Lysa TerKeurst _{Leading Women in the Adventure of Faith}

In my book “Made to Crave” I wrote the following:

Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls.

Possessions can fill our houses but never our hearts.

Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love.

Children can fill our days but never our identities.

It’s easy to say these things.  But it’s stinkin’ hard to make our heart catch up to these realities. And I think when we get any of this out of whack, we start living Mick Jagger’s famous song, “I can’t get no satisfaction”.

Because real satisfaction can’t ever be found absent of God.  There are deep places within our soul that God hand designed and reserved only for Him to fill.

I’d love your thoughts.  Let’s talk about this today.  Where do you find yourself turning, trying to get those deep soul needs met?

For each person who joins in the conversation by leaving a comment today, I’ll enter you to be one of five winners who will get both a Made to Crave book and a the new Made to Crave 60 day Devotional.

I can’t wait to hear your thoughts today.

Hi! I’m Kelly Hubatka, one of the trainers from Body By Buck Bootcamp! Lysa asked me to guest blog today a little about exercise and our Bootcamp. If you watched her webcast last week, you know that she is part of our morning Bootcamp class, and also you met several of the people in it that are participating in the Made to Crave 6 week challenge!

Exercise is such a big part of having and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, not just losing weight. It increases your metabolism, keeps your heart healthy, and even helps you sleep better at night.

Here are a few reasons why I love a Bootcamp type setting for a workout:

• A group setting provides a fun environment, as well as increased accountability

• Trainers who teach, push, encourage and motivate you

• Peers who push, encourage and motivate you

• You learn how to push your body to get the results you want

• Work at your fitness level-no matter where you are at

• Variety in workouts-keeps your body guessing and your mind from getting bored!

• Get more bang for your buck! With everyone’s busy schedule, your time is valuable. Maximize fat loss in shorter, high-intensity workouts.

At Body By Buck, while we do use weights and other equipment, we really believe in teaching proper form in basic bodyweight exercises. There is so much you can do right from your home with no equipment and no gym membership. You’ve just got to have the motivation, make the time, and be able to push yourself, which I know you can do!

Here is a simple workout to try today, no matter what fitness level you are at, right there in your living room! No more excuses! Try it and post your time in the comments section!

TENS

10 Sets of:

10 Pushups

10 Sit-ups

10 Squats

This is for time so finish as fast as you can, always still with great form.

*If you’re advanced or really want to get after it, repeat for a second round.

If you want to learn more about Body By Buck, you can check us out at www.bodybybuck.com!

Here is a check-in with our M2C Challenge peeps!

Congrats to our winners from our last post: Marsha Warden, Tara Frazee, and Elaine Segstro. You have each won a copy of: Made to Crave book, Made to Crave Devotional book, the Made to Crave Action Plan DVD, and the Made to Crave Action Plan Participant’s Guide! Please email Holly@Proverbs31.org to obtain your giveaways!

For more info on the giveaway today read through to the bottom of this post.

If you are looking for the Made to Crave webcast replay, click here. But read this first…

Dr. Chilton has taught us that fiber is the key to losing weight without feeling hungry. Fiber signals satiety genes, which tell us we are full. As he reminded us in the live webcast on Monday night, remember to drink plenty of water when you eat fiber!

Fiber is just one healthy choice we can make this year. Click here to see the live Made to Crave ‘No More Excuses’ webcast where Dr. Chilton reveals 4 other great healthy choices we should make.

Here is a list of many great fiber foods that are recommended in the Made to Crave Action Plan Participant’s Guide.

Raspberries – 1 cup = 8 grams of fiber

Cereal, bran – 1/2 cup = 10 grams of fiber

English muffin, light, whole grain = 8 grams of fiber

Kidney beans, white, canned – 1/2cup = 10 grams

Apple (with skin) – 1 medium = 5 grams of fiber

Bagel, whole wheat = 5 grams of fiber

Navy beans, dried – 1/4 cup = 9 grams of fiber

Small red beans, dried – 1/4 cup = 13 grams of fiber

Cereal, shredded wheat, spoon size – 1 1/4 cup = 8 grams of fiber

Black beans, dried – 1/4 cup = 7.4 grams of fiber

Flax seeds – 3 tsp = 9 grams of fiber

Lima beans, dried – 1/4 cup = 7 grams of fiber

Almonds – 1/4 cup = 4 grams of fiber

Lasagna noodles, whole grain, dry – 2 ounces = 6 grams of fiber

Sweet potato – 1 medium = 4 grams of fiber

Spinach, frozen – 1 cup = 3 grams of fiber

Oat bran, dry – 1/3 cup = 6 grams of fiber

There are many more fiber suggestions listed in the Participant’s Guide, which is designed to compliment the 6 week Made to Crave Action Plan DVD. Here is a little promo video that will tell you a little more about The Made to Crave Action Plan DVD and Participant’s Guide.

If you want to be entered to win one of the giveaways, please list in the comments your 3 favorite fiber foods. I’ll be giving away a Made to Crave book, Made to Crave Devotional book, the Made to Crave Action Plan DVD, and the Made to Crave Action Plan Participant’s Guide to 3 commenters.

If you’re looking for the link for the Made to Crave webcast replay, click here. But first, read this…

This morning at my boot camp class, something occurred to me in the middle of an exercise I don’t like. Actually, I loathe this exercise with every fiber in my body.

