What in the World is spEATing?

What in the world is spEATing?

Stop Speating is the term I coined for the two behaviors that have consumed my thinking for the past
30 years; Spending and Eating. These two habits and trying to stop them have taken up 80% of my available brain power, everybody else got what was left. For all the books and solutions the world has come up with to solve these problems, there are a lot of people still desperate for help.
Since these issues are completely accepted in society no-one see's you as abnormal or crazy if you are struggling with eating or spending, this is how we live, it's how we cope, it's the norm.
Part of the problem is that our desire to change isn't based on a desire for freedom and health, honesty would admit that it is more a desire for good looks and less debt to pay off. We don't find freedom because our motivation is based on the wrong things.
We have formed habits that now hold us hostage. The solutions is not found in rules, diets, or systems devised for quick fix results and long term failure.
The solution is to slow down. We spend and eat fast and want it fixed fast. It doesn't work that way. We need to figure out where we want to go. What is it that we really want? Do you want health and freedom or do you want to keep hoping you can eat and spend without ending up fat and broke?If you don't know, you will never get there.
Real change is not a fast process. The question is, why do you want to stop spending, eating, smoking, drinking, or whatever habits have you in their grasp. Are you alright with taking the long road to change?
Lets start with the next 90 days!
I am writing a book about my own journey to live in freedom called "Stop Speating". A journey to slow down the process and learn.  I will not let Spending and Eating (speating) drive me any more.
My 90 day challenge includes small changes like; not using cards, living with a certain amount of cash each week, no more credit, no more impulse debit usage. It also includes no more diets (this has been the hardest one). I will live with my decision good or bad, but not compensate for them by "dieting or budgeting tomorrow". I am journaling my successes along the way. The successes for me, include the times I enjoy the company I am with and don't focus on the food, wait for hunger and eat small amounts, don't purchase things not on my list, and end the week with cash left over. The biggest successes for me however are not berating myself or starting over when I slip up. It's a journey, and I am a broken person, this is how I will learn.
This is not a short term, quick fix, this is me taking back my life and changing what I give 80% of my brain power to. This is me not being motivated by a system that doesn't know or love me. This is the truth. I was not created to try to look better than the people around me, I was created to love them, not compare myself to them. I was created to be grateful for the gifts God gives me and share them with those around me, not collect stuff I don't need just to have it. I was created to live in peace and joy in the midst of good and bad times knowing that God bigger then me, has it all under control, and I can trust Him. That's truth, and I want to live the rest of my life in truth. The lies betrayed me and I am not listening anymore.
If you have read this and are ready to take a challenge of your own I would love to hear about it. Email me  hope@stopspeating.com  and share your journey.