Christian weight loss (and any permanent weight loss) settles around the heart. Changing the heart and understanding how I arrived where I am plays and essential roll in getting to where I want to be.
So much stuff crowds my life. Stuff surrounds me every where I turn and it can become overwhelming. Recognizing when I have had enough can be just as overwhelming. The “too much” feeling has been a part of my life for so long that just enough becomes foreign.
Christian Weight Loss Revelations
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1. Weight loss comes from eating when hungry. True hunger comes with an empty or hollow sensation in the region about six inches or so above your belly button. Christian weight loss occurs when you eat at this hunger moment and all other cravings are curbed by feeding the heart.
2. Satisfaction aids in weight loss. Finding a place of satisfaction may require using a few cheats in the beginning. Eat half as much as you put on your plate. Use smaller plates. Eat slower and enjoy the company and the atmosphere while you eat. Chew each bite so that you can taste each bite. Satisfaction comes the moment you are no longer HUNGRY!
3. Weight loss appears when fear is released. There are times when I eat more than I need (or want) because I “love” that particular meal and I worry that I will not have a chance to have it again. The good news is that I CAN get more later and I will enjoy it more if I only eat until I am satisfied.
4. Keep it simple. Finding satisfaction and hunger to aid in weight loss does not have to be a challenge. Choose to wait to eat until the feeling in your stomach seems unbearable (and then wait another hour). Only eat a few bites and then walk away from the food. That hunger sensation will soon come again.
5. Weight loss naturally occurs when you bring in fewer calories. Eating at hunger and stopping at just enough will help make that weight loss happen.
The biggest difference between Christian weight loss and other weight loss diets is that prayer assists in the understanding of why food has become so important. Once food is taken down off the pedestal then the weight loss can begin in earnest. Finding hunger and satisfaction is one step in the Christian weight loss process.