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Does God Punish You For Being Fat?

Creative Summary By Mateus Suban

Does God punish you for being fat? A recent column in an issue of USA Today answers, “weight loss is hard enough without feeling that the almighty is on your back, too”…

Recently, I was sitting in a wonderful little breakfast “parlor” on Main Street in Santa Monica (California), enjoying a bowl of oatmeal, a mountain of fresh fruit and a “sexy omelette” (the bodybuilder’s favorite). Although the usual dietary temptations are omnipresent everywhere, I noticed a lot more healthy eateries and healthy options on menus out here, which is okay by me! It seems like people are much more health conscious in Southern California compared to back home in the New Jersey/New York City area.

You can’t hide under those winter coats in this weather! When I left Newark airport it was a blustery 37 degrees. It’s 77 degrees and sunny as I sit here on my hotel balcony, laptop on my lap, overlooking the palm trees and Pacific ocean.

A friend of mine once said that “Palm trees are God’s way of saying, LIVE HERE!”

Speaking of God, that brings me to the subject of this article. The column, written by Christine Whelan, a professor of sociology, said that religious diet groups are growing in number and some of them say that “God might not approve of that second piece of pie.” In fact, some of these groups, reported Whelan, warn that God will punish you for overeating and being fat. The Weigh Down Workshop, one of the most “hard-line” of such groups, tells their participants that God will “destroy you” if you abuse your body by overeating.

I’m not sure what other people think, but I prefer to think of God as a loving God, who does not punish a person in the hereafter for being fat in this life. Combined with the emotional pain of being overweight and the lower quality (and sometimes quantity) of life, I’d say that’s punishment enough, wouldn’t you?

But enough of my theological viewpoint, I found some tremendously valuable practical lessons in the newspaper article.

I don’t believe that instilling guilt or fear of eternal damnation is an uplifting way to change behavior. For example, metaphors are also powerful motivators, especially because metaphors are language that your unconscious mind can understand. Didn’t Jesus teach in parables and metaphors? What if you said your body was like a temple? In my books, I delve into the emotional, psychological and social aspects of body fat loss.

Some of the chapters are devoted to teaching you how to build a fortress of positive, uplifting, inspiring energy around you in the form of positive, uplifting, and inspiring people. “What do I do if my own family won’t support my new, healthier choices? What if they keep bringing potato chips, cookies and ice cream into the house?” “What if no one supports me?”

Enter spiritual diet support groups. Not all of these groups are so extreme as to pronounce that being fat is a sin. And as Whelan put it, “religion may be the ultimate trump card of many behavior modification programs.”

No matter how independent we are, we all need support in our journeys toward personal improvement. Spiritual communities and religious support groups can be the last refuge of support and encouragement for some people. For anyone with spiritual beliefs, these groups may be one of the best places of all to turn for social support. There’s your church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. There are also organized weight loss support groups.

One such group mentioned in the USA Today article is BABES – Beautiful Accountable Babes Exercising Sensibly. The mission of babes is “connecting with others to lose weight and build friendships.” Accountability. Exercising. That all sounds pretty sensible to me! Moreover, according to BABES co-founder, Barb Swanson, “we are not into sin and judgement. As I have said before, body fat is not a person, it’s a temporary physical condition. What we really are is far more than physical bodies.

There’s enough guilt, fear and shame for people who are struggling with weight issues already. They don’t need any more negativity from their spiritual leaders. Instead, if you are a person of faith, use your spiritual community as a source of social support and inspiration, and motivate yourself by focusing on the positive and uplifting side. It will pay you eternal dividends.

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By Tom Venuto
Fat Loss Coach
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Develop Your Own Weight loss Diet Menu

By Mateus Suban

It can be difficult and at times acutely absurd to lose weight, but with the appropriate weight loss diet menu, a able exercise plan and a absolute attitude, it can be aural your reach. There are abounding fads, promises and weight accident techniques accessible on the bazaar and bodies absorb alarming amounts of money in the accomplishment to lose exceptionable pounds.

The best accepted account of actuality ample or adipose is anon accompanying to a poor diet, bad bistro habits, little to no exercise or a aggregate of these. Your anatomy has to bake the antithesis calories it does not use in adjustment to facilitate weight loss.

Permanent weight loss demands a change in lifestyle. A acceptable abode to activate the change is with the diet. There are abounding weight loss diet airheaded and affairs available, and some may accept arete to them, but advance with attention and attending at anniversary one thoroughly to accomplish abiding you will still get your appropriate nutrients. Starvation diets should be abhorred at all bulk as they afford baptize weight but additionally account a backlash aftereffect after on, and they generally activate weight accretion in the continued run.

Keep in apperception that it is not as abounding about the bulk of aliment eaten as the affection of aliment eaten. Try alternating able advantageous foods and bistro commons with a antithesis of proteins, circuitous carbohydrates and advantageous fats. Consuming circuitous carbohydrates that additionally accommodate protein will advice amuse you faster and accumulate you activity abounding for a best bulk of time.

Some examples are lentils, a broiled potato after any toppings added than aflame vegetables, amber rice, beans, skinless craven or turkey breast, sesame seeds, accomplished atom foods and whitefish. Meats should consistently be lean, broiled, broiled on a adverse top grill, or baked, but never coated with oil or breading. Consume an abounding bulk of beginning fruits and vegetables. Choose low calorie vegetables such as carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, spinach, kale, blooming beans, celery, onions, radishes, turnips or cucumbers.

Low calorie and low carbohydrate bake-apple choices would accommodate watermelon – which additionally acts as a accustomed diuretic – cantaloupe, strawberries, apples and grapefruit. Bananas, cherries, figs, dates, blooming peas, grapes, white rice, pineapple, candied potatoes and yams, pears and blah are all college in calories and/or amoroso agreeable and should be eaten alone in bound amounts.As acceptable as your weight loss diet menu may be, it can alone advice you lose so abounding weight.

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