"I should eat less and restrict more to finally get control of my body."
How it sounds in your head: If you could just have more discipline, skip meals, cut portions smaller, maybe you'd finally achieve that body you're supposed to have. Every bite feels like failure. Restriction feels like righteousness, like you're finally doing something right.
"Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations—'Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle,' which all concern things which perish with the using—according to the commandments and doctrines of men? These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh."
-- Colossians 2:20-23Source: Diet culture religion that replaced grace with food rules and made the body an idol to control through works.
You've spent decades trying every diet, and restriction feels like the only thing you can control as everything else slips away. The scale becomes your report card, and eating less feels like moral victory.
When Elijah was suicidal and exhausted, God didn't put him on a diet plan—He sent an angel with CAKE and water, twice. After eating, Elijah traveled 40 days on the strength of that meal, proving God's solution to crisis is NOURISHMENT, not restriction.
I REFUSE the lie that restriction equals righteousness or that I must earn food through suffering. IT IS WRITTEN that food rules have an appearance of wisdom but are of NO VALUE—they're self-imposed religion. I died with Christ FROM these regulations. My body is not a project to control; it's a TEMPLE He already declared holy. IT IS WRITTEN that whether I eat or drink, I do it to the glory of God—and that includes eating FREELY without fear. I am under GRACE, not food laws. The BARAK blessing covers my body, my health, and my nourishment. I eat as a daughter, not a debtor.
Your Father isn't handing you a meal plan to earn His approval—He's spreading a feast before you and saying 'Taste and see that the LORD is good.' He sent an angel with cake to suicidal Elijah, not a nutrition lecture. He wants you NOURISHED, not starved into submission.