Jubilee Health Place

Finding a Place of Health and Fitness through God's Grace

Charlene Elder

What’s The Cost Worth To You?

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I’m sure you’re familiar with it…the ups and downs of eating right! I speak from experience because we’ve been eating healthy, no carbs, but after 10 weeks I just plain revolted. I made a batch of brownies (although we only ate maybe 4-5…the rest I sent with our son to his work place and the guys enjoyed them!). However I didn’t stop with brownies…urgh!!! I also got some chips – lightly salted potato chips AND corn chips. We enjoyed a few for lunch and later on.

Morale of our error is don’t do what we did! I paid the consequences for several nights with my stomach being upset. It dawned on me then (duh!) that my body was revolting for eating the carbs I knew I shouldn’t eat but wanted. I should have taken the advice from my son-in-law who shared his consequences of binging on carbs after not having them for so long…an upset stomach!

So often we think we’re being kept away from the things that taste good because we’re wanting to get healthier. We’re not being kept away from them really. We’re choosing to eat other things that satisfy and nourish us. A handful of chips make you want to eat another handful. Then come the cookies you haven’t had for ages, or the delicious chocolate brownies. Okay, ENOUGH of that! I know you understand this entire process because you’re not unlike me…you’ve been there.

SO, how do we handle these times? We walk right on by the ‘sweet shop’, the ‘salty shop’, the ‘tempting shop’, and determine we’re not going to indulge for just a second of tempting taste for hours of our body revolting and yelling at us. We’re going to stay on the road to healthy eating!

It’s worth the discipline and effort. Stay the course. You’ll be happier.

Let’s continue eating healthy y’all!

Walking and Creativity

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You may have heard it before:  Walking is good for your overall well being.  It’s important for our health—besides burning calories—and the benefits gained when we put one foot in front of the other.

But that isn’t all there is to walking. I recently read an article on Leslie Sansone’s Walk At Home Facebook page that highlighted a Sanford University study on walking and creativity. How does walking help you? Does it contribute to your better health? Does it enhance your mental capacities? Does it boost creativity?

These were some of the questions Stanford researchers had when they looked at two groups of people: those who walked and those who just sat at their desk. We already know that walking is beneficial for all of us and contributes to our better health but could walking boost our creativity levels enhancing mental capacities? According to co-authors Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz, both with Stanford Graduate School of Education, creative thinking improves while a person is walking as well as shortly thereafter.

Maybe you can related if you’ve been stuck on something you’ve been working on for some time, and you even got up and paced back and forth in an effort to come up with some new ideas. Did it help? Probably more times than not, walking as you paced actually enhanced your mental ability to think.

The study found that walking—either outdoors or indoors—boosted creative inspiration. They concluded that the walking itself was the main factor, not so much the environment in which they walked. Another of their experiments found that walking indoors or outdoors produced twice as many creative responses compared to a person staying seated at their desk. Creative juices flowed for those sitting yet the ‘walkers’ had increased creativity.

Many well-known CEO’s have practiced the creativity increase when they’ve held some of their meetings ‘on foot’. Steve Jobs was one to have walking meetings as well as Mark Zuckerberg.

We definitely agree with Marily Oppezzo when she concluded that physical activity is important and sitting too long in unhealthy. They discovered that walking can increase your creativity and thinking ability.

So, do you need a new idea? Do you need some inspiration? Get out into God’s world, enjoy the beauty He’s created, and expect that He’ll give you some new creative ideas as you walk, walk, walk.

EXERCISE OR EXTRA PIES?

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Hope you laughed at the picture above, because it IS funny; HOWEVER…

For some folks the thought of exercise is gross and they’re just not ‘into’ it. For others, they relish the idea of burning those calories. Still others know the importance but just don’t want to put out the energy.

Hey, let’s face it—exercise sometimes isn’t fun, but that doesn’t mean it has to be something you avoid. Exercise is GOOD for your body—good for mine, too. Jack and I continue to tell each other, we want to keep walking so we can KEEP WALKING. Our main form of exercise at the moment is walking. We walk close to 2 miles every morning (while we catch those silly Pokemon critters). We also have stairs in our house, so every time we’re heading to the garage, we’re going up and down stairs. We want our legs/feet/muscles to keep working for us. We won’t get to the place of not using them because then we won’t be able to use them.

