leah
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Post by leah on Jul 18, 2013 6:53:01 GMT -5
What are your best tips for overcoming this? I hate the fact that I eat to deal with stressful situations!
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Post by joyfulmomof6 on Jul 19, 2013 21:08:35 GMT -5
The only way I was able to overcome this years ago was allowing Christ to take that place of food and roll my burdens onto Him. In fact it was one of the very first things I got set free from when I became a believer 18 years ago. I was an inveterate stress eater and came from a family that encouraged it, so the dice were loaded against me. Thankfully, He is greater than anything and any circumstance.
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Post by leah on Jul 20, 2013 6:30:17 GMT -5
Amen! It's so encouraging to hear from people who have overcome...the voices in my head sometimes tell me that I will never get past this, but I know that my God is bigger than that and that I WILL gain the victory. :0)
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Post by joyfulmomof6 on Jul 20, 2013 9:51:01 GMT -5
Yes, you will overcome. In the home I grew up in, we were all Italian American, on both sides of the family. So love was equated with major amounts of food. And any emotion as well. Were you mad? Then you would eat. Were you sad? Then you would eat. Were you happy? Then you would eat. And I can remember one time when an Aunt (who everyone was afraid to offend) was badgering me to eat more food (couldn't displease family, right? ;( ) after an already huge meal. I was starting to come out of the fog of stress eating...and I just cried out "I don't want it!" and I was literally crying because it was painful to even think of eating anymore. I said no, and it felt good. But everyone was mad at me All this to say, if He can do it for me, He can do it for you. There's nothing He can't do. I know you know that, but sometimes it helps to hear someone else say it. I was praying for you, too.
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leah
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Post by leah on Jul 20, 2013 20:15:25 GMT -5
Thank you!
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