The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote good health
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and is not
intended to take the place
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of personalized
professional care.
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The opinions and ideas expressed
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are those of the speaker.
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encouraged to draw their own
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conclusions about the
information presented.
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Welcome to Wonderfully Made,
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My name is Lee
Wellard, a lifestyle educator
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from Wildwood Lifestyle Center.
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And today we have
with us Dr. Scott Grivas
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from Wildwood
Lifestyle Center, thank you for
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coming into the
program today Dr. Grivas.
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Today's topic is
quite a sensitive one,
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we're gonna be
looking at the role of obesity
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and we're going to be
looking at what we can
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do to help in this program.
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Today we're gonna be
discussing about lifestyle,
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what practices
that we can make in our
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lifestyle to bring
about a better weight?
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And we want you
to know how, whether
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you're overweight,
whether you're ideal
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weight, or underweight,
you are very precious
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to, to God. Dr.
Grivas what has attributed
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to this epidemic of
obesity in United States
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and around the
world? There are several
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factors Lee, one
is the diet itself,
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in this country
our diet has been now
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weighted toward a high
fat, high sugar intake.
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And those fats
mostly now are coming from
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the animal foods,
not vegetables fats,
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but animal fats.
There is more calories
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in the fat foods,
so we're up taking in a
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higher choleric
intake, and our exercise
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levels have been declining.
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Our lifestyle
generally here in this country
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is more sedentary,
we have office jobs,
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we sit behind
computers, we as students we sit
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in the classroom,
we go home and study.
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There is less and less
exercise, it's alarming
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for what's taking
place here in this country,
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so if you're taking
in more calories with
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these higher
fat processed foods.
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And you're exercising
less you become larger,
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because you're storing
all of that excess fuel,
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you're not burning it
up. Now, when we talk about
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obesity a lot of
people especially those
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who are
watching, you're probably
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thinking about
diets, and there was so many
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diets that we have today it is,
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New Beverly Hills
diet, there is the chocolate
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diet, the cabbage
diet and maybe you
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who are watching
you've tried many
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of these diets
and they have failed.
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How do we know what is
the best diet to be on?
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It's interesting,
your question about
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the best diet. We
had a recent editorial
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article written by a
physician who was the
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chair person of
Nutrition Department at Harvard.
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And he was making
some simple statements
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and rebuttal to
some physicians who were
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talking about the
Atkins diet that's promoting
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you know for weight
loss. And his question was
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simply this, why all
this fuss about these diets?
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We already have
all of the information
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that's necessary,
epidemiologically,
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nutritionally,
and medically, and the
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clinical studies to
show what is the best
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diet for people,
weight reduction,
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reversal of disease
and that is a primary
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plant based diet,
with some modifications
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in the eating
patterns which we all want to
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discuss. But we don't
have to go to extremes
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Lee in order to lose weight.
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We don't have to
go on these prolonged
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fasts in order to lose weight.
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Right, it's an important
topic and one that many
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people struggle with,
especially when they've
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followed a specific
diet maybe they've adhere
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to it for a week or
two weeks even a month,
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and then they start to
slip back and they start
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to get discouraged
and maybe even go into
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depression as a result
of failure of these diets,
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but what you really
telling me is lot of these,
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these diets aren't
working? No, but yet
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God has a plan, he
has a dietary plan that
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can bring about
true success, sure.
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And what is some
other problems in losing
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weight too quickly
you know we have many
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people who are
trying the best they can to
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lose weight
rapidly, does this create a
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potential
problem in one's health?
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It may in fact there
is a greater incidence
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of gallbladder
disease and people who are
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taking off weight
very rapidly, you can
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precipitate
problems with inflammation of
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the gallbladder.
But I think the biggest
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problem with this
rapid weight loss diets,
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is that when
people stop them, they may
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have lost the
weight, but then they go
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right back to
their previous pattern
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of eating which
allows them to regain that
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weight and usually
it's not just regaining,
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they go pass that, and
so they gain more weight.
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Right, that's interesting you
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should bring that
out, because we have seen
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there is a rebound
effect, and often diets work
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on the
principle of illumination,
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some almost to the
point of even starvation,
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that's right, but
nevertheless a lot
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of these actually
have a reduction in
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nutrients, so their
body is craving the things
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that they're not
getting from their diet,
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and as a result it's
building up more of an
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appetite. So,
when they're off it,
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they're more of a
tenancy to overindulge,
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right. Now, let's
talk for a minute about
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appetite control
because you know there are
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many viewers
watching that are gonna be
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ideal weight, even underweight,
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but yet we still
struggle with our appetite,
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no matter how big
or how small we are.
