Fasting — But Not the Way You Think

If you're hesitant on joining this Fast to Faith program, I would say that there's so many reasons to do this and it's so different than maybe what you've experienced before that you are worth it. And this is something I started early last year. It's been over a year. I'm continuing to follow it. I'm continuing to be in community with some of the folks from that program. And so I just think that it's not like any diet program. It truly is something that will foster a way of life for you and that will help you meet those goals like nothing else ever has. Nothing else worked for me before this, and I'm a true testament to the fact that it works. If you follow it and you use the community, it does work. Hi, I'm Sally Churchill and I am from Twin Lake, Michigan. Before Fast of Faith, I had struggled a lot with different diet programs. It was always a diet, it was go on it. And then eventually I would get tired of it and I would go off it and go right back to old habits. I'm 58 years old. And that journey went on for as long as I can remember. One of the things that I really found with Fast of Faith is that it included the faith part of it. And I think bringing the faith part of this program into the health part of it, it was new for me. It was a way to really look to God for that help and motivation versus trying to do it all myself and using some of the daily scripture and the calls that we had just continued to sort of re emphas for me that the body is the temple that God gave us. And I'm honoring God by taking care of it. So I think that really was the first time in all my years that I brought those two things together. When I followed the first 40 day program, I saw results. It made it that much easier to keep going with it because you do see results fairly quickly with the weight loss, which, as much as we say, let's not make it all about the weight loss, it certainly does help. And that's part of why I did it. I wanted to feel better about myself and feel better health wise. My coach was Kristen Wurst and she really helped me with all of the crazy questions that I had. I tend to be very sort of detail oriented. I'm very OCD about if this is the program I'm following. I'm gonna put a log everything in the app and I'm gonna wanna hit those macros exact. And I think she really helped me with answering some of those questions, with helping me understand that we also have a life to live. And so it was if I didn't do things exactly on program. And so I was texting her constantly just saying, what about this? What about that? Can I eat this? Can I eat that? So she was great at responding. God wants us to be happy and healthy and there's so much in the Bible that he's given us that you don't think about. So he's given us tools, he's given us the ways that we can do some of that. And he's told us over and over again how he wants us to treat our bodies. I never had thought of that before. So I think just realizing that you can bring God into your life every day, it doesn't just have to be this solemn prayer with big words and organized church. It can be every morning going, wow, I'm struggling with this and I really want to feel better. Help me. Since completing the Fast Faith program, my results have been in several areas. So first and foremost, I did lose weight. So I lost about 45 pounds, which also resulted in going from I was pushing into getting tight with size 16s. Now I'm in a 4 to a 6, more towards a 4 these days. Way more energetic. Sleeping has been fantastic. I would say another big one for me is my relationship with alcohol. I'm experiencing life not doing it under an influence of alcohol or feeling like I have to do that every time I go somewhere. That's changed quite a bit. I did use the Fasta face supplements during this journey. I still use them. The ones that I use most often I use the hormone tame which is a multivitamin. I do omega, which is just good healthy fats and healthy oils. I take magnesium before I go to bed for sleep. And I think those supplements that I use from Fast to Faith really helped me to stay on track with some of that as well. I think it's going to sound crazy, but my favorite part of the 40 day journey was actually the three day fast. I don't know what the right word is. It was just very kind of powerful to be able to say I don't have to think about food. My body can survive without food for three days. That incredible sense of control over my body and over not letting food have that control over me. The community was really, it's almost a bit of a lifeline. I had so many questions about what kinds of supplements or food or how to hit macros. And I think the community being able to ask those questions, get lots of different inputs and ideas and just have the general support that says, hey, we've been there, we've done this, we know you can do it, we know it works, keep on going. And that support was really a huge piece of it. I think the Monday calls just continued to reiterate what the community was and what the book tells you, but it reiterates the real world struggles that people are dealing with. And a lot of times there would be a question that would come up that I had been thinking about. I didn't ask it. And it seems it was always like, oh, yeah, that I need to know about that too. And we go into details and Dr. Tabitha would really help explain in plain English in a way that we could all understand. She would explain a little bit of the science behind some of it as well as just the God part of it that helped you pull it all together.