weekend confessions---really bad food choices---food for thought

i had such a good weekend!!! but my body is suffering from all the "fun." you must know that i am a litle obsessed with healthy food. i'm not a skinny-minnie by any means, i'm a healthy, average-sized woman. i love love love organic food (but am not by any stretch of the imagination an "organic snob"), i love healthy eating, i love natural foods, i love learning about nutrition. BUT, if i could, i would eat fast food everyday, eat donuts 3 times a week (atleast), and devour an entire box of oatmeal creme pies in one sitting (literally). because frankly, i'm a closet junk food addict. so i have to daily make conscience decisions about my eating habits.

i do not drink soda. at all. it's the high fructose corn syrup that keeps me at bay. friday for lunch, i ate at a local hamburger joint, complete with a huge cheeseburger, cheese fries, and 3, yes 3 cups of root beer. (it's true, and i'm so ashamed. but it. was. so. stinkin. good.) my body nearly immediatley started feeling sick. and for the rest of the day, i refused to eat and vowed to be super good on saturday. (except for that bowl of ice cream i had that night......)

fast forward to last night. david wanted to try a new italian/pizza place in town he had not been to. i loved it and thought he would too. we went. we ordered a pizza each, with intentions of bringing left overs home. he ate his entire pizza. i ate 4 pieces and put the rest in a to-go box. we drove to the lake, took a walk, went and looked at some homes for sale, then made it home about an hour later. i thought i'd try and be a champ and finish off the rest of my pizza. i got about 1/2 way through the left overs and felt like i was going to pass out. ever since, my body has been KILLING me for putting it through torture this weekend.

so it's out now. all of my dirty confessions of gluttony. but i guess the same could be said for everything else we put in our body, not just food. when we listen to too much negativity or music we shouldn't be listening to, when we watch tv shows or things on the computer that we shouldn't be watching, when we think things that do not line up with the Word of God...all of these things cause the same reaction in our Spirit as over-eating does to our flesh. it's not only the healthy food we need to be watching that goes into our bodies, but the worldly and/or spiritual food that goes into our ears, our eyes, and our thoughts. because eventually, it all comes out: through speech, through actions...what's going on inside of you, it will come out.