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Want to get serious about renewing your mind?
Want to take the bull by the horns?
Are you sick and tired of the embarrassment and shame that you feel for your size or your eating behavior?
Are you willing to get a little crazy to do something about this? Proactive?
Are you desperate?
How about taking the “Set the Timer Challenge?”
It’s a three day challenge, but you can take it as long as you want…half a day, one day…a week! Whatever!
Here is how it works.
Select 5 truths that, if you really believed them, would turn your life around. Truths that have to do with eating, with people, with God, with yourself—anything is fair game. For the purposes of the focus of this blog, I recommend that it has to do with eating in some way, but pray and see how God would lead you.
Here are some to choose from:
1. No food tastes as good as obedience feels.
2. Starting NOW with following my boundaries will bring a quicker victory!
3. God walks with me through my challenges!
4. I am more than a conqueror through Christ!
5. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, including eat only a fist-sized portion.
6. I feel best when I eat when I am hungry and stop after a small amount of food—when I am physically satisfied.
7. I refuse to bow to food any longer. Christ is my King!
8. I don’t need to diet to release extra weight—I can eat the amount of food that my body calls for and land on my natural, healthy size and maintain it!
9. Evening eating (outside of 0 and 5) is NOT worth the price I pay.
10. The sooner I live by my boundaries, the sooner I will experience the freedom Christ died to give me!
Set your timer on your watch or your computer or you cell phone (or whatever). You can set it for any increment you want to. I have mine set for 30 minutes, but that is a bit much for most people.
When the timer goes off, commit yourself to the Lord afresh, “Lord, I offer my eating, my choices, my heart and mind to you again.” Then, choose one of your truths to say out loud (or, if you aren’t in a place you can do that, to just go over again in your mind.)
If you do this for three days, I am CONVINCED you will experience some radical transformations beginning to take place from the inside out. This is where LASTING CHANGE has to occur! INSIDE! Romans 12:2 tells us not to conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. Let’s do it!
How about You?
What is your plan? Will you take the “Set the Timer Challenge?” What will that look like for you? Do you have an accountability partner? If so, ask her to hold you accountable. If not, feel free to report here! We can DO THIS!
Yes I’m in!
Yay, Tina!
I’m in too!
Count me in!! Are we starting today?
YES! (At least *I* am!)
I’m in! Starting…NOW!
Let’s DO it, Jenn!
OMGoodness!!!! This is the best thing I’ve heard in such a long time ~ way too long ~ Thank You doesn’t even beging to express my gratitude for this today~ WOW!!!! Tears! Rejoicing! YES!!! I’m in! ALL the way!!!!
Awesome!
I’m in! Wrote my truths this morning–I’m starting today, can’t wait 🙂
Yay, Brenda! I hope you are still going strong!
I’m doing this!!
So glad to hear, Karen. I hope you are ROCKING it!
I’m in! I especial love #8 “I don’t need to diet to release extra weight—I can eat the amount of food that my body calls for and land on my natural, healthy size and maintain it!” When I was diagnosed with gallstones 3 1/2 months ago, I was forced to reign in my eating habits and eat very little fat to keep my gallblader from having an attack. During those weeks of eating minimal fat, giving my body just what it called for, I saw the pounds melt away and I wasn’t on any formal weight loss program. I was just listening to my body, giving it the food it called for and the weight came off naturally without counting calories, points, or keeping a food diary. I’ve since reintroduced some of my favorite foods in moderation, but am convinced that I can can release the last twenty pounds by sticking with my new habits of listening to my body and giving it just the amount of food it needs when it’s calling for food. Never would I had ever believed weight loss could be achieved apart from the burden of meticulously counting calories/points and journaling every bit of food and drink that crosses my lips. Thank you for this awesome reminder!
Brooke! It is AWESOME the way God gets our attention. What seems like such an awful thing (gall bladder issues) can be used by him to show us the way to freedom. Thanks for sharing your testimony and, yes, I am convinced you are right!
I’m definitely doing this too!
Great, Chelsee. How is it going today? 🙂
Count me in!
Doing that very thing, Sara!
I’m in! It’s funny how God brings us exactly where we need to be! I was recommitting this morning and starting to write my truth cards and decided to check out the blog…needless to say, this was just what I needed! =)
WOOT! So glad to hear it. I know challenges can be just the thing we need to get us jump started in the right direction again. 🙂
I’m in, too! I can do this for three days! Then another three days, etc! I like the three day increments! I can almost anything for three days! Woo Hoo!!
Yes…we really CAN do it…even an hour at a time! Imagine…if we kept on with this for three days…then another three, then another three…within a month how transformed our thinking would be. If our thinking was transformed, I know our actions would be, too.
I did it in hour increments today. Plan on doing it tomorrow to. I appreciate the refocus several times a day
Great, Joylin. How is it going today? 🙂
This is a lovely idea! I am in. Writing out my truth cards and setting my alarms.
Yay, Lisa! I know it works wonders for me!
I just now got to read this post…I’m in! A little late, but on board!
Better late than never!
I’m in!!! Starting today. Confession is powerful.
So true. 🙂
Wow, just read this post. I’m in, starting today. Finally, finally started my truth cards yesterday, so this is perfect.
Awesome, Corrinne. I hope you are as blessed by this process as I have been and continue to be.
I am doing this today to start. Setting timer for every 2 hours. And then I’m reading Psalm 16:7, “The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.”
Christina, that is a great scripture! Thank you for sharing!
What a beautiful idea, Christina!
Just saw this…and I’m in! What a great idea! Today is my birthday and I want this year to be different. This year I want to be set free from my bondage to food!!
How did it go, Sarah? Did you have a great birthday?
I had a good birthday…not perfect food wise, but I’m continuing with the timer approach to renewing my mind. It does seem to help.
So glad, Sarah!
I was blessed with your new “tool” as I opened my email this morning. My desire is to eat healthy and build my relationship with God–great idea to use the timer, as I’m a creature of structure and scheduling. Thanks for the nudge. God bless.
Oh, Cheryl. I am so glad! Let us know how it goes if you use it. 🙂
I am about a week or more late on this, but I am starting today! My timer will be set for every hour starting when I get off work at 3:00 in the afternoon. My absolutely worse time is from then until I go to bed—-I do so well in the mornings, but those afternoons and evenings—yikes!!! Thanks for the truth card information—I will add some of these to mine!
Can’t wait to hear how it goes!
I was challenged to do this recently at my Women’s Retreat with Debbie Alsdorf (also a California gal). She said when she did this and meditated on God’s truth every hour, it pulled her out of the pit of depression. I am willing to try it and will set my smartphone to go off every hour, I think, to start with.
Susan…how did it go! I do believe it can pull us out of a pit of depression. A pit of anger. A pit of self-pity. ANY pit!