Food is not evil. Enjoying food is not evil. Feasting is not evil (Esther 9:17-23; Nehemiah 8:10-12). God has given us food to both enjoy and to nourish our bodies. The desire for more and more food is the issue. The overeating is the problem. God gave us: the physical sensation of hunger hunger equals eating the physical sensation of fullness fullness equals stop eating Problems in our day wth food: highly processed highly processed equals caloric density taste buds are tempted to eat more we overeat overeating has beaten us Is the solution to just eat plain food? Is the sol ..read more

The trouble in our world began with temptation. The one doing the tempting: the devil. The instrument used: food. Eve first, then Adam, ate the food they were told not to eat (Genesis 3:1-6). The world changed for the worst after that. The remedy to our world's trouble also involved food. Our Lord Jesus told us that in order to have eternal life we needed to symbolically eat his flesh and drink his blood (John 6:51, 53-56). Our future changed for the better after that.  The devil tried his best and lost. Jesus came to our rescue, and as a result we won. The devil is still trying ..read more

Food. The struggle is real. The devil is real. Defeat and/or victory is real. I can be going along doing so great, and then out of the blue temptations come. Or worse, feeling quite proud of myself that "I'm doing it" and I have arrived at a perpetual state of victory only to find myself back to bad eating habits and wondering why I can't stop. No-one knows when the temptations are going to strike. Sometimes it comes quickly, and other times the desire to overeat and to binge begins to take hold slowly. The old crafty devil knows how to push my buttons. He tries an arsenal of things to tr ..read more

How easy it is to sabotage myself. It doesn't take a lot. It's easier to walk this journey out in defeat than it is to walk it out in victory. It's easy to give in than it is to be submissive. What makes victory possible is hope. Why it is effortless to give up hope that change is possible then it is to build up hope that victory is there for the taking? The devil loves to make me feel that I can't live each and every day in victorious living. That my hope in God to supply what I need for victory is too hard to sustain. His whispers that I can forget it that I can stand tall and walk tall ..read more

I was going to write about how we are to replace willpower with Holy Spirit power to help us win the battle to stop overeating. But as I began to meditate on it I began to get a different viewpoint come to me. What is willpower?  willpower is the inner strength to enable you to make decisions and carry them out.  willpower gives you the strength to take action and perform tasks and plans, despite inner resistance, discomfort, laziness or difficulties. when there is willpower there is firmness, decisiveness, determination, assertiveness, resolution, persistence, and the powe ..read more

Being fat used to make me cry. Overeating made me miserable. Solution: go on a diet and lose weight. If it had been that simple I would have done it a long time ago. Trying to figure out why I needed food so much - I hadn't been able to really see it all clearly. Oh I had a very unhappy childhood sure - but is it all connected to that? What else could it be? Is every person that had a very unhappy childhood have a problem with food, or booze, or drugs? I have no idea. Overeating was a problem before I became a Christian and after as well. I reached my highest weight after I became a Chr ..read more

Food. Available. Pulling every which way. Desire. Wanting it. Resisting it. Giving in. Again. That was me. And I know it can be me at a moment's notice. It's so easily to succumb. I'm fooling myself if I think I'm strong 100% of the time. Satan knows my weaknesses and food is one of them.  I know I can so easily put food before obedience. I know I can so easily put food before God. It's a daily surrender. A moment by moment, a meal by meal surrender. Not an obsession over food, but a giving over of it to God and making food "normal". Only God can help me make food normal again. He's h ..read more

Love. What a word. God love. Man and woman love. Parent love. Neighbour love. Our love. Our love for God. Our love for our spouse. Our love for our children. Our love for others. Our love for  ...........  ourselves. Why is it hard to love ourselves? Why don't we do more of it? A part of it is because we're told to love God first, others second and ourselves last. But somewhere along the way we don't make room for enough love for ourselves. We're scared it's selfish to give time to ourselves. My body. Owned by God. Damaged from overeating. Looking like it could do with an ..read more

I have no excuse. Plural. I have NO EXCUSES! None. It's too hard. I can't do it. I can't be consistent. It's - all - just - too - much. It's worse for me than for someone else. But I need the food. I'll be good tomorrow. So not allowed. That's just weak little old me talking. With a little encouragement from the enemy Satan, I can believe the struggle is just me and me alone. I can think it's my effort and my commitment and my striving and my doing. Ahhhhh but the Bible tells me different. Time to turn away from me and my thinking and get into some meditating on the Word and what it ..read more

It's too late when the temptation to eat hits and I am not ready to deal with it. When temptation strikes I can give in and then after the fact have regrets, self-condemnation, and resolve to do better next time. But I will most likely repeat the same pattern over and over again. I need to do things differently. Then WHEN the temptations comes (and they will come) I already know what I'm going to do. I've got a plan and I am prepared to fight. The old way of doing it used to be ... I'd get a craving. I'd let myself mull over the idea. Think about the food. Start ..read more