weekly weigh in
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SaulToPaul 2
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:mock: PJ the Great (still)
Nearly.
Start with skipping breakfast. This includes not eating late or night snacks. Eat midday with limited carbs. Do it for 2 months. Going without breakfast for most adults who have been eating 3 squares a day is a lifestyle change. It is hard to do for many.
that's been my problem, late night meals and snacks. but i strarted making changes 2 days before i posted that. i don't mind feeling hungry for long periods; i can block that out.
it's once i start to eat i can't stop. i want salty then sweet, then salty then sweet over and over. i'm akin to a glutton, but the extra weight affects my balance, breathing, even tying my shoes.
it does take a lifestyle change and a conscience effort all day everyday. i do have a recently diagnosed liver problem and the meds for that and other meds may be causing some of the weight.
SaulToPaul 2
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There is something about a good long fast that is appealing to me.
I think it is the sense of discipline, and taking authority over what my flesh wants.
SaulToPaul 2
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And, don't forget to DeadLift regularly.
Dan Emanuel
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I don't differentiate between "I can't stop" and "I don't want to stop" though. To me they're the same thing, and thinking "I can't stop" is less in line with my firm belief in free will.
They're are thing's that are beyond our control, granted. I don't believe you can will your severed limb to regenerate itself. A verified disease is a disease of the body, not of the soul. Sinfulness is a disease of the body. (You mentioned gluttony.)
DJ
Your speaking my language.
I don't differentiate between "I can't stop" and "I don't want to stop" though. To me they're the same thing, and thinking "I can't stop" is less in line with my firm belief in free will.
They're are thing's that are beyond our control, granted. I don't believe you can will your severed limb to regenerate itself. A verified disease is a disease of the body, not of the soul. Sinfulness is a disease of the body. (You mentioned gluttony.)
I don't think so, not once you've made the change permanent. Unless thats what you meant, which it probably is.
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Dan Emanuel
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I find it to be almost a spiritual experience in and of itself, though I think it is merely fertile soil for spirituality, and they correlate. :idunno:
I did four day's recently. Lost 8 pound's. After the second day, its not that tough. I guess by that time the body figure's its in for the long haul, and decide's to knock off the hunger/appetite pang's.
You can see 1 aspect of how you're flesh work's, very clearly, when you fast. :thumb: It help's cut through the haze.
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Dan Emanuel
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I love deadlift's, bench press, squat, and my personal favorite; clean-and-jerk.
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SaulToPaul 2
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I've found that on the rare days that I do eat both breakfast and lunch, I'm just as hungry at 5pm as when I fast....or even hungrier.
:chew:
I don't think so. God has offered reconciliation as enemies. to all the world. There is no fasting for anybody in that regard.
Yep. When you don't put more fuel in the tank, it has to burn what was already there.
SaulToPaul 2
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PJ the Great, you can also lower your carbohydrate intake. Complex (noodles, bread, potatoes) or simple carbs (ice cream) do the same thing in the body. It is tough to start because you have to shop differently. I have to make my lunch often and take it with me because of the job. That means the chicken and green beans are cooked the day before.
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SaulToPaul 2
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Meat, eggs, and salads are my staples.
Of course I have pizza or lasagna on my Friday cheat meal. :chew:
Dan Emanuel
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Well, of course . . . "in that regard." We are only now the seed form of what we will become at the Resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:38 KJV, 1 Corinthians 15:42-44 KJV), at the coming of our Lord (1 Corinthians 15:23 KJV, 1 Corinthians 15:52 KJV).
In the meantime, while we await our new body's, the question is, what do we do now? The Church has from the start seen value in fasting as a spiritual discipline, as a way to keep occupied while we await His coming. They're even a suggestion in 1 Corinthians 7:5 KJV that we even might benefit from abstaining from the procreative marital act for a time . . . in my mind, for a similar reason, to abstaining from food for a time. Fasting and prayer go together in Pauls view.
I pray decade's of the Rosary, myself, when I pray.
We're like a tire with a slow leak on the valve stem. If we don't add air, then we will slowly, but surely, deflate.
DJ
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My day is Sunday.
You do what is right so you do not seem disqualified by those outside the faith. Not as a measuring stick. Confession of the mouth gives us the measuring stick.
This thread should be about body chemistry.
Matthew 6
7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
Dan Emanuel
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I tell myself: Every other animal on the planet has dry spell's. They go day's, week's sometime's, with little to nothing to eat. Do you think their crying about it? No! Why am I acting so entitled to three-square? Get over it. You've got enough store's/extra weight to last you a month. And you're doctor said that fasting is absolutely not bad for you're ticker.
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