A Praise To God and the Holy Spirit for weight loss.

[JesusMySavior]

Didn't really pay attention to this forum until today.

I just want to say with God's help, I have gotten healthy and back down to a pretty decent weight. I feel great.


I'll give you a short background here.

In high school I played football, and I was around 5'7 (I'm 5'9 now) and 180-190lbs my freshman year, it went up to 210 sophomore-junior years, and during my junior year I dropped out because I wanted nothing to do with my football team. I accepted Christ for real and I moved out to my mom's, but she had all kinds of yummy food around (she actually cooked the good stuff) and to top it off I worked at Godfathers Pizza. I vividly remember as a growing Christian I put up with a lot of crap at work but when I got off at 11PM, I would bring home a mini pizza or an order of cheese sticks with meat and a big cup of ranch, flip on TBN and snack on them until midnight and go to bed immediately afterward. I knew it wasn't good for me to eat right before bed; my mom kept telling me that. I had a lot of freedom though and I did what I pleased. I didn't really think twice about eating the deep fried freezer foods or the breaded snacks you get to fry or cook. I also loved ice cream and pie, and tons of mexican food, with full-on sour cream and guacamole and refried beans, etc.

After a couple years at the age of 19, all of the late night eating and the unrestricted fat caught up with me. Coupled with tremendous stress from my job and living on my own, and being wanton against Christ (long story, another time), and relationship issues, I can honestly say I was in danger.

I was dizzy sometimes and I felt sluggish and slow, didn't seem to carry enough energy and always wanted to sleep. I had no work-out routines to speak of and just kept eating what I pleased. I finally sat down and took a blood pressure test on one of those machines. I was Stage 1 Hypertension on both levels; but it didn't stop there. A few months later, I was Stage 2 Hypertension, with an all-time high around 190/110. I also weighed 265 and looked terrible.

Like most people I figured if I ate enough greens and cut out everything I liked, I would get results. Wrong. I hated the things I ate and it never lasted long.

I came back to Christ and He really helped me get into a steady work-out routine, and helped me realize that I can eat almost anything I want in moderation, as long as I'm keeping my work-outs steady.

With Christ, it's so possible to be healthy again. I made minor changes in my diet - instead of full Sour Cream, I went to light, then to fat free. Same with Milk and Refried Beans. I drink more water and instead of soda I drink crystal light. If I drink soda it's either diet or 0 calorie stuff. I still can eat deserts like ice cream and (sometimes) pie.

In a little over a year and a half I've gone from stage 2 hypertension bp and weight of 265, with a BMI of around 35, to having completely normal 120/80 bp, weight (as of today) 194.7, and a BMI of around 28-29.


I would like to quote Matthew 19:26 (KJV), and say "...With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."

Praise God indeed! :pp Thank you Lord for this excellent work in my physical body and Your temple. :)

[Slug1]

Amen Brother!

Inspiring... as I plan to loose some of this weight I've gained since retiring from the military. I to, as it so happens want to get down to 190-195 range where you're at now. I need to loose 20 pounds.

[Revolvr]

After my wife went through treatments for breast cancer, I started looking into diet and disease prevention. The treatment is barbaric. I discovered just about all of these diseases people in modern westernized counties get as they age are highly related to diet. Cancer, heart disease, weight and blood pressure problems, type II diabetes, and many others, can be largely prevented and in some cases cured by changing diet. What we eat is killing us!

The science seems to match the Bible. Science is showing that highly nutritional diets mainly of vegetables, fruits, some whole grains, nuts and seeds, is very healthy. The “Standard American Diet”, rich in processed grains, dairy and meats, and junk food, is not. In the Bible, no one is even allowed to eat meat until after the flood. Now I understand why people in less developed countries tend to be healthier as they age.

So I am learning to eat differently. Probably 90% of my calories come from unprocessed foods, mainly vegetables. I am not "on a diet", but I am changing the way I eat.

As a result, over the last 2 months I have gone from 225 to 210 lbs and my cholesterol has dropped to 111 from over 200. I don't know what my final weight will be but eventually it will drop to whatever my original God intended healthy weight should be.

There is certainly a spiritual component to this. As Christians we sometimes say we are "in this world but not of this world". When I became a Christians a few years ago my worldview changed and I slowly began rejecting the things of this world. I am beginning to think junk foods and other processed foods, meats and dairy products are just more ways to keep our focus away from God, and on the flesh.

10 years ago I did the “diet” thing; I went low fat, and lost 40 lbs. But over the years I gained much of it back, as most everyone does. I hadn’t really changed. This time, my focus is on Jesus, not myself. I am rejecting the junk the world pushes on me, whether it be food or anything else.