DietBet, Faithfully Fit & Encouragement

If you follow my Facebook page at all, you will see that I have joined a DietBet with the hosts of the popular ABC show, Extreme Weight Loss Makeover.  I love that show - it is very inspiring and encouraging to see the participants change their lives because they want to. Each of those people has a common thread - they want to do it for themselves. Most often, there is someone pushing them and motivating them mentally and emotionally, while Chris and Heidi push them physically. I have been lucky to have someone like Chris and Heidi in my life. However, no matter how much I do myself, I have to realize that this battle I fight is not just mental, emotional and physical, it is spiritual, most of all. Why do I overeat? Why do I binge eat? Why do I eat when I'm bored, tired, sad, happy, angry or depressed? Why? Because it's my addiction. It is my bondage. So now you're thinking - great - so there's no way to ever get past an addiction, I mean once an addict, always an addict, right? 

WRONG.

Praise the Lord that is wrong! I will admit to you (as would any addict to anything - drugs, alcohol, pornography, food - whatever) that you will struggle. I will struggle. But the beautiful part is, I am redeemed. Therefore, I have the Power within me to heal me of my addiction. I do not know the future. I only know my past. My past is that I haven't fully surrendered my addiction. In a sick sense, it seems sometimes that my food is the only thing I can control; but, in reality, it is food controlling me. 

Tomorrow I am starting a dedicated study called Faithfully Fit by Claire Cloninger and Laura Barr.  It's a 40 day journey. By my calculation, starting on November 2, 2015, I will complete this 40 day journey on December 12, 2015. If you would like to join me, I would love to have you aboard. I will blog a little about my journey, or maybe a lot. It really just depends on what the Lord teaches me about my life during that time. 

I am encouraged by these Scriptures:

II Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new Creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come!"

Romans 8:31, "What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?"

Romans 8:37, "...in all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us."

As you all know, my mantra has been #JourneyToStrong for nearly a year now. My #JourneyToStrong is my weight and the addictions for which the enemy has me in a stronghold. My #JourneyToStrong is becoming victorious.