Learning Lesson 1

After years and years and years of gaining and losing weight, I finally figured out that I had not learned even the first and most important lesson in regards to eating: Tracking - If I bite it, I write it! That is where the accountibility is for me. I had no problem tracking when I was eating right....it's when I eat unexpected things that come my way that beset me. I am now very focused on tracking and holding myself accountible. Even when it is something hard to track, I  track it as best as I can by looking up the points of something similar.

Uncontrolled eating is rebellion for me. Controlled eating is obedience to God. Living in rebellion is when I think the rules do not apply to me - that I can operate outside the facts and realities of calories, weight gain and metabolism. Rebelling against controlled eating is actually my rebellion against rules and authorities, against other people, against myself and AGAINST GOD! Actually, the original sin involved Adam and Eve eating something they were told not to eat. I want to please God and live in OBEDIENCE. I have been striving to do that for the past 73 days.

Have I been perfect every day? Not to begin with and slip ups have been my undoing in the past. I have learned that NO MATTER WHAT I EAT, BE ACCOUNTIBLE. I can't just wing! I try very hard to track BEFORE I eat because it helps me decide if the thing I want to eat is really worth the points.

Today, I will track! Tomorrow, I will track! That is my accountibility element and that is what I need to live in obedience to God in my eating.