Should Christians count their calories this year on this edition of Truth in Love?

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

The end of one year and the beginning of another always has Christians thinking about how they're going to live and make changes in their life over the course of the next 365 days.

And part of that process includes for many people a New Year's resolution where they want to be

more disciplined in a certain area of their life. People often pick numerous areas of their life where they

want to be more disciplined, but a common one is concerning what they eat. And so here as we think about

the beginning of the year, we are going to be talking about some of these issues.

And in particular today, we're going to be talking about whether Christians should be counting

their calories as they think about changing their eating habits this year.

And so Amy Evanson, the producer of the podcast, is here today.

And she has put together some questions.

Amy, what's going on? So this is a time of year

when people are recovering from eating a lot of holiday food. There are commercials on the TV about

weight loss and people are all talking about their goals for weight loss. So in light of these things,

how should Christians think about weight loss?

I think the first thing that we should say is how Christians should not think about weight loss.

So I hear you ask that question, and I think you are describing the experience of a lot of people.

They're listening to this digesting four days worth of like a ton of food.

Their pants don't quite fit.

They don't like what they see in the mirror.

They don't like the digits they see on the scale.

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