So you dont have to feel too bad after the holidays and those meals...

I am praying about offering to start a first place group for men only. It combines the spiritual, emotional, and physical in order to give men a handle on the weight thing. The program helped me loose twenty-five pounds, and keep it off (mostly!) Would be nice to get with a few like minded guys to deal with the old belt line and I am not talking about the street!

The way that it helped me most was: I did not really know of what good nutrition consisted. For me to maintain my targeted weight i need only to abide by my budget: 8 meat units, four units each of :veges,fruits, and breads. then two units of milk items and fat items. I came off of a "Adkins Hybird" diet, and the hardest part for me was that of cutting down my meats. After four weeks of making no progress, I was challenged by a leader to just try the actual program. When I did, to my geat surprise,I dropped three pounds. Not much, but it was my first success. After two go arounds, of the thirteen week group, I lost my twenty-five pounds. I since have gained seven back as I have gone through some stresses. Would like to get a handle on it again. Sadly one of my remedies when life is loosing it is to eat contraband. I think that if I had group of guys and a little accountability, I might get back in the discipline.

The thing that particularily grabs my attention right now is that in the last two months I have persnally witnessed two men who I knew up close who had, not a bad weight problem, but "just a little overweight" problem. This combined with the poor nutrition choices, alerted me to the eminence of death. Within a week of my eating a meal with one, and answering the call to pray for the other, they each died. I asked the second about his diet, and he said he used to worry about it but not any more. I have worried about this ever since. I felt like both were exemplary Christians and are already missed by more than their immediate family. Could either of these senseless deaths have been prevented? I don't know, but would be nice to get the information out to guys who have an ear to hear. What do you think?

The program costs a little for the reference books as to what constitutes a unit of meat, bread etc. And for instance how many raisins I can have to count one fruit. It is seventeen by the way. The miracle is that as Psalm 139 points out we are fearfully and wonderfully made and that I know right well. Eating a balanced diet adequate to support as much as 90% of a persons weight eliminates real hunger, and when emotional cravings are dealt with, the body doesn't scream too much. There are several acceptable "cheat foods" like carrots, or celery that give you that chew but don't really blow the whole day! Rather than try to tell a guy what he can not do, it gives him trade-offs. For instance you can have a huge piece of cheese cake if you are willing to walk to the top of the "empire state building" and back down a couple of times. That is how much sugar,fat, and carbs that you getting. It is okay to have a feast once in a while if you realize the trade-offs. Cutting only 10% of food needs does not throw the body into starvation mode, therefore adipose tissue is burned with out eating . Most diet programs cause the body to devour muscle first, and after it is over the last to replace is the muscle. Most of the toxins are fat soluble, so we have to drink an abundance of water to flush the system as the inches melt away. These are the kinds of lessons that we learn in the progress toward a heavenly bod! Does this sound like something you could make time to look into? Do you know anyone else willing to make a few changes. Please reply or call me. Hal

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Put the power of love to work on it! The power of love is the greatest power in
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