January 16, 2012 - Temptation

Today was my first week weigh-in at Weight Watchers. Down 4.2 lbs. Guess that's a pretty good start. It was a real good week of making much better choices. Spaghetti squash instead of real spaghetti, bagel thin flats as opposed to full bagels and rolls, one egg scrambled and nuked in the microwave instead of two bought from a greasy deli, (and one in puffs up and is even fuller than two eggs scrambled in a pan believe it or not!), a lot of fruits and veggies as opposed to candies and cakes. Yeah it was a good week. Only the beginning in a long journey, but thanks to the meetings and church I'm pretty ready to do this. See, church this past Sunday was on the topic of temptation. And in a weird happenstance that was also the topic at WW. The pastor spoke of ways to handle temptation, one being not to just not think about the tempting thing, because in trying to not think about it makes us still think about it in trying to not think about it ( did that make sense?) A better solution is to replace or remove the temptation. Replace those tempting things with things that are good and worthwhile instead of dwelling on the feelings of depravation. Or flee the tempting thing altogether when possible. This can apply to habits, addictions, environments, relationships, jobs - whatever it is that causes you to take a negative downturn. It gave me food to think about Sunday and made me think about food today. It all applies the same. The parallels are very similar - clean out your mind mentally, clean out your pantry physically. Don't patronize places that cause you to be tempted to do harm either mentally, emotionally or physically nor places that are filled with artery clogging physically harmful foods. Refocus on God when tempted mentally and physically, refocus on healthy veggies and sweet fruits when tempted food-ily, etc etc
So there you have it, my spiritually, mental, emotional, and nutritional sermon all rolled into one.

Goodnite

Xoxo
-me