What about My Internal Signals?

When trying to lose weight, most everybody thinks about working out and going on diets. Especially now, it's the beginning of the year, and we all have our resolutions. Since I've started blogging, I've had people suggest to me weight loss products, other weight loss sites, ways to lose, what to eat, and so on and so on. We can't help it, because it's our culture and that's just the way we do things. And it's what comes natural. But today, I'd like to introduce a new thought to challenge our natural way of thinking. It's nothing fancy, nothing deep, just an observation I've made.

When we were created, our bodies were designed to perfection. And had not sin entered into the picture, thereby bringing with it, sickness and disease, we would all still have perfectly functioning bodies. So with this perfectly designed body, we sleep when our bodies say we're sleepy. We drink, when our bodies say we're thirsty. We go to the bathroom when our bodies say it's time for a bowel movement, so why is it that we eat when our bodies haven't said it's hungry? Or keep eating after the body says it's full?

Have you ever tried going to bed before you got sleepy? What happened? Most people I know, try to fight sleep, because they want to stay up to watch tv, still have chores to do, are working on projects for school or work...or whatever. Even babies fight off sleep! Ok, so what about using the bathroom? Do you make plans to go to the bathroom, before the body signals you that it needs to go? LOL. Can you visualize it? That is absolutely hilarious! But no, you probably don't do that either.

So what's up with our eating habits? Why do we abuse the body in this area, and not follow our body's signal? I can't answer that for you, only you can. But here's what I do know, if we start following our body's signal for eating, which is eating when you're physiologically hungry (that means you feel a physical hollowness or growl in the esophagus/stomach area), and then stop when your body says, I've had enough, then your body will shed any extra fat, if you're overweight, and keep you lean if you are not. Our bodies are perfectly and intricately designed and it knows exactly what it needs and when. If we would begin following our God given internal signals, then we wouldn't have to work so hard externally. You could take the money you spend on gym memberships and high priced diet foods, and buy a new pair of sexy skinny jeans. Or get this, you could sleep in longer, instead of having to get up and work out. Think about it.