Hello. This is Day 30 of my 30 Tips to start your New Year. Of course, it's only a beginning! You don't need the beginning of a new year to make resolutions to be healthy and happy. I suggest you resolve to be healthy and happy all day, every day.
If there's one tip for losing weight, staying healthy and finding true, infinite happiness it is this: Keep God at the center of your life through constant prayer and daily worship.
We humans are full of paradoxes and inconsistencies! We have lots of internal functions going on, like nerves firing, muscles expanding and contracting, digestive processes, brain processing - and we're not even aware of it all. The mind may say one thing, but the body does just the opposite, as in the case of eating from hunger verses habits, or feeding the stomach when feeling emotions.
Unlike us, and our restless lives, God is a constant. We oscillate and vacillate, always shifting balances, seeking balance. God is in the center, always stable and solid. God is in us, with us, is us. We think we're on our own, and apart from God, frequently forgetting who and what we truly are. We forget to center on God, and while drifting away we think that everything's all up to us: that's when trouble occurs because we just can't do everything, we're not conscious enough or powerful enough. God is necessary, because we're limited.
So, if you believe, believe you me: we are alive to seek God and remember Him. Being God-centered at the center of your being will always be the best place to be. God is our center and point of origin; our starting point for reuniting with our True Spiritual Self and the ending point of our problems and separation from God.
I hope these 30 days of weight loss and well being tips have been helpful to you. This is not the end; quite the contrary, this is the beginning! We begin where we started, with God at the center of all, and of us.
Please make me very very happy and post a comment, telling me and our readers how the start to your new year has been these first 30 days or so. Have you lost some weight? Have you changed any ideas or behaviors?
Remember: Check my "Dr. Norris Chumley SATISFIED LIFE" blog daily for weight loss and well being inspiration and tips, and add an RSS feed so you never miss anything!
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN WITH THE 30 DAYS OF TIPS, CLICK HERE.
Lose Weight: Be God-Centered (Day 30, the Beginning)
Friday January 30, 2009
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About Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life
Dr. Norris J. Chumley is a doctor of theology and the arts, and has lost 160 pounds and maintained it over 16 years with God's help. The author/host of "The Joy of Weight Loss: a Spiritual Guide to Easy Fitness," and many TV programs and DVD's, including "Spiritual Guide to Weight Loss" and "30 Days to Spiritual Well Being," Dr. Norris also does private consultations, leads workshops and lectures nationally. He has been a featured Beliefnet daily columnist and contributing editor for many years.
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I've lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks. Thank you for all the advice.
I am encouraged by all you who are doing so well with your quest for a healthier life! I am also losing weight and plan to continue. I'm trying to expand my friendships. I am meeting people mostly at the gym and it's great that they all have the same goal as well. It is great to be feeling healthier and more fit! Thanks for the encouragement!
I tell myself one day at a time. If I get a small break at work, I do some lunges and squats. I try to walk to the store, library, and bank. (I live in town.) I have been buying more fresh fruit and vegetables. I would like to go vegetarian, but I like meat, fish, and chicken. Some days are better than others. At a recent funeral I attended, I ate badly. But the next day I worked at doing better. My daughter-in-law and I both want to lose weight, so we are supporting each other. I have a mother who gives me a hard time about my weight, but I ask God to help me resist the junk food, and I am improving.
I have lost some weight . I have learn to put God first and to do all things through him if you carry scriptures of faith it helps and you will know that God will see you through . Also keep telling your self you can accoomplish this goal. Just trust the lord and all things will come to past .
Thank you so much for your encouragement- That is the absolute truth to keep everythings GOD CENTERED and focus on God not ourselves-He wants us to come to him and he just waits while we try to do things "our way" and we go around and around til we have no hope and only then we ask for his help.How much easier it would be if (I speak for myslef) we would just learn to give it to him first and stay focused. I will kepp you all in my prayers. Thank you too for this devotion that you make possible for us. :)))
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