Daniel Fast, Prayer and Clean Eating

Today is the day I break my massive sugar addiction and I am already regretting it :)  Today is the day I put my God above everything else in my life and turn to Him for comfort instead of my fridge.

This is hanging on my fridge to remind me what is truly important.

Daniel Fast? I did not make this up! It is a rather popular spiritual fast taken from the Book of Daniel based on his eating habits and verses highlighting eating God's food.  

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. -Daniel 10:3

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. -Daniel 1:8-14

Our fridge in prep for 3 weeks on God eating..

The basics, as I understand it, is to be deliberate with what you eat, eating pure and focusing on prayer and hearing God's voice each day as you deprive your body of really unnecessary foods.  I am focusing this 21 days of fasting on my husband and asking the Lord to move his heart towards Himself.

The prayer is the most important part, but clean eating guidelines helps me to focus.  So super simplified for my easily distracted Mommy mind are
1) No sugar, none.  This is difficult in picking things like spaghetti sauce and salsa since most of these have sugar added, so I just make my own.
2) No meat or animal products. No steak, chicken, fish, milk, yogurt, butter...
3) No alcohol or caffeine, ouch! headaches here I come.
4)Drink nothing but water, this is very clear, not even tea or fruit juice!
5) No leaven bread (no yeast) and only whole wheat products.

So basically what I go with it, lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, raw nuts, and whole wheat noodles and brown rice.  The point is to think on God and not on food.

I have a bad sugar addiction, dependence on caffeine and tendency to comfort eat.  I also have been diagnosed with clinic depression and anxiety.  All these things together have caused me to gain a lot of weight, making my depression worse, be tired constantly, develop asthma and restless sitdrom and just hate myself.  There are few pictures of me from the last 6 years, avoiding even special pictures with my kids, so understand how important this fast is to me as I post this.

NO I am not pregnant, yes I get asked a lot.

Even though my point in this fast is to hear God better and ask Him to bring my husband closer to Him, I know that God is the only way to do anything right, even lose weight.  My health and happiness of my family will improve thanks for my Lord.  I have tried tons of diets and fads, I know the only thing that can work in the Lord.

My first temptation has already come upon me in the form of these evil and delicious cookies hiding in my cabinet calling my name.

 But instead of giving in I pulled out the peanut butter and cut a banana and stayed true.

Oh yummmmmmmmmm

I will not lie, the cookies would have tasted better

I love this time of year, everything is fresh.

Although Money and Cupcake are too young to fast quite yet, they will be eating fresh and healthy with Mommy with meat and grains and some little treats.