I know this might not be new to you, but for some reason it finally clicked with me. I have always heard that you have to think positive thoughts and who doesn’t remember “The Secret” book that came out a few years back that spoke to just believing the positive and a big genie in the sky will give you everything you ask and more. I didn’t like those books and the thinking process because it sounded like new age thinking and hog wash.
But, here is the thing, I have tried to be successful at weight loss for eight years now but I would keep getting larger and I couldn’t understand why. I would pray to God and ask for help, I thought I was a good person and I really didn’t think I was overeating. Nothing really helped. I would begin to lose a little weight on any program, but inevitably I would self sabotage myself and say in my head, “It isn’t working, I’m not going to make my goals. Why is this happening to me?”
My internal dialogue has kept me from being successful. So, am I now agreeing with the New Agers? No. I’m agreeing with God because I have seen it in the Bible for myself. In James it says “But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man (or woman) should not think he will receive anything from the Lord: he is a double-minded man (woman), unstable in all he does. This is me. That scripture is about asking God for wisdom, but it is about asking God for something and I’ve been asking and praying for weight loss on the one hand, but self-condemning my efforts on the other hand. Yes, weight loss is not easy, you still need to eat less calories and exercise a lot more to see it happen, but let me tell you this for sure, it is 100 times easier when you are not fighting with yourself and being double minded. I’ve lost almost eight pounds in two weeks, and this time, I believe in myself and I know it is going to happen. I’m single minded on my relationship with God and now at peace with myself.
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