too.
When faced with a deformed picture of identity, reform and improvement is possible. God created each of us in the divine image, and the outline is a beautiful sight to behold.
Don’t let mortal mind hide your incredibly beautiful character and spiritual form!
What grabbed my attention, though, was how strikingly handsome this man was at a normal weight. At 650 pounds, his innate beauty was very difficult, if not impossible to see, from a physical point of view.
I pondered the metaphysical lesson.
Covered under layers of fat is one way mortal mind tries to hide the beautiful man or woman of God’s creating, but there are many other ways cover-ups happen.
People can take on layers of fear, anger, disappointment, discouragement, pride, conceit, and other sins. And if allowed to grow, adding layer upon layer in thought, they soon hide the beautiful, humble, strikingly handsome creation of God underneath. It's not a physical cover-up so much as a mental one.
This ought not to be!
We must vigorously rebel against any tendency of the carnal mind to hide our beautiful spiritual character under layers of error, mental or physical.
I pondered what layers of error I might be laboring under that needed to be shed. I’ll keep those thoughts to myself! But you may have some layers you’d like to shed too.
When faced with a deformed picture of identity, reform and improvement is possible. God created each of us in the divine image, and the outline is a beautiful sight to behold.
Don’t let mortal mind hide your incredibly beautiful character and spiritual form!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Body image and losing weight
Here’s a new podcast I recorded for tmcyouth that was posted yesterday.
Taking a look in the mirror
That glass object in your room can sometimes be your worst enemy. It tells you if you’re fat or thin—good-looking or ugly. Click here to find out how to see your true image and shed off pounds of worry and doubt!
Taking a look in the mirror
That glass object in your room can sometimes be your worst enemy. It tells you if you’re fat or thin—good-looking or ugly. Click here to find out how to see your true image and shed off pounds of worry and doubt!
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Weight loss
Struggling with excess weight? Wondering how to lose it permanently?
I was intrigued by this short video clip on the Today show where Gwen Shamblin was interviewed about her "Weigh down" method of losing weight.
I'm not advocating her system, but I found several of her ideas thought-provoking. Most notably her conviction that focusing on food selection makes the whole problem of permanently losing weight worse. She claims that the need is to stop focusing on food, and focus on loving God more. By loving God more, and feeling God's love, the dietary issues will moderate, and the body will return to its normal state, she argues.
She has strong testimony to back up her claims.
I was intrigued by this short video clip on the Today show where Gwen Shamblin was interviewed about her "Weigh down" method of losing weight.
I'm not advocating her system, but I found several of her ideas thought-provoking. Most notably her conviction that focusing on food selection makes the whole problem of permanently losing weight worse. She claims that the need is to stop focusing on food, and focus on loving God more. By loving God more, and feeling God's love, the dietary issues will moderate, and the body will return to its normal state, she argues.
She has strong testimony to back up her claims.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Changing opinions on exercise
I laughed out loud over a week ago when I read an article in my local newspaper reporting a survey that stated exercise is not necessarily helpful in losing weight. Unfortunately, I can’t find a link on the Internet to the article, but it was a substantial study done by reputable researchers.
They were not discrediting benefits from exercise, but wanted people to know that exercise is not a cure all for losing extra pounds.
Why?
Because too many people after a heavy workout at the gym go home and reward themselves with food—eating more than they would have eaten if they had skipped the gym and just come home. The net effect of eating more as a personal reward negated any caloric benefit from exercising.
They were not discrediting benefits from exercise, but wanted people to know that exercise is not a cure all for losing extra pounds.
Why?
Because too many people after a heavy workout at the gym go home and reward themselves with food—eating more than they would have eaten if they had skipped the gym and just come home. The net effect of eating more as a personal reward negated any caloric benefit from exercising.
Oh, the changing winds of mortal opinion and belief…and they will continue to change and revise until thought settles on a spiritual solution for extra weight gain.
I thought the report was healthy for public consumption because it declared that there is no single material remedy for conquering obesity. To make flat statements of “exercise more,” may not be helpful for many people.
