NO FEAR

Hunger won't KILL me. This is perhaps the biggest thing I am learning from the Beck diet solution. I think one reason I am not successful at staying at a healthy weight is that I fear hunger and I am mastered by cravings. The past few days I have noticed my thinking when I start to get hungry. It may be about 4 pm and I start to get hungry. I begin to think about what I can eat. I am even tempted to just eat my evening meal already! My husband does not get home until 7 pm. How am I supposed to wait 3 hours?! And I fear that if I do wait then I will not be able to eat just a little food, I will go crazy and overeat. I fear being out of control. This is when the desire begins to turn into a craving and my physiology even gets into it. My mouth waters! I feel a strong urge to eat! In the past I thought it had some power and validity but now I think "Maybe it doesn't?"
Is God's grace big and strong enough to carry me through those 3 hours? Is it big and strong enough to even keep me controlled while I eat? Yes. And I am proving it little by little by withstanding hunger and not dying and not going crazy and overeating. My hunger and cravings are NOT bigger and stronger than me! They do not HAVE to be obeyed. Once I say NO CHOICE even those physiological symptoms GO AWAY. I mean they will come back but a person CAN go without food for a long time. And thats ok.