I am so excited that I needed to share this with all of you who struggle with insulin resistance or any kind of weight loss. I was diagnosed with IR a couple of years ago and have struggled to lose weight since then, only to have my weight steadily creep up on me. Every time I would get on the scales it would either move up or stay the same. I even tried skipping meals at one point to see if that would help, but to no avail. I know now that it's not good, but I was desperate. I tried low carb and exercising but still the weight stubbornly stuck to me. I didn't even lose inches so I gave up. This may sound weird to some, but we had a special service at church one evening and I remember thinking how much my weight kept me from doing what I wanted and being what I wanted to be. After a special prayer time I went home and went about my day to day living. It was a couple weeks later that I got on the scales and noticed that I had lost about 4 pounds. I never lose so I was really excited. To make a long story short, I lost about 15 pounds without even trying. I still was eating carbs and not exercising and thought maybe I was ill or something. So, I decided that since the scales were going down for once instead of up I'd better do something to help this process out. I began to watch what I put in my mouth and slowly added exercise into my life. As of now, I have lost over 40 pounds. I went to the doctor about a month ago and she ran a bunch of blood tests on me. At the time of my appt. She was sure I was going to test positive for diabetes but when I came in to find out what the results of my lab tests were, I was so happy to find out that not only did I not have diabetes, but I no longer was IR! I had also lost 9 pounds in a matter of 3 weeks! All of this took place in a matter of about 4 months. I have not gained anymore weight and it slowly but surely is coming off. The doctor was so amazed with my lab results. She said that she rarely gets to give a patient a report like this. She was so excited for me and, of course I was too.
I truly believe that with the help and power of sincere prayer, and a God that cares about the struggles that we go through, I have been able to lose this weight. I am not on any particular diet as of now but I have been trying to change some of my bad habits into good ones. I know if I concentrated more on healthy eating the rest of this weight will eventually come off. With the added exercise the inches are coming off as well.
I'm just so happy that I wanted to share this with you.
I know there are many opinions and views that people have concerning the power of prayer, but having been diagnosed with a non curable cancer almost 5 years ago, and being cancer free today due to ( I believe) the power of sincere prayer, I'm a firm believer that prayer works.
Sometimes we just can't do it in ourselves. Anyway, I didn't write this to talk about my faith but I did write this to share what worked for me and I'm SO EXCITED that I'm finally losing!!! Aaaand it's staying off!
So Happy!
