Today is Labor Day and we promised to feed our strength in examining how to reverse the sequence.
My greatest victory in reversing the sequence has been with food. I am obsessed with food and I have ever so slowly journeyed from complete self-harm to life-giving, self-imposed food therapy.
Though I've managed to always keep my weight within 10 pounds of my goal, I was not in control by any sense of the word.
In junior high, I ate four ice-cream sandwiches and called it lunch.
When my kids were young, I ate a pound bag of M&M's to deal with the stresses known to single working moms.
To offset gargantuan caloric intake, I could easily skip dinner, and then begin the whole crazy cycle again the next day.
In my forties, it occurred to me that food was the secret to health, healing and productive longevity, and I simply asked God to show me His best. In a nutshell, I learned that whole-food, plant-based eating is His best, but that didn't address the engine in my mind that drove my poor eating for all those years.
Poor eating had predictable results: I would feel lousy and beat myself up and promise myself it wouldn't happen again. Know the feeling?
My effort to reverse the sequence began with picturing how I was going to feel before I ate the wrong food and practicing--over and over and over--not going there. After many fits and starts and failures, I rarely to never eat to feel badly. I reversed the sequence by picture the outcome before I began. The power of this picture and spending time pondering how God loves me was the recipe for rewiring the engine of my mind in a new and productive direction.
Tomorrow: another example of reversing the sequence.
PS: If you are on Facebook, invite yourself to Eat More Rabbit Food! Some of us are in an open group sharing our learning in the whole food, plant-based eating arena. We'd love to have you join us.
