YOU WERE MADE FOR MORE

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Anyone who has struggled with food issues needs to read Made to Crave by Lysa Terkeurst.  This is not a diet book, it's a motivational tool that will make you realize why you overeat, and it will give you the desire to change bad habits that may have plagued you all your life. "This book could be the missing companion you've needed with every healthy eating plan you tried and cried over," says Lysa.  "I believe it will help you find your "want to."

Lysa confesses that she struggled with food choices and weight for way too long.  At one point she weighed nearly 200 pounds.  "I thought about, craved, and arranged my life too much around food," she said.  Abandoned by her father, Lysa began comforting herself with food as a little girl.  That emotional emptiness became a trigger for her overeating.  "Emptiness has a way of demanding to be filled," she wrote.

Lysa discovered that the only way she would conquer her cravings was if she redirected them to God.  "Nothing changes until we make the choice to redirect our misguided cravings to the only one capable of satisfying them," she said.   She began by asking God for the desire to be healthy. "I had to seek a spiritual "want to" empowered by God Himself," she said..."I had to see the purpose of my struggle as something more than wearing a smaller size and getting compliments from others."

Lysa realized that she didn't have a weight problem, she had a spiritual problem. She craved food more than she craved God.  And her sense of identity and worth were tied to the wrong things.  Her overeating was a desperate attempt to silence the cries of a hungry soul.  "God created us with a longing to be filled," Lysa says.  "It's a longing God instilled to draw us into deep intimacy with Him...If we fail to understand how to fill our souls with spiritual nourishment, we will forever be triggered to numb our longings with other temporary physical pleasures."

This book is nothing short of amazing.  Since I've been reading it, I see myself changing my own bad habits.  This book made me realize that eating in excess is a sin and being ruled by food distances me from God.  "Food was never meant to fill the deepest places of our hearts reserved for God alone," Lysa says.

I give this book five stars because it delivers a very strong motivation to get healthy and it offers an exact plan for redirecting our cravings so that we don't run to food for comfort, but instead we learn to run to God.  Women have been dealing with food issues since Eve made that big mistake in the Garden.  It's nothing to be ashamed of.  We all have issues with something.  This book will motivate you to finally have victory over the pull of the refrigerator.  It will make you realize that you were made for more.  Check out the link at the top of this post for a schedule of Lysa's web casts in which she discusses the book Made to Crave.