Two things I’ve found helpful in my weight control journey are praying and planning ahead. Before doing anything, prayer will make the next step go better.
It helps to take a day and plan meals and snacks for the week ahead. Usually grocery day is a good day for preparation. Clean, slice and dice the vegetables and fresh fruit so they are ready to use and to eat as snacks. If we have something healthy that is ready to eat we are more likely to choose it.
It also helps if we are going to eat out, to pray and then check the website for menu items and search for something healthy or low in calories. Usually they post calories with menu items. Praying and planning ahead is a good way to resist temptations. Deciding what would be a good meal choice wherever we are going helps us resist ordering what everyone else is getting. It also allows us the chance to relax as everyone else struggles to decide.
Praying and planning ahead gives us more control over our meals and snacks. It gives us something to look forward to and God helps us control our destiny. However, as the Bible says, it is important not to judge others because of what they eat. Because God accepts us no matter what our diet consists of.
“One man’s faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him,” (Romans 14:2-3 NIV).
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