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Archive of entries posted on October 2009

Weight Loss Budget

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 15 October 2009, 5:20 am

Finances make me smile. Not always my own, but the IDEA of finances brings me joy. I am not normal so you do not have to mention this concept. My weird concepts are well documented and I accept the fact that I am peculiar.

The other day I was writing about weight loss and I thought about how the idea behind weigh loss is the exact opposite of developing a budget but at the same time it is very similar. I think that if you follow the simple steps for developing a budget then the weight loss will pour off rather easily.

Weight Loss Budget Steps

    1. Write down everything that you eat for one full week. This includes even the “bites” of food or pieces of candy. Every single morsel that goes in your mouth must be documented. For a weight loss budget it is best to break the amounts apart by day.

    2. Write down all of the exercise that you get each day. Skip the “walked to the car” entries and focus on the sustained exercise like “thirty minutes playing soccer with the kids” or “twenty minutes fast walk.” Keep these separated by day as well.

    3. Figure out how many calories you have been consuming. With the weight loss budget you will not have to count the calories but you will need to know the beginning amounts so that you can begin to understand why your “account” is out of balance. There are a number of different websites that will help you with these totals.

    4. Figure out how many calories you have been burning. Your body naturally burns calories even if you are just sitting around all day. This is to help figure out how many calories you are burning in addition to those.

    5. Look at the number of calories that you are bringing in and the number of calories that you are putting out and start making your adjustments.

It is only at the last step that the weight loss budget really differs from the financial budget. A weight loss budget wants to put out more than it brings in. A financial budget wants to bring in more than it puts out. The weight loss budget requires that you cut the intake or increase the outflow in order to achieve the desired result which is permanent weight loss.

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Easy Weight Loss in Simple Steps

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 12 October 2009, 6:41 am

Weight loss and diets have been a struggle for most of my life. There was a time when I thought I had defeated the weight loss and diets. The end of college had me ballroom dancing and had my body in the best shape it had ever been (walking around in three inch heels for ten hours a day has a way of sculpting your legs).

Pregnancy brought the weight struggles back with a vengeance. The diets came back as well and I spent a small fortune on exercise videos. It was only after I discovered a Christian weight loss program that I managed a breakthrough in my weight situation.

It was another pregnancy that again brought back the weight loss struggles. The Christian weight loss plan that I used previously was no longer available. My struggle was going to be personal.

6 Tips to Simple Tips for Weight Loss

    1. Avoid the television. Skip eating in front of the television and take a few moments to sit down at the table and enjoy the meal.

    2. Enjoy each bite of food. Take the time to savor each bite by chewing the bite completely and drinking a sip in between to clean the palate. Pick out the best bites of the meal as well so that you can enjoy the best on the plate.

    3. Get some support. Accountability can not be over emphasized when you are taking on any new endeavor. The best way to manage this support is to get a group together once a week.

    4. Make a plan to move. The only way to lose weight is a similar process to balancing a budget (only the exact opposite). You have to burn more calories than you bring in each day. Getting up and moving each day – even for a few minutes – will help that process.

    5. Follow the scripture. There are more diet plans in the scripture than you might imagine. Daniel ate fresh fruits and vegetables. Paul ate the meals dedicated to other gods. John ate honey and locusts (now is that not the ONE diet you know you want to try). In the end the key to the different Christian diet plans is to be in a personal relationship with God and allowing HIM to guide you to the how, the when and the what to eat.

    6. Defeat sin. The Christian weight loss process is not about eating special foods, controlling the calories or even following a specific weight loss plan. The ultimate key to permanent Christian weight loss is to defeat the sin of gluttony.

Christian weight loss is possible without the aid of traditional diets. My lifetime struggles with weight loss were defeated over 2000 years ago. It is time that I dropped the chains that I have already been freed from and lived a life that has been promised to me.

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Christian Diet – The Bonds of the Enemy ARE Broken

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 7 October 2009, 6:49 am

Christians are free from dieting. My own experience has taught me that as a Christian I have a right to be free. I saw the chains fell to the ground. I was free. My heart knew it beyond a doubt. My mind even seemed to grasp the idea. But my hands were in control and they reached down to grab up the chains and wrap them back around me.

Being overweight is the same thing. Christian diet plans have helped me achieve the desired weight loss. Christian diet plans have also helped me to get back in the chains by forcing me to follow their RULES. I get so tangled up in one chain offered by the Christian diet that I give up and pull back on my old chains.

I have wrapped my body with the chains; the chains of diets, calories, inactivity, overindulgence and so much more. My chose was the chains over the freedom. My actions with the chains have to be the first thing that changes if I am going to fundamentally change my life. I can not rely on the Christian diet plans or the Christian diet books to give me my answer.

Christian diets are almost as prevalent as secular diets. Everyone seems to have the right pattern to help me get healthy or to lose weight. The thing that we tend to forget is that God does not do any two things the same. There was only one burning bush, only one talking donkey and there can be only one way for ME to lose weight, get fit and stay healthy.

I can not follow YOUR path any more than you can follow mine. That is why the best Christian diet plan is one that is specific to you and designed by the ultimate diet guru Himself.

The problem with finding the best Christian diet plan that will guarantee weight loss is that you have to commit to consistently studying the word AND also be willing to do the things that the word leads you to do.

Some Christian Diet Tips in the Bible

    1. Christian dieters need to go to the mountain top – Jesus often went to the mountain top to recharge and refresh his spirit. Take a hike and spend some time with God.

    2. Christian dieters need to eat it fresh – Daniel ate fresh fruits and vegetables to be healthier than the others around him.

    3. Christian dieters need to be consistent – John spent his whole life eating grasshoppers and honey.

    4. Christian dieters MUST spend time feeding the heart – David walked a successful life (even though he had some mighty stumbles) because he pursued God with his whole heart.

All of these are great ideas for developing a Christian diet. Some of the best selling Christian diet programs include these ideas. But God does not come in a box even when that box is a packaged Christian diet. How the ideas and concepts from scripture will work in your life and in my life has to be an individual decision made with prayer and study. The experts know very little compared to the Creator. I think I would get much farther in all of the things I attempt if I would take more time to consult with Him first.

Finding the best Christian Diet plan has to begin with finding the Diet Planner and then allowing Him to guide me to the successful weight loss that I desire.

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Gaining Without Losing

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 1 October 2009, 9:19 am

Life does not want to cooperate with my new health plan. Just when I think it is safe to settle in something happens and the whole plan has to shift in response. In the end, my health struggle is not a lack of knowledge, understanding or even desire. My main problem lies in my consistency.

Consistency follows me in many aspects of my life. The ability to do IT every day come rain or shine goes beyond anything I could imagine – at least for the first few weeks (or days). Results soon cry out to be heard and when there are no results my consistency fads into the shadows.

Why do it if there is nothing to be gained?

There is something to be gained – even if the scales do not go down and the clothes size does not change.

Things Gained Without Weight Loss

    1. I gain good eating habits for myself and for my children. Eating at the table is time with the family and my children learn to eat just enough without feeling the need to over do it.

    2. I gain better health. Getting moving increases my health which means I will be better capable of playing with my children and doing things in general (like just mopping the house or walking up the steps at church and being able to hold a conversation at the top).

    3. I gain family time. Playing with the family and eating with the family means a better relationship with the family.

Weight loss has to be more than a number on the scale if it is going to be permanent and life changing. I can hang on to my consistency when I realize that I gain more from my actions than just losing.

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