At this point in my life I have worked with or spoken to a number of people who are in the middle of a weight-loss diet. I hear comments like “I ate X last night. Will I still lose weight when I step on the scale tomorrow?” or “I must lose thee pounds this week. […]
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“Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand” Matthew 12:25 Have you ever seen those old cartoons where the character has a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other? He is being tempted, and each of them is whispering
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I am so excited to present this series because it represents the very core of the new convictions I have formed via the Word of God, borne out of my relentless struggle with compulsive eating and subsequent weight issues. I would like to propose an idea that I believe has been lost to time for
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“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age…” Titus 2:11-12 Consider the Marshmallow test. Researchers took a group of five-year-olds, put them in a room with just
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat of any tree in the garden?’” The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden, but
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I have tried many, many diet programs. In fact at one point I spent up to five hours per day obsessively pouring over every scientific study I could get my hands on in an attempt to find the “silver bullet” for weight loss. Actually, I want to let us all off the hook a little
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“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own” Matthew 6:34 Diets suck. In fact, the notion of them is virtually intolerable because they force us to take actions we truly don’t want to take. No more cake. No more casual dinners out where you
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“Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” Psalm 73:25-26 If you haven’t noticed yet, I am a Bible-loving Jesus Freak. I am the nerdiest of scripture nerds.
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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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