Mark 14:38 Watch ye and
pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh
is weak.
So, the last few posts
have been about my episode with eating 2/3 of a bag of Kettle Corn which said
it was low in sugar and fat. Well, you can get quite a lot of both when you eat
2/3 of a bag. I've shared some of the other effects of eating all that in the
other posts. I wanted to explain about what happened the night after I ate it
all.
I had eaten dinner and a
salad, but still felt hungry. I ate an apple, but still felt hungry. I ate
another apple, but still felt hungry. Since I felt so hungry, I went through
the things I had eaten to see if they had been substantial enough to get me
through the evening and they were. I couldn't figure out why I was feeling that
hungry, because I rarely have strong cravings like that anymore.
After praying about it,
I found out that the strong hunger cravings were, because I had eaten all that
sugar the day before. Once I was aware of that, I prayed and asked God to take
over, because I knew I wanted to get into a bag of tortilla chips that were
calling my name.
Fortunately for me,
Christ gave me the feeling that giving into cravings wasn't going to help me
one bit and could lead back to old eating patterns I used to have. So, every
time I felt like I could eat the doorknobs off, I prayed for God to heal my
willingness to turn this over to Him. I tried to find something else to do
rather than watch T.V., because the commercials made me want to eat all the more.
Christ did get me through the evening and I haven't had the cravings since. If
I had given in to them, the good would still be controlling my life, instead of
my putting my food, my body, and my eating into Christ's very capable
hands. Mark 14:38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The
spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
Since this is an example of the positive influence God has made on my overeating, this may not reflect the whole meaning of the Bible verses. Debbie
