Eating right

To AllIs there any Temples in here that have added additions to their sanctuary?I am one who has stretched my boundaries.One thing is for sure is that when you enter the Church we get bigger than before we entered. But it's not only that we make wrong choices in our diet. High starchy foods, very little protein and those green leafy vegetables is for dieters.I have fasted and lost wieght only to gain it all back on. My purpose wasn't to lose wieght but that was a side issue that drew attention.I have a head full of knowledge on doing the right thing, but I just love food. Not the junk food, I don't like junk food but exotic things.I'll try anything once. I tried Caviar, very salty, probably a bad brand. Buffalo Hamburger is too die for, especially in spagetti. Now if the Gospel was like Spagetti, everyone will be eating it up.I have read many books regarding health and nutrition, Vitamins and Mineral therapy, which I might add is one of the best books that you can read. I had my wisdom teeth pulled and everything is mush until everything grows in. I just purried a can of cream corn. If no one has ever done this, I recommend that you do. It is delicious! Throw away the spoon and drink it from the cup.On a serious note, I would like to be like all you spring chicks out there who are slim and trim.But have you ever noticed that this message is not addressed within the churches? or even taken seriously as a problem and is wreaking havoc in those who have serious weight problems. They say that obese persons are carrying around with them the future of several different kinds of diseaseses. Now I am considered obese, I am a tall (gulp)handsome man 6'4". And I wiegh just over the 300lb line. I've been told, "oh but Karl, your tall you have more to spread around." Well it don't spread around anywhere but the front.I think something should be said of how Daniel and his three companions ate. They didn't want any meat from the kings table, but they only ate Vegetables and Water. Yeck, what a diet. But it served them and caused them to be plump which those who live in that part of the world favour over the slim and trim which the western world likes.But what think ye? We talk about revival, but how about a revival of eating right.The foods we eat and this is a word that throws me for a loop everytime I go shopping, it's the word, "Hydrogenation or Hydrogenated". This trans fat is in mostly everything we eat and it is killing us. Anything that is soaked in grease at the local fast food joint is laden with this fat. It's in margarine, chips, some soups, bread, and even in "slim fast" drinks can you imagine. The food industry does not care for our health, it only cares for profit. The bran is removed from flour not because it's healthy but because it has a better shelf life, otherwise with the bran left in it would go rancid. Even the peanut butter has trans fats. If anyone loves peanut butter try grinding your own or buying in pure form with no additives, worth eating let me tell you.I think it is important for us to eat right, I think God would have us to eat right and to think what we put in our mouth. I have been doing this for quite sometime, I haven't dropped any wieght that I know of, but I know that I haven't gained any wieght either.I wrote this thread so that we can share in the topic and to learn from one anothers tips and tricks, and wisdom that anyone would like to share.Karl

I've noticed that gluttony is rarely preached. Why? Because everyone is guilty, including pastors. If I saw a 400 pound pastor preach on gluttony I would get up and leave quicker than if a pastor who's teenage son was in jail preached on raising children.As to staying fit... it's hard work. No two ways about it. Atkins and diets like that are terrible (You need some carbs!! No carbs = no energy!!). You need to eat healthy. Period. And exercise! I lift weighs 4 times a week, roller-blade 6 miles 3 times a week, and I hike all the time. Because I weight lift, I eat a high protein diet. I usually eat 4 egg whites, 5 strips of turkey bacon, and a serving of grits for breakfast... a salad with pork chops for lunch... a protein supplement shake in the middle of the afternoon... and whatever my wife makes for dinner... usually chicken or steak or roast beef w/veggies... lotsa veggies. Before I go to bed I drink a glass of red wine with a piece of dark chocolate, which helps keep the bad cholesterol down and the good cholesterol up.Now, I've always been into fitness since playing football (I was a linebacker) in high school, and 8 years in the Marines... but at 37 I've noticed my metabolism has slowed down some, and it's becoming more of a struggle than it used to be. I was doing 230lbs on the seated press at the gym last night... and noticed joint pain in my shoulders that I havent ever noticed before....that persisted all night... old age I guess, right?But I encourage anyone at any age to get in shape. Your muscles know no age! I've seen people in their 50's turn their bodies around in 6 months or less at the gym.Krispy

but because there is ZERO danger of my ever becoming so. In fact, I'm currently on a HIGH-calorie diet (5000/day plus) just to MAINTAIN my weight of 150ish.Golly... I havent weighed 150 since 8th grade!! I'm 6'2" and 218 lbs.Krispy

