The “diet” began at age thirteen with diet pills, I meandered through “chubby” clothes the 1/2 tag, slacks wearing out first at the inner thighs, chiding comments from Mother and others, called in Red Rover by the description, “Let Fat […]
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A New Way in the Wilderness
This is what the Lord says — he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; […]
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Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ~ Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices. Hating yourself is not being at war with your vices; […]
Continue reading »Hooray for Abstinence!
Years and years of eating for comfort, in rebellion, as a reward, for no reason other than the trigger tripped so eating goes on, inertia-driven. Then a simple plan, people who know you on first introduction, your doppelgängers. Eating gains sanity, […]
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Once you have become grateful for a problem, it loses its power to drag you down. On the contrary, your thankful attitude will lift you up into heavenly places with Me [Jesus]. ~ Sarah Young. Jesus Calling There’s an exercise, Twelve […]
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