The Daniel Plan

Let me say Thanks for your replies. I appreciate that each of you took the time to read my topic and formulate a reply. My interest in the plan is based on my diet/exercise experience... I simply can't stick to things long-term. The Daniel Plan has 5 "Essentials"... Faith, Food, Fitness, Focus, and Friends. From another life-experience of overcoming an addiction, I learned that depending on God and friends works when my willpower doesn't. So I'm hoping that, while prayer probably won't take the pounds off, it may result in my being able to stick with healthier eating and exercise... Which will take the pounds off.

If you'd like to follow my progress and maybe support me along my journey, I invite you to send a Friend request.

Would you have laughed and poked fun if the faith at hand was Islam? Wicca? Hinduism? How 'bout Buddha, he's a fatty. People are respectful of every faith except Christianity.

That depends on whether or not Buddha was trying to sell me a diet book. ...it's not like they respect other religions either.

Question: So you are saying that you would discount the value of any weight loss program based on the author's faith system?

That depends on whether or not Buddha was trying to sell me a diet book. ...it's not like they respect other religions either.

Question: So you are saying that you would discount the value of any weight loss program based on the author's faith system?

Statement: God's not trying to sell you on the Daniel Plan. We were discussing an author who just happens to be a follower of Christ. Your statement doesn't distinguish between follower and the Divine.

Challenge: I challenge you and anyone else to find ONE other post in the whole of mfp which discredits an author simply on the basis of their faith - Islam, Wicca, Buddhist, Hindu, sock worship or anything else-, rather than an objective analysis their program's structure and components. Websites take things like that down because it qualifies as hate speech...except against Christians. If you can find it, I'll happily concede the point.

he Daniel Plan focuses on the core food groups of healthy carbs, healthy fats, healthy protein, healing spices, drinks, and super foods. And The Daniel Plan gives an easy guideline to use for any meal:

50 percent non-starchy veggies
25 percent healthy animal or vegetable proteins
25 percent healthy starch or whole grains
Side of low-glycemic fruit
Drink—water or herbal ice teas with

I'd agree that ultimately weight loss is a numbers game, but the support system, accountability, and mind/body/soul approach are time tested. most 12 step programs use models that are similar.

What I don't understand are the personal attacks based on Warren's appearance. Not classy, no matter what values system a person uses they deserve to be treated with civility. Most people on here looked like Rick at one point or another - I was ten times tubbier! Mom's rule still applies, "if you can't say anything helpful, keep your mouth shut."

I think people jumped on this as a chance to bash a well known Christian and by proxy make fun prayer and of God- who isn't a vending machine obligated to spit out blessings whenever the prayer button is pushed. Would you have laughed and poked fun if the faith at hand was Islam? Wicca? Hinduism? How 'bout Buddha, he's a fatty. People are respectful of every faith except Christianity.

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Let the firestorm begin. LOL

Also: Christians are the religious majority in the United States, and historic Christian privilege is deeply rooted in almost every aspect of American life. The same can't be said for the other religious minorities you mentioned. You realize there are Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs in the U.S. who literally fear being victims of a violent hate crime, right? Hence the sensitivity about hate speech. That cannot be said for Christians in this country--its kind of offensive to compare being mocked on a fitness forum to that.

This. Thank you.

LOL America is no longer a Christian nation - the U.S. shows more respect & commitment to Santa Claus than to Christ. President Barak Obama ended the tradition of hosting an Easter egg hunt at the whitehouse on favor of giving the funds to Muslim charities. I would have liked to keep the hunt but I love that our president is trying to reach out to a group that has been treated unkindly in the US. Strangely enough the money sent to the charity had the same serial numbers as money used by Al Qaida in weapons purchases made from UC intelligence agents. No good deed goes unpunished.

Even if your premise about US religious minorities in the US is true (which according to the latest FBI data on hate crimes, it's not) many if those religious minority groups came here to experience freedom of worship -it's this weird theme in American history. :-)

And anyway are how can you bury your head in US freedom of worship and ignore the global picture? How can you be unaware of the hundreds of Christians killed every day in Africa (Uganda, Rwanda Darfur, Kenya, Liberia, and others), China, Russia, North Korea, the Middle East? You're not aware of militant Hindus who tie Christians to trees (kids, moms, and men) and disembowel them? How about the fact that the Darfur and Rwandan genocides were, at the core, wholesale slaughter programs of Christians? Take a peek at the torture and killing of Christian relief workers in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and others.

Beyond religion-on-religion violence, check out last week's attack of men standing and praying around their cathedral as a way to protect it from the riotous vandalism being caused by a lesbian march for abortion rights in Argentina. These broad minded ladies maced, sexually and physically assaulted, spit at, and spray painted Nazi symbols onto the men who stood praying their rosaries. It's on Youtube, Google sources, and foreign newspapers but strangely hard to find in US media.