You Eat There?

Recently I was helping out at an event at church and I didn’t have time to go home and have dinner before had so stopped at McDonalds and grabbed myself a cheeseburger and a large iced tea for dinner.


After things got going I was walking around with my McDonald’s glass and the rest of the tea when someone stopped me and asked” you eat McDonalds?” She said this in all seriousness. She explained the statement by saying that from my fb (Facebook) post about training, she thought I only ate healthy. Boy is that a wrong perception. Now I don’t hit McDonalds all that often and not nearly as much as I used too, mostly because of time, but also because I do somewhat watch what I eat.

Here is what I have learned in the last 2 ½ years of working out: “What you eat determines your size; Exercise determines your shape.” Think about it, even if you are doing strenuous workouts for a couple of hours a day, you probably only burn between 600 and 800 calories an hour. So unless you are eating less than 1200 calories a day, you are not going to lose weight without changing your diet. If you do just diet you will lose weight and have a flabby body left. Exercise tones the body.

I have lost 3 sizes by changing my habits, portions and adding exercise. I find it interesting that for the last year I have changed my type of exercise and reduced a size, but didn’t lose any weight.

Our physical bodies parallel our spiritual bodies. Our Spiritual diet determines our size; our spiritual exercise determines our shape. If most of our reading/watching is filled with stuff that really isn’t good for us, or if we gorge on only Christian materials and never put them into practice, we will get ‘fat’ and have ‘clogged arteries’. Unless we put our Christian beliefs and teachings to work we will remain soft and flabby.

It doesn’t take much to change; it only takes the determination to make a change.

James 2:21-23