Old Techniques Not The Only Techniques

Past success can sometimes equal present failures. It's true. Since my backslide, I have attempted many times to just go back to doing what I did to be successful in the first place. Then after I only have limited success in my resolve, I become even more dejected, and continue down a path of destruction. So one day last week, I was dealing with an after dinner snack urge. In the last successful go around, I just willed myself to not eat. It was all internal. That technique was not working this time though. So I was trying to figure out what to do about that. So I began to pray about a solution to deal with this problem, and then God gave me the answer. My pastor did a series in November called Circle Maker. A quick synopsis is that instead of just inciting a prayer internally, to make it real. He told the story of a man who saved his village from a drought by drawing a circle in the dirt and saying Lord I will not move from this circle until you give us rain. Long story short, because he circled his prayer physically (made it real by doing a physical action) God answered it. So in response, I grabbed my iPad, and typed out 5 times that I did not need a snack after supper and it was destructive behavior to obsess about it. That worked! So for the next few days, I used the same method. Rather than sitting and brooding internally, I would type out a message. For example, one night I had been having a wonderful day diet and exercise wise. I had butted up against my calorie goal for the day however, and at about 8, I became a tad bit hungry. That is my pet peeve when I am on track. The days I am legitimately hungry kill my drive!! So I did get a snack that rounded out my calorie budget for the day. About 9, I became ravenous! So I then took out my iPad and typed out the follwoing:

Does it seem kinda silly? Maybe, but I spent the next few nights doing that when the after dinner snacking urge reared its head, and I can honestly say the last 4 nights, I have not had the urge!!!