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When I was in my twenties, I had a much faster metabolism. I could eat what I wanted and stayed at 150 pounds. I have a large bone structure, so I looked really thin. My weight went up to 200, but everyone I talked to about it said I only looked like I was 160. When I weighed 180 I was told that I looked like I was 140. So, yeah.

Anyway, I'm fat now. I use food to self-medicate. I don't binge, I just snack a lot. And I drink way too much soda. I really like the stuff.

So guys, I need prayer. I've been exercising but not enough. This is very private for me to say but I pray that I would be God's athlete. Is that silly? I just want to be in really good shape again. When I weighed 150 I danced to hip hop a LOT. I went on lots of walks... I stayed in shape. I could walk 10 miles at a time!

So lately I have been exercising, and its pretty uncomfortable. Any advice would be wonderful but I need your prayers. I appreciate them SO much. This is very personal, but I feel it's ok to share with my Christina brethren.

Much Love
 
Do you walk?. Walking is good excersise and not hard physically. I cant remember where i heard it from but walking is suppose to be just as good excercise as if you were running .
 
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Dear Sister Angel, yeah I’m big boned too. :)

The thing with weight reduction has much to do muscle. The more you build, the easier it is to burn calories. Even thin muscle mass is desirable, and much safer to attain. Presently you think you are fifty pounds overweight, and unless addressed quickly it can cause great damage to your knees for instance. There is a four to one leverage factor meaning that the extra force on your knees is an added two hundred pounds; they won’t last long I can near guarantee.

Learn to eat healthy, exercise regular and sensibly, and avoid large calorie meals. I have read that small meals every four hours, supplemented by healthy snacks has the greatest effect to lose weight. Possibly begin a routine of walking again, and increase its distance gradually; don’t overdo anything, as that seemingly only serves to increase distress, and the need of additional energy food intake.

Try to refrain from all forms of quick weight loss programs, or even fasting because though you will see your weight go down, it is normally water, and will soon return. Normally this type of dieting creates a yo-yo experience, and can be very dangerous to your heart and other organs.

I will pray for your success to get back into shape, and it truly affects the way you feel in near everything you do. God bless you in Jesus’ name.
 
Do you walk?. Walking is good excersise and not hard physically. I cant remember where i heard it from but walking is suppose to be just as good excercise as if you were running .
I do like walking! It's kind of ghetto around here though, so I don't walk too far from home. My apartment complex has a gym but they are not taking care of it. I called the office today and complained. I enjoy walking on the treadmill.
 
Exercising is key to weight loss ... as is restructuring one's meals' menu.

When the goal is weight loss, plan into your weekly exercise/diet routine to have one day set aside for a 'reward' to yourself for the progress. On that 'reward' day, you can have some soda or higher calorie foods. Something that will keep you from feeling deprived.

As time rolls along, and you're seeing good and positive results of exercising and watching what you eat, you'll find you won't necessarily want to have a reward day. You'll be delighted to see the progress you're making.

By exercising, I'm talking about sit ups, toe touches, leg lifts, etc., the sort that you can do without putting a lot of added pressure on your knees. A search online can provide more exercises that won't have you jumping up and down & disturbing the neighbors :thumbsup

You remain in my prayers :wave2
 
I gotta lose weight too. The last time I was skinny was when I was crazy. I was malnourished and got down to 127lbs. I think one reason I eat so much is because I of that...

...anyway, sorry about your weight gain. What did the apt. people say about the gym? A lot of places advertise the apts. like "ohhhh, we have (insert amenity here)," but then they don't take care of it, lol. I guess its a money thing, I dunno.

One thing, about soda....try mixing one part juice with one part fizzy water (seltzer, tonic, whatever) and add ice. Its awesome!
 
When I was in my twenties, I had a much faster metabolism. I could eat what I wanted and stayed at 150 pounds. I have a large bone structure, so I looked really thin. My weight went up to 200, but everyone I talked to about it said I only looked like I was 160. When I weighed 180 I was told that I looked like I was 140. So, yeah.

Anyway, I'm fat now. I use food to self-medicate. I don't binge, I just snack a lot. And I drink way too much soda. I really like the stuff.

So guys, I need prayer. I've been exercising but not enough. This is very private for me to say but I pray that I would be God's athlete. Is that silly? I just want to be in really good shape again. When I weighed 150 I danced to hip hop a LOT. I went on lots of walks... I stayed in shape. I could walk 10 miles at a time!

So lately I have been exercising, and its pretty uncomfortable. Any advice would be wonderful but I need your prayers. I appreciate them SO much. This is very personal, but I feel it's ok to share with my Christina brethren.

Much Love

our flesh will attempt to kill us if we let it. I am loosing weight now, and I exercise every night. Normally strength resistance as more muscle means more burning calories. Muscle burns calories. I also switch to elliptical, easy on the knee's, burns more calories than just walking.

Another thing, it's the carbs that keep you fat. Bread, pasta, anything with sugar. Refined food anything should be off your list.

Sugar and things with Sugar are pure evil. Sugar substitutes are not far off from being pure evil, just not as pure as sugar.

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Sugar not only wrecks havoc on your bodies glycemic dysregulation, but Sugar is an Opiate. That is right, it's in the Opioid class, like Opium, Heroin.

Sugar being a drug, cuts down emotion and physical stress Dulling the pain as natural brain released opiod's do. Sugar does this very effectively, and why Heroin addicts coming off Heroin often gain large amounts of weight because their bodies want sugar to replace the loss of the more powerful Opiate.

While this may seem like a good effect, less emotional and physical trauma, it also creates a strong addiction to foods that contain sugar. This causes a person to constantly snack on things through addiction they should not be snacking on.