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How can we get a
better handle on our appetite,
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what do you suggest
would be some of the
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ways we can control
our appetite better?
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Well, I will begin
with my patients by talking
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about a spiritual
dimension of, of weight
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reduction. Appetite
is one of the biggest
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problems for everyone,
is the control to reign
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in those desires for
food, and certainly eating
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is a pleasure, isn't
it? I mean we should enjoy
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our food, amen,
God gave that for us,
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and so we're, we're
not trying to lessen that,
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we don't want to
be so austere that,
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that people are losing
the enjoyment of eating.
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But there is an
element that has come into
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human nature since
the fall, and that is the
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absence of
restraint on our passions,
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on our appetites,
and this is where we must
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have the Lord to help
us. Now, let's go back to
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where the problem
really started, you mention
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about the fall, and
how that was beginning
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of the problem.
What do you see that God
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did to put a plan
there to actually restore
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control back to man,
to give him the victory
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over his
appetite? Well, you remember
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the very first work
that Christ did after his
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baptism was what? He
went into the wilderness,
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he went into the
wilderness and fasted,
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fasted that's right.
And he had to come to
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redeem man's failures,
and the first temptation
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was obviously
on appetite, and so
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we must not look to
ourselves for strength
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to curb this unconquerable
desire of appetite,
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we have to look to Jesus.
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And if we will ask
him to help us in this
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struggle then the
victory is ours by His grace.
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What you're really
telling me is that Jesus
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can enter in to feelings,
because he, he actually
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was, as a Bible says
tempted in all points
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just like as we
are, because he was
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made in all
points like we are, amen.
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He had our flesh,
he, he could actually
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feel the hunger, in
fact I think in the Bible
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it does record
after he had that fast,
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it says he
hungered and so he was,
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he really had an
appetite at that point,
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and yet he had complete control.
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And fortunately he
doesn't ask us to fast
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40 days, correct?
No, no, no, I wouldn't
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recommend it,
he did that for us.
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Amen, and another
good point that you
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mentioned was the
enjoyment of food,
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we don't want any
of the viewers to get
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an idea that we just
promote a bland diet,
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an unattractive diet,
one that doesn't bring
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satisfaction to
our taste buds, right.
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Now you have
actually got personal
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experience in this, I understand
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you had a weight
problem in the past
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as a physician, and
there was certain things
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that happened in your
life, could you just share
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us your personal
experience of how you
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overcame this point.
Sure, I'll just begin by
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mentioning you were
talking about various diets,
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I don't think you
could mention one that
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I haven't been on
in terms of trying that
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struggle, that
battle with the appetites.
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And my experience
was very similar to,
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to others; I would
lose some weight but then
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when I would get off
that diet so to speak,
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I would go right
back to my other eating
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patterns, I never
made a lifestyle change.
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And I didn't know
at that point the Lord
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who alone could give
me the power to overcome
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that appetite,
right. And it wasn't until
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I became a Christian,
until I found the Lord
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who had been looking
for me all those years
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and developed a
relationship with him
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that he was able
then to give me the
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strength that I
needed to curb these
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unconquerable appetites,
and also to reveal to me
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a plan, an actual
physical plan that
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I could follow in
order to take the weight off.
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And when I had both
of those, when the Lord
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showed me those
things and gave me that power
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then I could start
to make those changes
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to change the
lifestyle and eating pattern,
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and the weight didn't
just rapidly come off,
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but it was steady,
and that's what I would
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like to encourage all
of our viewers is that
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if you are trying
to develop a weight
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reduction plan, don't
be in tempered in that,
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that we need to be balanced,
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we need maybe to
shoot for a pound, or pound
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and a half per week weight loss.
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And just be steady
and persistent as the
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Lord will help
you, and it will come.
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Now, there maybe
some people who are
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watching that have
lost weight and they
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haven't done it or
they believe they haven't
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done it in, in God strength.
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Maybe they don't
even believe in God,
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I know before I
was a Christian that
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I became a vegetarian,
I was convicted about
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that and I, I practiced that.
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What would you say
to people out there
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who are thinking
perhaps, you know,
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I didn't need God;
I've been able to handle
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this myself?
