An Inspired Life: Are you READY?
My email taught me a great life lesson this week. For four days, I was unable to send or receive email at takebackyourtemple.com. My mailbox was overquota. So if you tried to send me an email late last week or over the weekend and got a bounceback, I apologize! To handle the situation, I had two choices: Delete the old stuff, or Increase my capacity to receive Of course, the best solution was for me to do both! This taught me that when you want to receive new things into your life, you can't keep holding on to old stuff. If you are ready to ...
Trusting God for Comfort – A Poem
This message below made me cry. It was intensely personal - and very courageous. Nicole actually wrote me over 1 month ago in response to my "Women Food and God" review. She wrote that it drew her to tears and the message that God wants to heal your pain really spoke to her. She told me then that it inspired her to confront her own eating behavior and to write a poem about it. And this week, she sent that poem to me. I read most of it with my hand over my mouth, overcome with emotion. I asked Nicole if I could ...
How to Defeat “Stinking Thinking”
When it comes to taking back your health, the biggest obstacle to overcome is what motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar, calls "stinking thinking". Those negative thoughts make you feel defeated, discouraged, and depressed - all those 'd' words! In fact, the word "devil" comes from the Greek word "diavolos" which means 'slanderer' or 'accuser'. If you allow slander or accusation to rule your mind, then mental strongholds are built that drive you to destructive habits. That will eventually ruin your life. To be victorious, you must be faithful in "casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of ...
Women Food and God: My Review
Note: Below is my original review of Women Food and God. Since then, I have since taken a closer look at the book and recorded a video with my additional thoughts. You can listen to it at the end of this post. _____________ You may have heard of a new book called "Women Food and God" by Geneen Roth about compulsive overeating. I heard it was featured on Oprah, but I discovered it by accident while browsing popular books on Amazon. The title intrigued me, so I bought it. But I stopped reading on page 16. More about that later, but first I ...
Christian Weight Loss: Does God Care About Your Weight?
“Does God really care about our weight?” A young woman emailed me that question recently after reading about my Christian weight loss success story. I gave her the short answer, but it inspired me to look deeper at the subject. In this article, I want to share my answer to that question as well as some other controversial questions surrounding weight loss programs for Christians and then, my thoughts on the ideal Christian weight loss program. The questions I will answer include: Does God really care about our weight? Can I 'shame and guilt' my way into changing? If I fall short in my weight ...
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An Inspired Life: Are you READY?
My email taught me a great life lesson this week. For four days, I was unable...
Trusting God for Comfort – A Poem
This message below made me cry. It was intensely personal – and very courageous. Nicole...
How to Defeat “Stinking Thinking”
When it comes to taking back your health, the biggest obstacle to overcome is what...
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Healing Binge Eating Disorders “with” Food
I’ve written many times about overcoming binge eating disorders since that was my struggle for many years. Lately God has led me to look at the physical part of that issue more – from a “fight fire with fire” approach. Just the other day a question popped into my head: “Why do people eat?” My first thought was to... [Read more of this article]
Eating to Burn Belly Fat
I read a shocking statistic the other day about belly fat. It said that stroke risk is 4 times higher in women whose waists were larger than 35 inches and men whose waists were larger than 40 inches than those with normal waists. This is personal for me because my grandmother died of a stroke when she was only 47 years old. And in my “before”... [Read more of this article]
Fruit for Food, Leaves for Medicine
If I had to give one piece of advice about eating, Christian weight loss, and health, it would be this: “Fruit for food, leaves for medicine.” Where does this prescription come from? It comes from Ezekiel 47:12: “Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither,... [Read more of this article]
“I Hate to Exercise!”
Have you said or thought “I hate to exercise”? It’s a common barrier to Christian weight loss and getting healthy. We all know exercise is good for you but few do it regularly. But I’ve got a reason for this and I’ll guarantee it is not what you think. Pretend for a second that someone gives you a high performance race... [Read more of this article]
Eat Fat, Get Slim
Just the other day, I read a shocking article in the September 2009 issue of Prevention Magazine called “The Vanishing Youth Nutrient” (I included a link to it at the end of this article). The article outlined how the lack of Omega 3 fats in your diet can make you gain weight and may be behind some diseases like heart disease, diabetes,... [Read more of this article]
The Water Cure
What is the difference between a plum and a prune? Water! A plum is firm, juicy and smooth. But take that same plum, remove its juice and it becomes a shriveled, dry, wrinkled up prune. A similar thing happens to you if you don’t drink enough water. Think about the difference between the young and the elderly. Many elderly people are dehydrated,... [Read more of this article]
Top 10 High Energy Foods
Do you feel tired all the time? Low on energy? You might be running low on the vitamins and minerals necessary to help your body convert food into energy. With a busy schedule, you need energy and lots of it. You can’t afford to put low quality fuel into your body. Asking your body to adhere to a busy schedule while eating a poor diet is like... [Read more of this article]
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