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It is officially 2010 and I have so much hope for all that God wants to do for me and the Body of Christ this year!!
My hope is to help as many people as I can find freedom in their lives. Freedom from all that has kept us from freely receiving the great things Jesus wants for us.
I am diligently working on setting up a website and new avenues through online resources to help others receive encouragement and hope for their lives, especially in the area of Health and Fitness.
To start I am focusing this blog on fitness and diet. 
I personally struggled in this area of my life for many years. I had an eating disorder as a young girl and into my early 20's and it took a number of years following that to even get freedom from body image issues.  I know that getting to a place of complete defeat in my own abilities in this area of my life is when I finally found freedom.  It was then that I was able to release all I knew to do to Jesus and I could rest in what He wanted to do for me.
I want to share a few basic foundational things with you to start the year out for each of you desiring to find freedom too for your own journey to health and fitness.
First...Start a diet and exercise Journal.  I personally did not like doing this, but have come to rely on this to help me when I am feeling off in my body. I can track foods or even exercises that have caused me discomfort or injury.  Buy a little book you can carry in your purse or have at your desk at work.  I will usually write out what my food menu will be for the day and exercises I intend on doing and then if I deviate from that menu or list I will log it.
Second....drink lots of water.  I try to consume between 80 and 100 ounces of water per day. Try to consume the bulk of your water before 5 pm.  Water helps you feel more full, as well as flushing out bad stuff and keeping your body from retaining water as well.  I enjoy diet coke, but when I do drink one I will up my water intake by another 10-16 ounces to compensate for the soda.  Sodas will cause you to retain water.  Try to avoid any type of sugar drinks, sodas, coffee (although coffee is a great pre-workout drink or morning get and go).
Consume 5-6 smaller meals a day. I will cover more on this tomorrow. You must start your day with breakfast.  Many people have trained themselves to avoid breakfast, this is one of the worst things to do when you want to balance your system and loose weight.   Breakfast gets the body going and "rev's the engine".  It get's your body busy metabolizing and burning fuel.  A breakfast with a good lean protein and a high fiber complex carb is best.  An example would be 1 cup cooked oatmeal with 4 egg whites.

This week plan on getting your body moving by doing some type of exercise outside of what you normally do in a typical day.  Unless you already have a workout program, start with walking a 15 min using light weights.  We will cover more of this in a few days as well. 

Have a Great and Bless New Year and See you again tomorrow.

There is a reason that the scripture does not read " we shall call those things that are as though they are not". Instead, scripture is telling us to do the positive of these two statements.
Do you post a motivational verse on your fridge that reads: "I am not fat"? No, instead it will be a positive statement that will read, "I am healthy, fit and beautiful".
There is a difference in how this affects our mind, heart and emotions.
Many people confuse these two and will say the very thing that will keep them stuck in a place of defeat, instead of a place of victory.
Jesus came and died and rose from the dead that we may have life and have it more abundantly. This is how we are to see ourselves. Free, free from all the things that keep us in bondage. Free from sin and death. This is not just referring to going to heaven. Jesus wants us to take His life and live on this earth in victory in every way.
When we understand who we are in Christ, then we can live out victory everyday as He has planned for us.
This does not mean denying the truth about ourselves or our situations. It means seeing them as already made right. As Jesus sees them. He no longer looks on us with imperfection and sin. Does that mean I never sin? NO, but it does mean that as far as God and Jesus are concerned, it has already been dealt with and once we realize this, we can live in the victory that we have.
Call those things that be not as though they are today.
Today I am Healthy. Today I am prosperous. Today I am Righteous and Free from all addictions, strongholds and bondage that is taking away my abundant Life!!
Romans 4:17b
"the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were."

Everything. Jesus is Grace and Grace is Jesus.Grace is Jesus taking all our sins: past, present and future, and giving us His righteousness, holiness and life. Jesus sees us past all our faults, sins and imperfections and we are perfect because of Him.
If we truly grasp the work of Jesus and that Grace is what it is all about, we can be free from anything in our life that is keeping us in bondage. From Every addiction, stronghold, and struggle that we try to work out.
Grace is Jesus doing it all through us. When we focus on Him instead of ourselves, we receive freedom.
It is a process, but it is an easy one!!!
Nothing is hard with Jesus. We get in the way and make things hard.
See yourself as He sees you, Righteous, Holy and Perfect. Then you too can be free from the things that are keeping you in bondage.
Christ in ME!!!
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Gal. 2:20