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Christian Weight Loss Videos

I guess this is my year to try new media! I’ll be starting a podcast at some point this summer,but before then, I want to start doing some videos.

The podcast will be on all the subjects I blog about, but the videoswill just be for weight loss. If you have a weight loss related topic or questionyou’d like me to talk about, pleaseemail me by clicking on the About tab at the top of this blog.

I won’t be putting the videos on my blog, so if you’d like to get them you can either sign up for the you...

Devotion: Planners, Spontaneous People, and God

One of the hardest things about becoming a writer has been learning how to mesh that with my relationship with God.

In the past I was a lazy person. Spontaneous, fun, and with plenty of time to sit and fellowship with God because my to-do list was always so short, I wasn’t even tempted to make life about work.

But the more involved I’ve gotten with writing and all the miscellaneous tasks required of a writer—marketing, editing, techy stuff, etc.—the more I’ve struggled with keeping God first in...

Help for Your To-Do List: Truth Journaling Examples

Do you ever feel overwhelmed with life? Do you ever feel like a failure when the day is through and you haven’t accomplished everything you set out to do? Are you ever tempted to become a workaholic so you can finish all those things?

I often feel all of these things.So today I’d like to share some truth journal entries on those subjects. These are entries from my own journal, but I’d love to post some entries from your journals if I can!

What I’m hoping to do is post examples of truth journal...

Christian Weight Loss Resources and Book Giveaways

Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you know Freedom from Emotional Eatingis available again on Amazon, both in paperback and Kindle.

I’ve also included a Christian Weight Loss Resources tab on my blog with frequently asked questions and links to the leader’s guidesfor my Bible studies.

Also, I have a couple of book giveaways going on at Goodreads. Click here to enter a drawing for Freedom from Emotional Eating and click here to enter a drawing for Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Bible Study....

Christian Weight Loss: Is Fun and Easy Possible?

Supposeyou’ve been trying to lose the same 20 pounds (or break that same bad habit) for the lastsix years.

Every time you start doing well, something comes up: a vacation, a holiday (Easter, for example), a hectic few weeks at work or at home–something that throws you off your weight lossplan.

What you really want is just to relax and enjoy life–eat what you want when you want–and still be able to lose or maintain your weight. Is that too much to ask?After all, aren’t we told that life should b...

How to Let Go of Regret and “If Only” – Option Charts

[image error]Do you ever say, “If only I hadn’t messed up”? Or “If only life were easier”?Or “If only I had made a different choice?” Or “If only I were more like so-and-so?”

So often we live in the land of “if only” and “I should have.” This is not a pleasant place to live.

Not only does this sap our energy and make us constantly discontent with life, it also keeps us from looking at our real-life options.

We spend so much energy thinking about what we should have done or what we wish life were like, that w...

Interview with The Precipice Author, TC Avey

Today I have the pleasure of bringing you an interview with my friend TC Avey, who just published her first book this week.

I first got to know TC when she was doing a great series on Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book,The Cost of Discipleship at her blog.TC has a gift for taking large amounts of information and distilling it into a nutshell. She does this with both books and political events.

If you’re interested in politics, you’ll enjoy her quarterly newsletter which you can sign up for at her blog,...

10 Things to Thank God For When You’re Trying to Lose Weight

Let me ask you a question. When you’re trying to lose weight, do you usually wake up in the morning, all excited about the process?

Do you think about how great it will be to lose that weight?

How good it will feel to fit into those clothes you’ve been wanting to fit into?

How wonderful it will be to break free from a habit that has been plaguing you for years?

Or do you instead wake up and think, “Oh no, another day of depriving myself? If only I could eat I want today, life would be so much bet...

How to Truth Journal

The following is an excerpt from one of the daily studies in Taste for Truth: A 30 Day Weight Loss Bible Study.

Often people advocate the use of journaling as a way to clear the air. To get all those bad thoughts out of our system so they don’t poison us.

Truth journaling is different.

You’re still spilling your thoughts out, but for the purpose of examining them and bringing them captive to the truth.

It’s a practical application of 2 Corinthians 10:3-5:For though we walk in the flesh, we do n...