Gluttony/Other Addictions

[BronxBriar]

Dear BAPTIST Friends,

There was a very interesting thread about ALCHOHOL. I was wondering if many of us have an awareness of our food addictions. Are we protecting our children from sugar and cabohydrate addictions? Are we aware that we just might eat too much? Do we look for the real resons why we do? How much do we use food as a comfort rather than trusting our cares to Jesus?

Sometimes I think our sugar/carb/food addictions can cause as much damage in families as does alcohol.

Any thoughts?

Regards,

 

[Miss Shelby]

I eat way too many carbs.

Michelle

 

[TomUK]

I eat way too many carbs.

Michelle

The first time i read that, i thought it said crabs. Crabs are tasty, but you could get sick of them after a while.

 

[Miss Shelby]

The first time i read that, i thought it said crabs. Crabs are tasty, but you could get sick of them after a while.

I like king crab legs. But I don't think I could eat them all the time. Have you ever had crab rangoon, the appetizer they serve at chinese restaurants? THAT I could eat all the time. I bet it's high in carbs, too.

Michelle

 

[TexasCatholic]

I think there's different answers...

1) Yes, many people use food as comfort and "abuse" food... I've been guilty of it at times in the past.
2) Occasionally eating a "hearty" meal is not food abuse. If you sit on the couch every night stuffed to the brim with bad stuff, sugar, carbs, to the point you feel like dung... That's gluttony.
3) I think many families just DON'T UNDERSTAND that pumping sugar and carbs into their kids is going to make their kids FAT and UNHEALTHY, and that their kids will NEVER outgrow the tendency to eat that way!!!! Where do we learn to eat?? Not from a nutrition book, but from our parents!!! If our mom gives packs a lunch of a Peanut Butter & Jelly on white bread (quite possibly the worst sandwich you could feed a child), some cookies, and an apple juice... what your mom has done is packed you full of sugar and ensured, virtually guaranteed you will get fat. If you don't -- you just were blessed with a very fast metabolism. Pray you don't get diabetes.

Ignorance is bliss in this. I'm glad the "low carb" diets are really taking off. Staying away from excess carbs can do nothing but GOOD. If we got rid of refined sugar and refined white flour ENTIRELY, our diets would improve dramatically. This stuff is the core of evil food. It is completely man-made. Humans weren't meant to consume these things, because nature never made them. We should eat meat, natural grains, fruits, and all within reasonable boundaries. Not overeating.

That's my "food philosophy 101"... I grew up eating all the wrong stuff, and it has taken me 29 years to START to get an idea of how wrong it was.

Stop pumping sweetened fruit juice into your kids! Stop pumping white flour and refined sugar into your kids! Stop letting them keep that "candy stash" in the house! Maybe I can help the next generation not be the fat lard behind that I turned out to be thanks to this bad diet. Unfortunately, everyday I see today's teenagers and I see what they eat. I see that they will gain 50 pounds the minute they get out of high school if they haven't started gaining by their junior/senior years. You can't just eat a jumbo bag of Doritos and 2 Dr. Peppers and call that "lunch"!!

-James

 

[jcright]

I think Southcoast is right about the hearty meal not being abusive.

Unfortunately, I always fall prey to this. Someone once called me a stress eater...although I can't honestly say why I'm stressed (have a good job, a house, great girlfriend and I've recently found what I think is the right church).

So yes, I'm aware of my food addiction...getting rid of it is another story. I had milk cut out for almost a month and just bought my first gallon last night...already been abusing that. Chocolate is the other one that I abuse and I know it won't be as easy to give up as milk.

 

[GreenEyedLady]

Glutton DEFINATLY needs to be preached more here in the USA!
I am a guilt sinner!

 

[Grace_of_God]

Unfortunately, this is one sin that has me completely trapped. I pray to God daily to lead me away from it but I still give in all of the time. I had depression VERY bad for several years and ended up becoming a binge-eater (and bulimic) in the process. I KNOW it's there and I WANT it to go away, but it seems that no matter how hard I try, I keep failing *sigh* I just keep on praying and trying and hoping that someday I will be led from this sin.

God bless! In Christ,
~Grace~