DIET OR LIFE STYLE?

I am on the 21 day transformation. At first I thought of it as boot camp, restricting me from bread, chocolate, sodas, potatoes, corn, and some other things. As time has gone by I think I am beginning to realize that yes this is boot camp for a very different reason. Reigning in and practice take discipline and that means we have to do this in all areas in which our lives have been out of control. Whether it's food or alcohol or sex.... whether it's in making choices to do or not do recreational drugs, or porn, or whatever will distract one from God.  So regardless of whether our thinking is that we are dieting, in actuality it is practice for when we are forced to make choices that may mean reigning oneself back in for another period of time. I took piano for 13 years, and mastery of most of the music took practice and time and mostly discipline to obey and do as instructed by the teacher. Food choices are the same way. Am I eating this way because I want to lose weight or because I want to be healthy. Do I exercise because I want to strengthen my muscles or because "Teacher said so"? Either way the choice is the individual's choice. But it is a choice between legalism and freedom. God made us free to choose and to know what is best for us and what we just shouldn't touch. Thanks be to God for His love and grace.