I was fasting to lose weight and lost sight

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I lost 40lbs doing intermittent fasting and saw and started reading this book last night. I thought it was going to teach me how to fast. I'm not real bright. It speaks to the things that push us away from God. Not just the focus on food but, well hell, this what I am doing right now, piddlin on a phone.

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Congrats on the weight loss. I wish I could could manage half that. My BIL is a pastor and always spoken highly if John Piper.
 
I have done intermittent fasting for a while. It works.


My church did the Daniel fast a few years ago. It was harder than I thought. But the spiritual aspect was great. My wife and I actually committed to it.

That's when I quit diet sodas too. That benefit alone was worth it.
 
Congrats! Intermittent fasting works but only if your create a caloric deficit. Same with other popular methods that have seen a resurgence as of late like keto and carnivore (the names are new but not the methods)

Basically literally everything works as long there is an underlying caloric deficit. It’s almost like caloric deficit is the underlying key 😬

intermittent fasting can cause issues depending on timing and lifestyle....but that is rare. Best to keep an eye on vitals and bloodwork results regularly while using methods like this.
 
It would be hard to find a book with those three names on the cover that wasn’t worth reading. I’ve heard John Piper in person multiple times, as well as Francis Chan. David Platt’s “secret church” events are the drinking-from-a-firehose type Bible studies, and our church has been blessed enough to be the host one year.
 
BatteryOaksBilly said:
Hmmmmmm...never have seen a fat guy come out of a concentration camp....stop eating...you Will dry up.
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been trying to eat a little less because being over 200lb is not so easy on my knees. problem is i work a desk. then come home and sit at this desk...
I still give myself some small treats now and again once or twice a week. No sense in being miserable to lose weight. If the goal is to live a better life, linking that with constant suffering is a bad idea.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
been trying to eat a little less because being over 200lb is not so easy on my knees. problem is i work a desk. then come home and sit at this desk...
I still give myself some small treats now and again once or twice a week. No sense in being miserable to lose weight. If the goal is to live a better life, linking that with constant suffering is a bad idea.
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Check out Dave Askew "Fast This Way". It'll teach you the not-so-miserable way to fast.

As for the OP, I'm with you. In this day and age of technology everywhere one turns, it's ridiculously easy to take our eyes off of God. Fasting in the spiritual sense is not as much about food as people think. It's about giving up something to make it easier to focus on God. That too is harder than it seems.

I've been doing a guided biblical meditation every morning. (You can find them on YouTube or Spotify or all kinds of places in the interwebz.) I've also been setting a repeating alarm on my phone with a special notification sound to remind me that worldly things aren't my primary concern.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
been trying to eat a little less because being over 200lb is not so easy on my knees. problem is i work a desk. then come home and sit at this desk...
I still give myself some small treats now and again once or twice a week. No sense in being miserable to lose weight. If the goal is to live a better life, linking that with constant suffering is a bad idea.
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Only the first few weeks were bad then you get used to eating once a day. Embrace the suck for a little while.
 
Run, do not walk from that charlatan. John Piper has looked directly into the camera and declared that God pre-determined all evil for His glory. Despite God's own words in Jeremiah 19:5





Jeremiah 19:5
“They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:”

King James Version (KJV)
 
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