The Divine Strength Diet Plan; "God's Way to Eating and Living a Balanced Life"

By Karen M. Hartnett

The Divine Strength Diet Plan is God's way to eating and living a balanced life. So if your ready to go to a new level in your spirit, body, mind and body chemistry then this book is for you! Easy to follow and simple to read it will give you the knowledge and tools to help equip you to reach both your weight loss and health goals. It is simply divine!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karen M. Hartnett
• Release date: Jul 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781604022360

Karen M. Hartnett

A woman of strong faith and commitment, Karen followed a vision and dream from God about her calling. Karen is the author of the book,The Divine Strength Diet Plan, owner of Divine Strength Fitness, and creator and developer of the Healthy Spirit, Healthy Body, and Healthy Mind Workshops. She is both a speaker and a teacher and has over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry working as a small business owner and professional personal trainer. Karen is a pioneer and forerunner when it comes to speaking on all of the areas of who we are; spirit, body, mind and body chemistry.

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The Divine Strength Diet Plan:

God’s Way to Eating and Living a Balanced Life.

By Karen M. Hartnett

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The Divine Strength Diet Plan

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Inviting God to Dinner and the Gym

Chapter 2 Complete with Nothing Missing

Chapter 3 Balance Means Simplicity

Chapter 4 We are Made in His Image

Chapter 5 What are Whole Foods: The Different Levels of Eating

Chapter 6 Creating Your Diet Plan

Chapter 7 The Life is in the Blood

Chapter 8 Creating Balance Through Exercise

Chapter 9 The Importance of pH Balance

Chapter 10 How Firm is Your Foundation

Chapter 11 Divine Foods are Healing Foods

Chapter 12 The Grocery Store

Chapter 13 Divine Menus and Recipes

Chapter 14 It's Not about the Crown but the Cross

About the Author

Introduction:

God has a plan for you. In Jeremiah 29:11 the bible states, For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. My hope is that this book is part of God's plan for your life. Chances are if you found it or if it found you, then it wasn't by chance but by faith. The Healthy Spirit, Healthy Body, and Healthy Mind workhops are another way that The Divine Strength Diet Plan can be taught. So after you have read this book and feel like God might be calling you to either lead or participate in a workshop then feel free to contact us at and let us know how we can http://www.divinestrength.net. help find a workshop near you.

The Divine Strength Diet Plan (DSDP) is a wholistic (meaning one or whole) approach to achieving and maintaining your weight loss goals and for achieving optimal health. The program is faith-based and its foundation lies on something I call the divine pyramid. Not only is this diet plan divinely inspired but is unique in the fact that it is a completely balanced. This is important because when your diet is balanced so is your body chemistry. It will help you to achieve balance not only in your body chemistry and blood insulin levels but also in your spirit, body, and mind as well.

The DSDP includes; a formula for creating your very own diet plan, a food and divine foods list along with their healing properties, a divine shopping list, recipes and menu’s, all to make your life happier, healthier, and easier. It also teaches you to recognize the four different levels of eating so that you can make better food choices. My job was to be obedient to God and develop his diet program as best I could and to bring you the truth. Your job is to make a commitment to God and to yourself to follow and make the changes in your diet and life that He wants you to make. Periodically throughout this book you will find prayers to bring you strength and comfort. Your journey of transformation will start with the prayer of faith and pledge of commitment to DSDP.

PRAYER OF FAITH: Heavenly Father we ask you to give us understanding of your Holy Word, and the ability to receive it and store it in our hearts. We ask you to guide us in your purpose for our lives and to protect us from all evil. We ask for strength and endurance and to be rooted in your Holy word when trouble and persecution come. Let not the worries and deceitfulness of this life make our lives unfruitful. But instead fill us with the fruit of your joy, peace, wisdom and understanding in the days to come. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

MY PLEDGE: I accept the responsibility of making a commitment to The Divine Strength Diet Plan or the (DSDP). I am aware that it may require me to change spiritually, physically, mentally, and chemically (my diet). But my commitment is to seek God, ask for help, and to try and do my very BEST! If I choose to work with a dietician, nutritionist, fitness/advisors and or personal trainer while I am on the DSDP I understand that it is my responsibility to inform them of any pre-existing medical conditions.

GET STARTED WITH A DIVINE PRAYER: Father God, I ask that you bring balance and healing into my body, physically, mentally, spiritually and chemically. Precious Holy Spirit guide me and give me Divine Strength and wisdom through this process. Make me whole once again. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

CHAPTER 1:

INVITING GOD TO DINNER AND THE GYM

Someone once disdainfully told me, God should stay in church where He belongs and He doesn’t need to be in my gym nor be involved in my diet. If I had listened to that someone, I wouldn’t be the happy, healthy person I am today. Instead, I miraculously discovered that by including God’s principles in my personal health plan. I achieved the balance in my life I was meant to achieve, and I became a different person. All of us have gone through trials and tribulations, having our faith tested along the way. But, I can tell you that God never leaves us nor forsakes us. He is always with us; yes, even in our aerobic, yoga, and Pilates classes or even while we're weight training. After all, the most balanced human being I believe who ever lived was Jesus, God’s son.

You can discover, like I did, a happier, more energetic human being deep inside you just waiting to emerge. The Divine Strength Diet Plan is a wholistic approach to weight loss and achieving optimal health and it is the key that can release your true potential. I spell the word holistic, wholistic, because God showed me that originally it was spelled this way but over time the w was dropped from it. The word wholistic means one or whole. You will discover what this word truly means throughout this book. The DSDP is based on the sound biblical principles outlined in this book, and it is the menu that I believe God has prepared for us. By adhering to it you can expect to be transformed physically, mentally, chemically and spiritually. The DSDP will educate, guide, and encourage you to reach your weight loss goals, change your body composition, and most of all help you achieve balance in your spirit, body, mind, and body chemistry.

WHO AM I?

I'm not who I used to be. I've worked in the fitness industry since 1987 and I've been a professional personal trainer since I was twenty-two. However, one night in 1997 my life changed forever. I was invited to attend a Christian conference with a friend at a local church here in Austin, Texas. I didn’t know it at the time, but God was taking me to a new level spiritually. Just like many of us, I had grown up in a Christian religion, confirmed and even married in the church. I knew of Jesus, but I didn’t know Jesus. At the conference God healed me of a hiatal hernia;