Water. Your body is made up of mostly of water. Approximately 85% of your brain, 80% of your blood and 70% of your muscle is water. Every cell in your body needs water to live. You can see how important water is to you.
Water helps remove the dangerous toxins that your body takes in from the air you breathe, the food you eat and the chemicals used in the various products you use on your skin and hair. Other things water does for your body is to cushion your joints. Water carries oxygen and nutrients into all your cells. Water also helps regulate your body temperature.
You need water to keep your metabolism working properly. In order for this to happen, there is a certain level of water in each of our bodies that we need to maintain. If we don’t keep that amount, our bodies will start to dehydrate. An easy way to think of it is to think of your car’s need for oil. If your oil level gets too low, your engine will start to run rough. If you totally deplete your oil supply in your car, your engine will stop running. Same with your body. Therefore it is easy to see why it is very important to drink six to eight glasses of water a day.
In the spiritual form of water… John 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Physically and Spiritually we need water, so we will not get dehydrated. I am speaking to myself to when I say this. We need to be having more devotion time than just reading(the Bible) and praying but really seeking after HIM. So I pray(you pray for me) that we will not just read and pray, but take this time,and really seek after HIM.
“Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” (James 4:8)
Sugar
What does sugar do to your body?
In: Intestinal Health
Nutritional Facts
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This is an excellent question, and one that I think applies to almost everyone. In answering it, I’m going to give you a brief description of the biochemical events that take place when a person consumes sugar.
In explaining this subject to many people over a period of several years, I found the most useful metaphor to be that of an automobile engine. Let’s take a Toyota Corolla, one of the most popular cars on the street today. The Toyota Corolla has an engine that’s designed to burn a certain type of fuel. That fuel, gasoline, has a certain flash point and a given output of power per gallon of gasoline. There are other fuels that power other types of vehicles — for example, jets run on a high-octane petroleum product that has far more energy per gallon than automobile gasoline. Diesel fuel, on the other hand, burns more slowly.
So you have different types of fuels for different vehicles. Most people understand the idea that if you took your Toyota Corolla, drove it down to the airport, and filled it up on jet fuel, you wouldn’t get a faster Toyota Corolla. Instead, you would get a critically damaged Toyota Corolla engine, because the fuel would burn too hot, too fast, and it would overpower the design of the engine. In fact, you probably wouldn’t drive more than 10 miles before the engine burned up, and you would have to overhaul the entire engine in order to drive your car again.
This is sort of what goes on when it comes to the human digestive system and sugars. The human digestive system was designed to consume foods that are readily available in the natural surrounding environment. These foods can be compared to certain types of fuels because each food releases energy at a given rate during digestion (primarily based on fiber and fructose content).
As an example, let’s take a look at an apple. It contains fiber, vitamins and minerals, and lots of carbohydrates. The carbohydrates are the fuel. But the carbohydrates are bound up in the fiber of the apple so that it takes your body a fair amount of time and effort to release those carbohydrates and convert them into fuel. So you could call the apple a medium-burning carbohydrate, or in medical terms, it has a lower glycemic index than straight sugar.
But if you take straight sugar, that is, refined white sugar, which is something that does not occur naturally in the environment, and you put that in your mouth, then your body converts that into blood sugar very rapidly. It’s like pouring jet fuel down your throat. This is the same as filling up your Toyota gas tank with jet fuel and trying to drive away. When you eat sugar you consume soft drinks — which are even worse because they are liquid sugar — you are trying to run your metabolic engine on jet fuel, and the human metabolic engine was not designed to run on jet fuel.
So what happens? When you first consume any sort of refined sugars or refined carbohydrates (like white flour), the digestion process begins immediately — in fact, it begins even before you swallow the foods. There are digestive enzymes in your saliva that go to work on these sugars and start converting them into blood sugar, even before they hit your stomach. Once they’re in your stomach, they are mixed with acidic digestive juices and physically churned through stomach muscle contractions so that it creates a liquid paste. This liquid, sugary paste is then very easily absorbed through the intestinal walls, causing a rapid spike in blood sugar levels.
So your blood sugar, which might have been around 80 or 90 before you drank the soft drink or ate that candy bar, now suddenly starts spiking up to 150 or 200, or perhaps even higher. This creates an emergency situation in your body. High blood sugar is very dangerous for human beings. If it is allowed to continue, it will cause symptoms that are more classically known as diabetic neuropathy, which means the nerves that feed various limbs in your body (feet, mostly) start to die. Diabetics who maintain high blood sugar over a long period of time often have to have their feet amputated because the nerves in their feet are wasting away.
Next time you drink a soft drink,eat any sweets, etc. think about what you are eating…actually it is liquid sugar. WOW!! Would you actually get a glass of water and put 16 teaspoons of sugar in it and drink it?? GROSS!!! THINK ABOUT IT!!!!
I pray my rough days are over. They say it takes at least 12 weeks before you completely do not even think or crave any sugar. I dont crave sugar like I use to, but when someone talks about sweets I do think about the taste and how they taste. That will leave hopefully. I can honestly say I dont have that craving, for example a pint of ice cream has been sitting in my freezer for 2 weeks and I have not touched it nor even wanted it. So, I can tell my body and mind is changing about sugar…:) I hope and pray out of this journey for my friends and family to see first what sugar does to there body and all the symptoms that go along with eating sugar, and to start eating healthy(eating more fruits and vegetables). I have not started exercising like I am suppose to. I do exercise but nothing like 3-6 hours a day like some athletes. At the end of my journey I hope to accomplish my weight loss goal, eating healthier, exercise more. Those are my goals for this journey. 
