DOC
TAKES OWN ADVICE

Topics: Advice; Attitudes; Body; Change; Commitment; Food; Gluttony; Goals; Health; Lifestyle; Overcoming; Stewardship; Transformation

References: Proverbs 23:2; Romans 6:13; 1 Corinthians 6:12–20; 1 Thessalonians 5:23

Dr. Nick Yphantides used to tell his patients, “Do as I say, not as I do.” That’s because he weighed 470 pounds. But then God spoke to him about being a better steward of his body. In his own words, “God used testicular cancer to bring me to my knees. Here I had been healed of cancer and yet I was eating myself to death and committing suicide at the dining room table and going to fast-food places. I was overwhelmed with the conviction that my personal health was a God-given gift with which I had to honor him in the way that I cared for that gift.”

Dr. Nick went on a spiritual, physical, and emotional journey to seek God’s best for his body. He lost 270 pounds in eighteen months. In addition to founding a ministry focused on health, Dr. Nick has written the book My Big Fat Greek Diet and has done interviews with Entertainment Weekly, CNN, and People magazine, speaking to the issue of caring for our bodies.

—Bill White, “Doctor Preaches Stewardship of the Body,” PreachingToday.com