{"id":95,"date":"2012-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/08\/the-bread-of-life-is-enough-bread-for-me\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"the-bread-of-life-is-enough-bread-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/08\/the-bread-of-life-is-enough-bread-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bread of Life is enough bread for me!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ok, time to fess up.\u00a0 Part two of our family journey to health is actually a completely selfishly section dedicated to me.\u00a0 I didn’t drag to crew into this part, because at the time, I didn’t think they needed it.\u00a0 Quitting sugar in all it’s ‘evil’ forms, apart from a few treats from grandparents and the morning tea table at church, made a great difference in our lives, and I thought we’d implemented all the changes we needed to for the family as a whole.\u00a0 Life could go on with “normal” food, so long as it wasn’t packed with fructose.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

(I forgot to mention last week, that while dropping sugar seemed to make a difference in the kids behaviour, that was probably something to do with the preservatives and un-pronounceable ingredients in a lot of those foods.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So now for the selfish actions.\u00a0 I’m completely ok with this by the way.\u00a0 It’s perfectly alright to do something for yourself!<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong>Jesus said to them, \u201cI am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. ”\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>John <\/strong><\/strong> 6:35 <\/strong><\/strong><\/em>
<\/span>This is a truth for which I am forever thankful.\u00a0 Jesus is the bread of life everlasting.\u00a0 A life which I am confident I will have.\u00a0 However, the bread you find in the supermarket, well it turns out, it’s not for me!<\/p>\n

By cutting out fructose I lost 5kgs in about 5 weeks.\u00a0 <\/span>Then I didn’t loose any weight for about 4 weeks.\u00a0 Then I started putting weight back on.\u00a0 Not. Happy. Jan!\u00a0 Something else has to change.\u00a0 About the same time I heard about Christine Cronau<\/a>.\u00a0 Her family were featured on a TV show as being on a “Butter Diet”.\u00a0 Everything she said fitted well with what I’d learned from David Gillespie<\/a>, but she gave me another thing to focus on.\u00a0 People who’ve been on many diets over the years may have done damage to their metabolism.\u00a0 This means that simply cutting fructose probably isn’t going to bring a great change in weight.\u00a0 She suggested looking into lowering carbohydrate intake.\u00a0 This was a bit of a bummer for me.\u00a0 Chips, pasta, rice, BREAD, all the cheap things we’d been using to fill us up, were on the list of things to reduce.\u00a0 But, I had to do something.\u00a0 In the 6 years since getting married, I’d managed to gain 20kg.\u00a0 TWENTY KILOS!!\u00a0 I can’t even really blame the kids for that.\u00a0 I didn’t gain a lot during pregnancy, I seemed to accumulate weight in between pregnancies. <\/p>\n

As I didn’t see any reason to stop the rest of my family from enjoying pizza, pasta, toast, sandwiches, all the foods they enjoyed, I cut back carbs for myself.\u00a0 I lost another 5 kgs in about 5 weeks, putting me about 7kgs down from my start weight, because they just wouldn’t stay off!!<\/span>\u00a0 And what do you think happened?\u00a0 The kilos started creeping back on!\u00a0 Argh!!\u00a0 What gives?\u00a0 Never fear, there will be a third installment to this journey, and currently I’m 16kgs under my start weight, so I think it’s working!!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Cutting back carbs, essentially all grains, starchy vegetables etc, I lost something else that I wasn’t expecting.\u00a0 I lost the brain fog I’d been living in for years!\u00a0 Mental clarity, complete thoughts, the desire to learn new things, all returned!\u00a0 This may have also been due to the increased vegetable variety and volume I was consuming.\u00a0 Depression has also been an issue for me for a number of years, but since taking this particular step, I haven’t had one bout.\u00a0 I’m not claiming that diet is the answer to all depression, but it’s worth looking into.\u00a0 We recently watched a DVD called Food Matters<\/a> which has a lot to say on the matter, and which helped clarify for me that this completely selfish thing I was doing, was the best thing I could possibly be doing for myself, and for my family.\u00a0 Please note, I don’t ascribe to all the views shared on the Food Matters DVD, but it has a lot of great info and I do recommend you check it out.
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Do you have something you do just for yourself?\u00a0 Families are wonderful, but everyone needs to step out and take time for themselves from time to time.<\/span>
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Ok, time to fess up.\u00a0 Part two of our family journey to health is actually a completely selfishly section dedicated to me.\u00a0 I didn’t drag to crew into this part, because at the time, I didn’t think they needed it.\u00a0 Quitting sugar in all it’s ‘evil’ forms, apart from a few treats from grandparents and … Continue reading “The Bread of Life is enough bread for me!”<\/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-95","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\/95","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=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewordthisweek.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}