Day 46 -- Choosing Right Now

Howdy Pardner!

I lived "out west" for a while, ages ago. Sometimes I miss seeing the mountains. But I am loving my new lifestyle changes. The thing about life style changes is you can't make them all at once. You really do need to make them one day at a time. Even one meal at a time and one exercise session at a time. Or one purchase at a time. That is the most manageable. I can't manage a whole day at time, because at any given time, some of it is past and only a memory, and some of it is still future and only a thought. The only time you can make a change, or decision, or take action is right now. Right now I choose to eat to heal my body. If I cling to the Lord and His truth, and I also cling to the principles that Dr Ripich teaches about curing diabetes, I will see the healthy results in the not too distant future.

And sometimes there are critical moments when you have to make your choices one bite at a time. This happens when you have not turned your head and walked away. You have let your appetite and feelings begin to dictate the pictures in your head and you have already gone the wrong way. Maybe you waited too long to eat and now you are famished. You have gone so far as to take the first or second or third bite and there you are eating pornographic food. You know it is wrong to eat this particular food, but have already chosen to ignore the impending consequences you are creating as you chew.

There are many steps that come before the bite stage and if you come to your senses during any one of them, you can hold up the hand with the stop sign and turn away -- at any step or moment in the process.

First, do not beat yourself up.
Second, admit what you have done in the last moment, and choose to make the right choice right now in this moment.
Third. Throw out the pornographic item. Make sure it is irretrievable -- put it on the coffee grounds in the trash or next to something that is filthy and untouchable in your mind, let alone inedible. Or wash it in the sink and dissolve it away.
Fourth thank God that you noticed it and had the guts to stop it where you did.
Fifth go get something good to eat and eat it with relish -- not the food relish -- the attitude of fun, relish, because you have changed your direction.
Sixth Now be careful because you are still vulnerable. Get out the book that inspired you. Read the book. Get inspired. Pray. (Talk to God and pray as the Spirit leads you. You will know what to say when you pray.)

Remember why you need to eat right.  
Remember the benefits of eating clean food.  
Remember that you don't want to invent diabetic complications in your life by eating pornographic food.  
Remember that you do want to be free of diabetes and the way to do that is with good healthy food in the mouth (picture the good food), and good healthy exercise on the body (picture the good exercise).

Finally make the decision to stick to your plan from this moment on.

Anything in the past, is the past, and can be let go of. Just set it aside and take a correct or corrective action right now. This is the only time an action can be taken, anyway: right now. Praise the Lord!

Of course, I have just finished a wonderful salad with a little protein and my belly is full and I feel good. But I know those times when you are faced with a temptation to eat something that is "not good for" or "not healthy for" your own body. For many years I have regarded my appetite, and feelings of hunger, rather than what is good for my body. I want to be able to look down a table full of food and make right choices -- like I will have to do next Sunday. It will be a church dinner, but I know there will be pornographic food there. Food that is better left untouched and uneaten. I am going to take a salad, I think, or a pot of beans. Anything that I can eat that others may also enjoy. Probably a salad, due to the high temperatures outside. But beans is cheaper. So I will decide when I have to decide about that.

I think I need to prepare myself by picturing me picking only vegetables and protein to eat, and ignoring or refusing any offers of foods that are not meant for human consumption -- or at least, this human's consumption. Play that out in my mind before I get there. I don't want to go into detail about what those pornographic foods will look like, because that would be picturing them and I would have to focus on them to do that. Suffice it to say: starchy, heavy, cheesy, pasta, potato, bread, or sweet dishes including desserts are pornographic and no good for me.

I want to picture myself putting salad, maybe a little fruit, some protein on my plate and ice and filtered water in my glass to drink, then turning away and going to sit with friends, being happy that I have a plate full of good food for me to eat. Plan to enjoy the flavors of the fresh greens and salad fixings. Plan to be satisfied as I talk to my friends. Plan to cut the meat and examine the taste and texture. Plan to swallow fresh, vibrant, clean water and feel it cooling down my throat as it goes towards my own personal holding area. I want to make sure the holding area is only filled with good and healthy food, meant for me. I don't want any food that is meant only for others. I want to eat only the food that is meant for me. I will know it was meant for me because it will fit and match the descriptions in The 30 Day Diabetes Cure, and it will give me only individual bites of good fresh whole foods.

Whoa! That was quite an exercise. I think I need to do that more often. Just picture myself making right choices. Here I pull out the lettuce and make a salad. There I trim off a smallish piece of cheese and add it to the salad. As I picture the things I am going to eat... that seems to be reinforcing making right choices for myself. So rather than picture eating wrong things and taking the wrong path, I shall picture eating right things and taking the right path. That means turning my face away from some commercials. It means putting my head in another direction (the direction of the produce, perhaps) when I walk past the forbidden foods at the grocery.

You know the grocery stores are set up to entice you to buy. They are SELLING food, and they don't care which ones you buy, just as long as you buy something. You do not have an obligation to them, you only have an obligation to your own health. The grocery store executives only continue to sell what we continue to buy. If it ain't selling, it soon disappears and it won't come back without popular demand. They have done studies and noticed that they SELL more cake if the decorated and colorful cakes are on display in a pretty case right at eye level with nice lighting and happy phrases written on them and pretty doilies underneath them. They let you see the food in the deli cases to make your mouth water and help you to buy things that are not on your list or in your intentions. Turn your head away and do not fall victim to their purposes. Keep your purpose in mind.

I fell for their sales tactics, and my own stubborn appetite, when I bought the quiche last Sunday, and then took it home and ate the whole thing before the day was done. I let myself think that since it was made with eggs and cheese and spinach that it was better for me than a German chocolate cake or an apple pie. I suppose in that respect it may have been slightly better -- but only slightly. The crust was still likely to be made with bleached flour which will attack my liver, raise my blood sugar, and clog my arteries. It was pornographic food. It looked good. It was positioned to catch my eye. It was sold. Hmmmm. And I am the fool that bought it. I conveniently forgot all the bad effects in order to let me purchase it. I conveniently remembered only that I like how it tastes and feels to eat it. If I had turned my head, and walked away with good intentions, I would not have ended up eating it. It is as simple as that.

So my good health also depends on my one purchase at a time. Each item I put in the basket must be a perfect fit for my personal program. It can no longer be someone else's program. Sorry Dr Ripich, but I own my program now. I know that is ultimately what you want, because you cannot go everywhere with me and tell me what to do every moment of the day. Or can you? That is what is meant by "abiding" in the teachings. I take Dr Ripich and Jim Healthy with me in my head. And the more I read the book, the more it inspires me. The more I cling to the teachings, the more freedom I get. Freedom from high blood sugar numbers. Freedom from possible future diabetic complications. Freedom to live my life at a higher more self controlled level and love every minute of it. Now that is freedom. Freedom to relax and know that I've done what I needed to do and the rest is up to God, Whom I trust.

Be back soon

--Marcia





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