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!
2 comments:
I just finished watching the marble jar video and was so encouraged and inspired. Thank you. I can see even the use of a graph while travelling, to record victory steps, could be very encouraging.
I have been posting my reflections on each chapter at my blog http://godsrainbowpromises.blogspot.com
The main thing that has been hitting me the past week or so has been the concept of practising His presence. Capturing each thought to Him seems to naturally flow out of practising His presence.
Thanks again for your leadership and encouragement:-) I've been praying for you. You are so beautiful inside and out:-)
Christina
For me, Chapter 13 is kind of a culmination of the previous days. Once we know our identity and understand that we are under grace and not the law, it becomes so much easier to follow the Lord's will.
My co-worker that I mentioned yesterday came to me this morning with a word of success. Last night she was out to dinner at a salad buffet. They have frozen yogurt and she really wanted some, but she saw it as "bad" food. She told me that she remembered what I had said about things being permissable, but not always profitable. She then decided to have a small bowl of it - just enough to make her feel like she enjoyed it - rather than a giant bowl like her friend.
Praise God.
I had a hard time doing the Day 13 "observing thin people" exercise. I have a lot of thin friends who have a diet mentality, I realized. I finally settled on my previous roommate. She's quite petite. How so? (OK, she does have a massive food allergy that limits what she can eat.) She eats a sizeable breakfast in the morning - cereal, omletes, pie, whatever. Her lunch is smaller, but she eats whatever - peanut butter in a tortilla, lots of cheese, and sometimes a really odd mixture of things (but she likes it). Often, she's not even hungry for an evening meal.
She came upon a discovery about 3 years ago after getting a terrible bout of the flu that kept her down for nearly a month. She didn't eat much during that time and realized that her small frame didn't need much.
I'm loving this opportunity to learn along with everyone else! I so appreciate Heidi's time and effort with us as well as getting to read the blogs of others.
You go girls!
Yvonne
http://sisepuedetestimony.blogspot.com/
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