1. Proverbs 31:30–31, MSG.
2. Genesis 1:26, John 10:10 and John 15:11.
3. www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3503.Maya_Angelou?page.
4. www.quotesdaddy.com/quote/263494/william-shakespeare/to-climb-steep-hills-requires-slow-pace-at-first.
5. Esther 4:16.
6. One of the coolest aspects of being on The Biggest Loser was that we were given great resources to help us achieve our goals. In addition to Jillian’s books, I remember being given a copy of Devin Alexander’s The Biggest Loser Cookbook, as well as a small-form The Biggest Loser Complete Calorie Counter. Helpful reads still to this day.
7. Matthew 17:20.
8. Ephesians 3:20.
9. Casting Crowns, “Stained Glass Masquerade” from Lifesong album. Reunion Records, 2005.
10. Luke 19:40.
11. “Gloria” by Watermark. © Rocketown Music, Sweater Weather Music, Word Music LLC.
12. Ibid.
13. Julia Indichova, Inconceivable. Broadway Books, 1997, page 57.
14. “On the Right Path.” As printed in Living Choices magazine, a publication of Women’s Resource Center of Jacksonville, Volume 1, Issue 1, January 2009, page 8.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Julie Hadden, “All I Needed to Know about Life I Learned from My One-Year-Old.” Originally published at www.guideposts.com, 14 January 2009.
18. “The Real Me,” written by Something Distant; produced by Lu Rubino.
19. Max Lucado, You Are Special. Crossway Books, 1997, page 19.
20. Ibid, page 23.
21. Ibid, page 25.
22. Julie Hadden, “Worth the Weight.” Guideposts magazine, January 2009, page 45.
23. Beijing 2008 Humanity Archives, http://en.beijing2008.cn/29/16/article212011629.shtml. Home > Road to 2008 > Education > Humanity > John Stephen Akhwari.
24. Marianne Williamson, from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles. HarperCollins, 1992.
25. Ephesians 1:11–12, MSG. Emphasis added.
26. Luke 15:24.
27. For more information on how you can help abolish human trafficking, visit www.thea21campaign.org.
28. See http://americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4735.
29. Nutritional values that are provided with each recipe are estimates and can vary depending on brands you choose. All information provided by Calorie King (calorieking.com).
30. Instead of using cooking spray in recipes that call for it, fill an ordinary plastic spray-bottle with extra-virgin olive oil and spritz that instead.
31. Taken from information found at www.foodreference.com/html/artokra.html.