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I asked a couple weeks ago about favorite drinks to warm you on a winters night. Last night, I stumbled on a new favorite for me.
I like tomato soup. Not anything fancy, not even cream of tomato, just plain condensed tomato soup heated with a can of water added. Plain and filling. Sometimes, I might [...]

I’m back into *skinny* jeans (not too skinny, really) and back into 18W-20W, which in some clothes is a 1X and in some is a 2X. 
This is better than the 22W I needed last month and way better than the 24W-26W that we no longer talk about (and haven’t seen for over a year).
Last summer [...]

My current food desire is to make some soup. I’m thinking of using the Cabbage Fat-burning Soup recipe from allrecipes.com – mainly just because I like vegetables – and adding ground turkey for protein, maybe even a little turkey sausage for flavor. I would also add some fresh chopped kale or parsley.
As you can see, I’m not [...]

So this week I am meditating on Philippians 4:13:
I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.
But I noticed the footnote in the New Living Translation says that rather than “through Christ” the Greek says “through the One.” And that verb “strengthens” is present tense continuous (ongoing) so a good paraphrase might be:
I can [...]

It is the New Me Weight Plan, and it is based on two things.
1.  The idea that if we have our eyes on the problem, the problem will increase.
2.  The Bible verse that says:
Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. Isaiah 55:1c
Those are the first two principles of the New Me Weight [...]