Be prepared: Successful management of your body starts in the shopping. If you are going to re-educate your appetite successfully you have to learn what to buy and what to leave in the store. Avoid keeping foods in the house that are high in fat and sugar.
Change your lifestyle management: Many people make it difficult for themselves because they say they have no time to eat properly. Compulsive eaters that come to healing make a choice to restructure their eating behaviour. Unless you do this, you will never succeed in losing weight and keeping it off.
Although losing weight is important (because most compulsive eaters are overweight) it is important to be in God’s will for your life and to remember that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Renew your mind: Culturally we give food to represent friendship, hospitality and love, so to say NO to food seems to be a rejection of those emotions. Behaviour modification is important to help the Compulsive Eater to cope – i.e. when in a difficult situation, to break the vicious circle – feeling depressed leading to eating leading to guilt leading to further depression.
How to renew your mind:
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Philippians 4:13
Write down the scriptures that motivate you - Memorize them. Believe them. Say them.
Avoid flashpoints – if the smell of fresh bread affects you, take another route.
Send leftover foods to someone who needs them.
Retrain yourself if you eat when you watch TV – read or do something else instead.
Confine eating to your Designated Eating Places.
Slow down your eating. Chew each mouthful thoroughly.
When you are moody do something other than eat. Walk. Exercise. Read.
Help a fellow Compulsive Eater: Share something of what you are learning with someone. Encourage someone. Motivate someone. Congratulate someone. Comfort someone.
Do daily spiritual work: Start with the scriptures in this course. Say them often. Pray.
God will set you free:
“If the son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” John 8:36
What is freedom?
Being able to eat as God wants you to eat.
Sharing leftovers with others.
Changing your dress size once and for all.
Experiencing your hunger response. Eat well.
Fulfilling your needs – mentally, physically, spiritually, intellectually, socially, vocationally.
Following a new way of life steeped more and more in God’s ways.
There is no reason why anyone who stays freed by Christ should have an eating problem again.
Gluttony/eating disorders come from Satan. To overcome Satan we need to have “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.” Ephesians 1:18,19
- EATRITE – Leslie Hand
Homework 5c: Renew your mind and live increasingly freed by Jesus Christ every day.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
EATRITE - 5b - Define Your Objective. Proceed Daily
What has brought you to this point of reading this and participating?
Do you feel fat, unloved, unlovely, lacking self-control?
Why do you feel you need to change in your eating behaviour?
Remember that it takes one step at a time. Too many people set a difficult task and then give up. Goals must be focused on what is achievable – “I can do all things thorough Christ which strengtheneth me” Philippians 4:13
Put your objective on paper: Writing down your goal will crystallize it in your mind. Speak it into your life on a daily basis. Evaluate whether decisions you make will take you towards your goal or push you in another direction. Remember that Satan doesn’t want you to have victory in this area, but “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4
Map your strategy: Break your lifestyle change goal down into bite size pieces. Make achieving it more manageable. Write down your menu daily. Commit it to the Lord. Ask Him to make your thoughts agreeable with His plans for your life. Humble yourself.
Commit your ways to Him and you shall succeed: Be positive. Tell yourself you can do it.
Set a deadline: A goal is a dream with a deadline. A deadline provides a time frame for action. It gets you moving in pursuit of your dreams..”Where there is no vision, the people perish” Proverbs 29:18
Commit yourself: You need to commit yourself and your programme to the Lord. Ask the Holy Spirit to remind you if there are any areas that need changing or dealing with. If you are really committed your goal will become your reality.
Don’t fear failure: “Neither do I condemn thee…” John 8:11
Usually it is the anticipation of failure, and not the failure itself that paralyses you.
Because you are only human there will be times you fail. God will never override your personal choices. If you eat the ‘wrong’ foods, YOU are making a choice. If you follow the programme 80% of the time your body can cope with your 20% indulgences, but you’ll achieve your goal more slowly. Confess your eating sins. Ask the Lord to forgive you. Pick yourself up and start again.
Persist, Persist: Along the way to any goal you will be confronted with obstacles. Psalm 37:4 says “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart.” “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” 3 John 2
How do you prosper your soul?
* Spirit led prayer and a positive, praise filled life
* Studying God’s word and quoting the scriptures boldly
* Witnessing with your life and lips of Christ to others
It is never too late: Age is not a barrier to achievement. As you grow older and learn more, you gain the confidence to take on new challenges.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.” Heb 12:1
“In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.” Heb 12:4
“You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me.” Acts 1:8
- EATRITE - Leslie Hand
Homework 5b: Define your objective and follow the steps to your success.
Do you feel fat, unloved, unlovely, lacking self-control?
Why do you feel you need to change in your eating behaviour?
Remember that it takes one step at a time. Too many people set a difficult task and then give up. Goals must be focused on what is achievable – “I can do all things thorough Christ which strengtheneth me” Philippians 4:13
Put your objective on paper: Writing down your goal will crystallize it in your mind. Speak it into your life on a daily basis. Evaluate whether decisions you make will take you towards your goal or push you in another direction. Remember that Satan doesn’t want you to have victory in this area, but “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4
Map your strategy: Break your lifestyle change goal down into bite size pieces. Make achieving it more manageable. Write down your menu daily. Commit it to the Lord. Ask Him to make your thoughts agreeable with His plans for your life. Humble yourself.
Commit your ways to Him and you shall succeed: Be positive. Tell yourself you can do it.
Set a deadline: A goal is a dream with a deadline. A deadline provides a time frame for action. It gets you moving in pursuit of your dreams..”Where there is no vision, the people perish” Proverbs 29:18
Commit yourself: You need to commit yourself and your programme to the Lord. Ask the Holy Spirit to remind you if there are any areas that need changing or dealing with. If you are really committed your goal will become your reality.
Don’t fear failure: “Neither do I condemn thee…” John 8:11
Usually it is the anticipation of failure, and not the failure itself that paralyses you.
Because you are only human there will be times you fail. God will never override your personal choices. If you eat the ‘wrong’ foods, YOU are making a choice. If you follow the programme 80% of the time your body can cope with your 20% indulgences, but you’ll achieve your goal more slowly. Confess your eating sins. Ask the Lord to forgive you. Pick yourself up and start again.
Persist, Persist: Along the way to any goal you will be confronted with obstacles. Psalm 37:4 says “Delight yourself also in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of your heart.” “Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” 3 John 2
How do you prosper your soul?
* Spirit led prayer and a positive, praise filled life
* Studying God’s word and quoting the scriptures boldly
* Witnessing with your life and lips of Christ to others
It is never too late: Age is not a barrier to achievement. As you grow older and learn more, you gain the confidence to take on new challenges.
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.” Heb 12:1
“In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.” Heb 12:4
“You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me.” Acts 1:8
- EATRITE - Leslie Hand
Homework 5b: Define your objective and follow the steps to your success.
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