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day morning unfortunately your robo dial system just sees my area code and calls me although i am now on the west coast so when you call at the reasonable hour of 10 00 am central time it is really too early for a saturday morning at 8 00 am pacific time perhaps you need to rethink your evangelism and outreach initiatives from now on church is not about butts in the pews it s about community and getting to know people taped telephone messages might let me get to know you but it obviously doesn t let you get to know me i am perfectly happy with my own church and what you are doing is closer to sheep stealing than evangelism sincerely a sleepy recipient of your calls for any of the rest of you churchy type people who think robo dialers might be a good idea let me discourage you don t and please if any of my gentle readers live in dallas or the surrounding area and know know of pastor ed young would you tell him his calls are doing more harm than good thank you posted in miscellaneous tagged church growl robo callers time zones 1 reply food a diet update posted on january 22 2014 by abbiewatters 4 http www flickr com photos muammer in my first week on my medically supervised diet i lost 2 5 lbs to those of us who are used to fad diets and starvation diets and quick weight loss programs that may seem like too little but i m assured by my physician and my dietician counselor that i won t immediately regain that weight and at this point in my life i m trying to focus on the long term i m also told that i am have been dehydrated who knew even though i ve been drinking plenty of tea diet soda etc every day i m trying to fix that by being sure to drink at least 64 oz of water every day i wonder what i would do if i were unlucky enough to live in one of the places like kentucky or arkansas whose safe water supply has been recently compromised i read an op ed piece in the new york times today by mark bittman entitled abundance doesn t mean health here are some of the salient points he made his facts were reported in oxfam s recent report on nutrition and food in 125 countries we rank first in food affordability food is cheap compared with other things we buy and prices are relatively stable we also rank highly 4th in food quality which is measured by potential diversity of diet though access to good water is shockingly low tied for 41st about a third of the way down the list when it comes to healthy eating as measured by diabetes and obesity rates we re 120th sixth from the bottom better off only than saudi arabia kuwait jordan fiji and our unlucky neighbor mexico canada fares a little better it s 18th worst we re also in a tie with belarus and other powerhouses for 35th in enough to eat much of what s grown with the potential to become food is actually turned into edible foodlike substances in short junk food that produces the opposite of health while we generally manage to keep the neediest quarter of our population from actually starving we do not reach everyone who could use help for example only half of those californians eligible for food stamps officially known as the supplemental nutrition assistance program actually get them the budget for food education in the united states pales compared with the marketing budget for junk food and much of that education is either unconvincing or ignored in the face of the barrage of fun to eat ads for the food that is worst for us part of the problem lies in oversight we do not have an official government policy or agency responsible for coordinating and assuring that the nation s investment in food and agriculture is for a nourishing and healthful food supply in the long run what s needed is not a farm bill but a national food and health policy one that sets goals first for healthful eating and only then determines how best to produce the food that will allow us to meet those goals it doesn t make sense to tell people to eat vegetables and then produce junk that leads only to bad health in the face of evident abundance all of this was brought home to me yesterday as i trudged around the supermarket stocking up on fruits and vegetables the staple of this diet that i m on i filled my basket with the good stuff zero canned foods zero meat zero cakes cookies snacks etc and checked out to the tune of 54 65 i swiped my rewards card and came up with a savings of 00 00 nothing nada no rebate perks encouragement for buying and eating the stuff that s good for you and is it any wonder that folks on snap are reluctant to spend their small amount of available cash on the good stuff posted in diet hunger ministry tagged food hunger junk food nutrition 4 replies diet update posted on january 15 2014 by abbiewatters 2 i promised you i would keep you updated on my progress on the diet and let you know what i ve learned along the way yesterday i met with the dietician for an hour and a half and she basically told me nothing i ve been doing to try to lose weight was right well maybe not nothing but many things quit drinking diet pepsi it s poison other folks have said so but i didn t really believe them drink at least 64 oz of water every day and spend so much time in the bathroom you don t have to try not to eat anything don t use artificial sweeteners except stevia made from plants not chemicals and then only 1 packet a day eat protein in the morning and fruit at night only one grain per day that s one slice of toast be sure to eat lots of vegetables eat some sort of beans every day includes hummus so that s good a few nuts every day are required a little bit of oil is required only two fruit servings per day eat something every 2 3 hours keep up with the tai chi and the recumbent cross trainer so far i m not too hungry although i did dream of what i would have for breakfast last night i ve only been doing this for one and a half days so the 2 lbs i ve lost is mostly water that s all for now i ve got to go eat a protein bar and drink a glass