Weight Loss, God's Way: Low-Carb Cookbook and 21-Day Meal Plan

By Cathy Morenzie

Looking for a Christian cookbook or weight loss devotional without the strict vegetarian diet of the Daniel Plan book? In this award-winning weight loss cookbook, Cathy Morenzie - Author of the best-seller Weight Loss, God's Way: The Proven 21-Day Devotional and Bible Study - provides

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guiding Light Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781999220792

Cathy Morenzie

Über den Autor Cathy Morenzie ist eine preisgekrönte Autorin, christliche Trainerin für Gewichtsverlust und internationale Rednerin. Sie ist seit über 30 Jahren führend in der Gesundheits- und Wellnessbranche. Diese disziplinierte, von Glauben erfüllte, persönliche Trainerin kämpfte mit emotionalem Essen, Selbstzweifeln und geringem Selbstwertgefühl. Als sie jedoch die Antworten im Glauben und nicht im Essen entdeckte, begann sie, Gottes Wahrheit in Fragen Ihrer Gesundheit zu lernen und zu teilen. Gewicht und Selbstwertgefühl. Jetzt erzählt sie, wie Sie fast alles in Ihrem Leben verändern können, weil sie weiß, wie es ist, sich festgefahren zu fühlen. Lassen Sie sich von ihr auf dem Weg des Herrn führen, um sich mit einem neuen Geist und Körper in Christus zu befreien! Christus zu befreien!

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HEALTHY BY DESIGN

WEIGHT LOSS, GOD’S WAY

LOW-CARB COOKBOOK AND

21-DAY MEAL PLAN

Cathy Morenzie

GUIDING LIGHT PUBLISHING

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1st ed. Copyright 2014

2nd ed. copyright 2020 by Guiding Light Publishing

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-9992207-8-5

eBook ISBN: 978-1-9992207-9-2

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Food images supplied by: Ben Sipahutar Instagram:@benaceratwork & Stocklib.com

Author photo by Martin Brown photography http://www.martinbrownphotography.ca/

DISCLAIMER

The recipes in this cookbook and program are solely suggestions based on my personal preferences and are not intended to treat or cure any health conditions. Always consult your doctor before making any dramatic changes to your diet. Healthy By Design assumes no liability and makes no guaranties with respect to these recipes. Enjoy at your own risk.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the amazing women and enlightened men who have participated in the Healthy by Design: Weight Loss, God’s Way Challenge. You are strong, courageous, and victorious. Keep reaching towards your goals. You are an overcomer!

Table of Contents

A Note From The Author

Introduction

About The Weight Loss, God’s Way Meal Plan

Why Low-Carb

Let’s Get To Know Macronutrients A Bit Better

Healthy Eating Principles

The 21 Weight loss, God’s Way Principles

Weekly Summaries and Shopping Lists

The Recipes

Thank You

Other Healthy By Design Offerings

About the Author

A note

FROM THE AUTHOR

When I first met my husband Preston, he was proud to share all of his health tips that he had learned over the years. He was going to the gym regularly and eating all the right foods. At least, so he thought. He was proud to share all the nutrition tips he acquired over the years like his ‘healthy’ whole wheat bread, low-fat yogurt, vegetable margarines, sugar-free snacks, and bananas. These were his health foods, so you can imagine his frustration as one by one I told him the truth about all his health foods. As he switched from whole wheat bread to whole grain, low-fat yogurt to full fat, margarine to coconut oil or butter, bananas to berries, his interest in nutrition went from genuine interest to disbelief and eventually flat out exasperation. He’d gone from being fully confident he was living a healthy life to a child asking about everything, for fear it wasn’t what he’d been led to believe.

Sadly, this is all too common. We’ve been sold a bunch of lies about what is ‘healthy’ and what is not. It’s always comical when the list of super-foods magically appears on the market each year. It’s like avocados, blueberries, and pomegranates were suddenly discovered. Blueberries and pomegranates are great anti-oxidants. This wasn’t some new discovery; nevertheless it suddenly became a fad, and the food marketers took that simple truth and ran, and ran, until we had blueberry and pomegranate bubblegum and vodka—which, of course, totally misses the point of antioxidants. Still, we fall for the lies. Suddenly, we wonder how we ever survived before avocados, pomegranates, or Acai.