It's a good question,
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but you know Lee
there were many benefits
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that came to humanity
through the cross that
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people may not be
aware of, but they are living
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in this envelop of
God's grace. Right, you see,
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right, and so the
Lord still is working for
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individuals even
though they may not
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recognize it. But when
we come to that conscious
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recognition, and
then we asks Him for more,
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oh! He's able to do
so much more, you see.
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So, you're saying that,
He does it in spite of us,
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exactly. Because
He's leading us to,
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to greater truth and
He wants us to eventually
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get to that point
where we say you know
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He really did help
me even though I didn't
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realize He was
helping me, exactly.
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Dr. Grivas, maybe you
can share a little bit
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more about that point
in your life where you
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realized that you
couldn't do it by yourself,
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and then you had
failed repeatedly different
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dietary programs, what
was it that gave you that
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final push so to
speak to, to follow through
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and to get
complete victory? I remember
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I was studying the
Bible at that point and
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I came across Romans
the 7th chapter, okay.
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Paul's struggle, and
you know Paul admitted it
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wasn't that he
didn't know what to do,
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but he found that
even knowing that he ended
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up doing the very opposite.
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He would fall back
into those old patterns of
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living even though he
knew he needed to change.
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And when I read
that I thought you know
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that then is my
history, that's my problem.
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You saw yourself? I
saw myself and I said well,
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if that was
Paul's problem and there
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was hope for him in
Jesus, then there was
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for me also, and
that's when I really started
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seeking the Lord,
and that's when things
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started to
change. So, you cried out:
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O wretched man that I
am! Who shall deliver me.
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Amen. Praise God.
Let's talk for a minute about
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emotional eating; we
know that a lot of people eat
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because they feel
that emotional need,
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how can those people be helped
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to break that
habit? Well, we don't want
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to deny that eating
is a pleasure right,
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and a lot of people
get comfort from that,
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and we don't want
to take that from them.
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But in the life that
is submerged in Christ
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there are so
many other pleasures.
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So, that eating
is just one of many,
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and we don't then
live in order to eat,
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but we are eating for strength,
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so that we can enjoy
all the other elements
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of the abundant life in Christ.
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So, what you're
saying is we don't wanna
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make food an ideal,
right, but we do want
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to make it appetizing,
sure, and pleasurable.
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And I think
that's important when we
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follow a good
dietary program that we do
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actually enjoy the
food that we're eating;
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it was designed by
God to be pleasurable.
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I could imagine in the
beginning the fruit just
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I mean just the smell
of it was enough to give
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you a hearty appetite.
Yes. What you're saying
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too is that we
don't want to go too far,
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and make it something
that we can't live apart
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from and the God has
created other avenues,
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right, that we can
enjoy even more pleasurable
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than eating, exactly.
Let's, let's talk about
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exercise and
its role in obesity.
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Could you explain
to the viewers who are
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listening some of the
simple exercise programs
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that they can get
on or maybe some of the
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different exercise
practices they can use
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to lower their weight.
Sure, the biggest thing
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in exercise I
believe is consistency,
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a daily plan where
people are beginning to burn
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those calories that
they have stored and
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exercise is one area,
the other is the dietary
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change that we must
address but with exercise
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I recommend an exercise
program that's enjoyable,
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that they will love to
do, that they will begin
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to look forward to everyday.
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Now, walking is
the best exercise,
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there is no question about that,
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and some people
really enjoy getting outside
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and walking. And this
is where I tell people
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whether permitting,
get outdoors because
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then you're gonna
get the other benefits of
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sunshine and fresh
air, the beauty of God's
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created nature. So
do you exercise outdoors
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and try to have
a systematic plan
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of when you're gonna
exercise and we should
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also help people to
understand that exercise
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is accumulative through the day.
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You may not have to
do it all at one point,
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just if you can get
out and walk for 10 minutes
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when you're going to
the store, park your car
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at a distance walk
into the store, climb
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those stairs, do useful
work, do your gardening,
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your wrecking. So,
we, we don't have to
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get on a treadmill
or enter a marathon
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or we can, we can
do something simple
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as even working
and gardening, sure.
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It's interesting,
reminds of a story
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of a lady who all
she could do was move
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her arms. In fact she
was watching television
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most of the day and
she gain tremendous weight
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I think she was
around 1200 pounds in weight.
