Hi ladies! I just started TLT this morning. I had bought the book from Amazon not knowing that I could do the course free online. But I thought I could use the book as a guide along with my Bible to look up scriptures and meditate and then fill in my answers online. I've already been assigned a mentor that is fantastic from her email. I have been so much in prayer today I feel that the Lord is right alongside me and feel that there is no way that I can fail at this because the Lord is my strength!

I've felt for a long time that Christ should be the center of my weight loss but didn't know how to structure my eating. TLT seems to be the answer for me!

So glad I found this support group also.

Welcome Loralynn -- you sound like you're on a spiritual high -- I know when I introduced my sister to TLT, she thanked me for like two weeks straight. It's so wonderful to start and realize everything that you finally need to know to be successsful with your weight! The food plan can be a little difficult in the beginning -- but I learned to realize how little food we actaully need to sustain us -- for years my body (and heart) has been telling me to eat more, eat more!

I feel it's definetly the answer and definetly changes your perspective on food and weight loss!

Welcome!

Flowerwarrior: What day of the program are you on?

I just finished Day 32 this morning. . . . .

Hey Ladies,

It's good to see that everyone is doing so well. A big welcome to all the newcomers it's great to have you!

Gwyn congrats on losing more weight and the new car. That is such an awesome testimony. I can't wait for people to start noticing my weight coming off so I can give them my testimony.

PRAISE REPORT!!!!!! For those of you that don't know I went throught my
4th miscarriage and ended up in the hospital hemorrhaging and had to have a transfusion. This happened in April. Praise God we went into the hospital yesterday to talk about our bill. I didn't have insurance at the time so we were looking for some kind of discount or something. It ended up that the guy took off $3400 off of our bill. I couldn't believe it. It also ends up this guy is going to be moving to town and will be going to our church. God was in it all.

I am now on Day 35. It was a good lesson. I have been on a plateau for that past 4 weeks. I have continued to do well but it is discouraging. I think I will start weighing myself once a week instead of everyday. Maybe that will help.

Anyway, I love you all and pray that God will continue to give us his strength.

Blessings to you!
Amy
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I've been gone for awhile but I'm back for now.
The first week I lost 8 pounds and I just finished day 14 and lost 5 pounds!!
I can hardly believe it!!
I was having a hard time the first week, too. But things are better now.
I'm feeling the best I have in a long time and have much more energy.
I enjoy reading the encouraging words and the support you offer each other and I keep you all in my prayers. It really helps when we can walk this same path together.
Next Tuesday,I am going in for eye surgery so please keep me in your prayers.
Blessings,
Janet

Hello!
This is the first post that I have made to the forum. Please bear with me! I am on Day 10 of TLT. I am curious to know if you all are doing Option 1 or Option 2 for the eating plan. I am doing Option 2, but I am thinking that I should be doing Option 1. My mentor said I should do Option 1. I know this sounds awful, but I looked at Option 1 and was scared I couldn't do that right off the bat!
I am interested to know what the rest of you all are doing. Congrats on your wt. loss GrannyJanet!
Blessings,
Liz

Hi everyone,

I logged on to 3FC for the first time last night, and noticed this board for faith-based groups. Not sure how I stumbled across this SCF/TLT subgroup, but I am glad I did. Last night, I read quite a lot about TLT and it sounds like what I've been looking for. I am thrilled that there is such a big support group for the program here.

So far, so good today. I'm doing the Option 1 eating program, and have not found it hard to eat halfs. Tomorrow might be a challenge with liquids, but frankly...I think in a way it would be a relief to have a set time frame where I don't have to think about actual food. I might be singing a different tune about this time tomorrow night, but for now, it sounds like a good option for me.

I didn't realize until I read today's lesson how self-focused I have been lately. I know I've been really distant from God, and I hope this program will be what I need to bring me back to Him, and finally help rid myself of my weight issues.

Thanks for listening! I look forward to getting to know you all better, especially over the next 60 days!

Welcome Loralynn, Liz and Kari!!! So nice to have new members to add to the discussion.
I have just finished day 15-accountability time. I have had different people in this role and truthfully they were not the right people to have so I hope my new choice is better! I think when I weighed yesterday I was actually up a pound but that's Ok cause I know I should be frinking more water than I did at the end of the week.
Have a great day ladies-continued success with TLT and keep posting!
Love and prayers to all of you!
Tracy

Hey Girls,

Thanks so much for the welcome! I, too, bought the manual and it is good for me so I can have all those scriptures at my fingertips. I need to add that I don't think it is an absolute necessity as everything is already in our lessons.

