Don't eat that!!! Is it REALLY about self-control?
You hear it everywhere – have more self-control!!
Well…this struggle of self-control plagued me for in the area of FOOD. I feel I am living in a more balanced state now, but for YEARS I was “all or nothing” with my eating habits. I would do great, feel focused, “control” my eating, and then an emotional stressor would hit, and it was all down the drain.
Everything I knew about healthy eating and what I should eat was thrown out the window. When those stressful times would hit, it’s like there was no stopping – watch out – I was about to go 100% the other way – full out binge!
YES? Been there? Can you relate?
I struggled, tried new things, would get going on another diet, try again, etc. It wasn’t until I acknowledged there was something much deeper going on with all of this, did I finally find the freedom I needed.
SADLY I WATCH AS MOST OTHER WOMEN DO THE SAME THINGS….
It is bondage and a never ending cycle!
This is a large reason that I started P31 Fitness, because I knew there had to be other women out there like me. I wanted to help them, share with them, and show them that there is another way to handle food, than being so EXTREME all the time with their health. That there had to be more than “self-control” and maybe it had to do with “God-control”.
There is a VERY important verse that ties all of this together.
Listen to these words from the bible – Colossians 2: 20-23
20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22
These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.”
HMMMMM..could this relate to diet rules you have put on yourself?
Could this be what we have done in the past?
Did you hear what it said…those rules have an appearance of wisdom…and yet not have any value in helping us to restrain when we need to?
So…what is the answer?
The bible goes onto say in Colossians 3:1-2:
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
THERE IT IS!!!
It’s a matter of our HEARTS!!
It is a matter of our MINDS!
Where is our FOCUS?
The more we focus on what we can’t eat, the more we want it.
The more we focus on having to eat this or that – the more we fail.
The more we focus on ourselves, the more we want to binge.
However, the more we focus on HIM – the more FREEDOM we will find in this area of food!!
We are called to live BALANCED lives, and the only way I feel this can be done is through taking an honest look at our habits, personalities, struggles, and truly working to make some changes.
Most of all releasing control to Him instead of relying on ourselves.
It’s not easy to work through this process, but it can be done.
I have a LONG history to prove that God can help us all through these struggles, and we can come out free on the other side – not PERFECT – but free!
Next time you are tempted to go on a crazy restrictive diet – RUN AWAY!
You will be much healthier in the long run by living in balance with food
and not “all or nothing”.
TAKE THE EXTRA TIME TO DO THIS – YOU ARE WORTH IT!