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And one day
someone motivated her to do
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some exercise, and she
could just move her arms
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and she was
waving her arms and then
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she was also move her
legs. And as months went
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by she lost weight,
and as years went by could
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you believe she was
actually able to not
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just stand up and move around,
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but she was able
to lose 1,000 pounds.
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She, she went from
1200 down to 200 pounds,
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that took a, a
number of years to do that.
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But it just
goes to show how much
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resilience the body can
have in its recovery once
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we follow a
healthier plan. Right, now lets
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just talk a moment
about those who come
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to lifestyle center
such as Wildwood that
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is one of the
things we do, we put them
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on a good lifestyle program.
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Is it best to put,
put them on exercise
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program in, in
the morning to get all
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the exercise or
do we spread it out,
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what is the best plan
as far as losing weight
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goes? Well, we certainly
put them on an exercise
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program, their walking
is throughout different
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parts of the day,
morning, middle of the day and
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so forth. But also
we make some changes
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in their diet which
is important, and we are
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recommending more
plant foods, no snacks,
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okay, in between 5
or 6 hours at least
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separating two
meals. And encouraging them
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we have a little
gathering in the evening,
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so that when
they're accustom to eating
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and it's a social
enjoyment. We still
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serve lemon water
or something like that
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at night, but it's a
social time that they
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can get together and
it makes that skipping
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of the third meal a
little less painful.
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Right, so it's
better to have your lemon
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water with a group
of people that are gonna
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like it, exactly, okay,
exactly. So, having that
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social network you
say that's very important
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as far as being able
to feel you know that,
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that emotional
support, that encouragement
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and this is why
it's good to try to lose
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weight with a group of people.
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And you know sometimes not
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everyone is so
encouraged when people make
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these lifestyle
changes. In fact some people are
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a little on the
discouraging side,
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especially if you know
they're being convicted
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of some lifestyle
changes that they need to make,
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sure. So, let's talk a
little moment about sleep
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and it's role in
obesity, does it play a role
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and how big of
role does it play?
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Well, I think it's
definitely a factor and
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we have been able to
demonstrate that people
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who are stressed
from lack of sleep;
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they will tend to
eat more during the day.
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And so we would
factor that in and try to
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help individuals
who are lets say not
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sleeping well,
they're not a good sleeping
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program, they're
going to bed late,
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and they're getting up late.
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We try to help them
in the lifestyle center
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to change that
pattern also, to get to bed
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earlier, I think
we've suggested to them
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9:30 or 10 at the
latest for retiring sleeping
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7 to 8 hours or
so. And then getting up
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and not going back to bed right.
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Is that possible
for someone coming from
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someone like New
York city, they've been
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used to 1, 2
O'clock in the morning,
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they come to this outback place,
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surrounded by
birds and nature and then
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the lights go off at 9, 9:30.
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Do they, do they
enjoy that, do they get use
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to that? They get
use to it, and they start
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to enjoy, okay, but it
may take a little while,
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because they're
used to that more intense
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phase, but this is
one of the advantages
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of coming to a lifestyle center,
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it's like Jesus said,
its time to come apart
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and rest awhile,
right. It gets them away
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from the stresses of
life and lifestyle changes
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are best made in a
safe and comfortable
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environment, one
preferably that's
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surrounded by the
beauties of nature
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where God is there,
their minds are directed
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spiritually. It's
so much easy to make
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these changes. And
what about that folks
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who are listening
at home and they're
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thinking well this
sounds ideal, it sounds
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perfect but yet I'm,
I'm stuck in the city,
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I don't get to go
out much, what hope is
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there for me, can
I make some of these
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changes where I am?
Yes, very definitely,
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God is where we
are right, he comes to
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where you are, so
if you can't go to a
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lifestyle center,
don't despair but start to
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incorporate some of
these principles that
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we're talking
about now with the Lords
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help into your daily
program and you watch
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what the Lord will
do, it will be amazing.
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And so the
message we want to give to
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there is really
a message of hope,
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no matter where
you are, no matter
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where you've come
from there are some
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simple changes
that one can make, amen.
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Let's talk a little
bit about snacking because
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I know that you
know, we so tempted,
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whenever we go out
we go to a restaurant,
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we go even to the super market,
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we're constantly
bombarded with different
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items they're
staring us in the face
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and we even start
to imagine some of the
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flavors and the smells hit us.
