Poisoned Apples

What are my poison apples? God has been challenging me to listen to my body as of late. What? I have already given Him my ear, now I have to listen to my body? He has been dealing with me on areas of control and eating is one of those. I began to look at how and why I eat certain things.

So I know I have always had a problem with sugar, so I chose to start there. I would choose sugar first before other healthier options. The most success I have ever had dieting was when I followed a diabetic diet. I stumbled along a website called radiant recovery that talked about sugar addiction and ways to reset the body biochemically with vitamins and eating patterns. The addiction ranges from sugars and carbs to alcohol or drug addiction. The more I read the more I saw my self in the behaviors associated with the condition. I was as addicted to sugar as any alcoholic or drug addict, I have tried many times to stop under my own power and have failed. So thank you God for leading me to that information, it has changed me.

It explained the chemical reaction the sugar sensitive body goes through when it has sugar(even artificial sweeteners), alcohol, caffeine or white flour. I ran across a funny saying. Sugar, caffeine and white flour are refined from a plant, they can't be bad, its natural. Cocaine, heroin, alcohol and many other deadly things are refined from natural plants as well, that doesn't mean they aren't poison.

Flour was not a problem since I don't eat wheat of any kind. I already knew that was poison Apple #1. Give up COFFEE, NOOOOO! I like coffee. Okay God, I'll try, even though I have tried before and failed. I read somewhere that if multi-vitamins and b-complex were taken each time I began to feel the affects of caffeine withdrawal it would keep the headache at bay. It only took 3 days to rid my system of the drug and the headache was kept at bay with vitamins 3 times a day. I realized if my body had that bad of a reaction, caffeine probably was a poison. Apple #2, gone. I don't want to bite that apple again. SUGAR, hmm.

Here is where I had the argument with God. God, what's wrong with sugar? It's not poison, it's good, it makes me happy. If your body says its poison, for you its poison. I realized I was trying to be god in trying to hold on to something that made me happy, and take control over a body God created. Maybe snickers bars don't work in my gas tank any better than they work in my car's gas tank. Okay God, I've tried before so you will have to take over here.

I was up for an experiment. I began taking DMG, a (b-vitamin), to help stabilize my craving for sugar. From the first day of no caffeine and taking this supplement, I have not needed or craved sugar of any kind. Sure I have had sugar, it is hard to avoid, but there is no trigger to want more. No sweeteners, no alcohol, no reaching for a candy bar at the store, poison apple #3. GONE. Thank you God, I know none of that was from my effort. No amount of self control or will that I have tried to engage in the past has ever brought me to the freedom that listening to the body you designed has given me.

Listening to God through my body that He created, instead of listening to my own misguided reasoning when it comes to health, is better for me. Don't have it down yet but at least I am walking down the path with God.