I am so thankful for this forum and everyone in it.

Every time I read what ya'll have to say I feel so lifted and so full of hope.

Today I felt like I was at the end of my rope. I had a horrible day and just felt like I was going to go no where with my new eating plan and healthy living. I have to remember it takes longer than a week to get adapted but for some reason it doesn't stick. There is this voice inside me that says "You had a bad day and messed up anyways, what does it matter if you binge on cookies".

I need to stop and pray and remember that the Lord is standing beside me, wanting me to be healthy and that if I need a shoulder it's His I need to lean on. When I am stressed instead of turning to food, I need to turn to His Word.

Anyways, thank you for "listening" to my rambles.

Blessings to all,

Angela

Angela, I have been in the same boat so many times, I have felt helpless against the temptation. Like it was something happening to me. Satan would whisper, you have blown it anyway, I guess God can't help you after all. Then another negative thought piles up on another negative thought, then I have gone through my kitchen grazing, feeling helpless.

Over the years God has taught me that those negative thoughts are Satan's only weapon. When they start let that be your catalyst to Get up, sing “The Joy of the Lord is My Strength”, or “This Is a Day that the Lord Has Made, I Will Rejoice and be Glad In It.” Even if you don't feel like praising, do it anyway!

That's why we sing and praise God to remind us of all He has done. It’s not because God is narcissistic, He knows He is all good and perfect, He doesn’t need you to tell Him. It’s for your benefit we praise God with song and scripture, it is positive affirmation to us of God’s love and His power. Don't let Satan have a foothold. My favorite thing to pray is "Jesus, Satan is knocking will you please answer it" then walk away.

I know you can do it through His Power.

Love, Kelli

Good Morning Angela, today is a brand new day and God is opening a brand new door for me today. Please join with me and maybe today, together we can set out and do what we have set out to do. I went to chicks up for a challenge, last night and joined the two challenges, weight and exercise contests, joined exchanges in the General, and I seen you in the sugar busters asked to join them, that is a start! I have got my menu wrote out for the day and I am fixing to start again kelli's Bible study at her web site or she has it right here, then I am going to weed eat the dry weeds down today for exercise. I am set out to be a new me and all the glory goes to my Lord Jesus, I can not do this without him, that is all that is to that. Please come join me on the road to better health Angela we can do it! Maybe food can give us a lift ,hmmm...for how long...but loosing weight with Jesus being our Leader, it can be done and looking in the mirror, wow those cookies don't seem so needed anymore. Kelli's Bible study is helping me but I need the exchange program for I have a -lot of Diabetes, heart trouble in my family, and I can see I am headed in the same direction if I don't do something about it. I don't want diabetes or heart trouble and I want to change the path, like die from old age and be healthy to that day! I don't know about you even though the world is in such bad shape I love my life and I want to hang around for a while. I want to see my Grandchildren grow up and thier families. I want to spend lots more Christmas's with them. I just don't want to be a memory right now, I want to be right there!
How about it Angela and anyone else are you ready to get down to the nitty gritty and do something about your health? If so please step out with me into Jesus hands , take control of your life and walk the talk this day and let us do it together with Jesus leading us to Victory!

Yep, Bootsie, I'm in, Let's do it! woohoo!!!

I just finished week 3 of Kellie's Bible Study. The neat thing is that today the sermon at church went right a long with what I leanred. It was like an add on to what I learned this week. I basically do Carbohydrate Addict's Diet because that is what God led me to when I lost over 70 lbs about 7 years ago. It lets me eat what I like but control insulin. I was diabetic 2 years ago and I don't want it again. However, I allow the Holy Spirit to tell me what to eat. Amazing what the Lord allows me to have.

Any way, let me share my experience from the the BS lessons and sermon today. I never thought of my eating as a way of worshipping God until I studied the lesson this past week. Also, I realized that I hava always prayed for the Lord to help me, but I really didn't allow Him to. I don't think I ever realized that He really wants to help me. Studying the lessons made me see that He really does care about me being thin and and healthy. The Bible says "You will know the truth and the truth will make you free". I don't have to do this alone. God wants to show me how to lose this weight and then lean on Him as he carries me through the process. I have the easiest 4 days on plan than I have ever had in my life. If I'm hungry I eat and try to remember to always do it with a thankful heart. I'm learning that if I'm not hungry that I don't have to eat because I'm not really dieting. (This is normal for me as this is the I was before I ever had a weight problem.)

What I learned today at church is that God wants me to have a vision. For me right now, my vision is to learn to lose weight God's Way so I can help others do the same. Pastor said, that when God gives you Vision many times He gives you the what but not the how right away. (That's me all those years of trying to lose it on my own.) Sometimes we know what and run with it without waiting for God to show us how. God doesn't let us do it on our own for one major reason HE WANTS US TO LEAN ON HIM. The reason? So that HE GETS THE CREDIT not us. That simple. Yes simple, but I like many of us make things so difficult because I thought I knew a better way.

God made our bodies so who knows what our bodies need better than He does. I believe God led me to the way of eating that is healthy and that works for me. Bootsie you have found your way with exchange plan. Angela yours is Sugarbusters. That is the how He has led each of to. We can do it as long as we remember that we are doing it for Him as well as ourselves. Lean on Him and let Him carry us to the other side of this problem.

I thank God for each one of you and love that we pray for one another. It is my prayers for God to help each of us to succeed. We can do ALL things through Him. He provides our needs and that means when we need Him in any way that He is there to help us get through the tough times.

Looking forward to week 4 of the BS.

Blessings to all,

Alright Trish! You are going or already I would say a good teacher! Each of us have a different way of becoming healthy think Jesus is up to something? Can hardly wait is not he awesome?

I have NEVER felt as much love as I do now!

My night was horrible and I couldn't sleep. I was up until 530a and I missed service today which I do not like doing.

TODAY, THIS VERY MOMENT, I am handing all my hardships over to the Lord! He knows me and how I am and I need to let Him take all my pain and guilt so that I can listen to what He is telling me! It is getting easier for me to hear what he has to say to me. I have come to realize that the little voice in my head is not mine but of my Heavenly Father. I feel so much love for him right now that he is willing to take what I am feeling so that I do not have to feel it so that I can concentrate on making myself healthy. I am so glad that I came back to the Father, I can't believe I was gone for so long!

I am going to make a CD with all the worship and praise music that I love and play it when im feeling down. If I have to pray to the Lord to answer that door, I'm going to do it!

Thank you all so very much for taking the time out of your day to push me back in line.

Love and Blessings!!

Angela

That is great Angela! I thought of something else. I don't know about you, but when I think about how much weight I have to lose and how long it is going to take me I get sooo overwhelmed. So I try not to think that way any more. If I think of how much and how long, I get into trouble. So now I have decided to make it my goal to take it "one day at a time" so I try to just look at today. As I write this, I'm thinking that maybe that is why Jesus said for us not to worry about tomorrow as it will have its own problems. (My paraphrasing.)

Have a great Sunday.