Welcome to Teach Back Tuesday at Keep the Heart. For those of you who are new to our podcast,

this episode first aired in season one back in March of 2021, right about at the time when people

start abandoning their New Year's resolutions. I hope you're not there, but just in case you are,

or if you're struggling with some other

area that you just can't seem to get on the top side of it, this episode is for you. Let's listen.

A friend of mine delivered some individually wrapped cookies with Keep the Hearts label on

them for an upcoming conference promotion. She added six free extras to the box.

I put those big cookies on the counter in the kitchen and said to myself,

you can have just one.

This was a self-control exercise.

My grade at the end of the exercise was an F.

I was an F.

Thank you for joining Keep the Heart for today's podcast with Francie Taylor.

Francie is an author, teacher, and conference speaker.

Sharing lessons from the Word of God is her passion.

Now, back to today's important study.

I kept coming back into the kitchen to check on those cookies, and by bedtime, I had eaten all six of them, and they were not tiny. They were large and they had this huge

disc of chocolate on top of the shortbread cookie. By about 2 a.m., I was so sick to my stomach

that I had to get out of bed and paste the floor between glasses of ginger water. The sugar overload hit me hard. You know what?

I had it coming to me. Have you ever told yourself that you couldn't eat a certain food for a

certain period of time and then you'd go and eat more of it than ever? Or have you tried to hold yourself back from

losing your temper and then you exploded like a cannon? Or maybe you've experienced the runaway tongue

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