Healing Emotional Eating

How do you deal with emotional eating? I have struggled with this for many years. I have came across several people that deal with this issue as well. My belief is that you must address the emotions and not the eating. As I have shared before I believe that true transformation starts from within.

I believe that the emotional eating stems from lies that we have forced ourselves to believe. We have accepted the pain, rejection and disappointments in life and allowed them to conform us. God's word says "be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Romans 12:2.

What this essential means is don't let life force you into a mold. Don't let the situations in your life keep you from being what God created you to be. Don't let the pain keep you hostage or fearful. Let God's word transform you.

How do we begin to heal the emotions that lead to overeating? We must attack every lie with a truth. We must attach ourselves to God truths and hold onto them until our change comes. (Job 14:14) Just as the woman with the issue of blood (Mathew 9:20) many of us have dealt with issues for many years. We are wounded and bleeding.

No matter how much we hear the truth we can't hold onto it long enough to see it take form and manifest in our lives. We keep going back to our old thoughts and old way of doing things. We doubt every step we take, question our direction and feel insecure about the choices we make. We beat ourselves up over and over again. We binge eat. We eat healthy. We miss workouts. We stay committed. We recycle through old emotions over and over again.

We use food as a way to silence the noises in our head. We think that putting ourselves on a restricted diet will take care of the issue but it won't. Addressing emotional eating with a restrictive diet only intensifies the emotions. We often lose some weight but then go right back to our way of thinking and eating and gain it all back and then some.

So how do we finally put the nail in the coffin and let the old things pass away? We must stay attached. We must meditate on God's word day and night. We must meditate on things that are up above (Colossians 3:2). We must cleanse our hearts and allow the truth to take root in us. We can't let the seeds of prosperity and success fall on dry ground. We must water our hearts with God's word continually.

Just like the woman with the issue of blood we can be healed from our emotional eating. We can be made whole and complete as we allow the word of God to perfect us. As we begin to awaken to the truth's found in His word we will understand who we are and how we work. The word of God has principles and directions that we must adhere to in order to ensure that we are living the life He created us to live.

God doesn't want you to be wounded and bleeding. God's says His plans for you are to prosper you and give you a future full of hope (Jeremiah 29:11). We don't have to be victims to our emotions. We don't have to be slaves to them. They don't have to control our lives. God has given us the victory over them. We are more than conquerors (Romans 8:37).

It's time that we start eating God's word instead of silencing our pain with food. "Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'" Mathew 4:4 (NIV). We can live free of depression, anxiety and fear because God has already overcame the world (John 16:33). He already paid the price for your pain.

We don't have to stay attached to our past. God says "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV). We are made new in the truth of God's word. We are made new in body, mind and spirit as we accept the powerful word of God into our lives.

Next time you feel the urge to feed your emotions I want you to speak life. I want you to hold tight to the word of God and speak it over your life. You have the victory.....you just have to believe it.