Fit Bit (Resist too many sweets)
Good morning, yesterday I had dinner with a dear friend of
mine. She asked me, “Kimberly, you have
lost weight, how have you done it?” I
responded, “I have limited my sweets.
“ The other day at work, a gal who is at
her ideal body weight pushed away from additional sweets, she said her rule is
one treat per meal. I know with my
gluttonous thinking that could equal two really big treats but her treats were
clearly just enough to satisfy the treat craving.
When I am walking in victory it is because I have limited my
exposure to the temptation in the first place.
When I am facing my temptation, I simply say NO. I say NO immediately to myself when the
initial thought crosses my mind. If I do
that I don’t continue to nurture the temptation and I move on to other
thoughts. If I do not take control of
the initial temptation, pretty soon I am doing the very thing I didn’t want to
do.
Today be encouraged to say NO immediately when you are
tempted to do something you don’t really want to do.
“For this
very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness,
knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance;
and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to
mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing
measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“Submit yourselves, then, to
God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Be fit and be blessed,
Kimberly
This link is to “Slow Fade”. We
all have temptations that we need to say no to, sweets are a great example of
little things we nurture that eventually destroy us.
