“Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?” – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Lewis made this statement as an analogy for our society’s preoccupation with sex, but he may have been closer to the mark about food than we’d like to admit.
Commercials for restaurants or food brands, ads for diet plans, the pictures of the ultra-fit and the less-than-fit that cover our magazines, all tell us the same story; what counts is food. Whether that means eating it or avoiding it, counting calories or eating that dish we’ve craved all day, food can easily turn into an obsession.
Food, sex, money, power – in every case we crave something created when we were actually designed to crave our creator, God. Many of us have misplaced that craving, overindulging in physical pleasures instead of lasting spiritual satisfaction.
In the Made to Crave DVD curriculum, Lysa TerKeurst explains how we can,
- Break the “I’ll start again Monday cycle”
- Stop beating ourselves up over the numbers on the scale and make peace with the body we’ve been given
- Discover how weight loss struggles aren’t a curse but, rather, a blessing in the making
- Replace justifications that lead to diet failure with empowering go-to scripts that lead to victory
- Eat healthy without feeling deprived
- And, reach a healthy weight goal while growing closer to God through the process