of water posted in diet tagged diet exercise 2 replies new beginnings posted on january 8 2014 by abbiewatters 23 this year i along with half the people in the known universe decided i would really get serious about my weight and to prove that i m really going to do it this time i signed up with firstline therapy the medically supervised weight loss program that my doctor referred me to i made appointments beginning yesterday through the end of february this time i m really going to do it my grandmother was overweight until she had a heart attack when she was 64 years old after the heart attack she lost sixty or more pounds and went on to live another 30 years mama was very overweight as well but when she was about 65 she got serious about her weight and lost about 80 pounds she would probably still be alive today if she hadn t died at age 78 of alzheimer s disease so i m 69 and i figure now is the time for me to do the hard work and really lose a lot of weight hopefully upwards of 120 pounds i know it will take a while to get that weight off but i really need to do it i m also motivated by my baby brother who lost 50 lbs last year and looks like a completely different person although he s still there underneath i ve spent the last year really struggling to lose and i ve managed to shed 15 pounds since this picture was taken but you can hardly tell it by looking at me so all of this is a build up for asking you gentle readers to help me stick with the program i m not going to bore you with meal by meal recaps but i will be posting every week after i go to my appointment on tuesdays and reporting progress if any and anything i ve learned about myself along the way according to the doctor i should be able to get rid of 2 3 pounds a week for the first couple of weeks and then about a pound a week i ll keep posting selfies to keep you up to date but i ll need you to holler at me if i start slacking off on my progress i figure it s going to take about a year to get all this off so i know i m in it for the long haul pray for me please jen bradbury enough abbie watters new beginnings cara strickland bursting carol kuniholm acorns king beloved community done with religion a new year a new beginning kelly stanley a blank canvas glenn hager overcoming the biggest obstacle to reaching your goals dave criddle get some new thinking david derbyshire changed priorities ahead j a carter the year of reading scripture for the first time damon new beginnings consider these 5 questions before tying the knot jeffrey kranz where to start reading the bible joanna990 on survival my one word for 2014 k w leslie atonement happy my one word 365 surprise michelle moseley ends and beginnings matthew bryant a new creation liz dyer it s a new year and time to make some new mistakes edwin pastor fedex aldrich foreclosed the beginning of a new dream jennifer clark tinker starting a new year presently loveday anyim new year new resolutions loveday anyim new year resolution dreamers loveday anyim new year resolution specialists jeremy myers publish your book with redeeming press amy hetland new beginnings posted in diet family tagged diet exercise family history heart attack 23 replies provide posted on january 6 2014 by abbiewatters reply i told you last week that i had chosen provide as my word for the year today i ll try to explain a little more fully what i mean when i say provide because it s as much about what i can t do as about what i can do 1 i can t provide emotional feelings to anyone else in other words i can t make somebody happy or sad or envious or loving i can act in a way that may encourage the good feelings and discourage the bad ones but people s feelings are their own i need to keep reminding myself that i m not responsible for anyone else s feelings 2 sometimes when it comes to providing things i can t do it all myself sometimes it means getting out of the way while other people do the good work sometimes it means doing something with my own two little hands sometimes it means giving money so that folks are fed and housed sometimes it means organizing rallies and meetings and sometimes it means attending them and sometimes it only means helping publicize them but all of those help to provide 3 often providing means working with my time commitments so that i can be available at home at church and at other activities i like to go places and see things so i have to be able to say no to some commitments while still providing alternative choices to be sure the commitments get taken care of 4 i also have to remember that i need to provide myself with intellectual stimulation new books and blogs to read awareness of current events educational groups to connect with classes to take people to talk to posted in one word provide tagged one word provide leave a reply happy new year posted on january 2 2014 by abbiewatters 1 i m having such a good time in my life that i m sure i will have a happy new year i hope you will too i ve been thinking and wondering and cogitating and noodling about a one word for this year several of the blogs i read regularly participate in this exercise and i think i m going to give it a try this year i ve thought about give and steadfast and spirit and participate and none of those seemed quite right so i think i m going to try provide this year check back on monday when i will try to do a better job at fleshing out what i mean and then on each first monday of each month throughout the year of 2014 i ll try to do a post about how i ve lived up to it posted in one word provide tagged one word provide 1 reply abbie watters search january 2014 s m t w t f s 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 dec feb archives june 2026 5 may 2026 32 april 2026 31 march 2026 32 february 2026 29 january 2026 32 december 2025 31 november 2025 31 october 2025 32 september 2025 31 august 2025 31 july 2025 32 june 2025 31 may 2025 32 april 2025 31 march 2025 32 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