Control Issues

I've been thinking ~ uh oh I hear you say hee hee.... I used to say that food was in control of me. I then had wls and felt for the first time in my life that I was in control over food. Then it slowly creeps back doesn't it, so I went on the 5 day plan and felt in control again. But hang on a sec...food is an inanimate object and cannot have control. I realise that I have had control for the whole time, I just haven't walked in it. I have not used the control that I have had, not even realising that I had the control in the first place. Does that mean I could stop eating when I'd had enough, I'm not sure. But it certainly doesn't mean that food was forcing me to eat all those extra calories. As a christian I ask God to be involved in my life - to have some measure of control in what happens around me and in my life. Therefore I cannot then allow some inanimate object to affect the way I live my life in the way I have in the past. This new way of thinking is revolutionary for me. It means I am now accountable for my actions (ie for all the food choices I make) I can no longer say that I cannot lose weight - I have proved I can, so no blaming my body for not behaving in a way that I dont' like, I can no longer say that food is controlling me, as it is my choice whether to use the control I have or not or to allow God the control I have asked Him to take My life is in MINE & HIS hands, not foods...........

Well said Ruthie and so true.... take that control.. Carla