In chapter 18, we are offered a challenge to begin to prayerfully exercise discernment. This can actually be a lot of fun! While we are free to enjoy any food we want when we are hungry, sometimes...
The FUN Part of Boundaries!
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More on Boundaries – Traveling!!!
Tomorrow, my family and I leave for 8 days.Have I ever confessed how I feel about traveling? I hate traveling. I am a homebody! I love being home. In fact, my husband and kids can have a great time...
Miniature Eating
At age 70, twenty years post-menopause, it takes a lot less to get me to a "5" than it did in my younger days! That has been very difficult for me, and at times very angering. So the idea of...
Truth-Telling about Peppermint Mochas
I have become quite a fan of specialty coffee! Peppermint mochas, in particular. Iced or hot, both are at the very top of my list of “Ways to Pamper Myself.” Massages, manicures, facials, and...
Grain, New Wine, and Oil That Satisfy!
I opened up to Joel 2:19 and saw something that I had never noticed before: “I am sending you grain, new wine, and oil – enough to satisfy you fully." If these three things – grain, new (as opposed...
What Diets CAN’T Do, God CAN!
We usually search out and go on diets as a knee-jerk response to that moment when we step on the scale, look too long into the mirror, or fail to fit a clothing item that we used to wear with ease....
Relish Your Holidays and Eat Yummy Food!
By Guest Blogger: Brooke Espinoza The year is full of holidays and special occasions – Super Bowl, Valentine's Day, Easter, July 4th, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas,...
The Run-away Mixer
I'm not the neatest baker, nor is my mixer the neatest mixer, at least not when its beaters, generously coated with batter, get turned up to the highest speed. No idea how I did that, but I did, and...
What to Expect When You’re Expecting #03 (a.k.a. “Pregnantly Thin Within”)
Back to Square 0! One of the biggest challenges I have discovered in my third trimester with Thin Within, is that I am having a very difficult time finding and waiting for 0. Such a basic...