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More Focus for Weight Loss and Blessings

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 22 February 2010, 7:53 am

Several weeks ago I committed on my writing site to focus on doing the things that I knew I was supposed to be doing or that I thought I needed to be doing. My time was spent planning for things that I was going to do or needed to do instead of just doing them. This was my action plan that I wrote that day.

I will confess that I have not consistently followed through with the specifics of this list. What I did do was to review my actions and start asking “is this the best use of my time?”

    • Not watching television is tough for me at this moment in time. I am an AVID follower of the Olympics – have been for many years. There is no sport to obscure for me to enjoy (and that does mean that I am a curling fan). I gave up working my schedule around the programs. I have set the DVR to record them all and I am watching as my schedule permits.

    • I have also set aside three times a day to study the word. One of the studies is a devotional, the other is a Beth Moore and the third is one about discipline. Actually, they all have a lot to do with being disciplined, self-controlled and consistent. It seems that comes up quite a bit in the Bible.

    • The final thing that I have been trying to do is “one more thing.” Just before I stop for a break or before calling it a night, I try to do one more project that will only take a few minutes (but not more than about 15).

The results of the changes in my life have been surprising. I have lost six pounds in two weeks. More work is coming in and I have the ability to complete the work. And my home is running better than ever.

The key to my success is not my own efforts. It comes from choosing to draw closer to God. It is my personal relationship with Him that drives every aspect of my life. The more I know Him then the more I can understand about where I am to go and to be in order to rest under His wings.

Where has your focus been? Remember it is the thing that you focus on the most that you worship and will become!

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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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Control is the Key to Weight Loss

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 23 September 2009, 5:49 am

Food has no more control over my life. It was something I confronted two weeks ago, and I’m holding my ground. It’s not like I’ve given up food. Instead, the power of what to eat and when to eat and how to eat is back in my hands (so to speak).

I’ve even gotten off the scales. When I lost the forty pounds of baby weight after my second son, I got rid of the scales. I trusted my clothes to tell me when I was losing control. Actually, it never dawned on me that I might lose control.

At 36, almost seven years after my second son was born, I found myself pregnant with a third child. (I say “found,” like we tripped over it in the woods. I knew it was POSSIBLE, but after years of hoping to get pregnant I had given up on the idea. SURPRISE!). Have you noticed that maternity clothes give you no indication of just how much weight you are packing on?

After he was born, I bought myself a scale. It calculates body fat percentage and everything – even keeps a record of my weight loss to date. Falling back into the habit of weighing daily was easier than slipping down a muddy slope. Since the scale reads the fractions of the weight, I was able to react to even a tenth of a pound up or down. There were days that I would get on the scale in the morning AND in the evening, just in case.

NO MORE! I’ve quit eating in front of the television (have pretty much quit watching the television except when I’m washing the dishes or cooking). Every afternoon when my energy starts to get low, I try to take a few minutes to play with the kids – usually outside. It’s had the added benefit of getting them up and moving as well.

I still have the scales, but I haven’t gotten on them this week. If the food doesn’t have control, then there is really no need for the scales. The weight is coming off. The clothes are fitting better. I have taken back the control.

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