- The Grace and Strength Lifestyle
- Success Stories
What did my life look like before Grace and Strength? I was doing pretty good. I kind of watched what I ate during the week, celebrated the weekends by eating candy, cookies, pizza. Anything goes because it's the weekend. My weight started creeping up the scale. Ok, what diet should I do to get those pounds off? I can do anything for a week or two. Starve myself, eat this plan for a few days, double up on my exercise, sure. That was rough but I made it through. Lost the pounds, celebrated the next morning by acting like it's the weekend. Gained the few pounds back, cycle continues. This worked during my 30s but the 40s were a different story. Gained a few pounds, started the cycle but didn't lose the pounds. What do I do now? Weight continues to creep up the scale. Ok, I think I can camouflage the extra weight. I am great at shopping and love clothes. It is a passion of mine. I can use this to my advantage. I did. I bought nice, stretchy jeans and flowy tops. Still looking ok, nobody will even know. It's summer. That's ok. I will buy really nice, expensive cover ups and master the art of laying my hand across my stomach to cover up the extra weight or keeping my towel over strategic parts. Wasn't so bad. After all, I am a mom and older now. This is just part of it. It's Fall now and back to stretchy jeans and flowy tops. I made it. The scale continues to rise. Those stretchy jeans are now tight. My underwear is even tight. I can't buy new clothes! I worked so hard to hunt for them. Put so much time and effort into getting them. Think of how much money I spent! They were so stylish and helped mask the weight issues. People were so busy complimenting me on my sense of style that maybe they didn't notice the extra weight. Now what will I do? Oh, dear Lord, please help me! Please help me lose this weight. Nothing that I am doing is working! Yes, that's what I should do! Ask the Lord! Isn't HE the one who can do anything? Doesn't the bible say that nothing is impossible with God? I go to Him for help with my marriage, parenting, etc. I pray to Him all the time. Why do I go to Him for everything except this weight issue?
Ok, Lord. Will you help me? I can't do this on my own anymore. I am tired. I am uncomfortable. I don't have time to shop or even want to shop as much anymore. I am tired of hiding behind clothes and now my clothes are starting to hurt. My self confidence is dwindling. This is not good. Help me Lord!!
Fast forward a month or two later, I am looking on my iPad and Grace and Strength Lifestyle pops up. What is this? Oh my gosh, this is it! Oh, Lord. Thank you! Thank you for helping me! "What took you so long, precious child?" said the Lord. "You come to me for all kinds of things and what has kept you from asking me to help you with this?" HE said. I don't know, Lord. I guess because I thought I could do it on my own. "Well, could you?" said the Lord.
I couldn't do it on my own. I needed HIM to teach me that my body is his temple and that I should treat it as such. I needed HIM to teach me that cooking healthy meals is important for my family. I needed HIM to teach me to come to HIM daily for help in making healthy eating choices. I needed HIM to show me that the devil tempts me with diet drink and junk food because he wants those to be my idol instead of JESUS. I needed Him to teach me that all I need is Jesus. HE will break the chains of diets, idols, diet drinks, junk food, shopping and tight underwear. HE will do it if you ask him. God helped me break these chains by using Grace and Strength, Coach Monica and most importantly, HIS WORD and HIS TRUTH! Thank you, my precious Lord!
~Stephanie
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