Chantel Hobbs - Love Food and Live Well: Lose Weight, Get Fit, and Taste Life at Its Very Best

Praise for
Love Food and Live Well

In Love Food and Live Well, Chantel Hobbs helps readers re-create their lives from the inside out. As you turn the pages of this book, you cant help but feel that Chantel is right there with you to guide and inspire every step in your quest to eat better, move more, and enjoy a more fulfilled and more healthful life.

E LISA Z IED , MS, RD, CDN, regular contributor to msnbc.com and GALTime.com; author of Nutrition at Your Fingertips and Feed Your Family Right!

Behind Chantels extraordinary story and unquestioned expertise is a heart that sets her apart. Regardless of whom she encounters, she lives for the opportunity to help them discover their fullest and fittest potential. As you read Love Food and Live Well, it will become clear that Chantel is doing what God created her to do. How refreshing to find a fitness expert who is devoted to changing lives on the inside as well as the outside!

B OB C OY , pastor of Calvary Chapel, Fort Lauderdale

Chantel Hobbs uses wit, wisdom, and poignant insights to open our eyes regarding our health and well-being. With helpful tips, exercises, recipes, and workout plans, Chantel has put together a perfect plan that anyone can follow. And she points out that allowing God to take control is the only way to live a life that will make everything else fall into place.

M IKE H UCKABEE , former Arkansas governor; author of Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork; host of Huckabee

Love Food and Live Well inspires you to focus on whats good, whats true, and what works. If you have ever felt trapped and miserable, Chantel Hobbs will show you how to surrender your life and gain control of what matters most. Filled with real-life success stories, Love Food and Live Well will help you begin the journey that will change your life forever.

M ILES M ETTLER , PhD in exercise and wellness; general manager of Saint Marys Center for Health and Fitness, Reno, Nevada

L OVE F OOD AND L IVE W ELL
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This book is not intended as a substitute for the advice and care of your physician, and as with any other fitness, diet, or nutrition plan, you should use proper discretion, in consultation with your physician, in utilizing the information presented. The author and the publisher expressly disclaim responsibility for any adverse effects that may result from the use or application of the information contained in this book.

All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( MSG ) are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NIV ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com.

Details in some anecdotes and stories have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved.

Copyright 2010 by Chantel Hobbs
Interior exercise photographs 2010 by Helene Kopel
Photo on 2010 by Ashley Hobbs
Photo on 2010 by Marcos M. Sendon

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hobbs, Chantel.
Love food and live well : lose weight, get fit, and taste life at its very best / Chantel Hobbs.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-45786-8
1. Weight loss. 2. Physical fitness. 3. Food habits. I. Title.
RM222.2.H5728 2010
613.7dc22

2010027091

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For the lost

Some of us know what it feels like to be alone in a crowded room.
This book is for you. May you find the love you long for
and the acceptance youve needed your entire life.
Believe me: neither a scale nor a pair of jeans nor a human being
can provide it.
I pray that after reading this book, you will find the answer.
It is the ultimate deal of a lifetime,
and it can be yours today!

You need to meet Chantel Hobbs.

Ill do my best, but it wont be the typical, surface-level introduction. Chantel is a mom, yes; and a loving wife, yes; and she now makes her living as a writer. All those things are wonderful, but not why you should meet her.

You should meet her because shes been there. And by there I mean here, for many of us. Here is a place where were utterly heartbroken. Were not who we want to be, frustrated with how we look and feel, maybe even disgusted. To know Chantel, you will know her story and how God took not only two hundred excess pounds from her body, but He took away much more in guilt and disappointment with herself.

So, like I say, shes been there. And shes seen what can happenwhat works in our relationship with food and what doesnt. And shes experienced how God sees us, which is so much more clearly than we see ourselves.

Shes an expert, yes, but shes not just an expert. In Chantel, you have much better.

You have a friend.

Experts can be wonderful, of course. So wonderful, in fact, that they inspire you to just give up. Theyre too awesome, too amazing, too together, and too unapproachable. You spend time with them, and youre left impressedbut only with them. Youre left depressed about yourself.

As youll find in this book, Chantel is just the opposite. When she joins me on my radio show, we are flooded with callers. And to each one, shes unfailingly patient and compassionate. She listens and she nods, because shes been where they now are. She knows why theyre calling, and thats not for mere advice: theyre looking for hope.

Make friends with Chantel, and she will point you to Hope.

Brant Hansen, host of the syndicated radio show Mornings with Brant,
www.morningswithbrant.com

Friends, this book was written out of my own desperate need for the deal of a lifetime!

To my husband, Keith: Babe, thank you for giving me the space for God to do what only He can do. I adore watching you be daddy to our children. The way you love me could never be compared

To my daughter Ashley: As you venture into young adulthood, I feel blessed to call you my teenager. Your heart for the least of these is a beautiful thing to witness. We cant wait to watch God continue to reveal His unique will for your life.