A facebook friend talked about glutony being a sneaky sin the other day. I totally agree. It's widely accepted and sometimes expected that as a Christian we will go to a party or fellowship and eat...a lot.
My issue with food is more about not making good choices rather than just over eating. I can over eat, don't get me wrong, but what I'm learning as I take a look at what I'm putting into my mouth, is that if it didn't have a ton of fat, I didn't usually eat it. So with cutting down on fat, I've not really eaten less, but I've just eaten better.
It's my goal to not put too much worry or stock in what I weigh, but to stick to the point system as much as possible and increase my activity. With those two things I've already started to see some loss. I think it might take a while before I feel I'm at a level to just maintain my weight, but I'm okay with that. I'm trying to not push myself to failure, but rather slowly nudge myself to success. So far, I feel good with the results. Because I'm number obessed, the whole point system seems to work for me.
My focus isn't just on being healthy physically, but spiritually too. I've always been ashamed of being so fat and I've always known that it was a sin, but I can say it outloud now. "Hi, my name is T, and I'm an over-eater." Well, okay, technically this in in cyber land and even still it's all I can do to not erase that line and wow this is harder than I thought. But this is my desire to honor God in all I do, I want to honor Him. So, I'm leaving it, and I'm saying to you the faithful few who are looking at this...Help! Keep me in your prayers and May God Bless you likewise. :)
4 comments:
I'm not totally convinced that gluttony as we think of it, except at the extremes, is sin. I loved that in The Screwtape Letters gluttony is described not in regard to excess, but in regard to being picky.
Regarding over-eating... that's something that I've needed to pay attention to recently. I eat fast, so I can eat a lot before my body gets the signal that I am full.
I know that society looks upon overweight people as lazy or overeaters...but weight gain can be caused by other things too...such as medication and stress. I, for one, have an opposite problem of skipping meals because I am too busy or don't feel like eating. In turn, my body has gained weight. However, as I shared with my son...now that we are off our medications, we have to do the hard work of losing the weight. Thankfully, we are no longer gaining since we are not on medications anymore!!
Hard work! I think our Christian culture contributes to gluttony or over eating or whatever you want to call it. So that's hard no matter what other things you have going on. Buena suerte my friend (good luck). It is a daily journey to conquer all our bad tendencies - I'm struggling with some things that are daily battles! We're on the journey together.
I like the new blog look too!
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