No matter what stage of losing weight you’re in, or if you’re maintaining, exercise is GOOD for your entire body. You’ll be pumping more oxygen into your lungs, and rejuvenating your whole body with even a little exercise. Plus, you’ll lose some weight, but not if you don’t begin. You can start with doing a little, then gradually add more to your routine. You will build up your stamina and be able to do more throughout your day.

Okay, that’s the PEP TALK. Now it’s time to put the words into action…one step at a time, one foot in front of the other. Let’s GO. We’re going for the exercise not the extra pies.

I know you can do it!

The New Mindset For Healthy Living

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Getting HEALTHY takes a new mindset. The thoughts of yesterday that encouraged you to digress from staying healthy must be replaced. Continuing to think the same thoughts, do the same things the same way, will bring an unnecessary complacency in your continued desire. At some point down the line, you’ll digress—into unhealthy eating and staying fit.

I dare say, dieting itself takes a new mindset, so don’t allow your thoughts of yesterday—or even today—change the direction you’re headed. Clear your head, renew your mind in the possibilities that are ahead.. Don’t stay frustrated. Don’t stay condemned. Think on the things that are possible. Don’t stay where you are right now. Only YOU can change. Only you can create a new mindset and stick with it.

Yes, it’s up to you BUT you also have God’s help. He’s really good at recreating man’s spirit, in renewing old mindsets and thoughts, and bringing new opportunities of joy, peace, and lasting happiness. Allow Him to give you a new mindset, and you’ll become healthier, full of joy, overflowing with peace, and enjoying your new thinking. It IS possible.

What About Eat, Drink, And Be Merry?

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What’s the often heard expression? “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die.” Evidently it was the thinking many years ago, and was even scratched on the walls of a Paris eatery in 1793 by one of the leaders of the French Revolution before going to war. However, the Apostle Paul quoted it in both the Old Testament (Isaiah 22:13) and New Testament (1 Corinthians 15:32) showing the pointlessness of life for Christians if there was no belief in the resurrection.

So, where does the phrase leave us today?

Unfortunately many folks today abide by this phrase and their physical bodies suffer as they continue to eat and eat and enjoy. We can eat and be merry and still enjoy a healthy life. The problem with following this phrase provides an “out” for many people. ‘Hey, we’re going to die anyway, so why not eat and enjoy life?’ That sounds like giving up and giving in to me.

Let’s not follow thinking that gives up and puts off getting and staying healthy. Let’s not be negative in our outlook for the future. The future ahead is bright with possibilities. Let’s emphasize living life in a healthy way.

It’s Too Hard To Diet

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We’re strange human beings who can come up with an immediate excuse why we will NOT do something. It even starts when we’re very little. The child who doesn’t want to try green beans or broccoli, to a youngster who won’t even taste beans of any form, to the adult who refuses to eat anything green or purple. Granted, some tastes are developed; and chances are the things you didn’t like to eat when you were young, you may enjoy eating now. (Our taste buds change every 5-7 years).

So what excuse to lose weight do we use now that we’re mature adults? How about this one? 

It’s Too Hard to Diet

If dieting were easy, there would be no overweight people. Saying its “too” hard is saying impossible and dieting is not impossible. When you get right down to it, weight loss goes against all the reasons which got us fat in the first place. Face it, dieting goes against unlimited pizza, and Big Mac’s and French fries. Dieting challenges those mechanisms in our bodies such as cravings, fake hunger, feeling weak, and slowing down the bodies’ metabolic functions. Your mind goes berserk and then the battle wages.

Part of the problem is our thinker. How you think about dieting will greatly affect your dieting process. Thinking in a more positive way gives you strength and encouragement. Dieting then becomes a way to meet your weight and health goals. It is something you can do. It’s not too hard once you get into a groove with your eating and stick to the plan. Weight loss becomes who you are and what you want to be.

(Taken from 187 Excuses now available at Amazon).