~Emotional Eating~

There are many ways to look at this issue, I realize, but as a believer & follower of Christ, I myself must look at it scripturally...& there is MUCH in the Bible about this...
...I'm not going to go look up every chapter & verse, but just share the things God's been teaching me, {especially lately} as He's been answering my prayer to have the fruit of the Spirit in my daily life of self-control.
First of all, yes, I've prayed for that many times over the years...the difference this time was I was willing to go through (to the other side of!) ANYTHING to be able to daily walk in the fullness of it....to obey His leading, & not the dictates of my carnal nature any longer...to, as the Bible says, die to SELF, crucify my flesh, & allow HIM to be God, NOT my belly!
The Bible tells us that we disciples of Jesus are to present our bodies to Him DAILY as a living sacrifice...yes, even in their run down, abused, neglected, sorry state! We are no longer only our own, we've been bought & paid for with a price...once we come to that place of surrender, & allow HIM to be LORD (BOSS! THE ONE IN CHARGE!) things can truly change, & be healed, & restored...oops, I mean RAWstored!
I had to finally come to the place of no longer denying that my gluttony was a SIN, 7 that I was living to eat, not eating to live. Food was far too important to me.
I'm beginning to understand the addictive aspects of sugar, & other things, & I was a major chocoholic! But still, God will set us free if we truly want to be free!
(See this post at RFT for an interesting video on the power sugar can have over a brain, & the level of addiction it causes...) http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=42925
The bottom line seems to be are we going to live being led around by our emotions....or by the Holy Spirit?
I know, for myself, I had no hope of getting free of this before I met Jesus...& it's still taken all these years to come to the place of surrendering completely in this area of my life.
Crucifying our flesh nature takes on different forms for different believers...for me, this is an area I'd lived in denial of for years, & then struggled with, seeking healing, attempting to change, {but often in my own strength, not relying on Him daily to BE my strength!}
(The Bible says His strength is made PERFECT in weakness!)
As my old friend used to always tell me, "When you're struggling with something, it's cuz God is trying to remove it from your life...& you're trying to hang on!"
So here I am, experiencing victory every single day lately, having it be almost EASY to be 100% (or very close!)...as long as I have a heart that seeks Him, & is listening to His gentle, still voice leading, guiding me through my days....
...the struggle's finally ended, He's confirmed to me numerous times, in so many ways, that this (RAW!) IS the path to healing He wants me to take...
...a narrow one, yes, like the one for salvation, & just like that one, as He said, few will find it...& yes, wide IS the way that leads to death, & MANY go that way...& I accept now that I can never walk that path again...
...how could I ignore all I've learned, after He's so mercifully miraculously healed me of breast cancer? I KNOW what I need to do now to be healed from everything else, & there's nothing else to do!
Check this out....especially if you need MORE proof of the power of RAW???
http://www.naturalnews.com/023655.html
There's much more I want to write on this, but I need to go pick a bunch of raspberries!!!!
{I missed getting out there yesterday, & there's TONS!!!!}
{Want some? Come on over!!!}