Pursuing God with Every Pound

How many of us made the resolution to exercise or lose weight this year? I redecorated my resolution. Instead of saying “I resolve to exercise or lose weight” I let myself feel better {and offered a way of escape from it} by saying, “I resolve to be healthier”.

For a week I have been trying to wrap my head around the missing link to a person having success in their weight loss goals. I crawled back into the depths of my own “fat” memories and reviewed my thoughts, actions, or inaction. Can I just say crawling back into the depths of my mind is scary on so many levels! Anyway, tucked between those memories were times of immense insecurity, fear, anger, and grief.

Before resolving to lose weight, exercise or be healthier physically—resolve to heal emotionally and spiritually. In healing emotionally and spiritually, you will stop running to food for your answers.

How do you heal emotionally?

• Professional help—a godly counselor or truthful friend.
  

• Work through the process on your own {usually only after you recognize your addiction}.
  

• Help others—start a support group, teach a class about food freedom.

When you focus on healing emotionally, food/beverages, become an afterthought. A word of warning: make sure your focus is HEALING, not wallowing. If you need to talk about what catapulted you to the place you’re at, that is fine, but talk and MOVE ON! No pain is too hard, no scar too wide for the healing power of our Savior. Read through the Gospel of Mark if you are not familiar with His healing power. The best part of this is that He gives you the power, through Him, to be a witness of His mercy and grace.

Several great resources are:

THE WEIGH DOWN BOOK- Gwen Shamblin

MADE TO CRAVE-Lysa TerKerust

LOVE HUNGER- Dr’s Minirth, Meier, Hemfelt, Sneed, and Hawkins

These are just three of my favorites. I do not advocate or agree with the “diet” principle or food recommendations {I believe we should eat GOD made food}, but the main point of each is VITAL to your success—EMOTIONAL HEALING!

Let’s stop dieting and measuring. Let’s pursue God with every pound and let Him sort out the extras!

“The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, “God.” …The highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really.” –A.W. Tozer