I don’t know what the official title of this exercise is but it involves two really heavy ropes tied to the wall. So we’ll call it the rope fling thing.

You take the ropes, one in each hand, and fling them high above your head while doing squats over and over. It causes the heavy ropes to look like waves in the ocean. But they aren’t waves in the ocean and this is no tranquil setting.

It’s torture. Just plain and simple.

And while part of my brain says, “This is so good for you — give it all you’ve got,” a much bigger part of my brain is screaming something else entirely: “STOP!”

When I don’t stop, the quitter part of my brain starts this dialogue, “Okay, if you’re not going to quit, just give a lot less effort. You can still appear to be working really hard while decreasing your effort significantly. Don’t raise your hands so high. Don’t squat so low. Just do little flings that barely make the rope move. I mean seriously, you are tired. Really tired. You’ve given all you’ve got. And at any point if you want to stop, there’s no law that says you can’t. Who cares?”

Have you ever heard the quitter dialogue?

That little voice helps you make excuses in any area which is hard to persevere.

But here’s the thing. The quitter voice doesn’t have to keep you from a win. The quitter voice can push you toward a win.

How?

Remember, you only hear the quitter voice when you’re really close to a breakthrough.

I don’t hear the quitter voice when I’m laying on the couch.

I don’t hear the quitter voice when I’m sitting at my desk.

I don’t hear the quitter voice when I’m talking on the phone.

I hear it when I’m about to make serious progress in a workout… but my body is tired.

I hear it when I’m about to eat something healthy… but my kids make chocolate chip cookies.

I hear it when I pick up my bottle of water… but there’s a soda in the fridge.

If you’ve ever tried to persevere in anything, I bet you’ve heard the quitter voice too. So when you hear it, turn it on its head by thanking it!

Thank that quitter voice for reminding you how close you are to making serious progress.

Then push through until you breakthrough!

Fling that rope.

Eat that grilled chicken salad.

Drink that water.

And squash that stinkin’ quitter into the ground.

Just in case you haven’t worked out today and need a little extra motivation… here’s a video I recorded at my boot camp class this morning… and no it’s not of me doing the rope thing. I need a few more weeks before I make my national rope fling debut!

Over 10,000 people joined us LIVE for last night’s webcast. If you missed it, we are leaving the replay option open until this Friday at midnight.

Click here to watch the webcast on demand.

It was amazing to see so many people commit to the Made to Crave 6 week challenge. If you want to participate along with my friends from Boot Camp class here’s all you have to do:

* Read Made to Crave.
* Commit to a healthy choice you will make for the next 6 weeks.
* Tell people about your choice so you’ll be held accountable. Why not tweet it?!(Come on… you know you want to use the #madetocrave and tell the whole wide world about your choice!)

I’m so stinkin’ proud of my boot camp classmates. Here’s a photo of these highly committed, downright funny, and all around terrific people who are taking this challenge.

And here’s a little video of us playing around after the webcast last night. Rumor has it, I do a burpee exercise in my high heeled boots.

Lots of people getting healthy!

Lots of people taking the challenge to make a healthy choice for the next 6 weeks.

My healthy choice I’m making is to drink MORE water. Lots more. There’s something about the winter that makes me slow way down with my water intake. But no more. Water here I come!

What are you going to do? Declare it in the comments below. Then go tweet it to all your friends. Today is a great day to get healthy — one choice at a time.

If you’re having a tough start to your Monday, I understand.  Me too.  I’ve been up since 3am and will seriously need some Holy Spirit empowering for the webcast tonight.

I’m tired.  But I’m also feeling some attack.  And I know others are feeling it too.

Satan is going to throw everything he can at us to try and keep tonight’s message from going out.  There will be kids that don’t feel well.  Marital tiffs.  Unexpected demands that pop up on today’s to do list. Dogs that run away.  And a mountain of laundry to be done.

And I might just have a little personal experience this morning with each and every thing on that list.  Lovely.

It is days like this where I have to stand on what I know to be true instead of being whisked away in a sea of emotion.  Here are three things I’m preaching to myself this morning:

1.  I’m not a slave to my feelings.  I’m the boss of them.

2.  Just because I’ve had a few bad moments this morning, doesn’t make me a bad person.

3.  This too shall pass.  In the meantime the best thing for me is to position my heart in place where I can experience God.  And trust me, there’s no better place to do that than by tuning in to the webcast tonight.

And right now would be a really good time for one of my Jesus friends to shout, “Amen!”

See you rain or shine, clean clothes or not… right here- www.LysaTerKeurst.com,  8pm EST tonight. With a Bible in hand and a heart ready to do some good old fashioned preachin’!

Are you going to be there?  If so, let me know by leaving a comment below.  I’m going to pick one of the comments from today’s blog and give away a really cool prize on the webcast!  You don’t want to miss this!  Winner will be announced on the webcast tonight.

And if you say you invited a friend to tune in to the webcast, you’ll be entered in the random drawing twice!  See?  Monday is getting better already.

Congrats to Cherri Adams, Shelly Clark and Tina J who each won a set of my Made to Crave friendship packs from my last post! Please email Holly@Proverbs31.org to obtain your books.