Losing weight the easy way!

Pastor Joshua preached a timely and awesome message today - Losing weight the easy way! Of course, being a dietitian, what's more a weight management one, knows how hard it is for people to lose weight. It does not just come by simply dieting or just exercising, its both! And when you lose the weight that you are happy with, what happens next? Continue your previous lifestyle and risk putting back everything? Some of my patients would say that losing weight is easy but maintaing the weight loss is the difficult bit!

Simply put it, one needs to practise a balanced lifestyle - eating well and exercising and of course, getting Him involved! To quote Pastor Joshua, to lose (or gain) weight supernaturally, ask Jesus to give me those desires (i.e. of not drinking soft drinks or eating fried food) and before you know it, viola! A thin/well-fed YOU! Don't forget we get transformed from inside out and from glory to glory when we eat from the Tree of LIFE! Before I end, I will share what today's Daly Devotional talks about Dieting & Losing weight! How interesting!

PS: I think I might be out of job soon!!! :)

Don’t Put Your Faith In Diets And Exercise 

Psalm 118:8
8It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Alot of people think that the way to get health is to watch what they eat. For example, many people say that the Mediterranean diet is a very healthy one. I agree, generally. But do you know that the people whom Jesus healed were also on a Mediterranean diet? They did not eat pork and prawns, for example, because they were Jews and these things are not kosher for them.

I know that you want to walk in divine health. But God does not want your focus to be on food — what to eat, what not to eat — or even exercise — how to exercise, when to exercise. All these are natural means which the people of the world trust in. It is better to trust in the Lord and His finished work, than to put your confidence in the latest man-made diet plans and exercise regimes.

At the cross, Jesus took your sicknesses and carried your pains, and by His stripes you were healed. (Isaiah 53:4–5) The Bible even tells us how to escape sickness and premature death — by discerning the Lord’s body when we partake of the Lord’s Supper. (1 Corinthians 11:29–30) But instead of focusing on these truths, many of us prefer to focus on dieting and exercising.

Now, I am not against eating well or exercising. I myself exercise and I do watch what I eat. For example, I don’t like to eat oily stuff because it makes me feel uncomfortable. And when I have to preach, I do my best not to eat foods that make me burp!

But I eat generally healthy stuff not because I trust dieting to make me healthy. I exercise not because I trust exercising to make me healthy. No, I trust the finished work of Christ to make me healthy. I eat well because I like to feel good and I exercise because I enjoy the rush, the sweat!

God wants you to be free when it comes to eating and exercising. Don’t make laws for eating and exercising, and then trust these laws to give you “divine” health. Trust in the finished work of Christ. Discern His body when you partake of the Holy Communion. And just enjoy your food and workout!

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