If My Body is a Temple, Then I was a Megachurch

Author:Scott Davis [Luke, Scott Davis; Tim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: healthy lifestyle, humor, Scott Davis, diet, weightloss, health, weight loss, ScottDavis.com, comedy, memoir, exercise
ISBN: 9780982328613
Publisher: Ampelon Publishing
Published: 2011-08-30T06:00:00+00:00

Different

I want to stress the point that I didn’t see this as a diet. I saw this as a revival, a manufacturer’s recall, a return to what God designed. I simply broke bad habits, practiced good ones, and watched my waistline shrink. When it feels like your lungs have room to expand to draw more air, you know something is working.

This wasn’t just a different lifestyle. This was a different life.

Two Old Testament verses describe my old way of life. Just as the Old Testament represents the old covenant of law, my old ways enslaved me to a system bound for death.

In two different books, King Solomon writes words I relate to my eating habits. Proverbs 18:7 states, “A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.” Perhaps Solomon meant to refer only to speech that mirrored the content of the heart. However, God convicted me to apply this truth to my old eating habits. My mouth served as a destroyer because those terrible habits overflowed from my heart as well.

In Ecclesiastes 5:6, Solomon writes, “Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin.” My mouth caused me to sin multiple times daily, and my flesh had the stretch marks to prove it.

In my fat days, I microwaved canned foods or ate something right out of the can or box. I nuked giant Hungry Man meals and pined for more. I routinely downed two or three of them at one sitting. Donna and I opened cans of tuna and watched Food Network and said, “Oooh, wouldn’t that dish be fun to try one day?” And then we took another bite of canned tuna.

Now we grill out, cook on the stove top, and chop our vegetables just like Bobby Flay. We buy squash, zucchini, and cucumbers, dump them into steamer bags, throw in a little Mrs. Dash seasoning, and steam them in the microwave. Two or three minutes later, out comes a delicious and healthy serving of vegetables.

Before QWLCA, I considered eating healthy time-consuming and costly. After all, marketers brainwash us into buying into the convenience and economy of “fast” food. Those are more of the devil’s lies.

As you can tell by the descriptions of what I ate, I needed a second mortgage to maintain my old habits. Eating healthy is much cheaper if for no other reason than half the cows in New England are safe now.

Second, making a trip to a restaurant will never be faster than staying at home to grill and prepare fresh vegetables.

I’ll challenge you to a contest. I’ll cook one of the meals from my QWLCA book, even weighing my meat portions, measuring out everything, and firing up the grill, while you leave my living room to fetch a Big Mac. By the time you walk back in the door and kick off your shoes, I’ll be watching TV and won’t even be belching anymore. You would go to a lot more trouble, eat a much less healthy meal, and waste a few bucks of gasoline.

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