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So What's New? :-)

If you are new to this blog or visiting for the first time in a long while, WELCOME (back!). Won't you consider joining us for a summer study of the Thin Within book? We started June 1, but you can dive in with us at any point. If you would like to see the first assignment, visit this blog entry.

The entries during the summer will be related to my reading in the Thin Within book. Even if you don't have the book or aren't involved in studying it with us, I hope there is something that will encourage you on your journey!

What IS Thin Within?

Some of you may be coming to this blog for the first time or may not have a clue what Thin Within is. You may have done a Google search for Christian dieting or diets or bible based weight loss. The great news is, Thin Within is even better than a diet or weight loss program! Totally based on biblical principles, the message is refreshing and freeing!

Thin Within is a book by Judy and Arthur Halliday and it is also a website available at http://www.thinwithin.org/. It is an approach to life--not just eating. It is surrendering who I am to the Lord, inviting him to invade my life completely. He becomes my sufficiency, my satisfaction, my strength. When I am excited, depressed, anxious, instead of turning to food, I learn to turn to Him to satisfy the heart hunger.

Thin Within teaches me to eat only when I am physiologically hungry and to stop eating when I am physiologically satisfied or not hungry any more. We call that 0 to 5 eating.

No foods are "off limits." So I released 100 pounds while eating chocolate, pizza, mexican food, McDonalds french fries (don't be disgusted! LOL!).

As time progressed, however, I found myself gravitating more towards more beneficial foods. I still eat Godiva chocolate and french fries (have had both today, in fact), but the goal is that NO food will have mastery over me.

This way, not only is the weight released from my body, but it is done in such a way that I can live this way for the rest of my life. I released all of the extra weight by eating normal foods only when hungry. While I live a relatively active lifestyle, shedding the extra weight involved no obsessive exercise. If I have a more active day, I am likely to be hungry more frequently. If I am hungry, I am free to eat! No calorie, fat gram, or point counting.

I am free!

Once I am no longer hungry or "satisfied" I stop eating.

The trick is all those other reasons many of us eat! My heart is to turn to the Lord anytime I have a desire to eat when I am not physically in need of nourishment.

Thank you, Lord, for relieving my body of 100 pounds!

Today was a good eating day. I remained vigilant. The circumstances unfolded in a surprising way, but God wrapped his arms around me. Thank you for the prayers.

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