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How do we cope
with that you know what
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provisions can we
make to, to get the
00:24:26.06\00:24:28.88
control in that
situation? Well, first
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of all when we are
subjected to temptation,
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I encourage my
patients you pray,
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okay. And you ask
the Lord to help you
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and also to try not
to go at least knowingly
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into situations
where you know you're gonna
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be tempted to eat.
In other words trying to
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avoid where you can
and then where you can't
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then the Lord will
be your strong hold,
00:24:52.88\00:24:55.00
your refuge. And it
doesn't last forever,
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in other words as
the Lord is working
00:24:58.92\00:25:00.69
to give you
victories, one victory after
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another you become stronger.
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And so these same
challenges that you had
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will become less and
less as you're growing
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in Christ. And I
think that something very
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important that we
need to keep in mind
00:25:14.27\00:25:15.92
that temptation
doesn't stay around forever,
00:25:15.93\00:25:19.28
but the will has to be set, yes.
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For that temptation
to go and that strength
00:25:22.96\00:25:25.55
to come how important
is that will in making
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those
decisions? It's everything,
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because the will is
the power of our choice,
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in other words God will
not do for us the willing
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that we must do, we
must make the choice.
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But it's like a, a
boat on the sea with a sail,
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right, alright and
a, and a director of the
00:25:50.48\00:25:55.91
direction there
what it is the router,
00:25:55.92\00:25:59.69
router, okay yes in
other words we can make
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the choice and
that's the router.
00:26:03.19\00:26:05.13
We can make the
choice for Christ he then
00:26:05.14\00:26:08.45
supplies the power
which then moves the
00:26:08.46\00:26:11.58
vessel right, okay,
right but we have to make
00:26:11.59\00:26:14.98
that choice. He will
not make that choice for us.
00:26:14.99\00:26:17.92
If we don't make the
choice we're left to our
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own self
sufficiency which is weakness.
00:26:20.83\00:26:24.48
Right, and I think
one of the important
00:26:24.49\00:26:27.09
things to remember
even if you're struggling
00:26:27.10\00:26:29.05
with your will, we can
at least be willing to be,
00:26:29.06\00:26:32.24
be made willing sure,
right. So, the Lord will
00:26:32.25\00:26:34.91
even strengthen
that little desire that
00:26:34.92\00:26:37.50
we have to make
some of these lifestyle
00:26:37.51\00:26:39.88
changes, right. What
do you see as the most
00:26:39.89\00:26:43.89
important factor
for those who are going
00:26:43.90\00:26:47.59
to follow the
program and making those
00:26:47.60\00:26:49.99
healthy lifestyle
changes? First of all
00:26:50.00\00:26:53.26
the spiritual dimension
that we've talked about,
00:26:53.27\00:26:56.08
secondly is to know
the plan and then to ask
00:26:56.09\00:27:01.44
the Lord to help
you to adhere to it,
00:27:01.45\00:27:03.53
perseverance, perseverance
00:27:03.54\00:27:06.48
and well doing, okay
it's those who endure
00:27:06.49\00:27:09.92
to the end shall be saved right.
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Thank you very much,
our time has come to an end,
00:27:12.82\00:27:16.26
I hope you've
been encouraged as you
00:27:16.27\00:27:19.65
look at some of
the practical ways that
00:27:19.66\00:27:22.84
you can make some
of these lifestyle
00:27:22.85\00:27:24.47
changes in your
life. You know it may a
00:27:24.48\00:27:26.76
seem a little
challenging at first
00:27:26.77\00:27:29.09
but as you continue
making these changes
00:27:29.10\00:27:32.58
it will actually
become a habit and those
00:27:32.59\00:27:35.44
habits will get easier
as we continue in the path
00:27:35.45\00:27:39.70
that God has chosen for us.
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Just remember
that you are not alone
00:27:41.15\00:27:43.96
in your struggle,
God has said in his word:
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That they had no
temptation taking it
00:27:47.11\00:27:50.06
but that which
is common to man and
00:27:50.07\00:27:52.41
God will make a way
to escape that you maybe
00:27:52.42\00:27:56.33
able to bear it.
I've hope you've enjoyed
00:27:56.34\00:27:58.66
today's program,
please join us again next time
00:27:58.67\00:28:01.85
for Wonderfully Made,
my name is Lee Wellard from
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Wildwood
Lifestyle Center, and just
00:28:04.32\00:28:06.48
remember that you're
body is God's temple.
00:28:06.49\00:28:09.26