And just to make things even more confusing, about every 10 years or so, what was once good for us is now bad. Remember the high-carb, low-fat craze? Oops, that was wrong. It’s now low-carb, high-protein. And remember the four food groups? Equally divided into fours on a plate, and we were to eat as much meat and dairy as fruits and grains? Gone. Now it’s a pyramid that’s anything but equal.

Back in the days of Adam and Eve, a healthy diet was simple. Virtually everything in the garden was good for them. And in New Testament times, being overweight was rare, usually reserved for the rich and idle. Compare that to our modern diet of highly processed and refined foods. We’ve gotten too far away from God’s simple, perfect plan. I believe we are all created ‘healthy, by design’. Once we get back to God’s plan, our bodies will naturally begin to be healthier and shed excess weight.

But how do we live like this, given the abundance readily available with one call to Uber-eats? How do we go back to simple in a complicated world? What are we supposed to eat? What foods will nourish our bodies? What foods will help us lose weight? So many questions!!! But rest assured, my friend, the answer is in as much of what you eat as in why you eat what you eat. It’s your very relationship with food that needs to be examined. We overeat, we emotionally eat, we eat when we’re happy, sad, bored, stressed, idle, socializing, and the list goes on.

That’s why I wrote my first book, Weight Loss, God’s Way: The Proven 21-Day Weight Loss Devotional Bible Study, to help health-conscious women like you truly understand why you’ve struggled with your weight, and how God can and will set you free if you allow Him.

Whether you bought this book for the low-carbohydrate recipes, the meal plan, or to ‘up the challenge’, as you go through our Weight Loss, God’s Way devotion, our online Weight Loss, God’s Way 21-Day Challenge, or our upcoming Healthy Eating, God’s Way devotion, you’re about to embark on a health and faith journey that will change your life. I couldn’t be more excited that you’re allowing me to play some small part in that. Every day, people like you change how they have been approaching their weight loss programs. They share how our Healthy by Design books and online programs have transformed their lives, from reaching their weight goals to increasing their sense of worthiness and self-confidence, while also deepening their relationship with their Heavenly Father.

I applaud your commitment to your health and faith, and I’m committed to helping you achieve those goals. Join my free newsletter so we can stay in touch, to receive bible-based weight loss insights, and offers. And because you bought this book I’ll include for free the following:

Ten bonus low-carb recipes! We all need options and variety in our diets, so I’ve sourced these extra recipes which include meals, snacks, and shakes so you can mix it up or substitute a recipe you don’t like or don’t have the ingredients for.

Join me and the 200,000+ Christian women releasing their weight for good, God’s Way.

wlgw21daymealplanbonus.com

INTRODUCTION

WHY THE WEIGHT LOSS, GOD’S WAY MEAL PLAN?

When I wrote my devotional book, Weight Loss, God’s Way: The Proven 21-Day Weight Loss Devotional Bible Study, I was on a mission to help people understand that losing weight was not just about eating less and moving more. There were intricate and deep-rooted patterns, behaviors, and habits that kept people stuck in their weight. More importantly, I wanted to show people how strengthening their relationship with God would help them lose weight permanently.

It was wonderful to hear people talk about how they strengthened their relationships with God while getting healthier and slimmer. They were finally starting to understand why they were doing what they were doing, and learning to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit to help them stop. They were able to understand what was at the root of their emotional eating, and then submit the root causes to God. They were also able to understand that blaming, making excuses, and procrastinating were just signals pointing them to what was really stopping them from taking action.

Despite all of these incredible breakthroughs, one question kept coming up, over and over again—What should I eat? Even though people finally understood what was causing them to overeat and make other poor lifestyle choices, they were still confused about what they should eat to properly fuel their bodies while losing weight. In an industry where diet programs are a dime-a-dozen, I understand why something as simple as eating has become taboo, frustrating, and downright overwhelming.

Therefore, I developed this meal plan to

Reviews for Weight Loss, God's Way

[medandiya · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

amazing recipies for weightloss, loaded with encouragement and support. You can feel that Cathy writes from the heart and i'm excited to have these resources along with me on my weight loss journey. so worth the while.