The Bible teaching, “Exercise thyself to godliness,” is perhaps the healthiest program to follow. A godly thought will manifest itself as godly action, and godly action will in turn protect the body from mental influence that throws it out of balance.
With recessionary pressures felt in many places, a spiritual exercise program such as this is budget friendly too!
Friday, August 31, 2007
Concerned about obesity?
I have a new blog posted on tmcyouth.com titled, “Is obesity contagious?”
It begins:
It begins:
“Have you heard the recent news about gaining weight? Researchers claim that obesity is contagious!Click here to read more.
Their report states that it matters who your friends are, explaining that people gain weight or slim down according to the girth of neighbors and relatives they associate with…."
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Quick weight loss
Spiritual truth can have an amazingly rapid effect on our physical health and well being when correctly glimpsed.
Two days ago, a new friend told me how she lost a lot of weight when in elementary school.
While in 4th grade, she was the fattest kid in school, she said. To help remedy the problem, during summer break, her mom called a Christian Science practitioner and asked the practitioner to metaphysically treat her daughter everyday to be fit while the family went on a two week camping trip. The practitioner said little, and agreed to help.
During vacation, the youngster didn’t think much about food, her weight, or losing pounds. She laid out in the sun much of the day, swam, participated in the outdoor activities, and had a good time with her family.
When she got back home, none of her clothes fit. She weighed herself, and was astounded to see she had dropped from around 125 pounds to 75 pounds in two weeks.
Her playmates on the street didn’t recognize her. When she went to Sunday school, the others wondered who she was. The practitioner, who was a bit overweight herself, came to visit and see with her own eyes how much weight her patient had lost. The transformation seemed incredible, yet it happened.
Truth is powerful.
When I lost excess weight over twenty years ago, I had a similar experience. Once I got the spiritual view of myself correct, 20 pounds melted off in three weeks. I was so caught up into my fitness as a child of God that I wasn’t aware of what was happening to the body until my pants refused to stay on any longer. The spiritual reality had so overwhelmed my perspective that I wasn’t thinking about losing weight. I was thinking about my perfect spiritual self.
This is the ideal! Spiritual healing is not about changing matter. It’s about getting the right idea that God created in the first place.
God made each of us healthy, fit and under control. Hold to the truth about your spiritual identity, and Truth will reshape and re-form the body to conform.
And it might happen rapidly.
Two days ago, a new friend told me how she lost a lot of weight when in elementary school.
While in 4th grade, she was the fattest kid in school, she said. To help remedy the problem, during summer break, her mom called a Christian Science practitioner and asked the practitioner to metaphysically treat her daughter everyday to be fit while the family went on a two week camping trip. The practitioner said little, and agreed to help.
During vacation, the youngster didn’t think much about food, her weight, or losing pounds. She laid out in the sun much of the day, swam, participated in the outdoor activities, and had a good time with her family.
When she got back home, none of her clothes fit. She weighed herself, and was astounded to see she had dropped from around 125 pounds to 75 pounds in two weeks.
Her playmates on the street didn’t recognize her. When she went to Sunday school, the others wondered who she was. The practitioner, who was a bit overweight herself, came to visit and see with her own eyes how much weight her patient had lost. The transformation seemed incredible, yet it happened.
Truth is powerful.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword… Hebrews
When I lost excess weight over twenty years ago, I had a similar experience. Once I got the spiritual view of myself correct, 20 pounds melted off in three weeks. I was so caught up into my fitness as a child of God that I wasn’t aware of what was happening to the body until my pants refused to stay on any longer. The spiritual reality had so overwhelmed my perspective that I wasn’t thinking about losing weight. I was thinking about my perfect spiritual self.
This is the ideal! Spiritual healing is not about changing matter. It’s about getting the right idea that God created in the first place.
God made each of us healthy, fit and under control. Hold to the truth about your spiritual identity, and Truth will reshape and re-form the body to conform.
And it might happen rapidly.
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Deciding what to eat
It’s a common question for dieters to ask when praying for a spiritual solution to losing weight, “How do I know what to eat?”The sound waves of mortal mind are filled with suggestions and decrees about what food is proper and what is dangerous. “Cut the fat, decrease the sugar, increase the protein…” and countless other verdicts are rendered on our behalf everyday. Many opinions contradict each other. Even scientific studies tout opposite conclusions.
