Love Food and Live Well by Chantel Hobbs--Book Review

Love Food & Live Well by Chantel Hobbs
ISBN 978-0-307-45784-4

Chantel Hobbs is the author of Never Say Diet.  In Love Food & Live Well she teaches you how to lose weight, get fit & taste live at it's very best (taken from the front cover)

This book is great!  I'm not in the need of losing weight.  In the opposite, I would love to gain some weight.  My teen, however, is trying to figure how to lose weight.

Written by a Christian, and in a Christian perspective, makes me enjoy this book even more.
Inside I learned so many important aspects of food that do have to do with my life and my way of living, despite not needing to lose weight.  She goes in to detail about calories, carbs, protein and fat.  She explains how they are all important to you...as well as the times of the day you have them.

Chapter 11 in entitled How to Make Meals Meaningful and includes several recipes.  They all look great and will provide you with some variation in your meals so they don't get boring.

I like her 80/20 Rule---80% of the time you eat what is good for you and your body--20% of the time your splurge on things you love (like a brownie, or a piece of birthday cake)  I've gone over this rule with my teen and talked to her about the calories and planning for the special events etc.

There is an entire section on exercising.  It's important to maintain a regular exercise regimen no matter what your lifestyle is.  Included in this section you find many different types of exercises including the instructions on how to do them as well as photos.  I'm one of those that need the photos to truly understand and make sure that I am doing the exercise correctly.

She makes the reading fun by doing a lot of comparisons along the way.  Some comparisons she uses are the Barbie doll and buying a car.

Whether you want/need to lose weight or not, I highly recommend this book for the nutritional education alone.  It's being passed to my daughter for her to read through for herself.


 

Disclaimer: I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review

If God Is Good by Randy Alcorn Book Review

If God is Good by Randy Alcorn


ISBN  978-1-60142-132-6

If God is Good --Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil.

I chose this book to be my first book to review for bloggingforbooks.com.

I'm sure that I am among many Christians who can't help but wonder why God allows so much evil
and suffering in the world.

Randy Alcorn goes into depth on the subject.  512 pages in depth in fact!!

This is not a book to be taken lightly.  This is not a book you can sit down and read in a day
or two....not even in a week or two.  It's a book that you need to read when you have peace and
quiet and can really allow what you are reading to sink in.  Praying for understanding before reading would be good.

The author has spent a very long time researching this subject to put this book together.  At
the end of each chapter he cites all resources used in that chapter.  Throughout the books you
will find many quotes. You will find an extreme amount of Bible passages as well as Bible passages to look up. You will find the beliefs of Christians, as well as non-Christians throughout each chapter. Another thing you find are testimonies from those who have suffered but found the good in God amidst their suffering.

Based on my own church teachings, I've been taught exactly what he is pointing to in this book
(as a Christian)   I can highly recommend this read to all--Christian or not!  In today's time,
the timing of the printing of this book is all important.  I can not do the book it's proper justice in a book review.

Buy your copy here:   If God Is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil



Disclosure:  Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers has provided me with a complimentary copy of this book for review purposes.  I was not compensated for my review in any other way.  All opinions of the book are my own.