🌿Temple Care Lesson Reflection

Based on Lived Experiences

(Reflections During the December’s 2025 21-Day Clean TempleCare Eating Challenge)

Title: “When Your Appetite Shifts: The Spiritual and Biological Impact of Clean Eating”

Lesson Overview:

This lesson teaches readers how honoring God with their health creates real, physical changes in appetite, cravings, and energy levels — supported by Scripture, biology, and personal testimony.

When your lifestyle shifts, your appetite shifts.

When your heart shifts, your habits shift.

When your spirit aligns with God, your body responds.

One of the biggest surprises people experience during clean eating is this:

You simply don’t feel hungry the same way anymore.

This is not deprivation.

This is not “eating like a bird.”

This is not forcing yourself to consume food you don’t enjoy.

This is your body finally receiving what God designed it to receive — nourishment that supports your temple instead of draining it.

I tell people all the time:

“Clean eating isn’t about perfection. It’s about choosing foods that fuel your body, honor your temple, and taste good to YOU.”

If you don’t like okra, don’t eat it.

If kale makes you miserable, skip it.

There are plenty of healthy, plant-based foods you genuinely love — raisins, dates, bananas, berries, oats, sweet potatoes, yellow grits, homemade pancakes… foods that make you smile.

When I eat clean, I often have to remind myself to eat — not because I’m restricting, but because I’m satisfied. One smoothie, one salad, a piece of fruit… and my body feels nourished and steady.

And here’s the truth:

Biologically

When you stop eating processed food:

• insulin levels stabilize

• cravings disappear

• your stomach learns satisfaction

• your blood sugar evens out

• your digestion works efficiently

• your hormones calm down

Your body finally exhale

and says:

“Thank you.”

Spiritually

When your nourishment aligns with God’s design:

• you experience clarity

• you feel lighter

• your spirit is more responsive

• you’re not weighed down with sluggishness

• you have more self-control

• your discipline strengthens

• your energy becomes sustainable

Your body becomes a co-laborer with your spirit, not a burden.

Clean eating is not a diet.

It is Temple Care — a way of honoring God with choices that support the life He gave you.

And I’m not perfect.

I have setbacks.

But I keep returning to this truth:

The benefits remind me why obedience matters.

This is why, at 61 years old, working overnight shifts with barely any sleep…

• I still have energy

• younger coworkers ask how I’m so strong

• I stay alert through long hours

• my mind stays sharp

• my spirit stays steady

They eat heavy fast food at 2 or 3 a.m.

I do not.

Not because I’m better —

but because I learned to care for my temple according to God’s rhythm.

When you eat clean, your body recovers the way God intended.

Your appetite shifts.

Your cravings change.

Your discipline grows.

Your spirit rests.

This is Temple Care.