Excited!!

Right before sunset...so lovely...

Beautiful Ginger plant from our yard here - oh the beautiful fragrance!!

Just a quick post to share with you what God is doing...I LOVE to see God work and I definitely saw Him working out His plan for me today and using me in ways I am excited about!  I went to the Overeaters Anonymous group for the 2nd time.  I almost didn't go because I am still unsure whether this is where I need to be putting my time and focus, but just felt it was "bigger than me" to go...  so I went and participated.  I sat and listened to the women share their stories and their struggles and just felt, SO STRONG, as I did last meeting, that I have something that God wants me to share with them that could really help them in overcoming their constant battle of cravings and food addiction.  God gave me the opportunity to share with them all after the meeting about how important it is to "balance" the body's chemistry in order to stop the relentless cravings.  That it's not just about overcoming and resisting through willpower alone.  And I wanted them to know this for two reasons...one, to help them have the knowledge of what type of fuel their body type needs to balance and get control with the cravings and two, to help them see that it's more than just their "inability" to overcome the cravings!  To help with the whole guilt trip that food addicts carry with them that is so demoralizing.

The body, when it needs nutritions or it senses danger in the way of blood sugar imbalance, will DEMAND what it needs to survive and this overwhelms ALL willpower or rational thought.  There are times it literally screams!  This is true of all addictions, including alcohol, drug addiction, and any other addiction that seeks "stimulation."  I believe this is the one area that is being missed in so many of the rehab and overcoming type programs out there.  Until we address the imbalance, the cravings will continue.  And NUTRITION, what kind of fuel we are feeding our bodies, is the key to bringing balance.  And getting back to God's ORIGINAL plan of eating for our health is crucial in the right kind of nutrition.  He made us and knows exactly what we need to be healthy and run at our best and He provided this in the form of plant foods and then after the flood, with healthy grass fed meats and fish.  The food we eat today is far from this...man has taken this food from God and has extracted the good nutrition to keep it "fresh" and added in all kinds of chemicals, fats and sugars for flavor, freshness, etc.  Go into a Safeway type grocery store and look at the ingredient labels, especially in the deli!!  Your basic cookie or cake has a label that is so incredibly long and the majority of the ingredients one cannot even pronounce!  There are fast food restaurants on every corner!  It's no wonder our internal chemistry is all imbalanced and messed up!  Then to top it all off, man has continued to mess with our foods by telling us what KIND of diet we HAVE to be on in order to sell their books and foods that support it.  It's confusing to say the least!  So it's no wonder there is such an epidemic of addiction now more than ever.

God is telling us to come to Him and He will show us HOW to live and this includes telling us how and what to eat.  Genesis 1:29  "Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."  He then gave us meat to eat after the flood.  But this meat is entirely different than the meat you buy from the grocery stores of today.  This meat was raised in a pasture, with the animals eating their natural food of grass and other greens, NOT corn meal!  They were healthy animals living off the land, not stuck together in a small enclosure indoors and being force fed un-natural food substances to "fatten" them up and growth hormones to hurry them up so they can send them to slaughter.  This is WHY there are so many outbreaks of E-coli from the ground beef over the years...these poor cows have extreme overgrowth of pathogenic bacterias due to all the starch in the corn that feeds it.  Oh, don't even get me started!  I could go on and on...but back to what I was sharing with you in the first place...


I asked the group today if I could share with them how to best determine their metabolism type that will help them figure out the ratio of nutrients (protein, fats, carbs) to best support their metabolism.  They all replied with a very enthusiastic yes!  So I am going to share after group next week.  I have always felt that God was going to use me someday to teach this information in the area of addiction/nutrition and wow...here it is.  The beginnings.  There are SO many groups in this church alone that meet to support each other in the area of addiction...so many opportunities to help...praying God will continue to open doors and HELP me to get fully well so I can have the energy to do this as He leads me, BUT knowing that if He is calling me at this time to do it, He will give me what I need to fulfill this mission.  


He is good!  All the time!


Blessings!
Sue