Quotes About Wellness

Overindulgence is overindulgence. And limitless indulgence in food always has consequences—it compromises our health, dimmishes energy to pursue our calling, and affects the way we feel about ourselves

Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

Eating in excess is a sin.

away from things that aren't beneficial for me.

My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger, it will still be missing when I get smaller.

Define your week by obedience, not by a number on the scale.

Define your week by obedience, not by a number on the scale. . . .

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.

When a special occasion rolls around, I can find ways to celebrate that don't involve blowing my healthy eating plan.

Struggling with my weight isn't God's mean curse on me. Being overweight is an outside indication that internal changes are needed for my body to function properly and for me to feel well.

I am made for more than a vicious cycle of eating, gaining, stressing...

Deciding ahead of time what I will and will not eat is a crucial part of this journey.

Whether we are at the beginning of our journey, in the middle, or in the danger zone of having just reached our weight-loss goals, focusing only on what we're giving up will make us feel constantly deprived. And deprivation leads to desperation, frustration, and failure. Instead, we have to focus on everything we're gaining through this process. And see the gains as more valuable than the losses.

My weight loss goal isn't a number on the scale. My real weight loss goal is peace.

Yes, I've lost pounds and inches. But not being weighted down mentally and spiritually by the constant feeling of defeat is the real victory.

God, I recognize I am made for more than the vicious cycle of being ruled by food. I need to eat to live, not live to eat. So , i keep asking for your wisdom to know what it eat and your indwelling power to walk away from things that aren't beneficial for me

Did I overeat this week on any day? No. • Did I move more and exercise regularly? Yes. • Do I feel lighter than I did at this time last Wednesday? Yes. • Did I eat in secret or out of anger or frustration? No. • Did I feel that, at any time, I ran to food instead of to God? Nope. • Before I hopped on the scale, did I think I'd had a successful, God-pleasing week? Yep!

if we find that certain foods are impossible to walk away from—we can't or won't deny ourselves an unhealthy choice in order to make a healthier choice—then it's a clue we are being ruled by this food on some level.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

I am telling you that medicine is ninety percent indigestion, lifestyle adjustments and head colds and ten percent heroic measures

When I am feeling rotten, I like to walk. When you walk, there's a kind of rhythm. Your mind slows down to match your body. Your thoughts start to go in lazy, comfortable circles.

I found out that the sunshine in New Mexico could do almost anything with one: make one well if one felt ill, or change a dark mood and lighten it. It entered into one's deepest places and melted the thick, slow densities. It made one feel good. That is, alive.