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One Hour Diet

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 11 November 2009, 11:44 am

The diet label does not fit the idea that I am spinning around in my head. It dawned on me that spending only one hour each week could drastically change my life. My particular struggle is with weight so my first thought was to call it a diet, but it is much more than an eating guideline.

Would you be willing to invest one hour a week if you knew that it would change your life?

Points to the One Hour Diet

    1. Support is essential. It is possible to do things on your own but support makes accomplishment more likely (and much easier). Spending thirty minutes each week with a group that can support you in your endeavor will help encourage you to complete the journey.

    2. Daily affirmation makes success a possibility. You are what you think. Thinking the positive about your situation instead of mulling over the negative will give you the added fuel you need to finish the race.

    3. There is only action or inaction. Success comes from action. You have to put your goals and dreams to work.

Just three simple steps that can be completed in one hour each week are all that you need to change your life. Are you ready?

Let me know if you would be interested in a study or plan that would follow this pattern. Leave your comment here or link back to this post for your chance to win a free One Hour Diet Study Guide.

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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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Christian Weight Loss Diets – Keys to Recognizing Satisfaction

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 28 September 2009, 5:35 am

Christian weight loss (and any permanent weight loss) settles around the heart. Changing the heart and understanding how I arrived where I am plays and essential roll in getting to where I want to be.

So much stuff crowds my life. Stuff surrounds me every where I turn and it can become overwhelming. Recognizing when I have had enough can be just as overwhelming. The “too much” feeling has been a part of my life for so long that just enough becomes foreign.

Christian Weight Loss Revelations

    1. Weight loss comes from eating when hungry. True hunger comes with an empty or hollow sensation in the region about six inches or so above your belly button. Christian weight loss occurs when you eat at this hunger moment and all other cravings are curbed by feeding the heart.

    2. Satisfaction aids in weight loss. Finding a place of satisfaction may require using a few cheats in the beginning. Eat half as much as you put on your plate. Use smaller plates. Eat slower and enjoy the company and the atmosphere while you eat. Chew each bite so that you can taste each bite. Satisfaction comes the moment you are no longer HUNGRY!

    3. Weight loss appears when fear is released. There are times when I eat more than I need (or want) because I “love” that particular meal and I worry that I will not have a chance to have it again. The good news is that I CAN get more later and I will enjoy it more if I only eat until I am satisfied.

    4. Keep it simple. Finding satisfaction and hunger to aid in weight loss does not have to be a challenge. Choose to wait to eat until the feeling in your stomach seems unbearable (and then wait another hour). Only eat a few bites and then walk away from the food. That hunger sensation will soon come again.

    5. Weight loss naturally occurs when you bring in fewer calories. Eating at hunger and stopping at just enough will help make that weight loss happen.

The biggest difference between Christian weight loss and other weight loss diets is that prayer assists in the understanding of why food has become so important. Once food is taken down off the pedestal then the weight loss can begin in earnest. Finding hunger and satisfaction is one step in the Christian weight loss process.

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Pray the Weight Off

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 28 September 2009, 5:18 am

Eating is hindering my blessings in life. It sounds silly, but it’s true. I’m not talking about the basic, help the body run eating. This is the eating for eating’s sake kind of eating.

The bible refers to it as gluttony, and it’s a sin.

So if eating too much is a sin and sin blocks my blessings, then my eating is hindering the blessings that God desires for my life. The real painful part is that my eating is also hindering the blessings of my family. You would think that thought alone would be enough to keep my mouth shut.

Sin has a strong pull though. Some days I can breeze right through just eating when my stomach growls and never overdoing it. Then there are times when I think I am unable to stop snacking all day.

Believe it or not, my solution to this quandary is prayer. When I start my day talking to God then the temptations are not only smaller, but there always seems to be an escape route. Those other days, every thing seems hectic and overwhelming and food seems to be the only neutralizer.

So I’m going to pray my way past gluttony and to a fitter, trimmer life. Breaking the sin will not be easy. I know it does NOT want to go. But it is time, and I am determined to be free.

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Weight Loss is a Heart Issue

Posted by Kathryn Lang on 21 September 2009, 1:43 pm

Weight has always been an issue in my life and in my home growing up. Today it is one of the first subjects discussed around my family even though we only see each other about once a year. We focus more on the newest diet or program we might currently be on and what we are eating or not eating instead of enjoying life and each other.

After the birth of my second child I tried everything I could think of to lose weight. I bought (and actually did) a small library of exercise videos. I cut my fat and calories. Nothing happened. Then I found a Christian Weight Loss Program that helped me view food in a whole new light. I quit dieting and quit weighing and the weight seemed to pour off.

My last pregnancy brought the weight back in spades! Now it’s a fight between doing what I know to do and doing what I’m going to do – which seems to be a recurring theme through out much of my life.

My issue is not with calories or fat grams. My issue is with the heart. It has idolized food over all other things. It would treasure the times alone with food (when the family would be somewhere else and I could eat the meal with no one to disturb it). I didn’t want to share food with any one for any reason. My heart was selfish for food.

I have started retraining my heart to love what is right and to put that above the food. Breaking the habit of selfishness that I have created has caused some painful moments. It can be tough admitting that I am wrong. I choose to make moments to share with others, by making meal time a time together, so that the people become more important than the food.

Like any bad habit that is formed over many years, breaking the food habit is not easy and has not occurred over night. Every morning I am declaring out loud (and with enthusiasm) that the weight is gone and the habit broken. The words are being followed up with action.

With a positive attitude, the right mind set, and action, you can have, be or do what ever you desire!

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