tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77750565561312006802024-03-13T22:24:16.983-05:00 Healthy Body - Healthy Soul Do you often find yourself using food for the wrong reasons? This blog offers help. Posts give general spiritual, medical and dietary guidance and are written from a Christian perspective.
"God led me out of that pesky habit, but not before I'd lost fifty pounds five times. Here's hoping this blog helps Christians enjoy their health again and stop hurting themselves with food." Dr. SuzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-2711250740551389932014-03-16T12:58:00.000-05:002014-03-16T15:03:48.101-05:00The little miraclesThe little miracles are the ones that build our faith. The daily surprises, the "thank You, Lord" and the "I barely knew I needed it" kind of little miracles.
I'm getting ready for a "Real Comfort" retreat beginning next Friday. I've led this retreat a few times now, and yesterday I stumbled into thinking through a new closing session. A patient and I are reading the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-44909954787157251612013-10-13T17:05:00.000-05:002013-10-13T17:05:58.630-05:00Sleepless? Part 1
My patient said, "Doc, I'm having trouble sleeping."
I almost always begin with saying, "First of all, it is true, insomnia may improve if we adopt sleep hygiene strategies." i.e., practices that help the mind be ready for sleep such as:
Do the same things every night before bed. Develop a routine.
Don't exercise too late in the day.
Keep the computer off in the late Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-14018328187351620542013-10-04T10:34:00.001-05:002013-10-04T16:27:38.041-05:00Change is Like Playing HopscotchIn the clinic, I do so much preventive care, meaning trying to help people make effective life style change to regain their health. Understandably, I find myself saying the same sort of things over and over again. And you know, different patients respond differently. How about that?!
This week, I found several appropriate spots to say the following, "Lifestyle change is sort ofAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-34405780859859780072013-09-20T09:31:00.001-05:002013-09-20T10:57:19.615-05:00The Worrier and the WarriorOne morning in the clinic, I saw a 61 year old patient who'd gained 25 pounds this last year, and told of the stress in her life. Very tough things like lately widowed, living alone, and working hard to make it. But the mild insomnia which she'd always had was much, much worse, and now she gets up and goes to the refrigerator, or the pantry. Just a little snack. Every Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-76404343870688896652013-09-19T09:28:00.000-05:002013-09-22T19:14:34.685-05:00Lord's Prayer Breathing
Lord's Prayer breathing ... for the body and the soul
First How:
This is easy, and below I explain why and when to use this invaluable expression of our knowing that we need more of God.
As you detect tension, stress, pressure or any other fear-laden symptom, pause.
Take only a quick inhale and on the exhale begin speaking the Lord's prayer:
Take three inhales for the entire prayer on the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-38477387987255925732013-09-16T09:19:00.003-05:002013-09-22T16:38:37.429-05:00Finding Your Way
In 2007, God led me to offer Wellness retreats. In 2009 He moved me to offer groups to follow up retreats, and add members from my clinic practice as well. Next came "Real Comfort" retreats. In one group a gal said, "I cannot find my way out of this problem. It's like I live with a monster inside me." So we named the groups "Way Groups." We walk together, and we allAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-34750667594041967602013-09-12T08:30:00.001-05:002013-09-20T10:10:22.454-05:00Church
My favorite devotional bible is the Oswald Chambers One Year Bible. I should call it my Four Year bible, though, as I read one page a day. In it there's both an old testament and a new testament reading with a psalm and proverb in between.
For me, as I look at Genesis abruptly juxtaposed beside Matthew, I grieve all that time before Christ, the countless lives lived before God's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-6648658605476793492013-09-03T00:51:00.000-05:002013-09-16T09:23:01.184-05:00And Remembering GodFor the Soul:
I was thinking about the patient who worried about her
grandchildren's diet, as I headed out into a beautiful winter evening
for a walk-jog, or a "wog." I admit to being a fair-weather-wogger. I
soaked up the last of the sunshine and felt the gentle breeze and did
"intervals." Since doing intervals forms a sort of "kind exercise" to
line up with "kind repentance," this Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-31413542323284106092013-02-09T09:38:00.001-06:002013-09-16T09:25:05.141-05:00Working, Worrying, Wogging - and Remembering God
Working, Worrying, Wogging ... Remembering God
For the Body:
Lately another sixty-ish grandmother came in and expressed a concern
that I'd heard many times the last ten years. "My daughter-in-law is so
busy she feeds her kids at McDonald's or Sonic so much. Or they have
frozen pizza, macaroni and cheese, or just cereal. I worry about the
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-13680037048569008062011-10-21T17:22:00.000-05:002013-09-16T09:27:21.146-05:00Who is that person?For the soul:
I have a favorite restaurant. Do you? When I go in there, I just don't recognize myself. Somebody else has just jumped into my skin! But that person is ordering foods that I do recognize. It's a lot easier to stick with a life-giving diet as long as I stay out of that restaurant.
Does this sound familiar? As a lifelong overeater, this is whereAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-14666343001710720102011-08-20T22:42:00.001-05:002011-08-20T22:47:23.189-05:00Devotional: Valued ~ 1Thessalonians 5:9-11 I asked my overeaters' group these questions: When do you feel okay? When do you feel peace inside? When do you feel restored? Everyone had their own answers. And none of us mentioned comfort food. What is yours? If you have a struggle with binge eating, then you know that overeating is so tied up in self-hatred. So, if you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-79179293934273507032011-02-23T11:15:00.000-06:002011-02-23T11:23:15.052-06:00A new recipe and a word about using soyFrom the D.I.E.T? side: I am so excited about a new version of the "high protein pancake" that we used at the retreat. This one is even higher protein and seems closer to the usual wheat pancakes that many of us love. The protein count for the following is right at 30 grams per serving.
High Protein Pancake Ingredients: egg white, yogurt, soy protein powder (Bob's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-77253965233563041362011-01-28T10:51:00.000-06:002011-01-28T12:16:13.598-06:00Cholesterol My patients have heard that eggs are no longer bad for them. There has been Lots of confusion over this issue. We do need cholesterol, children especially. It coats all our nerve cells. Our brain has to have lots of it to form properly. Cholesterol is also the building block for almost all other hormones that the body makes. It is so necessary, theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-3818543425866942172011-01-22T21:05:00.000-06:002011-01-22T21:05:58.573-06:00WaterWater. We need some but not as much as many people drink. There is water in all those 9 fruits and vegetables that we are trying to take in during each day. The practice of sipping on water all day actually dilutes your kidney's ability to make concentrated urine. If a person has a weight loss desire, though, it helps to drink 8-12 ounces before eating. Sometime, measure Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775056556131200680.post-83909272678754673692011-01-22T17:39:00.000-06:002011-01-22T17:39:56.876-06:00Thank you for your survey responses!Hi everybody,
I so appreciated your kind words and great suggestions on the survey you did for us. We so enjoyed being with you and offering the retreat. Thinking back I wish I'd said this or that differently, and been more clear or complete, but oh well. Next retreat. I have been working on the D.I.E.T Resource Guide and will let you know when it is out.
I thought Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04019620658955903924noreply@blogger.com4