What do I know? That's a really good question! I'm not a nutritionist or a doctor or fitness instructor or a minister. So, why do I find myself qualified to post on the Christian Overeaters Past and Present Blog? I guess it's because I have been a Christian Overeater. When I'm actively turning my food, body, eating and stress over to God, most of those compulsive overeating behaviors are in the past. When I get sloppy with my relationship with Christ, I tend to fall back into old compulsive overeating patterns and also forget to turn my food, body, eating and stress over to God.
Do I have all the answers? No, but God does! So, what exactly can I share with other overeaters that might be beneficial in their weight loss journey. Well, nothing specific from me, because my weight loss of 80+ pounds and the vast majority of it staying off for over 30 years came from God, but not from me. Actually, I had given up ever losing weight. I had been overweight most of my life and had tried almost every diet around and some two and three times. I tried fad diets, group diets, exercise classes and I even had acupuncture staples put in my ears all for the sake of losing weight. Did any of them work? Well, I lost several pounds on several of them, but quickly gained the weight back plus more than I started with.
It wasn't until I got to the point I sat on my bed and told God I gave up, that things ever changed. I told Him that if Be wanted me to ever be thin, He'd have to do it, because I couldn't. The funny thing is, when I gave up trying, that's when God took over. You may wonder why that is, which is a really good question. Although I can't speak for God, as I've prayerfully pondered this over the years, I think that when I told God that I had given up was the first time I had ever given up control. I obviously had control issues. As I was thinking about this, I remember all those years asking God to help ME lose the weight. Every time I was asking God to help ME, I was really asking Him to help Me be in control of everything and He was just supposed to stay in the background unless I needed help with something.
Once I gave up and turned it over to God, He had so many amazing things happen to me. That very same day I said the prayer giving up, God took the urge to eat large quantities of food away. He made it where particular foods, especially sweets and carbs no longer called my name. I never expected this to happen, but when I turned it over to God, everything fell into place. He had many lessons for me along the way. A major one was that I had made food a false god in my life and was turning to food for comfort in times of stress instead of to God. If you want to read more of the lessons God's shown me over the years go to Christian Overeaters Past and Present Support.
Because
these posts are examples of how I've applied these Bible verses to my
life, they don't necessarily reflect the whole meaning of the Bible
verse. Debbie
