How to Stop Bingeing on Sweets | Weigh Down TV | Season 2 Episode 10

Weigh Down TV Presents "You Can Overcome" Season 2 Episode 10... In this episode, Gwen answers questions from viewers on eating sweets. Testimony Carmen Snider shares how she lost 70 pounds of excess weight and overcame the desire to binge on sugar or overeat sweets, all through Weigh Down Ministries. Learn how to enjoy desserts in appropriate amounts and never again go through the holiday season focused on food or bingeing. Available in Closed Captioning Filmed live November 14, 2012. Special guests: Candace Anger and Carmen Snider. Copyright 2012 Remnant Fellowship Church, Gwen Shamblin, and Weigh Down Ministries Transcript Excerpt: "Okay, well here we are, just learning how to eat regular sweets. For the holidays and all that, I am just telling people, "Do not take this time and think, 'hey, this is our time to binge out on this stuff.'" If you know it has been a weakness, like you, this is a good time to just learn to say, "God I love You more. I love You more" if there is anything standing in the way. As far as just regular size, the regular rules here are: you take out small amounts and then you sip between bites. So that is the basic rule at the end of something. I have been saying, "four M & Ms" and there are those itsy bitsy, on the other extreme, those little bitty tiny ones in those little containers. Most people just pop the top and go back like this (demonstrates pouring the M & Ms in her mouth). The point there would be learning to eat that like you do a French fry. That is when sweets are in the category of French fries or whatever. It is just in there as a food item to you. I hear a lot of men say that they do not like sweets but then they eat sweets. I think pretty much everybody, when you are a baby you are born that way, that there are something innate. Is it okay to eat sweets at all? The thing is, is that in the Bible it says, I have got four little principles here, but Principle One, sweets are good, sweets are made by God for the enjoyment of mankind. In Proverbs 24:13 it says, "Eat honey, my son, for it is good; honey from the comb is sweet to your taste." God made it sweet to adorn the food, your bagel in the morning, or for icing on your cinnamon toast. People will usually go after something like that in the morning; the body is looking for broken down glucose units to get in there pretty rapidly and sweets are digested very quickly. In fact, one of the questions that was asked before this is...it was one of those questions that was basically saying the opposite. This is a question from Jennifer, "I also heard that it takes the body very little time and effort to digest sweets versus protein high-fiber foods, therefore, they do not keep us satisfied long. Should we be concerned when choosing these foods? Will we be hungrier consuming more food?" The fact is, rarely are you eating a sweet that is absent of a fat or protein or something in it anyway. It is a mixture. Most people do not just sit there and take spoonfuls of honey out, they are putting it on bread and butter. You have got the butter, the bread, all of that, but those little pieces of sugar that are already broken down go through the walls of the stomach and get into the body quicker and so it feels great. If you think about it, people like...they may say that they do not like sweets but then go over to Sonic and pick up a biscuit and sausage or whatever and then they are drinking a Coke with it, or something like that. Or they put sugar in their coffee. Rarely is there somebody who I interviewed...I did so many food recalls—that is what I had to do as a dietician—is sit down and ask people, "What did you eat over the last twenty four hours?" Most people were unaware what they ate and did not think about it. It is a good thing to sit down and write down what you do eat. When you break it down, you are going to find sugar in the diet. The Bible says, if you believe in the Bible...bottom line- God made it. He did not make the animals really to like it so much. You try to give an animal...it was there for the enjoyment of man, mankind—just a beautiful, sweet thing. Babies always, male or female, they will like a sweet. It is used for behavior modification sometimes and that type thing"