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Do Not Worry About What To Eat: Jesus

Anita Mathias — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:44:22 +0000

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ […]

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Biggest Losers, Grace, and Silver Linings

Anita Mathias — Fri, 27 May 2016 21:19:56 +0000

I read the New York Times’ distressing account of The Biggest Loser show. Because of their rapid weight loss, the participants’ metabolisms dramatically slowed down, as happens with any diet. Researchers discovered that, six years on, the metabolism of the contestants continued slowing down, and they continued gaining weight disproportionate to their calorie intake, their […]

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The Good Things of January

Anita Mathias — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:08:32 +0000

I’ve adopted Martin Seligman’s recommended habit of recording 3 good things about my day. Apparently, people who do this report being 25% happier within 3 weeks. I think it is true. I’ve often needed to scan my day carefully to see what was golden about it rather than nondescript. After a while looking for gold […]

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In Which I Tell You about a Weighty Battle

Anita Mathias — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 23:14:29 +0000

Obesity Influences Have you had “one step forward, one and half step backward” struggles, otherwise known as the dread vicious circle? I am delighted to say that, at the moment, I do not have any vicious circles in my life—those nightmare phases of life where everything you do has unintended negative consequences. You know: You […]

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When One Simple Change can Shift Things in Your Life

Anita Mathias — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:23:14 +0000

Me with the lovely ladies from my church, St. Andrew’s, Oxford. We’ve just done the 5K Race for Life. I have lost 47 pounds since then!! Michael Hyatt urges his readers to take up running. He says, “Just by beginning, you will feel your life begin to shift.” “Things shifting”–I heard that phrase a lot […]

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In which Christ Writes to an Overweight Woman

Anita Mathias — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:44:20 +0000

Jesus, I am fed up of food rules and diets, and giving them up. and sabotaging myself when stress or cravings or boredom demand: “Chocolate. Crisps. Comfort foods.” Oh, and the sadness of exercise in a world of subconscious triggers, when kebabs and pizza and cookies undo all the virtue? And I am fed up, […]

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“One Way to Find God” : A Guest Post by Penelope Swithinbank

Anita Mathias — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:43:24 +0000

I am honoured to host this guest post from Penelope Swithinbank. I will be joining her on her pilgrimage along the Via Francigena in Tuscany in September. Might you come too? ONE WAY TO FIND GOD BY PENELOPE SWITHINBANK Complete wholeness – of stillness and silence. As in the absence of interruption or invasion by […]

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Pareto’s Law, The 80/20 Rule (and My Progress in New Year’s Goals)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:00:42 +0000

I am reading Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Work Week with absolute fascination, partly because Roy and I have independently stumbled upon and are practicing many of Ferriss’s ideas and principles. (I plan to review the book later.) Ferris discusses Pareto’s Law or the 80/20 principle. Pareto, an Italian economist (1848 to 1923), realized that, in […]

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