Oh Carol thank You for sharing. I got my book today and been reading but have not learned anything new yet. Just started the 3rd chapter. I was wondering today why there was not a diet involving God in the Faith Group and when I came on tonight there was one there! It sounds like Intuitive but having Bible Study with it, it's great! It just seems like God knows what I am thinking lately, wish he would bring a-lot of rain here on our ranch and Mr. Lathams ranch! I am so tired of breathing dust. I sure would like to get my feet muddy!
Thanks Bootsie for sharing about the new Bible Study thread. I went and read some of the material and ended up printing out the study materials. What a great addition to my eating plan. I too believe it is an answer to prayer. Isn't it wonderful how God prepares us and then leads to just what we need.
All you Intuitive Eaters out there and have a great day.
Trish he is so awesome, now if I could just converse with him on this lack of rain. I know he cares , for every morning he has a new flower waiting for me on my walk. This is his land but it looks like the devils so burnt!
Reading this I just got to thinking that flower is a way telling me he still is in control and the rain will come, to have faith in him!
Bootsie, we lived in Texas for one month in 1972 when my oldest girl was one. One night we went to play tennis and she started to cry. She wouldn't stop so we took her home and put her in the tub still crying. Finally we gave her a drink of water and that was it!!! The air conditioner never shut off the whole time we were there. At 9 pm it was 91 degrees! I can remember that the only green place was in the towns. The country side was barren. You should come visit WI sometime. We have times of little rain but generally not. I tried to print the Bible study but can't get our printer to work. My DH will help me tonight. It sounds so good.
Carol someday I am going to do some traveling but right now I am having trouble getting to Marfa Texas to see my grandchildren. I know that Jesus loves us and he will send us rain soon ,its not long off. I will beshouting with joy, praising him!
I am new to this thread, but it has blessed me so much, thank you. I have been trying to figure out how I could share what God has shown me. I really don't want to publish it, because I think the grammar problems would definitely be a problem for a publicist...
I have a website, but it's pretty amateurish, and I don't know how to advertise it. People now days are leary, and when I say it's a free study, I think they think there are strings attached.
Because it's a 13 week study you do 5 days a week, The whole study is 475 pages long... whew . So I don't think it is practical to keep posting it here...Anyway, I would appreciate prayer for wisdom and patience.
AND I am praying for rain in Big beautiful Texas bootsie!!!
Hi, Kelly. It finally dawned on me that God did not create our bodies to lose weight. He made them to survive famine so that is why years of dieting didn't work for me. For me, God's diet is hunger and satisfaction. If you stick with that your appetite will lower and you will gradually lose weight and not gain it back. I started about where you did and and am about the same weight as you now. Sometimes I get discouraged because it is so slow. And once in awhile I get worried that I might be gaining it back but I'm not. I tried on the wedding dress I have for my son's wedding next week and it still fits. Whew! Glad you are here and I'd be really interested in your book if you ever get it done. I wouldn't mind the grammar errors.
Keliie - to Intuitive Eating thread. I am thoroughly enjoying your lessons. I hope we can find a way to continue it. So much wisdom and knowledge that God has given you with understanding of how to teach it through a book. I'm sure the Lord will show you how to promote it. I'm not pc inclined. I do wish I knew how to help you set up a website etc. I definitely will be praying that God will help you find a way. Did you think about doing a Yahoo group? Not sure how to do it, but if you decide to do it I sure want to be part of it.
Bootsie - I remember those hot days in TX. Did I tell you that I lived in TX until I married my DH over 6 years ago? I moved to FL when I married him and we had all those hurricanes. Then we moved to SC and our second year here we were in a drought. This year we have had rain but it has been slow. I definitely pray TX gets rain soon. I love the Flower from the Lord. I love roses as did my Mama. One time when my DH who now makes his home in Heaven and were having hard time, we came home from work and I saw 3 roses as I got out of the car. It was winter and way too cold for flowers. I had been very close to my Mama and his. Without thinking I said, "Oh Bill, look. Mother and Mama have sent us 2 roses". Of course, I have no scripture for that, but in my heart I knew that God had everything in control and He would take care of us and He did.
