Honesty and Prayer Help Face Temptations That Impeded Weight Loss

I have been feeling that I should share more about how my recent weight loss occurred, because it is more than simply eating less. If it was only that, then it wouldn’t qualify as a Christian Science healing, and this most certainly is a Christian Science healing, and one I am incredibly grateful for.

In order to begin making real progress toward this healing, I had to start being really honest with myself about the foods that I was eating, and whether the eating of those foods qualified as succumbing to temptation. And then, I needed to start answering the question of why I was allowing myself to negotiate with error in these circumstances. And then I had to admit that I, myself, was willingly putting myself in a situation where I would give life and power to error while simultaneously claiming some sort of victimhood around it. And finally, I needed to admit to myself that, if I was doing this for a candy bar or french fries or whatever, then what other errors was I allowing an unimpeded place in my life.

I am sure there are many people listening who can say honestly that the act of eating a candy bar is not an act of hatred against yourself and perhaps that is true. But for me, that is what a great number of foods and other things had become, a symbol of self-hatred that I finally realized I could no longer abide in my life, especially if I was going to name the name of Christian Science.

This has me now looking for anything in my life that qualifies as self-directed hatred, and working to get them all out of my life and to really make them permanently non-negotiable. A helpful way of thinking about this, I have found, is a sort of variation on the Golden Rule. Instead of ‘do onto others as you would have them do onto you’ I ask myself ‘is what I am about to do to myself what I would want for those I love?’ I know from this experience that this question will surely help uncover these problem areas — in other words, expose these errors! — and allow you to start specifically applying the truth of Christian Science to shore up your defenses while letting those errors destroy themselves.

None of this would have been possible without the pure Christian Science taught in this Church and the patient practitioner support I have received over my time here. I am so grateful for all that Christian Science has made possible in my life. What a constant blessing it is to be here.