{"id":482,"date":"2010-02-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/02\/loving-the-binge-foods-give-ba.html"},"modified":"2010-02-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T01:00:00","slug":"loving-the-binge-foods-give-ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2010\/02\/loving-the-binge-foods-give-ba.html","title":{"rendered":"Loving the Binge Foods: Give-Back Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next few days, the Give-Back Diet is all about LOVE, especially on this 40th day.&nbsp; Loving in new ways, such as not &#8220;treating&#8221; yourself to binge foods.&nbsp; Loving your successes, rather than over-thinking your failures.&nbsp; Loving others, and giving them some help.&nbsp; Loving moving and using your body in loving and playful ways.&nbsp; Above all, this program is about loving yourself and that little likeness of God inside you.<\/p>\n<p>Today, lets focus on foods you really love and cannot do without, let me go as far as to say, you really can&#8217;t do without these so much they might be called &#8220;binge&#8221; foods.&nbsp; What is it you really crave, and have to have every day?&nbsp; Is this food, or category of food you get compulsive with (in other words cannot stop eating)?<\/p>\n<p>For me, back when I weighed 400 pounds, my binge food was ice-cream.&nbsp; I had to have it every day, and lots and lots of it.&nbsp; Also, it was sweets and desserts: candy, cookies, pie and cake, preferably chocolate.&nbsp; Honestly, even though I have been relieved of compulsive overeating by the grace of God, I still am highly attracted to carbohydrates and sugary things.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a big problem for me, and I know it is for my clients, and lots of people in general.<\/p>\n<p>I had to learn to accept this compulsion, and come to admit that I couldn&#8217;t control it myself.&nbsp; I had to surrender the sugar and ice-cream to God, and ask for His help to be relieved of the bingeing.&nbsp; In other words, I had to learn a new kind of love connected with ice-cream and desserts: the love of God.&nbsp; I had come to realize that there wasn&#8217;t enough of these binge foods in the world to satisfy me, so I had to give them to God and accept His love in return.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the REAL SWEETNESS.<\/p>\n<p>ACTION PLAN:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Please identify and then surrender your binge foods, and\/or compulsive foods.&nbsp; Best would be to write them in a post (anonymously, if you like).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Do what I did after I admitted them, tell someone, and then ask God for help to recover from their power over you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Realize that binge foods and compulsive overeating really isn&#8217;t entirely your fault.&nbsp; There&#8217;s a fairly recent study that identified that our brain&#8217;s wiring gets reprogrammed when we eat too much sugar and fat.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a real physical addiction that&#8217;s going on.&nbsp; No wonder it&#8217;s uncontrollable.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/drnorrischumleysatisfiedlife\/2008\/12\/sugar-addiction-is-real-and-da.html\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">Take a look at an article I wrote about it awhile back here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of all, even though you may have a sugar, fat or salt problem, do your best to not feel bad about it.&nbsp; Just keep on praying to God, and showering the problem with love and glorious surrender.&nbsp; Then, feel the love from God, and the freedom that grace always provides time and time again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?search=Give-Back+Diet&amp;IncludeBlogs=129&amp;Go.x=18&amp;Go.y=15\" target=\"_blank&quot;\">HERE&#8217;S A LIST OF EVERY DAY OF THE &#8220;GIVE-BACK DIET.&#8221;&nbsp; START TODAY!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next few days, the Give-Back Diet is all about LOVE, especially on this 40th day.&nbsp; Loving in new ways, such as not &#8220;treating&#8221; yourself to binge foods.&nbsp; Loving your successes, rather than over-thinking your failures.&nbsp; Loving others, and giving them some help.&nbsp; Loving moving and using your body in loving and playful ways.&nbsp; Above&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,3,24,21,12,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet","category-food","category-health","category-inspiration","category-spiritual-weight-loss","category-spirituality","category-weight-loss","category-wellness"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Loving the Binge Foods: Give-Back Diet - Dr. Norris J. 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