This N.E.W. LIFE Booklet is the fifth in a 7-volume companion series to the N.E.W. LIFE (Nutrition, Exercise, Wellness for LIFE): Biblical Support for Health and Freedom from Bondage to Food and Diets book (Chapter 8). There are 7 N.E.W. LIFE Booklets which coincide with the chapters in the N.E.W. LIFE book. Each booklet reinforces excerpts from the N.E.W. LIFE book and introduces insightful questions to support the process of healing from underlying issues that drive out-of-balance eating behaviors. The N.E.W. LIFE Booklets may be used by individuals or in a fellowship group setting to facilitate discussion.

Continuing from the previous chapter this N.E.W. LIFE Booklet shares additional strategies to have victory over temptation from the Word of God, the example of Jesus, and practical dietary and behavioral advice that has proven successful in assisting many people to freedom from compulsive and addictive food behaviors.

Normal eating is flexible--sometimes overeating, sometimes undereating, and in general being in balance. An increasing number of people struggle with eating that is out-of-balance or outright addictive. Diets are an extremely ineffective solution and usually serve to exacerbate the problem. Permanent change comes with transformation from the inside-out while diets attempt to change from the outside-in which is temporary at best and offers no healing for any underlying emotional pain which may be driving overeating. Furthermore, diets add more bondage whereas transformation leads to freedom. The believer who joins God in the process of sanctification (transformation from the inside-out) finds that even desires change resulting in freedom from even the most severe bondages as the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit-inspired Word of God have the power to change us.