I have never had a problem with being overweight but I am just lucky as I can eat quite a lot and not put on weight so it just means that I don't get judged by people in this way. I agree that gluttony is wrong and have wondered whether it is just as bad a sin as perhaps drinking too much only it just doesn't have such detrimental effects! I suppose it is as there are no degrees of sin. I don't think that we can look at people who are overweight though and judge them as being guilty of gluttony as you never know the reasons why people are overweight. They might eat a perfectly healthy diet and just be unlucky or they may have a medical problem.

Krispy wrote:and noticed joint pain in my shoulders that I havent ever noticed beforeWell I can tell you the best thing to remedy that brother is MSM. MSM is found naturally occuring in meats, but we don't eat enough meat to gets it's full benefits, especially as we get older. But it's sold in capsules or caplets. The very best is in capsule form. MSM is a long word which basically means sulfer. What it does is it goes right to work on the soft tissue thats between the joints. It's like giving the car a lube job. I buy mine at GNC, in fact I just bought some tonight. If you take this every day, you won't feel that anymore, those who have any kind of ARTHRITIS will benefit from the capsule product of MSM. Some MSM products have something else added to the product, they don't work as well as the stand alone. My God, I sound like a salesman, time to stop.I like your diet plan, and you are right, exercise is the key.ThanksKarl

ChaninThanks for your weblinks regarding nutrition. Gee whiz, you really gave me some thoughts to ponder. I am looking forward to reading some more, later.But you know, I think I would prefer doing wieght training, you know with bar bells and such. I can't seem to get started on the treadmill or the bike. In the summer I bike all over creation, but I can't seem to do it in idle. But I should do the wieght lifting and then push ups, I remember benefiting from that before. Karl

I agree that gluttony is wrong and have wondered whether it is just as bad a sin as perhaps drinking too much only it just doesn't have such detrimental effects! I suppose it is as there are no degrees of sin. I hear people say "there are no degrees of sin" ... and I have to wonder how they view this passage of scripture:John 19:10-11 Then saith Pilate unto him, "Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?" Jesus answered, "Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin".John Gill's commentary says of this:"Pilate had been guilty of sin already in scourging Christ, and suffering the Roman soldiers to abuse him; and would be guilty of a greater in delivering him up to be crucified, who he knew was innocent: but the sin of Judas in delivering him into the hands of the chief priests and elders, and of the chief priest and elders and people of the Jews, in delivering him to Pilate to crucify him, according to the Roman manner, were greater, inasmuch as theirs proceeded from malice and envy, and was done against greater light and knowledge; for by his works, miracles, and ministry, as well as by their own prophecies, they might, or must have known, that he was the Messiah, and Son of God: and it is to be observed, that as there is a difference in sin, and that all sins are not equal, the circumstances of things making an alteration; so that God's decree concerning the delivery of his Son into the hands of sinful men, does not excuse the sin of the betrayers of him."Matthew Henry says this:Yet theirs that delivered him to Pilate was the greater sin. By this it appears that all sins are not equal, but some more heinous than others; some comparatively as gnats, others as camels; some as motes in the eyes, others as beams; some as pence, others as pounds. Altho any sin at all can damn us to hellfire without Christ's blood covering our sin, it is not true that there is no degree of sin... plainly there is, and most theologians agree.Just something to... chew on... no pun intended. (OK, maybe the pun was intended! Sue me.)Krispy

Krispy wrote:just something to... chew onTo chew on indeed. I subscribe to that as well that not all sins are equal.When we consider the ultimate of sins in that blasphemy against the holy Spirit, one can never be forgiven. That alone sets that sin apart from the rest.Then 1John5 speaks about a sin that is unto death, and who in their right mind would pray for it.16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.This a good point to bring up. What he is talking about eludes us or at least me.Karl