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Let God's Truth Transform Your Desires Author Barb Raveling has been caught in the bondage of emotional eating, stuck in a cycle of gaining and losing weightbut she's also experienced how submitting to Christ's commands healed her broken relationship with food. In Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating, Barb shares what she's learned to help you regain control over what, when, and why you eat. These 100 exercises based on biblical teachings will change how you see food, dieting, and weight loss. As you read, you will grow closer to God as you honestly and humbly present your struggles to Him build boundaries to stop you from using food as a coping mechanismand make emergency plans for when you're tempted to overindulge find freedom from strongholds by focusing your mind on God's desires for your heart When you trade the lies that lead you to overeat for the truths that set you free, you'll find yourself craving closeness with God above all else. Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating will help you build effective strategies for maintaining a spiritually satisfying relationship with food.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	01 novembre 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736985604
Langue	English

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The renewing questions in Part Two first appeared in slightly different form in I Deserve a Donut (And Other Lies That Make You Eat): A Christian Weight-Loss Resource and The Renewing of the Mind Project: Going to God for Help with Your Habits, Goals, and Emotions.
Say Goodbye to Emotional Eating
Copyright 2022 by Barb Raveling
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-8559-8 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-7369-8560-4 (eBook)
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Contents
Part One: Foundations
1. I Need Ice Cream
2. It s All Good
3. The Secret Weight-Loss Weapon
4. Better with Boundaries
5. Truth Journaling
6. Option Charts
7. Scripture Meditations and Renewing Questions
Part Two: Renewing Exercises
Section 1: I m Afraid to Start
Nervous About Trying Again
Do I Really Need Boundaries?
When You Feel Like You Need the Perfect Set of Boundaries
Lies About Food You May Have Learned Growing Up
Wonderfully Made
I Don t Want to Renew My Mind
I Hate Exercise!
I ll Start Tomorrow
When You re Afraid to Start
Section 2: I Don t Feel Like Following My Boundaries
Eating What You Want When You Want
Treats in the House
When You re Rebelling Against Your Boundaries
Lusting After Food
When You re at a Social Gathering
Careless Eating
Holding Food with Open Hands
Eating the Second Piece
My Boundaries Aren t Worth Keeping
I Should Be Able to Eat What They re Eating
Problem Foods
Holiness and Eating
Christmas Treats
Opportunity Eating
I Need This Treat!
Going Out to Eat
Indulgence Eating
A Close Walk with God versus a Close Walk with Food
It s Just One Bite!
I Wish I Were Still on Vacation
Developing a Habit of Thankfulness
I Would Be Crazy Not to Eat This!
Good Food Eating
Out-of-Bounds Gifts versus God s Gifts
Delicious Food
Justification Eating
Being Content with Food
Yummy Food in the House
I Feel Like Eating
When You re Hungry
Vacation or Holiday Eating
Celebration Eating
It s Not That Important to Exercise
I ll Exercise Later
Section 3: I Need Chocolate
Casting Your Cares on God (Not Food)
I Deserve This Treat!
When You Really, Really Need a Treat
Things Aren t Going Well
Eating to Relax
Procrastination Eating
A Life of Good Works versus a Fun, Exciting, and Easy Life
When Life Is Boring
When You re Anxious
Everything Is Going Wrong!
Emotional Eating
Going to God versus Going to Food
I Need a Little Excitement in My Life!
Reward Eating
When You re Annoyed with Someone
Perfectionism Eating
Turning to Food for Comfort
Eating After a Vacation
I m So Tired!
When You Want Fun, Exciting, and Easy
The Mom Life
Learning to Be Content
My Life Is a Wreck!
Relationship Troubles
Of Course I m Worried!
I Wish I Had My Old Life Back
Boredom Eating
Section 4: I Have to Be Skinny
Lies You May Have Learned Growing Up, Part 1
Lies You May Have Learned Growing Up, Part 2
When You Feel Like Others Are Judging You for Your Weight
If Only I Were Thin
When You Don t Feel Beautiful
This Person Will Reject Me If I Don t Lose Weight
I ll Never Be Skinny Enough for This Event
After a Bad Weigh-In
When You Feel Like You Have to Be Skinny
When You Feel Like a Weight-Loss Failure
Section 5: I ll Never Lose This Weight
Discouraged About Weight Loss
I Really Blew It Today
When You Have a Bad Weigh-In
Tired of the Struggle
Obsessing over Weight Loss
I Might as Well Eat!
