My Weight Loss Story
From left to right: 2014 ~ 132 lb weight loss; 2007 ~ my beginning weight at 244 lbs.; 2009 ~ 104 lb weight loss.
I am living proof what God can do in a willing heart, a heart that is obedient to put God first and foremost in my life. I have lost a total 132 lbs in 6 years. God has done a marvel in my life. And I am here to say God can!
It hasn't been easy, but if I can make some simple changes, then so can you. Don’t you hate it when people say that? Sure, you have heard this before, but for some reason losing weight…well it’s just not working for you. This is my story in how God dealt with my sin problem, heart idol worship of food and how He showed me the way out of a Twinkie box.
It took me years to finally get it. I was obedient to my desire to filling my body with an excess of food, the almighty and powerful (and a bit finicky) scale and man's opinion of who I was. You can spend your entire life figuring out you are messed up. Guess what? You are still messed up when you figure it out and there is only one fix to your problem. God's Holy Spirit having His way in your life. I can tell food is not the fix you need and you won't find it in an addiction of any kind nor a Hostess Twinkie pastry box.
There are ways to honor God with our bodies and live a pure life. We all have choices to make.
Rewind my story back 132 lbs. ago. I was a prisoner in my own skin. I had reached a point in my life that it was going to take some drastic changes. That is exactly what happened, God drastically changed my heart. I was a slave to and in love with food. I worshiped it, bowed down to it, cuddled it often and ate it for all the wrong reasons and in the big proportions.
Hey, wait a minute…I know what you’re thinking…..how could I let this happen, I was a Christian after all. How could I let anything get in the way of my relationship with God? Well, it didn’t happen overnight….this was years in the making. It was a slow invitation to the enemy's foothold into my life and eventual squeezing out of God from my heart. My weight and identity have been to war and God won!
This is God's glory story in my life.
Believe me, no one wakes up one day and demands that God "make me skinny". I needed to be healed of my sin issue before He could lead me to His idea of purity. I needed to confess my pride and unwillingness to change. I had a lot to purge myself of before I could actually see what the heart issue was and before He could restore me and bring new life to my life.
Want to know more? Listen to these podcasts!
It hasn't been easy, but if I can make some simple changes, then so can you. Don’t you hate it when people say that? Sure, you have heard this before, but for some reason losing weight…well it’s just not working for you. This is my story in how God dealt with my sin problem, heart idol worship of food and how He showed me the way out of a Twinkie box.
It took me years to finally get it. I was obedient to my desire to filling my body with an excess of food, the almighty and powerful (and a bit finicky) scale and man's opinion of who I was. You can spend your entire life figuring out you are messed up. Guess what? You are still messed up when you figure it out and there is only one fix to your problem. God's Holy Spirit having His way in your life. I can tell food is not the fix you need and you won't find it in an addiction of any kind nor a Hostess Twinkie pastry box.
There are ways to honor God with our bodies and live a pure life. We all have choices to make.
Rewind my story back 132 lbs. ago. I was a prisoner in my own skin. I had reached a point in my life that it was going to take some drastic changes. That is exactly what happened, God drastically changed my heart. I was a slave to and in love with food. I worshiped it, bowed down to it, cuddled it often and ate it for all the wrong reasons and in the big proportions.
Hey, wait a minute…I know what you’re thinking…..how could I let this happen, I was a Christian after all. How could I let anything get in the way of my relationship with God? Well, it didn’t happen overnight….this was years in the making. It was a slow invitation to the enemy's foothold into my life and eventual squeezing out of God from my heart. My weight and identity have been to war and God won!
This is God's glory story in my life.
Believe me, no one wakes up one day and demands that God "make me skinny". I needed to be healed of my sin issue before He could lead me to His idea of purity. I needed to confess my pride and unwillingness to change. I had a lot to purge myself of before I could actually see what the heart issue was and before He could restore me and bring new life to my life.
Want to know more? Listen to these podcasts!