Tag Archives: health humor

Eat More Vegetables with VISIBLE VEGETABLES™!

Eating vegetables is important, but how can you be sure you’re eating enough of them? New from the makers of VISIBLE WATER™ come VISIBLE VEGETABLES™! VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are nutritious, delicious, and naturally inspire the hand to mouth motion that guarantees VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ will end up in your stomach where they belong.

P1080046VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are easy to use! Simply place VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ on a table or kitchen counter or inside a lunchbox or cooler and watch them disappear! As you pass by VISIBLE VEGETABLES™, your hands will automatically reach for the bright colors and cool textures. You’ll enjoy hours of happy crunching!

Don’t settle for invisible vegetables that cower in refrigerator drawers and plastic containers. You deserve vegetables that are VISIBLE™!

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ come in a rainbow of colors like Red Pepper, Orange Potato, Yellow Squash, Green Spinach, and Purple Eggplant! You can match your dinner to your outfit, your table setting, or your mood ring.

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ provides bowel-cleansing, disease preventing fiber and health-promoting vitamins and nutrients! Add VISIBLE WATER™ for an extra health boost!

imageVISIBLE VEGETABLES™ come in two nifty varieties: Pre-Prepped™ and DIY™!

Enjoy our Pre-Prepped option straight from the store. Dine on carrot sticks, bites sized peppers, and ready-to-sauté zucchini, mushrooms, onion, and more! VISIBLE VEGETABLES Pre-Prepped™ are even available in easy-serve party trays for family snacking.

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ also offers handy Do It Yourself kits for the adventurous consumers. VISIBLE VEGETABLES DIY™ comes complete with vegetable peeler, paring knife, and a variety of whole vegetables like carrots, celery, bell peppers, and zucchini. Simply peel, chop, see, and eat!

IMG_5283VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are great for night binging in front of the television and mindless munching during long car rides. VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are portable, eco-friendly, filling, and satisfying. Display your VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ today and feel the benefits!

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™: If you see them, you eat them!

Don’t forget to try VISIBLE VEGETABLES for KIDS™! They stop the “I’m hungry! When’s dinner?” mantra. Plug those complaining mouths with growth promoting goodness!

 

“For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.” Colossians 1:16a

 

 

Advertisement

God and Weight Loss (part 2)

2013 August 121Last week I brought up the question: Does God care how much I weigh? I believe the answer is a paradox: NO and YES. Today we’ll talk about YES, God does care about your weight.

Yes: God cares how much you weigh because your weight affects your life. Some may argue that our physical body doesn’t matter because it’s just going to die in the end. “For dust you are and to dust you will return” (Genesis 3:19). There is a Hershey’s Nugget of truth in there, but if you zoom out to look at the whole chocolate bar, you realize that if you’re not dust yet, it’s because God has good works planned for you to do (Ephesians 2:10).

God has good works planned for you, but an overweight body can prevent you from serving him to your full potential. Carrying extra weight slows you down physically. It creates emotional baggage and plays with your self confidence. When you maintain your body at a healthy weight, you’re comfortable in your own skin. Instead of feeling your body’s limitations, you feel free to serve.

He loves me cartoon_0001Like money and time, your health is an asset to be stewarded, not squandered. God doesn’t care about a number on the scale, but he does care about your health. Being overweight often leads to health problems that suck your time, energy, and money, leaving less of each for serving God. Unhealthy habits are like an ill-fitting bra: they are a hindrance that offers no support and should be thrown off like Paul says in Hebrews 12:1 so we can “run with perseverance the race marked out for us”.

There are many things about our bodies that we can’t control like disease and genetics and how coordinated we look doing zumba. But if we do our part to maintain our health, then our body becomes as asset to our walk with God and not a distraction. Today is a good day to take action and start getting healthy. Choose one habit to start with (sleep, exercise, eating vegetables, drinking water, portion control) and set a goal for this week. Just remember that God’s love for you doesn’t go up and down with the scale or your dumbbells. His love for you is constant and complete.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3b

March Ab-ness Starts Today

March Ab-ness begins TODAY! Why today? Because I couldn’t think of a reason to wait (other than laziness). Two years ago I was doing TRX once a week and when I finished March Ab-ness I felt like I had a belt of muscle around my waist. It was wonderful. I miss that.

coreI haven’t totally stopped working my core—I work it in fits and spurts—but for months I’ve been wanting to get back to consistent mostly-daily core workouts. I’ve proved to myself in Marches past that 3 minutes a day for 30 days takes an inch off my waist. So why haven’t I stuck with it? Ha! You know why. Go ahead, think of a reason. Think of four reasons. My responses are: yes, probably, definitely, and “well, I never!”