When You Are Sick to Death of Your Boundaries
I ll Never Get Over This!
Regret After Breaking a Major Boundary
When You Feel Like Giving Up
Eating After a Weigh-In or Big Event
This Isn t Going as Well as I Thought It Would
When You re Beating Yourself Up About What You Just Ate
I Should Be Losing More Than This!
When You Don t Feel Like Renewing
Life Will Be Terrible If I Don t Lose Weight!
After a Bad Night of Eating
This Is Too Hard!
After a Binge
Lifelong Boundaries
Appendix A: I Don t Want to Renew My Mind
Appendix B: When You Feel Like You Have to Be Skinny
About the Author
About the Publisher
part one
Foundations
Chapter 1
I Need Ice Cream
I close my eyes and let out a sigh. This ice cream is so good, I think. Spoonful by spoonful, I revel in the joy of it as I devour the whole carton. Then I get up from my perch on the cold concrete at the local grade school and set off for the one-mile walk back to campus.
This was a regular occurrence for me back in my college days in Missoula, Montana. I didn t have a car at the time, so I was forced to walk to my little pig-out sessions. It was inconvenient but necessary. You see, I craved that ice cream. Nothing could stop me from getting it, not even the lack of a car or a cushy place to eat it. I was desperate, and desperate people do whatever they need to do to get their fix.
This type of behavior continued for another 20 years after college. You could tell how my life was going by looking at my body. In the good years I was skinny. In the bad years I wasn t. I was an emotional eater-and emotional eaters gain weight when life is hard.
Most of my pounds were added during the traumas of my life, but a good share of them were added during the celebrations: holidays, vacations, social gatherings-even weekends and evenings were a time for celebration. And what kind of celebration doesn t include food?
My guess is that if we were to sit down for a cup of coffee and a donut, you could tell me a similar story. We both have memories of far too many eating sessions-enough that we ve lost hope more than once. For me, eating was that one thing in life that controlled me-the thing I thought I d never get over. Thankfully, I was wrong.
More than two decades ago, God gave me a discipline that changed my life. First, He used it on my marriage; then He began to use it on my eating habits. That discipline is the renewing of the mind, and it s so effective I ve gone 15 years without gaining my weight back.
God can do the same for you. In this book you ll find 100 renewing-of-the-mind exercises designed specifically to help you say goodbye to emotional eating. We ll talk more about how to use those exercises later, but first let s take a look at emotional eating.
Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is letting your emotions determine when and what you eat, not your will. So instead of just eating when we re hungry or at mealtimes, we ll eat when we re emotional. When we re happy. When we re sad. When we re annoyed. When we re overwhelmed. You name the emotion-we re ready to eat for it.
Yesterday was a good example. It was 3:00 in the afternoon and I still had a long to-do list that was making me feel discouraged and overwhelmed. I was just thinking how terrible those jobs on the list were, when suddenly I had a brilliant idea. I ll go to the Dairy Queen for a little blizzard! I grabbed my car keys and headed for the door, but then I stopped. No, Barb, I told myself. Get up to your office and finish your work. And surprisingly, I did.
If I had followed through with my little plan, I would have let my emotions-not my will-determine what and when I ate. I call this living by desire, not design. Instead of planning the life I want and following through with it, I m allowing my emotions and desires to dictate the life I live.
Our culture is all about letting emotions and desires rule, but God isn t. First Corinthians 6:12 tells us, All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. When I engage in emotional eating, I m letting my emotions and desires master me. They re telling me what to eat and when to eat, and I m sitting back and letting them do that.
But here s the thing: in the old days, I didn t feel like I had any other choice. I would hear Christians-people who never struggled with food a day in their life-tell me, You have a choice. You can choose to say no to the second bowl of ice cream and the third handful of chips.
But I knew otherwise. That food controlled me hook, line, and sinker, and I was powerless to say no. This made me feel defeated and hopeless. Where was the power of God in my life?
Well, the power of God was in the truth. I d heard the truth will make you free (John 8:32), but I didn t know what that meant at the time. Instead, I just felt like I was doomed to a life of be