Day 1

I guess I'll break the ice on this blog.

Today, we all started the Daniel Fast. It is three weeks of restricting all "pleasure foods" to gain a better closeness to God. I am also using this time to ask God to release me from my food addiction.

I realized my problem with food recently. I mean really, I have been overweight to obese my whole life. A long time ago food ceased to be something to sustain life and energy, and something to consume to fill holes. Honestly, I don't know what these holes are. I'm hoping to gain a better understanding of why I feel the need to eat myself to death. I know all the answers, so going to a nutritionist is just not the answer. I know I shouldn't eat something before I put it to my lips, but I always make the decision to consume again and again.

I've tried many many times to lose weight, only to give up when I'm on the brink of success. I was always afraid of giving up the food I loved, because eating a massive slice of cake was way more important to me than being a healthy weight. Now, here I am 25 years old and an untold amount of pounds overweight.

I'm just earnestly praying that God will do some work in me this three weeks so I can break free and just live a life where I can finally feel satisfied.

Laura