Grace & Strength Lifestyle has brought me so much comfort and happiness and helped me to have a better relationship with my family and friends but most of all with God. I will always be very grateful for Coach Renee who always told me "you can do this" and remember "it's only for a season" kept me thinking positive thoughts only and the weekly zoom calls with all the other team members was a lot of fun & laughs.

I discovered so many things that were wrong in my life and so many of them that were really bad. I had no idea that a lot of chemical ingredients that they put in foods and drink could be so harmful, especially the artificial sweeteners. They were causing me a lot of problems that I never realized until God lead me to the Grace & Strength Life Style.

Some of my troubles were being tired all the time, taking lots of naps when possible and still sleeping all night. I thought maybe my body required a lot more sleep than others. My main reason I wanted to lose weight was because I looked and felt like a fat cow. I always wore dresses or skirts to church and always had to get a bigger size to fit me in the bust and stomach area and that really made me look big. I was so disgusted with myself.

I felt like a looser and that my health was going downhill. I had to sit in a chair just to tie my shoes and when I bent over to tie them I had to hold my breath. I couldn't breathe and bend over at the same time. I could hardly get on my knees anymore or in the floor, it was too hard to get back up. I hated that the inside of my upper thighs rubbed together and stuck together if I sat for very long. There were so many things that I was unhappy with. I won't even try to name them all.

On top of all that I had developed a cough about three or four years ago that would not go away. It was like my lungs just kept creating more and more mucus. I went to several Doctors but no cure, one doctor said it was allergy related and another said I had asthma. I was really afraid that I had COPD or emphysema because I smoked for about thirty years two packs of cigarettes a day. It has been almost eight years now since I quit smoking and I never want to smoke again. That was when I started gaining all the weight, I would really stuff myself because the food tasted so much better.

I had tried different programs to lose weight with no luck. Sometimes I would lose 10-15 pounds only to gain it right back. Then one day God lead me down the hallway in the building where I work and I saw a miracle. A walking real life miracle who afterwards was my Grace and Strength Life Style Coach. I thank God always for leading me down the path to the Grace and Strength Life Style.

The cough went away after being off the sugar free gum and diet cokes. I was so shocked it was unbelievable. I praise God everyday for that. I have just a few more things to say about my weight loss. I am 63 years old and I lost 50 pounds and now I feel like I have the body of a thirty year old. LOL! No more naps because I don't need them, I have so much energy that it amazes me still. I am in a medium now instead of XL or 1X and went down a half shoe size. I am so happy and feel so very healthy, more than in my whole life.

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