What do you do when you want to be at a 0 (physical hunger) at a certain time…say a special event is happening, family coming from out of town for a special party at 4pm? Or, as in my case, a 30 year dating anniversary dinner at 8:30 at night? How can we plan to be at a zero so that we don’t compromise our godly goals?
Here are some thoughts I had as I looked ahead at my special event. In time for your Valentine’s Day celebrations, I hope! 🙂
Oh…by the way…I say in this video “Anytime I get hungry after two or so…” I am referring to anytime I get hungry after 2pm…I am referencing a TIME, not a hunger number when I say that! Sorry for the confusion!
Then…the second video is what I decided to do…given I was hungry over an hour and a half before the event…
Is this helpful at all? (Shameless plea for feedback! LOL!)
In addition, to renew your mind, I highly recommend Barb Raveling’s I Deserve a Donut app for iPad. My review on it can be found here.
Above all the tools and tricks, I encourage everyone who is at this place…rest, be still, let go of the weight focus. Fix your mind instead on the author and perfector of your faith. He is worth it. This is about so much more than body, weight, and food.
Jesus didn’t die so we would be thin. He died for us so that we might be HIS. Let’s not forget that.
Tomorrow, I will post a video response to “What do you do when you want to give up?” but until then, I wanted to ask you if you have other questions about your Thin Within journey. Feel free to post here or to email me: heidi@heidibylsma.com . I want this website to be practical and helpful for you!
As a result of the years I was in Thin Within and the things God has taught me during that time, I have found my ministry broadening. That is why I started the “Living Life on the Path of Praise” website and blog.
What happened was, I was going through what was *then* the most challenging trial of my adult life (this new one has the award now!) and was contacted by a lady from a church asking if I would meet with her to discuss bringing a message to her women’s group that would sort of facilitate the launching of her Thin Within group. I gladly met with her and asked her what she wanted to talk about. She said that while she wanted me to share my testimony about Thin Within, that her heart was for the women to hear a message on “Moving from Fear to Faith.” Little did she know at the time that I was experiencing more fear than I ever had! God used this conversation and my need to prepare a message for the women to do a HUGE work in my life!
When, months later, I got to share with the women a message about choosing FAITH when we are experiencing FEAR instead, I felt like God had personally been tutoring me through it. I well remember being terrified (!!! How fitting!!!) when I first sat down to write a rough draft of what I would share with the women, only to have the Lord just encourage me with “Tell them what you know…” What I KNOW is that GOD IS ENOUGH.
Anyhow, since that time, I have had the opportunity to share this message with other audiences and God continues to write the truth of it on my own heart again and again. Right now, at my other blog, I am sharing steps and strategies for navigating trials in such a way that we can go from fear to faith. From victim to victor. From trial to triumph. For me, this is what I have to do in order to manage my eating in a godly way, so the overlap is definitely there!
Here is a summary of what I have been covering and I want to invite you to come on over and visit! Please know that this life is about so much more than body, size, food and our struggles with all of it. God wants our hearts!
If you decide you like what is happening there and it can encourage you in your Thin Within journey, you can subscribe to the feed by clicking this link.
I really believe that *this* material is what gives us “success” in defeating our struggles with overeating–really *anything* that we may know we need to surrender to the Lord. I hope you will give it a try and let me know what you think!god
I think I will get the hang of making shorter videos. I need to take one question per video, I think! Then, maybe I would get it down to 5 minutes! (Each!)
These videos are parts 1 and 2 of questions that were posted by Angeli in an email to me. There is 20 minutes of footage (just over) here. So sorry they are so long, but I do think they have a lot of good content in them! I hope you agree.
These videos address:
Night time eating
Dealing with free food and snacks left out in the break room at work 🙂
Releasing the last 10 pounds
I hope there is something helpful here.
What other questions do you have? 🙂
and here is part 2…
What questions would you like addressed at this blog?
I so appreciated the response that I got from Brianna (not Angela…I accidentally called her Angela at the beginning of the video) here at the blog and realized that there is a lot in her question…so I put together not one…but TWO videos to respond! They are each 11 minutes long! ARG! So sorry for the verbose response. I promised I would zip things down…but there was so much to share. So here are both parts and I will be posting the links I promise on Friday. 🙂
…and here is Part 2…
So, what other words of wisdom do you all have to offer Brianna and others like her who have little ones at home all day?
