"Love Food and Live Well" By Chantel Hobbs

This Book Will Set You Free and Learn to Have a Healthy Relationship with Food!
I just finished reading "Love Food and Live Well", by Chantel Hobbs, regarding how to have a healthy relationship with food. It's funny how this book came upon me. I have been having major issues with binge eating and had decided to try to help myself with self-help books. I had found a few books that I had brought home, started to read and then put aside. Then I had a choice of a few books to review and this book caught my eye. I seriously feel like it was a message from God to read this book. I was looking for help and this was one of my few choices to read that looked the most interesting to me. I am so glad that I read this book. It really talks about people's relations with food and how to eat the right way. I am a certified personal trainer and she has some great exercises in this book and knows what she is talking about. The author of this book, Chantel was 350 pounds and lost over 200 pounds, so she knows what it feels like to be overweight and to struggle with dieting. She also knows how it feels to lose it and struggle to keep it off. In this book she helps show people how to learn not to struggle. There are some great recipes in here and also a way to calculate how much protein, carbs and fat you should be taking in for your body. If you have issues with food, or struggle with weight, then this is a great book to read. Also a quick note, I liked this book so much, that I just ordered her book, "Never Say Diet: Make Five Decisions and Break the Fat Habit for Good". “I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review”

"Here Burns My Candle" by Liz Curtis Higgs (The Tests of Love During War: Love, Secrets, Betrayal, Faith) A Must Read

I thoroughly enjoyed reading "Here Burns My Candle", written by Liz Curtis Higgs. This is the first time I have ever read a book by this author. I have a deep interest in history, especially regarding the Jacobite uprising in Scotland during 1745, which this story is based on. It portrays a high society family with many secrets that start to come undone, presenting some twists and turns down the path of righteousnous. Many of the characters evolve immensely by the end.

I was unaccustomed to reading such stories with passages from the Bible included throughout the book. I was pleased by the way the bible was intertwined into the story and how faith in God would help you through even the hardest of times.

My favorite character is the ever so faithful Lady Elisabeth Kerr. She is the kind of woman, people want to strive to be like. She is caring, faithful, smart, beautiful and not afraid of work. She doesn't forget about where she comes from even with her title. I have to also include that Marjory comes in a close second. She is a strong woman that loves her sons with all she has. The relationship between the love of a mother for her sons was so well portrayed in this book. As a mother, I felt every ounce of love that a mother feels for her children. She is overly protective, like a lioness with her cubs. She will do anything  and give everything to keep her sons safe. She does not let anyone find fault in her sons and if they do, they will be set in their place. The farther along the story goes, the more I like her. My heart goes out for Elisabeth and Marjory. I felt such a strong feeling of love for family and how bonds don't always have to be based on blood.

I relished the little quotes from different authors, such as William Shakespeare, that were written in beginning of each new chapter. These clever passages would foreshadow what was to come in the chapter. One other quick note is at the end of the book there is a Scottish Glossary, in case you don't understand one of the words, but most are pretty easy to pick up. “I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review. ”