Stop EATING over your budget

I love Dave Ramsey, the Financial Peace Guy. He teaches you to make a basic written budget by spending every dime you have on paper. You start with the most important things like basic needs...ya know...food, shelter, utilities, clothing...then you start spending the rest on paper according to your monthly income. I am a follower of his plan, but really it is just common sense.

Eating Healthy is just the same. It's not rocket science. Just like we know right or wrong with our spending, we usually know right or wrong with our eating habits. Just like we need to write our budget down on paper and see the monthly spending dwindle down to a big fat ZERO, we need to do the same with our calories. It is all about teaching ourselves discipline. We are inherently sinful, wanting everything now, and usually letting ourselves have it now.

Here is an idea...Try a little self - discipline this week (1 Corinthians 9:23-27) . Start the day out by writing your desired max caloric intake on a piece of paper. Look at the labels on the food you eat and simple subtract what you eat all day long. When you get to ZERO then STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!