Memorize these scriptures to encourage yourself to learn to eat what you need more often than eating what you want.

John 15: 5

Phillipians 4:13

Most of us go through life eating what we want. We only eat what we need, once we are diagnosed with a disease and all the things we enjoyed are off limits. We don't learn to "budget" our appetites the same way we learn to budget our bank accounts. We ration our money and learn to cut back on spending, but when it comes to food, we are loose cannons. We put no limits on how much we can have. Do you ever go to the gas pump and try to pump more gas into your car than it needs? This sounds crazy, but this is what we do with our bodies. Food is fuel for our bodies. So many of us get use to pumping more fuel into our bodies than what we need. Overindulging becomes toxic. If you continue to overfuel your vehicle, do you think this will make a difference in how it functions mechanically? This is probably not a good thing to do.

How will you know when you have pumped enough fuel into your body? Use the nutrional detail on My fitness pal. This allows you to be proactive. Use the My fitness pal daily tab to see what you "need" to eat. For example, If I could have it my way, I would eat a biscuits several times per week, because this is what I want. This is what my flesh wants, this is what my mind has trained my taste buds to desire. However, what I "need" is more green vegetables than I need biscuits. I can eat 1 cheddar bay biscuit at Red Lobster for 150 calories or I can eat 3 cups of cooked broccoli for 150 calories. This is way more broccoli than my heart desires. My stomach and taste buds are satisfied at 1 cup or less. Or look at it this way. I may desire 1 whole biscuit, but I don't have to eat a whole biscuit. I can eat half a biscuit and satisfy my tastebuds The nutritional detail will tell me what to eat next, based on where my deficiencies are. I may only need a few more carbs and 1 cub of broccoli may do it. You will find that you can satisfy your tastebuds with a portion size that is much smaller than what you eyes are use to seeing. "Walk by faith and not by sight"!

If you are getting started with my fitness pal, the first Lesson is to learn the difference between what you need versus what you want. Make a sacrifice for God's temple, your body. Focus more on what you need, and less on what you are tempted to do. Praying for strength to control your temptations of food will allow you to "bear much fruit". This will be fruitfulness in self esteem, confidence, energy, health, feeling good and fit. You can do this, and all things through Christ who strengthens you. Pray for strength along this journey to seek righteous in your choices with food.

John 15:5
New International Version (NIV)

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.


Philippians 4:13
New International Version (NIV)

13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength


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