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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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZASAhFLiGE?rel=0&w=480&h=360So, this week, be sure to:
- 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!
Thank you for this video – Heidi, you are just so lovely and I feel like a good friend is speaking with me! The appearance eating comes at a perfect time for me. I did not feel good about my body this weekend – esp bc I know that I will be weighed at my annual exam this am (I don’t look at the number, but sometimes I see it accidentally) and also bc I have a few upcoming events (1-4 months from now) and am putting pressure on myself to look a certain way.
I am, at least, at the point where I can quickly talk myself out of dieting, but I do start to obsess about exercise. I will pray about seeking first His kingdom and renewing my mind about thinness. I do know that this is a heart issue for me and I pray that I (and all of us) renew our minds and soften our hearts to Him through this study.
It is so hard to go to the doctor’s sometimes. CMK, keep on renewing your mind about your feelings about your body. What are God’s thoughts about your body? If you have the Thin Within book, I recommend going through Day 5. It is the exercise about reconciling with your body. Hang in there, dear one! Don’t let the enemy have his way if the doctor is insensitive or concerned. Plan for the enemy to prowl and to try to discourage you. Plan now not to let that happen. Share with us here how it goes! Hugs!
Well, the good news is that I didn’t see my weight number and the better news is that on the way to the Dr’s office, I thought about seeking God’s kingdom first and then praise-fested! I spent many minutes thinking about how He is my good shepherd and what that really means. So, I was in a much better state of mind by mid-morning. I barely spoke to my Dr about weight, but she did say that I am a healthy weight and her opinion is that women are too hard on themselves.
Now, I have finished the “appearance” eating section and wow – #5, #8 and # 10 were quite revealing. My priority of vanity is not the same as God’s priority.
Anyway, I won’t go on and on, but I do see that this is really a heart issue for me and that I also need to take my thoughts captive more quickly and regularly.
I suspect, friends, that as we grow closer to the Lord and experience revelations through this study, the enemy will be lurking and striking more often. Heidi, thanks for the reminder to plan for him to do so – put on your armor!
Wow, CMK! WOW! Great report. I love that you praise-fested on your way to the Doctor’s! God is doing a new thing and I love hearing about it. Thank you for letting me be a part!
Day 5 & 6 may have the wrong link again.
Thanks, Christina. I think I fixed it. I wonder what I keep doing to mess up the links!
I was hit head on with this appearance thing. Oh man! It’s just one more distraction the enemy is trying to give me. I’m not giving in. NO way!
I hear ya, Christina! I have to be so vigilant about this!
I’m coming a little late to this study and am wondering if I should just dive in on Days 5 and 6, or go back. I am so encouraged by Thin Within and so much need to hear about godly boundaries.
Hi, Catherine. So glad to have you! I would suggest do Day one of Barb’s study and then go ahead and dive in with us where we are now. Then, as you have time, go back and do the other days of her study that you have missed…just as time allows. It doesn’t have to be progressive, but the preliminary study does lay a foundation. So go back to week 1’s assignment and do day 1. Then you will have your “plan” figured out. Will that work ok for you? Thanks so much for joining us!
That will definitely work for me. I have the day off work today and can spend some concentrated time on this. Thank you. Catherine
Heidi: Thank you so much for pouring out your life, time, and energy to help those of us who truly want to give God all of our hearts and lives and know that He is using our issues with food and weight to get us to lean on Him. I don’t have anyone in my life, church, or circle of friends who “get” this way of eating, thinking and living and even the Christians have been brainwashed to think dieting and exercising are the only ways to lose weight, that it has nothing to do with the lord and our walk with him. So you are really my only friend I have on this journey. I have been doing the weight loss bible study, and reading yours and barbs blogs. Thin within is due to arrive here soon so I am looking forward to getting the book. I am praying that the lord will open hearts and doors in my circle of friends, at church to begin a thin within study. Thank you for being a friend to me even though we haven’t met. You are an encouragement to me more than I can say! I praise the lord for all he has done and is doing in your life, even in this hard trial you are experiencing. Lara in NC
Wow, Lara. What a privilege it is to join you on your journey. I am so glad to hear that you are experiencing God’s presence on this path. He is so mercifully and amazingly faithful. Looking forward to what God is going to yet do!