How important is it to you to be thin? Do you feel like losing weight will solve problems in your life and just, well, make you happier? What if God were to offer you a wonderful change in your character, a heart that is being conformed to his, a mind that is not burdened, yet you weren’t as thin as you think you should be. Would that be ok?
This week, we have the opportunity to evaluate the premium we place on thinness and if we are thinking God’s thoughts about it or if we have some work to do renewing our minds about how we think about weight and size. I hope that you are encouraged even though the material may be convicting!
We will also have a look at Entitlement Eating–another BIGGEE in motivating much of our eating outside of our boundaries.
We are already in Week three of our Weight Loss Bible Study with a Thin Within Spin. 🙂 If you are subscribed to this blog with email or another reader and the video doesn’t show up, please visit the blog site and check out the video. Here is what is going on this week:
Continue with your renewing your mind goal and taking time to try renewing of the mind.
Can you resolve to not eat outside your boundaries for three days this week?
If you haven’t tried Truth Journaling yet, give it a go.
Read and do the questions and journaling activities for Barb’s Bible Study Day 5.
Read and do the questions and journaling activites for Barb’s Bible Study Day 6.
Continue to post here. Each time you do, it enters you in the drawing for a free book or free coaching…each Friday, I draw a name. The lucky winner gets to pick either a Thin Within book, a Hunger Within book, or a free week of coaching. Not only that, but you all are such GREAT support for one another! THANK YOU again!
Sometimes, we hear food calling our name. It seems to insist that we come, give it attention, consume it…even though we aren’t hungry. I am pretty sure you know what I mean.
For me, it is often the ice cream that I have in my freezer. I am free to have ice cream, but want to enjoy it within the parameters of hunger and satisfaction. There are times, though, when I can’t get it out of my head. I can grit my teeth all I like with a resolve “I WILL NOT THINK ABOUT FOOD,” but that seems to do little good.
This video just shares in brief (a bit over 3 minutes), what I suggest instead. I hope it helps!
If you would like more information about the God List and Praise-Feast (or Praise-Fest), visit my other blog where I have described how to do these things in some detail.
I was asked in one of the comments about the schedule, so thought I would post it as a separate post instead of in a response in the comments where it might get buried. 🙂
Here is the schedule – the first link is to the study at Barb’s site. The second link is to the post here with the videos, assignments, etc:
Then I will probably have a wrap up during a week 9. A chance for us to debrief about some things and a looking forward to what might be next.
As of now, I plan to use the Thin Within workbook with a RENEWING OF THE MIND focus for a study to follow this one.
So, how is it going for you all? Is this study helpful? Is your thinking changing? Do you see any differences in the way you act that you can tie to changes in your thinking?
If you feel like you are stuck in the same-old same-old, I want to encourage you to ask yourself this question…what am I willing to do differently so that I get different results? If you haven’t been working on the renewing of your mind, start there! 🙂
I love that you all are engaging in community! Isn’t that awesome!? It really encourages my heart. THANK YOU for making this study what it is. It really touches me.
I am praying right now as I reach in to get someone’s name out of my “hat.”
Lord, would you cause my hand to land on the name of the person who needs the resource that we have to give away? Thank you for Joe and Pam Donaldson and Arthur and Judy Halliday and their generosity in giving books to this study here at the blog. Use this generosity, Lord, for your glory and the good of some special person this week! Bless all of the participants of this study and Barb Raveling, too, I pray! Thank you for the joy of community, too, Lord. In Jesus’ matchless Name I pray, Amen.
This week’s winner is Natalia! I will be connecting with her in email to find out what she has chosen for her prize.
Lord, thank you for giving a gift to Natalia! I pray that you would encourage ALL our hearts today with the gift of your presence in our lives! Thank you!
Thank you ALL for participating!
What can you do to experience the support and encouragement of community in your life, face to face with others? Is God possibly leading you to do this?
I am LOVING the community that has been growing on these pages. Thank you SO much for your participation! This week’s drawing will have a bunch of slips of paper in the hat! It isn’t too late to dive on it, be counted, contribute, comment on a post or on someone else’s post.
It has been really touching to see just how much you all are encouraging one another…and thank you for all your encouragement to me, as well.
Thanks SO much!
So, a few more hours are left to get your name in this week’s drawing for a copy of Thin Within, or Hunger Within or a week of free coaching. 🙂
I have been asked a lot about how to stop at 5. So, here are some tips about doing that. Part 1 gives the tips and Part 2 raises a few more questions that we might want to consider.
