Outsmarting Thanksgiving Overeating

With Thanksgiving coming up next week, I thought I’d share a few tips that you can add to your game plan to stay on track with your Christian weight loss goals. Here we go! 1. Eat a high fiber breakfast Thanksgiving morning. Start your day with choices rich in fiber like Oatmeal, Raisin Brain, Fiber [...]

Simple Steps to Being Happy

Just the other day I was watching the program Divorce Court on television. Yes, I know it’s not particularly uplifting, but I do watch occasionally because of the things it reveals about human nature. The wife on the show that day had a list of complaints against the husband a mile long. The husband responded [...]

How to Stay Motivated Around Food Temptations

How many times have you faced this situation? You’ve resolved to eat healthy, but a coworker brings in hot and fresh Krispy Kreme doughnuts into the office? Or freshly made brownies. You know what I mean. Just substitute your favorite food temptation. One newsletter reader wrote me to say that she faces food temptations constantly. [...]

How to Develop Confidence in God

Many years ago, I took a class in which the instructor had the students participate in an icebreaker activity. He gave us a list of skills and asked us to check off those skills that we could do- skills like ‘driving a car’ and ‘speaking a foreign language.’ After that, you switched papers with someone [...]