S2. E11. God cares about your eating
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[00:00:00] Think about how many Thanksgivings you've had in the past where you've been withering in pain on the couch, so bloated, feeling gross and guilty.
The Lord wants to redeem this experience for you This is not only going to prevent you from overeating, but this is actually going to save your Thanksgiving meal. It's not going to ruin it. It's going to redeem it
Welcome to Your Daily Bread podcast. I'm your host, Abbie Stasior, a registered dietitian and certified intuitive eating counselor. My prayer is that these bite-sized episodes will help you heal your relationship with food and improve body image, as well as help you grow closer to God. Now, I can't personally heal you, but each week I'll be directing you to the one that can, and that is Jesus. As a disclaimer, I'm not a pastor, but a sister in Christ providing you with some food for thought for you to bring to the Lord and into your quiet time as your daily bread. Let's dig in.
Hello. Hello. Welcome back to Your Daily Bread podcast. This is [00:01:00] one of my favorite times of the year. I love Thanksgiving out of all the holidays. It is my favorite holiday, and the scripture we're going to be outlining today is going to help you in preparation. For such a foodie holiday, it is so hard this time of year y'all, because we're inundated with so much food and if you're working on healing your relationship with food in your normal day to day, it is so hard when you are faced with.
A lot of things and a lot of scenarios that are outside of your normal routine. You may be traveling, you may have people coming to you, you may be eating food that other people are preparing or you don't really know what they're gonna be preparing and you're just out of your normal environment. So I just, I just really pray.
My prayer is that there is just so much grace this season and you. Recognize that this doesn't have to be pass or fail. This can [00:02:00] be practice and that you can show yourself compassion and warmth and understanding, and lots and lots of grace. His grace is sufficient for you. There's enough grace to cover this holiday because you are.
On the journey of healing your relationship with food, and especially if you are just starting out and you're trying to figure out how to eat on a normal day, and you're totally out of your routine, you're not really in a normal environment. Of course it's going to be challenging, but his grace is sufficient for you.
He is with you and. The Lord is going to guide you and I pray that the scripture we're going to be diving into today, which we talked about last year around Thanksgiving, but that was in season one. We haven't talked about the scripture in season two, so I wanted to bring it back. This will really help you to avoid overeating.
On Thanksgiving, if you do this one thing, this will help you to avoid overeating on Thanksgiving. Father, God, thank you so much for this day. Lord, we just praise you and thank you for our able bodies, for the [00:03:00] breath in our lungs, and we praise you that your mercies are new every day. And Lord, we praise you that your grace is sufficient, that your power is made perfect in our weakness for when we are weak than we are strong.
And , Lord, we just boast all the more gladly. About the trials that we go through, the persecutions, the tough times, the grief, the suffering, everything. Lord, you know what's on our hearts, the unspoken cries of our hearts, Lord.
In Romans it says, you hear our groans, Lord, ah, you know everything we're going through, but we boast all the more gladly about those things. Because your grace is sufficient, and when we are weak, then we are strong because your power is made perfect in our weakness, Lord. So we know that through this holiday season, we may stumble, we may fall, we may backslide, but we are never too far gone for you, and you will always embrace us.
You will never leave us nor forsake us. Psalm 63 says, you are holding us securely with your right hand. Okay, [00:04:00] Lord, thank you for never letting us go. Thank you for dwelling inside us. Thank you for the Holy Spirit that is our wisest counsel and can guide our eating choices. Lord. , We praise you that there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.
So I pray that as we go into this episode, that this, is helpful for all listeners and helps them. Walk into the holidays with confidence and that they have a plan and they have a routine to follow. Intangible action steps. Lord, I pray that everything that is said in this episode is not what I want to say, but is what you want to say through me and give every listener ears to hear.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. We're gonna be diving into John Chapter 21 verses one through 14. The word of the Lord says. Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples by the Sea of Galilee. Sidebar. This is after the resurrection. So Jesus has already died on the cross resurrection from the dead. Now he is back visiting his disciples before he fully ascends to the father in heaven.[00:05:00]
So it happened this way. Simon, Peter, Thomas, Nathaniel of Cana and Galilee, the son of Zebedee and two other disciples were together. I'm going out to fish. Simon Peter told them and they said, we'll go with you. So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. Does this sound familiar?
Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not recognize that it was Jesus. He called out to them friends, haven't you any fish? No. They answered. He said, throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some. When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, it is the Lord. As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, it is the Lord, he wrapped his outer garment around him for he had taken it off and jumped into the water. The other [00:06:00] disciples followed in the boat towing the net of fish for they were not far from the shore, about a hundred yards.
When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals and there were fish on it and some bread. Jesus said to them, bring some of the fish you have just caught. So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish 153, , but even with so many, the net was not torn.
Jesus said to them, come and have breakfast. None of the disciples dared. Ask him, who are you? They knew it was the Lord. Praise God y'all. I love this story, and whenever this is preached in church, I feel like pastors tend to harp on the fish catching miracle and this other fish catching miracle that he did that was just so similar.
Just the kindness of God to repeat the same miracle again so that they [00:07:00] knew that that was the Lord. They didn't have to question. They had seen him do it once and they saw him do it again. But what I'm gonna focus on, is verse 12, where Jesus said to them, come and have breakfast because y'all on Thanksgiving.