This is not low will power exactly, there is a real medically defined addiction that by cutting off the sugar, means cutting off the dulling of emotional and physical stress.

http://robbwolf.com/2012/12/21/sugar-drug/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3109725/

Sugar has to go, and artificial sweeteners have to go. Water, tea, coffee (Water most) are things we should be drinking. No sweet things in the tea or coffee though.

There is hope, it will take faith though.

And I would get in all that, but I am being pulled on to do something at home.

Blessings.

 
I gotta lose weight too. The last time I was skinny was when I was crazy. I was malnourished and got down to 127lbs. I think one reason I eat so much is because I of that...

...anyway, sorry about your weight gain. What did the apt. people say about the gym? A lot of places advertise the apts. like "ohhhh, we have (insert amenity here)," but then they don't take care of it, lol. I guess its a money thing, I dunno.

One thing, about soda....try mixing one part juice with one part fizzy water (seltzer, tonic, whatever) and add ice. Its awesome!

They said that the gym would be ready in a week, but I don't buy it. It's been a year since one broke down, and the other night when I walked the other one it stopped in the middle of my walking. Like it was on, but it just stopped- like I had turned it off or something.
Since you all know that I used to dance a lot, I have all the Just Dance Wii games and once I learn the dance to the song its really fun. Also, some of the moves just feel good to my body.

Doesn't the juice &fizzy water have the same calories as soda?
 
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Brother Mike

Thank you for the post and the articles. I read the first link you gave, but the second link was written in a way that was difficult for me to understand.

So, get rid of sugar completely? That's going to make me nuts.

I am putting this in God's hands and am doing the best that I can do. When I was addicted to ciggarets, I would get on my knees and pray and pray that God will help me get rid of the addiction everyday. Sometimes multiple times a day. Then one day, I ran out of ciggarette money for a week, so, I quit. I believe God delivered me by cutting off funds. :)

I really wish I could cut off food like you can other addictions.Balancing is the hard part. :sad
 
Brother Mike

Thank you for the post and the articles. I read the first link you gave, but the second link was written in a way that was difficult for me to understand.

So, get rid of sugar completely? That's going to make me nuts.

I am putting this in God's hands and am doing the best that I can do. When I was addicted to ciggarets, I would get on my knees and pray and pray that God will help me get rid of the addiction everyday. Sometimes multiple times a day. Then one day, I ran out of ciggarette money for a week, so, I quit. I believe God delivered me by cutting off funds. :)

I really wish I could cut off food like you can other addictions.Balancing is the hard part. :sad

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
(Luk 14:28-29)

This scripture, though it seems unrelated to dieting, set me free of a few things as the Lord administer this to me through Brother Keith.

Truth is, if you cut out all sugar and food that contains sugar in your diet, you would start loosing weight.

We don't want to balance an opiate into our diet. We have to learn to live without it, and that protects us even much later as our bodies start to slow down more.

So it's not a balancing act, we just nix it and be free of it. Now the flesh will scream at you, but you have to remember you have an actual addiction you are fighting.

Count the cost. That is what Jesus said. It took me a lot of meditating on this, but it's more real all the time.

What does drinking that one can of soda cost you? You see how much sugar is in one by the picture I gave.

What does the can of soda cost? 75 Cents?
Self esteem?
Feeling of no self control?
A dress size?
More addiction to an Opiate?

How much is that can of soda really worth, and is the price your about to pay for it a good deal? Is it really worth it?

With the Lords help, every single little thing I ran into, I stopped and asked how much am I willing to sacrifice for that?

I come to find out that cake, Soda, pasta, was not worth it. I did not want to pay what it was going to cost me.

How much is looking at Porn going to cost someone?
Condemnation?
guilt?
Lack of confidence in God?
Stronger addiction?

For me, the price is far to expensive, I don't want to pay all that. I eat that cake, look at that porn, I will pay, full price.

We have to learn to value important things here on earth, and make everything worth it and count for something.
 
Dear Brother Mike

Your post humbled me... I mean... I didn't realize that I need to count the cost.


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Well, not putting that into real practice. Jesus spoke to fevers, I guess Jesus knew fevers have ears. Jesus said speak to mountains, I guess they are not hard of hearing either. Sometimes, it's time to stop asking God, and start looking at the example of our great Lord who is always there, and always helping us.

Bag of chips: Hey, You bought me, a few won't hurt.

You: In Jesus name bag of chips, I did buy you, but I decided your not worth what I want to achieve.

Bag of chips: ya, Ok, I get it. I am not healthy you know. I'll just sit here and be quite.
(Moments Later) clears throat, cough, umm, cough..

You: I thought you said you would be quite?

Bag of chips: I am so sorry, don't mind me. Whats on TV? Your just sitting there, and nothing in your hands, your mouth is not chewing anything. Seems pretty dull to me.

You: I am doing just fine thank you.

Bag of chips: Ya, ya, I understand, but you know, only a handful of me is just 80 Calories, and I am sure you are not even at 1,000 for the day anyway. As long as you don't sit and gobble me all up, you should be fine.

You: I fell for that trick last week you rotten bag of chips, and I ate two of your buddies all up. I blew 3 days of exercise, and I am not paying that price anymore, now shut up!

(From the kitchen fridge)
Nice piece of rich Chocolate cake: Hey Angel, it's getting cold in here, and I am the only piece here. Just me, one tiny little piece of rich, creamy, chocolate cake.

As believers we can learn to lead of life of no compromise with a great Lord who never allows us to be tempted beyond what we can bare. We have a part to play though, and we refuse to pay any cost of anything that will set back the things most important to us.

blessings.
 
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