Losing My Gut

[Lewis]

My gut or stomach if you will, is out of control, it looks like I am about 7 and a half months pregnant or something. I am supposed to join the YMCA tomorrow. I will tell you this, I hate sit ups, I hope the Y has another way. I am around 180, up from around 150 a little over a year ago, reason because I was a smoking Christian up until 15 months ago, then God took it away without me trying, because I always failed, but anyway the pounds just kept piling on. But I want to keep this weight, I just want to add muscle to it, and get rid of this awful gut.

 

[Kelli]

then God took it away without me trying, because I always failed, but anyway the pounds just kept piling on.

That's what happened to me with food. God took away the addiction to food, because I always failed, but I had to pray every time I felt tempted to overeat.

 

[Lewis]

Kelli for me I had stopped praying for Him to deliver me from smoking, because it looked like He was not going to do it. Then February 3rd 2008 on a Saturday, He took it, after years of trying. Now cigarettes stink, and I don't like being around them. Sometimes you might think of one, but that only last a minute or less. I am not compelled, driven, nor do I have the compulsion to smoke anymore. And now that I look back on it, smoking is really stupid, and I use to think it was so cool, especially in junior and high school.

 

[Kelli]

Hum... Feb 3, is there a significance to the date, or was it just out of the blue? And what happened, did they all of a sudden start to stink? Can you give me more detail. The reason I am asking is, it was very easy for me to quit smoking too. I smoked for about 20 years on and off, then when I got pregnant I just quit. Same for drinking, I used to drink and was afraid I was becoming an alcoholic because I would tell myself this week I won't drink, but I would always end up drinking. But when I got pregnant, I just stopped. I know it was God. I am doing a little research on people being delivered from habits and would love your input.

 

[Lewis]

As a matter of fact I think it was February the 2nd no special day, I also would drink on and off for years, He took that too, I was a druggy He took that too, I was a womanizer a driven one, and He took that too. And He did it in His time. He was hearing my deep down from within cry. And telling Him that this stuff is to big for me, you God have to do it. And this is the same stuff that people go through with food. If you ask me am I addicted to food, I will tell you yes, because I am. I am a binge eater, just like with the drugs and alcohol, the woman thing was constant. As I type this I am feeding my face with peanut butter cookies, and the day is still young. And i just finished eating dinner, I will eat dinner again sometime tonight, then it will be potato chips and pineapple juice, until I get sleepy. Then there are days where I don't eat much, and it is rare that I eat breakfast. Yes Kelli I will help you anyway that I can.

 

[JoJo]

Lewis, you are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing your story about God helping you to quit!

 

[Lewis]

Thanks Jo Jo, and Kelli cigarettes did not stink until I quit at about 6 months, just like alcohol stinks to me now, but it did not stink when I was getting drunk all the time, and in the bars everyday. That is because you are around it all the time, so you really don't smell it anymore, but when you first started you did, and when you quit you will smell them again.

 

[Kelli]

I know gluttony is a sin, just like, for you, and me, alcohol and cigarettes are sin. We hate sin, and the Bible says the law, is good, but the law makes us more obsessed, because Satan uses it to get a foothold. In the research I have done, the only lasting freedom from addiction is the "giving it up to God and in His time" freedom. Imagine no more worrying about calories, carbohydrates, fat, sugar. I think you found the secret Lewis. Pray, and then give it to God, knowing it is bigger than you.

Romans 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

Just to make a point that the diet "RULES" make us more obsessed, think about it, have you ever heard of anyone being addicted to water? It's because there are no laws or rules about water.