A Women of Moderation

I have started a new bible study, A Women of Moderation by Dee Brestin. I would like to post some of my notes to hopefully encourage someone else! And I also hope that it will help keep me accountable to sticking with the study through to the end of it! I have a bad habit of starting a book, journal, or bible study and stopping half way through or sometimes even after a few days!
Here are my notes from today: (They may be a little scattered, but I hope that they make some sense)
~We want to be women of moderation, but victory eludes us. Is there truly a way to be delivered? Yes! Yes! Yes!

~Our real problem is "soul hunger."

~In the book French Women Don't Get Fat it says that:
-less satisfies them more,
-the first several bites are always the best
-& that "The arrangement of a food in the center of the plate is part of French enjoyment."
-It also talks about how they would never completely fill their plates as we do and that they use several plates. I like this idea as I do not like my food touching at all! And must have a new clean plate for dessert!
(The new dishes I have been keeping my eye on are square plates. However, they looked kinda small. So I have yet to make a purchase. But I suppose that due to my dieting and liking this idea of putting a small portion in the center of the plate and using separate plates, maybe indeed those new square plates would be just right!)

~Yet in the end, our strength must not come from a food program, but from focusing on Christ. But for a lifetime you want a program that focuses on the Lord and not on food.

~Studies have shown that often we think we're hungry, when in fact our bodies need to be hydrated.

~Whenever we have a problem with an idol or love something more than God, even if that is a good gift from Him, there is a period of time in which we need to have a distance from that idol.

~He is the Redeemer who can exchange our polluted hearts for clean hearts, our distorted motives for pure motives, and break the chains that bind us.

~Psalm 34: 8-9 Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who trust in him! Let the Lord's people show him reverence, for those who honor him will have all they need.