The point is not why I let it fizzle, but what I’m going to do about it. Why not start today? I’ve “started today” a few times over months past and fizzled again. So what’s going to be different about today? I’m going to bribe myself.

I work best with goals and rewards, much like a poodle, so I’m going to set a goal and reward myself when I reach it. For example, I like books. I buy most of my books at second hand stores and library book sales and then they sit in my To Read cabinet for months until I get to them. But sometimes, dag-gone-it, I see a book I want to read and it’s new and costs more than a dollar and I look at that cabinet of books I already have and how much milk that new book money could buy and I sigh and set it back on the shelf.

However…

9df88ffd9eff46661653075fe526e848I’ve made myself a chart and decided to pay myself 10 cents for every 1 minute of ab exercises I do. At the end of the month I’m going to tally those minutes into dollars and go buy books. Three minutes a day for 30 days gives me $9 NEW book money.

Books motivate me. They may not motivate you. What does? What special something would you like to do/buy/see/hear/say at the end of the month when you reach your goal? When I first started losing weight, my first goal was a digital scale. Our old scale had a big dial that would change your weight if you leaned forward or backward as you stood on it. I’d hop on and look down and guesstimate my weight from the worn wobbly black lines and if I didn’t like it I’d lean back a bit. The digital scale let me see my progress more accurately. And I covered it with sparkly butterfly stickers so it was pretty.

Figure out what reward motivates you and what goal you’d like to achieve. Start today. Why not?

Feel free to share your own goal and/or reward in the comments. We can learn from one another’s good ideas.

 

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Philippians 3:12

Eat More Vegetables with VISIBLE VEGETABLES™!

Eating vegetables is important, but how can you be sure you’re eating enough of them? New from the makers of VISIBLE WATER™ come VISIBLE VEGETABLES™! VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are nutritious, delicious, and naturally inspire the hand to mouth motion that guarantees VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ will end up in your stomach where they belong.

placereadytoeatveggiesVISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are easy to use! Simply place VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ on a table or kitchen counter or inside a lunchbox or cooler and watch them disappear! As you pass by VISIBLE VEGETABLES™, your hands will automatically reach for the bright colors and cool textures. You’ll enjoy hours of happy crunching!

Don’t settle for invisible vegetables that cower in refrigerator drawers and plastic containers. You deserve vegetables that are VISIBLE™!

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ come in a rainbow of colors like Red Pepper, Orange Potato, Yellow Squash, Green Spinach, and Purple Eggplant! You can match your dinner to your outfit, your table setting, or your mood ring.

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ provides bowel-cleansing, disease preventing fiber and health-promoting vitamins and nutrients! Add VISIBLE WATER™ for an extra health boost!

packaged veggiesVISIBLE VEGETABLES™ come in two nifty varieties: Pre-Prepped™ and DIY™!

Enjoy our Pre-Prepped option straight from the store. Dine on carrot sticks, bites sized peppers, and ready-to-sauté zucchini, mushrooms, onion, and more! VISIBLE VEGETABLES Pre-Prepped™ are even available in easy-serve party trays for family snacking.

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ also offers handy Do It Yourself kits for the adventurous consumers. VISIBLE VEGETABLES DIY™ comes complete with vegetable peeler, paring knife, and a variety of whole vegetables like carrots, celery, bell peppers, and zucchini. Simply peel, chop, see, and eat!

IMG_5283VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are great for night binging in front of the television and mindless munching during long car rides. VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ are portable, eco-friendly, filling, and satisfying. Display your VISIBLE VEGETABLES™ today and feel the benefits!

VISIBLE VEGETABLES™: If you see them, you eat them!

Don’t forget to try VISIBLE VEGETABLES for KIDS™! They stop the “I’m hungry! When’s dinner?” mantra. Plug those complaining mouths with growth promoting goodness!

 

“For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.” Colossians 1:16a

 

Images courtesy of: (veggies in container) https://celebrate.hy-vee.com/Health/articles/25936/11-ways-to-eat-more-fruits-and-vegetables.aspx, (packaged veggies) http://www.foodprocessing-technology.com/projects/himalaya-food/himalaya-food2.html, (DIY kit) Katie Robles