I feel there is one belief that one must adopt as absolute fact to achieve lasting success at dieting and weight loss..or lasting improvement in any area of life for that matter.

My body, mind and soul are on loan from God.

Why is that so important?

1) If you believe the Bible,  it is a fact.

2) People, as a general rule tend to take better care of  things they borrow from others than their own stuff.

Think about it, if you  stay at someone else’s house, do you tend to be less messy and treat it with more respect?

What about if you borrow someone else’s tools, car, clothes, etc.?

The Bible says we  are the temple of God and his Spirit is in us (1Corinthians 3:16), yet that fact seems to escape many Christians.

Let me ask you a simple question.  When you are in church do you do any of the following?

Binge and over eat, especially junk food?

Take drugs?

Get drunk?

Swear?

Smoke?

Of course not! You respect the church and believe God is present in the church when you worship.

Let me state this one more time..The Bible says we  are the temple of God and his Spirit is in us (1Corinthians 3:16). 

Each one of us is a temple of God, the Spirit is always in us.

If you bring that to the forefront of your daily thoughts do you think you might start taking better care of yourself?

Do you think it might help with dieting and weight loss by keeping you from binging and over eating as often?

Do you think it might help in other areas where you struggle to resist the temptation to abuse your body?

Do you think it’s worth a shot?

I have found by saying  ”My body, mind and soul are on loan from God,” throughout my day helps me do just that.

Please give it a try, you may be surprised at the results.

God bless,

Daniel Wychor

I have heard it said that we are more likely to make a change in our lives to avoid pain than to gain pleasure.

Today’s topic will provide a little pain.

Being over weight or obese can lead to liver disease.  It is caused by having too much fat in the liver.  What is scary is it can lead to memory lapses and erratic behavior just like people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.

It is cirrhosis, just like alcoholics get except instead of alcohol, it is fat that is the cause.

Dr. William Carey,  a hepatologist at the Cleveland Clinic, said, “This is huge. We didn’t even know this disease existed 30 years ago. Now it’s the most common liver disease in America.”

This is getting crazy.  It is estimated one third of the US population has fatty liver disease, and of those 6 million will develop the extreme cases.  Doctors say they won’t be able to treat them all.

Doctors say if caught early enough, if one loses weight it can be reversed but if it is in the late stages it is too late.

If you’d like to read the article I learned about this from click below.

Another Reason To Lose Weight, Fatty Liver Disease

The article cites a guy who developed the disease who was 5 foot 8 inches tall, 185 pounds.  That doesn’t sound very over weight so obviously you don’t have to be obese to get liver disease.

God bless,

Danny

You can see that this person is in fantastic physical condition, there doesn’t appear to be any excess fat on their body.  Jesus is telling this person how proud he is of how this person has followed him and totally transformed not only their temple, but their mind.

You are mesmerized as you watch Jesus praising this person and wish he would do the same with you. 

Suddenly, Jesus looks at you and tells the other person to turn and look at you. As you see the other person’s face you realize it is you, future you! 

Future you says, “I am already inside of you, just waiting to be revealed.  All I did was follow Jesus all day long.” 

How did you feel when you saw it was you?  Were you shocked?  Did it bring a smile, maybe even a tear to your eye?

Feelings are critical to achieving lasting weight loss.  It doesn’t matter how often you picture yourself being successful if you don’t feel you will succeed.

How do you know when you are starting to feel that you can succeed?  I believe it all starts with a smile.  You have to be able to smile when you picture yourself at your goal, if you can’t, you don’t truly believe.  Now, I am not talking about a forced smile, I mean a deep heart felt smile.  For me it is accompanied by a deep humming sound I voice.

Practice seeing Jesus and future you, hear them praise you for the positive change they are seeing in you and SMILE.  Feel the love pour over you from Jesus, and see how excited future you is about soon being revealed. 

Most importantly, start to follow Jesus all day long, wherever you are, whatever you do.  The change you will experience will make it hard to wipe the smile off your face:)

God bless,

Danny

Millions of these people belong to weight loss support groups… now I’m not knocking support groups, I think they are great and serve a useful purpose. 

So why don’t they work? 

Your weight loss support group can’t be with you 24/7. 

They aren’t with you when you are standing alone in your kitchen and temptation strikes.  

They aren’t with you when you are tempted to over eat a meal. 

They aren’t with you when you are looking at a restaurant menu.  

They aren’t with you when you are tempted by the candy at a checkout counter. 

They aren’t with you when someone brings goodies to work. 

See, the Tempter doesn’t play fair, he wants to attack you when you are weak.

He waits for when you are alone or distracted to tempt you. 

He knows if he does battle with you then, he can beat you and sabotage your weight loss. 

The only way to defeat him is to allow God to be part of your support group 24/7.  You have to develop an awareness of God’s presence throughout your day. 

If you don’t develop an understanding of temptation, how it affects you and take steps to limit its power, guess what will happen?

You’ll either give up on weight loss, start looking for a new diet, pill, or support group and the cycle will begin again.

The choice is yours. 

God bless, 

Danny

I read an interesting article about how what you are eating affects the health of your skin.  It may make you think twice if you are thinking of going on a diet where you skip some food groups.  

To read the article click below.

What is that food doing to your skin?

God bless,

Danny

“Soldiers are dangerously starving themselves, gobbling diet pills and laxatives — even going under the knife in costly liposuction surgery — all to meet the Army’s weight standards and avoid losing their careers.”

The above quote is from an article in the Army Times by staff writer Lance M. Bacon.

If you have relatives in the military that struggle to meet weight standards, please let them know about our website so they can learn to limit the power of temptation and save their health and careers.

You can read the article by clicking on the link below.

Soldiers go to extremes to lose weight and meet regulations.

God bless,

Danny

I believe you can always learn something when you read stories about people who have had success losing weight and how they did it.

I read a story the other day about a guy who lost 240 pounds.  His weight loss was not with any gimmick diets, just plain old eating better and eating less.

While I don’t agree with everything in the article (he worked out 1 – 2 hours/day) it can be inspiring for those with a lot of weight to lose.

The article also states that “this is the way to long lasting success.”  While new eating habits are critical to losing weight, they don’t guarantee lasting success.

I’ve heard of and seen too many stories of people similar to him that have taken off a lot of weight and revert to their old habits as soon as stress comes into their lives.  When people are stressed temptation rears its ugly head.

As I’ve said over and over, if you don’t understand what is going on when you are tempted, you have no chance of limiting the power of temptation.

When you understand temptation, how it affects you and learn how to limit its power you then have a chance at lasting weight loss.

To read the article click below.

Man loses 240 pounds on old fashioned boring diet.

God bless,

Danny

His results showed the critical key is calories consumed.

What is even more interesting is his cholesterol improved, bad went down and good went up.

While I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone, it shows that when you are able to resist the temptation to over eat, you can lose weight; no matter what you are eating.

To read the article click below.

Calories, not type of food are key to weight loss.

God bless,

Danny

When parent’s good intentions go bad

God bless,

Danny

To read the whole article click on the link below.

Food myths debunked

God bless.

Danny