What is emotional eating?

I'm on day 51 of the book! I've officially completed 50 days :) And like the book says, I've come this far, so I'm going to keep going. Today is my official "restart" for eating healthy and getting back on track. I've decided that I'm literally going to start tracking my food again, and that I'm going to do Jillian's 20 minute work out and 40 minutes of DDR. We'll see how that goes eh? If it doesn't go well I'll rework it. I just want to be exercising every day consistently for at least 45 minutes.

In this chapter the author is trying to get us to distinguish whether we're eating because we're hungry or because we're angry, sad, bored, etc. She says that we need to ask the question "is this hunger or the desire to eat?" I've found that this past month being off my plan because of sickness and then trying to adjust afterwards has been really hard. I've had less self control, and WAAAAAAAAY more moments of eating out of desire and not hunger. I've also chosen to eat worse things like cupcakes, candy, hot dogs, sugary cereal.

It'll be interesting to see how I get back on track. I'm kinda nervous but I know I've done it before so what's to be nervous about right? I love that I'm a size 16, but I don't want to stay that size forever :) I love that I've lost weight and look better, but I want to continue the journey. I want a toned, lean, curvy, healthy body :) So, I gotta keep moving and making the effort.

Hebrews 10 is pretty powerful. It sets up this background about how the sacrifices offering in the OT were not good enough. That they couldn't cover sins for eternity...they were imperfect in the fact that you had to continue to offer blood again and again. But Jesus, was the perfect sacrifice, "because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy." (v 14). One sacrifice, one time, and we are perfect forever. And I love the distinction between made perfect forever and the fact that we are "being made holy." We are in the process of becoming holy. We are not on our own, exactly who we're supposed to be, but God in his faithfulness has still saved us and deemed us perfect in his eyes.

"Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." vs 22-24

I love that he wants us to draw near, and that he wants us to be free of guilty and to be clean. I this whole chapter that just shows his relationship to us...all we have to do is have faith and believe, and he will do the rest. "He who promised is faithful."

"But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved." v 39

This is one of my favorite verses in Hebrews. I repeated this to myself again and again when I was sick. We don't have to shrink back, we don't have to fear, because we have the most holy and amazing God on our side. We won't be destroyed. And I like how it doesn't say "but of those who fight and conquer." It's pure belief in dependence on a faithful, good God. And I know for myself, the idea that there's nothing that I can do, nothing that I can contribute except full confidence in an invisible God is kinda...scary and uncertain and...foolish. But I've seen and experienced waaaaaaayyyyy too much when it come to his goodness and faithfulness to stop believing now.

God is good.