Weight Watcher\u2019s, Jenny Craig, NutriSystem, Atkins, Ketogenic – we all know what these are: false hope. Kidding. They\u2019re diet plans. Many of them have worked for many people while others have tried many of these plans (and others) and none have worked.<\/p>\n
Many friends and acquaintances over the years have asked me what diet plan I use \u2013 primarily because I have maintained my body weight within a 15 lb. range since going off to college 47 years ago. I ought to market my plan because it\u2019s been so effective; it\u2019s just not very enticing. I haven\u2019t named it yet, but if I had, it would be something like, \u201cThe Pain Diet.\u201d It operates on an adaptation to the familiar adage: \u201cNo pain, no gain.\u201d In my diet, it\u2019s \u201cNagging pain, nary gain.\u201d You see, anytime I\u2019d tack on as little as 5 lbs., my back pain would intensify disproportionately.<\/p>\n
Come this Sunday, I\u2019m going to lay out an ancient diet plan that accomplished much more than its targeted end. Why not visit as we launch our summer sermon series on the prophetic book of Daniel in a message I\u2019ve entitled, \u201cThe Anti-Defilement Diet?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Weight Watcher\u2019s, Jenny Craig, NutriSystem, Atkins, Ketogenic – we all know what these are: false hope. Kidding. They\u2019re diet plans. Many of them have worked for many people while others have tried many of these plans (and others) and none have worked. Many friends and acquaintances over the years have asked me what diet plan … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-christy_alohayahoo-com","4":"post-3536","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-sermon-preview"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/restaurant-3037030_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3538,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions\/3538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfamilyfellowship.church\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}