{"id":94,"date":"2012-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/08\/tidying-the-temple\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"tidying-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/08\/tidying-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidying the Temple."},"content":{"rendered":"
Ok, so it turns out that I’m not a “preachy” blogger.\u00a0 I’m not really surprised.\u00a0 I don’t feel called to any sort of ministry where this would be the case.\u00a0 Silly me thought if I were writing it, rather than saying it, it might be different.\u00a0 Turns out, NO!\u00a0 I even have three blogs sitting in drafts.\u00a0 Well, it’s really the same post written 3 different ways, none of which I’m happy with.\u00a0 So let me sum up what I was trying to say in three words…Trust in God.\u00a0 There, done! <\/span>Now,<\/span> let me talk to you about something I can write about, caring for your family!\u00a0 Specifically, nutrition.\u00a0 I’m going to take several posts to talk about this, as it was quite a journey of discovery for me, and I’d like to give each stage the attention it deserves.<\/p>\n

In October last year, I became aware that there are some things in our standard foods that we just shouldn’t eat.\u00a0 I began removing “sugar” from our diet, specifically fructose (unless it was in it’s natural form, like in a piece of fruit).\u00a0 There were many great results to this change.\u00a0 The first, and my main motivation, was weight loss<\/span>.\u00a0 I lost 5kg in about 5 weeks, despite switching to full fat milk and real butter.\u00a0 This was my kind of way of eating!\u00a0 The trouble was that I didn’t lose any more, and I had plenty more to lose!\u00a0 More investigation was required, and there will be more on that next time<\/p>\n

<\/span> The second benefit was that our children were slightly less out of control.\u00a0 Oh, I’m kind of kidding on that last one, sort of.\u00a0 We have beautiful children, though <\/span>Mr 4 can be a challenge.\u00a0 I think a lot of that is just being a 4 year old boy, but we can certainly notice a difference in him when he’s had access to more sugar than normal.\u00a0 Miss 5 can now monitor her own sugar intake and doesn’t go nuts at birthday parties any more.\u00a0 She had a run of 3 parties in 3 weeks.\u00a0 The first week I talked to her about having some control, but the lure of the lollies were just too much and she had her fill, followed by a sore tummy and a resolve not to do it again.\u00a0 Since then she’s paced herself, alternated sweet & savoury foods & shared her loot bag with the family.\u00a0 I’m very proud of her!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

<\/span>Oh, we save a bucket load on tomato sauce now!\u00a0 In our sugar filled days the kids would ask for sauce with everything, and the initial amount of sauce given would never last the meal.\u00a0 Now sauce is an optional extra, even if it is the sugar filled kind!!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

<\/span>If you’d like to learn more about fructose and it’s effect on your body, I recommend you read Sweet Poison<\/a>, by David Gillespie.\u00a0 He goes into the effects of fructose in your body, which is way more than behavioural or weight related benefits.\u00a0 Sugar does a lot of damage you can’t see until it’s too late.\u00a0 It’s not a hard read at all, and even if you don’t like everything he says, it’s hard to ignore the evidence! <\/span>Scripture is clear that we’re to treat our bodies as temples.\u00a0 This should go beyond thinking about how we use or misuse our bodies, or whether or not this means we shouldn’t get a tattoo, it should start with what we put IN our bodies.<\/p>\n

Have you tried to give up sugar before?\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so it turns out that I’m not a “preachy” blogger.\u00a0 I’m not really surprised.\u00a0 I don’t feel called to any sort of ministry where this would be the case.\u00a0 Silly me thought if I were writing it, rather than saying it, it might be different.\u00a0 Turns out, NO!\u00a0 I even have three blogs sitting … Continue reading “Tidying the Temple.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}