We never have breakfast. What's up with that? We wait until noon, 3:00 PM sometimes 5:00 PM to eat our first thing from the day. And then if we do try and eat, it's like we get slapped on the wrist by a family member saying, oh, you're gonna ruin dinner. Don't you see me in the kitchen?
You're gonna ruin the meal. You're gonna ruin Thanksgiving, y'all, I can guarantee you, you're not going to ruin Thanksgiving by having some scrambled eggs and toast in the morning. I can guarantee you that . If you have a smoothie. If you have avocado toast, if you have overnight oats in the morning, if you have fish and bread, maybe a little, you know, salmon and lox moment, like you are not going to ruin thanksgiving, if anything, having breakfast in the morning, modeling how Jesus [00:08:00] ate.
Jesus ate breakfast, so we should be eating breakfast. This is not only going to prevent you from overeating, but this is actually going to save your Thanksgiving meal. It's not going to ruin it. It's going to redeem it when you go so long without eating. By the time you get to your next meal, you are ravenous.
You are urgently hungry. You need food now you start shoveling food and you eat too much too fast. And you overeat. And that's why after your Thanksgiving meal, you're on the couch, withering in pain. So bloated you were not meant to take in that much food in that short amount of time. The way that your body best digests food is to take it in smaller amounts more frequently throughout the day.
That's the best for our hormones. It's the best for our digestion. It's the best for our blood sugar. You are consistently ruining your Thanksgiving meal. And you're in so much pain after you eat because that's your [00:09:00] only meal of the day. If you eat a little bit earlier on in the day, and depending on the timing of your meals, you may need to eat a snack, after breakfast or breakfast and lunch before dinner.
That's not you ruining the meal that's best preparing for the meal because your blood sugar will be balanced. And you're going to get to your Thanksgiving meal with a level head. You can intentionally build your plate. You're gonna be able to eat slowly and really savor your meal. Engage in conversation.
You're not going to be shoveling food in and so drawn to the food, you're gonna be able to build your plate intentionally, really savor your food, chew your food, swallow all the things that we need , for proper digestion and what we call meal hygiene. And that's going to help you too, not overeat.
Eating breakfast on Thanksgiving is going to prevent you from overeating. Or at least mitigate your risk because you're going to be showing up to the [00:10:00] actual Thanksgiving meal with more intention. So I wanted to do this episode the week before Thanksgiving so that you could plan ahead. So you could already start to plan out your day, plan, what you're going to eat, and if you wanna keep it light, have a smoothie, have a pre-made protein shake, have a bowl of cereal, , but you really should have a decent breakfast. If you have not already listened to the Hunger in Fullness Cues episode also in season two, I would recommend that you listen to that also before Thanksgiving, because that goes into more detail what I'm talking about when it comes to hunger cues and things like that.
When you wait so long to eat, you get so. Urgently hungry and ravenous. You eat so much so fast and overload your system so it's better to eat breakfast and whatever Jesus did as disciples of Jesus we're trying to be Christlike. We need to do what Jesus was doing so Jesus ate breakfast, then we need to be eating breakfast.
And you might say, yeah, I'm not a breakfast person. If you [00:11:00] feel that you're not a breakfast person. Jesus was a breakfast person, so we might need to renew our mind around that. And your body might not be sending you hunger cues at breakfast because you don't normally eat breakfast, and it takes calories and energy to send you hunger cues in the morning.
Our bodies are so smart and so adaptable, if it's not used to getting food at that time, and maybe you tend to undereat or eat sporadically, your body is going to conserve calories. It's not gonna waste calories to send you hunger cues that you're not even gonna respond to anyway.
Okay, so we need to renew our mind and we can see ourselves as breakfast people because Jesus was a breakfast person, and I'm not saying you have to have a big old egg breakfast if you're used to not eating anything, but maybe start with an apple and peanut butter, or you could start with a pre-made protein shake.
Sometimes it's easier to sip your nutrients than to eat a full breakfast, and then you work your way up. You have to train your body to expect food at that time. And then your body will more easily accept food at that [00:12:00] time. So this is my biggest piece of advice and what I'll say y'all is just try it.
Just try it. Just try and eat a little something and see if you feel better on Thanksgiving. Don't worry about what other people are gonna say. You have to steward your body best. And other people might be eating differently, but they may not be eating. For the Lord, they may not be turning the scripture to give them guidance on how to eat.
I believe that this verse was intentional because Jesus could have made this be lunch. Why did it have to be breakfast? Maybe God knew that in our society today, we would struggle with eating breakfast and delay, delay, delay, eating as long as possible, but that's not serving us. Think about how many Thanksgivings you've had in the past where you've been withering in pain on the couch, so bloated, feeling gross and guilty.
The Lord wants to redeem this experience for you in one very easy way that you can start that and to approach your Thanksgiving meal with [00:13:00] more intention, more patience, which is a fruit of the spirit and just make that eating experience more pleasant is by eating something earlier in the day. AKA eating breakfast.
So you have a week. You have a week. You have a week and a day until we get to Thanksgiving. You have time to plan what you're going to eat and what I would recommend, if you're not a breakfast person, start eating breakfast now. Like don't wait until Thanksgiving. Start doing this now so that in the next week, you will start to get some hunger cues in the morning.
Our bodies are so adaptable. That would be my biggest advice is to start eating breakfast now. So you're ready for Thanksgiving and you can build your plate and eat with intention.
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