Before starting another diet, know this •

Maybe you’ve gotten frustrated with your food choices and appearance lately. Maybe it’s just one of those times of the year when everybody gets on the diet bandwagon, like swimsuit season. So you’ve started to ask yourself: should I start another diet? Is it time to try a new diet? Before starting another diet, read this first.

I originally wrote this piece for iBelieve.com to be published as the diet craze of New Year’s Resolutions peaks in January. Go check out the full article here: 5 Things You Need to Know before Making a Health Resolution for the New Year

Since writing this piece with the New Year in mind, I’ve realized these truths are timeless.

You need to know these 5 things before starting another diet, no matter what time of year it is.

You need these 5 things to challenge your thinking anytime the idea of a diet seems like the solution to you. Especially if you are a Christian woman who believes she needs to diet.

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I pray that these 5 points will challenge you to NOT go on autopilot and just start a new diet when you’re frustrated with your health and your body and you don’t know what else to do.

This time, I want you to:

think critically about what is going to serve you in the long run
bring it to the Lord in prayer
hold up the lies of Diet Culture to the light of truth before you make your decision

To entice you to click over to the full article, I will share the 5 things you need to know here- in a lovely graphic you can PIN for later!

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But make sure you click over to read the full article HERE because it unpacks these 5 things in more detail, shares some of my experience learning this stuff the hard way.

And (best of all) after you dig in to the 5 things you need to know before starting another diet, you can check out some prayers I’ve included to help you pray through these issues first.

Here are some graphics for the prayers so you can PIN FOR LATER!