Food(less) Journey

It's March! Yay! Lots of exciting and wonderful things going on this month! Are you auxilery pioneering? Leave a comment below if you want to meet for service.  Or email me. Did you do your taxes yet? Only 6 weeks left. Better get on it. On a related note, Am I the only one who gets excited when they e-file and get the "Your return has been accepted email"? Who have you thanked today? Have you thanked your childs bus driver? Think about the valuable service they perform and show some gratitude. Notice what one article said: "Many people feel that their efforts go unnoticed by others.. Sincere words of commendation are not the norm in today's world. This is hardly surprising, for the Bible foretold: 'In the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves..unthankful,disloyal' - 2 Timothy 3:1,2... The world would be a different place  if everyone showed pe...

This post could easily be titled "how to stop eating your emotions". I mentioned in an earlier post how food is closely connected to my emotional responses. So, over the past few months I have been training myself to react in different ways to emotions. I also have stopped buying things that trigger overeating (one snack leads to another). Instead of Happy= Eat a piece of cake, the equation is now happy= share the love with someone else. Usually stress means overeating for me, but now it is just the opposite. Rather than eating when stressed I pray, try to eliminate the stressor and move on. If it is a problem I cant fix I just keep praying and leave it in Jehovah's hands. Why stress myself into a tizzy over something i cant change anyway. I also had to learn to replace the foods i loved to binge on with healthier options or just new options. That whole want something sweet eat a piece of fruit works sometimes, but sometimes i want the chocolate or a cookie. So, I use foo...