Carolr -
Blue - How are you doing? I hope all is well with you.
Thanks for the welcome Trish. I have never heard of Yahoo groups before, so I googled (binged) it (My hubby is a contractor for Microsoft). Anyway, you're brilliant! I signed up to create a group and in the process of setting up. Thanks again!
Thanks for the welcome Trish. I have never heard of Yahoo groups before, so I googled (binged) it (My hubby is a contractor for Microsoft). Anyway, you're brilliant! I signed up to create a group and in the process of setting up. Thanks again!
Love, Kelli
That is Great Kelli! I am one who will be there. I'm looking forward to it. Don't you love how our Lord answers our prayers so quickly? Those quick answered prayers are what gives us the confidence to stand firm waiting for Him to handle the slow coming answers.
Kelli I went on there and they sure have a lot of diets with God on there. What are you going to call yours, you can PM if it is not allowed on here and tell me, so I can be on the look out for it and not get on the wrong one. Bootsie
I'm still trying to figure it all out but I think it's called flowersoverthewall
I have posted some of the lesson's but I'm still not exactly sure what happens once I do that.
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I tried on the wedding dress I have for my son's wedding next week and it still fits. Whew! Glad you are here and I'd be really interested in your book if you ever get it done. I wouldn't mind the grammar errors.
Yay! you can still fit in your dress. I already have a website with a printable version of the website. I'm not sure how long I have to be posting here before they let me add links to websites, and hopefully I'm not crossing any lines here, but I think you can get to the site if you just type (or copy and paste) flowersoverthewall.com in the address bar???
I've been on a few Yahoo groups before but not recently. I've kind of limited myself to this one as it takes so much time to post in different ones. The intuitive eating Yahoo group was created by a Christian but she later gave it to someone else and the new people didn't want a lot of talk about God so I resigned. I tried to find the creator to tell her about it but never could. She probably knew. Kelli, your Bible lesson sounds a lot like Gwen Shamblin's book The Weigh Down Diet. Ever read that?
Quote from Flowers Over the Wall Introduction, page 6: I found a book on using the Bible as a diet guide. We started to read it, and even though I found the diet to be quite sensible, I quickly realized the religious part of it was based on works. I found myself trying to explain why so much of it wasn’t Biblical and we finally gave up. I thought, Somebody needs to write a real born again spirit filled Diet Bible study. I decided to write one for me and Mylissa
The Weigh Down Diet was the "Religious" diet, I was talking about here. The flowers diet is based on some of the same principles, but I researched to make sure they were not her original ideas. They are facts. For example:
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There are receptors on the stomach sending messages to the medulla oblongata to tell us we are full. These nerves can become desensitized.
The flowers diet portion is very similar, but that's where the similarities stop. Flowers is based on Grace...
I am so glad you asked me that, because it is based on the same principles I was afraid folks would think it was Weigh Down or any other diet out there that's based on the same principles (moderation), and there are quite a few The Moderation Diet, intuitive eating...etc.
Anyway, I would appreciate any feed back you might have with it being too similar, I tried to make it my own by researching the facts and principles, I did start out writing it just for Mylissa and I, and at first I did copy the diet exactly...hummm... I haven't read Weigh Down in a long time. I should check it from the library, and make sure the diet portion isn't too much the same. Really you could use any diet as long as you didn't have to focus too much on the food.
and have a great day.
shouting with joy, praising him!
. So I don't think it is practical to keep posting it here...Anyway, I would appreciate prayer for wisdom and patience.
to Intuitive Eating thread. I am thoroughly enjoying your lessons. I hope we can find a way to continue it. So much wisdom and knowledge that God has given you with understanding of how to teach it through a book. I'm sure the Lord will show you how to promote it. I'm not pc inclined. I do wish I knew how to help you set up a website etc. I definitely will be praying that God will help you find a way. Did you think about doing a Yahoo group? Not sure how to do it, but if you decide to do it I sure want to be part of it.
