I don’t blame you. You have been on this whole weight loss journey thing for a very long time with little long-term success. And the gurus keep saying the same thing: “You need to get serious!” “You aren’t losing weight because you don’t want it badly enough!” Biggest Loser-style trainers are so confusing….they freak out […]
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There is a reason why people don’t typically jump off of a second story balcony. It is self-evident that doing so would, at minimum, incur a sprained or broken ankle. As a child I liked to experiment with gravity like this on occasion. I would jump off of one step, then jump off of two
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“In between stimulus and response there is a space; in that space lies our power to choose our response; in our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Victor Frankl My sons like to bicker. It’s been a struggle since they were very little. My oldest boy was quite literally the golden child; his hair
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“You do not have, because you do not ask. And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures” James 4:3 Think about how diet gurus try to sell you their shakes and protein bars and 6-week weight loss programs. There’s usually a stunning model
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I used to fear hunger, but now that feeling gets me pretty excited. In the past, being hungry was a fate worse than death. That gnawing feeling, all wrapped up with a sense of anxiety or dread, seemed to drill its way up from my stomach through my chest and into my brain. I also
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You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. Matthew 7:5 I once read that the best parents communicate two resounding messages to their children: We love you like crazy You cannot have what you want In tandem,
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