Exercise: x
0-5 at 9am
2 small toasted buns & coffee
0-5 at 1:15pm
salad, orange
1/2?-5 at 3pm
hot chocolate and 2 granola bars
Note: I feel like I'm going downhill this afternoon. First of all my hunger signals have not been loud and clear for the day. And now mid afternoon I was just craving craving sugar. And I know I've now ruined my supper appetite *sigh*.
Lord help me, please. Show me what to do. I can see my weakness, my fleshly lusts for food, clearly in the mirror...but I want to be walking in step with YOU right now, not mastered by anything or anyone BUT YOU. Help me I pray. Guide me I pray. Amen.
"0" at 5:45
As I noted in my comment below, boy my tummy was rumbling away SOOOOO loud and for a half hour STRAIGHT while teaching a student! Praise God!!!!! And thanks, Melanie, for praying for me. What a blessing!
0-5 at 6:45pm
rice, sweet & sour pork, peas, chocolate and herbal tea (no cr/sug) and handful frosted flakes
1?-5 at 9:45pm
cereal
Felt like I was getting a bit empty....could have also been "imagining" it for the sake of filling that craving for the cereal...
Purpose of this Log
1. To help hold me accountable to myself and to the Lord. It helps me be more intentional and apply observation and correction more effectively.
2. To be transparent to others that they may also hold me to account and help sharpen me (GENTLY PLEASE) as they feel led by the Lord.
3. As I proceed prayerfully and intentionally, under the canopy of God's grace applying observation and correction along the way, my hope is that others can also learn a thing or two from my failings...make that "learnings"...and also from my victories in the Lord.
2. To be transparent to others that they may also hold me to account and help sharpen me (GENTLY PLEASE) as they feel led by the Lord.
3. As I proceed prayerfully and intentionally, under the canopy of God's grace applying observation and correction along the way, my hope is that others can also learn a thing or two from my failings...make that "learnings"...and also from my victories in the Lord.
In a Nutshell
I am following an approach to eating that is outlined in the "Thin Within" book by Judy and Arthur Halliday. I am not focussing on measuring or weighing foods or labelling foods as "good" or "bad" but rather aiming to eat when I'm hungry ("0") and stop when I'm satisfied ("5"), focussing on the keys to conscious eating (listed in the right hand column).
Another central Thin Within (and more importantly biblical) teaching that I aim to use with this food log is observation and correction, living under the canopy of God's grace on the path of God's provision. In a nutshell it's about turning to God and confessing and repenting and the amazing grace and love of God that changes us from the inside out.
Another central Thin Within (and more importantly biblical) teaching that I aim to use with this food log is observation and correction, living under the canopy of God's grace on the path of God's provision. In a nutshell it's about turning to God and confessing and repenting and the amazing grace and love of God that changes us from the inside out.
Keeping in mind at all times...
The most important aim of my life needs to be to "seek first His kingdom and His righteousness" (Matt. 6:33) and sit at my Lord's feet, feasting at the Lord's table (Ps. 23:5), getting "fat on Jesus," filling up on His Word and finding true satisfaction that can be found in Him alone. The Lord's Table study brought this into proper focus for me.
"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
"Everything is permissible for me"—but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"—but I will not be mastered by anything. 1 Corinthians 6:12
"So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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3 comments:
Amen. And thank you soooooo much, Melanie. I appreciated your prayer for me more than you can imagine!
You know what I decided I wasn't going to worry about it...and lo and behold at 5:45 my stomach was rumbling away and ACHING so hard right in the midst of teaching piano.... It was hard to concentrate and was gurgling away so loud the student could hear it... And not for just one rumble...over and over and over again rumbling LOUD for like 30 minutes!!! I just had to laugh at the irony of that! Praise God for hunger!!!! I'm about to eat supper now as my husband finishes up the preparations:-)
So, thanks again for your prayers and your friendship and accountability:-)
I should have skipped the cereal in the evening though....I think. I'm not entirely certainly if I was hungry or not... "If in doubt, leave it out" should have been my motto. Anyways, I was hungry this morning by 7:30am...so I must not have been that off with my hunger signals last night.
God is so amazing! that is so AWESOME how He had your tummy rumble like that. He sees your faithfulness, even when you falter, He KNOWS your heart sweetie...totally devoted to Him. This food is NOT stronger than you, for greater is He that is in YOU, than this food that is here...
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