Is Obesity a Sin?

[Kae]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

Well said...

And I will add this... not adding to your thoughts... but sharing some of what your post has prompted within my own mind.

Perhaps this should go in the "5 Things AFF Doesn't Know About Me" thread...

But.. I weigh 437 pounds. WAY too much. And I am working on that.

But... 4 years ago I weighed 550+ so I have lost 120 pounds in the last 3-4 years. VERY slow weight loss... but steady.

This has come from educating myself about what I should eat and even from acting on some of what I have learned. LOL

Over time my desires have changed because of educating myself about how food affects me. It has taken half a decade of study to get here too. After all... I am undoing over 4 decades of bad concepts about food. And it is not all about not eating fatty foods etc. I read earlier today that someone drinks 2 liters (I believe) of diet soda per day. OH MY GOODNESS... from my study... that makes me cringe. Probably most of it has Aspartame in it. There is much to know and it doesn't all revolve around sugars & fats.

The main reason I share this is because most people who saw me on the street would think... glutton.

Hey... I have lost 120 lbs... Does the average Joe seeing me walk down the street know that? Nope. Is that the snap judgment people jump to? Nope.

I just got my new drivers license yesterday. WOW... what a difference. But no one who simply saw me walking down the street would look at me and say... Hey... he looks like he has been changing his eating habits and, consequently, lost 1/5 of his body weight.

I think this is amazing. Keep up the good work!