Picture this. You just finished the laundry, and all of a sudden you notice the yummy cookies in the cupboard next to the washing machine. It's not lunch, you're not hungry, and yet those cookies are calling out your name. What are you going to ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 15: Social Eating
Don't you hate it when everyone around you is on their fourth piece of pizza, and you're sitting there with a salad on your plate? Somehow, it seems unfair. If they get four pieces of pizza, we should get four pieces of pizza. So we sit there ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 12: Hopeless Eating
Have you ever thought, I'll never get over this, I'll be struggling with my weight 'til the day I die? I used to think that. ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 11:”Losing Weight is Hard” Eating
You've seen the headlines: 50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight! How I Lost 20 Pounds in Just 3 Weeks! Eat All You Want and Lose! Combine those headlines with our American belief that life should be easy, and we have a recipe for a lifelong problem with ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 10: Emotional Eating
The telltale sign of emotional eating is that you feel driven to eat. You don't just see a brownie on the counter and want it; you go looking for the brownie because you need it. Sometimes it's a desperate feeling - you need that chocolate ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 9: Evaluation
Sometimes it helps to take a break and look at life. Find out what's working. What's not. And what needs to change. It also helps to do that with eating. If we find out what areas we need the most help with, we can then direct our renewing of the ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 8: Vacation and Holiday Eating
Happy Independence Day! I thought I'd talk about holiday/vacation eating in this post since we'll have plenty of opportunities to break our boundaries today. It's easy to break boundaries on holidays and vacations because we have all kinds of ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 7: Failure Eating
When I first started truth journaling 12 years ago, it never occurred to me to beat myself up when I failed. My renewing of the mind project was anger, but since I never did anything when I was angry (no yelling fits, throwing things, or nasty ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 6: Entitlement Eating
It's hard to break free from entitlement eating because we hear the message everywhere we go: Life should be fair. You shouldn't have to suffer. You deserve the good life. This philosophy encourages us to eat in a couple of different ... [ Read More ]
Weight Loss Bible Study Day 5: “I Have to Be Skinny” Eating
Do you ever feel like you have to be skinny? I used to feel that way. Weight was that one thing in life I could never control. And because I felt like I had to be skinny, I made "losing weight" more important than God wanted me to make it. I ... [ Read More ]
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