How does one know what food to consume?
There’s a better way than trying to figure it all out humanly.
Jesus Christ, a spiritual thinker who exercised masterful control over the human body, instructed, “Take no thought for what you eat.” Sounds blasphemous, even heretical, doesn’t it?
How could it be? We wonder. “Take no thought for what we eat!” Isn’t that pure foolishness?
It's not foolish when understood properly.
Jesus was not advocating naiveté or an ignorant approach to eating. He was showing us a better way to make wise choices, a spiritual way.
Jesus always turned to God first for instruction and guidance. He listened to his Father first and then acted.
“Take no thought for what you eat,” is not an advocacy for neglect and bodily abuse, but for getting thought headed in the right direction, in a spiritual direction, before acting. We need to listen to God first, not human theory, when deciding what to eat.
God is an all-knowing, all-wise Mind that makes the best possible choices. When we listen to Mind for direction, we reflect Mind’s wisdom which always has a good outcome.
When walking down the grocery store aisles, we often make choices based upon personal feelings and unstable emotions. We make poor choices when our desires are guided by selfish want rather than divine wisdom.
Practice something.
Next time you go shopping, start your decision-making by asking God for guidance. Listen for divine direction before grabbing an item off the shelf. See what happens. Chances are you’ll make choices you feel better about.
God knows what’s best for us and He leads us to the best possible scenario when we let Him. It takes humility to walk the divine path for we have to put material reasoning, medical theory, and personal guessing aside. But the divine Mind never fails to lead aright.
Listen to the divine voice within, and see what it puts into your mouth.
The qualities of honesty, obedience, balance, temperance and moderation and God at work within, and they translate into wiser human actions.
Friday, May 5, 2006
Trying to lose weight?
Are your eating habits out of control? Do you need to lose weight?
One fear dieters often confront when trying to get a lust for food under control is the argument of “If I don’t eat, I’ll get hungry.”
Gluttons get in the habit of stuffing their mouths at will or whim. It brings pleasure, they believe, and also prevents them from feeling hungry.
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” Jesus taught.
When I committed myself to spiritually losing weight over 20 years ago, I saw the need to reduce snacking between meals. I wanted to pray more instead of weigh more! But 11 a.m. would roll around, and I’d feel starved.
One day, after struggling with the temptation to snack, I realized that I didn’t need to fear hunger. Waiting until noon to eat was not going to kill me! I didn’t live to stuff a stomach. I lived to glorify God, and eating more than I needed did not glorify God.
As I prayed daily for spiritual support and strength instead of going to the kitchen for more cookies, the dreaded hunger pangs left. I soon found it easy to wait until mealtime to eat with no snacks in between.
I lost the extra weight, and I’m wearing the same size pants today that I discovered in the new me back then.
Don’t fear hunger. It won’t hurt you. God is giving you everything you need internally to feel happy, contented and well without having to chomp on something between your teeth.
One fear dieters often confront when trying to get a lust for food under control is the argument of “If I don’t eat, I’ll get hungry.”
Gluttons get in the habit of stuffing their mouths at will or whim. It brings pleasure, they believe, and also prevents them from feeling hungry.
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled,” Jesus taught.
When I committed myself to spiritually losing weight over 20 years ago, I saw the need to reduce snacking between meals. I wanted to pray more instead of weigh more! But 11 a.m. would roll around, and I’d feel starved.
One day, after struggling with the temptation to snack, I realized that I didn’t need to fear hunger. Waiting until noon to eat was not going to kill me! I didn’t live to stuff a stomach. I lived to glorify God, and eating more than I needed did not glorify God.
As I prayed daily for spiritual support and strength instead of going to the kitchen for more cookies, the dreaded hunger pangs left. I soon found it easy to wait until mealtime to eat with no snacks in between.
I lost the extra weight, and I’m wearing the same size pants today that I discovered in the new me back then.
Don’t fear hunger. It won’t hurt you. God is giving you everything you need internally to feel happy, contented and well without having to chomp on something between your teeth.
