Temptation

I have started a diet again and I am trying really hard not to eat bad stuff but 3 times this week at work people have brought cakes in for birthdays etc and I really want one but so far I have managed to resist.

The diet has started again this time due to the fact that I am going away with the girls for a weekend in August to Ibiza. I'm not really big or anything but would be nice just to get back down to the weight I was this time last year. To be fair though today there is a selection of weight watchers cakes so I may indulge in one of them.

I have also suggested that I might not have a alcoholic drink til I go away, which is not like me. I normally enjoy a few drinks when I go out and normally would struggle to sit there drinking soft drinks while everyone else isn't.
But I have discovered non alcoholic beer and think it taste fine. It must be physiological but I don't feel like I'm missing out if I drink that and still have a good night with out having a drink. Also means I can still drive which makes the night cheaper as no taxi's.

Previous to this decision (not drinking) over the last few weeks, I have been moving on to water part way through the night so that I don't get into a mess. Which is a very sensible idea as I usually end up spending the night in the bathroom!

This is something that I have struggled with for a while as I knew that God doesn't like me getting really drunk and yet I thought I enjoyed it so wasn't ready to change that. But I realised that the bit I enjoyed is the bit at the start of the night were I have had a few drinks, but I'm still in control. The bit later in the night were I'm:
wobbling around
feel a bit sick
personality change (I'm quite passive without a drink)
room spins
get sick
sleep in bathroom

I've decided is just not worth it. Therefore I think I'm going to try the no alcohol til Ibiza and then when I get back continue back on the water thing.

1 Corinthians 10 V13
The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.

Baring this in mind, I will continue to look the 'Way out' God gives me and see how easy it is to choose that option.