Living sacrifice........

Romans 12:1 " Therefore I urge you broithers in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. 

Help me with this one Lord....I eat uncontrolably, try different fad diets and seem to be losing my mind trying to know how to eat?? I am embarrassed even writng this cause how did I get to the point where I needed help with something so simple like  eating....I need your help God, its been a long circular roller coaster ride and I think I'm nauseaus and need to get off.  Please help me to live as a spriritual sacrficfice to you and take care of the body you have given me.

I can't tell you enough how I have tried almost everything possible.  I've even stared at E entertainment at one point wondering  if I looked at celebrities maybe that would motivate me to get up and do something.  All that ever did was leave me deflated and even more discouraged and SUPER far from my goals.  If I am coming off as a vain person, please know that is NOT my intention.  But what I can say is that dealing with weight issues or poor eating habits affects waaaaay more than your physical body, it can corrupt your mood, weigh heavy on your mind and distort your outlook on things.  It can paralyze you into thinking you have failed and have no way to make any change ever.  It can actually make you feel helpless as if you are a slave to yourself.

Then it hit me.....I don't know what I'm doing.  I don't even know the first thing about where to start.  That's ok, cause it hit me, God I want you to be my trainer.  Yes, my trainer.  I ask you to help me in EVERY area of my life,  even in my journey to health and fitness.  I don't want to do anything without you or get obsessive or distracted.  I want all that I do to glorify YOU and that means even taking care of the body you have given me.  Yes, I know God that it means prayer, intentional good choices even in the types of food I allow in my body.  Here's how I see it Lord, you made us, you know what makes us work, please give us motivation and strength to not give up.  Please reign in every area of our life, even in our physical health.

God, 2 Corinthians 7:1 says, "With promises like this to pull us on, dear friends, let’s make a clean break with everything that defiles or distracts us, both within and without. Let’s make our entire lives fit and holy temples for the worship of God."

I want to give you my ALL....inside and out.  Am I perfect, heck No!  Will I probably come to you for help over and over? Yes, of course, but I don't care.  God, if you are with me who can be against me?  That means when MY OWN mind wants to tell me I have failed, or I can't change my poor habits, I will YELL back " WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!"  even against  mental, emotional and physical burdens.  I am not in this alone and that makes me smile, that makes me try again, that makes me believe I am one step closer!