Hello Ladies,

Just wanted to give you a progress report on my group and NT principles.  We have a core group now of 6, who have decided to give this way of eating a concerted effort.  Most are a little older and have been down the diet rabbit trail for many years and have regained their weight several times.  Two dropped out when they realized it wasn’t a quick fix/diet group.  We are using another book as well, which dovetails nicely with Jean’s books.  I am encouraging everyone to look at healing their bodies incrementally, which means that it has to be done in stages or phases.  The first phase would be to begin eating more, during the day, preferably in the morning, eating good, whole foods, trying to stop eating at 5:30 or 6 p.m. and stop trying to lose weight, at first.  This is scary to some, me included at times, because it seems as though one will just keep gaining and gaining until one floats away as a big hot air balloon. I still have to keep reminding myself that my metabolism will eventually rev up and I will begin to lose weight, if I do my part and not diet or famine my body.  I’m often tempted to eat just vegetables, protein, etc. and leave off all flour products, fats, etc., which helped me to lose before, but I was still binging, when I ate that way.  Although I did lose weight I never healed and continued to binge.  I guess my body thought I was still famining it because it never stopped needing to binge on high fat/sugar foods.  I was never satisfied.  Now I feel satisfied after I eat.  I am praying that God will continue to give me grace to eat what is best for my body, but I don’t always eat whole foods.  I would say I’m eating whole real food about 90-95 per cent of the time, which is a great thing, and I’m not binging anymore.  If fact, as soon as I started using NT principles, the binges stopped for the most part. 

I’m having a little bit of difficulty seeing those 8 lbs. on my abdomen but I keep telling myself it is only temporary.  That is comforting.  I refuse to ever diet to restrict again.  In fact God has shown me that would be wrong for me to do again, since I now have the information I have learned from NT. 

Thanks to all, and I’ll keep you posted about my progress and how our group is going.

God bless,

Gratefull