The Deception

In order to have a lean body, one has to eat certain foods–quality foods. Foods high in sugar should be avoided. Though all carbohydrates convert to sugar or glucose, you want to avoid the ones that shoot your insulin through the roof. These are known as noisy foods. They create the big bang, such as cookies, cake, chocolate, sweets of all sorts, caffeine etc. They produce that deceptive feeling that all is well. Then the moment of truth arrives. The blood sugar level drops. The high is gone. Instead all that is left are your emotions on the floor that you must pick up or simply repeat the same cycle again.

Foods can create an illusion for us. Isn’t this idea seen in the Garden of Eden? Satan presented Eve with the fruit, telling her to eat for she would be able to distinguish between good and evil like God. So she ate. Ah, it must have been good, for she offered it to Adam. He ate. Then the moment of truth arrived. What had they done?

How often have we fallen for a similar trick? For example, you think a glass of wine is what you need to relieve you from a stressful situation. Or how about a bag of chips or cookies? Your body has deceived you. Your mind followed. If only you had not listened to your body. That instant pleasure has now turned into an hour of cardio or a year or two years or maybe five years or more to pay for this sin.