Recently I have learnt to surrender my weight fear to God.

I pray alot and I find God really helps me.

Here are my Christian ramblings tonight…

I had an irrational fear of getting fatter and fatter. Not that I am really overweight, only 10 kgs! After having four kids, it’s hard to shift! I am 52 years old and at a great stage in life but abit rounder than I would like to be.

I used to obsess a lot with losing weight and after many failed programs, I surrendered the 10kgs to God. I still haven’t lost them but instead, I put the onus on God Himself!

If He wants me to be 10kgs less, I am sure I will be. If not, the 10kgs belongs to Him and if He is not fussed about this, I shouldn’t be either. This is significant. Simply because there is a time to actually quit and give up! In this place, you give the unresolved issue to God permanently!

One day, it felt like God was speaking to me.

His words were very simple.

“I am the Program.” (worthy of a capital)

Wow!

Not Weight Watchers, Noom…but God.

Sometimes programs can be like idols.

We often trust these more than God.

Imagine losing 10kgs in the flesh…and this not registering on heaven’s scales at all.

I can’t imagine God saying, “Wow, your skinner, I love you more now.”

My “fat fear” was nothing about losing weight but rather I was not trusting God to help me not get fat!

So….guess what?

I stopped all programs. I put the scale in the garage. I stopped keeping a food diary. That didn’t work anyway. Years ago it did!

Now, thank God, I am starting to heal.

Without programs.☺️

God is my new program and nothing else.

When God is your only program, everything starts to make sense.

Maybe I will go on an actual weight loss program later down the track but that’s God’s business and His money!

Instead, the program remains Him.

God is an amazing program.

He is real.

He will help you. 🙏

He doesn’t cost a cent and He has no side effects. There is no need to keep a diary because of Him. If you weighed God on our scale, I am sure He would not even register, and my spirit/soul weight wouldn’t register either! Often weight is not important from the perspective of heaven.

As He weans me off earthly programs and plans for now I have felt great joy and freedom and have started to heal from these destructive food patterns.

Sometimes it is OK to give up, when your soul lessons are more important.

I’m sure God never looked down at me and said, “Look at Helen. Still 10kgs overweight!”

Rather maybe He thought, “She still doesn’t trust me. Her trust in me, is what counts.”

One thing I do know, is that heaven’s scale matters more and you can put the human scale away (for good). God knows your weight (without even weighing you)! I would rather Him be “my scale” when I find myself getting overly obsessive.

God doesn’t lead you to obsessions, He leads you away from them.

Trust God-in-the-moment with healthy food.

Take a break from failures. ☺️

If you trust a program, you just get a program only.

If you trust God (zero cost by the way), you get Him (all free) and nothing stands in the way, plus He may also bless you with a free program that actually works. (The 16:8 intermittent fasting works really well for me)

Now I eat-in-the-moment and eat in the present. This feels very freeing. Like a child, sort-of-ish! Remember when we were kids? We ate normally, no F.O.F. (fear of fat)

I think that’s the way God wants us to eat.

If you are struggling to lose weight, maybe this post will help you. Maybe a weight loss program is the worst plan for you. Maybe you need to quit altogether and forget all about diets. Maybe you can’t even afford to pay the fees for a new weight loss program.

God’s help is free but overlooked by so many.

God may not even want you to lose weight right now.

Ask Him to help you identify the root issues.

Sometimes they are not in your body at all, but rather your soul.

(Send me a message at helenolenjin71@gmail.com if you are struggling)

He may tell you to quit everything but Him. For now.

When this happens, you are in the best place for a miracle, way bigger than weight loss.

Enjoy my Christian poems below. They will encourage you. ❤️

They will make you think of God.

They help me forget (about food, etc….).

God takes away our hungry feelings.

Jesus said that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Speak soon.

Love Helen Olenjin ❤️