Health
Losing The Gut
After all the gluttony and indulgence of the Christmas feasting traditions, we come to the verge of the new year. Typically this is when we all make resolutions to change and reform our behaviour. Depending on our will power these resolutions last for a few days or maybe even a couple of weeks. We [...]
Is Health Insurance A Good Investment?
A young couple in a church I attended in the US, claimed they did not need health insurance. ”God would provide for their needs”, they firmly believed. When they had a significant car accident and incurred hefty medical bills, the church asked its parishioners (who had been regularly paying their own insurance) to take special offerings [...]
How Many Kids Should I Have?
The average Australian family size with 2.4 kids is not as common as it use to be. Increasingly small sedans are making way for either Toyota Coasters or a Mazda MX5s. When we look to the Bible for guideance, we cannot find a passage that tells us how many children is ideal. The often [...]
Sexual Detox
I recently read Tim Challies’ little book Sexual Detox, which is a great help for Christian men in our pornified culture. The book includes a sobering description of the nature and effects of pornography and masturbation, an overview of God’s plan for sex and sexuality, and practical advice for detox for husbands and men in [...]
When Pain Gives Way To Pleasure
Without a doubt the hardest thing about moving from ‘obesity’ to ‘healthy’ was changing the kind (and no doubt quantity) of food I consumed. No amount of weights, running, exercise or sports will make up for a person who has an appetite like the whale that swallowed Jonah. So when my health campaign began, I [...]
Descending to the dungeon
The great English Baptist, Charles Spurgeon, loved to allude to his second favourite book in his writing and preaching. One such allusion is found in Spurgeon’s statement below: “There are dungeons underneath the Castle of Despair as dreary as the abodes of the lost, and some of us have been in them.” Some of you [...]
When Breaking Point Became Making Point
It was in about December last year when I was shuffling along the road one afternoon. I was pretending to be a ‘runner’ but I doubt anyone who saw me move that day believed it either. I had lost 5 kilos by that time but still had about 35kgs to go. So I was out [...]
Food Glorious Food!
It is one thing to lose weight, but it is another thing entirely to try and understand why you were overweight in the first place. Unless you can unlock this mystery, long term change will always be harder. This question has stayed with me for many months now as I have read widely and racked [...]
35 off for 35 on
When I set out to lose weight 10 months ago, my dream was to lose 35kgs. I also turned 35 this year so why not lose a kilo for every year I have been on the earth? I didn’t expect to lose 3.5kgs so 35kgs was really in the ‘never never’ land. As of the [...]
Fat War Diaries- Finale
To everyone’s relief this is the last installment of THE Diaries. Enough introspection and online self-discovery has been shared by me these last few entries. I want to just tie a few things together on this final post and then start blogging about other things. When I began my journey my expectations were very low. [...]
The Ministry of the Penguin
John Bingham is to running what John Piper is to theology. They are both into the joy and pleasure of it all. Bingham turned to running in his early forties. He was a self-confessed couch potato. Inactive and overweight, Bingham found his physical salvation (and satisfaction) in running. He has written columns for running magazines [...]
Fat War Diaries Part 5
It is 6 months now. Matt (whose formal retainer has come to an end) is still as thin as ever but I am getting there, slowly. If I could sum things up this way it would be: little but much has changed. Sometimes I think little has changed. Despite the victories and kilos shed, deep [...]
