I completed Way of Purity on the settingcaptivesfree.com website and moved onto The Lord's Table. This course is to break bad eating habits. I overeat and eat when I'm bored. Today was Day 3.
The first day was about getting your motivations for taking the course right - glorifying the Lord. Day 2 was about why we eat when we aren't hungry, usually because we want to satisfy ourselves because of a spiritual reason or we feel empty.
Day 3 was feasting on the Lord (i.e. getting into the Word and praying and listening to His voice) to satisfy those desires we got into on Day 2; basically it was to replace the bad eating habits with the good habit of getting into God's presence.
This program has me on an eating plan. Two actually. Eat only when your tummy growls. Then there's the meal plan consisting of liquid, half, normal, and fast days. Liquid days you drink liquids all day except for your last meal. Half days you eat half portions of what you'd normally eat (like if I usually eat three cookies, I only eat one and a half on a half day). Normal days are normal and fast days are no food. Instead of eating at meal times we pray.
Today's a normal day (day one was a half day, day two was liquids day -which I really enjoyed). Tomorrow is my fast day. The program recommends starting the fast day the evening before until the evening of (so tonight after dinner I don't eat, sleep, and I fast until tomorrow evening).
Each week there's two normal days, two half days, two liquid days, and one fast day. No days are back to back (i.e. today and tomorrow can't be normal days, but today and Thursday can be).
I have a mentor in this program, which is awesome, since I didn't get one for Way of Purity. My mentor is fantastic and I'm excited to get advice from my mentor.
Hopefully more to update.
With love and God Bless,
EPD
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