WINNING OVER WEIGHT - The Trouble With Food - A Biblical Guide to Healthy Eating

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Winning Over Weight explains eating as a spiritual and practical issue rooted in biblical teaching. It contrasts food-related trouble from figures such as Adam and Eve, Esau, Belshazzar, and Eli with the consequences of overeating, idleness, and indulgence. The text defines “lusting for food,” links cravings to slothfulness and an undisciplined mind, and teaches keeping the body and mind occupied with meaningful activity and God’s Word. It also provides Bible-based limits and guidance for satisfying the soul.

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The Trouble With Food

The Lusting For Food

MarilynHickey OverWeight How YOU can win thebattle of the bulge. Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2018 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/winningoverweigh0000hick WINNINGOVERWEIGHT byMarilyn Hickey HARRISON HOUSE Tulsa,Oklahoma Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken fromthe King James Version of the Bible. 6th PrintingOver 120,000 in Print Winning Over WeightISBN0-89274-248-8 Copyright 1982 by Marilyn HickeyP.O.Box 10606Denver,Colorado 80210 Published by Harrison House,Inc.P.O.Box 35035Tulsa,Oklahoma 74153 Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved under International Copyright Law.Contents and/or cover may not be reproduced in wholeor in part in any form without the express writtenconsent of the Publisher. Winning Over Weight Always and forever,the Bible is practical.It's not just“pie in the sky,"or fantasy,orsomething that collects dust on your coffeetable.The Bible is a book you can live by!Itworks.It deals with where you live and isconcerned with -what concerns you!There-fore,the Bible is concerned with your eatinghabits.It has much to say that will help you inthe area of your eating. # The Trouble With Food You are not the first person to have hadtrouble with food!What was the first thingAdam and Eve got into trouble over?Food!What did they eat?Forbidden fruit. What did Esau get into trouble for?Eatingbeans.He loved lentils!It's not wrong to eatbeans,but he sold his birthright for a bowl ofbeans.Food became his downfall! Do you remember Belshazzar?The nightBabylon fell he threw a big feast which turned into a drunken brawl.He drank from holyvessels.Food contributed to his fall frompower. There is another man in the Bible who liter-ally fell because of overeating.He evenpassed on his bad eating habits to his sons.His name is Eli,and he was fatter than a forty-pound robin!He loved that fat meat!The Bi-ble tells us this in 1 Samuel 1-4. Eli's sons began to love fat too,and theywould steal it from the sacrifices!God toldEli,"You get those sons under control or I'mgoing to take away your ministry."Godwarned Eli twice,but he liked to eat ratherthan obey! Eli's situation is sad because he really didlove God.But he could not give up his eatinghabits or discipline his sons.He was so over-weight that when he heard that the Ark of theCovenant had been stolen,he lost his balanceand fell backwards off a stool,breaking hisneck! Wrong eating habits produce all kinds ofbad things,but be encouraged,God has theway out of these bad habits! # The Lusting For Food All of us have a desire for food—that's onlynatural.Our bodies require food to sustainthem.But when we get into the area of“lust-ing”after food,we're in trouble!When wetalk about lusting,we usually think of it in thesexual realm.There is,however,an area offood lusts.If we can discover the cause forthese,I think it will help you. Once in a while I get a craving for a choco-late bar with almonds.It's not very often(thank goodness!),but when I do,I’m con-stantly thinking,“Chocolate with almonds.Chocolate with almonds!”One chocolate barwon't do much damage,but if I continue toeat chocolate bars with almonds,it couldprove disastrous! One time I tried to analyze when I espe-cially found myself craving chocolate bars.I believe I found the answer to it in Proverbs,that good practical book on wisdom: Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep;andanidle soul shall suffer hunger(Prov.19:15). Idle people are hungry people!Have youever noticed that when you don't have muchto do and you don't have your mind on any-thing,that is the easiest time to run past therefrigerator and help yourself?Have you evernoticed that when you're not really busy,youtend to think more about food? When we are not engaged in some mean-ingful activity,we can easily get hung up onfood.It's good to keep busy.It will help you tobecome thin and stay thin. It's good to keep your bod

FAQs

Why does the book connect weight problems with biblical examples?

It uses cases from Scripture, showing how food desires and overeating contributed to trouble and downfall for multiple people, including Eli and others.

What causes cravings for specific foods according to the text?

The book links cravings to idle time and slothfulness, explaining that when the mind is undisciplined, people more easily “run past the refrigerator.”

How does the book suggest stopping overeating beyond satisfaction?

It teaches that righteousness involves eating to satisfy the soul within a limit, while going beyond satisfaction leads to stuffing oneself.

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