Anyhoo, I have been a Christian for many years, but I have not experienced something like TLT. I love it!! If any of you have done the lesson on The Living Water, it is awesome!

O.K. I am going to look into the Option 1 eating plan... Thanks for the info on that.

How do y'all get those little icons into your message? I don't see anything where I can add them...
Have a blessed day! I'm off to Curves to exercise!

Liz

WELCOME Loralynn, Liz and Kari! It is so great to have newbies!

I just want to let the newbies know that the eating plan might be different for each person. A couple of weeks before I started TLT God told me to start eating 'whole foods' or foods that he created. That doesn't mean I can't make a casserole or use a can of soup. But the majority of the time I do eat more fruits, vegetable and lots of salads. My energy level has gone way up and God has blessed me and continues to bless me for obeying him. I have also added some fasting time. I think it is important to seek God and to humble our flesh. My suggestion is to pray about it. God will let you know what you should do.

Praying that God rains down his blessing on everyone of you!

Amy
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Wow! We have been in quite a storm here. On Wednesday morning, First my husband became very ill and had to be hospitalized. Then the very day he got out of the hospital, that Thursday night I went to bed at 11:45 pm and woke up at 2:30 am with terrible cramps in my feet and legs. And also chills. I could not get warm. Robert and Adam checked my temperature and it was 102.2 . I was to go and work for my Mother this last weekend and when I arrived there I was still chilling and my temp was still rising, it was 103.6.
Obviously I was unable to work. Well today is Tuesday and I am just now looking at my emails for the 1st time in days!
Robert is fine now and I am too. I still have a very sore throat although. But the worst of it is over. Praise God.
So if you have written to me and I haven't replied this is what is going on. My prayer request now is for my Children. For their salvation, sanctification and in filling with the precious Holy Spirit. This will always be my hearts cry to Our Father. I want to go heaven and have all my children be there with me.
Well I guess that is all the news I have for now. My throat is aching right now so I think I will go back to bed for a while.
Love in Christ, Gwyn L. Ditmars

Great to see newbies -- I'm still a newbie to the forum -- but not to TLT -- I'm on my second run through of the 60 days -- I'm getting anxious to start TLT Course II.

I love to read through and the see the prayers for each other -- it's great support. May this day be the Lord's day and may we commit all that we do and EAT (drink or fast) to him and our plans will be sucuessful! (Proverbs 16:3)

Said a quickie for GrannyJanet -- I hope that eye surgery goes well this morning.

pugsmama! I was right there with you. I looked at option 1 and went no honking hairy way! I did seriously follow option 2 for a while and it really helped me learn true hunger signals. I was so afraid of option 1, afraid I would fail and it would feel like I was failing the Lord, not just myself...I was still trying to keep my diet in this separate little compartment. I was afraid that I would be eating too little and my body would go into starvation mode and I wouldn't lose anything and mess up my metabolism, yada yada yada...
I sent a bunch of emails to my mentor and to tlt site itself and got the same response. Try option 1. It has been a real learning process for me. I gave in and decided to give it a go for one week to see how I did, if it was something I could live with long term or even short term. I'm on my 3rd week and so far I am ok with it. I've really found that the cravings I have for food very often are not physical but 'all in my head'. In fact, the worse day for me is 1/2 day. I find myself second guessing constantly, am I really eating 1/2? Am I making this portion bigger than I normally would have just so my 1/2 is bigger? I do way better with liquid and fast day, normal is usually ok too, but 1/2 day is a killer for me. Of course I've never been one of those who was able to have 'one piece' of chocolate or be satisfied with one chocolate kiss...

hth a little.

I know someone said they were struggling with plateau, ugh! that is sooo hard, especially when you feel like you are doing all the right things. I have discovered or guessed that now that I am 'older', I have never been so faithful with a diet for so long, and lost sooo little in such a long amount of time. I am finding that I will lose 1 pound or 1/2 a pound and stay there for weeks, with no more progress. It is coming off soooo slowly it is not even funny. I used to go on a diet and easily drop 10, 20 lbs in a couple months. I have been dieting for going on four months, pretty faithfully, very few slip ups, and I have lost 17lbs.....sigh.....it is sooooo frustrating, but you have to perservere! good luck!

hugs
tracyg